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A. O. Wheeler Hut Registers

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Part Of
Alpine Club of Canada fonds
Scope & Content
Sub-series of hut registers from the A. O. Wheeler Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1989 and 2016. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildli…
Date Range
1989-2022
Reference Code
M200 / IV / D
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
GMD
Textual record
Organization record
Part Of
Alpine Club of Canada fonds
Description Level
4 / Sub-series
Fonds Number
M200
V14
S6
Series
M200 / IV: Hut Registers
Sous-Fonds
M200
Sub-Series
M200 / IV / D: A. O. Wheeler Hut Registers
Accession Number
accn. 2023.10
accn. 8002
accn. 2014.8293
accn. 2023.19
accn. 2024.20
Reference Code
M200 / IV / D
GMD
Textual record
Organization record
Responsibility
Registers produced by the Alpine Club of Canada
Date Range
1989-2022
Physical Description
27 cm of textual records (11 volumes)
History / Biographical
The A. O. Wheeler Hut is located at Rogers Pass National Historic Site in Glacier National Park. The hut was built between 1945 and 1946, and it is a Recognized Federal Historic Building. The hut is named after one of the founding members of the Alpine Club of Canada, Arthur Oliver Wheeler. A. O. Wheeler was the first President of the Alpine Club of Canada, and he served as Honorary President of the Club for almost twenty years. According to the Alpine Club of Canada's website: "Carrying on the tradition of the Glacier House which was closed in 1925 and now exists only as a few concrete foundation pieces, the Wheeler Hut serves as a base for the legendary powder skiing of the Rogers Pass area. In summer there are numerous opportunities for climbing and hiking. This is the birthplace of alpinism in North America. Many of the routes are steeped in tradition and history, an interesting fact to remember as you reach for that next impeccable quartzite handhold or take that next footstep along one of the many trails which wind through the lush cedar forests that dominate the region. This is the one and only ACC hut which can be reached by vehicle in summer. Winter access is a mere 2 km along a well-broken and level trail. It is difficult to convey to the first time visitor the number and quality of the summer and winter day trips possible from the hut. The potential is outstanding from this single hut including summer hikes to Asulkan Pass or up the Great Glacier Trail to the Illecillewaet Glacier, summer climbs to Sapphire Col, Mt. Sir Donald, and Avalanche Peak; winter ski tours to Young’s Peak, the Seven Steps of Paradise, the Dome Glacier – the list goes on and on. Go and explore for yourself, you will not be disappointed! The Wheeler Hut is quite luxurious! A propane system provides the cooking and lighting, with two wood stoves for heating. The hut sleeps 30 in summer and 24 in winter."
Scope & Content
Sub-series of hut registers from the A. O. Wheeler Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1989 and 2016. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings, custodial issues and updates, and related topics. The sub-series is separated into individual hut registers, arranged by date:
M200 / IV / D / 1: "A. O. Wheeler Hut Register" May 13, 1989 - Sept. 30, 1995
M200 / IV / D / 2: Wheeler Hut register Oct. 6, 1995 - Mar. 28, 1998
M200 / IV / D / 3: Wheeler Hut [1998 - 2000]
M200 / IV / D / 4: A. O. Wheeler Hut Register 2000-2006
M200 / IV / D / 5: A. O. Wheeler Hut 2001 - 2003
M200 / IV / D / 6: A. O. Wheeler Hut Register 2003 - 2006
M200 / IV / D / 7: The Wheeler Hut Registers. Part 1 of 2.
M200 / IV / D / 8: The Wheeler Hut Registers. Part 2 of 2.
M200 / IV / D / 9: [2009 - 2012 Wheeler Hut Register]
M200 / IV / D / 10: 2013 - 2016 Wheeler Hut Register
M200 / IV / D / 11: Wheeler Hut Register [2014-2022]
Name Access
Alpine Club of Canada
Subject Access
Huts
Cabins and shelters
Cabins
Alpine Club of Canada
Backcountry skiing
British Columbia
Buildings
Buildings and facilities
Climbing
Club
Environment and Nature
Mountain
Mountaineering
National parks and reserves
Parks Canada
Provincial parks and reserves
Winter sports
Geographic Access
Canada
British Columbia
Glacier National Park
Rogers Pass
Illecillewaet Valley
Access Restrictions
Restrictions may apply
Reproduction Restrictions
Contains personal information
Language
English
Spanish
French
Category
Environment
Exploration and travel
Sports, recreation and leisure
Biographical Source Notes
The Alpine Club of Canada website: https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/a-o-wheeler-hut/ The Government of Canada - Parks Canada website: https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_fhbro_eng.aspx?id=11716
Title Source
Title based on contents of sub-series
Processing Status
Processed
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Aboriginal TM : the cultural and economic politics of recognition

