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Ray Wardell fonds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions397
- Part Of
- Ray Wardell fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of unpublished report titled "Mount Norquay Memories, 1948- 1956" by Ray Wardell. Report is a chronological history of development at Mount Norquay ski area by George Encil's Banff Chairlift Corporation Ltd. It discusses the Banff Chairlift, rope tows, electrification, passenger an…
- Date Range
- 1993
- Reference Code
- M252
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Ray Wardell fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 252
- Sous-Fonds
- M 252
- Accession Number
- 6505
- Reference Code
- M252
- Date Range
- 1993
- Physical Description
- 6 cm of textual records (ca.130 p.)
- History / Biographical
- Ray Wardell, 1922-1994, was an engineer at Banff, Alberta, Canada from 1948 until 1958, and lived at Oakville, Ontario until his death. Wardell worked on early construction at Mount Norquay ski area and rose to the position of Superintendent of Construction and Maintenance for the Banff Chairlift Corporation.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of unpublished report titled "Mount Norquay Memories, 1948- 1956" by Ray Wardell. Report is a chronological history of development at Mount Norquay ski area by George Encil's Banff Chairlift Corporation Ltd. It discusses the Banff Chairlift, rope tows, electrification, passenger and safety services, Upper Terminal Tea Room and improvements to Mount Norquay Lodge. Contents include technical details, construction photographs and articles from trade journals
- Name Access
- Wardell, Ray
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
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- Language
- Language is English
- Creator
- Wardell, Ray
- Category
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
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Algonquin Hotel, Digby Pines, Ascot and Le Baron Motels
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54293
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 45 negative photographs (b&w, colour) and 33 colour transparencies. Content pertains to Canadian Pacific Railway hotels: Algonquin Hotel, St. Andrew's NB; Digby Pines Hotel, Digby NS; Ascot Hotel, Montreal QC(?); and Le Baron Hotel, Sherbrooke QC.
- Date Range
- 1964
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / A7 / 25
- Description Level
- 4.2 / Sub-sub-sub series
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4.2 / Sub-sub-sub series
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / I / A : Photography : Negative and Transparencies
- Accession Number
- 7438
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / A7 / 25
- Responsibility
- Produced by Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- 1964
- Physical Description
- 78 Photographs: negatives and transparencies; b&w and colour
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 45 negative photographs (b&w, colour) and 33 colour transparencies. Content pertains to Canadian Pacific Railway hotels: Algonquin Hotel, St. Andrew's NB; Digby Pines Hotel, Digby NS; Ascot Hotel, Montreal QC(?); and Le Baron Hotel, Sherbrooke QC.
- Notes
- Some of photographs are duplicates. Negatives and transparencies stored in separate file boxes.
- Subject Access
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Hotel
- Travel
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Quebec
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Reference use only; no reproduction
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Nicholas Morant
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Pyke the unknown genius
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11467
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Lampe, David
- Publisher
- London : Evan Brothers
- Call Number
- 08.1 L18p
- Author
- Lampe, David
- Publisher
- London : Evan Brothers
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 224 p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Habbakuk
- Ice
- Jasper
- Patricia Lake
- World War II
- Accession Number
- 02-08-01 33,500
- Call Number
- 08.1 L18p
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- Archives Library
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The Canadian catalogue of books published in Canada, about Canada, as well as those written by Canadians, with imprint 1921-1949
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11926
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Toronto. Public Libraries
- Publisher
- Toronto : Public Libraries
- Call Number
- R 00.5 T63
- Author
- Toronto. Public Libraries
- Publisher
- Toronto : Public Libraries
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 2 v
- Subjects
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Contents: v.1 1921-1939; v.2 1040-1949
- Accession Number
- 205
- Call Number
- R 00.5 T63
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Bill Jamieson fonds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions487
- Part Of
- Bill Jamieson fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds pertains to Banff Winter Carnival queen contestants and ceremony.
- Date Range
- 1959?
