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Alpes d'ailleurs : Mon chalet suisse au Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24951
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1999
- Author
- Vulliamy, Dominique
- Publisher
- L'alpe
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Vulliamy, Dominique
- Responsibility
- Dominique Vulliamy
- Publisher
- L'alpe
- Published Date
- 1999
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Swiss Guides in the Canadian Rockies
- Notes
- In L'Alpe 04 villegiatures, page 92-97
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to online publication including Swiss Guide article
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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
1 website
- 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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The art of Robert Bateman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20148
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Derry, Ramsay
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Call Number
- N D47 A78 oversize
1 website
- Author
- Derry, Ramsay
- Responsibility
- Ramsay Derry (author), Roger Tory Peterson (introduction)
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 178 p. : ill. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Art
- Wildlife
- Bateman, Robert
- Abstract
- Pertains to the art of Robert Bateman
- Contents
- Introduction
- Profile
- Plates and Commentaries
- Sketchbooks
- Appendix
- Notes
- Signed by Ramsay Derry and Robert Bateman
- ISBN
- 0713914335
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- N D47 A78 oversize
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to artist website
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Barbara Spohr : apparent reasons = raisons apparentes.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25144
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Spohr, Barbara
- Publisher
- Banff, Alb. : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 06.4 Sp6a
1 website
- Author
- Spohr, Barbara
- Responsibility
- Barbara Spohr
- Publisher
- Banff, Alb. : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 81 pages : illustrations, portraits
- Abstract
- Exhibition catalogue for the 1995 exhibit of Barbara Spohr's show 'Apparent Reasons' at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Contents
- Introduction
- Road trip
- From where she stood
- Barbara Spohr's border crossings
- ISBN
- 0920608418
- Accession Number
- 2021.23
- Call Number
- 06.4 Sp6a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to Banff Centre's Barbara Spohr Memorial Award page - includes biographical information
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A brief illustrated guide to understanding Islam
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19935
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1997
- Author
- Ibrahim, I. A.
- Publisher
- Houston, TX : Darussalam
- Edition
- 2nd ed., 3rd printing
- Call Number
- 05.5 Ib7a
1 website
- Author
- Ibrahim, I. A.
- Responsibility
- I. A. Ibrahim
- Edition
- 2nd ed., 3rd printing
- Publisher
- Houston, TX : Darussalam
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 74 pages
- Subjects
- Religion
- ISBN
- 9960340112
- Call Number
- 05.5 Ib7a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL pertains to the the books official website
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Catharine Robb Whyte ; Peter Whyte : a commemorative portfolio
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4614
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Banff : Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- 06 W62
1 website
1 image
- Responsibility
- editor: Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff : Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 1 portfolio
- Abstract
- Pete 'n' Catharine : their story : drawn from diaries, letters and notes : illustrated with their drawings, photographs, cartoons and sketches / selected and annotated by Jon Whyte
- Notes
- Limited edition of three hundred signed, numbered copies
- Accession Number
- 5861
- Call Number
- 06 W62
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- www.whyte.org/commemorative-portfolio
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The CMH gallery : a visual celebration of CMH Heli-Skiing and Heli-Hiking.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19902
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Gmoser, Hans
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub.
- Call Number
- 06.4 G11t
1 website
- Author
- Gmoser, Hans
- Responsibility
- Hans Gmoser
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub.
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 127 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the breathtaking photography captured by members of the Canadian Mountain Holiday Heli-skiing and Summer Adventurers in Banff, Alberta. The Canadian Mountain Holiday Company (CMH) worked to create a gallery in their book that would showcase some of the stunning photography they hold in their collection. The photographs are vast, showcasing skiing adventures, snowboarding adventures, hiking trips and the outdoors in its most natural state. Alongside each photograph is a short excerpt written by Hans Gmoser. Although never intended to be a concise story, the captions help to provide context and evoke a greater appreciation for nature and adventure.
- Accession Number
- 2019.64
- Call Number
- 06.4 G11t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the official website for the CMH. Interested users can explore the site for more information concerning the CMH and the services they offer.
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Crossing the pass : new poems from Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19867
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92c Pam
1 website
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Responsibility
- Gordon Burles
- Publisher
- Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 55 pages
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Art
- Banff National Park
- Abstract
- Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet includes works exclusively from the Banff area and covers topics pertaining to nature, places and people.
