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- Part Of
- Gordon Burles fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem.…
- Date Range
- 1970-2017, 2022
- Reference Code
- M196 / V103
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Machine-readable data file
- Private record
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Gordon Burles fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 196
- V 103
- Sous-Fonds
- M 196
- V 103
- Accession Number
- 1199, 1367, 1414, 1674, 2061, 2212, 2239, 2890, 3233, 3769, 3874, 5526, 5689, 5903, 6347, 6487, 6927,7215, 7483, 7486, 7612
- Reference Code
- M196 / V103
- Date Range
- 1970-2017, 2022
- Physical Description
- ca. 36.5 cm textual records + 9 CD-R (textual records). -- 7 photographs : prints, negatives.
- History / Biographical
- James Gordon Burles, b.1949, is a poet, surveyor and civil servant at Banff, Alberta, Canada. A native of Banff, Burles is a student of the Canadian Rockies. In Burles' own words, much of his poetry is inspired by four environments: the life and history of Banff National Park, the town of Banff, the Okanagan Valley, and Calgary.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem. Some poems pertain to mountain personalities such as Bill Peyto, Norman Sanson, Margaret Stone, Walter D. Wilcox, Walter J. Phillips, Conrad Kain, and Georgia Engelhard. Many are surrealist or nonsense poems and many deal with the Cemetery Tea House, an imaginary teahouse frequented by various characters.
- Fonds consists of three series: I : Poetry Manuscripts; II : Prose and research; III: Digital typeset copies of published poems
- Some poems deal with Burle's parents and family. The collection also holds fifty-three books and booklets, self-published by the author from 1984 to 2017. The books published from 2003 to 2017 contain all the poems which the author considers worth preserving. Some in one book have been revised in a later book. Some poems were revised more than once. The three books published in 1984, 1986, and 1990 are considered by the author as early works. Only the poems in those books that the author considered worth publishing have been republished in the 2003-2017 books. Names in the poem titles are usually made up.
- Some titles are tongue-in-cheek. There were so many poems that the author resorted to names like "Portrait for Bertrand Clerihew-Guggenheim" to make it easier. Some titles, of course, are obviously connected to the content of the poem. Many titles were long enough to preclude the difficulty of getting the graphic designer to centre the title over the poem! Also included are manuscripts, research materials, articles, and notes etc. regarding Bill Peyto, the Copper Mountain Mine, Banff National Park museum, logging roads in the Johnson Lake area, and the Sanson-Bethune connection.
- Photographs pertain to remains of hay rake and wagon in the Third Vermilion Lake area (1975) and remains of the Queen of the Hills Mine, above Silver City (1977).
- CD-ROMS's contain typeset copies of manuscripts by Gordon Burles in Pagemaker, In Design and .pdf file formats. Manuscripts include "The Jagged Harmony," 2005, "An Avenue Without End," 2005, "That Perfect Elsewhere," n.d., "Much Like A Dream," 2004, "All the Universe of Sight," 2006, "Those Grand Poplars," 2004, "Lords of Many Orchards: Selected Best Poems of Gordon Burles," 2003, "That trellis of tombs: Further Selected Poems of Gordon Burles," 2004, "The Closing of Many Doors: More Poems by Gordon Burles," 2006.
- II : Prose and research includes "Life story of James Gordon Burles," 2022
- Notes
- Books of poetry published by Gordon Burles are located in the Whyte Museum Archives Library 05.1/B92. In 2018 Gordon Burles compiled a listing of the original poems that were edited and re-published. This list is in the M196 document file, and is also a PDF attached to the fonds level record
- Name Access
- Burles, Gordon
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: file level descriptions with inventory
- Creator
- Burles, Gordon
- Category
- Arts
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
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The glory in a fossil: new poems and old favourites
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15314
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2008 April PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 16p
- Notes
- Contents: Incident for Katherine (p. 3); A portrait for Mariko and Natsuko (p.3); Tableau for Annalee Westheim (p.4); Portrait for Garrison Upham (p.5); Portrait for Kristelle Dejeune (p. 6); Noctuary for Lazenby Horton (p. 6); Penultimate Tableau for Kristelle (p. 7); Poem dedicated to Helen Wells (p.7); Tableau for Etherspear Wugbyson (p.10); Noctuary for Lousandra Ellerton (p. 10); Nocturne for Amanda (reprint) (p. 11); At the Tea House (reprint) (p.12); Portrait for Leonora (reprint) (p.13); Letter to Wallace (reprint) (p. 14); Another portrait for Maria (reprint) (p.15); Summer carnival (reprint) (p. 16)
- Cover: photograph by author in 1979 of fossil coral (Lithostrotionella) near summit of Mount Stoney Squaw
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2008 April PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The adoration of reality : new poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15370
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2014 Jun PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 8p
- Notes
- Contents: Portrait for Lucinda (p.2); Recollection in June (p.3); Vision for Nigel (p.4); Memoir for Denise (p.5); Tableau for Erin (p.6); Toward the adoration of reality (p.7); Memoir for Laetitia (p.8)
- Cover: photograph of (left to right) Bill Ward, Annie Ward, and Kay Ward (the author’s mother) on the summit ridge of Sulphur Mountain about 1920; weather station in background; object above weather station is dirt on photo
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2014 Jun PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The adventures of a mountaineer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2437
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1940
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Dent
- Call Number
- G510 S619 1940
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Dent
- Published Date
- 1940
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- G510 S619 1940
