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Souvenir of Alberta: being a general resume of the province, with portraits, engravings and biographies of a number of the men who have helped build this great new province of the West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5902
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1906
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : Salesman
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1s
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : Salesman
- Published Date
- 1906
- Physical Description
- 142p
- Subjects
- Biography
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The makers of Canada : index and dictionary of Canadian history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12356
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Publisher
- Toronto : Morang & Co
- Call Number
- R 08.1 B89
- Responsibility
- edited by Lawrence J. Burpee, Librarian of the Carnegie Library Ottawa and Arthur G. Doughty, Dominion Archivist Ottawa
- Publisher
- Toronto : Morang & Co
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 446 p
- Notes
- Includes fold-out chart "Illustrated chart of Canadian history"
- Accession Number
- 580
- Call Number
- R 08.1 B89
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The life and work of an english landscape architect : an autobiography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14675
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1914
- Author
- Mawson, Thomas H
- Call Number
- 13.112 M45l Pam
- Author
- Mawson, Thomas H
- Responsibility
- by Thomas H. Mawson
- Published Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 30 pages
- Subjects
- Art
- Banff
- Biography
- Hot spings
- Van Horne, William
- Whyte, Jon
- Notes
- Exerpts from the Annual reports of the Department of the interior for the fiscal year ending March 31,1914 ; Taking from new responsibilities ; The Mawson Report in historical perspective by Max Foran ; Thomas H. Mawson's plans for beautifying Banff ; Where man & mountain meet by Jon Whyte
- Report compiled in an email by John Whelan
- Call Number
- 13.112 M45l Pam
- Collection
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Political reminiscences of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14691
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1914
- Author
- Tupper, Sir Charles
- Publisher
- London : Constable & Company Ltd
- Call Number
- 08.1 T83p Pam
- Author
- Tupper, Sir Charles
- Responsibility
- transcribed and edited by the late W.A. Harkin
- Publisher
- London : Constable & Company Ltd
- Published Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- xv pages : illustrations, portraits
- Notes
- Contains only a photocopy of the preface and an in memoriam about William A. Harkin of the entire book
- Call Number
- 08.1 T83p Pam
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- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.04
- Description
- Pencil sketch of a mountain which dominates centre background, middle to foreground slope indicating a gradual rise. Drawn on light sketchbook paper, top edge serated, br and bl edges rounded
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- Title
- Resplendent
- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.6 x 27.8 cm
- Description
- Pencil sketch of a mountain which dominates centre background, middle to foreground slope indicating a gradual rise. Drawn on light sketchbook paper, top edge serated, br and bl edges rounded
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves, Ottawa, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- JaA.03.04
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Sons of Canada : short stories of characteristic Canadians
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5156
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1916
- Author
- Bridle, Augustus
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dent
- Call Number
- 08.1 B76
- Author
- Bridle, Augustus
- Responsibility
- drawings by F.S. Challoner
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dent
- Published Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- viii, 280p. : ports
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.1 B76
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To the Rocky Mountains in 1914
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13172
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Publisher
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company
- Call Number
- 05 D77m Pam
- Author
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Publisher
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- p.287-303 : ill.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Notes
- Photocopy of chapter from Memories and Adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Call Number
- 05 D77m Pam
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- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 43.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
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A climber's guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19847
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- Palmer, Howard and J. Monroe Thorington
- Publisher
- [Philadelphia] American Alpine Club
- Edition
- second edition
- Call Number
- 01.4 P18a
- Responsibility
- Howard Palmer and J. Monroe Thorington
- Edition
- second edition
- Publisher
- [Philadelphia] American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- [244] pages
- Subjects
- American Alpine Club
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Rockies
- Guide
- Mountain guides
- Canada
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- Pertains to a comprehensive climbing guide based on the mountains in the Canadian Rockies. The book was likely to be considered an invaluable resource for mountaineers based on the complexity and detail of the information provided. In detail, the guide offers insight into the approximate locations, elevation gains, climbing distances/time, and additional relevant information pertaining to climbing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Part one: international boundary to Kicking Horse pass
- Part two: Kicking Horse pass to Yellowhead pass
- Part three: Yellowhead pass to Jasper pass
- Accession Number
- 2019.48
- Call Number
- 01.4 P18a
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
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Mont Blanc sideshow : the life and times of Albert Smith
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15300
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1934
- Author
- Thorington, James Monroe
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : John C. Winston
- Call Number
- 01.2 T39m
- Author
- Thorington, James Monroe
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : John C. Winston
- Published Date
- 1934
- Physical Description
- xv, 255 pages, illustrations
- Notes
- Inscription "James Simpson, Banff, March 25th 1934"
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 01.2 T39m
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- Artist
- Guy Wesley
- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WeG.03.01
- Description
- Colour: pencil on white. Flowers and grass fill the lower quarter. The Lake is above and in the background are two treed slopes which rise up on either side of a glacier at center. Clouds and sky fill the top quarter.
