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The Alps

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1904

Author: Martin-Conway, W.

Publisher: London: Adam and Charles Black

Call Number: 02.2 M36a

Author: Martin-Conway, W.

Responsibility: Painted by A. D. McCormick

Publisher: London: Adam and Charles Black

Published Date: 1904

Physical Description: 294 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Exploration; Switzerland; Art; Travel

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 02.2 M36a

Collection: Archives Library

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Amazing stories great railways of the Canadian West building the dream that shaped our nation

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Pole, Graeme

Publisher: Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.

Call Number: 02.6 P76a

Author: Pole, Graeme

Publisher: Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 144 pages, 21.5cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: True Canadian Amazing Stories

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies; Transportation

Abstract: True historical stories related to the building of the railways: the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern .

Contents: The pipedream of Millington Henry Synge -- Ocean to ocean -- The world according to Walter J. Moberly -- Two streaks of rust -- The bishop, the general, and the impossible -- One railroad too many -- Paper,rocks, and steel -- Railhead, roadhouse, and ruin -- A spike as good as any other -- The road of a thousand wonders

Notes: Includes images from the Whyte museum collection; Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 1554390621

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 02.6 P76a

Collection: Archives Library

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Canada rocks : the geologic journey

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2007

Author: Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew

Publisher: Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited

Call Number: 03.1 E5c

Author: Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew

Publisher: Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 450 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology; Geoscience

Abstract: A complete overview of the geological formation of Canada covering four billion years.

Contents: 1. A hellish beginning -- 2. Moving earth : plate tectonics -- 3. The united plates of Canada : four billion years of tectonic activity 4. Canada's heartland : the shield -- 5. Giant seas cover the shield : the interior platform -- 6. Building Eastern Canada -- 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 8. Building Western Canada -- 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 10. Rocky resouces : mining in Canada -- 11. Challenges for the future -- 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity

ISBN: 9781550418606

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03.1 E5c

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Rockies geology road tours

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Gadd, Ben

Publisher: Jasper, AB : Corax Press

Call Number: 03.2 G11c c. 2

Author: Gadd, Ben

Publisher: Jasper, AB : Corax Press

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 576 pages : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Guidebooks

Notes: Includes index. On cover: The complete roadside guide: fossils, formations, folds and faults; presented in plain English; over 250 great stops; fully illustrated; works with odometer and GPS! Includes bibliogaphical references: p. 560-561.

ISBN: 9780969263128

Accession Number: P2022.01

Call Number: 03.2 G11c c. 2

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Deep Alberta : fossil facts and dinosaur digs

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2007

Author: Acorn, John

Publisher: Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum

Call Number: 04 A7d

Author: Acorn, John

Publisher: Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Paleontology; Dinosaurs; Fossils

Contents: Geology of Alberta map -- Albanerpetontids, as we say -- Ammonites and ammolites -- Albertosaurus, Alberta's dinosaur -- Amber, fossilized tree sap -- Amia, the bowfin -- Atrociraptor, the new raptor -- Basilemys, a very large turtle -- Bison, as opposed to buffalo -- The Blindman River -- Belonostomus, a pointy-headed fish -- Barnum Brown, fossil hunter -- Burbank, Alberta -- Calgary and the things that lay beneath it -- Extinct camels -- The Canadian shield -- Centrosaurus, a herding horned dinosaur -- Champsosaurus, a kind of non-crocodile -- Chasmosaurus, a short-horned dinosaur -- North American cheetahs -- The Bow Valley at Cochrane -- Cretaceous lizards -- Alberta's crocodilians -- Dawn redwood trees -- Devil's Coulee and its dinosaur nests -- Didelphodon, a sort of primitive possum -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Dromaeosaurus, a snappy little raptor -- The Drumheller Badlands -- Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park -- Dunkleosteus, a very scary fish -- Edmonton, a modest sort of dinosaur graveyard -- Edmontosaurus, Edmonton's duck-billed dinosaur -- Edmontonia, Edmonton's other dinosaur -- Feathered dinosaurs -- Fossil frogs -- Gar, the fish -- Horn corals -- How do you know where to dig? -- Hypacrosaurus, less than the ultimate dinosaur -- The Kleskun Hills -- Lambeosaurus, Lambe's dinosaur -- Leptoceratops, a hornless horned dinosaur -- Alberta's lions -- Lundbreck Falls and the black beauty -- Mammoths and mastodons -- The Milk River -- Mosasaurs, the giant marine lizards -- Multituberculates, common but extinct mammals -- Myledaphus, a guitar fish -- New fossil names -- The oil sands -- Ornithomimids, the bird mimics -- Pachyrhinosaurus, the thick-nosed dinosaur -- Palaeontology in Alberta -- Pantodonts, giant Palaeocene mammals -- Parasaurolophus, a long-headed duck-bill -- Parksosaurus, Park's dinosaur -- The world's oldest pike -- Plants of the ornithomimid quarry -- Plesiadapis, a weird early primate -- Plesiosaurs, the sea serpents of the Mesozoic -- "Primitive" plants -- Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles -- Fossil salamanders -- Sandy Point -- Saurornitholestes, a raptor -- Short-faced bear -- Since the Ice Age -- Snakes of the dinosaur times -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Stegoceras -- The Sternberg family -- Sedimentology, the science of sediments -- Sturgeon, a living fossil fish -- Styracosaurus, a classic Alberta dinosaur -- Trace fossils -- Troodon, the "smart" dinosaur -- Triceratops, the three-horned face -- Tyrannosaurus or "T. rex"-- The venomous mammal.

