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A 2005 centennial addendum to the 1993 publication "pioneer families of Southern Alberta"

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19930
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
Publisher
[Calgary] : Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendents
Call Number
08.2 So8a
  1 website  
Author
Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
Responsibility
Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
Publisher
[Calgary] : Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendents
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
94 p. ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History of Alberta
History
Biography
Pioneer life
Abstract
Pertains to the "Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta" publication compiled in 1995 - addendum for centennial with additional biographical information
Contents
Ascheson to Astley
Baille to Byers
Callaway to Cyr
Dalgleish to Dyke
Earl to Ewell
Faiery to Fullerton
Gaetz to Gunn
Haines to Hutchison
Ilugason to Irvine
Jack to Jukes
Kauntz to Kountz
Lacombe to Lyndon
MacDonald to Myers
Naessens to Norrish
O'Brien to Owens
Pace to Pullar
Quail
Ramsay to Ruers
Sample sto Sweinhurt
Talbot to Tyson
Vanwart to Vincent
Wakeford to Wright
York to Yuill
Zanoni
Illustrations - photos prepared by Robert (Bud) Vine
Notes
Addendum to 08.2 So8p
Accession Number
2019.68
Call Number
08.2 So8a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Southern Alberta Pioneers and their Descendants
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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20137
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Clark, Geoffrey E.
Publisher
Portsmouth Athenaeum
Call Number
G670 C53 A23
  1 website  
Author
Clark, Geoffrey E.
Responsibility
Geoffrey E. Clark
Publisher
Portsmouth Athenaeum
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
81 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Arctic
Arctic Regions
Research
Survival
Film making
Films
American
Abstract
In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)
Contents
Introduction
Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
The Beginning
Research and Exploration
The Retreat
The Rescue
Greely's Later Years
The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Notes
DVD of associated film included with publication
Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio
ISBN
0974089524
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
G670 C53 A23
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Link to publication on Abe Books
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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Schindler, D.W.
Donahue, W.F.
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Call Number
03.5 Sc1a PAM
  1 website  
Author
Schindler, D.W.
Donahue, W.F.
Responsibility
D.W. Schindler
W.F. Donahue
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
6 pages ; illustrations , maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Watersheds
Climate
Climate change
Climatology
Western Canada
Glaciers
Rivers
Lakes
Abstract
Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
Notes
In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
Call Number
03.5 Sc1a PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via PNAS's website
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Photography
Exhibition catalogue
Exhibitions
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Religion
ISBN
9960340112
Call Number
05.5 Ib7a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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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
  1 website  
Author
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Publisher
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
46 pages ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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Castleguard Cave 2005 - first ascent of the 200-foot aven

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24963
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Vokac, Marek
Publisher
Oslo, Norway : Marek Vokac
Edition
1st
Call Number
03.2 V85c PAM
  1 website  
Author
Vokac, Marek
Responsibility
Marek Vokac
Christian Rushfeldt
Bjorn Myrvold
Jorn Halvorsen
Edition
1st
Publisher
Oslo, Norway : Marek Vokac
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
127 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Caves
Castleguard Cave
Research
Exploration
Geography
Geology
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the 2005 first ascent into the Castleguard Cave near the Saskatchewan Glacier in Banff National Park by Marek Vokac, Christian Rushfeldt, Bjorn Myrvold and Jorn Halvorsen
Notes
Includes copy of report on CD
Accession Number
2019.97
Call Number
03.2 V85c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Additional information and maps
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A Century of American alpinism, 2002

