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Bikepacking in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25206
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Correy, Ryan
- Call Number
- 02.6 C81b
1 website
- Author
- Correy, Ryan
- Responsibility
- Ryan Correy
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 192 pages
- Subjects
- Biking
- Canadian Rockies
- Travel
- Abstract
- Before his untimely death from cancer in 2018, veteran rider and passionate cyclist Ryan Correy (two-time finisher of the Tour Divide, founder of Bikepack Canada and author of A Purpose Ridden) pedalled his way through the most popular national parks in the Canadian Rockies in order to complete his work on this unique guidebook. Featuring routes in Waterton, Kananaskis, Banff, Kootenay, Yoho, and Jasper, Bikepacking in the Canadian Rockies will take biking enthusiasts on Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert journeys in the following locations: Front Range – 496 km gravel grind down the Alberta foothills High Rockies – 183 km opening sampler for the Great Divide Beaverfoot – 389 km expedition along the Rocky Mountain Trench Devil’s Gap – 214 km backcountry passage into Banff National Park Highwood – 357 km over Highwood Pass into the Crowsnest region Castle – 266 km circumnavigation of Waterton and Castle parks Top of the World – 347 km of remote climbs in the East Kootenays Flathead Valley – 291 km through “Grizzly Bear Alley” in southeast British Columbia Three Point – 173 km hike-a-bike adventure around Kananaskis Icefields Parkway (in winter) – 291 km fat-bike trek up the world-renowned Highway 93 to Jasper The result of Correy’s remarkable dedication is an unparalleled collection of ten ambitious, multi-day routes complete with directional cues, detailed maps, a helpful Bikepacking 101 section, rich photography, and personal stories that will stoke the curiosity of both the beginner and the experienced backcountry rider. (From Rocky Mountain Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface
- Introduction
- Bikepacking 101
- Intermediate Routes
- Advanced Routes
- Expert Routes
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781771602372
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 02.6 C81b
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Rocky Mountain Books
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Aloft : Canadian Rockies aerial photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25493
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Zizka, Paul
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 Z7a
- Author
- Zizka, Paul
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Abstract
- An astounding, unique collection of some of the most stunning mountain landscapes in North America. There is a reason why the Canadian Rockies are some of the most photographed mountains in the world. Rugged peaks encircle glacier-fed lakes, rise up like protective walls around tree-filled valleys, and offer a stunning backdrop to open alpine meadows. They have been photographed from the valley bottoms, from the shores of famous lakes, and from the summits of prominent peaks. They are accessible by vehicle, boat, gondola, skis and hiking boots. But a lucky few have photographed the Rockies from the air. In the most comprehensive collection of aerial photos to date, Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photography by Paul Zizka gives the reader a unique bird's-eye view of this prized mountain range. From vast glaciers to winding rivers, animal overpasses to lakes that look like brilliant spills of turquoise paint on the landscape, these images provide a rare look at mountains that are as grandiose from the skies as they are from their better-known vantage points.