- Notes
- Annotated – the author has signed the inside front page with the following, “Best wishes Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92c Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to Gordon Burles archival fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
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Dear Nan : letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25081
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
1 website
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Responsibility
- Doreen Walker (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- xlvi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Carr, Emily
- Abstract
- This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer. Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr’s interest in art. Carr’s relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did not flourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to become the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms was only twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked to visit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warm friendship developed. The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr was regarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in the Vancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip about the local art community, providing a very personal and often exceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time. Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of the letters and includes Carr’s misspellings and grammatical irregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. There are numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how she felt “rag rug level” when depressed and how she “was sat down with a spank” when ill. Perhaps most significant are the many revelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry and perseverance despite her failing health. “Queer how we go on,” she wrote to Cheney, “luck there is so much rubber in human composition.” (from UBC Press website)
- Contents
- Foreward Introduction Note on the text Acknowledgements Abbreviations Colour Plates Chronology Illustrations The Letters Postscript Transcription of the Carr Letters Emily Carr’s “Variations” Index
- ISBN
- 9780774803908
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on UBC Press website
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Dorothy Knowles : paintings, 1964-1982
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19943
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- Fenton, Terry
- Publisher
- Edmonton : The Gallery
- Call Number
- 06.1 F35d
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- Author
- Fenton, Terry
- Responsibility
- Terry Fenton
- Publisher
- Edmonton : The Gallery
- Published Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 35 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm
- Subjects
- Exhibition catalogue
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Dorothy Knowles exhibition catalogue, organized by Terry Fenton from the Edmonton Art Gallery. While the catalogue was never meant to capture the entirety of Knowles’ artist career, Terry Fenton organizes a thorough exhibition covering the last two decades of her work. It was in part due to Knowles enrollment at the Banff School that she was able to achieve a greater level of confidence in her artist skill. Through both essay and art work, Terry Fenton has been able to share the legacy of Dorothy Knowles.
- Contents
- Dedication (iii)
- Preface (vii)
- Beginnings (pg. 1)
- Since 1964 (pg. 9)
- Exhibitions with art dealers (pg. 32)
- Critical and Curatorial support (pg. 33)
- Catalogue of the exhibition (pg. 34)
- Works on Canvas
- Works on Paper
- Exhibition Itinerary (pg. 35)
- Notes
- Annotated - inside of the front page has been signed by Dorothy Knowles
- Book is written in both French and English
- Exhibition has been organized by Terry Fenton
- ISBN
- 0889500355
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 06.1 F35d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Terry Fenton is himself an accomplished artist. Some of his work can be found using the URL above.
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Eddie Hunter fonds
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- Part Of
- Eddie Hunter fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of motion pictures, sound recordings, textual records and photographs produced by Eddie Hunter. I. Eddie Hunter motion picture footage in four sub-series: A. Red series, predominant 1955-1988, ca.190 motion pictures or segments. Consists of camera originals and finished original fil…
- Date Range
- [ca.1940]-2005
- Reference Code
- M346 / S50 / V293
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Video
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Photograph, transparency
- Sound recording
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
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- Part Of
- Eddie Hunter fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 346
- S 50
- V 293
- Sous-Fonds
- M 346
- S 50
- V 293
- Accession Number
- 549, 6803, 7684 (unproc), 2022.37
- Reference Code
- M346 / S50 / V293
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Video
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Photograph, transparency
- Sound recording
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Date Range
- [ca.1940]-2005
- Physical Description
- ca.260 motion pictures (ca.490 reels) : some with audio reels. -- 2 audio reels. -- 18 cm of textual records. --3 sound recordings. -- 21 photographs : prints, transparencies
- History / Biographical
- Edward (Eddie) Clement Edgar Hunter, b.1926, is a skier, cinematographer, broadcaster, photographer and writer based at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Hunter began skiing in his native Edmonton, Alberta and became an expert ski racer in the mountains. He came to live in Banff with his parents in 1934 and was introduced to the Sunshine Ski area in 1936 by his uncle, Lloyd Hunter, who drove "Sunshine Suzie" for Brewster Transport. Hunter skied extensively in the Canadian Rockies, in Squaw Valley, California (1950) and competitively in Europe starting in 1954.
