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The Alpine Club of Canada : list of members, 1965
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20152
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1965?
- Author
- The Alpine Club of Canada
- Publisher
- The Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- 08.1 Al1t Pam
- Author
- The Alpine Club of Canada
- Publisher
- The Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 1965?
- Physical Description
- 32 pages.
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Alpine Club of Canada’s list of members for the year 1965.
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.1 Al1t Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Camera West : British Columbia on film, 1941-1965, including new information on films produced before 1941
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12332
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1986
- Author
- Duffy, Dennis J
- Publisher
- Victoria : Provincial Archives of British Columbia
- Call Number
- R 06 D87
- Author
- Duffy, Dennis J
- Publisher
- Victoria : Provincial Archives of British Columbia
- Published Date
- c1986
- Physical Description
- ix, 318p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Bedaux Expedition
- Film making
- Hinman, Caroline
- Munday, Phyllis
- Oliver, W.J
- Round, William E
- Notes
- Supplements: Motion picture production in British Columbia : 1898-1940 / by Colin Browne
- Includes index
- ISBN
- 0771884796
- Call Number
- R 06 D87
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- prior to 1984
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1057
- Description
- Don't step on flowers crest, circular patch (6.1 in diameter) with a picture of a brown boot stepping on red flowers. Across this central picture is a red slash symbolizing keep off the flowers. A red border around the circumference.
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- Title
- Club Crest
- Date
- prior to 1984
- Material
- fibre
- Description
- Don't step on flowers crest, circular patch (6.1 in diameter) with a picture of a brown boot stepping on red flowers. Across this central picture is a red slash symbolizing keep off the flowers. A red border around the circumference.
- Credit
- Gift of Lake O’Hara Trails Club, Lake Louise, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1057
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Commemorative Plaque
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- Date
- 1981
- Material
- plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1155
- Description
- Grey plastic commemorative plaque with mounting holes each corner. "LAWRENCE GRASSI Mountaineer. guide. pioneer. trail builder. miner. and friend of all mountain travellers. BORN - Falmenta. Italy. December 20. 1890 DIED - Canmore. Alberta. February 5. 1980. Construction of this mountain hut was m…
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- Title
- Commemorative Plaque
- Date
- 1981
- Material
- plastic
- Dimensions
- 21.6 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Grey plastic commemorative plaque with mounting holes each corner. "LAWRENCE GRASSI Mountaineer. guide. pioneer. trail builder. miner. and friend of all mountain travellers. BORN - Falmenta. Italy. December 20. 1890 DIED - Canmore. Alberta. February 5. 1980. Construction of this mountain hut was made possible by: Lawrence Grassi - Canmore Alberta and the generosity of the Hayes family of Portland. Oregon: Edmund Hayes. Senior Former President. Canmore Mines Ltd. Edmund Hayes. Junior Frederick W. Hayes Philip S. Hayes. DEDICATED AUGUST. 1981"
- Subject
- Lawrence Grassi
- Alpine Club of Canada
- ACC
- Credit
- Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1155
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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
- 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
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Membership Patch
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- Date
- 1980 – 1983
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1097
- Description
- Triangularly shaped felt patch "Lake O'Hara Trails Club" in dark blue lettering along bottom of patch on a white background. Mountain scene located above lettering completing triangular design. Light blue river, green foreground, white mountains, dark blue sky with a white outer border.
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- Title
- Membership Patch
- Date
- 1980 – 1983
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 5.4 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- Triangularly shaped felt patch "Lake O'Hara Trails Club" in dark blue lettering along bottom of patch on a white background. Mountain scene located above lettering completing triangular design. Light blue river, green foreground, white mountains, dark blue sky with a white outer border.
- Subject
- sports
- hiking
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club
- Credit
- Gift of Lake O’Hara Trails Club, Lake Louise, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1097
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- Date
- 1960 – 1965
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1062 a,b
- Description
- Two "Banff Winter Club" pins, snowflakes on blue, triangular shaped. White snowflake trimmed in gold colour on blue triangle. "Banff Winter Club" in gold coloured letters on a white triangular border, blue next, gold last. (a) and (b) are identical.
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- Title
- Membership Pin
- Date
- 1960 – 1965
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 2.7 x 2.7 cm
- Description
- Two "Banff Winter Club" pins, snowflakes on blue, triangular shaped. White snowflake trimmed in gold colour on blue triangle. "Banff Winter Club" in gold coloured letters on a white triangular border, blue next, gold last. (a) and (b) are identical.
- Credit
- Gift of Audrey Campbell, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1062 a,b
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Membership Pin
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- Date
- 1963
- Material
- metal; enamel
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1217
- Description
- A circular Alpine Club Mountain Guide pin with a forest-green, enamel maple leaf centred on the pin face, edged in silver and with the letters “ACMG” in silver. The outer rim of the pin is a coiled climbing rope encircling it three times; at the bottom is a red enamel curved bar edged in silver wit…
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- Title
- Membership Pin
- Date
- 1963
- Material
- metal; enamel
- Dimensions
- 37/8 cm
- Description
- A circular Alpine Club Mountain Guide pin with a forest-green, enamel maple leaf centred on the pin face, edged in silver and with the letters “ACMG” in silver. The outer rim of the pin is a coiled climbing rope encircling it three times; at the bottom is a red enamel curved bar edged in silver with “MOUNTAIN” on top and “GUIDE” below in silver. The stylized cut-out maple leaf has a flat one-dimensional pair of skis crossed with an ice axe underneath. Both extend onto the coiled rope rim. Stamped on the back of the pin at the centre and under the pin set is the number “27” and something indecipherable beneath. There is one horizontal long-hinged pin soldered on the back that is rivetted at one end and fastens at the other end (bottom) with a swivel-locking safety clasp.
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Gmoser, Harvie Heights, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1217
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Membership Pin
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- Date
- prior to 1986
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1105
- Description
- Two rings, red and blue, are together with snow capped mountains inside the double circle. On the red is "Banff" and on the blue is "Figure". Lower and in front of this is a solid white circle with a jumping figure skater in the middle and "Skating Club" along bottom rim. housed in green decorat…
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- Title
- Membership Pin
- Date
- prior to 1986
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 2.7 x 2.5 cm
- Description
- Two rings, red and blue, are together with snow capped mountains inside the double circle. On the red is "Banff" and on the blue is "Figure". Lower and in front of this is a solid white circle with a jumping figure skater in the middle and "Skating Club" along bottom rim. housed in green decorative box.
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Figure Skating Association, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1105
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- Date
- prior to 1982
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.1005
- Description
- Mexican flag with 3 colour panels - green, white and red. Centre white panel has the Mexican symbol 16.5 dia. centered, brown eagle with snake in mouth, 3 green loops at left side 11.0x1.5. Label sewn on hem "Equipos Miltares Le Principal Sa."
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- Title
- Mexican Flag
- Date
- prior to 1982
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 51.0 x 75.0 cm
- Description
- Mexican flag with 3 colour panels - green, white and red. Centre white panel has the Mexican symbol 16.5 dia. centered, brown eagle with snake in mouth, 3 green loops at left side 11.0x1.5. Label sewn on hem "Equipos Miltares Le Principal Sa."
- Credit
- Gift of Bruno Engler, Harvie Heights, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.1005
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