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Adese, Jennifer
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 A3a
Author
Adese, Jennifer
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Tourism
Language
Politics
Abstract
In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to the "aboriginal rights" acknowledged in Section 35(1). Yet in the wake of the Constitution's passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became far more closely aligned with Section 35(2)'s interpretation of which specific groups held those rights, and was increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aboriginal™ argues the term was a tool used to advance Canada's cultural and economic assimilatory agenda throughout the 1980s until the mid-2010s. Moreover, Adese illuminates how the word engenders a kind of "Aboriginalized multicultural" brand easily reduced to and exported as a nation brand, economic brand, and place brand--at odds with the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and communities. In her multi-disciplinary research, Adese examines the discursive spaces and concrete sites where Aboriginality features prominently: the Constitution Act, 1982; the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; the "Aboriginal tourism industry"; and the Vancouver International Airport. Reflecting on the term's abrupt exit from public discourse and the recent turn toward Indigenous, Indigeneity, and Indigenization, Aboriginal™ offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, reconciliation efforts, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal, aboriginality, aboriginalism, aboriginalization: what's in a word? -- Aboriginalized multiculturalism tm: Canada's olympic national brand -- Selling Aboriginal experiences and authenticity: Canadian and Aboriginal tourism -- Marketing aboriginality and the branding of place: the case of Vancouver international airport -- Conclusion: thoughts on the end of aboriginalization and the turn to indigenization.
Notes
Title appears with the trademark symbol after the word "Aboriginal".
ISBN
9781772840056
Accession Number
P2023.09
Call Number
07.2 A3a
Collection
Archives Library
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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Responsibility
Edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Photography
Politics
Heritage
Colonialism
Abstract
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
ISBN
9780774866613
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Collection
Archives Library
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Advancing a culture of creativity in libraries : programming and engagement

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Lotts, Megan
Publisher
Chicago : American Library Association
Edition
ALA
Call Number
00.5 L91a
Author
Lotts, Megan
Edition
ALA
Publisher
Chicago : American Library Association
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
116 pages ; 7 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Libraries
Arts and Culture
Professional Development
Programming
Engagement
Contents
Part I: Creative library culture -- 1. Creativity is not a superpower -- 2. Active learning and play -- 3. Creativity and team-building -- 4. Engagement and partnerships -- 5. Assessment -- Part II: Ideas in action -- 6. Making it happen -- 7. Lego -- 8. The Bubbler -- 9. Zines -- 10. Button-Making -- 11. Rutgers art library exhibition spaces -- 12. Experimentation station -- 13. Faculty writing retreats -- 14. Urban sketching.
ISBN
9780838949474
Accession Number
P2023.18
Call Number
00.5 L91a
Collection
Archives Library
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Adventures in small tourism : studies and stories

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
02 Sch2a
Responsibility
Edited and with introduction by Kathleen Scherf
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
ix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Tourism
Adventure
Industry
Abstract
The double blow of overtourism and COVID has shaken the travel industry and forced a reconsideration of what tourism is, and can be. This volume offers a vision of regenerative tourism beneficial to travelers and locals alike. Adventures in Small Tourism presents academic studies and personal stories about small tourism. While small tourism is not new, it has become increasingly important as the widespread negative effects of overtourism have become increasingly apparent, with cities like Amsterdam and Barcelona experiencing barriocide, the death of neighbourhoods, as they host overwhelming numbers of visitors. Small tourism, especially creative tourism, not only reduces the actual and potential negative impact of guests on local culture but actively seeks to strengthen and revive local communities by weaving together the experiences of guest and host. Participatory, respectful, and celebratory methods and manners of tourism, rooted in community and cultural networks, has the potential to strengthen cultural bonds, support economic development, and increase sustainability. Focusing on the provision of small-scale creative tourism experiences, Adventures in Small Tourism explores possibilities for local empowerment through community-based tourism. With stories and studies from Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Japan, Australia, and beyond, this collection tells stories of visitors and residents coming together to co-create place in walks and workshops, gastronomy and art, festivals, markets, and more. This is a book that dares to ask what the future can be. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
The development of inclusive small rural destinations for gay tourists in Canada / Spencer J. Toth, Josie V. Vayro, and Courtney W. Mason -- Rajzefiber: a community hub for small tourism in the small City of Maribor, Slovenia / Katja Beck Kos, Mateja Meh, and Vid Kmetic -- Sustaining Castello Sonnino: small tourism in a tuscan village / John S. Hull, Donna Senese, and Darcen Esau -- Revealing the restorers: small tourism in restored lands of the Noongar traditional area of the Fitz-Stirling in Southwestern Australia -- Moira A. L. Maley, Sylvia M. Leighton, Alison Lullfitz, Johannes E. Wajon, M. Jane Thompson, Carol Pettersen, Mohammadreza Gohari, and Keith Bradby -- The role of cultural associations in the promotion of small tourism and social inclusion in the neighbourhood of Bonfim, Oporto: the case of Casa Bo / Andre Luis Quintino Principe -- Small tourism in a big city: the story of Bogota / Diana Guerra Amaya and Diana Marcela Zuluaga Guerra -- Cultural festivals in small villages: creativity and the case of the Devil's Nest Festival in Hungary / Emese Panyik and Attila Komlós -- Artistic micro-adventures in small places / Donald Lawrence -- The power of small: creative in-migrant micro entrepreneurs in peripheral Japanese islands during COVID-19 / Meng Qu and Simona Zollet -- Small tourism and ecotourism: emerging micro-trends / Ian Yeoman and Una McMahon-Beattie.
ISBN
9781773854762
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
02 Sch2a
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Adventures on the Columbia River

