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Ben Gadd fonds
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- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of materials pertaining to Ben Gadd's personal life and career as an environmental researcher, educator, interpretive guide, publisher, public speaker and author, ca.1956-2018. Fonds includes maps, research materials, publication notes/drafts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, …
- Date Range
- 1956-2018
- Reference Code
- M590 / V810 / S61
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Digital image
- Drawing
- Negative
- Newspaper clipping
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Published record
- Textual record
- Video
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- V810
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- 2024.01
- Reference Code
- M590 / V810 / S61
- GMD
- Digital image
- Drawing
- Negative
- Newspaper clipping
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Published record
- Textual record
- Video
- Transparency
- Date Range
- 1956-2018
- Physical Description
- ca. 7.9 metres of textual records -- ca. 274 maps -- 29 VHS tapes -- ca.15 discs with digital files -- 21 cassettes -- photographs -- oversized materials -- USB stick with 15 sldeshows
- History / Biographical
- Ben Gadd (1946-) is a retired naturalist, guide, geologist, instructor, freelance writer and award-winning author based in the Canadian Rockies. Ben was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1946. He met his wife, Cia (Langdon) Gadd at Colorado College in 1965, and the couple married four weeks later. Ben and Cia had two sons, Will and Toby. Ben and his family relocated to Jasper in the late 1960s. Ben later attended the University of Lethbridge and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Earth Science in 1972. Between 1976 and 1980, Ben taught classes at Mount Royal College and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology; he later taught additional classes at Grant MacEwan College and Lakeland College. From 1981, Ben also worked as a seasonal naturalist/guide for Parks Canada. Ben left Parks Canada in 1985 to start an independent naturalist guiding business with Cia based in Jasper and other parts of the Canadian Rockies, which the couple continued to operate for over two decades. Ben published his best-known work, "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies", through his publishing company Corax Press in 1986. The second edition of "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies" received multiple awards after its release in 1995. Ben's fiction book, "Raven's End" won the title of Best Canadian Rockies Book at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2001 and became a Canadian bestseller. Overall, Ben has authored or co-authored 11 books and received nearly one dozen awards for his achievements as a writer, researcher and guide. Ben continued to lead guided hikes and school programs until his retirement in 2016.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of materials pertaining to Ben Gadd's personal life and career as an environmental researcher, educator, interpretive guide, publisher, public speaker and author, ca.1956-2018. Fonds includes maps, research materials, publication notes/drafts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, video and sound recordings, and other related material. Materials donated in 2024 include one USB stick containing
- Notes
- Ben Gadd fonds arrangement: Series I : Personal records - Subseries A : Travel guides and maps - Subseries B : Education and early writings - Subseries C : Personal interest files - Subseries D : Other personal and collected Series II : Research and publication records - Subseries A : Handbook of the Canadian Rockies - Subseries B : Other publications Series III : Professional records - Subseries A : Parks Canada Records - Subseries B : Interpretive guiding - Subseries C : Teaching records - Subseries D : Other contracts and projects Series IV : Legal and financial records - Subseries A : Legal records - Subseries B : Financial records
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- Education
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- Publication
- Environment
- Geology
- Tourism
- Family and personal life
- Personal and Professional Life
- Academics
- Guiding
- Guides
- Businesses
- Finances
- Conservation
- Wildlife
- Natural history
- Sports and recreation
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Jasper National Park
- Banff National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Lethbridge
- United States of America
- Colorado
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
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- Copyright restrictions apply
- Language
- English
- French
- Dutch
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
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Drawing from the mountain : an illustrated journey
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Perry, Lorne
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- 06.1 P41d
- Author
- Perry, Lorne
- Responsibility
- Lorne Perry
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 141 p. : ill., ports.
