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Travel Industry Association of Canada : tourism unity
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11354
- Subjects
- Hotels
- Transportation
- Notes
- Proceedings of TIAALTA annual meeting March 16-19, 1978
- Accession Number
- 5305
- Call Number
- 02.8 Al1tia
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- Archives Library
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Travel Industry Association of Canada policy statement : the official objectives of TIAALTA
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11355
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Call Number
- 02.8 Al1tia Pam
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 23 p. : 1 map
- Subjects
- Hotels
- Tourism
- Transportation
- Accession Number
- 5305
- Call Number
- 02.8 Al1tia Pam
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- Archives Library
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Map in 2 sections showing Transportation Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24438
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Produced by the Surveys and Mapping Branch, Alberta
- Call Number
- C9-5.8(b)
- Publisher
- Produced by the Surveys and Mapping Branch, Alberta
- Published Date
- 1977
- Scale
- Scale: 1:750,000
- Series
- Sheets #1 and 2
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Transportation
- Accession Number
- 11,500
- Call Number
- C9-5.8(b)
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- Archives Library
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Vertical reference : the life of legendary mountain helicopter rescue pilot Jim Davies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25228
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Calvert, Kathy
- Publisher
- [Canada] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11v
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- Author
- Calvert, Kathy
- Responsibility
- Kathy Calvert
- Publisher
- [Canada] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- An exciting and heart-pounding look at one of Western Canada’s most adventurous individuals, known as a pioneer pilot of the heli-ski industry and as the first mountain-rescue pilot in the Canadian National Parks system. Jim Davies is an icon of competence and courage as the first heli-skiing pilot in Canada. But it is his groundbreaking work as a helicopter rescue pilot for Parks Canada that made him a legend to all who worked with him. His stellar career as a pilot overshadowed his other talents as a ski racer and artist. Jim received several awards for his work in mountain rescue, including the Helicopter Association International – Pilot Safety Award of Excellence, the Alberta Achievement Award for excellence in helicopter flying, the Summit of Excellence Award at the Banff Film and Book Festival, and the Robert E. Trimble Memorial Award for “distinguished performance in helicopter mountain flying.” He is now retired and living in Banff, pursuing his love of painting and photography. (From Rocky Mountain Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Growing up
- A glimpse of the world
- Birth of heli-skiiling in the Bugaboos
- Changes: from Bugaboos to Banff
- Permission or forgiveness
- Development of the public safety program
- Eclectice use of the helicopter
- The contract
- No lack of work
- The coast and home again
- Appendix: public safety in parks today
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 9781771604154
- Accession Number
- 2021.05
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11v
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25243
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Edition
- First, revised
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Responsibility
- Cecil Foster
- Edition
- First, revised
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 296 pages
- Abstract
- Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781771962612
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25244
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M42n
1 website
- Author
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
- Responsibility
- Sarah-Jane Mathieu
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Physical Description
- xv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs
- Abstract
- North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.
- ISBN
- 9780807871669
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 M42n
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- Archives Library
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When trains rules the Kootenays : a short history of railways in Southeastern British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25533
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12w
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 240 pages : illustrations
- Series
- When Trains Ruled
- Subjects
- Travel
- Transportation
- Railways
- Railway routes
- History
- Abstract
- When Trains Ruled the Kootenays is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from the mines, move people, and service the communities during the early years of the 20th century in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Terry Gainer's latest book documents sixty years of change in the railway industry of British Columbia. The evolving transformations of life and landscape noted in the text and photos also reflect a period of rapid change in Canada. Threaded through the narrative are anecdotes from Kootenay pioneers recounting their experiences and the means of transportation of the times. -- Publisher's website
- Contents
- Part I : Rails to the Kootenays: The Kootenays ; The Antagonists ; The Battle Begins : Rails to the West Kootenays ; The Battle Moves East : Rails to the Crowsnest Pass ; Ship Ahoy! The Clash on Kootenay Lake ; The Battle Moves West : Peace at Last? ; Part II : The Trains to Gold and Silver: Nelson Becomes the Hub ; The Trains of the Kootenays ; A Day at the Station ; Trains to Rossland and Trail ; Trains to Castlegar ; Arrowhead and Nakusp : The North Kootenay Gateway ; The Travellers of Yesterday ; Special Trains and Excursions ; Not-So-Special Trains : Canada's Shame, Japanese Canadian Internment ; Into the 20th Century ; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Epilogue - The End of a Dream
- ISBN
- 9781771604017
- Accession Number
- 2022.08
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12w
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- Reading Room
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Connecting the Kootenays : the Kootenay Lake ferries, a hundred years of service 1921-2020
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25567
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- January 2022
- Author
- Cone, Michael A.
- Publisher
- Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
- Call Number
- 08.5 C75c
- Author
- Cone, Michael A.