- Reference Code
- V748
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Bill Jamieson fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 748
- Sous-Fonds
- V 748
- Accession Number
- 5080
- Reference Code
- V748
- Date Range
- 1959?
- Physical Description
- 11 photographs : transparencies
- History / Biographical
- Bill Jamieson, 1914-1997, was a professional photographer and businessman at Banff, Alberta, Canada from 1936 until his retirement in 1979.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds pertains to Banff Winter Carnival queen contestants and ceremony.
- Name Access
- Jamieson, Bill
- Subject Access
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Creator
- Jamieson, Bill
- Category
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on accession record
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The study of rocks in thin section
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25662
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Moorhouse, W. W.
- Publisher
- New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
- Call Number
- 03 M78t
- Author
- Moorhouse, W. W.
- Publisher
- New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 514 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
- Series
- Harper's geoscience series
- Subjects
- Petrology
- Geology
- Science
- mineralogy
- Contents
- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Methods of optical mineralogy -- 3. Description of minerals -- 4. Mineral identification tables -- 5. Petrography of igneous rocks and related rocks -- 6. Volcanic and hypabyssal rocks : basalts, diabases, and related rocks -- 7. Andesites, dacites, and related rocks -- 8. quartz latites (rhyodacites) and rhyolites -- 9. Latites, trachytes, phonolites, and leucite trachytes -- 10. tuffs and pyroclastics -- 11. The plutonic rocks : gabbro, norite, and related rocks -- 12. The alkali gabbos : essexite, theralite, and related rocks -- 13. Quartz diorite, granodiorite, granite, and related rocks -- 14. Diorites, monzonites, syenites, and related rocks -- 15. Nepheline syenites and other delfspathoidal rocks -- 16. Ultrabasic rocks : peridotite, pyrozenite, and hornblendite -- 17. Lamprophyres -- 18. Sedimentary rocks in thin section -- 19. Conglomerates and breccias -- 20. Sandstones and arkoses -- 21. Greywackes -- 22. Argillaceous rocks -- 23. Limestones and dolomites -- 24. Cherts, iron formations, glauconitic sediments, phosphatic sediments, saline rocks, and coals -- 25. Metamorphic rocks -- 26. Dynamic metamorphism -- 27. Thermal metamorphism -- 28. Regional metamorphism -- 29. Metasomatism -- 30. Petrography of ore
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9780060446109
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 M78t
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The ante-room
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5117
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Dickson, Lovat
- Publisher
- Toronto : Macmillan of Canada
- Call Number
- 08 D56
- Author
- Dickson, Lovat
- Publisher
- Toronto : Macmillan of Canada
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 270p
- Notes
- Relevant pages include: p.196-268
- Accession Number
- 19500
- Call Number
- 08 D56
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The great buffalo hunt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5122
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Gard, Wayne
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- 08 G16
- Author
- Gard, Wayne
- Responsibility
- with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Published Date
- 1959
- Call Number
- 08 G16
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- Archives Library
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Christmas in Canada...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5154
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Barber, Mary
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dent
- Call Number
- 08.1 B23
- Author
- Barber, Mary
- Responsibility
- Mary Barber and Flora McPherson
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dent
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- viii, 134p. : ill
- Notes
- Partial contents: Christmas in the fur trade / the Beaver; Travelling to the northern ocean, 1720 / Samuel Hearne; Louis Riel's joke / R.P. Ottewell; A cricket singing / Dan McCowan
- Accession Number
- 14500
- Call Number
- 08.1 B23
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America's wonderlands : the scenic national parks and monuments of the United States
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5211
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- National Geographic Society (Washington, D.C.). Book Service
- Call Number
- 13.2 N21a
- Responsibility
- foreword by Melville Bell Grosvenor
- introduction by Conrad L. Wirth
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 510p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 13.2 N21a
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The great river of the West : the Columbia River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5751
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- League of Women Voters of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
- Publisher
- Eugene (OR) : Koke-Chapman
- Call Number
- 03.6 L47g
- Publisher
- Eugene (OR) : Koke-Chapman
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 32p. : maps
- Subjects
- Dams
- Notes
- 2nd printing
- Accession Number
- 6500
- Call Number
- 03.6 L47g
