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- Putnam, William Lowell 2
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- Bowers, Vivien 1
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- British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information 1
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- Cavell, Edward 1
- Daly, Reginald Aldworth 1
- Garden, J.F. 1
- Garden, John F 1
- Geological Survey of Canada 1
Alpine huts in the Rockies, Selkirks and Purcells
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1448
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Kariel, Herbert G
- Publisher
- Banff : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- F1090 K35 Copy 1
- F1090 K35 Copy 2
- Author
- Kariel, Herbert G
- Responsibility
- Kariel, Herb, Kariel, Pat
- Publisher
- Banff : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 183 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Selkirk Mountains
- Purcell Mountains
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Alpine Club of Canada - Huts
- Notes
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Accession Number
- AC630 is copy 2 with letter and newsclipping pasted in
- Call Number
- F1090 K35 Copy 1
- F1090 K35 Copy 2
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Among the great hills : three generations of Wheelers & their contribution to the mapping of mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13704
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Sandford, R. W
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 W44 Pam Copy 1
- G512 W44 Copy 2
- G512 W44 Copy 3
- Author
- Sandford, R. W
- Responsibility
- by R.W. Sandford
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 32p. : ill. , map
- Series
- Summit Series #8
- Subjects
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Mountaineering
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Selkirk Mountains
- Everest, Mount
- Maps
- ISBN
- 0-920330-54-1
- Call Number
- G512 W44 Pam Copy 1
- G512 W44 Copy 2
- G512 W44 Copy 3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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An artist's reminiscences
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14689
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1918
- Author
- Bell-Smith, F.M
- Call Number
- 06 B33a Pam
- Author
- Bell-Smith, F.M
- Responsibility
- by F.M. Bell-Smith
- Published Date
- 1918
- Physical Description
- Pages 90-97 : illustrations
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Lake Louise
- Lake O'Hara
- Selkirk Mountains
- Notes
- Reprinted from Canadian Alpine Journal, vol. IX, 1918
- Article is a photocopy from the reprint
- Call Number
- 06 B33a Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Columbia-Kootenay Valley and its resources and capabilities
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3933
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Author
- British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information
- Publisher
- Victoria : King's Printer
- Call Number
- 02.6 K83b
- Publisher
- Victoria : King's Printer
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 94p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Selkirk Mountains
- Notes
- Contains article by Arthur O. Wheeler
- Accession Number
- 21500
- Call Number
- 02.6 K83b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Description of surveyed lands in the Railway Belt of British Columbia : Part I: Eastern Division
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7371
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1914
- Author
- Canada. Department of the Interior. Topographical Surveys Branch
- Call Number
- 03.7 C16d Pam
- Responsibility
- compiled and edited by S. Maber ...
- Published Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 303p. : map
- Subjects
- Columbia River
- Selkirk Mountains
- Call Number
- 03.7 C16d Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A geological reconnaissance between Golden and Kamloops, B.C., along the Canadian Pacific Railway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5441
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1915
- Author
- Daly, Reginald Aldworth
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Call Number
- 03.2 D17
- Author
- Daly, Reginald Aldworth
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Published Date
- 1915
- Physical Description
- viii, 260p. : ill., maps
- Series
- Geological Survey of Canada, memoir 68
- Subjects
- Purcell Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains
- Accession Number
- 512
- Call Number
- 03.2 D17
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The ghost walker
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6839
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- Lawrence, R. D (Ronald Douglas)
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 04.2 L43
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 242p
- Subjects
- Cougars
- Outdoor life
- Selkirk Mountains
- ISBN
- 0-7710-4733-9
- Accession Number
- 15500
- Call Number
- 04.2 L43
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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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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/catalogue3369
- 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 P98
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98
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- Archives Library
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In the path of an avalanche : a true story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14434
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Bowers, Vivien
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 01.4 B6p
- Author
- Bowers, Vivien
- Responsibility
- Vivien Bowers
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 229 pages : maps ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Accidents
- Avalanches
- Selkirk Mountains
- Skiing
- Survival
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- ISBN
- 1550545183
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 01.4 B6p
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- Archives Library
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