Notes: Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 9780888644817

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 A7d

Collection: Archives Library

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The diva and the rancher the story of Norma Piper and George Pocaterra

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Hamblin, Jennifer and Finch, David

Publisher: Surrey BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 08.1 H17t

Author: Hamblin, Jennifer and Finch, David

Publisher: Surrey BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 320 pages, 22.8cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Biographies; Immigration

Abstract: True historical love story biography orientated in the Canadian Rockies between Norma Piper and George Pocaterra.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library; Signed by authors

ISBN: 9781894765701

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 08.1 H17t

Collection: Archives Library

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Exploring the castle discovering the backbone of the world in Southern Alberta

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2008

Author: Kershaw, Robert

Publisher: Surrey BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 02.6 K47e

Author: Kershaw, Robert

Publisher: Surrey BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 254 pages, 21.5cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rocky Mountains; Southern Alberta; Wildlife; fauna; Flora

Abstract: Descriptive guidebook including local and regional knowledge, some Indigenous knowledge, and routes for exploring including maps and images of the Southern Alberta.

Contents: Shortened Contents: The castle: still a wild place -- The traders and explorers -- The castle today, the castle tomorrow: reimagining and restoring -- The castle's physical presence -- Ecoregions -- Threats facing the castle -- The trail guide

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 9781897522042

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 02.6 K47e

Collection: Archives Library

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First Peoples in Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon

Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre

Call Number: 07.2 M23f

Author: McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon

Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Anthropology; Archaeology

Abstract: Aboriginal issues feature prominently on the Canadian agenda, from land claims agreements to self-government to resource rights, and First Peoples in Canada sets the context for the evolving relationship between Canada and the Aboriginal communities whitin its borders. This comprehensive book, widely used as a basic text in universities and colleges, now incorporates a Native perspective with new research from archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and history to tell the story of Aboriginal people from ancient times to the present. Generously illustrated with many maps, drawings and photographs, these pages clearly detail the rich cultures of all First Nations in this country. -- From back cover

Contents: Anthropological research and Aboriginal people ; The Atlantic Provinces ; The Iroquoians of the Eastern woodlands ; The Algonquians of the Eastern woodlands and Eastern Subarctic ; The Plains ; The Plateau ; The Northwest coast ; The Western Subarctic ; The Arctic ; The Metis ; Aboriginal people and Canada: emerging relations

ISBN: 9781553650539

Accession Number: P2022.01

Call Number: 07.2 M23f

Collection: Archives Library

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Flora of Southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1915

Author: Henry, Joseph Kaye

Publisher: Toronto : W. J. Gage & Co., Limited

Call Number: 04.1 H39f

Author: Henry, Joseph Kaye

Publisher: Toronto : W. J. Gage & Co., Limited

Published Date: 1915

Physical Description: 363 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Glossary; British Columbia

Contents: Abbreviations, metric system -- Analytical key to the families -- Tabular analysis -- flora -- glossary -- addenda -- index.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 04.1 H39f

Collection: Archives Library

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Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2003

Author: Wall Kimmerer, Robin

Publisher: Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press

Call Number: 07.2 W14g

Author: Wall Kimmerer, Robin

Publisher: Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press

Published Date: 2003

Physical Description: viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mosses; Indigenous; History; Nature

Abstract: Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world. -- From back cover

ISBN: 0870714996

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 07.2 W14g

Collection: Archives Library

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In praise of Switzerland : being the alps in prose and verse

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1912

Author: Spender, Harold

Publisher: London : Constable and Company Ltd.

Call Number: 05 Sp3i

Author: Spender, Harold

Publisher: London : Constable and Company Ltd.

