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Geological and Nat. Historical Survey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24681
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1886
- Publisher
- Burland Lithographic Co., Montreal
- Call Number
- C7-1.4
- Publisher
- Burland Lithographic Co., Montreal
- Published Date
- 1886
- Scale
- 2 miles to 1 inch
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains
- Notes
- Cross section in the vicinity of the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C7-1.4
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Indians in the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19886
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1985
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
- Call Number
- 07.2 W62i
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Responsibility
- Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
- Published Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and movement of Indigenous Peoples into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Written through a colonial perspective, author Jon Whyte offers his insight into Indigenous culture and the ways in which settlers were dependent on traditional Indigenous knowledge upon their arrival in North America. The book follows the migration of Indigenous Peoples into the valley of the Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Foreward (pg. 7)
- Introduction (pg. 11)
- The first hundred centuries (pg. 15)
- The mountain peoples (pg. 23)
- Strangers in the land (pg. 37)
- Calling cards 1840-1870 (pg. 41)
- The art of beadwork (pg. 51)
- Capital in reserve (pg. 55)
- Civilization: its discontents (pg. 61)
- Indian Days (pg. 71)
- All our yesterdays (pg. 81)
- Portfolio (pg. 85)
- Epilogue (pg. 122)
- Acknowledgments (pg. 123)
- Bibliography (pg. 127)
- About the author (pg. 128)
- ISBN
- 0919381154
- Accession Number
- 2019.60
- Call Number
- 07.2 W62i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tales from the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26299
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Toronto ON : Hurtig Publishers Ltd.
- Call Number
- 05 P27t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Patton, Brian
- Publisher
- Toronto ON : Hurtig Publishers Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 303 pages, 22.7cm
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains
- Storytelling
- Travel
- History
- Abstract
- An anthology of regional works of literature from the Rockie Mountains from factual travel accounts to fanciful stories inspired by mythology.
- Contents
- Prologue: the land of spirits -- the great lone land: the first explorers and travellers, 1793 - 1885 -- The railway years: the tourists and settlers, 1885 - 1918 -- Legends from a new era: the Rockies, post - 1918
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0771069480
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 05 P27t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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