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Death hunt : the saga of two rivals who clash as enemies and triumph as heroes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24979
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- Call Number
- 06.3 D34 DVD
1 website
- Responsibility
- Peter Hunt (director)
- Murray Shostak (producer)
- Charles Bronson (actor)
- Lee Marvin (actor)
- Andrew Stevens (actor)
- Carl Weathers (actor)
- Angie Dickinson (actor)
- Publisher
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sd., col.
- Subjects
- Films
- Film making
- Engler Bruno
- Auger, Tim
- Canmore
- Spray Lakes
- North West Mounted Police
- Search and rescue
- Abstract
- Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.
- Notes
- Still photography by Bruno Engler
- Tim Auger was Charles Bronson's body double
- Filmed in the Canmore and Spray Lakes area
- Accession Number
- P2019-31
- Call Number
- 06.3 D34 DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Death Hunt on IMDb
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Days of heaven
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24980
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection
- Call Number
- 06.3 D33 DVD
1 website
- Responsibility
- Terrence Malick (director)
- Richard Gere (actor)
- Brooke Adams (actor)
- Sam Shepard (actor)
- Publisher
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color
- Abstract
- In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and his little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
- Contents
- Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings.
- Notes
- Still photography by Bruno Engler
- Filmed in Southern Alberta and Waterton National Park
- Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature] (22 min.); Interview with Sam Shepard (13 min.); Interview with John Bailey (21 min.); Interview with Haskell Wexler (12 min.). Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros.
- Accession Number
- P2019-31
- Call Number
- 06.3 D33 DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Days of Heaven on IMDb
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Silver streak
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24982
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
- Call Number
- 06.3 Si3 DVD
1 website
- Responsibility
- Arthur Hiller (director)
- Colin Higgins (writer)
- Gene Wilder (actor)
- Richard Pryor (actor)
- Jill Clayburgh (actor)
- Publisher
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color
- Subjects
- Films
- Film making
- Railways
- Morant, Nicholas
- Abstract
- In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and off the train, in and out of roomettes, bars, and dining cars, George teams up with an amiable small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the murder's henchmen, FBI agents and a host of other outrageous characters (from back of DVD)
- Notes
- Still photography by Nicholas Morant
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976
- Accession Number
- P2019-31
- Call Number
- 06.3 Si3 DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Silver Streak on IMDb
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A dark secret : your friendly neighborhood fall-out shelter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19933
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Alexander, Rob
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Alexander, Rob
- Responsibility
- Rob Alexander
- Published Date
- 2009
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Government
- Lac des Arcs
- Abstract
- Pertains to the fall-out shelter built into Mount McGillivray overlooking Lac des Arcs by private company Rocky Mountain Vaults & Archives during the Cold War
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol.1, Iss.2, Winter 2009, p.15-17
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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Country post : rural postal service in Canada, 1880 to 1945
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19833
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
- Publisher
- Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
- Call Number
- 08.1 Am1c
1 website
- Responsibility
- Chantal Amyot and John Willis
- Publisher
- Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 210 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Postal services
- History
- Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the ways in which rural postal service combat isolationism in rural communities across Canada while using examples in Alberta. References and/or photos pertaining to Alberta include the following locations, Bently, Beverly, Big Valley, Capon, Claresholm, Consort, Coronation, Cressman, Gadsby, Hanna, Kinnodale, Lacombe, Ogden, Rapid City, Lethbridge, Red Lodge, Richdale, Rimbey, Stand Off, Troche, Wardlow and Worsley. The book draws similarities to the isolationism that was likely to exist in the Rocky Mountains at the time of early settlement, and the ways in which rural postal services increased communication among communities.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Canadian Postal Museum -- Foreword -- Canada post -- Foreword -- Canadian postmasters and assistants association -- Ch. 1. The transformation of rural society in Canada and the post office -- Ch. 2. The significance and symbolism of post offices and their locations -- Ch. 3. The rural postmaster -- Ch. 4. Social role of the post -- Ch. 5. Sending saving, and spending money -- Conclusion : whither the rural post office?
