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Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24995
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- MacFarlane, John
- Salmon, Lynn J.
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.1 M11a
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- Author
- MacFarlane, John
- Salmon, Lynn J.
- Responsibility
- John M, MacFarlane
- Lynn J. Salmon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 268 p.
- Abstract
- "For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage--and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment--is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- John Claus Voss -- Treasure Hunting in the Xora -- Norman Kenny Luxton -- “Out-Slocuming” Joshua Slocum -- Preparing to Voyage -- Across the Pacific -- Penrhyn Island and Beyond -- The Mate Walter Louis Begent -- Australia -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Brazil and up the Atlantic to England -- Repatriation to Victoria -- The Sea Queen, the Tilikum II and Voss’s Last Years.
- Notes
- Contains materials from the Luxton family fonds from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
- Signed by John MacFarlane
- ISBN
- 9781550178791
- Accession Number
- 2019.106
- Call Number
- 02.1 M11a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on publisher's website
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Castle in the wilderness : the story of the Banff Springs Hotel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24950
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Robinson, Bart
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Call Number
- 08.5 R55c
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- Author
- Robinson, Bart
- Responsibility
- Bart Robinson
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 160 p.; illus.
- Subjects
- Hotels
- History
- Travel
- Tourism
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- A Castle in the Wilderness: The Story of the Banff Springs Hotel is the definitive historical record of one of the world’s most famous mountain resorts. The story navigates the hotel’s early history from its construction by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the glittering era of the 1920s through to the changes of modern times. Local author and historian Bart Robinson has been exploring and writing about the Banff Springs Hotel since the 1970s. In A Castle in the Wilderness he combines a complete hotel history with rich anecdotes and snippets of the past that have enriched Banff and indeed Canada, from the hotel’s links to the construction of the transcontinental rail line to the visits of maharajahs and movie stars.How did such a gracious hotel come to be in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies? How much did it cost to build? Who designed it? Who selected its furnishings? Which famous visitors has it hosted? And why is now known as the Fairmont Banff Springs? These and many more questions are answered in the Castle in the Wilderness. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Origins of a Hotel
- Grand Designs
- Vistas and Vendettas
- Growing Pains
- Towers and Troubles
- Princes and Politicians
- Out of the Fire
- A Brief But Golden Moment
- Tribulations and Triumph
- A Second Century
- Into the New Millenium
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- ISBN
- 9781926983356
- Accession Number
- 2019.89
- Call Number
- 08.5 R55c
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publishers website where publication can been purchased
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Chautauqua serenade : violinist Ruth Bowers on tour, 1910-1912
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15271
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 06.2 Sh5c
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 224 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- Music
- Travel
- United States
- Women
- ISBN
- 9781927575697
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 06.2 Sh5c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Columbia River highway : America's greatest scenic drive
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20084
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1801
- Author
- Cross and Dimmitt
- Call Number
- 02.3 C87t
- Author
- Cross and Dimmitt
- Published Date
- 1801
- Physical Description
- Portland, Oregon : Cross and Dimmitt
- Subjects
- Columbia River
- Art
- Travel
- Tourism
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of hand colored images showcasing the beauty of Oregon in the United States of America. The publication follows the Columbia River highway, a stretch of road reaching west from Portland to the Pacific, and east to Central Oregon. The publication showcases various tourist locations in addition to other breathtaking hand-colored images.
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 02.3 C87t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Smith, Will
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
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- Author
- Smith, Will
- Responsibility
- Will Smith
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- [248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
- Subjects
- Railways
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Restaurants
- Travel
- Canada
- Industry
- History
- History-Canada
- Hotels
- Abstract
- Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
- Chapter 2 - Research sources
- Chapter 3 - Railway
- Chapter 4 - Steamships
- Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
- Chapter 6 - Airline
- Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
- Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
- Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
- Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
- Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
- Chapter 12 - Market value
- Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
- Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
- Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
- Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
- Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
- Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
- Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
- Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
- Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
- Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781999382100
- Accession Number
- 2019.27
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
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- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Responsibility
- Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 320 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- The sketchbooks
- Biographies
- Selected reading
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
- ISBN
- 9780452158273
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Family walks and hikes in the Canadian Rockies. Volume 1 : Bragg Creek - Kananaskis - Bow Valley - Banff National Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25204
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Nugara, Andrew
- Publisher
- [Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02.6 N89f Vol. 1
