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Ray Wardell fonds

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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Scope & Content: Fonds consists of unpublished report titled "Mount Norquay Memories, 1948- 1956" by Ray Wardell.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

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Published record

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Scope & Content: Fonds consists of unpublished report titled "Mount Norquay Memories, 1948- 1956" by Ray Wardell.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

Subject Access: Chairlifts and gondolas; Mount Norquay Ski Area; Sports, recreation and leisure

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Creator: Wardell, Ray

Category: Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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The study of rocks in thin section

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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

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

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

Collection: Archives Library

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The ante-room

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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

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

Subjects: Coal; Mining

Notes: Relevant pages include: p.196-268

Accession Number: 19500

Call Number: 08 D56

Collection: Archives Library

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The great buffalo hunt

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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

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

Call Number: 08 G16

Collection: Archives Library

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Christmas in Canada...

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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

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

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

Collection: Archives Library

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America's wonderlands : the scenic national parks and monuments of the United States

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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

Author: National Geographic Society (Washington, D.C.). Book Service

Responsibility: foreword by Melville Bell Grosvenor; introduction by Conrad L. Wirth

Published Date: 1959

Physical Description: 510p. : ill

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

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 13.2 N21a

Collection: Archives Library

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The great river of the West : the Columbia River

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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

Author: League of Women Voters of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington

Publisher: Eugene (OR) : Koke-Chapman

Published Date: 1959

Physical Description: 32p. : maps

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

Subjects: Dams

Notes: 2nd printing

Accession Number: 6500

Call Number: 03.6 L47g

Collection: Archives Library

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I would do it again : reminiscences of the Rockies

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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

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

Subjects: Banff; Field; Coal; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Silver City; Whymper, Edward

Accession Number: 103; 492

Call Number: 08.3 C15

Collection: Archives Library

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Airborne from Edmonton

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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

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

Subjects: Aviation

Notes: Rocky Mountain references: p.41, 56, 135; Index

Accession Number: 21500

Call Number: 08.5 M99

Collection: Archives Library

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Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America, 1823- 1827

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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

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

Subjects: Brown, Mount; Hooker, Mount; Travel

Accession Number: 8000

Call Number: 04.1 D74

Collection: Archives Library

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Birds of Canada's mountain parks

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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

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

Notes: 1st ed (1950) also in library

Accession Number: 400; 8500 deaccessioned

Call Number: 04.2 M92b

Collection: Archives Library

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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

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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

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

Subjects: Dams; Power development

Accession Number: 539

Call Number: 03.8 Al1 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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My story : an autobiography

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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

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

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

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Eskimo Art

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

Published Date: 1959

Author: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources

Publisher: Ottawa : Queen's Printer

Call Number: 06.1 D34c

Author: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources

Publisher: Ottawa : Queen's Printer

Published Date: 1959

Physical Description: 40 pages : illustrations (some color) 1 color map ; 27 cm

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

Subjects: Baffin Island; Inuit; Art

Subjects: Art, Canadian

Abstract: Pertains to a publication showcasing artistic pieces from a variety of Inuit artists in Canada. The publication provides images of Inuit carvings, as well as other various forms of artistic expression. While the publication seeks to tell the story of the art, it is lacking Inuit voices and thus carries an innate bias.