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The unjust society : the tragedy of Canada's Indians

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1969

Author: Cardinal, Harold

Publisher: Edmonton ; Hurtig

Call Number: 07.2 C17

Author: Cardinal, Harold

Publisher: Edmonton ; Hurtig

Published Date: 1969

Physical Description: x, 173p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Education; Ethnic groups; Government; Missionaries; Politics; Religion; Residential schools; Treaties

Notes: Bibliography

Accession Number: 808

Call Number: 07.2 C17

Collection: Archives Library

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Intoduction to the structure of the earth

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1969

Author: Spencer, Edgar W.

Publisher: New York : McGraw Book Company

Call Number: 03 S3i

Author: Spencer, Edgar W.

Publisher: New York : McGraw Book Company

Published Date: 1969

Physical Description: 597 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 S3i

Collection: Archives Library

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Biostratigraphy and Faunas of the Permian Ishbel Group, Canadian Rocky Mountains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1968

Author: Logan, Alan; McGugan, Alan

Publisher: Journal of Paleontology

Call Number: 03.2 L78b PAM

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Author: Logan, Alan; McGugan, Alan

Responsibility: Alan Logan; Alan McGugan

Publisher: Journal of Paleontology

Published Date: 1968

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Paleontology; Geology; Geology - Alberta - Mountain Park; Research

Abstract: Pertains to Permian Ishbel group in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and attempts to unite the understanding of scattered occurances of fauna within these fossil records.

Notes: In Journal of Paleontology Vol. 42, No. 5 (Sep., 1968), pp. 1123-1139

Call Number: 03.2 L78b PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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Wilderness kingdom : Indian life in the Rocky Mountains, 1840-1847 : the journals and paintings of Nicolas Point, S.J

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1967

Author: Point, Nicolas

Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Call Number: 07.2 P75

Author: Point, Nicolas

Responsibility: translated and introduced by Jospeh P. Donnelly, S.J; with an appreciation by John C. Ewers

Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Published Date: 1967

Physical Description: xiii, 274p. : ill., maps., facsim, port

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Missionaries

Notes: Bibliography

Accession Number: 376

Call Number: 07.2 P75

Collection: Archives Library

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Edmonton : a history

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1967

Author: MacGregor, James G

Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig

Call Number: 08.2 M17e

Author: MacGregor, James G

Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig

Published Date: 1967

Physical Description: 328p. : ill., ports., maps., facsim

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Brett, Robert George; Expeditions; Fur trade; Indians; Missionaries; McDougall family; Oliver, Frank

Notes: Index. Facsim of Edmonton newspaper The Bulletin (December 6, 1880) in pocket on back cover. Map on endpaper

Accession Number: 7646

Call Number: 08.2 M17e

Collection: Archives Library

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Origin, progress and prospects of the Catholic mission to the Rocky Mountains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1967

Author: De Smet, Pierre Jean

Publisher: Fairfield (WA) : Ye Galleon Press

Edition: facsimile reprint of 1843 ed

Call Number: 07.2 D46 Pam

Author: De Smet, Pierre Jean

Edition: facsimile reprint of 1843 ed

Publisher: Fairfield (WA) : Ye Galleon Press

Published Date: 1967

Physical Description: 12p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Kootenay Indians; Missionaries

Accession Number: 1000

Call Number: 07.2 D46 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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An introduction to crystallography

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1966

Author: Phillips, F. C.

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd

Call Number: 03 P54a

Author: Phillips, F. C.

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd

Published Date: 1966

Physical Description: 340 pages : 535 diagrams

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Crystallography; Geology; Science

Contents: 1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 P54a

Collection: Archives Library

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Principles of stratigraphy

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1966

Author: Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John

Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Call Number: 03 D91p

Author: Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John

Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Published Date: 1966

Physical Description: 356 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: stratigraphy; Geology

Abstract: Carl O. Dunbar and John Rodgers authored this textbook in response to the growing interest in the study of stratigraphy in academia.

Contents: Part I : Environments of deposition -- Part 2 : Basic stratigraphic relations -- Part 3 : Interpretation of specific lithotopes -- Part 4 : Synthesis

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 D91p

Collection: Archives Library

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Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National parks: where rivers are born

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1965

Author: Baird, David M.

Publisher: Ottawa, Geological survey of Canada, Dept. of mines and technical surveys

Call Number: 13.115 B11g Pam

Author: Baird, David M.

Responsibility: David M. Baird

Publisher: Ottawa, Geological survey of Canada, Dept. of mines and technical surveys

Published Date: 1965

Physical Description: v, 104 pages illustrations, maps (1 folded color). 18 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology; Geology - British Columbia; Mount Revelstoke National Park; Glacier National Park; British Columbia; Banff National Park

Abstract: Pertains to the geology of Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National parks. While providing an overview of the geology, the author also provides the reader with specific details making the experience well rounded. The content pertains to the Rocky Mountains and makes specific mention to Banff and Banff National park

Contents: Introduction; Divides; Boundaries of the parks; Origin of the mountains; The rocks; The sculpturing of the mountains; Regional differences in the mountains; Shapes of mountains; Roadlog and points of interest along the Trans-Canada Highway; Epilogue; Index

Notes: The page numbers for the following locations listed in the abstract are as follows; Banff (37), Banff National Park (vi, 4, 19, 37 and 40)

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 13.115 B11g Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Chief Mountain : the story of Canon Middleton

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1964

Author: Forsberg, Roberta J

Publisher: Edmonton : Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: 07.2 M58f

Author: Forsberg, Roberta J

Publisher: Edmonton : Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 1964

Physical Description: viii, 119p. : ill., ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Middleton, Samuel; Missionaries; Waterton Lakes National Park

Accession Number: 2933?