- Publisher
- Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
- Published Date
- January 2022
- Physical Description
- 354 pages
- Abstract
- Connecting the Kootenays chronicles the history of the Kootenay Lake ferry service from its modest beginnings in 1921 through to its 100th anniversary in 2020. -- From back cover
- Contents
- The Great Trunk Road (1908-1921) ; The Canadian Pacific Railway Fills the Gap (1884-1913) ; The Nasookin: Queen of Kootenay Lake (1913-1930) ; Nelson to Kuskanook: A Trip to Remember (1921-1930) ; The Provinical Government Steps In (1931) ; The Great Depression and the Second World War (1931-1947) ; Saying Goodbye to the Nasookin (1947-1956) ; A New Ferry and a New Route (1947-1954) ; The Auxiliary Ferry: The Balfour (1954) ; Growing Pains for the Two-Ferry Service and the Opening of the "Skyway" (1955-1963) ; Labour Strife, Major Rebuilds and Looking beyond the New Millennium (1964-1999) ; The Osprey 2000, Privitization and Facing Challenges Ahead (2000-2020)
- ISBN
- 9781778350511
- Accession Number
- P2022.12
- Call Number
- 08.5 C75c
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
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The soo line's famous trains to Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 90 pages ; 8 cm
- Subjects
- CP Rail
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Railway
- Railway routes
- Transportation
- History
- Abstract
- The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America. -- From publisher
- Contents
- Part 1: A brief history of the soo line -- 1. In the beginning -- 2. The birth of the railway -- 3. What a tangled web we weave -- 4. Westward ho through great northern's backyard -- 5. Wisconsin central, the final piece of the puzzle -- 6. Setting the stage, Canadian pacific steamship company and Canadian pacific hotels and resorts -- Part 2: Famous trains of the soo -- 7. The Atlantic limited -- 8. The soo Pacific express -- 9. The Manitoba express, the Winnipeg express, the winnipeger -- 10. The soo-Spokane-Portland train deluxe -- 11. The mountaineer -- 12. The mystique of the mountaineer -- 13. The depression and the dirty thirties -- 14. My mountaineer -- 15. 1962, triumph and tragedy -- 16. The end of an era.
- ISBN
- 9781771606714
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
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Where go the boats : navigation on the peace 1792 - 1952
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20131
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1977?]
- Author
- Hansen, Evelyn
- Publisher
- Peace River, Alta. : Peace River Centennial Museum
- Call Number
- 08.5 H19w
- Author
- Hansen, Evelyn
- Responsibility
- Evelyn Hansen
- Publisher
- Peace River, Alta. : Peace River Centennial Museum
- Published Date
- [1977?]
- Physical Description
- 38 pages : 62 illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- History
- History-Canada
- Peace River
- Transportation
- Abstract
- Pertains to a text outlining the period of history in which boats were interchangeably used to describe the Peace River country. Prior to 1952, boat travel had been truly integral to the Peace River country. Through the use of text and images, the publication works to tell the story of the Peace River district during a period of intense reliance on boats for transportation of people, and resources.
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.5 H19w
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Vista 2000 bus service visitor survey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12966
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Call Number
- 08.5 V82s Pam
- Responsibility
- prepared by Siobhan Jackson Consulting
- Published Date
- 2000
- Subjects
- Tourism
- Transportation
- Notes
- for Lake Louise, Yoho and Kootenay Field Unit, Parks Canada
- Accession Number
- 7301
- Call Number
- 08.5 V82s Pam
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A road for Canada : the illustrated story of the Trans-Canada Highway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13260
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Francis, Daniel
- Publisher
- North Vancouver : Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers
- Call Number
- 02.4 F84r c.1
- 02.4 F84r c.2
- Author
- Francis, Daniel
- Responsibility
- Daniel Francis
- Publisher
- North Vancouver : Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 186 p. : ill., map
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 0-9732346-7-9
- 9780980930405
- Accession Number
- 7798
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 02.4 F84r c.1
- 02.4 F84r c.2
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Chief Mountain International Highway : Waterton-Glacier's promised road
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13951
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Morrison, Chris
- Publisher
- Waterton Park, Alta. : Goathaunt Pub
- Call Number
- 13.117 M83c
- Author
- Morrison, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Morrison
- Publisher
- Waterton Park, Alta. : Goathaunt Pub
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 96 p. : ill., map, ports.
- ISBN
- ISBN: 9780969697435
- Accession Number
- 60,000 2010-12-17
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- 13.117 M83c
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- n.d.