- Subjects
- Art
- Trees
- Flora
- Flowers
- Geology
- Wildlife
- Mountaineering
- Equipment
- Biography
- Mountains
- Rocky Mountains
- Photography
- Wilderness
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to art created by Lorne Perry during
- Contents
- Prologue
- Beginning with trees
- The limstone triangle
- A fine kind of madness
- "Real good" stories
- Lords of the dance
- The power of one
- Flesh and blood
- The gift
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Signed by Lorne Perry
- ISBN
- 9781894765817
- Accession Number
- 2019.110
- Call Number
- 06.1 P41d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Caribou rainforest : from heartbreak to hope
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Moskowitz, David
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 04.2 M85c
1 website
- Author
- Moskowitz, David
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 204 pages : color illustrations, color maps
- Subjects
- Caribou
- Wildlife
- Conservation
- Alberta
- Rocky Mountains
- Abstract
- In a North American rainforest, that few people even know exists, about a dozen dwindling herds of caribou are struggling to survive. Caribou Rainforest doesn’t tell an easy story, ask easy questions, or pretend that there are easy solutions to the possible extinction of the last mountain caribou herds found in Canada and the United States. There are fewer than twenty animals left in the last US herd. Yet what Caribou Rainforest does—with photographs, words, and science—is explain why this is happening, so that as a community we don’t repeat our mistakes, even when our intentions are good. Author and photographer David Moskowitz has studied and photographed these caribou extensively in order to understand their plight. He hasn’t found villains, but rather climate change, predators, recreationists, settler colonialism, industrial logging, mineral extraction, and a perfect confluence of factors that have worked against this fragile species and the fragile environment upon which it relies. The story of this iconic animal and stunning landscape provides an example of shifting conservation challenges and tactics in the twenty-first century. Mountain caribou have been identified as an “umbrella species” by conservationists, meaning that protecting their habitat also helps preserve many other species who depend on the same ecosystem. The discussion topics are controversial and wrenching—upending the forestry economy of the region, exterminating wolves (who also struggle to survive) to protect the caribou, limiting recreational access to critical habitat, respecting the rights of indigenous peoples. The issues are contentious, but the opportunity to craft solutions still exists. If we do in fact lose the caribou, the task then pivots to how can we protect what remains of this rare rainforest ecosystem. In Caribou Rainforest, the author searches for lessons that can turn despair into hope: their story can become the inspiration and catalyst for committed change. (from Caribou Rainforest website)
- Contents
- North America's hidden rainforest. Map: Mountain caribou range : historical and current -- The mountains : our playground, their last refuge. Map: Overview of the Caribou Rainforest -- The Caribou Rainforest : a forest like none other. Map: Northwest inland temperate rainforest -- Mountain caribou : ghosts of the rainforest. Map: Historical and current caribou populations -- Wildlife of these mountains : a laboratory of evolution -- Human dimensions : the language of a landscape -- The path ahead : reflections on grief and hope -- Acknowledgments -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photographer's notes -- Get involved.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival finalist for Mountain Environment and Natural History
- ISBN
- 9781680511284
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 04.2 M85c
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Caribou Rainforest project
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The amateur trapper and trap-maker's guide : a complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of trapping, snaring, and netting, containing plain directions for constructing the most approved traps ... with concise but comprehensive instructions for preserving and stuffing specimens ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25069
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1875?
- Author
- Harding, Stanley
- Publisher
- New York : Dick & Fitzgerald
- Call Number
- 02.7 H11t
- Author
- Harding, Stanley
- Publisher
- New York : Dick & Fitzgerald
- Published Date
- 1875?
- Physical Description
- 134 p. : ill.
- Abstract
- Guide to trapping fur-bearing and animals including how to make traps and taxidermy and other preservation methods.
- Notes
- Cover missing
- Accession Number
- 2926
- Call Number
- 02.7 H11t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The animal kingdom : based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25070
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1897
- Author
- Craig, Hugh (editor)
- Publisher
- New York : Johnson & Bailey
- Call Number
- 04.2 C84a Volume One
- 04.2 C84a Volume Two
1 website
- Author
- Craig, Hugh (editor)
- Responsibility
- John James Audubon
- Alfred Edmund Brehm
- Publisher
- New York : Johnson & Bailey
- Published Date
- 1897
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes : color illustrations
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Abstract
- Pertains the the animal kingdom as it was known in 1897 and includes stories and summaries and art by several well known wildlife artists and naturalists in two volumes
- Contents
- Contents of Volume One:
- Mammalia
- Quadrumana
- Cheiroptera
- Insectivora
- Carnivora
- Cetacea
- Contents of Volume Two:
- Sirenia
- Ungulata
- Proboscidea
- Hyracoidea
- Rodentia
- Edentata
- Marsupialia
- Montremata
- Notes
- Belonged to Pat Brewster
- Accession Number
- 2926
- Call Number
- 04.2 C84a Volume One
- 04.2 C84a Volume Two
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via Hathi Trust
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Lobo, and other stories from Wild animals I have known : being the personal histories of Lobo, Silverspot, Redruff, Bingo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25071
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1921
- Author
- Thompson Seton, Ernest
- Publisher
- New York : Charles Scribner's & Sons
- Call Number
- 05 T37w
- Author
- Thompson Seton, Ernest
- Responsibility
- Ernest Thompson Seton
- Publisher
- New York : Charles Scribner's & Sons
- Published Date
- 1921
- Physical Description
- 125 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations
- Subjects
- Animals
- Animals, Domestic
- Wildlife
- Folklore
- Abstract
- Pertains to stories about animals
- Contents
- A list of the stories in this book and their full page drawings:
- Lobo, the King of Currumpaw
- Silverspot, the Story of a Crow
- Raggylug, the Story of a Cottontail Rabbit
- Bingo, the Story of My Dog
- The Springfield Fox
- The Pacing Mustang
- Wully, the Story of a Yaller Dog
- Redruff, the Story of the Don Valley Partridge
- The thought (tail-piece)
- Accession Number
- 2926
- Call Number
- 05 T37w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The trail the bunny took : and other stories for boys and girls
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25082
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1958
- Author
- Fuller, Edith C.
