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An orogenous life: memoir and reader
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19846
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Canmore, AB, Canada : Corax Press
- Call Number
- 02.6 G11a
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- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Responsibility
- Ben Gadd
- Publisher
- Canmore, AB, Canada : Corax Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 655 pages
- Abstract
- Pertains to the experiences of Ben Gadd, an experienced Rocky Mountain naturalist, guide and author. His book combines his personal experiences with the stories and essays of 36 others in order to create a touching, yet compelling story. The book includes a comprehensive selection of photographs, many of which are personal to the author and his family. Being that the author was and continues to be greatly involved with the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the book makes mention of multiple locations in and around the area of Banff such as, Mt. Assiniboine, Banff Mountain Film Festival, Bankhead, Brewster transportation and tours, and Johnston Canyon. The book follows the style of a biography and contains many personal stories and photos from the author and associated family.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Benny
- Ben
- Cia and Ben
- Willy, Cia and Ben
- Toby and Willy, Cia and Ben
- Index
- Other books by Ben Gadd
- Notes
- Some of the specific references to areas in, and area the Canadian Rocky Mountains are as follows, Mt. Assiniboine (297), Mt. Robson (373), Banff Mountain Film Festival (12, 395, 608), Bankhead (332) and Brewster transportation and tours (463, 469).
- ISBN
- 9780969263142
- Accession Number
- 2019.47
- Call Number
- 02.6 G11a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL pertains to an online website dedicated to Ben Gadd and his continued achievements
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Call of the mountains : rambles among the mountains and canyons of the United States and Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1422
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Jeffers, Le Roy
- Publisher
- New York : Dodd, Mead
- Call Number
- F721 J43
- F721 J43 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 3
- Author
- Jeffers, Le Roy
- Publisher
- New York : Dodd, Mead
- Published Date
- 1922
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- F721 J43
- F721 J43 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A Frontier guide to mystic Jasper and the Yellowhead Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19891
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Anderson, Frank W.
- Publisher
- Aldergrove, B.C. : Frontier Pub
- Call Number
- 08.3 J31a c.2 Pam
- Author
- Anderson, Frank W.
- Responsibility
- Frank W. Anderson
- Publisher
- Aldergrove, B.C. : Frontier Pub
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 56 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Jasper
- Jasper National Park
- History
- Rocky Mountains and Jasper Parks
- Rocky Mountains
- Yellowhead Pass
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history, and early events that led to the creation of Jasper National Park. The author, Frank Anderson, encourages readers to delve into the history surrounding the unmarked territory in Jasper. Through discussion of the Fur Trade era, the Railroad era and the Peaceful era, the author demonstrates the ways in which Jasper has since evolved from its earlier beginnings.
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 08.3 J31a c.2 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Geologic atlas of the Rocky Mountain region, United States of America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26461
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Denver, Colo.
- Call Number
- 03.2 R59g
- Responsibility
- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
- Publisher
- Denver, Colo.
- Published Date
- 1972
- Physical Description
- 331 pages illustrations, maps (some color) 56 cm - oversized
- Contents