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1831
Author
Cox, Ross
Publisher
London : Colburn & Bentley
Call Number
F880 C69 1831 II
Author
Cox, Ross
Publisher
London : Colburn & Bentley
Published Date
1831
Physical Description
400 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Volume 2 of 2
Subjects
Rocky Mountains, Canada
Notes
Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
Call Number
F880 C69 1831 II
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Adventures on the Columbia River

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1831
Author
Cox, Ross
Publisher
London : Colburn & Bentley
Call Number
F880 C69 1831 I
Author
Cox, Ross
Publisher
London : Colburn & Bentley
Published Date
1831
Physical Description
368 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Volume 1 of 2
Subjects
Rocky Mountains, Canada
Notes
Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
Call Number
F880 C69 1831 I
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alberta and the three bears

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Urquhart, Ian
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Urquhart, Ian
Responsibility
Ian Urquhart
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
pg. 13 - 15
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife management
Alberta
Bears
Bears, Grizzly
Cochrane
Abstract
Pertains to current restrictions in Alberta around the rehabilitation of orphaned grizzly bear cubs. Outlines various arguements for and against with supporting data and introduces a new grizzly bear rehabilitation facility recently constructed at the Cochrane Ecological Institute which can only be utlized if the Alberta government ends the prohibition on grizzly cub rehabitiltation in the province.
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.3, September 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
Websites
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Alberta caribou work continues while B.C. puts agreements in place

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Campbell, Carolyn
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Campbell, Carolyn
Responsibility
Carolyn Campbell
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
pg. 12
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Caribou
Wildlife
Wildlife corridors
Wildlife management
First Nations
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Pertains to updates on agreements Alberta and British Columbia are creating to protect extirpated caribou herds in both provinces and legal cases put forward by environmental groups and First Nations including Ecojustice, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Mikisew Cree First Nation, David Suzuki Foundation. Other communities involved with caribou management plans including Cold Lake First Nation, Saulteau First Nations, West Moberly First Nations
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.3, September 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
Websites
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The Alberta Parks Clearance Sale : Wiping out memories

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Fitch, Lorne
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Fitch, Lorne
Responsibility
Lorne Fitch
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
pg. 4 - 7
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Government
Alberta
Recreation
Abstract
Pertains to Alberta's Conservative government downgrading and deconsecrating 184 of Alberta's Parks and Recreation areas
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.2, June 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
Websites
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All that glitters : a climber's journey through addiction and depression

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Talbot, Margo
Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
01.4 T14a c.1
01.4 T14a c.2
01.4 T14a c.3
Author
Talbot, Margo
Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
186 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Talbot, Margo
Abstract
Born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Margo Talbot grew up with a distant mother who “ruled the household with her eyes”; a father who opted to spend much of his time away from home; and four siblings struggling to deal with their particular domestic situation. As a result of her family’s dysfunction and her own growing mental illness, young Margo rarely smiled, had difficulty connecting with others, and was plagued with a black wave of anger and sadness that overshadowed much of the world around her. In time, drugs, alcohol, sex, and violence became her primary ways to connect with herself and others. From the depths of suicidal depression and a conversation with Death, Talbot eventually found solace and redemption in both the healing power of nature and the glory of climbing frozen landscapes in some of the world’s most pristine and challenging environments. Heartbreaking, honest, energizing, and inspiring All That Glitters is a remarkable memoir that shines a fresh light of hope on mental illness.-- From back cover
ISBN
9781771604338
Accession Number
70,000 12-07-16
P2015-03-31
P2022.01
Call Number
01.4 T14a c.1
01.4 T14a c.2
01.4 T14a c.3
Collection
Archives Library
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All-time high - an unprecedented number of visitors are heading to Banff National Park, with a million more tourists passing through the gates in just the last five years. Has the beloved park reached its limits?

