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Geological survey

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

Published Date: 1930

Publisher: Dept. of Mines

Call Number: C7-6.4

Publisher: Dept. of Mines

Published Date: 1930

Scale: Scale: 1 inch to 1/4 mile; Relief: Contour interval 50'

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

Subjects: Gaspe County - Part of Lemieux Township

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: C7-6.4

Collection: Archives Library

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The Lodge Totem : the offical organ of the Jasper Park Lodge C.N.R. Staff

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

Published Date: 1932

Author: Rand, Frank (editor)

Publisher: "Published weekly during the season"

Call Number: 08.5 R15t PAM

Author: Rand, Frank (editor)

Responsibility: Frank Rand (editor); Bob Wallace (managing editor); Jack Oswald (business manager); Marion Bray (social editor); Murray Campbell (news editor); Mel. Doig (sports editor)

Publisher: "Published weekly during the season"

Published Date: 1932

Physical Description: 12 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Labour; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Jasper; Jasper Park Lodge

Abstract: Pertains to staff events, gossip, poetry, stories, anecdotes at the Jasper Park Lodge in newsletter form.

Contents: Prologue; We Make Our Bow; A Caddy's Dream; Our Champion; They Will Write!!; Here and There; At the Pool; Notes from the Mangle; Talking Shop; The Snack Room; The Sports Column; The Bench; Jasper Winters; Subscriptions; Editors; Departmental Representatives

Notes: Volume 1 Number 1 - Week Ending June 28, 1932

Accession Number: 2019.85

Call Number: 08.5 R15t PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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Industrial Arts Shop - lighting fixtures

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

Published Date: 1930

Author: Industrial Arts

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Industrial Arts Shop

Call Number: 00.5 In1i PAM

Author: Industrial Arts

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Industrial Arts Shop

Published Date: 1930

Physical Description: 46 cards ; in portfolio

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

Subjects: Architecture; Catalogues; Housing; Hotels

Abstract: Pertains to lighting fixtures available through Industrial Arts Shop in Boston in 1930 via mail order - 46 cards in a portfolio with three typed sheets with pricing information

Contents: Sconces; Ceiling fixtures; Lanterns

Call Number: 00.5 In1i PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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John L. Stoddard; traveller, lecturer, litterateur

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

Published Date: 1935

Author: Crane Taylor, D.

Publisher: New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons

Call Number: 02 C85j

Author: Crane Taylor, D.

Publisher: New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons

Published Date: 1935

Physical Description: 325 pages illustrations

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

Subjects: Travel; Essays; Biography

Abstract: Biography of author John Lawson Stoddard

Contents: Preface; Foundations; The Troubled Waters; A Traveller Sets Out; Before the Public; The Published Lectures; Retirement; Preferences and Prejudices; Into Thy Vineyard; Late Harvest; Index

Accession Number: 2020.20

Call Number: 02 C85j

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.

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

Subjects: Birds; Birds--Alberta; Zoology; Zoology--Alberta; Wildlife; Wildlife artists; Art

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 Hannes Schneider Ski Technique

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

Published Date: 1938

Author: Rybizka, Benno

Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company

Call Number: 01.5 R95t

Author: Rybizka, Benno

Responsibility: Benno Rybizka

Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company

Published Date: 1938

Physical Description: xvi, 109 pages : illustrations, plates, 2 portraits

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

Subjects: Skiing; Guidebook; Sports; Austria

Abstract: Pertains to the ski technique developed by Hannes Schneider as explained by his former assistant Benno Rybizka - includes photographs

Contents: Foreward by Hannes Schneider Introduction Equipment Learn to Walk and Climb Downhill Running The First Two Fundamental Exercises The Third Fundamental Exercise Speed Turns Jump Turns and Terrain Jumps Skiing and the Hannes Schneider Technique

Notes: Inscribed “ Elizabeth Rummel - Howard Carlson, Assiniboine, March 1940”; Benno Rybizka - former assistant to Hannes Schneider at St. Anton am Arlberg in the Austrian Tyrol

Accession Number: TBD

Call Number: 01.5 R95t

Collection: Archives Library

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The rise of American civilization : Volume One

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

Published Date: 1930

Author: Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

Publisher: New York : The MacMillan Company

Call Number: 08 B38t

Author: Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

Responsibility: Decorations by Wilfred Jones

Publisher: New York : The MacMillan Company

Published Date: 1930

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

Subjects: American; American Civil War; History; Colonialism; War; Politics

Contents: I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 08 B38t

Collection: Archives Library

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The romance of mountaineering

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

Published Date: 1935

Author: Irving, R. L. G.

Publisher: London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.

Edition: 1st edition

Call Number: 01 Ir8t

Author: Irving, R. L. G.

Edition: 1st edition

Publisher: London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.

Published Date: 1935

Physical Description: 320 pages ; 40 ill.

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Masculinity; Alpine Club (Great Britain)

Contents: PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01 Ir8t

Collection: Archives Library

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In the shadow of Mount McKinley

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

Published Date: 1931

Author: Beach, William N.

Publisher: New York ; The Derrydale Press

Edition: 1st edition

Call Number: 02.3 B36i

Author: Beach, William N.

Responsibility: Foreword by John Burnhalm ; Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard ; Illustrations by Carl Rungius

Edition: 1st edition

Publisher: New York ; The Derrydale Press

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 289 pages ; 63 ill.

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

Subjects: Travel; Expeditions; Exploration; Alaska; McKinley, Mount; Animals; Conservation

Contents: Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.

Notes: Special Edition: 750 copies printed.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 02.3 B36i

Collection: Archives Library

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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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

Published Date: 1931

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Edition: 2nd edition

Call Number: 03 T89t

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Edition: 2nd edition

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 317 pages

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

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

Contents: PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 03 T89t

Collection: Archives Library

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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell

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

Published Date: 1935

Publisher: Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch

Call Number: 08.2 G76g

Responsibility: Recorded by Angus Graham

Publisher: Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch

Published Date: 1935

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

Subjects: Exploration; Pioneer life; Travel; Indigenous; Indigenous People; Colonialism

Contents: I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.