Call Number: 07.2 M58f

Collection: Archives Library

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Historic sites of Alberta

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1963

Author: Dempsey, Hugh A.

Publisher: Edmonton : Alberta Government Travel Bureau

Edition: Sixth Edition

Call Number: 08.2 D39h Pam

Author: Dempsey, Hugh A.

Responsibility: Hugh A. Dempsey

Edition: Sixth Edition

Publisher: Edmonton : Alberta Government Travel Bureau

Published Date: 1963

Physical Description: 64 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alberta; History of Alberta; History; Fur trade; North-West Mounted Police; Missionaries; Riel rebellions

Abstract: Pertains to a series of notable and historically significant sites located across Alberta. The book is divided into nine categories pertaining to influential people and events, such as the Riel Rebellion and the North-West Mounted Police. Within each category, the author Hugh A. Dempsey, has included the names and locations of many historical sites in Alberta, be that a sign, a cairn or other form of historical remembrance.

Contents: Introduction (pg.3); Indians (pg. 5); The fur trade (pg. 12); The missionaries (pg. 24); American posts (pg. 29); North-west Mounted Police (pg. 35); Riel rebellion (pg. 39); The pioneers (pg. 43); Historic events (pg. 50); Transportation (pg. 57); Index (pg. 61); Map (pg. 63)

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 08.2 D39h Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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A guide to geology for visitors in Canada's national parks

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1963

Author: Baird, David M.

Publisher: Ottawa : Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer

Call Number: 13.115 B11a Pam

Author: Baird, David M.

Responsibility: David M. Baird

Publisher: Ottawa : Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer

Published Date: 1963

Physical Description: 153 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology; Guide; National parks

Abstract: Pertains to the geological information and processes that have occurred in order to yield the Canadian Rocky Mountains. In an effort to attract and inform visitors, author and scientist, David M. Baird, has opted to share the geological forces that have created the mountains we know today. Baird takes the reader through a comprehensive analysis of the forces needed to create the beauty of the terrain. He does so with the hopes of facilitating a much deeper appreciation for both the beauty, and natural processes needed to yield a mountain range as extensive as the Canadian Rockies.

Contents: Introduction (pg. 7); Rocks and the origin of the earth (pg. 15); Minerals (pg. 28); Erosion and sculpturing of the land (pg. 36); Wind as an agent of erosion (pg. 42); Underground water (pg. 48); Rivers (pg. 54); Oceans and shorelines (pg. 73); Glaciers (pg. 92); Islands (pg. 114); Lakes (pg. 117); Geological time (pg. 123); Earth's architecture (pg. 132); The formation of mountains (pg. 141); Economic geology (pg. 145)

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 13.115 B11a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Mountaineering : the freedom of the hills

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1960

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: 01 M86 1963

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Responsibility: planned by the Climbing Committee of the Mountaineers; Harvey Manning, chairman of editors; editorial committee: John R. Hazle and others; illus: Donna Balch Cook and Robert Cram

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1960

Physical Description: x, 430p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineering; Manuals; Equipment; Camping; Travel; Rock climbing; Snow; Ice; Ice climbing; First aid; Geology

Abstract: Pertains to how to safely mountaineer with a focus on North America as per the Mountaineers Climbing Committee

Contents: Preface; Part One - Approaching the Peaks; Equipment; Camping and Sleeping; Alpine Cuisine; Wilderness Travel; Navigation in the Hills; Part Two - Rock Climbing; Routefinding on Rock; Balance; Counterforce; Roped Climbing; Belaying; Pitoncraft and Rappels; Part Three - Snow and Ice Climbing; Snow; Ice; Glaciers; Arrests and Belays; Part Four - Safe Climbing; The Climbing Party and its Leadership; Climbing Dangers; First Aid; Alpine Rescue; Part Five - The Climbing Environment; Mountain Geology; The Cycle of Snow; Mountain Weather; Appendix - Food Requirements for Climbers

ISBN: 0916890015

Accession Number: 2019.43

Call Number: 01 M86 1963

Collection: Archives Library

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The story of the mountains : Banff National Park

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1960

Author: Belyea, Helen R.

Publisher: Ottawa [Queen's Printer]

Call Number: 13.115 B41s Pam

Variant Title: The story of the mountains in Banff National park

Author: Belyea, Helen R.

Responsibility: Helen R. Belyea

Publisher: Ottawa [Queen's Printer]

Published Date: 1960

Physical Description: 42 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology; Banff National Park; Rocky Mountains Canada; Rocky Mountains; Alberta

Abstract: Pertains to the history of Banff National Park. The author, Helen R. Belyea, provides a comprehensive description and glossary pertaining to the type of rocks that makes up the mountains in Banff National Park. Additionally, she highlights specific areas of geological interest such as, but not limited to the following: Hoodoos viewpoint, Sulphur Mountain, Lake Minnewanka, Mount Norquay and the Hot Springs. Due to the nature of the publication, that being a Geological Survey of Canada, the author includes an excerpt on rock formation for each area marked as one of geological interest.

Contents: The rocks (pg. 4); The building of the mountains (pg. 12); Mountain sculpture (pg.13); Drainage patterns (pg. 17); Glossary of terms (pg. 18); References (pg. 23); Local points of geological interest (pg. 24); Photographs (pg. 43)