- Publisher
- New York : Vantage Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 05.2 F95t
- Author
- Fuller, Edith C.
- Responsibility
- Edith C. Fuller
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- New York : Vantage Press
- Published Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- 53 pages ; illus.
- Abstract
- Children’s stories pertaining to wildlife, magic, and childhood
- Contents
- The Trail the Bunny Took The Song of Croaker The Little Harmonica The Magic Mirror Chatty the Squirrel Gretchen and the Mermaid
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 05.2 F95t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Thrushes, Thrashers, and Swallows*
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1936
- Author
- Pearson, Gilbert T.
- Publisher
- National Geographic
- Call Number
- 04.2 P31t
- Variant Title
- *Robins and Bluebirds are familiar members of a famous musical family which includes the Hermit Thrush and European Nightingales
- Author
- Pearson, Gilbert T.
- Responsibility
- Gilbert T. Pearson
- Publisher
- National Geographic
- Published Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 13 pages ; illus.
- Abstract
- Pertains to the family Mimidae
- Contents
- Game Wardens find out who killed the cock robin Colonists found a “Blue Robin” Three wives in a single season Cousins of the Nightingale Woodlands ring with flutelike music The Mockingbird is a world-famous vocalist Swallows of a feather flock together What’s in a name? Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni) Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata) Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens) Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis sialis) Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum redivivum) Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma dorsale dorsale) Leconte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei lecontei) Purple Martin (Progne subis) Northern Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon albifrons albifrons) Barn Swallow (Hirundo erhthrogaster) Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina lepida) Tree Swallow (Iridoprocne bicolor) Bank Swallow (Riparia Riparia Riparia) American Pipit (Anthus spinoletta spinoletta) Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spraguei) Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris)
- Notes
- Reprinted from National Geographic, Volume LXIX, No. 4, April 1936
- Paintings by Maj. Allan Brooks
- Accession Number
- 825
- Call Number
- 04.2 P31t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The true story of Smokey Bear
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1969
- Author
- [U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service]
- Publisher
- [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service ; [Racine, Wis.?] : Distributed by Western Publishing Co.
- Call Number
- 04 U1t PAM
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- Publisher
- [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service ; [Racine, Wis.?] : Distributed by Western Publishing Co.
