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Alberta mammals : an atlas and guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26453
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- Author
- Smith, Hugh C.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alta. : Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Call Number
- 04.2 S5a
- Author
- Smith, Hugh C.
- Responsibility
- contributions by Hastings, Ross I. and Burns, James A.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alta. : Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Published Date
- 1993
- Physical Description
- xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Subjects
- Animals
- Animal populations
- fauna
- Mammals
- Contents
- Zoogeography of Alberta mammals -- Species accounts -- Key to the order of mammals found in Alberta -- Order : Insectivora -- Order : Chiroptera -- Order : Lagomorpha -- Order : Rodentia -- Order : Carnivora -- Order : Artiodactyla -- Domestic mammals.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0773210733
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.2 S5a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Album, Canadian and American Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56762
- Part Of
- Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album compiled by Molly Wright Adams containing ca.107 photographs. Images pertain to Molly's travels in the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1904.
- Date Range
- 1904
- Reference Code
- V777 / II / PD - 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Part Of
- Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M555
- V777
- Series
- V777 / II : Personal and collected records
- Sous-Fonds
- V777
- Accession Number
- 2018.8685
- Reference Code
- V777 / II / PD - 1
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Responsibility
- Produced by Molly W. Adams
- Date Range
- 1904
- Physical Description
- 1 photo album (ca. 107 photographs : b&w prints)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album compiled by Molly Wright Adams containing ca.107 photographs. Images pertain to Molly's travels in the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1904.
- Notes
- Some pages include annotations below photographs
- Name Access
- Adams, Molly
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Mountains
- Landscape
- Travel
- Exploration
- Environment
- Recreation
- Hiking
- Geographic Access
- United States of America
- Rocky Mountains
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Access Restrictions
- Materials in file are fragile - handle with caution
- Language
- N/A
- Conservation
- Pages interleaved with acid-free issue paper in 2018
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Alice's adventures in wonderland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26667
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1916]
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Publisher
- New York : Hodder & Stoughton
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 05.2 C23a
- Author
- Carroll, Lewis
- Responsibility
- illustrated in colour by A.E. Jackson
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- New York : Hodder & Stoughton
- Published Date
- [1916]
- Subjects
- Juvenile literature
- Notes
- Owned by Edmee Moore
- Accession Number
- 2024.56
- Call Number
- 05.2 C23a
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- Archives Library
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All about babies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25558
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1963
- Author
- Coleman, H. T. J.
- Publisher
- Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
- Call Number
- 05.1 C68a
- Author
- Coleman, H. T. J.
- Responsibility
- Cover and illustrations E. Downing Baker
- Publisher
- Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- 57 pages
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Literature
- Abstract
- A collection of childrens stories detailing a variety of animals as babies.
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 05.1 C68a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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All that glitters : a climber's journey through addiction and depression
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25498
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Talbot, Margo
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.4 T14a c.1
- 01.4 T14a c.2
- 01.4 T14a c.3
- Author
- Talbot, Margo
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 186 pages
- Subjects
- Biography
- Talbot, Margo
- Abstract
- Born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Margo Talbot grew up with a distant mother who “ruled the household with her eyes”; a father who opted to spend much of his time away from home; and four siblings struggling to deal with their particular domestic situation. As a result of her family’s dysfunction and her own growing mental illness, young Margo rarely smiled, had difficulty connecting with others, and was plagued with a black wave of anger and sadness that overshadowed much of the world around her. In time, drugs, alcohol, sex, and violence became her primary ways to connect with herself and others. From the depths of suicidal depression and a conversation with Death, Talbot eventually found solace and redemption in both the healing power of nature and the glory of climbing frozen landscapes in some of the world’s most pristine and challenging environments. Heartbreaking, honest, energizing, and inspiring All That Glitters is a remarkable memoir that shines a fresh light of hope on mental illness.-- From back cover
- ISBN
- 9781771604338
- Accession Number
- 70,000 12-07-16
- P2015-03-31
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01.4 T14a c.1
- 01.4 T14a c.2
- 01.4 T14a c.3
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- Archives Library
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All that the rain promises, and more ... : a hip pocket guide to Western mushrooms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26375
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- Author
- Arora, David
- Publisher
- Berkeley : Ten Speed Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 A6a
- Author
- Arora, David
- Publisher
- Berkeley : Ten Speed Press
- Published Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- xxii, 259 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
- Abstract
- "Mushrooms appeal to all kinds of people ...and so will this handy pocket guide. Over 200 edible and poisonous mushrooms are depicted with simple checklists of their identifying features, as author David Arora celebrates the fun in fungi with the same engaging blend of wit and wisdom, fact and fancy, that has made his comprehensive guide, Mushrooms Demystified, the mushroom hunter's bible." -- back cover
- Contents
- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Format and terminology -- Spore color and spore prints --Collecting gear -- Seasonal occurrence -- Eating mushrooms -- Medicinal mushrooms --Consciousness-altering mushrooms -- Poisonous mushrooms -- Growing mushrooms at home -- Dyeing with mushrooms -- Mushrooms and kids -- Chanterelles -- Milk caps and Russulas -- Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms without a ring -- Amanita -- Miscellaneous light-spored gilled mushrooms with a ring -- Agaricus -- Miscellaneous dark-spored gilled mushrooms -- Boletes -- Polypores -- Teeth fungi -- Coral and club fungi -- Puffballs and earthstars -- Morels and false morels -- Other mushrooms -- Toward a mushroom hunting ethic -- Checklist and index to common names -- Index to scientific names -- Photo credits and acknowledgments.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0898153883
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 A6a
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- Archives Library
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All the birds of North America : American bird conservancy's field guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26403
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1997
- Author
- Griggs, Jack E.