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I would do it again : reminiscences of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6092
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Campbell, Robert E
- Publisher
- Toronto : Ryerson
- Call Number
- 08.3 C15
- Author
- Campbell, Robert E
- Responsibility
- foreword by T.U. "Tommy" Primrose
- Publisher
- Toronto : Ryerson
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- ix, 204p. : ill., port
- Accession Number
- 103
- 492
- Call Number
- 08.3 C15
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Airborne from Edmonton
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6335
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Myles, Eugenie Louise
- Publisher
- Toronto : Ryerson
- Call Number
- 08.5 M99
- Author
- Myles, Eugenie Louise
- Publisher
- Toronto : Ryerson
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- xii, 280p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Notes
- Rocky Mountain references: p.41, 56, 135
- Index
- Accession Number
- 21500
- Call Number
- 08.5 M99
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Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America, 1823- 1827
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6611
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Douglas, David
- Publisher
- New York : Antiquarian Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 D74
- Author
- Douglas, David
- Responsibility
- published under the direction of the Royal Horticultural Society
- Publisher
- New York : Antiquarian Press
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 364p. : port
- Subjects
- Brown, Mount
- Hooker, Mount
- Travel
- Accession Number
- 8000
- Call Number
- 04.1 D74
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Birds of Canada's mountain parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6867
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Munro, J. A
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Parks Branch
- Queen's Printer
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- 04.2 M92b
- Author
- Munro, J. A
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Parks Branch
- Queen's Printer
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 78p. : ill
- Notes
- 1st ed (1950) also in library
- Accession Number
- 400
- 8500 deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 04.2 M92b
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The Bow River story : a series of articles from the Albertan, Calgary, Alberta, on the problem of ice jamming and summer and winter flooding on the Bow River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7386
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- The Albertan
- Call Number
- 03.8 Al1 Pam
- Author
- The Albertan
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 1v. (unpaged) : ill
- Subjects
- Dams
- Power development
- Accession Number
- 539
- Call Number
- 03.8 Al1 Pam
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David Thompson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition : an unpublished account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition written by Captain Meriwether Lewis and copied by David Thompson of the North West Company
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7866
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Lewis, (Captain) Meriwether
- Publisher
- Vancouver : The Library's Press
- Call Number
- 02.3 L58d Pam
- Author
- Lewis, (Captain) Meriwether
- Responsibility
- introduction by Peter Grossman
- Publisher
- Vancouver : The Library's Press
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 14p
- Subjects
- United States
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 02.3 L58d Pam
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The Willmore Wilderness Park Act
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8844
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Alberta. Laws, statutes, etc
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Queen's Printer
- Call Number
- 04 Al1wil Pam
- Author
- Alberta. Laws, statutes, etc
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Queen's Printer
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- p.5851-5853
- Notes
- 1971 amendment inserted
- Accession Number
- 3000
- Call Number
- 04 Al1wil Pam
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Botanical excursion to Jasper and Banff National Parks, Alberta : alpine and subalpine flora
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8978
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Porsild, A. E
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources
- Call Number
- 04.1 P82b Pam
- Author
- Porsild, A. E
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 38p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 1004
- 3349
- Call Number
- 04.1 P82b Pam
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My story : an autobiography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19786
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Astor, Mary
- Publisher
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
- Call Number
- 06.3 As8m
- Author
- Astor, Mary
- Responsibility
- Mary Astor
- Publisher
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- 332 pages ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Banff
- Films
- Lake Louise
- Autobiography
- Abstract
- Pertains to Mary Astor's reminisces regarding filming of "Enticement" in Banff National Park (Chapter 3, page 81.)
- ISBN
- 59-6265
- Accession Number
- p2019-06
- Call Number
- 06.3 As8m
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