- Introduction -- Pioneer geologists of the American West / Dr W. Lyle Dockery -- Physical geology -- Regional geography -- Cities, towns and highways / American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Geomap Company -- Counties and rivers / U.S. Geological Survey -- Physiography / Arthur D. Howard, John W. Williams and Irwin Raisz -- Regional geology -- Continental setting of the region / William W. Mallory -- Areal geology / Irving J. Witkind and L. Trowbridge Grose -- Tectonics / L. Trowbridge Grose -- Regional geophysics -- Bouguer gravity / G.L. Brinkworth and M. Dean Kleinkopf -- Seismicity / Ruth B. Simon -- Historical geology -- Precambrian rocks -- Configuration of the Precambrian rock surface / J.C. MacLachlan, H.C. Bemis, R.W. Bryson, R.D. Holt, C.J. Lewis, D.E. Wilde -- Age of major Precambrian rock units / Carl E. Hedge -- Phanerozoic rocks -- Thickness of Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks / Fred S. Jensen and James G. Mitchell -- Review of Phanerozoic history / Harry C. Kent -- Paleozoic erathem -- Cambrian system / Christina Lochman-Balk -- Ordovician system / Norman H. Foster -- Silurian system / Frank K. Gibbs -- Devonian system / Donald L. Baars -- Mississippian system / Lawrence C. Craig -- Pennsylvanian system -- Regional synthesis / William W. Mallory -- The Tyler formation in the subsurface, Central Montana / Fred S. Jensen and Kendall P. Carlson -- Pennsylvanian arkose and the ancestral Rocky Mountains / William W. Mallory -- Pennsylvanian rocks and salt anticlines, Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado / Robert J. Hite, Fred W. Cater and John A. Liming -- Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico / Patrick K. Sutherland -- Permian system / Bailey Rascoe, Jr., and Donald L. Baars -- Mesozoic erathem -- Triassic system / Marjorie M. MacLachland -- Jurassic system / James A. Peterson -- Cretaceous system / Donald P. McGookey, John D. Haun, Lyle A. Hale, H.G. Goodell, Donald G. McCubbin, Robert J. Weimer and George R. Wulf -- Cenozoic erathem -- Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic igneous rocks / T.A. Steven, H.W. Smedes, H.J. Prostka, P.W. Lipman and R.L. Christiansen -- Tertiary system -- Tertiary history / Peter Robinson -- Eocene and Paleocene rocks of the southern and central basins / Robert E. McDonald -- Quaternary system -- Wisconsin glaciation / John M. Montagne -- Economic geology -- Fuels -- Petroleum and natural gas -- Sweetgrass arch / W.L. Foley -- North-central and central Montana / E. Earl Norwood -- Williston basin / Alan R. Hansen -- Powder River basin / A.A. McGregor -- Big Horn basin / John P. Weldon -- Wind River basin / R.W. Benner -- Southern Wyoming / Lyle A. Hale and Warren W. Skeeters -- Uinta basin / Howard R. Ritzma -- Piceance basin and Axial Basin uplift / Hal Dunn -- Denver basin and Las Animas arch / Richard W. Volk -- Paradox basin / C.M. Molenaar -- San Juan basin / Roy L. Pritchard -- Green River oil shale / Frank P. Van West -- Petroleum-impregnated rocks and shallow oil fields / Graham R. Curtis -- Coal / Paul Averitt -- Metals -- Basee and precious metals / John W. Vanderwilt, Ray E. Gilbert and Russell E. Bailey -- Uranium / Arthur P. Butler -- Chemical rocks -- Saline rocks / Robert J. Hite -- Phosphatic rocks / Neal J. Harr -- Large-volume commodities -- Water / Stanley W. Lohman -- Industrial rocks and minerals / James H. Butler and Arthur J. Pansze.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
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- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.2 R59g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Ghost stories of the Rocky Mountains, volume II
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14382
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Smith, Barbara
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Ghost House Books
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sm5g vol.2
- Author
- Smith, Barbara
- Responsibility
- Barbara Smith
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Ghost House Books
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Notes
- Partial contents: Hinton, Alberta; Kananaskis; Crownest Pass, Frank Slide
- ISBN
- 1894877217
- Accession Number
- 70500 2013-12-31
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sm5g vol.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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In the heart of the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19853
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1905
- Author
- Outram, James
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan & Co., LTD
- Call Number
- 02.6 O1i
- Author
- Outram, James
- Responsibility
- James Outram
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan & Co., LTD
- Published Date
- 1905
- Physical Description
- 466 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains Canada
- Outram, James
- Travel
- Mountaineers Canadian
- Mountaineers, British
- Great Britain
- Abstract
- Pertains to the experiences of James Outram, an English mountaineer and author. With a specific chapter dedicated to Banff, the author offers insight into what he considered to be the ‘training’ area of the Rocky Mountains, that being Banff itself. Due to his comprehensive climbing experience, the author is able to provide the reader with specific details pertaining to the Canadian Rocky Mountains based on his personal experience and adventures.
