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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 327 pages

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

Subjects: Exploration; Mountaineering; Alpine Club (Great Britain); Expeditions; Switzerland

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Collection: Archives Library

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Annual report

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

Published Date: 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888-1889; 1894; 1898

Author: Geological Survey of Canada

Call Number: 03.1 G29ar

Author: Geological Survey of Canada

Responsibility: articles by George Mercer Dawson, G.C. Hoffmann, R.G. McConnell, E.D. Ingell, J. McEvoy, J.B. Tyrell and others

Published Date: 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888-1889; 1894; 1898

Physical Description: 7v. : ill., maps; Library has: 1886, 1885 Pt. 3, 1886 Pt. R, 1887 (photocopy), 1887 Pt. T (photocopy), 1887 Pt. E (photocopy), 1887 Pt. D, 1888-1889, 1894, 1898, 1898 Pt. D

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

Subjects: Mineral resources; Peace River; Yellowhead Pass

Notes: Contents: Report on a part of Northern Alberta and portions of adjacent districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan / J.B. Tyrell. -- Montreal, 1887. [Pt. E]; Extracted from geological and natural history survey of Canada 1887 : assay reports from samples taken in the Northwest Territory and the Province of British Columbia [Pt. T];

Accession Number: 112; 333; 400; 512; 732; 3187; 4000

Call Number: 03.1 G29ar

Collection: Archives Library

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[Articles on the Canadian Pacific Railway]

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

Published Date: 1887

Author: The Quarterly Review (London)

Call Number: 08.5 Qu5

Author: The Quarterly Review (London)

Published Date: 1887

Physical Description: p.119-143

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

Subjects: Moberly, Walter; Rogers, Major A.B

Accession Number: 7500

Call Number: 08.5 Qu5

Collection: Archives Library

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B. C. 1887 : a ramble in British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1888

Author: Lees, James Arthur

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green

Call Number: 02.5 K83l

Author: Lees, James Arthur

Responsibility: by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: viii, 387p. : ill., port., map, facsim

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Kootenay region

Accession Number: 400; 3069

Call Number: 02.5 K83l

Collection: Archives Library

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Camps in the Rockies : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains

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

Published Date: 1882

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William Adolph

Publisher: London : Sampson Low

Call Number: 02.7 B15

Author: Baillie-Grohman, William Adolph

Publisher: London : Sampson Low

Published Date: 1882

Physical Description: viii, 438p. : ill

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

Subjects: Hunting

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 02.7 B15

Collection: Archives Library

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Canada : its history, productions and natural resources

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

Published Date: 1886

Author: prepared under the direction of John Carling ; [by George Johnson].

Publisher: Ottawa: Department of Agriculture Canada

Call Number: 08.1 J62c

Author: prepared under the direction of John Carling ; [by George Johnson].

Publisher: Ottawa: Department of Agriculture Canada

Published Date: 1886

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

Subjects: Canada; History-Canada; History

Abstract: Published shortly after Canadian confederation of 1867, the Canadian Handbook was written to commemorate the new European understanding of Canada. The publication is comprehensive, and discusses but is not limited to the following topics, confederation, geology, trade, population, education, agriculture and minerals. The book serves to tell the story of a new united Canada which had not previously existed in the European psyche. Serving as both a handbook and condensed history, the book offers readers a glimpse into early Canada, as well as colonial settlement.

Contents: Climate (pg. 1-13); Extent (pg. 13-16); Historical Sketch (pg. 16-32); Confederation (pg. 33-35); Constitution (pg. 35-42); Population (pg. 42-52); Land (pg. 52-64); Geological Survey (pg. 64-67); Public Debt (pg. 67-69); Revenue and Expenditure (pg. 70-73); Trade and Commerce (pg. 70-73); Transport service (pg. 81-101); Auxiliaries to transport service (pg. 101-105); Savings Banks (pg. 105-107); Cities of Canada (pg. 108-113); Insurance (pg. 114-115); Newspapers (pg. 115-116); Various statistics (pg. 116-118); Manufactures (pg. 118-121); Forests (pg. 121-127); Education (pg. 126-127); Agriculture (pg. 127-131); Minerals (pg. 131-142); Fisheries (pg. 143-145); Shipping (pg. 146); Prices in Canada (pg. 147); Animal life and hunting grounds (pg. 148-160)

Notes: At head of title: Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886.; Authorship claimed by George Johnson in prefatory note.

Accession Number: 2019.71

Call Number: 08.1 J62c

Collection: Archives Library

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Canada...from the Atlantic to the Pacific...

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

Published Date: 1882

Author: McAdam, J. T

Edition: enl. ed

Call Number: 02.4 M11

Author: McAdam, J. T

Responsibility: by Captain "Mac"

Edition: enl. ed

Published Date: 1882

Physical Description: 353p. : ill., ports

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

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 02.4 M11

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian north-west and British Columbia : two speeches

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

Published Date: 1886

Author: Lansdowne, Henry Charles..., Governor-General of Canada

Publisher: Ottawa : Department of Agriculture

Call Number: 02.4 L29 Pam

Author: Lansdowne, Henry Charles..., Governor-General of Canada

Publisher: Ottawa : Department of Agriculture

Published Date: 1886

Physical Description: 32p. : map

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 02.4 L29 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Pacific : the new highway to the East, across the mountains, prairies and rivers of Canada

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: Montreal : Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: 02.4 C16cpe 1888 Pam

Publisher: Montreal : Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1888

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 38500

Call Number: 02.4 C16cpe 1888 Pam

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The Canadian Pacific : the new highway to the Orient across the mountains, prairies and rivers of Canada

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

Published Date: 1885

Publisher: [Montreal] : Canadian Pacific Railway

Edition: 1st ed

Call Number: 02.4 C16cp 1885 Pam

Edition: 1st ed

Publisher: [Montreal] : Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 48p. : ill., map

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Guidebooks

Accession Number: 38500

Call Number: 02.4 C16cp 1885 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway as per Melton Prior who travelled from Montreal to Vancouver on the train and provided a review of the journey which includes sketches of Sir Donald, Great Glacier, Glacier Hotel, Hermit Range, Mount Carroll, Stony Creek Bridge and the interior of a colonial sleeping car.

Notes: In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2591, Saturday December 15, 1888, pp. 720 - 722

Accession Number: 7864

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: [1888?]

Call Number: 02.5 C16 Pam

Published Date: [1888?]

Physical Description: 4p. : ill

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

Subjects: Banff National Park

Accession Number: 19500

Call Number: 02.5 C16 Pam

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Grant, G.M.

Publisher: New York : The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol.XXX. No. 6, October 1885

Call Number: 08.5 G76c Pam

Author: Grant, G.M.

Publisher: New York : The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol.XXX. No. 6, October 1885

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 8 pages

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 2014.8385

Call Number: 08.5 G76c Pam

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The Canadian Pacific Railway : an appeal to public opinion against the railway being carried across the Selkirk Range, that route being objectionable from the danger of falls from glaciers and from avalanches, also, generally on other matters

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Veritas, Philo. (pseud.)

Publisher: Montreal : Wm. Drysdale

Call Number: 08.5 V58

Author: Veritas, Philo. (pseud.)

Publisher: Montreal : Wm. Drysdale

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 100p. : map

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

Subjects: Passes; Surveys

Accession Number: 732

Call Number: 08.5 V58

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Pacific Railway : Banff and British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Hot springs; Hotels; Sanitarium Hotel; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Banff and Mount Stephen including railway access and hotels, hotsprings, sanitarium with associated sketches.