- Hunter worked as a free-lance cameraman during the 1950s and later in early live television in Calgary at CHCT, later CFAC. After working as an official photographer for the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, he joined CFCN television. Hunter hosted a children's show, "Head Hunter," and a talk show, "Late Knight," while running a weekend ski program until 1965. Hunter held the photography concession on Sulphur Mountain, producing Polaroid shots for tourists and giving natural history talks.
- Hunter worked mainly as a free-lance motion picture cameraman for the next twenty-nine years. His major accomplishments, while working for other companies, involved a cold-war era agriculture documentary in Russia (1959), a documentary about the Superman movies in Calgary and camera work for the official 1988 Winter Olympic Games film. Most of the film footage in this fonds was produced by Hunter during quiet times when he was not hired out to other production companies. Head Hunter Films produced a number of short promotional films for Air Canada, Canadian Mountain Holidays, Sulphur Mountain Gondola, Norquay Ski Area and others. "How the West was Skied" was mainly a compilation of footage Hunter filmed over the years, supplemented with early footage collected from other sources.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of motion pictures, sound recordings, textual records and photographs produced by Eddie Hunter.
- I. Eddie Hunter motion picture footage in four sub-series: A. Red series, predominant 1955-1988, ca.190 motion pictures or segments. Consists of camera originals and finished original films. Mainly unedited footage of skiing, ski racing, celebrities, developments, heli-skiing, disabled skiing, freestyle skiing and humorous skiing in the Canadian Rockies, Bugaboos, Cariboos, Monashees and Coast Range, also the United States and Europe. Features many prominent local and international skiers; Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper and areas; promotional and documentary film footage. B. Blue series, predominant 1960-1985, ca.60 motion pictures and segments, 4 video recordings. Consists of work prints and projection copies. C. Other motion pictures, before 1995, 12 motion pictures, 1 video recording. Consists of motion pictures collected by Hunter. D. Audio reels, between 1970 and 1995, 2 items.
- II. Textual records, ca.1945-1991, ca.30 cm. Series consists of film lists, scripts, call sheets, programmes, and other material; files re short films; and historical skiing materials.
- III. Sound recordings, ca.1965, 2005, 3 items. Series consists of Eddie Hunter nature talk for use on Sulphur Mountain, ca.1965; Edward VIII abdication speech for Canadian Wax Gallery, Banff, undated; two-part interview with Howard Srigley, March 8 & 14, 2005.
- IV. Photographs, 1968, 21 items : prints, transparencies. Series pertains to opening day ceremonies at the Banff Public Library / Archives of the Canadian Rockies.
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- Name Access
- Hunter, Eddie
- Subject Access
- Communications
- Environment
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- Some restrictions on access to originals
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools series and file description
- film-maker's notes (in case file: descriptions sometimes inaccurate due to editing of the films subsequent to ca.1990 preparation of notes)
- Related Material
- Accompanied by publications, motion picture camera and equipment, sound recording/playback equipment, skis, ski apparel, etc. transferred to library and heritage collections, Whyte Museum
- Creator
- Hunter, Eddie
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- URL Notes
- https://www.whyte.org/digitalvault/fireside-chat-with-eddie-hunter-1
- Processing Status
- Processed / Unprocessed
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Eyes of a city : early Vancouver photographers, 1868-1900
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24971
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Mattison, David
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Vancouver City Archives
- Call Number
- 06.4 M43e
1 website
- Author
- Mattison, David
- Responsibility
- David Mattison
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Vancouver City Archives
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 75 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to the early photographers in Vancovuer, BC
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreward
- Introduction
- About the Photographs
- Early Views
- J.A. Brock and Company
- Landscape Artists: The Bailey Brothers
- Trueman and Caple, Photographers
- A Platinum Master : A.J. Thompson
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index
- Notes
- Vancouver City Archives Occasional Paper No. 3
- ISBN
- 0969163711
- Call Number
- 06.4 M43e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website of the City of Vancouver Archives occasional paper
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Glen Boles fonds
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- 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
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- 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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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
1 website
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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The history of the Calgary Mountain Club: Its members and thier activities 1960 - 1986
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19857
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Chic Scott
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sco3h
2 websites
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Publisher
- Chic Scott
- Published Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 384 pg
- Subjects
- Scott, Charles (Chic)
- Calgary
- Banff
- Newspapers
- Clubs
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the Calgary Mountain Club. Through the use of photographs, written history and newspaper clippings, author Chic Scott works to tell the story of the Calgary Mountain Club. Scott used newspaper clippings extensively, many from local sources such as the Banff Crag and Canyon, the Calgary Herald, the University of Calgary Gazette and the Alberta Report, to tell the story of the Calgary Mountain Club.
