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Trees and shrubs in winter : a guide to the identification of common trees and shrubs in Northwestern British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26226
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Pojar, Rosamund
- Publisher
- Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
- Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 P75t 2003
- 04.1 P75t 2010
- Author
- Pojar, Rosamund
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Evi Coulson
- Publisher
- Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
- Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Key to sections -- Key to coniferous trees -- Key #1 to deciduous trees (shrubby form) -- Key #2 to deciduous trees (mature) -- Key to deciduous shrubs (or small trees) with alternate buds -- Key to evergreen shrubs -- Additional trees and shrubs that occur in the northern interior and northern coastal regions of British Columbia -- Glossary.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 097335920
- 9780978319533
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 P75t 2003
- 04.1 P75t 2010
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
- Responsibility
- Recorded by Angus Graham
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Published Date
- 1935
- Contents
- I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
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- 2023.47
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- 08.2 G76g
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26164
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 317 pages
- Contents
- PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
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- 2023.47
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- 03 T89t
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The romance of mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26157
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 320 pages ; 40 ill.
- Contents
- PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
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- 2023.47
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- 01 Ir8t
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26160
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Beach, William N.
- Publisher
- New York ; The Derrydale Press
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.3 B36i
- Author
- Beach, William N.
- Responsibility
- Foreword by John Burnhalm ; Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard ; Illustrations by Carl Rungius
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- New York ; The Derrydale Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 289 pages ; 63 ill.
- Contents
- Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.
- Notes
- Special Edition: 750 copies printed.
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- 2023.47
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- 02.3 B36i
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Life and limb : a true story of tragedy and survival against the odds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25738
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 306 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Accidents
- Survival
- Abstract
- The weather looked perfect when Jamie Andrew and his closest friend, Jamie Fisher set off to climb the formidable North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999. But a sudden and ferocious storm hit them 10,000 feet up the mountain. They were trapped on a narrow ridge in temperatures of -30C, battered by winds so strong the rescue helicopters could not reach them. After five nightmarish nights doggedly clinging to life, Jamie Andrew was finally rescued; but his friend Jamie Fisher had died beside him on the last night. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 0749950072
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25740
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 223 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Climbing
- Travel
- Sports
- Abstract
- Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, follows Vertical Pleasure (Hodder, 1995). Here the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challending objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 1898573581
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
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John Singer Sargent : figures and landscapes 1874-1882 ; complete paintings. Vol. IV
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25679
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 O6j
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 446 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Sargent, John Singer
- Art
- Abstract
- With few exceptions, this book illustrates John Singer's paintings in colour including several never published before. Each painting is documented with full provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. The volume also reproduces Sargent's preliminary and related drawings and of comparative works by other artists.
- Contents
- Models, c. 1874-1880 -- Classical and religious subjects, c. 1874-1879 -- Landscape and architectural studies, c. 1875-1880 -- Brittany and the sea, c. 1874-1879 -- Naples and Capri, 1878 -- Paris, c. 1878-1882 -- Studies after the old masters, c. 1879-1880 -- Spain and El Jaleo, 1879-1882 -- Morocco, 1880 -- Venice, 1880-1882.