- Contents
- I. The mountains and their history
- II. Banff the beautiful
- III. Mt. Assiniboine
- IV. Lake Louise
- V. The tragedy on Mt. Lefroy
- VI. The valley of the ten peaks
- VII. Field and Mt. Stephen
- VIII. The Yoho Valley
- IX. The ottertail group
- X. The valley of the upper bow
- XI. The sources of the North Saskatchewan
- XII. Mt. Forbes
- XIII. The mountains of the West Branch
- XIV. Mt. Bryce
- XV. Farther north
- Notes
- Chapter dedicated to Banff contained in the following page numbers ; 27 -37
- Accession Number
- 2019.54
- Call Number
- 02.6 O1i
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National Parks of Canada : report of the commissioner : year ended March 31, 1929
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19990
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- J.B. Harkin [commissioner]
- Publisher
- Ottawa : F. A. Acland [printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Call Number
- 13.116 In8n 1929
- Author
- J.B. Harkin [commissioner]
- Responsibility
- Department of the Interior and Canadian National Parks Branch
- Publisher
- Ottawa : F. A. Acland [printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Published Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 34 pages.
- Subjects
- Yoho National Park
- Waterton
- Kootenay National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Buffalo
- National parks
- Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report of the Canadian National Parks for the year 1929. Published in 1930, the report was used to reflect on the events, successes and downfalls of the previous calendar year. The report discusses many of the National Parks including, but not limited to, Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, Kootenay National Park, Waterton Lake National Park and Jasper National Park. The publication covers topics relating to wildlife, revenue generated and other relevant information pertaining to the status of the National Parks. The report serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding the status and condition of the Canadian National Parks as they were in the early 20th century.
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 13.116 In8n 1929
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- Archives Library
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National Parks of Canada : report of the commissioner : year ended March 31, 1930
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19991
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- J.B. Harkin [commissioner]
- Publisher
- Ottawa : F. A. Acland [printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Call Number
- 13.116 In8n 1930
- Author
- J.B. Harkin [commissioner]
- Responsibility
- Department of the Interior and Canadian National Parks Branch
- Publisher
- Ottawa : F. A. Acland [printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 36 pages.
- Subjects
- Yoho National Park
- Waterton
- Kootenay National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Buffalo
- National parks
- Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report of the Canadian National Parks for the year 1930. Published in 1931, the report was used to reflect on the events, successes and downfalls of the previous calendar year. The report discusses many of the National Parks including, but not limited to, Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, Kootenay National Park, Waterton Lake National Park and Jasper National Park. The publication covers topics relating to wildlife, revenue generated and other relevant information pertaining to the status of the National Parks. The report serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding the status and condition of the Canadian National Parks as they were in the early 20th century.
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 13.116 In8n 1930
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National Parks of Canada : report of the commissioner : year ended March 31, 1931
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19992
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- J.B. Harkin [commissioner]
- Publisher
- Ottawa : F. A. Acland [printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Call Number
- 13.116 In8n 1931
- Author
- J.B. Harkin [commissioner]
- Responsibility
- Department of the Interior and Canadian National Parks Branch
- Publisher
- Ottawa : F. A. Acland [printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 37 pages.
- Subjects
- Yoho National Park
- Waterton
- Kootenay National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Buffalo
- National parks
- Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report of the Canadian National Parks for the year 1931. Published in 1932, the report was used to reflect on the events, successes and downfalls of the previous calendar year. The report discusses many of the National Parks including, but not limited to, Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, Kootenay National Park, Waterton Lake National Park and Jasper National Park. The publication covers topics relating to wildlife, revenue generated and other relevant information pertaining to the status of the National Parks. The report serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding the status and condition of the Canadian National Parks as they were in the early 20th century.
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 13.116 In8n 1931
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- Archives Library
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Rafter six ranch: statement of significance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19858
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Donald Luxton and Associates INC
- Publisher
- Donald Luxton and Associates INC
- Call Number
- 08.1 L96r
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- Publisher
- Donald Luxton and Associates INC
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 29 pg
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and significance of the Rafter Six Ranch. In addition to historical significance, the book includes the architectural and design elements that are unique to the Rafter Six Ranch buildings. Above all, the book mentions the Rocky Mountains and the ways in which the Rafter Six Ranch contributed to settlement and expansion in the area.
- Contents
- Statement of significance
- Description of historic place
- Heritage value of historical place
- Character-defining elements
- statements of integrity
- Additional images
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 2019.58
- Call Number
- 08.1 L96r
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL is linked to the official website of Donald Luxton and Associates INC.
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