- Accession Number
- 2019.57
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sco3h
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The first URL is linked to the official website of the Calgary Mountain Club, while the second URL is linked to the official website of the author, Chic Scott.
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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
1 website
- 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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Land, spirit, power : First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25118
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Nemiroff, Diana
- Houle, Robert
- Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
1 website
- Responsibility
- Diana Nemiroff
- Robert Houle
- Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 231 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada that focussed on art by Indigenous Peoples
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Land, Spirit, Power
- Modernism, Nationalism, and Beyond - a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art - Diana Nemiroff
- The Spiritual Legacy of the Ancient Ones - Robert Houle
- Kinds of Knowing - Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Notes
- Carl Beam
- Rebecca Belmore
- Dempsey Bob
- Domingo Cisneros
- Robert Davidson
- Jimmie Durham
- Dorothy Grant
- Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Faye HeavyShield
- Alex Janvier
- Zacharias Kunuk
- James Lavadour
- Truman Lowe
- James Luna
- Teresa Marshall
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Kay WalkingStick
- Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
- ISBN
- 0888846509
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Gallery of Canada information on exhibition
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Margaret Shelton, block prints 1936-1984
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20013
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Ainslie, Patricia
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow Museum
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ai6m
1 website
- Author
- Ainslie, Patricia
- Responsibility
- Patricia Ainslie
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow Museum
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 X 27 cm
- Subjects
- Exhibition catalogue
- Shelton, Margaret
- Subjects
- Water colorists - Canada - Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and art work of Margaret Shelton, organized by Patricia Anslie. Her artwork explored and revealed the vitality of the Alberta landscape. The publication was produced in an effort to celebrate and commemorate Shelton, as well as her contribution to the Alberta art landscape. Working primarily with watercolor and block prints, she was a prolific artists and contributed greatly to the printmaking industry in Alberta. The publication pertains mostly to the story and history of Margaret Shelton. Additionally, the publication includes some images of her breathtaking artwork.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements (pg. 5)
- Margaret Shelton (pg. 7)
- Technique (pg. 30)
- Notes and Bibliography (pg. 35)
- Chronology (pg. 36)
- Catalogue Raisonne (pg. 39)
- Accession Number
- 2019. 61
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ai6m
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL is linked to the official website for Margaret Shelton
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National Museum of Ethnology : Meiji crafts from across the sea : special exhibition of the Morse collection : exhibit plan
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24929
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Publisher
- Tokyo, Japan : Total Media Development Institute Co. Ltd.
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19m OS
1 website
- Author
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Responsibility
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Publisher
- Tokyo, Japan : Total Media Development Institute Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 12 pages
- Scale
- 1 / 100
- 1 / 20
- 1 / 30
- Abstract
- Pertains to the exhibit plan for the Morse Collection in March of 1990 at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan
- Contents
- 1F Plan
- 2F Plan
- B1F Plan
- A-A
- B-B
- Exhibit Case
- Large Exhibit Case
- Shelf Case
- Shadow Picture
- B1F
- Exhibit Tool
- Accession Number
- 2014.8340
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19m OS
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Ethnology website
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A new path in the mountains : Bearspaw, Chininki, Wesley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19947
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Stoney Tribal Administration
- Publisher
- Stoney Creek, Alta. : Stoney Tribal Administration
- Call Number
- 07.2 St7n
1 website
- Author
- Stoney Tribal Administration
- Publisher
- Stoney Creek, Alta. : Stoney Tribal Administration
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
- Stoney Tribal Administration Centre (Morley)
- Abstract
- Pertains to the 1986 publication outlining the programs planned to be implemented in an effort to address the specific needs of the Stoney Indigenous People. Upon the implementation of natural gas on reserves, half of the revenue was split among their people, while the other half was used for program development. The areas to be addressed were as follows, education, land purchases, human services, housing, business enterprises in the community, recreation, culture and the Sacred Fire. The publication describes the ways in which the Stoney Tribal Administration hopes to better each area of concern, and implement programs to better the lives of Stoney People.
- Notes
- Cover title reads: "A Financial Report to Stoney members on Major Expenditures 1976 - 1985"
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 07.2 St7n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the Stoney Tribal Administration webpage where more current information on local initiatives and program development may be available.
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