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Responsibility
Ryan Stewart (author)
Taylor Odynski (illustrator)
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.70 - 75
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Tourism
Ecology
Environment
Banff National Park
Wildlife
Town of Banff
Parks Canada
Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the rise in visitation to Banff National Park
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Aloft : Canadian Rockies aerial photography

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canadian Rockies
Photography
Photography, Aerial
Mountains
Nature
Environment
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Alpes de la haute Engadine

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1859
Author
Binet-Hentsch, J.L
Publisher
Geneve : Ramboz et Schuchardt
Call Number
DQ841 E5 B55
Author
Binet-Hentsch, J.L
Publisher
Geneve : Ramboz et Schuchardt
Published Date
1859
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Call Number
DQ841 E5 B55
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alpes et Pyrenees

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1854
Author
de Chaumont, C
Publisher
Limoges : Barbou Freres
Call Number
DQ825 C43
Author
de Chaumont, C
Publisher
Limoges : Barbou Freres
Published Date
1854
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Call Number
DQ825 C43
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2024
Author
McDonald, Bernadette
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
01.1 M14a
Author
McDonald, Bernadette
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2024
Physical Description
269 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Mountains
Climbing
Himalaya Mountains
Sherpa
Sherpa-history
Nepal
Abstract
The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781680515787
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
01.1 M14a
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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The American Western in Canadian literature

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nationalism
Literature
Canada
Canada - Western Region
History
American
Abstract
The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.
ISBN
9781773852676
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Collection
Archives Library
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An ecology of gratitude : writing your way to what matters

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25504
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Widmer-Carson, Lorraine
Publisher
Banff, Alberta : Lorraine Widmer-Carson
Call Number
05 W63p
Author
Widmer-Carson, Lorraine
Publisher
Banff, Alberta : Lorraine Widmer-Carson
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
191 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nature
Writing
Abstract
An Ecology of Gratitude is an inspirational and practical guide that encourages readers to slow down, pay attention and write their way to what matters. Structured as a 30-day series of anecdotes, field notes and writing prompts, author Lorraine Widmer-Carson embroiders the science of gratitude with personal stories of lived experience, urging readers to open their eyes to wonders, revel in possibilites, and move toward a better tomorrow. -- From back cover
Contents
Introduction ; Day 1: Enter with a positive state of mind ; Day 2: Get comfortable being by yourself ; Day 3: Make your new habit desirable and relevant to your identity ; Day 4: The science of gratitude (and one of my most grateful moments) ; Day 5: Testing the gratitude waters in community ; Day 6: About those voices in your head ; Day 7: What will motivate you to take up your pen and open the journal today? ; Day 8: Check in and make notes to yourself ; Day 9: Gratitude and emotional ecology ; Day 10: Emodiversity - accepting that life brings blessings and curses ; Day 11: Watching nature, a source of wonder and awe ; Day 12: Kindness as a revolutionary force, part ; Day 13: Kindness as a revolutionary force, part 2 ; Day 14: Managing memories ; Day 15: Grief sits right beside gratitude ; Day 16: Condolences precede thanksgiving, words of Chief Jake Swamp ; Day 17: Invite your ideal travelling companion to share your head space ; Day 18: Other ways of remembering, including songs and smell ; Day 19: Gratitude, life purpose and well-being ; Day 20: Who can help you stay your course? You can ; Day 21: Competition vs. co-operation ; Day 22: Snakes, ladders and laddership ; Day 23: What story do you want your money to tell? ; Day 24: Join me in imagining... ; Day 25: Gratitude and systems change ; Day 26: The challenge - go back seven generations ; Day 27: The response - with help from Uncle Hugh ; Day 28: The gratitude letter - the most profound practice ; Day 29: Writing an apology or forgiveness letter ; Day 30: BHAGs and WOOP's ; Afterword
ISBN
9781777778507
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
05 W63p
Collection
Archives Library
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An Empty Landscape

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25287
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
September/October 2021
Author
Mitchell, Alanna
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Edition
Vol. 141
Call Number
P
Author
Mitchell, Alanna
Responsibility
with photography by Peter Mather
Edition
Vol. 141
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Published Date
September/October 2021
Physical Description
p.34-44
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Alberta
Alpine tundra
Animal populations
Animals
Canada
Canadian Endangered Species Protection Act
Caribou
Climate change
Abstract
The ecological importance of the caribou and their current population decline due to climate change and human influences. Herds in the northern Canadian Rockies are already on the endangered species list.
Notes
"In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 5, September/October, 2021"
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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