- Published Date
- 1969
- Physical Description
- 16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildfires
- Conservation
- Bears
- Abstract
- Pertains to the origin story of Smokey the Bear and a wild-fire in Lincoln National Forest
- Accession Number
- 2015.8391
- Call Number
- 04 U1t PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Additional online resources via Smokey the Bear’s website
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Hinterland who's who
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973-1974
- Author
- Canadian Wildlife Service
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service
- Call Number
- 04.2 C16h PAM
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- Author
- Canadian Wildlife Service
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service
- Published Date
- 1973-1974
- Physical Description
- 11 volumes ; 2 pages ; illus. (b&w)
- Abstract
- Hinterland Who’s Who published by the Canadian Wildlife service - two-page pamphlet with summary of various animals in Canada including photographs, range maps, footprint drawings
- Contents
- Wolf
- Snowshoe hare
- Chipmunk
- Bat
- Beaver
- White-tailed deer
- Mountain sheep
- Moose
- Caribou
- Cougar
- Muskrat
- Notes
- These are separate publications catalogued together
- Issued under the authority of the Minister of the Environment
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 04.2 C16h PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Canadian Wildlife Federation website with additional Hinterland Who’s Who information including video
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art Volume 6, Number 1, 2010
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25119
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2010 PAM
1 website
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 54 pages ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 6, Number 1
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Art galleries
- Artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Contents
- Museum announces inaugural Bull-Bransom award for children's book illustration
- Authentic and artistic: Karl Bodmer's western wildlife
- When two prints are not the same
- Wild at heart, a rich history of fauna in art
- Picture this: a change of seasons
- Exclusive: Maurice Sendak on the wild side of humanity
- Me & Mike : Mike Forsberg's Great Plains
- Secrets of the night - dusk to dawn: nocturnes from the collection
- Incomparable inspiration: African adventures with William R. Leigh and his contemporaries
- Collection spotlight: Rembrandt, Bugatti and the Antwerp School
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2010 PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art Volume 5, Number 1, 2009
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25122
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
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- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 46 pages ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 5, Number 1
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Art galleries
- Artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Contents
- Patrons without peer: selections from the McCoy Collection
- He speaks for the trees: Dr. Suess and the Lorax
- On the natural world
- Collection spotlight: Dan Ostermiller's "The Emperor"
- Walter Hood to design sculpture trail for museum
- Wildlife in American art
- Community focus committee: engaging the community
- Notes
- Features article on page 18 entitled "Looking at Wildlfe - the maturing Carl Rungius" - the National Museum of Wildlife Art holds the largest collection of Carl Rungius pieces in the United States
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art 2011-2012 Edition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25130
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011 - 2012
- Author
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2011-2012PAM
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- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Published Date
- 2011 - 2012
- Physical Description
- 48 pages ; illus.
- Series
- 2011-2012
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Art galleries
- Artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Contents
- From Yellowstone to Yukon - the Journey of Wildlife Art
- Above Timberline - the Complete Carl Rungius Drypoint Collection
- A Force of Nature - the Art of George McLean
- The Last Ocean - Weller's Antarctica
- In the Spotlight - Mark Eberhard's "On the Edge"
- Notes
- Article about the exhibition "From Yellowstone to Yukon - the Journey of Wildlife Art" was on display at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in 2012
- Article "Above Timberline - the Complete Carl Rungius Drypoint Collections" pertains the the complete collection of drypoint's at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2011-2012PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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In the name of wild : one family, five years, ten countries, and a new vision of wildness
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25721
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Vannini, Phillip and April
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
- Call Number
- 02 V33i
- Author
- Vannini, Phillip and April
- Responsibility
- With Autumn Vannini
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Travel
- Wilderness
- Wildlife
- Canada
- Europe
- Japan
- Iceland
- New Zealand
- Patagonia
- Abstract
- Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places? Do they mean the same to everyone? Part travelogue, part ethnography, this book takes us on a journey into the lives of the people who call places such as Tasmania, Patagonia, and Iceland home. They reveal that wildness isn't about the absence of people. It's about connections, kinship, and coexistence with the land. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- "Wild" can be a challenging word: Galápagos -- "Wild" can be an adjective: Tasmania -- Wild can be ephemeral: Aotearoa-New Zealand -- Wild can change: South Tyrol -- Wild can be reimagined: Belize -- Wild can be a foreign concept: Japan -- Wild can be alive: Patagonia -- Wild can be photogenic: Iceland -- Wildlife can be us: Thailand -- Wild can be someone's home: Canada.
- ISBN
- 9780774890403
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 02 V33i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian animals for kids
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26184
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought
- Call Number
- 05 El6c
- 05 El6c Reference copy
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 24 pages ; ill.
- Subjects
- Literature
- Children
- Animals
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- How does a beaver warn of danger? What's the advantage of being a tiny wood frog? Where do walruses like to live? Kids love to learn about wildlife, and the colours and textures of Max Elliot's mixed media artwork make it even more fun to engage with a variety of Canadian animals, their habits and habitats. -- From back cover.