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- metals
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0405 a,b
- Description
- Medal a- round bronze medal with a top bit used for a red white and blue ribbon. Going around the medal are the words, “Banff- Lake Louise Winter Festival.” At the centre of the medal there is a circle and inside of that circle there is a landscape impression of a forest and a sun behind some mount…
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- Athletic Medal
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metals
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 4.0 cm
- Description
- Medal a- round bronze medal with a top bit used for a red white and blue ribbon. Going around the medal are the words, “Banff- Lake Louise Winter Festival.” At the centre of the medal there is a circle and inside of that circle there is a landscape impression of a forest and a sun behind some mountains. Medal b- round bronze medal with an ornate crest or sigil in the centre. The number 19 are placed along the sigils right side while the number 17 is present on the left. Above are the words “Banff Kinsmen” and bellow are the words “Ski School Boys C.” (Dimensions 7.0 x 7.0).
- Subject
- award
- game
- hockey
- landscape
- sports team
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Brewster, Banff, 2023
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0405 a,b
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- 2003
- Material
- paper; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1140 a-c
- Description
- Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproductio…
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- Placemat
- Date
- 2003
- Material
- paper; plastic
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 44.2 cm
- Description
- Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproduction of Lake Louise; (c) a colour photographic reproduction of Moraine Lake. (a) The lower half of the photograph is the lake and shoreline and the top half is mountains and sky. The foreground of the lake’s shore is in the shade and mostly dark, except for a bit of green vegetation in the viewer’s extreme left-hand corner and some green bushes bunched together in the lower middle. Some sunlight hits part of the brown-coloured vegetation and logs. There are parts of dark branches of a spruce tree from top to bottom on the viewer’s left; mid-centre the shore juts out and further down, a log with some branches. On the viewer’s right there are heavy green branches, the bottom part in the shade, that form part of a spruce tree from top to bottom. The lake is sunlit from the left with reflections of the mountains in the shimmering water. The shore beyond is lined with trees and the grey mountains, with some snow on the peaks, above and further to the viewer’s right, a glimpse of a glacier. On the viewer’s far right some green vegetation and than a rust-coloured moraine, leading up to a mountain barely discernable through the spruce tree branches. The sky is blue with white, puffy clouds. On the white border, printed in black script, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner “Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada”; on the white border, printed in black italics, in viewer’s right-hand bottom corner “Photo Don Harmon” and underneath it “Distributed b Byron Harmon Photos, P.O. Box 490, Banff, Alberta”. On the opposite side of the placemat is a copy of a black-and-white photograph by Byron Harmon of Crowfoot Glacier in 1917. The foreground is branches, vegetation and one large spruce tree, on the viewer’s far right, that rises almost to the top of the photograph. Mid-centre, four packhorses, carrying their diamond-hitch loads, are grazing near two spruce trees. A bank of trees behind the horses rises steadily to the viewer’s right and the giant Crowfoot Glacier, with three complete ‘toes’, to the viewer’s right and one incomplete ‘toe’ on the left, makes up the top-half, except for a bit of sky, mid-to-far left. On the white border, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black lettering, is “Crowfoot Glacier 1917” and on the right-hand bottom corner “Photo B. Harmon”.(b) and (c): on one side, in the middle of the placemats is a large rectangle with a white background and “Wild Flowers of the Canadian Rockies” printed in script-style, in dark pink ink. A pink wild rose, open, a bulb without petals, and two stems with leaves, are mid-centre to viewer’s left. “Wild Rose” is printed in black script to the the left and “Alberta’s Floral Emblem” is printed, to the right of the rose, in light blue script. The outside edge of the placemat has 16 brown-framed boxes with pictures and the printed name of the following flowers: starting from viewer’s left top, clockwise: “Blue Flax”, “Yellow Vetch”, “Indian Paintbrush”, ”Pink Pussy Toes”, “Buffalo Berry”, “Heart-Leaf Arnica”, “Hare Bells”, “Tiger Lily”, “Sagebrush Buttercup”, “Wood Violet”, “Crocus”, “American Vetch” , “Strawberry”, “Yellow Columbine” , and “Fire Weed”. On the other other side of (b) (30.0x44.20cm wide), the photo is dominated by a summer view of Lake Louise, the Victoria Glacier behind, and the front lawn and swimming pool of Chateau Lake Louise. The foreground is made up, on viewer’s left, of: lawn and walkway, fence and lake walkway, three people walking, one person standing, one person sitting at a table, three spruce trees, three horses with riders, and red, yellow and white poppies. In the foreground, on viewer’s middle and right, are two more horses with riders, three people on the walkway, two people sitting on chairs at a table, more poppies, spruce trees and a white roofless structure, with openings all around, that surrounds a swimming pool with people, one diving in midair. The middle of the scene is the turquoise-blue waters of Lake Louise, with the reflection of Victoria Glacier, and a canoe with two people in it. The rest of the scene is mountains in shade on the viewer’s left, the sunlit Victoria Glacier in the middle, and wooded mountains to the right. The sky is a deep blue. On the white border, viewer’s left, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada”; in the middle, printed in black, “LAKE LOUISE” and underneath, “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”. On the white border, viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”. The other side of (c) (30.3x44.4cm wide) is a summer image of Moraine Lake with six of the mountain peaks behind it. The foreground is spruce trees, rocks and the blue waters of Moraine Lake. To the viewer’s left is the top of a spruce tree extending to the grey moraine above, then two more spruce trees, grey rocks, a brown rocky path leading to the viewer’s right, a small coniferous tree, and at viewer’s far right, a large spruce tree reaching the top of the image. In the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, the words “DON HARMON” is printed in yellow. Water can seen through the trees and the reflection of the mountains and trees is discernible. Above the moraine and trees on the viewer’s far left is a shaded tree-covered slope reaching the top of the image. Coniferous trees line the lake shore, above which moraine and snow move from the five mountain peaks, toward the lake. The sky is bright blue above the grey, granite mountains, that have some snow on them. On the white border, viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada” and underneath “Photo by Don Harmon”; in the middle, in black ink “MORAINE LAKE” and underneath “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”; in the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”.