- ISBN
- 9781771603973
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 06.4 Z7a
- Location
- Reading Room
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Popular day hikes : Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25501
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Daffern, Tony
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- Second
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13p
- Author
- Daffern, Tony
- Edition
- Second
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 144 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Guidebook
- Hiking
- Canadian Rockies
- Banff and Vicinity
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Kootenay National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Abstract
- Popular Day Hikes: Canadian Rockies covers 37 popular, accessible trails in one of the world's most stunningly beautiful natural environments. Featuring easy short-day walks, more-strenuous full-day hikes and the occasional easy scramble in areas around Banff, Lake Louise and Moraine Lake, the Icefields Parkway, Kootenay National Park, Yoho National Park and Jasper, this colourful guide contains something for everyone. Some of the trips included are: Spray River Loop Sunshine Meadows Stanley Glacier Lake Agnes Plain of Six Glaciers Larch Valley Yoho Valley to Twin Falls Parker Ridge Valley of the Five Lakes Sulpher Skyline Trail Each hike includes: detailed directions to trailheads colour maps and photographs seasonal information round-trip distances trail commentary difficulty ratings. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Banff Area
- Kootenay National Park
- Lake Louise and Moraine Lake
- Yoho National Park
- Icefields Parkway
- Jasper Area
- ISBN
- 9781771602679
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13p
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Wild edible mushrooms of Alberta : a field guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25513
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Cervenka, Tom
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Northern Bushcraft Publishing
- Call Number
- 04 C33w
- Author
- Cervenka, Tom
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Northern Bushcraft Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 61 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Mushrooms
- Foraging
- Canadian Rockies
- Alberta
- Guidebook
- Abstract
- The field guide covers the wild edible mushrooms of Alberta that are most suitable for novice mushroom pickers. Learn how to confidently identify mushrooms based on key characteristics and how to distinguish look-alikes. This comprehensive and lightweight guide is ideal for backpackers, hikers, and other nautre enthusiasts. -- From back cover
- ISBN
- 9780988150621
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04 C33w
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- Archives Library
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Goth girls of Banff : stories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25732
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- O'Neill, John
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 On2g
- Author
- O'Neill, John
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 202 pages ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Banff
- Canadian Rockies
- Short Stories
- Fiction
- Abstract
- John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear, has an unusual encounter with both technology and humanity. Goth Girls of Banff is a superb collection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those on an iced-over mountain road. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- What is written or Talking to keep the bears away -- Athabasca -- Attacking the bear -- Rudy -- Three places -- Marilyn in the mountains: nine poses -- From Castle Mountain -- Goth girls of Banff -- Natural selection -- The book about the bear.
- Notes
- Includes discussion questions.
- ISBN
- 9781988732954
- Accession Number
- P2023.16
- Call Number
- 05.2 On2g
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Wharton, Thomas
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 W55 2021
- Author
- Wharton, Thomas
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 336 pages
- Abstract
- In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus Glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne's lover. First published in 1995, Thomas Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. -- From the publisher
- Notes
- This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr.
- ISBN
- 9781774390368
- Accession Number
- P2023.16
- Call Number
- 05.2 W55 2021
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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Graham, Mary
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 06.3 G76a
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- Author
- Graham, Mary
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
- Abstract
- The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960
- Notes
- Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.
- ISBN
- 9781773853932
- Accession Number
- P2023.20
- Call Number
- 06.3 G76a
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Tales from the Great Divide : vignettes on the origins and early history of Canada's Great Divide Trail and the Great Divide Trail Association
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25736
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Feick, Jenny
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC: L. B. Words
- Call Number
- 08.3 F32t
- Author
- Feick, Jenny
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC: L. B. Words
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 369 pages
- Subjects
- Great Divide Trail
- Trails
- Canadian Rockies
- Abstract
- Tales from the Great Divide brings to life the memories of many of the "originals" whose vision, idealism, dedication and hard work over five decades made Canada's Great Divide Trail a reality. Transcripts of interviews and storytelling sessions, combined with excerpts from letters and other documents, and with over 300 photographs and illustrations, reveal the adventurous, heartbreaking and hilarious moments that characterized the early history of the Great Divide Trail. -- Excerpt from backcover
- Contents
- Introduction -- Origins of the Great Divide Trail concept -- Project Great Divide trails -- Early history of the Great Divide Trail Association -- Rejuvenation of the Great Divide Trail Association -- Reflections, then and now.
- ISBN
- 9781927945285
- Accession Number
- P2022.09
- Call Number
- 08.3 F32t
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
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The Three Sisters bar and hotel : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26187
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Govier, Katherine
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : Harper Avenue
- Call Number
- 05.2 G74t
- Author
- Govier, Katherine
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : Harper Avenue
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 475 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Gateway, Alberta, 1911. The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the heavenly Bow Valley, including the poacher Herbie Wishart, who has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent Washington, D.C., archaeologist. But when an early snowstorm hits and trailside grudges come to a head, the expedition mysteriously disappears. The tragedy threatens to stain the Rocky Mountain parks reputation just as its newly elected government overseers begin to sell the pristine Canadian wilderness to the world. Despite all efforts from that year on to solve, or bury, the mystery, the disappearance will haunt Gateway, and define the futures of Herbie Wishart and his stubbornly female descendants. -- From Publisher
- Notes
- Signed by author
- ISBN
- 9781443436649
- Accession Number
- 2022.28
- Call Number
- 05.2 G74t
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