Published Date: 1912

Physical Description: 291 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Literature; Poetry; History; Fiction

Contents: I. The Alps in admiration -- II. The Alps in description -- III. The Alps in adventure, i. The pioneers, ii. The heroes -- The Alps in tragedy -- The Alps in comedy -- The Alps in history -- The Alps in fiction

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 05 Sp3i

Collection: Archives Library

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John Singer Sargent : figures and landscapes 1874-1882 ; complete paintings. Vol. IV

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine

Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press

Call Number: 06.1 O6j

Author: Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine

Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 446 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Sargent, John Singer; Art

Abstract: With few exceptions, this book illustrates John Singer's paintings in colour including several never published before. Each painting is documented with full provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. The volume also reproduces Sargent's preliminary and related drawings and of comparative works by other artists.

Contents: Models, c. 1874-1880 -- Classical and religious subjects, c. 1874-1879 -- Landscape and architectural studies, c. 1875-1880 -- Brittany and the sea, c. 1874-1879 -- Naples and Capri, 1878 -- Paris, c. 1878-1882 -- Studies after the old masters, c. 1879-1880 -- Spain and El Jaleo, 1879-1882 -- Morocco, 1880 -- Venice, 1880-1882.

Notes: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

ISBN: 9780300117165

Accession Number: 2022.27

Call Number: 06.1 O6j

Collection: Archives Library

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Life and limb : a true story of tragedy and survival against the odds

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Andrew, Jamie

Publisher: London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited

Call Number: 01.2 An2l

Author: Andrew, Jamie

Publisher: London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 306 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Accidents; Survival

Abstract: The weather looked perfect when Jamie Andrew and his closest friend, Jamie Fisher set off to climb the formidable North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999. But a sudden and ferocious storm hit them 10,000 feet up the mountain. They were trapped on a narrow ridge in temperatures of -30C, battered by winds so strong the rescue helicopters could not reach them. After five nightmarish nights doggedly clinging to life, Jamie Andrew was finally rescued; but his friend Jamie Fisher had died beside him on the last night. -- From inside cover

ISBN: 0749950072

Accession Number: P2023.19

Call Number: 01.2 An2l

Collection: Archives Library

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New studies of Canadian folklore

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1904

Author: Beaugrand, H.

Publisher: Montreal : E. M. Renouf

Call Number: 08.1 B38n

Author: Beaugrand, H.

Responsibility: Illustrations by Raoul Barrett

Publisher: Montreal : E. M. Renouf

Published Date: 1904

Physical Description: 130 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Folklore; Canada; Storytelling; Colonialism

Contents: The Goblin Lore of French Canada ; Macloune ; Indian Picture and Symbol Writing ; Legend of the North Pacific

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 08.1 B38n

Collection: Archives Library

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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2005

Author: Fowler, Mick

Publisher: London : Baton Works Publications

Call Number: 01 F83o

Author: Fowler, Mick

Responsibility: Foreword by Chris Bonington

Publisher: London : Baton Works Publications

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 223 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Climbing; Travel; Sports

Abstract: Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, follows Vertical Pleasure (Hodder, 1995). Here the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challending objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes. -- From inside cover

ISBN: 1898573581

Accession Number: P2023.19

Call Number: 01 F83o

Collection: Archives Library

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Proud heritage : people and progress in early Canadian geoscience

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada

Call Number: 03.1 M26p

Responsibility: Edited by R. W. Macqueen

Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 217 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology; Geoscience; Science

Abstract: Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience is a collection of articles from Geoscience Canada and its predecessor, highlighting the people and events which helped shape our geoscience history. -- From back cover

Contents: Partial content topics: Early geological contributors -- Geological pioneers, 19th century -- Geological leaders, 19th and 20th centuries -- Geological leaders, 20th century -- Early geological studies -- Short biographies

ISBN: 919216943

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03.1 M26p

Collection: Archives Library

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Rich men's children

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1906

Author: Bonner, Geraldine

Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap

Call Number: 05.2 b64r

Author: Bonner, Geraldine

Responsibility: With Illustrations by C. M. Relyea

Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap

Published Date: 1906

Physical Description: 492 pages : ill. ; 20 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Abstract: Bernice Iverson is a she-devil who runs away from her husband to San Francisco where she begins work in a business office. There she meets Dominick Ryan, a rich young man, whom she seduces and marries. When she proves unable to force her way into the rich social circle in which the Ryan's belong, she becomes infuriated and reveals her true character. Horrified, Dominick flees San Francisco in the depth of winter and goes to a mountain hotel. On the way. he encounters a terrible snow storm and is overcome by the cold. He is rescued by a volunteer search party and is carried to the hotel where he is nursed back to health by Rose, the beautiful daughter of old Bill Canon, who soon falls in love with Dominick. The story concludes in dramatic fashion as Bernice tries to manipulate the situation while Dominick struggles to free himself from her so he can marry Rose.