- Notes
- Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- ISBN
- 9780300117165
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06.1 O6j
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Deep Alberta : fossil facts and dinosaur digs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25673
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Dinosaurs
- Fossils
- Contents
- Geology of Alberta map -- Albanerpetontids, as we say -- Ammonites and ammolites -- Albertosaurus, Alberta's dinosaur -- Amber, fossilized tree sap -- Amia, the bowfin -- Atrociraptor, the new raptor -- Basilemys, a very large turtle -- Bison, as opposed to buffalo -- The Blindman River -- Belonostomus, a pointy-headed fish -- Barnum Brown, fossil hunter -- Burbank, Alberta -- Calgary and the things that lay beneath it -- Extinct camels -- The Canadian shield -- Centrosaurus, a herding horned dinosaur -- Champsosaurus, a kind of non-crocodile -- Chasmosaurus, a short-horned dinosaur -- North American cheetahs -- The Bow Valley at Cochrane -- Cretaceous lizards -- Alberta's crocodilians -- Dawn redwood trees -- Devil's Coulee and its dinosaur nests -- Didelphodon, a sort of primitive possum -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Dromaeosaurus, a snappy little raptor -- The Drumheller Badlands -- Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park -- Dunkleosteus, a very scary fish -- Edmonton, a modest sort of dinosaur graveyard -- Edmontosaurus, Edmonton's duck-billed dinosaur -- Edmontonia, Edmonton's other dinosaur -- Feathered dinosaurs -- Fossil frogs -- Gar, the fish -- Horn corals -- How do you know where to dig? -- Hypacrosaurus, less than the ultimate dinosaur -- The Kleskun Hills -- Lambeosaurus, Lambe's dinosaur -- Leptoceratops, a hornless horned dinosaur -- Alberta's lions -- Lundbreck Falls and the black beauty -- Mammoths and mastodons -- The Milk River -- Mosasaurs, the giant marine lizards -- Multituberculates, common but extinct mammals -- Myledaphus, a guitar fish -- New fossil names -- The oil sands -- Ornithomimids, the bird mimics -- Pachyrhinosaurus, the thick-nosed dinosaur -- Palaeontology in Alberta -- Pantodonts, giant Palaeocene mammals -- Parasaurolophus, a long-headed duck-bill -- Parksosaurus, Park's dinosaur -- The world's oldest pike -- Plants of the ornithomimid quarry -- Plesiadapis, a weird early primate -- Plesiosaurs, the sea serpents of the Mesozoic -- "Primitive" plants -- Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles -- Fossil salamanders -- Sandy Point -- Saurornitholestes, a raptor -- Short-faced bear -- Since the Ice Age -- Snakes of the dinosaur times -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Stegoceras -- The Sternberg family -- Sedimentology, the science of sediments -- Sturgeon, a living fossil fish -- Styracosaurus, a classic Alberta dinosaur -- Trace fossils -- Troodon, the "smart" dinosaur -- Triceratops, the three-horned face -- Tyrannosaurus or "T. rex"-- The venomous mammal.
- Notes
- Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Ben Gadd Personal Library
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- 9780888644817
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- 2021.20
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- 04 A7d
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Proud heritage : people and progress in early Canadian geoscience
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25670
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
- Responsibility
- Edited by R. W. Macqueen
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 217 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Science
- Abstract
- Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience is a collection of articles from Geoscience Canada and its predecessor, highlighting the people and events which helped shape our geoscience history. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial content topics: Early geological contributors -- Geological pioneers, 19th century -- Geological leaders, 19th and 20th centuries -- Geological leaders, 20th century -- Early geological studies -- Short biographies
- ISBN
- 919216943
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
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Canada rocks : the geologic journey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25671
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 450 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Abstract
- A complete overview of the geological formation of Canada covering four billion years.
- Contents
- 1. A hellish beginning -- 2. Moving earth : plate tectonics -- 3. The united plates of Canada : four billion years of tectonic activity 4. Canada's heartland : the shield -- 5. Giant seas cover the shield : the interior platform -- 6. Building Eastern Canada -- 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 8. Building Western Canada -- 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 10. Rocky resouces : mining in Canada -- 11. Challenges for the future -- 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity
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- 9781550418606
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
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- 03.1 E5c
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The rise of American civilization : Volume One
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25559
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
- Publisher
- New York : The MacMillan Company
- Call Number
- 08 B38t
- Responsibility
- Decorations by Wilfred Jones
- Publisher
- New York : The MacMillan Company
- Published Date
- 1930
- Subjects
- American
- American Civil War
- History
- Colonialism
- War
- Politics
- Contents
- I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
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- 3069A
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- 08 B38t
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Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25517
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 W14g
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mosses
- Indigenous
- History
- Nature
- Abstract
- Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world. -- From back cover
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- 0870714996
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
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- 07.2 W14g
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First Peoples in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25496
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Call Number
- 07.2 M23f
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Abstract
- Aboriginal issues feature prominently on the Canadian agenda, from land claims agreements to self-government to resource rights, and First Peoples in Canada sets the context for the evolving relationship between Canada and the Aboriginal communities whitin its borders. This comprehensive book, widely used as a basic text in universities and colleges, now incorporates a Native perspective with new research from archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and history to tell the story of Aboriginal people from ancient times to the present. Generously illustrated with many maps, drawings and photographs, these pages clearly detail the rich cultures of all First Nations in this country. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Anthropological research and Aboriginal people ; The Atlantic Provinces ; The Iroquoians of the Eastern woodlands ; The Algonquians of the Eastern woodlands and Eastern Subarctic ; The Plains ; The Plateau ; The Northwest coast ; The Western Subarctic ; The Arctic ; The Metis ; Aboriginal people and Canada: emerging relations
- ISBN
- 9781553650539
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
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- 07.2 M23f
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Canadian Rockies geology road tours
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25499
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Jasper, AB : Corax Press
- Call Number
- 03.2 G11c c. 2
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Jasper, AB : Corax Press
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 576 pages : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Notes
- Includes index. On cover: The complete roadside guide: fossils, formations, folds and faults; presented in plain English; over 250 great stops; fully illustrated; works with odometer and GPS! Includes bibliogaphical references: p. 560-561.