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : HarperPerennial
- Call Number
- 04.2 G88a
- Author
- Griggs, Jack E.
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : HarperPerennial
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 172 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Birds
- North America
- Abstract
- A field guide to North American birds presents an identification method that uses panoramic illustrations, range maps, and an organization system based on habitat and characteristics. - Aurora
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0062730282
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.2 G88a
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All the knots you need : an illustrated guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26335
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1999
- Author
- Lee, R.S.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Algrove Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.7 L51a
- Author
- Lee, R.S.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Algrove Publishing
- Published Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 84, A20, I4 p. : ill. ; 23.5 cm
- Subjects
- Climbing
- Abstract
- An illustrated step by step guide to a variety of knots for various purposes as decribed by Bob Lee.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0921335474
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.7 L51a
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Aloft : Canadian Rockies aerial photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25493
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Zizka, Paul
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 Z7a
- Author
- Zizka, Paul
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Abstract
- An astounding, unique collection of some of the most stunning mountain landscapes in North America. There is a reason why the Canadian Rockies are some of the most photographed mountains in the world. Rugged peaks encircle glacier-fed lakes, rise up like protective walls around tree-filled valleys, and offer a stunning backdrop to open alpine meadows. They have been photographed from the valley bottoms, from the shores of famous lakes, and from the summits of prominent peaks. They are accessible by vehicle, boat, gondola, skis and hiking boots. But a lucky few have photographed the Rockies from the air. In the most comprehensive collection of aerial photos to date, Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photography by Paul Zizka gives the reader a unique bird's-eye view of this prized mountain range. From vast glaciers to winding rivers, animal overpasses to lakes that look like brilliant spills of turquoise paint on the landscape, these images provide a rare look at mountains that are as grandiose from the skies as they are from their better-known vantage points.
- ISBN
- 9781771603973
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 06.4 Z7a
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alpen Club der Tiere (The animals' alpine club)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26534
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Bingham, Graham Clifton
- Publisher
- AS Verlag
- Call Number
- 05.1 B47d
- Author
- Bingham, Graham Clifton
- Responsibility
- illustrated by G. H. Thompson -- translated by Wiener, D. -- Nister, Ernest
- Publisher
- AS Verlag
- Published Date
- 2018
- Series
- The Animals series
- Notes
- German Language copy. Facsmile reproduction of book originally published by London : Ernest Nister; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co.No., [ca. 1910]. The reproduction is from the book held in the Alpine Club of Canada Library, inscribed: "Paul A. W. Wallace Toronto Dec. 25, 1913 From S. H. Mitchell". This book was described as Conrad Kain's favourite book in Chapter 10 of the book "Where the Clouds Can Go" by Conrad Kain, and edited by J. Monroe Thorington. (?),. The archives produced a reproduction (with images) from a first ed. copy of 'Animals' Alpine Club', a book in The Animals series, and a favourite of Conrad Kain of the ACC. These children's books are very rare and we are working to build a collection of them for conservation and to allow the stories to be preserved. See 05.1 B47a.
- ISBN
- 9783906055862
- Accession Number
- P2024.04
- Call Number
- 05.1 B47d
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- Archives Library
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The alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries : a pedestrian's noteson their physical features, scenery, and natural history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26161
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1896
- Author
- Bonney, T. G.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.2 B64a
- Author
- Bonney, T. G.
