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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
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- 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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Stoney Country
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19965
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- photography by Warren Harbeck, Gerald Kaquitts, Tom Snow ; [editor, Warren Harbeck].
- Publisher
- [Morley, Alberta?] : Stoney Tribe, Dept. of Communication
- Edition
- 2nd ed. (rev).
- Call Number
- 07.2 St7st
1 website
- Edition
- 2nd ed. (rev).
- Publisher
- [Morley, Alberta?] : Stoney Tribe, Dept. of Communication
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 21 x 27 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of pictorial works that have been published by the Stoney Tribe in an effort to thank their Creator, as well as honor the joining of old and new tradition. The publication was created using photographs in an effort to show culture, rather than tell of it. The book gives thanks to the Creator, while also representing Indigenous culture as old tradition, and new technology meet. The publication serves as a visual record of Indigenous culture, history and tradition.
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 07.2 St7st
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL is linked to the official website of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation Tribal Administration webpage
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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
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- 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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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
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- 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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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
1 website
- 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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The old cabin : poems from Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19869
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92o Pam
1 website
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Responsibility
- Gordon Burles
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 50 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Canadian Rockies
- Banff
- 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 front page with the following, “Best wishes, Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92o Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the Gordon Burles fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
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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
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- 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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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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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
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- 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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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
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- 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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