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Abstract: This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book; Chapter 2: Paper birds; Chapter 3: Containing nature; Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany; Chapter 5: Orchids for the few; Epilogue; Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition

ISBN: 9780772761262

Accession Number: 2021.07

Call Number: 04 Z1n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publishers website

Websites

https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/nature-page-print-and-manuscript-culture-victorian-natural-history-0

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O'Hara : stories of a beloved landscape and the people who have shaped it

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19820

Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: May 2019

Author: Ward, Meghan J.

Publisher: Crowfoot Media

Call Number: P

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Author: Ward, Meghan J.

Publisher: Crowfoot Media

Published Date: May 2019

Physical Description: p.66-75

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Lake O'Hara; Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp; Lake O'Hara Lodge; Lake O'Hara region; Lake O'Hara Trails Club; Alpine Club of Canada; History; Elizabeth Parker Hut; Abbot Pass Hut; Hiking; Conservation

Abstract: Pertains to the Lake O'Hara area including the history of its "discovery", creation of trail systems, Alpine Club of Canada activities, lodges, huts and access parameters. Includes many images from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library.

Notes: In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual

Websites

https://crowfootmedia.com/canadian-rockies-annual/

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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25269

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

Published Date: 2012

Author: Forkey, Neil S.

Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 04 F74c

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Author: Forkey, Neil S.

Responsibility: Neil S. Forkey

Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 157 pages

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

Subjects: Ecology; Politics; History; Canada; Environment; Environmental conservation

Abstract: Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history (from publisher's website)

Contents: Introduction -- The classification of Canada's environments (1600s to early 1900s) -- Natural resources, economic growth, and the need for conservation (1800s and 1900s) -- Romanticism and the preservation of nature (1800s and 1900s) -- Environmentalism (1950s to 2000s) -- Aboriginal Canadians and natural resources : an overview -- Conclusion.

ISBN: 9780802090225

Accession Number: P2020.08

Call Number: 04 F74c

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://utorontopress.com/ca/canadians-and-the-natural-environment-to-the-twenty-first-century-4

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Dark days at noon : the future of fire

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26239

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

Published Date: 2022

Author: Struzik, Edward

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 04 St8d

Author: Struzik, Edward

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: ix, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 27 cm

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

Subjects: Canada; Environment; Climate change; Climate; Politics; History; History-Canada; Fire ecology

Abstract: The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires--intentionally or unintentionally--fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of political urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management, and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly. By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction -- 1. Prelude to the dark days at noon -- 2. The fire triangle -- 3. More dark days coming -- 4. The big burn -- 5. Big burns in Canada -- 6. Paiute forestry -- 7. Fire suppression -- 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 9. Canada's Conservation Corps -- 10. The fall of the Dominion Forest Service -- 11. The royal commission into wildfire -- 12. White man's fire -- 13. International co-operation -- 14. Blue moon and blue sun -- 15. Nuclear winter -- 16. Yellowstone: A turning point -- 17. Big and small grizzlies -- 18. Climate and the age of megafire -- 19. The holy shit fire -- 20. The Pyrocene -- 21. Nuclear winter: Part two -- 22. Owls and clear-cuts -- 23. Water on fire -- 24. The Arctic on fire -- 25. The big smoke -- 26. Fire news -- Conclusion.

ISBN: 9780228012092

Accession Number: P2024.02

Call Number: 04 St8d

Collection: Archives Library

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