- Notes
- References and/or photographs of locations in Alberta can be found on the following pages Bently (98), Beverly (103), Big Valley (132), Capon (80), Claresholm (109), Consort (123), Coronation (114), Cressman (43), Gadsby (107), Hanna (98 and 124), Kinnodale (57 and 59), Lacombe (51), Lethbridge (89), Ogden (88), Rapid City (59), Red Lodge (59), Richdale (85), Rimbey (98), Stand Off (41), Troche (116), Wardlow (105) and Worsley (97)
- ISBN
- 0660189984
- Accession Number
- 2019.44
- Call Number
- 08.1 Am1c
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Avaliable through online subscription to jstor
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Passchendaele
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24991
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Gross, Paul (writer, director, producer, actor)
- Dhavernas, Caroline (actor)
- Dinicol, Joe (actor)
- Bailey, Meredith (actor)
- Bellows, Gil (actor)
- Publisher
- Montreal : Distributed by Alliance Atlantis
- Call Number
- 06.3 P26 DVD
1 website
- Author
- Gross, Paul (writer, director, producer, actor)
- Dhavernas, Caroline (actor)
- Dinicol, Joe (actor)
- Bailey, Meredith (actor)
- Bellows, Gil (actor)
- Publisher
- Montreal : Distributed by Alliance Atlantis
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color
- Subjects
- Films
- Film making
- World War I
- World War, 1914-1918
- Abstract
- Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle.
- Accession Number
- P2019-31
- Call Number
- 06.3 P26 DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Passchendaele on IMDb
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Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13737
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Pauli, Lori
- Haworth-Booth, Mark
- Baker, Kenneth
- Torosian, Michael
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
- Edition
- Fifth printing 2006
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
- 06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
1 website
- Responsibility
- Lori Pauli
- Mark Haworth-Booth
- Kenneth Baker
- Michael Torosian
- Edition
- Fifth printing 2006
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 160 p. : col. ill.
- Abstract
- "....documenting the effect of industrialization on the environment, Burtynsky provokes his viewers to contemplate the world he shoots. Published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of Burtynsky's work, this book requires more than a quick flip through the pages. At first one is dazzled by the color and apparent fluidity in the landscapes that he captures, but on deeper examination one begins to realize that these are quarry mines, oil refining factories, and recycling centers. Not your typical coffee-table book, this comes with a social and environmental message that should not be ignored. Essays by three curator/critics and an interview with the artist complement the 64 large-scale color images. Recommended for academic libraries and large art photo collections." – Sheila Devaney, University of Georgia (from Edward Burtynsky website)
- Contents
- Message from the sponsor
- Foreward
- Author's acknowledgements
- Seeing the big picture - Lori Pauli
- Edward Burtynsky : traditions and affinities - Mark Haworth-Booth
- Form versus porten t: Edward Burtynsky's endangered landscapes - Kenneth Baker
- The essential element : an interview with Edward Burtynsky - Michael Torosian
- Plates
- List of works
- Chronology
- Selected exhibitions
- Public collections
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Published as a companion to exhibition of National Gallery of Canada in 2003
- With essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview by Michael Torosian
- ISBN
- 9780300099430
- Accession Number
- 50500
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
- 06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book on artist's website
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Thinking like a mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25273
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Author
- Bateman, Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Viking
- Call Number
- 05.5 B31t
1 website
- Author
- Bateman, Robert
- Responsibility
- Robert Bateman
- Publisher
- Toronto : Viking
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- xi, 130 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Environment
- Literature
- Essays
- Authors
- Bateman, Robert
- Abstract
- Thinking Like a Mountain is the result of many years of thinking, talking and writing about the world's growing environmental crisis. Beautifully designed and illustrated with original drawings, it is a gathering of questions, observations and ideas Robert Bateman has drawn from his own life experiences and gleaned from the writings of some of the visionaries who have influenced him. As Einstein said, "We cannot solve the problems of today with the same thinking that gave us the problems in the first place."Only a profound shift in philosophy, Bateman believes, can save our species from extinction. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One : Getting to know the neighbours
- Part Two : Message in the bones
- Part Three : Signs of hope
- More food for thought
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9780670893034
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 05.5 B31t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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A Century of American alpinism, 2002
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20146
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Fay, Charles Ernest
- Bent, Allen Herbert
- Palmer, Howard
- Thorington, James Monroe
- Kauffman, Andrew John
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
- Call Number
- G505 F39 C46
1 website
- Author
- Fay, Charles Ernest
- Bent, Allen Herbert
- Palmer, Howard