- Artist
- Guy Wesley
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 14.8 x 22.3 cm
- Description
- Colour: pencil on white. Flowers and grass fill the lower quarter. The Lake is above and in the background are two treed slopes which rise up on either side of a glacier at center. Clouds and sky fill the top quarter.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WeG.03.01
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John L. Stoddard; traveller, lecturer, litterateur
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25074
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Crane Taylor, D.
- Publisher
- New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons
- Call Number
- 02 C85j
- Author
- Crane Taylor, D.
- Publisher
- New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 325 pages illustrations
- Abstract
- Biography of author John Lawson Stoddard
- Contents
- Preface
- Foundations
- The Troubled Waters
- A Traveller Sets Out
- Before the Public
- The Published Lectures
- Retirement
- Preferences and Prejudices
- Into Thy Vineyard
- Late Harvest
- Index
- Accession Number
- 2020.20
- Call Number
- 02 C85j
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National reference book on Canadian men and women with other general information for library, newspaper, eductional and individual use
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1936
- Publisher
- Montreal : Canadian Newspaper Service
- Edition
- 5ed
- Call Number
- R 08.1 N21
- Responsibility
- by H. Harrison, John M. Elson
- Edition
- 5ed
- Publisher
- Montreal : Canadian Newspaper Service
- Published Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 1191p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Biography
- Directories
- Call Number
- R 08.1 N21
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- Artist
- Guy Wesley
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WeG.03.02
- Description
- Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a road from lower left corner to center up to mid center of the picture. The road shadowed by grass and trees on either side. Three mountains appear in the background.
- Artist
- Guy Wesley
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.4 x 14.9 cm
- Description
- Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a road from lower left corner to center up to mid center of the picture. The road shadowed by grass and trees on either side. Three mountains appear in the background.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WeG.03.02
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- Artist
- Guy Wesley
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WeG.03.03
- Description
- Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a waterfall with rocks on either side and mountains in the background at centre. Trees on an island come in from the left side. Shools of rock run horizontally along the bottom and here and there up to the falls.
- Artist
- Guy Wesley
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 14.7 x 22.4 cm
- Description
- Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a waterfall with rocks on either side and mountains in the background at centre. Trees on an island come in from the left side. Shools of rock run horizontally along the bottom and here and there up to the falls.
- Credit
- Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- WeG.03.03
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The spirit of the hills
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1938
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Call Number
- 01 Sm9sp
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Responsibility
- by F.S. Smythe
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Published Date
- 1938
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineers, British
- Accession Number
- 7277
- Call Number
- 01 Sm9sp
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Memoirs of members of the Social Circle in Concord : Fifth series, from 1909 to 1939
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14548
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1940
- Author
- Social Circle in Concord
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Privately printed, The University Press, Cambridge
- Call Number
- 08 So1m
- Author
- Social Circle in Concord
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Privately printed, The University Press, Cambridge
- Published Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- xiv, 401 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Biography
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Notes
- Includes biography of Catharine Robb Whyte's father, Russell Robb by Stedman Buttrick, as well as other contemporaries of the Robb family
- Contains loose typewritten note dated Dec. 1959 pertaining to the business of the Social Circle
- Accession Number
- 2015-8409
- Call Number
- 08 So1m
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Who's who in Canada, including the British possessions in the Western hemisphere 1940-1941; an illustrated biographical record of men and women of the time
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12387
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1941-
- Publisher
- Toronto : International Press
- Call Number
- R 08.1 W62w
- Responsibility
- edited by B.M. Greene
- Publisher
- Toronto : International Press
- Published Date
- 1941-
- Physical Description
- v. : ports
- Subjects
- Biography
- Directories
- Notes
- Earlier volumes titled: " Who's who and why"
- Accession Number
- 721
- Call Number
- R 08.1 W62w
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Mount Coleman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20038
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- February, 1942
- Author
- Sissons, C.B.
- Publisher
- Ontario : The Canadian Geographical Society
- Call Number
- 01.4 Si8c Pam
- Author
- Sissons, C.B.
- Responsibility
- C.B. Sissons
- Publisher
- Ontario : The Canadian Geographical Society
- Published Date
- February, 1942
- Abstract
- Pertains to the experience of C.B. Sisson and his ascent of Mount Coleman with his wife and children. He shares details of his travels, both exploring the pain and success’ he shared along his trip. The article is pertinent to the Canadian Rocky Mountains in that Mt. Coleman exists within them. Readers can expect to read a personal story of perseverance, adventure and strength.
- Notes
- article IN Canadian Geographical Journal, Volume XXIV, No. 2. Mount Coleman by C.B. Sissons can be found on page 102 of the journal.
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 01.4 Si8c Pam
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