- Credit
- Gift of Ursula Welford, Thorold, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1140 a-c
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Engraving Plate
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- Date
- 1956
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.43.1003
- Description
- A plate of copper engraved with drawing of a deer standing in snow to one side of snow covered log house in background. Picture framed by bare branches of trees and bushes. Message below in mirror writing reads "Julia and Julius wish you joy and may one of your trails in use lead this way". Meta…
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- Title
- Engraving Plate
- Date
- 1956
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 12.8 x 17.8 cm
- Description
- A plate of copper engraved with drawing of a deer standing in snow to one side of snow covered log house in background. Picture framed by bare branches of trees and bushes. Message below in mirror writing reads "Julia and Julius wish you joy and may one of your trails in use lead this way". Metal of plate has developed dull patina and is etched with fingerprints.
- Subject
- animal
- deer
- Charlie Beil
- landscape
- artists
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- 104.43.1003
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Decorative Plaque
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- Date
- prior to 1984
- Material
- plastic; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1005
- Description
- Round (14.0 dia) plastic picture of the CPR station in Banff, Cascade Mountain in background and printed around the rim is "The Wild Rose Country Banff CPR Station". This is on a dark purple background in a brown wood frame.
- Title
- Decorative Plaque
- Date
- prior to 1984
- Material
- plastic; wood
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Round (14.0 dia) plastic picture of the CPR station in Banff, Cascade Mountain in background and printed around the rim is "The Wild Rose Country Banff CPR Station". This is on a dark purple background in a brown wood frame.
- Credit
- Gift of David Mutton, Banff, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1005
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Decorative Plate
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.01.1012
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- ceramic, bone china
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1012
- Description
- A decorative dish made from a hand-coloured photograph. The scene is of the Bow Falls with the natural landscape, tinted slightly with green, pink and yellow, the river is grey and the falls white. A man on horseback stands in the river at the bottom right looking at the falls. On the back is th…
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- Title
- Decorative Plate
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- ceramic, bone china
- Description
- A decorative dish made from a hand-coloured photograph. The scene is of the Bow Falls with the natural landscape, tinted slightly with green, pink and yellow, the river is grey and the falls white. A man on horseback stands in the river at the bottom right looking at the falls. On the back is the seal of Royal Doulton, made in England, below it: BOW FALLS BANFF NATIONAL PARK D6471.
- Credit
- Purchased from Midtowne Memorabilia, Wetaskiwin, 1994
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.1012
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- Date
- 1971
- Material
- oil paint; board
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0077 a-f
- Description
- 6 oil paintings by Ferlan Lefthand on canvas board. a) Mountain range with river stretching from foreground to middle. Blue sky with long clouds above. b) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Yellow grass in foreground with one rock and lone tree at right. River winding from left side to centre right. More trees in …
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- Title
- Oil Painting
- Date
- 1971
- Material
- oil paint; board
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- 6 oil paintings by Ferlan Lefthand on canvas board. a) Mountain range with river stretching from foreground to middle. Blue sky with long clouds above. b) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Yellow grass in foreground with one rock and lone tree at right. River winding from left side to centre right. More trees in centre and background. c) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. River with small waterfall winds through flat meadow with yellow and green grass. Scattered conifers in meadow. Mountains in distance. Signed Feb 15, 1971 on back. d) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. River at left side and receding into distance with meadow at right side. Large grey blocky mountains in distance, e) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Large meadow with scattered conifers. Body of water at right side. Grey mountains surrounded by trees in background. Signed February 27, 1971 at back. f) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Wide blue river stretching from left side to right. 6 conifers lower left side in foreground. Large grey mountain surrounded by trees in background. Signed February 20, 1971.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- art
- painting
- landscape
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0077 a-f
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