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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
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Famous name trains : travelling in style with the CPR
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13385
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Jones, David L
- Publisher
- Calgary : Fifth House
- Call Number
- 08.5 J71f
- Author
- Jones, David L
- Responsibility
- David Laurence Jones
- Publisher
- Calgary : Fifth House
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- xiii, 178p. : ill., facsim
- Notes
- History and development of train travel in Canada. Includes facsim. of publicity brochures and posters and photographs of car interiors
- ISBN
- 13-978-1-894856-52-2
- Accession Number
- 40,0000 07-09-05
- Call Number
- 08.5 J71f
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- Archives Library
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The father of Canadian art : Thomas Mower Martin, 1838-1934
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13904
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Graeme, Toni
- Publisher
- [Victoria, B.C. : T&T Enterprises]
- Call Number
- 06.1 G75f
- Author
- Graeme, Toni
- Responsibility
- by Toni Graeme, a great granddaughter
- Publisher
- [Victoria, B.C. : T&T Enterprises]
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 72 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports
- Subjects
- Artists
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Biography
- Notes
- Cover title. -- Thomas Mower Martin was a CPR Railway artist , travelling to the Rocky Mountains 1887-1910
- ISBN
- 9780973297409
- Accession Number
- 50500 2009-11-30
- Call Number
- 06.1 G75f
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- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Clarke, Robert E
- Publisher
- Banff : Seven C's
- Call Number
- 05.2 C55r v.3
- Author
- Clarke, Robert E
- Publisher
- Banff : Seven C's
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 113p. : maps
- Series
- Book 3
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Cover design and artwork by Fred Thwaites
- ISBN
- 1550568973
- Accession Number
- 37000
- Call Number
- 05.2 C55r v.3
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Five celebrated early surgeons of Southern Alberta : 1874-1913
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13150
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Lampard, Robert
- Publisher
- Lethbridge : Lethbridge Historical Society
- Call Number
- 08.2 L19f Pam
- Author
- Lampard, Robert
- Publisher
- Lethbridge : Lethbridge Historical Society
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 48 p. : ill., ports
- Series
- Occasional paper no.43
- Subjects
- Brett, Robert George
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Crowsnest Pass
- Doctors
- Frank Slide
- Kennedy, George Allan
- Malcolmson, George Henry
- Medicine
- North West Mounted Police
- Notes
- Includes references to the Canadian Medical Association annual meeting held at Banff, August 12-13, 1889
- ISBN
- 0-9780505-0-9
- Accession Number
- 39000
- Call Number
- 08.2 L19f Pam
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Game in the garden : a human history of wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13158
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Colpitts, George
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 04 C71g
- Author
- Colpitts, George
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 205 p
- ISBN
- 0-748-0962-0
- Accession Number
- 39000
- Call Number
- 04 C71g
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The Great Divide : conservation vs. development in Alberta's mountain national parks, 1905-2005 an historical overview
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13357
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- January 20, 2005
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Call Number
- 13.111 H25g Pam
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Published Date
- January 20, 2005
- Physical Description
- 14p
- Series
- U. of C. Department of History Colloquium Series
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Harkin, James Bernard
- Kananaskis Country
- National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada (NPPAC)
- Olympic games
- Ski areas
- Tourism
- Notes
- Includes reference to Resources for Tomorrow conference in 1961, Parks for Tomorrow conference in 1968, the Village Lake Louise proposal in 1971/72, and the Banff-Bow Valley Study roundtable in 1994
- Call Number
- 13.111 H25g Pam
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- Archives Library
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Hunting for empire : narratives of sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13810
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Gillespie, Greg
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 02.5 G41h
- Author
- Gillespie, Greg
- Responsibility
- Greg Gillespie ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xxvii, 172 p. : ill.
- Series
- Nature, history, society series (1713-6687)
- Subjects
- Art
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Tourism
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-161) and index. Includes references to John Palliser, Milton and Cheadle, James Carnigie, William Francis Butler and others, pertaining to nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives
- ISBN
- 9780774813556 (pbk.)
- Accession Number
- 60000 2010-03-25
- Call Number
- 02.5 G41h
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- Archives Library
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I'll take the train
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6312
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Liddell, Ken
- Publisher
- Saskatoon : Modern Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 L61
- Author
- Liddell, Ken
- Publisher
- Saskatoon : Modern Press
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 196p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 562
- Call Number
- 08.5 L61
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- Archives Library
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Nicholas Morant photographer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11656
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [ca.2001]
- Publisher
- Calgary : Siding 29 Publications
- Call Number
- 06 M79n Pam
- Responsibility
- [foreword by Ralph Wilson]
- Publisher
- Calgary : Siding 29 Publications
- Published Date
- [ca.2001]
- Physical Description
- 16 p. : all ill
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Partial contents: Nick Morant's cameras and trains
- Accession Number
- 34500 03-07-2002
- Call Number
- 06 M79n Pam
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