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20146
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Fay, Charles Ernest
Bent, Allen Herbert
Palmer, Howard
Thorington, James Monroe
Kauffman, Andrew John
Putnam, William Lowell
Publisher
Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
Call Number
G505 F39 C46
  1 website  
Author
Fay, Charles Ernest
Bent, Allen Herbert
Palmer, Howard
Thorington, James Monroe
Kauffman, Andrew John
Putnam, William Lowell
Responsibility
Charles Earnest Fay, Allen Herbert Bent, Howard Palmer, James Monroe Thorington, Andrew John Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam
Publisher
Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
Published Date
2002
Physical Description
ix, 196 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
American Alpine Club
History
Mountaineering
Clubs
Abstract
Pertains to a century of American alpinism from 1902 to 2002
Contents
Forward
Preface
I Earliest American Mountaineers
II Pacific Crests
III Later and Farther North
IV Tidewater Alaska
V Early Amerian Ascents in the Alps
VI Appalachian Mountain Club Roots
VII The Social Aspect of Alpinism
VIII To the Top of the Continent
IX Other Mountain Clubs of America
X Momentous Events
XI Afield and at War
XII Changing Mores
XIII Moving West
XIV Not All Sweetness and Light
XV The Study of Mountain Elevations
XVI Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness
XVII Changing Faces
Appendices
Index
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
G505 F39 C46
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
American Alpine Club link to book
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Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance : the glorious imposter

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13989
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2000
Author
Smith, Donald B
Publisher
Red Deer, AB : Red Deer Press
Call Number
07.2 L85s 2000
  1 website  
Author
Smith, Donald B
Responsibility
Donald B. Smith
Publisher
Red Deer, AB : Red Deer Press
Published Date
2000
Physical Description
400 p. : ill., ports.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations - (SEE ALSO Indians)
ISBN
0889951977
Accession Number
8051
Call Number
07.2 L85s 2000
Collection
Archives Library
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Rutter, Nat
Coppold, Murray
Rokosh, Dean
Publisher
Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
Edition
Revised Second Edition
Call Number
03.2 R93c
03.2 R93c Reference copy
  1 website  
Author
Rutter, Nat
Coppold, Murray
Rokosh, Dean
Responsibility
The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
Nat Rutter
Murray Coppold
Dean Rokosh
Edition
Revised Second Edition
Publisher
Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Glaciers
Climatology
Climate change
Environment
Environmental conservation
Geography
Geology
Abstract
Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
Contents
Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
Notes
Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
ISBN
9780978013219
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.2 R93c
03.2 R93c Reference copy
Collection
Archives Library
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Helicopter Skiing
Skiing
Pictorial works
Rocky Mountains
Hiking
Gmoser, Hans
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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Country post : rural postal service in Canada, 1880 to 1945

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19833
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2003
Author
Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
Publisher
Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
Call Number
08.1 Am1c
  1 website  
Author
Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
Responsibility
Chantal Amyot and John Willis
Publisher
Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
Published Date
2003
Physical Description
210 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Postal services
History
Canada
Abstract
Pertains to the ways in which rural postal service combat isolationism in rural communities across Canada while using examples in Alberta. References and/or photos pertaining to Alberta include the following locations, Bently, Beverly, Big Valley, Capon, Claresholm, Consort, Coronation, Cressman, Gadsby, Hanna, Kinnodale, Lacombe, Ogden, Rapid City, Lethbridge, Red Lodge, Richdale, Rimbey, Stand Off, Troche, Wardlow and Worsley. The book draws similarities to the isolationism that was likely to exist in the Rocky Mountains at the time of early settlement, and the ways in which rural postal services increased communication among communities.
Contents
Foreword -- Canadian Postal Museum -- Foreword -- Canada post -- Foreword -- Canadian postmasters and assistants association -- Ch. 1. The transformation of rural society in Canada and the post office -- Ch. 2. The significance and symbolism of post offices and their locations -- Ch. 3. The rural postmaster -- Ch. 4. Social role of the post -- Ch. 5. Sending saving, and spending money -- Conclusion : whither the rural post office?
Notes
References and/or photographs of locations in Alberta can be found on the following pages Bently (98), Beverly (103), Big Valley (132), Capon (80), Claresholm (109), Consort (123), Coronation (114), Cressman (43), Gadsby (107), Hanna (98 and 124), Kinnodale (57 and 59), Lacombe (51), Lethbridge (89), Ogden (88), Rapid City (59), Red Lodge (59), Richdale (85), Rimbey (98), Stand Off (41), Troche (116), Wardlow (105) and Worsley (97)
ISBN
0660189984
Accession Number
2019.44
Call Number
08.1 Am1c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Avaliable through online subscription to jstor
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A crown of maples : constitutional monarchy in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25103
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2008
Author
Canadian Heritage
Publisher
Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
Call Number
08.1 C16a PAM
  1 website  
Author
Canadian Heritage
Publisher
Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
Published Date
2008
Physical Description
63, xviii pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
History-Canada
History
Abstract
Pertains to how the Constitutional Monarchy functions in Canada
Contents
Introduction The Canadian Crown - An Overview The Modern Reality of Constitutional Monarchy The Role and Powers of the Canadian Crown Today Canadian Representatives of the Crown Comparison with Other Systems of Government The Visual Presence of the Canadian Crown Conclusion The Royal Anthem - “God Save the Queen” Appendices Photographic Credits Glossary Acknowledgements
ISBN
9780662460121
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
08.1 C16a PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
2015 version available online via the Government of Canada
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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)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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Dendroarchaeological and contextual investigations of remote log structures in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks, Canada.