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- Author
- Nugara, Andrew
- Responsibility
- Andrew Nugara
- Publisher
- [Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xx, 156 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
- Subjects
- Hiking
- Travel
- Banff National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Highways
- Highways - Alberta
- Kananaskis Country
- Maps
- Lake Louise
- Lake Louise - Roads & Trails
- Abstract
- Family Walks and Hikes is an exciting new series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature expertly curated routes, informative maps, and colour photographs. The first book for the Canadian Rockies in the series brings together an inspiring collection of comfortable walks and spectacular hikes for visitors and locals looking for unique, guided wanderings in a number of diverse locations in the Rockies, including: Elbow Falls Powderface Ridge Troll Falls Elbow Lake Grotto Canyon Grassi Lakes Tunnel Mountain Johnston Canyon Stanley Glacier Plain Of Six Glaciers Bow Summit Ranging from charmingly easy to moderately challenging, these hikes are all accessible from reliable roads and popular staging areas. In addition, each hike is accompanied by a clear, colourful map, step by step directions, and full-colour photographs. Each route includes: detailed directions to trailheads colour maps and photographs seasonal information round-trip distances trail commentary difficulty ratings (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Area Maps
- Highway 66, The Elbow
- Highway 40 South, Kananaskis Trail
- Highway 1, Bow Valley, Canmore, Highway 742 South
- Banff
- Kootenay National Park
- Lake Louise
- Icefield Parkway (Highway 93 North(
- Important Contacts
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781771602242
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 02.6 N89f Vol. 1
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- Archives Library
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- Publishers website
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Family walks and hikes in the Canadian Rockies. Volume 2 : Bragg Creek , Kananaskis , Moraine Lake , Yoho , Icefields Parkway , Jasper
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25205
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Nugara, Andrew
- Publisher
- [Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 02.6 N89f Vol. 2
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- Author
- Nugara, Andrew
- Responsibility
- Andrew Nugara
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- volumes : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Hiking
- Travel
- Kananaskis Country
- Maps
- Highways
- Highways - Alberta
- Banff
- Moraine Lake
- Yoho National Park
- Jasper
- Abstract
- amily Walks and Hikes is an exciting series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature expertly curated routes, informative maps, and colour photographs. Andrew Nugara’s second book for families looking to experience the splendour of the Canadian Rockies describes additional trips in Bragg Creek, Banff, and Kananaskis that were not included in Volume 1 due to redevelopment of these hiking hotspots since the dramatic Alberta floods of 2013. As well, Volume 2 includes several new areas for family exploration, including Moraine Lake, Yoho, the north section of Highway 93 North, and Jasper. Some of the comfortable walks and spectacular hikes in this new volume are: Forgetmenot Ponds Nihahi Ridge King Creek Canyon Canadian Everest Trail Picklejar Lakes Yamnuska Ha Ling Peak Sunshine Meadows Paget Peak Lookout Takakkaw Falls Parker Ridge Athabasca Glacier Sunwapta Falls Maligne Canyon Ranging from charmingly easy to moderately challenging, all of these hikes are accessible from reliable roads and popular staging areas. In addition, each hike is accompanied by a clear, colourful map, step by step directions, and full-colour photographs. Each route includes: detailed directions to trailheads colour maps and photographs seasonal information round-trip distances trail commentary difficulty ratings (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Area Maps
- Highway 66, the Elbow
- Highway 40 South, Kananaskis Trail
- Highway 1, Bow Valley, Canmore, Highway 742 South
- Banff Area
- Moraine Lake
- Yoho National Park
- Icefields Parkway (Highway 93 North)
- Jasper
- Important Contacts
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- ISBN
- 9781771603058
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 02.6 N89f Vol. 2
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- Archives Library
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Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country trail guide volume 3
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26263
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Edition
- 4th edition
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13g
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Edition
- 4th edition
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 344 pages, 21.5cm
- Series
- Volume 3
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains
- Kananaskis Country
- Travel
- Trails
- Abstract
- Guide book for the Kananaskis Country area with important updates reagrding the severe flooding of 2013.
- Contents
- Hwy. 940 north (Waiparous) -- TransAlta road (Ghost river) -- Hwy. 1X (Bow valley) -- Hwy. 1A (Bow valley) -- Hwy. 1 (Bow Valley) -- Canmore -- Hwy. 742 (Spray valley)
- Notes
- The other volumes of 'Kananaskis Country Trail Guide' historically were issued an incorrect call number of '02.6k 13d YEAR v.#', updated editions have been also placed under the same call number for continuity; With the exception of books that we do not have historic copies of in the collection such as this record. 2024-05-28 TM
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9781927330036
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13g
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Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis country trail guide volume 5
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26264
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- 4th
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13k
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Edition
- 4th
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 336 pages, 21.5cm
- Series
- Volume 5
- Subjects
- Kananaskis Country
- Travel
- Trails
- Abstract
- Trail guide for Kananaskis Country.
- Contents
- Hwy. 541 (Lower Highwood) -- Flat Creek road (East Highwood) -- Hwy. 40 East (Highwood river valley) -- Hwy. 40 West (Highwood river valley) -- Hwy. 940 West (Cataract/Upper Oldman) -- Hwy. 940 East (Lower Cataract/Livingstone) -- Hwy. 532 (Willow Creek)
- Notes
- Most of the other volumes of 'Kananaskis Country Trail Guide' historically were issued an incorrect call number of '02.6k 13d YEAR v.#', updated editions have been also placed under the same call number for continuity; With the exception of books that we do not have historic copies of in the collection such as this record. 2024-05-28 TM
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9781771600941
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13k
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