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by E. Whymper
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
- Published Date
- 1896
- Physical Description
- 351 pages ; 15 ill. ; 5 plates
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Geology
- Italy
- Glaciers
- Animals
- Avalanches
- Botany
- Folklore
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.2 B64a
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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26251
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- 269 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Climbing
- Himalaya Mountains
- Sherpa
- Sherpa-history
- Nepal
- Abstract
- The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781680515787
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- 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
- Subjects
- Exploration
- Switzerland
- Art
- Travel
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.2 M36a
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- Archives Library
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Amakula Kampala International Film Festival 2007
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26560
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Call Number
- 06.4 K13a
- Responsibility
- Kampala Uganda : Amakula Kampala Cultural Foundation
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 310 pages, 24cm
- Subjects
- Photography
- Uganda
- Banff
- Children
- Abstract
- 4th annual film festival 'Travel Transit'
- Notes
- See pages marked with post cards, 264-265, 294-295 for information about Banff and the 'Through the lens' programme at the Whyte Museum where local teenagers learn and display photography; the archives continues this tradition with displays in the reading room.
- Accession Number
- M124
- Call Number
- 06.4 K13a
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Amazing stories great railways of the Canadian West building the dream that shaped our nation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26286
- 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
- 02.6 P76a Copy 2
- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Publisher
- Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 144 pages, 21.5cm
- 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
- 2024.48
- Call Number
- 02.6 P76a
- 02.6 P76a Copy 2
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American natural history. : Vol. I[-III]. Part I.--Mastology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26656
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1831
- Author
- Godman, John D.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: : Key and Mielkie [i.e. Mielke], no. 181, Market Street.
- Edition
- 2nd
- Call Number
- 04.2 G54a
- Author
- Godman, John D.
- Edition
- 2nd
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: : Key and Mielkie [i.e. Mielke], no. 181, Market Street.
- Published Date
- 1831
- Accession Number
- 2024.56
- Call Number
- 04.2 G54a
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The American Western in Canadian literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25703
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Deshaye, Joel
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 D45t
- Author
- Deshaye, Joel
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
- Abstract
- The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.
- ISBN
- 9781773852676
- Accession Number
- P2023.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 D45t
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The amphibians and reptiles of Alberta : a field guide and primer of boreal herpetology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26350
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- Author
- Russell, Anthony Patrick and Bauer, Aaron Matthew
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 04.2 R91a
- Responsibility
- Photographs by Lynch, Wayne and illustrations by McKinnon, Irene
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 1993
- Physical Description
- x, 264 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Amphibians
- Reptiles
- Frog
- Alberta
- Wildlife
- Wildlife corridors
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 1895176204
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.2 R91a
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The amphibians of British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26349
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Green, David M. and Campbell, Wayne R.
- Publisher
- Victoria British Columbia : Provincial Museum
- Call Number
- 04.2 G82t
- Responsibility
- illustrated by Keith Taylor and Brigitta M. Van Der Raay
- Publisher
- Victoria British Columbia : Provincial Museum
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- viii, 101 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Amphibians
- British Columbia
- Frogs
- Newts
- Abstract
- Describes the 20 species of amphibians known to inhabit British Columbia, their habits, breeding and range. Fine illustrations aid identification. Introductory sections contain information on the general biology (including metamorphosis), fossil history, ecological factors and associated folklore of amphibians. - Aurora
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0771884273
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.2 G82t
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An accidental history of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26557
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 D28a
- Responsibility
- edited by Davies, Megan J. and Hudson, Geoffrey L.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- 380pages, 22.7cm
- Subjects
- Fires
- Nature
- Natural history
- Abstract
- "Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomenon of risk, upset, and misfortune has been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller scale accident where fate is more intimate. Yet such events often have a vivid afterlife in the communities where they happen, and the way in which they are explained and remembered has significant social, cultural, and political meaning. An Accidental History of Canada brings together original studies of an intriguing range of accidents stretching from the 1630s to the 1970s. These include workplace accidents, domestic accidents, childhood accidents, and leisure accidents in colonial, Indigenous, rural, and urban settings. Whether arising from colonial power relations, urban dangers, perils in resource extraction, or hazardous recreations, most accidents occur within circumstances of vulnerability, and reveal precarity and inequities not otherwise apparent. Contributors to this volume are alert to the intersections of the settler agenda and the elevation of risk that it brought. Indigenous and settler ways of understanding accidents are juxtaposed, with chapters exploring the links between accidents and the rise of the modern state. An Accidental History of Canada makes plain that whether they are interpreted as an intervention by providence, a miscalculation, inevitability, or the result of observable risk, accidents--and our responses to them--reveal shared values."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780228021162
- Accession Number
- P2024.06
- Call Number
- 08.1 D28a
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