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In time and place : master plan 2005 for the protection, preservation, and presentation of Alberta's past

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24956
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Tracey, William
Field, Dorothy
Myers, Patricia A.
Vickers, J. Rod
Wyman, Marlena
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Community Development
Call Number
00.5 T67i
  1 website  
Author
Tracey, William
Field, Dorothy
Myers, Patricia A.
Vickers, J. Rod
Wyman, Marlena
Responsibility
William Tracey
Dorothy Field
Patricia A. Myers
J. Rod Vickers
Marlena Wyman
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Community Development
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
vi, 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
Alberta - History
Archives
History
History of Alberta
Guide
Abstract
Pertains to a suggested plan by heritage professionals to thematically protect, preserve and present history in Alberta
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Master Plan 2005: A New Approach to Preserving Alberta's History
Part I: Preservation Strategy
Part II: A Thematic Approach
Part III: Using Master Plan 2005
Part IV: The Thematic Framework
Part V: CD with Printable Appendices
Notes
Includes letter from author Marlena Wyman
ISBN
0778543374
Accession Number
2019.93
Call Number
00.5 T67i
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Full text of publication available online
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Smith, Will
Publisher
[Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
Call Number
08.5 Sm5d
  1 website  
Author
Smith, Will
Responsibility
Will Smith
Publisher
[Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
[248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Restaurants
Travel
Canada
Industry
History
History-Canada
Hotels
Abstract
Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
Chapter 2 - Research sources
Chapter 3 - Railway
Chapter 4 - Steamships
Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
Chapter 6 - Airline
Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
Chapter 12 - Market value
Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
ISBN
9781999382100
Accession Number
2019.27
Call Number
08.5 Sm5d
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Bown, Stephen R.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Call Number
08.5 B68d
Author
Bown, Stephen R.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canadian Pacific Railway
Transportation
Railway
Travel
History
History-Canada
Abstract
Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9780385698726
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
08.5 B68d
Collection
Archives Library
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Eagle Valley - our legacy

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25283
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
May 2018
Author
Macklin, Anne
McCullough, Douglas
Henry, Lynne
Souster, Bill
Greif, Frank
Publisher
Cochrane, AB : Satellite Printing Ltd.
Call Number
08.2 E1e
  1 website  
Author
Macklin, Anne
McCullough, Douglas
Henry, Lynne
Souster, Bill
Greif, Frank
Responsibility
The Eagle Valley Working Group
Anne Macklin
Douglas McCullough
Lynne Henry
Bill Souster
Frank Greif
Publisher
Cochrane, AB : Satellite Printing Ltd.
Published Date
May 2018
Physical Description
7 sections ; illustrations (some colour), colour maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Research
Alberta
Development
Maps
Soil
History
History of Alberta
Agriculture
Abstract
In August 2016, a group of about 40 residents as well as a couple of county councillors met at the Eagle Valley Community Hall to discuss the process of creating a new area structure plan under the oversight of a steering committee. The result of that meeting was a consensus to create a working group to provide the county with input as well as to help officials “understand who we are as a community, the commitment that we have to the land we live on, and our heritage, cultural and social resources that are in the community,”.Five volunteers — Anne Macklin, Lynne Henry, Douglas McCullough, Bill Souster and Greif — formed the Eagle Valley Working Group, which is not affiliated with any recognized societies already in the region. Over the following six months, a questionnaire was formulated to glean information from the community’s residents. A summary of the survey’s results was then discussed during a meeting held at the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group’s office this past January. When the process started, a number of important stakeholders in terms of working relationships were identified, such as the oil and gas industry, social services including Greenwood Neighbourhood Place as well as the Town of Sundre. So following January’s meeting, the working group was tasked with preparing the legacy document. Included within its pages is information about Eagle Valley’s climate, oil and gas sector, geology, as well as infrastructure issues such as roads, wastewater, water, parks and recreation. A copy of the book, is available for sale at the Sundre Municipal Library. (Summarized from Mountainview Today article - website)
Contents
Reader's guide
Introduction and background
Pride of ownership
Sense of values
Environmental harmony
Stewardship of resources
Property protection and personal security
Legislative and management framework
Appendices
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.2 E1e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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A frontier guide to the Dewdney Trail : Hope to Rock Creek

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20166
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1969?
Publisher
Calgary, Alta. : Frontier Publishing
Edition
Frontier Book No. 19
Call Number
08.2 F92a
Edition
Frontier Book No. 19
Publisher
Calgary, Alta. : Frontier Publishing
Published Date
1969?
Physical Description
56 pages.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
History
History of Alberta
Abstract
"Highway No.3 is a ribbon of concrete that winds through some of the most dramatic scenery in Western Canada. At times it courses between valley walls lush with vegetation and history, adn at others it climbs mountain sides to meander gracefully over the top of the world. It was originally called the Dewdney Trail and it ran from Hope, through Rock Creek and on to Wild Horse Camp, 6 miles northeast of Cranbrook. Today, with a few variations of route, it follows the old trail and has become in every sense of the word the New Dewdney Trail. In this, our seventh Frontier Guide, we are attempting to trace the story adn the history of both the old trail and the new , from Hope to Rock Creek. In companion volumes, we hope to complete the trail from Rock Creek to Salmo adn from Salmo to Wild Horse."
Notes
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Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
08.2 F92a
Collection
Archives Library
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A frontier guide to the Dewdney Trail, Rock Creek to Salmo