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25106
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline
Publisher
Victoria : University of Victoria
Call Number
06.5 B74d
  1 website  
Author
Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline
Responsibility
Karen Jacqueline Brelsford
Publisher
Victoria : University of Victoria
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
310 pages ; illus. , maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
National parks
Architecture
Buildings
Cabins
Cabins and shelters
Thesis
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to undertake a comprehensive dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of 35 sites (44 log structures) in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks. Through tree-ring analysis and investigations of relevant documents (i.e., archives and interviews), three main objectives are met: (1) an architectural inventory and tree-ring analysis of sampled structures in the three parks; (2) an exploration of remote construction activity in the three parks, in terms of functional, temporal, and spatial distributions, and tree species selection; and (3) a detailed dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of three structure case studies. The results provide new insights into remote construction activity from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century in the three parks. It assists Parks Canada in their attempt to interpret the cultural heritage resources of this area and contributes to the international need to document and explore vernacular architecture. (from the University of Victoria library website)
Contents
Title Page Abstract Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Literature Review 3.0 Study Sites and Methods 4.0 Characteristics of living and structure chronologies in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks Construction Activity in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks 6.0 Case Studies 7.0 Conclusions 8.0 References Appendix A: Tree-ring dating results and site descriptions for 35 sites (44 structures) sampled in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay Parks Appendix B: Interview Transcriptions Appendix C: Copyright Permissions
Accession Number
7561
Call Number
06.5 B74d
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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Expanding horizons : painting and photography of American and Canadian landscape, 1860-1918

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24957
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Publisher
[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Call Number
06.1 G11e O.S.
  1 website  
Author
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Responsibility
Hilliard T. Goldfarb (editor)
Publisher
[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
318 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Landscapes
Artists
Photographers
Photography
Exhibitions
Canada
United States
North America
Abstract
Catalogue of an exhibition first held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 18 to Sept. 27, 2009 and then travelling to Vancouver Art Gallery, from Oct. 17, 2009 to Janu. 17, 2010. Issued also in French under title: Grandeur nature : peinture et photographie des paysages ame´ricains et canadiens de 1860 a` 1918.
Contents
Endangered horizons / Nathalie Bondil -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Crossed destinies: manifesting the paths of nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860-1918 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Flexible frontiers: expansion, contraction, regeneration / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Nature transcendent -- The most northerly horizon / Rosalind Pepall -- The forest, Niagara and the sublime / Franc¸ois-Marc Gagnon -- Works -- The stage of history and the theatre of myth -- Looking at landscape in athe age of environmentalism / Lynda Jessup -- Too silent to be real / Richard Hill -- Works -- Man versus nature -- Painting and photography in British Columbia, 1871-1916: some observations / Ian Thom -- Works -- Nature domesticated -- Word and image: North American landscape in nineteenth-century illustrated publications / Brian Foss -- John Singer Sargent's adventurous summer in the Canadian Rockies: the visit to rh Yoho Valley in 1916 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Works -- The urban landscape -- "To pavements and homesteads here" : landscape, photography, and the transcendence of time and space / Philip Brookman -- Works -- The return of nature -- Introduction -- Works.
ISBN
9782891923347
Accession Number
2019.94
Call Number
06.1 G11e O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Review and synopsis on Canadian Architect website
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First voices : an Aboriginal women's reader

