topic:"Biography" found 8 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Among the great hills : three generations of Wheelers and their contribution to the mapping of the mountains

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

Published Date: 2006

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: 01.4 Sa5w Pam

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Responsibility: R.W. Sandford

Publisher: Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 32 p. : ill., ports

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

Series: Summit Series #8

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Biography; Geological Survey of Canada; Mountaineers, Canadian; Surveyors

ISBN: 0-920330-54-1

Accession Number: 7806; 40500 08-01-09

Call Number: 01.4 Sa5w Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Beneath my feet : the memoirs of George Mercer Dawson

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

Published Date: c2007

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart

Call Number: 03.1 D32j

Responsibility: with Phil Jenkins

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart

Published Date: c2007

Physical Description: x, 350 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports

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

Subjects: Biography; Botany; Geological Survey of Canada; Photographers; Surveyors

ISBN: 9780771043888 (bound)

Accession Number: 40500 2008-01-09

Call Number: 03.1 D32j

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Rockies : pioneers, legends and true tales

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

Author: Patillo, Roger

Call Number: 08.3 P27c c.1; 08.3 P27c c.2

Author: Patillo, Roger

Physical Description: 456p. : ill., map

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

Subjects: Accidents; Alpine Club of Canada; Biography; Mountaineers; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Wilson, Tom

ISBN: 978-1-4120-5627-4

Accession Number: wmcr shop donation - copy 2 09-02-04; 40500 08-03-04

Call Number: 08.3 P27c c.1; 08.3 P27c c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Into the wild

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

Author: Krakauer, Jon

Call Number: 02.7 K86i

Author: Krakauer, Jon

Physical Description: 207pages, 20.2cm

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

Subjects: Accidents; Biography; Travel; Alaska

Notes: Includes maps on front and back end papers; Winner of 1996 Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature; Ben Gadd Personal Library; The copy from the Ben Gadd Personal Library has notes from Ben about giving Christopher Johnson McCandless a ride.

ISBN: 067942850x

Accession Number: 35000; 2021.20

Call Number: 02.7 K86i

Collection: Archives Library

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One man's Everest

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

Published Date: 2015

Author: Cool, Kenton

Publisher: London : Preface

Call Number: G512 C66 O54

Author: Cool, Kenton

Publisher: London : Preface

Published Date: 2015

Physical Description: 264 pages, illustrations (16 pages of unnumbered, coloured plates)

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

Subjects: Accidents; Biography; Everest, Mount; Mountaineering; Nepal

ISBN: 9781848094499

Accession Number: AC633

Call Number: G512 C66 O54

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Senator Jean Le´on Co^te´ : pioneer land surveyor and early legislator : a personal biography

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

Published Date: 1992

Author: Co^te´, Jean G.

Publisher: [Edmonton] : J. G. Co^te´

Call Number: 08.1 C63s

Author: Co^te´, Jean G.

Responsibility: Jean G Co^te´

Publisher: [Edmonton] : J. G. Co^te´

Published Date: 1992

Physical Description: 32, 32 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., plan, port. ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Biography; Alberta; Surveyors

Abstract: Pertains to the story and ways in which Jean G. Co^te´, an early land surveyor, legislator and pioneer, helped shaped Alberta’s early identity. Some of the topics discussed in the book are as follows, family, politics, early surveying and Cote’s contribution to Alberta’s Research Council. As a legislator, Cote was influential in the development of Alberta’s Tar Sands. Additionally, the foreword has been written by E.J. Hart, the previous director of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, thus drawing a connection to the Canadian Rocky Mountains but more specifically, Banff.

Contents: Introduction (pg. 1); Ancestry and Youth (pg. 1); First trip west in 1886 (pg. 2); Ottawa College (pg. 3); Alaska-Canada Boundary Survey 1893-1895 (pg. 4); Dawson City, Yukon 1899. Partnerhip with Cautley Brothers (pg. 6); Edmonton, N.W.T. 1903-4 (pg. 9); Surveys aroudn Edmonton - E.Y. & P.RY (pg. 10); Marriage in Quebec City to Cecile Gagnon, 1907 (pg. 11); New survey partnerships (pg. 13); Politics, 1909 (pg. 14); Early recollections (pg. 15); Prairie suveys (pg. 17); Cabinet Minister 1918-1921 (pg. 18); Development of Tar Sands and other natural resources (pg. 19); Alberta Research Council (pg. 20); Post-War Election 1921 (pg. 21); Surveying 1921-1923 (pg. 22); Appointment to the Senate (pg. 23); Last summer in the Laurentians (pg. 24); Postscript (pg. 26); Jean Leon Cotes Descendants (pg. 28); Acknowledgements (pg. 30); Bibliography (pg. 31)

Notes: Text is in both English and French; Annotated by author - Inside cover reads: "To EJ. "Ted" Hart. With many thanks for your superb forword to this book. Jean G. Cote"