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20158
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1969
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Frontier Publishing Ltd.
Edition
Frontier Book No. 20
Call Number
08.1 F92a
Edition
Frontier Book No. 20
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Frontier Publishing Ltd.
Published Date
1969
Physical Description
48 pages illustrations 21 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
History
History-Canada
Abstract
"In the early days of British Columbia, the land lying along the American border from Rock Creek to Salmo was almost forgotten territory. In the beginning, the fur trade followed the lines of least resistance and these led southward by valley and river to United States soil. With the discovery of gold, copper and silver in the Boundary country, a subtle struggle between American and Canadian influence developed - each striving to draw a trade from the area. Over the years, the history of the region has been woven around the struggle between the powerful American magnet of roads and railroads to draw Boundary country into its orbit and the Canadian efforts to divert this traffic into an east-west pattern. The two major weapons in the hands of the Canadians were the Dewdney Trail of 1865 and the Kettle Valley Railroad. This, our eight Frontier Guide, is the attempt to portray the development of the Boundary country in relation to the roles played by the Dewdney Trail and the fabulous Kettle Valley Line."
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Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
08.1 F92a
Collection
Archives Library
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Historic sites of Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19870
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1963
Author
Dempsey, Hugh A.
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Government Travel Bureau
Edition
Sixth Edition
Call Number
08.2 D39h Pam
Author
Dempsey, Hugh A.
Responsibility
Hugh A. Dempsey
Edition
Sixth Edition
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Government Travel Bureau
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
64 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
History of Alberta
History
Fur trade
North-West Mounted Police
Missionaries
Riel rebellions
Abstract
Pertains to a series of notable and historically significant sites located across Alberta. The book is divided into nine categories pertaining to influential people and events, such as the Riel Rebellion and the North-West Mounted Police. Within each category, the author Hugh A. Dempsey, has included the names and locations of many historical sites in Alberta, be that a sign, a cairn or other form of historical remembrance.
Contents
Introduction (pg.3)
Indians (pg. 5)
The fur trade (pg. 12)
The missionaries (pg. 24)
American posts (pg. 29)
North-west Mounted Police (pg. 35)
Riel rebellion (pg. 39)
The pioneers (pg. 43)
Historic events (pg. 50)
Transportation (pg. 57)
Index (pg. 61)
Map (pg. 63)
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
08.2 D39h Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25244
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Call Number
08.1 M42n
  1 website  
Author
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
Responsibility
Sarah-Jane Mathieu
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Physical Description
xv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-Canada
Canada
Racism
Travel
Transportation
Labour
Railways
Abstract
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. (From publisher's website)
Contents
Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.
ISBN
9780807871669
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 M42n
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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Railways in southern Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20076
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1973
Author
Bowman, R.F.P.
Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
Call Number
08.2 B67r Pam
Author
Bowman, R.F.P.
Responsibility
R.F.P. Bowman
Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
Published Date
1973
Physical Description
40 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
Railways
Railroads - Alberta
History
History of Alberta
Lethbridge
Abstract
Pertains to the history of the southern Alberta railways, written as a labor of love from Lethbridge local, R.F.P. Bowman. The intent of the publication was to record the history of the early local railway, in an effort to preserve the history before it was to be forgotten. Author R.F.P. Bowman, worked to commemorate the events that were able to elevate the area of Lethbridge, Alberta from its infancy into a state of maturity.
Contents
Chapter I: The beginnings (pg. 7)
Chapter II: The Galts (pg. 9)
Chapter III: Enter Canadian Pacific (pg. 13)
Chapter IV: The Canadian Pacific extends (pg. 24)
Chapter V: Other efforts (pg. 27)
Chapter VI: Passenger trains in the past tense (pg. 31)
Chapter VII: Freight - the railway's main diet (pg. 34)
Chapter VIII: The Lethbridge division (pg. 38)
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
08.2 B67r Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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Surveying the 120th meridian and the great divide : the Alberta/BC boundary survey, 1918-1924

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24952
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Sherwood, Jay
Publisher
Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
Call Number
08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
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Author
Sherwood, Jay
Responsibility
Jay Sherwood
Publisher
Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
192 p. ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Volume 2
Subjects
Surveyors
Surveys and Mapping
Surveys
Great Divide Trail
Alberta
British Columbia
British Columbia - Boundaries
British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
Alberta - B.C. Boundary
Alberta - Boundaries
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Cautley, Richard William
History
History of Alberta
Abstract
"Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Surveyors
Surveying Methods 1918-1924
Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953
Conclusion
Geographical Names
Survey Crews, 1918-1924
Sources Consulted
Index
Notes
Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771
ISBN
9780773860091
Accession Number
2019.90
Call Number
08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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