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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
Websites
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Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2005
Author
Karvonen Films and Boreal Pictures
Publisher
Korvonen Flims Ltd. and Boreal Picture Co-Production
Call Number
04.2 K11c
  1 website  
Author
Karvonen Films and Boreal Pictures
Publisher
Korvonen Flims Ltd. and Boreal Picture Co-Production
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
1 DVD-video (46 min) : sound, colour.
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Bears
Bears, Grizzly
Abstract
The largest and most powerful bears on earth live only in the northern reaches of the world. Brown bear, polar bear; related yet distinct, both are forces of nature that have left their mark on humankind. The very heart of wilderness beats within these bears, with ranges spanning countries and continents. Circumpolar Bears explores the lives of brown bears and polar bears found throughout the North – from grizzlies in Canada’s Arctic to brown bears in Finland and Russia, and polar bears from around the world. They have survived 200 million years of evolution, but the next hundred years may bring their greatest challenge yet.
Notes
The abstract has been taken directly from the film itself.
The front reads: "come face to face with the largest bears in the world - the Circumpolar Bears."
Accession Number
2019.64
Call Number
04.2 K11c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is linked to the official website of the publisher, Karvonen Films Ltd.
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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
URL Notes
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Websites
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Conrad Kain - the legacy of Canada's greatest mountain guide

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25120
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2009
Author
Martel, Lynn
Publisher
Gripped Magazine
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Martel, Lynn
Responsibility
Lynn Martel
Publisher
Gripped Magazine
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
p.30-35 : ill
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Kain, Conrad
Guide
Abstract
Pertains to mountain guide Conrad Kain and his legacy of guiding in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Notes
In Gripped Volume 11, Number 3, June - July 2009, p. 30-35
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Gripped website
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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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A dark secret : your friendly neighborhood fall-out shelter

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19933
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2009
Author
Alexander, Rob
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Alexander, Rob
Responsibility
Rob Alexander
Published Date
2009
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Government
Lac des Arcs
Abstract
Pertains to the fall-out shelter built into Mount McGillivray overlooking Lac des Arcs by private company Rocky Mountain Vaults & Archives during the Cold War
Notes
In Highline Magazine, Vol.1, Iss.2, Winter 2009, p.15-17
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Highline website
Websites
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Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2007
Publisher
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection
Call Number
06.3 D33 DVD
  1 website  
Responsibility
Terrence Malick (director)
Richard Gere (actor)
Brooke Adams (actor)
Sam Shepard (actor)
Publisher
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Film making
Films
Waterton
Waterton Lakes
Southern Alberta
Engler, Bruno
Abstract
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and his little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
Contents
Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings.
Notes
Still photography by Bruno Engler
Filmed in Southern Alberta and Waterton National Park
Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature] (22 min.); Interview with Sam Shepard (13 min.); Interview with John Bailey (21 min.); Interview with Haskell Wexler (12 min.). Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros.
Accession Number
P2019-31
Call Number
06.3 D33 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Days of Heaven on IMDb
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Death hunt : the saga of two rivals who clash as enemies and triumph as heroes

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Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2005
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Call Number
06.3 D34 DVD
  1 website  
Responsibility
Peter Hunt (director)
Murray Shostak (producer)
Charles Bronson (actor)
Lee Marvin (actor)
Andrew Stevens (actor)
Carl Weathers (actor)
Angie Dickinson (actor)
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sd., col.
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Films
Film making
Engler Bruno
Auger, Tim
Canmore
Spray Lakes
North West Mounted Police
Search and rescue
Abstract
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.
Notes
Still photography by Bruno Engler
Tim Auger was Charles Bronson's body double
Filmed in the Canmore and Spray Lakes area
Accession Number
P2019-31
Call Number
06.3 D34 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Death Hunt on IMDb
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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
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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
Available online via the University of Victoria
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