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25059
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Monture, Patricia A. (editor)
McGuire, Patricia D. (editor)
Publisher
Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education
Call Number
05 M76f
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Author
Monture, Patricia A. (editor)
McGuire, Patricia D. (editor)
Publisher
Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
xvii, 538 pages : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Essays
Poetry
First Nations
Women
Literature
Abstract
A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included. There are few books on Aboriginal women in Canada; this anthology provides a valuable addition to the literature and fills a critical gap in the fields of Native Studies, Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies. (from Inanna website)
Contents
Introduction / Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire -- Profiles of Aboriginal Women -- Kohkum would be Mad at me / Patricia A. Monture -- Response to Canada's Apology to Residential Shool Survivors / Beverley Jacobs -- Portrait of Gladys Taylor / Alice Olsen Williams -- Life of a Chief: An Interview / Nora Bothwell -- Nice Story of Nohkom / Lana Whiskeyjack -- Carrying the Pipe: Maliseet Elder, Healer and Teacher, Imelda Perley / Maura Hanrahan -- Poverty and the Poetry: A Native Woman's Life History / Garry Klugie -- Interview with Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, Turtle Clan / Kim Anderson -- Role Models: An Anishnaabe-kwe Perspective / Renee E. Mzinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard -- Sky Woman Lives On: Contemporary Examples of Mothering the Nation / Lina Sunseri -- Identity -- Healing Is / Isabel Louise O'Kanese -- Wiisaakodewikwe Anishinaabekwe Diabaajimotaw Nipigon Zaaga'igan: Lake Nipigon Ojibway Metis Stories About Women / Patricia D. McGuire -- Surviving as a Native Woman Artist / Joane Cardinal-Schubert -- N'tacimowin innan nah': Our Coming In Stories / Alex Wilson -- Triple Jeopardy: Aboriginal Women with Disabilities / Doreen Demas -- Inuit Women and the Politics of Naming in Nunavut / Valerie Alia -- Feminism and Aboriginal Culture: One Woman's View / Agnes Grant -- Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters / Shirley O'Connor-Anderson, Patricia A. Monture and Nerissa O'Connor -- Brown Girl Dancing / Kate Monture -- Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Sovereignty / Patricia A. Monture -- Territory -- I Lost My Talk / Rita Joe -- Reflections from a NamekosipiiwAnishinaapekwe My Trout Lake, Your Trout Lake / Kaaren Olsen Dannenmann -- Anishnaabekwe, Traditional Knowledge and Water / Deborah McGregor -- Nunavut: Whose Homeland, Whose Voices? / Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez -- First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies / Brenda McLeod -- Third World Housing Development and Indigenous People in North America / Winona LaDuke -- Matrimonial Real Property Solutions / Elizabeth Bastien -- Activism -- Invocation/Incantation to the Women Word-Warriors for Custom-Made Shoes / Monique Mojica -- Aboriginal Women at Midlife: Grandmothers as Agents of Change / Lynn M. Meadows, Wilfreda E. Thurston and Laura E. Lagendyk -- Two Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society / Michelle Cameron -- Ensuring Indigenous Women's Voices are Heard: The Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women / Mary Sillet -- "With the Appropriate Qualifications": Aboriginal People and Employment Equity / Patti Doyle-Bedwell -- HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women in Canada / Susan Judith Ship and Laura Norton -- Aboriginal Women and the Constitutional Debates: Continuing Discrimination / Native Women's Association of Canada -- Moving Beyond the Feminism Versus Nationalism Dichotomy: An Anti-Colonial Feminist Perspective on Aboriginal Liberation Struggles / Lina Sunseri -- Writing on the Wall: Metis Reflections on Gerald Vizenor's Strategies for Survival / Carole Leclair -- Confronting Power: Aboriginal Women and Justice Reform / Patricia A. Monture -- Confronting Colonialism -- White man tell me / Patricia A. Monture -- Racism, Sexism and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada / Carrie Bourassa, Kim McKay-McNabb and Mary Hampton -- Child Sexual Abuse: Words from Concerned Women / Aboriginal Women's Council of Saskatchewan -- Keeping the Circle Strong in the North: Solvent Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Strategies for the North / Rosemarie Kuptana -- Simpering Outrage During an "Epidemic" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. Tait -- For Kayla John / Robina Thomas -- Is Canada Peaceful and Safe for Aboriginal Women? / Anita Olsen Harper -- Culture of Loss: The Mourning Period of Paper Indians / Apryl Gladue -- Confronting the Canadian Legal System -- Freedom / Kate Monture -- "The Least Members of Our Society" / The Mohawk Women of Caughnawaga -- Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Contradictions and Challenges / Aki-Kwe and Mary Ellen Turpel -- Aboriginal Women's Rights as "Existing Rights" / Sharon D. McIvor -- Women and the Canadian Legal System: Examining Situations of Hyper-Responsibility / Caefs/Nwac -- Entrenched Social Catastrophe: Native Women in Prison / Fran Sugar -- Suitable Place: Positive Change for Federally-Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Canada / Lori Sparling -- Women and Risk: Aboriginal Women, Colonialism and Correctional Practice / Patricia A. Monture -- International Human Rights Standards and Instruments Relevant to Indigenous Women / M. Celeste Mckay -- Indigenous Knowledges -- When I Was a Child / Shirley Ida Williams-Pheasant -- Spirit of My Quilts / Alice Olsen Williams -- Our World / Osennontion & Skonaganleh:ra -- Indian Medicine, Indian Health / Lesley Malloch -- Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica -- Locating Ourselves in the Place of Creation: The Academy as Kisu'lt melkiko'tin / Emerance Baker -- Notokwe Opikiheet -- "Old Lady Raised" Aboriginal Women's Reflections on Ethics and Methodologies / Kim Anderson -- Conclusion / Patricia D. McGuire and Patrcia A. Monture.
ISBN
9780980882292
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
05 M76f
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on Inanna website
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25088
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Reid, Gordon
Publisher
Calgary : Fifth House Publishers
Call Number
07.3 R27h
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Author
Reid, Gordon
Responsibility
Gordon Reid
Publisher
Calgary : Fifth House Publishers
Published Date
2002
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Bison
Archaeology
Buffalo
Abstract
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved buffalo jump sites in North America and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981. Author Gordon Reid has compiled a history of this significant site, describing the importance of the buffalo to Native peoples, how the jump was used, and the traditions and skills surrounding the hunt. He also looks at the excavation of the site, explaining how archaeologists uncovered artifacts, and what they learned about the history of the site and the people who used it. Also included is an overview of the resources offered by the Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump interpretive centre. This book, originally published in 1993, has been a very popular resource for tourists, educators, students, and people interested in Alberta's heritage. Completely updated and redesigned for this new edition, it will be the only book available that explains, in depth, the vital role of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Native history. (from Fifth House Publishing website)
Contents
Part I - The Buffalo and the Native Peoples Part II - Unearthing the Past Part III - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Today
ISBN
1894004833
Accession Number
2017.8665
Call Number
07.3 R27h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on Fifth House Publishing website
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The hungry spirit : selected plays and prose by Elsie Park Gowan

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19787
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1992
Author
Day, Moira (editor)
Publisher
Edmonton : NeWest Press
Call Number
05.3 Da33t
  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.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff Little Theatre
Banff Centre
Banff School of Fine Arts
Edmonton
Poetry
Arts
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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