objectType:"Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)" found 5 records - Research Collections

Abstract: Pertains to the Canadian Rocky Mountains as a tourist destination in 1947 and features main geographical attractions such as the Mount Rundle, Athabaska River, Maligne Lake, Bow River in addition to the Banff Springs Hotel with map of Banff National Park and Jasper National Park.

Notes: In Life, June 9, 1947, pp. 68 - 76

Accession Number: 7889

Call Number: 02.6 L11c PAM OS

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Specific volume with article can be viewed online via Google Books

Websites

https://books.google.ca/books?id=TFcEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925

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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

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

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

Websites

http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198232200/The-Great-Glacier-and-Its-House

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Life goes to Jasper Park in the Canadian Rockies : farthest north resort is tops in scenery

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

Published Date: 1940

Publisher: Life

Call Number: 02.6 L11l PAM O.S.

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Publisher: Life

Published Date: 1940

Physical Description: 84 pages

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

Subjects: Jasper; Jasper National Park; Travel; Tourism; Labour; Edith Cavell, Mount; Hotels; Mountain guides; Hot springs; Skiing; Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies; Postal services

Abstract: Pertains to the summer labour in Japser National Park during 1940 and the types of activities and amenities available for staff and tourists.

Notes: In Life, Vol. 9, No. 9, August 26, 1940, pp. 76 - 79

Accession Number: 7889

Call Number: 02.6 L11l PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Specific volume with article can be viewed online via Google Books

Websites

https://books.google.ca/books?id=iEkEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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A new path in the mountains : Bearspaw, Chininki, Wesley

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

Published Date: 1986

Author: Stoney Tribal Administration

Publisher: Stoney Creek, Alta. : Stoney Tribal Administration

Call Number: 07.2 St7n

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Author: Stoney Tribal Administration

Publisher: Stoney Creek, Alta. : Stoney Tribal Administration

Published Date: 1986

Physical Description: 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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

Subjects: First Nations; Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians); Stoney Tribal Administration Centre (Morley)

Abstract: Pertains to the 1986 publication outlining the programs planned to be implemented in an effort to address the specific needs of the Stoney Indigenous People. Upon the implementation of natural gas on reserves, half of the revenue was split among their people, while the other half was used for program development. The areas to be addressed were as follows, education, land purchases, human services, housing, business enterprises in the community, recreation, culture and the Sacred Fire. The publication describes the ways in which the Stoney Tribal Administration hopes to better each area of concern, and implement programs to better the lives of Stoney People.

Notes: Cover title reads: "A Financial Report to Stoney members on Major Expenditures 1976 - 1985"

Accession Number: 2019.71

Call Number: 07.2 St7n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: The URL is linked to the Stoney Tribal Administration webpage where more current information on local initiatives and program development may be available.

Websites

http://www.stoneynation.com/

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Stoney Country

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

Published Date: 1981

Author: photography by Warren Harbeck, Gerald Kaquitts, Tom Snow ; [editor, Warren Harbeck].

Publisher: [Morley, Alberta?] : Stoney Tribe, Dept. of Communication

Edition: 2nd ed. (rev).

Call Number: 07.2 St7st

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Author: photography by Warren Harbeck, Gerald Kaquitts, Tom Snow ; [editor, Warren Harbeck].

Edition: 2nd ed. (rev).

Publisher: [Morley, Alberta?] : Stoney Tribe, Dept. of Communication

Published Date: 1981

Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 21 x 27 cm

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

Subjects: Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians); Pictorial works

Abstract: Pertains to a collection of pictorial works that have been published by the Stoney Tribe in an effort to thank their Creator, as well as honor the joining of old and new tradition. The publication was created using photographs in an effort to show culture, rather than tell of it. The book gives thanks to the Creator, while also representing Indigenous culture as old tradition, and new technology meet. The publication serves as a visual record of Indigenous culture, history and tradition.

Accession Number: 2019.71

Call Number: 07.2 St7st

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: URL is linked to the official website of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation Tribal Administration webpage

Websites

http://www.stoneynation.com/

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