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Again Switzerland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2438
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1947
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Call Number
- DQ823 S619 1947
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Published Date
- 1947
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ823 S619 1947
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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All the universe of sight : more poems by Gordon Burles
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2006 April PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 30p
- Notes
- Contents: (one copy signed by author); Portrait of old age (revision of poem previously titled “Portrait for Sandra) (p.1); I’ll call the surveyor tomorrow (revision)(p.2); Noctuary for Helena Saddington (revision) (p.3); August at the Cemetery Tea House (p.4); After the holiday(for Jenna)(p.5); A portrait for Victoria (p.5); Noctuary for Jacobson Penner (p.6); Metropolis (for Leanna)(p.6); Noctuary for Lathom Crittenden (p.7); Noctuary for Lathom Srigley (p.7); Tableau for Nigel Dunn (p.8); Esplanade of divinity (for Gisela) (p.8); Daydream (for Kathleen)(p.9); Ode to Natalie (p.9); Story for Etherspear Ghently (p.10); Noctuary for Hermione Grafton (p.11); Otter Street (for Miranda)(p.11); A lament in March (p.12); The Saturday adventure (p.13); Ode to a sunny day (p.14); Penultimate letter to Kezia Upton (p.14); An incident in early June (p.15); One vernal portrait for Mary (p.16); One more portrait for Bridget Hawthorne (p.17); Another memoir for Nathan (p.18); A noctuary for Andzia (p.19); One portrait for Nigel Westfall (p.19); A portrait for Nigel Westlock (p.20); That old Tyrolean dream (p.21); Carrot Creek (for Jane)(p.22); Tableau in the desert (p.23); Portrait of July for Wallace (p.23); The warning (for Astrid)(p.24); The great trash dump(p.25); Ah, when I was young (p.26); The things that are no more (revision)(p.26); Another noctuary in memory of her (revision)(p.27); Tableau for Jessop Dunn-Easton (p.28); Experience in November (for Kazimiera)(p.28); Last narrative for Lilia (p.29); Autumn vision (for Nathaniel)(p.29); Not long after her funeral (p.30)
- Cover: photograph by author looking south from Mount Thompson in evening in 1979; Mount Hector in distance on left; Margo McTaggart standing on other peak of Thompson on right
- Accession Number
- 7629 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2006 April PAM
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- Archives Library
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Alpine journey
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1934
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Gollancz
- Call Number
- DQ823 S619 1934
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Gollancz
- Published Date
- 1934
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ823 S619 1934
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1942
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Black
- Call Number
- DQ823 S619 1942
- Author
- Smythe, Francis Sydney
- Publisher
- London : Black
- Published Date
- 1942
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ823 S619 1942
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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An ammonite amid flowers : new poems and old favourites
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15321
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2009 June PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 12p
- Notes
- Contents: End of a love affair (p.3); Poem in spring for Lucinda Mayhope (p.3);Meditation in spring (p.4); Incident in late May (p.5); We are etched upon darkness (p.6); A Banff moment (p.7); Memoir for Kathleen and Mary (reprint) (p.8); Some kind of Saturday (reprint) (p.9); Another portrait for Pat (reprint) (p.10); Nocturne for Kathleen (reprint) (p.11); Noctuary for Kathleen (reprint) (p.12)
- Cover: photograph by author of Triassic ammonite in flower bed at home of Kenneth Bunn in Banff
- Accession Number
- 2015.8397 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2009 June PAM
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- Archives Library
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An avenue without end : more poems by Gordon Burles
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2005 Oct PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff : Gordon Burles
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 32p
- Notes
- Contents: (one copy signed by author); Incident for Jennifer Weston (p.3); A portrait in June (p.4); One portrait for Basil Roehampton-Northrup (p.5); Adventure for Natalia Von Humboldt (p.6); Sermon for Leander Oldstone (p.7); Tableau for Natalie Westbrook-Wassermann (p.7); Noctuary for Wyndham Saddington (p.8); Portrait of summer for Adrian (p.8); Portrait for Elmira Bracebridge (p.9); Tableau for Littleton Sundergaard (p.10); Portrait for Halliwell Dunn (p.10); Letter to Eleanor de Vavenarches (p.11); Noctuary for Ada Westfall (p.12); Portrait of a June morning (p.12); The elderly alpinist (p.13); Tableau for Ilya Gunning (p.14); Poem for householder (p.14); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (p.15); September dialogue (revision)(p.15); Tableau for Sandeman Westbrook (p.16); Another reckoning (p.16); One portrait for Lorna (revision)(p.17); The Cave and Basin (p.18); Long ago (for John) (p.18); Darkling meditation (p.19); One more narrative for Pelagia Sunderland (p.19); Larch Valley (for Judd) (p.20); Valencian interlude (p.21); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.22); Life in three-quarter time (p.23); Noctuary for Alma Tidswell (p.24); Noctuary for Melinda Dunn (p.25); Tableau for Jackson Weston-Murtha (p.25); Plato’s last night-dream (p.26); Memoir for Jacob Boulton-Smith (p.26); Crossing that pass (p.27); Stewart Canyon adventure (p.28); Another portrait for Eva (revision) (p.29); Tableau for Jason, Greg and Wellington (p.30); Tableau for Jack Dunn-Bridgeman (p.31); The second portrait for Miyuki (p.32)
- Cover: photograph by author of lane joining Otter street and Muskrat St. in 100 block; looking west from Otter street
- Accession Number
- 7612 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 2005 Oct PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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