- Thorington, James Monroe
- Kauffman, Andrew John
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Charles Earnest Fay, Allen Herbert Bent, Howard Palmer, James Monroe Thorington, Andrew John Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- ix, 196 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
- Subjects
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Mountaineering
- Clubs
- Abstract
- Pertains to a century of American alpinism from 1902 to 2002
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- I Earliest American Mountaineers
- II Pacific Crests
- III Later and Farther North
- IV Tidewater Alaska
- V Early Amerian Ascents in the Alps
- VI Appalachian Mountain Club Roots
- VII The Social Aspect of Alpinism
- VIII To the Top of the Continent
- IX Other Mountain Clubs of America
- X Momentous Events
- XI Afield and at War
- XII Changing Mores
- XIII Moving West
- XIV Not All Sweetness and Light
- XV The Study of Mountain Elevations
- XVI Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness
- XVII Changing Faces
- Appendices
- Index
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G505 F39 C46
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- American Alpine Club link to book
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Glen Boles fonds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions659
- Part Of
- Glen Boles fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of 27 limited edition prints of pen and pencil drawings by Glen Boles, 1994-2002. Content of prints include Mt. Assiniboine, Mt. Fay, Mt. Louis, Mt. Alberta, Abbot Pass & Victoria Glacier, Snowpatch Spire, Howser Spires, Mt. Finger, Three Sisters, Tower of Babel, Eisenhower Tower, Mt…
- Date Range
- 1967-2021
- Reference Code
- M599 / V175
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Drawing
- Textual record
2 websites
- Part Of
- Glen Boles fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M599 / V175
- Sous-Fonds
- M599
- V175
- Accession Number
- 7447 (unproc); 8132 (unproc); 2023.38 (unproc)
- Reference Code
- M599 / V175
- Date Range
- 1967-2021
- Physical Description
- 24 drawings; pen & pencil
- ca. 40 volumes of textual records
- 16.5 cm textual records
- History / Biographical
- Glen Boles (1934-2022), was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick and moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1953. In 1957 he was persuaded to climb with co-worker and mountain guide Heinz Kahl, a native Bavarian. Heinz Kahl and English climber Brian Greenwood introduced Boles to more difficult climbing. Boles has climbed extensively in the Rockies, summiting over 400 peaks including many new routes and first ascents. He has also climbed in the Interior Ranges of British Columbia as well as the St. Elias Range of Alaska and the Alps. Boles is also an avid skier and spent 13 years on the Canadian Ski Patrol System and is a member of the Ski Friends program in Lake Louise.
- Boles retired from the City of Calgary Waterworks Engineering Division in 1991 after thirty-five years employment. Boles and his wife (married in 1965) reside in Cochrane, Alberta. From his mountain experiences, Glen has developed an interest in photography, drawing and writing and has co-authored "The Climbing Guide to the Canadian Rockies-South" and "Place Names of the Canadian Alps" with Bill Putnam and Roger Laurilla.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of 27 limited edition prints of pen and pencil drawings by Glen Boles, 1994-2002. Content of prints include Mt. Assiniboine, Mt. Fay, Mt. Louis, Mt. Alberta, Abbot Pass & Victoria Glacier, Snowpatch Spire, Howser Spires, Mt. Finger, Three Sisters, Tower of Babel, Eisenhower Tower, Mt. Stephen, Bugaboos, Bighorn Sheep, Cougar, Timber Wolf, Grizzly Bear, Mt. Robson, Berg Lake, and Yamnuska. Fonds also includes approximately 40 diaries, ca. 1967-2021 and 16.5 cm. of correspondence 1987-2010
- Notes
- 27 drawing prints moved to Oversize infofile storage under title "Artists - Glen Boles"
- Name Access
- Boles, Glen
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Environment
- Access Restrictions
- Reproductions prohibited for limited edition prints
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- No finding aid
- Creator
- Boles, Glen
- Biographical Source Notes
- Accession record and accompanying notes.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Unprocessed
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A Useful Institution: William Twin,"Indianness," and Banff National Park, c.1860-1940
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24965
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Bradford, Tolly
- Publisher
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Department of Indigenous Studies , University of Saskatchewan
- Call Number
- 07.2 B72u PAM
1 website
- Author
- Bradford, Tolly
- Responsibility
- Tolly Bradford
- Publisher
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Department of Indigenous Studies , University of Saskatchewan
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 22p
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Tourism
- First Nations
- Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
- Abstract
- This paper examines the life of William Twin (c. 1860–1940), a member of the Nakoda (or Stoney) First Nation, and pays particular attention to his connection with Banff National Park and role in facilitating the tourism empire that still flourishes there. Being careful to distinguish between who William Twin was and how he was imagined to be, this paper argues that his life story has at least two aspects: William as an ‘institution’ useful to the development of Banff National Park, and William as a person who enjoyed sustained and very personal interactions with both Stoney and Euro-Canadian communities (abstract)
- Notes
- In Native Studies Review . 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p 77-98.