- ISBN
- 9781926983615
- Accession Number
- P2023.17 (2)
- Call Number
- 05 El6c
- 05 El6c Reference copy
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- Archives Library
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Brave like the buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26206
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Allan, Melissa
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 Al5b
- 07.2 Al5b reference copy
- Author
- Allan, Melissa
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Jadyn Fischer-McNab
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Subjects
- Children
- Buffalo
- Wildlife
- Indigenous
- Indigenous People
- Cree
- Abstract
- Brave Like the Buffalo is a children’s book with a message that will inspire all readers to face the storms in their life with the help of their support systems and with a brave mindset. Baby buffalo is surprised and scared when a storm on the prairies passes through. Mama buffalo puts on a brave face and demonstrates how to use courage and bravery to get through the literal and metaphorical storms we may face in life. Written by Melissa Allan and illustrated by Cree illustrator Jadyn Fischer-McNab, this story uses a powerful animal, the buffalo, as a symbolic message and connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and being that helps to create a wonderful narrative rich with Indigenous ties and a heartwarming message around facing adversity. Brave Like the Buffalo is intended for audiences aged 4-8, to be used educationally as a way to intertwine Indigenous ways of knowing and being through story. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606448
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 Al5b
- 07.2 Al5b reference copy
- Location
- Reference copy located in Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Streams of consequence : dispatches from the conservation world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26207
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Fitch, Lorne
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 F55s
- Author
- Fitch, Lorne
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 217 pages ; 19 cm
- Abstract
- A collection of essays highlighting the splendour and diversity of the landscape of southern Alberta. Streams of Consequence weaves together a bit of “ecology for dummies,” a cross-section of stories and essays on Alberta’s biodiversity riches and treasured landscapes, and a backdrop of selections on conservation issues. These are stories of the land and of Alberta’s plants, fish, and wildlife told through the voice of a biologist with decades of experience on the front lines of conservation efforts. Through stories, metaphor, and allegory, basic ecological principles are made clear, ecosystems are described, and our human role in stewarding these natural treasures is revealed. Infused in these “dispatches from the conservation world” is the special magic of biology, taking mute organisms at a variety of scales and understanding their lives and habitats so that they have meaning and a connection to us. The role, the unstated objective of biologists, is to remind us, unceasingly, that it is only in our minds that we live apart from the natural world. These stories have power to engage and educate, to help create and sustain an ecologically literate constituency that knows and cares about Alberta’s wilder side. Readers can look back on the changes, weigh their significance, and think about where we came from, where we are today, and where the trend might take us if we choose one road or another. There are some rocks heaved at our economy-centred, consumer-driven world. Scattered between them are the acts of altruism, of caring, of forethought, and of stewardship. These are rays of hope amid dark clouds threatening our very existence. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606691
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 04 F55s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Trout tracks : essays on fly fishing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26208
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- McLennan, Jim
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 M22t
- Author
- McLennan, Jim
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Lynda McLennan
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 235 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Fly fishing
- Fishing
- Recreation
- Sport
- Water
- Fish
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- A new collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists. Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea. Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.” You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places. -- From publisher
- Contents
- 1. Places -- 2. Bugs, real and fake -- 3. How -- 4. Navel gazing -- 5. The silly side -- 6. At the water -- 7. People 8. Aging (gracefully, more or less).
- ISBN
- 9781771603652
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 02.8 M22t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Echo loba, loba echo : of wisdom, wolves and women
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26217
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Swift, Sonja
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 S5e
- Author
- Swift, Sonja
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Winona LaDuke
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 248 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Wolves
- Wildlife
- Conservation
- Women
- Abstract
- A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf. Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed in the lives and minds of people. A metaphor that embodies worldviews colliding, and the collision, the fallout, we live with still. It is a story about wolves’ own cultures, survival stories, acts of rebellion, and vital roles in maintaining healthy territories. And it is also a story about what we have been told to forget, or never even know, and what wolves show us about ourselves. Through essay and poetry, the metaphor of the wolf, and loba – for she-wolf – is examined the way one might observe the light off a prism, in multi-dimensional ways. The associations are many and diametrically varied. Wolf as scapegoat, villain, outcast, blamed for human violence. Wolf as warrior, guide, mother to stray or orphaned children as well as her own pups. The Ojibwe word for wolf is ma’iingan: the one sent here by that all-loving spirit to show us the way. Wolf (Latin: lupus), which is another word for whore (lupa), for woman. Wolf, another word for backcountry. Yet the choice is not an easy duality, not simply between the notion of wolf as heroine or wolf as devil. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606288
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 S5e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Kirk, Ruth
- Publisher
- New York : William Morrow
- Call Number
- 03.5 K63
- Author
- Kirk, Ruth
- Publisher
- New York : William Morrow
- Published Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 320p. : ill
- Subjects
- Avalanches
- Ecology
- Ski troops
- Strom, Erling
- Survival
- Wildlife
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- Accession Number
- 10500
- Call Number
- 03.5 K63
- Collection
- Archives Library
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