- ISBN
- 9780969263128
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 03.2 G11c c. 2
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- Reading Room
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Rutter, Nat
- Coppold, Murray
- Rokosh, Dean
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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- Responsibility
- The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Nat Rutter
- Murray Coppold
- Dean Rokosh
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Climatology
- Climate change
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Geography
- Geology
- Abstract
- Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
- Contents
- Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
- Notes
- Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780978013219
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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Thinking like a mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25273
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Author
- Bateman, Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Viking
- Call Number
- 05.5 B31t
1 website
- Author
- Bateman, Robert
- Responsibility
- Robert Bateman
- Publisher
- Toronto : Viking
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- xi, 130 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Environment
- Literature
- Essays
- Authors
- Bateman, Robert
- Abstract
- Thinking Like a Mountain is the result of many years of thinking, talking and writing about the world's growing environmental crisis. Beautifully designed and illustrated with original drawings, it is a gathering of questions, observations and ideas Robert Bateman has drawn from his own life experiences and gleaned from the writings of some of the visionaries who have influenced him. As Einstein said, "We cannot solve the problems of today with the same thinking that gave us the problems in the first place."Only a profound shift in philosophy, Bateman believes, can save our species from extinction. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One : Getting to know the neighbours
- Part Two : Message in the bones
- Part Three : Signs of hope
- More food for thought
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9780670893034
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 05.5 B31t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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The story of modern skiing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25260
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Fry, John
- Publisher
- Hanover : University Press of New England
- Call Number
- 01.5 F84t
1 website
- Author
- Fry, John
- Responsibility
- John Fry
- Publisher
- Hanover : University Press of New England
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- xxii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps
- Abstract
- This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport’s development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author’s personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women’s World Cup winner Nancy Greene, World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert, metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing’s relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport’s heritage. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- People and place -- Genesis -- A way of life -- From rope tow to resort -- Technique and equipment: partners in progress -- A revolution in equipment -- Technique: from stem to carve -- New ways to learn -- The story of alpine competition -- The world of alpine racing -- How skiing changed the Olympics -- Racing in America -- Diversity: new disciplines, old ones restored -- Cross-country -- Extremities -- Freestyle -- Snowboarding -- The culture and business of skiing -- "The industry" -- In print -- In movies, on television -- The new ski country.
- ISBN
- 9781584654896
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 01.5 F84t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Lanterns on the prairie : the Blackfeet photographs of Walter McClintock
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25239
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Grafe, Steven L.
- Farr, William E.
- Smith, Sherry L.
- Robes Kipp, Darrell
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,
- Call Number
- 06.4 G75l
1 website
- Responsibility
- Steven L. Grafe
- William E. Farr
- Sherry L. Smith
- Darrell Robes Kipp
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- xi, 323 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Blackfoot
- Photography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the photography of the Blackfeet Peoples by Walter McClintock in Montana in 1896
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial note
- Chapter 1 - staging the Blackfeet: the curious career of Walter McClintock
- Chapter 2 - a point of entry : the Blackfeet adoption of Walter McClintock
- Chapter 3 - reimagining the Blackfee t: Walter McClintock in historical context
- Chapter 4 - completing the circle
- Chapter 5 - the McClintock photographs : content and technique
- Plates
- Notes
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
- ISBN
- 9780806140292
- Accession Number
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 06.4 G75l
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Review of publication via University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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