- Call Number
- 07.2 B72u PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Native Studies Review via the University of Saskatchewan Department of Indigenous Studies
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Dendroarchaeological and contextual investigations of remote log structures in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks, Canada.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25106
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline
- Publisher
- Victoria : University of Victoria
- Call Number
- 06.5 B74d
1 website
- Author
- Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline
- Responsibility
- Karen Jacqueline Brelsford
- Publisher
- Victoria : University of Victoria
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 310 pages ; illus. , maps
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to undertake a comprehensive dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of 35 sites (44 log structures) in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks. Through tree-ring analysis and investigations of relevant documents (i.e., archives and interviews), three main objectives are met: (1) an architectural inventory and tree-ring analysis of sampled structures in the three parks; (2) an exploration of remote construction activity in the three parks, in terms of functional, temporal, and spatial distributions, and tree species selection; and (3) a detailed dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of three structure case studies. The results provide new insights into remote construction activity from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century in the three parks. It assists Parks Canada in their attempt to interpret the cultural heritage resources of this area and contributes to the international need to document and explore vernacular architecture. (from the University of Victoria library website)
- Contents
- Title Page Abstract Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Literature Review 3.0 Study Sites and Methods 4.0 Characteristics of living and structure chronologies in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks Construction Activity in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks 6.0 Case Studies 7.0 Conclusions 8.0 References Appendix A: Tree-ring dating results and site descriptions for 35 sites (44 structures) sampled in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay Parks Appendix B: Interview Transcriptions Appendix C: Copyright Permissions
- Accession Number
- 7561
- Call Number
- 06.5 B74d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via the University of Victoria
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Tears for old Lacerta : new poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19868
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92t Pam
1 website
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Responsibility
- Gordon Burles
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 92 pages
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Art
- Rocky Mountains Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet’s work reflects a somber undertone, and covers topics pertaining to people, places, and nature.
- Notes
- Annotated – the author has signed the front page with the following, “To Liz – best wishes, from Gordon Burles”
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92t Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the Gordon Burles fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
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Significant treasures = Tre´sors parlants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25084
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1997
- Author
- Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
- Publisher
- Toronto : Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16s
1 website
- Variant Title
- A guide to significant treasures awaiting you in Canada’s museums
- Publisher
- Toronto : Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 320 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Abstract
- Summaries of significant artefacts held in museum collections across Canada organized by province and territory. Includes the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Contents
- Foreward Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Atlantic Provinces Newfoundland Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Northwest Territories Yukon Indices
- Notes
- Stoney-Assiniboine beaded moccasins from Morley dated 1895 to 1910 at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies are featured on page 232-233
- ISBN
- 1550565044
- Accession Number
- 6999
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16s
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums website
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A crown of maples : constitutional monarchy in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25103
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Canadian Heritage
- Publisher
- Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16a PAM
1 website
- Author
- Canadian Heritage
- Publisher
- Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 63, xviii pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to how the Constitutional Monarchy functions in Canada
- Contents
- Introduction The Canadian Crown - An Overview The Modern Reality of Constitutional Monarchy The Role and Powers of the Canadian Crown Today Canadian Representatives of the Crown Comparison with Other Systems of Government The Visual Presence of the Canadian Crown Conclusion The Royal Anthem - “God Save the Queen” Appendices Photographic Credits Glossary Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9780662460121
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16a PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- 2015 version available online via the Government of Canada
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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20137
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Clark, Geoffrey E.
- Publisher
- Portsmouth Athenaeum
- Call Number
- G670 C53 A23
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- Author
- Clark, Geoffrey E.
- Responsibility
- Geoffrey E. Clark
- Publisher
- Portsmouth Athenaeum
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 81 pages : illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Arctic
- Arctic Regions
- Research
- Survival
- Film making
- Films
- American
- Abstract
- In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
- The Beginning
- Research and Exploration
- The Retreat
- The Rescue
- Greely's Later Years
- The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Notes
- DVD of associated film included with publication
- Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio
- ISBN
- 0974089524
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G670 C53 A23
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Rutter, Nat
- Coppold, Murray
- Rokosh, Dean
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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- Responsibility
- The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Nat Rutter
- Murray Coppold
- Dean Rokosh
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Climatology
- Climate change
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Geography
- Geology
- Abstract
- Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
- Contents
- Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
- Notes
- Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780978013219
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Further research
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- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Davison, Kristy
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Davison, Kristy
- Responsibility
- Kristy Davison
- Published Date
- 2008
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Bears
- Bears, Grizzly
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- Pertains to Bear #71
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Summer 2008, p.12
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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The hungry spirit : selected plays and prose by Elsie Park Gowan
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19787
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Day, Moira (editor)
- Publisher
- Edmonton : NeWest Press
- Call Number
- 05.3 Da33t
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- Author
- Day, Moira (editor)
- Responsibility
- Edited by Moira Day
- Publisher
- Edmonton : NeWest Press
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Abstract
- Pertains to Elsie Park Gowan who was an adjudicator and instructor at the Banff School of Fine Arts between 1930 and 1958.
- Contents
- Homestead -- The hungry spirit -- Back to the kitchen, women! -- The last caveman -- High green gate -- Breeches from Bond Street -- Woman in the twentieth century -- The freedom of Mrs. Rodway.
- ISBN
- 0-920897-19-3
- Accession Number
- p2019-07
- Call Number
- 05.3 Da33t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Biographical information found in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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