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The mountain

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

Published Date: 1886

Author: Michelet, Jules

Publisher: London : L. Nelson and Sons

Call Number: 01.2 M58t

Author: Michelet, Jules

Publisher: London : L. Nelson and Sons

Published Date: 1886

Physical Description: 260 pages

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

Subjects: Switzerland; Europe; Alps; Mountaineering; Glaciers; Nature

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 M58t

Collection: Archives Library

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Upon the origin of alpine and Italian lakes ; and upon glacial erosion

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

Published Date: 1889

Publisher: New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.

Call Number: 03.4 R14u

Responsibility: A. C. Ramsay, John Ball, Roderick I. Murchinson, B. Studer, A. Favre, Edward Whymper, and J. W. Spencer.

Publisher: New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.

Published Date: 1889

Physical Description: 148 pages

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

Subjects: Switzerland; Italy; Europe; Alps; glaciology; Glaciers; Geology

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 03.4 R14u

Collection: Archives Library

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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 327 pages

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

Subjects: Exploration; Mountaineering; Alpine Club (Great Britain); Expeditions; Switzerland

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Collection: Archives Library

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The history of the North-West rebellion of 1885 ... including a history of the Indian tribes of North-Western Canada

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham

Publisher: Toronto : A.H. Hovey

Call Number: 08.2 M91 1885

Author: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham

Publisher: Toronto : A.H. Hovey

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 424p. : ill., maps, ports

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

Subjects: Riel rebellions; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Contents: Includes list of 56 illustrations; Full title: [Warning - contains outdated and inappropriate language] The history of the North-west Rebellion of 1884 comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the war, of the various engagements with the Indians and Half breeds, of the heroic deeds performed by officers and men, and of touching scenes in the field, the camp and the cabin; including a history of the indian tribes of North-Western Canada, their numbers, modes of living, habits, customs, religious rites and ceremonies, with thrilling narratives of captures, imprisonment, massacres, and hair-breadth escapes of white settlers, etc.

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 08.2 M91 1885

Collection: Archives Library

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The history of the North-West rebellion of 1885 ... including a history of the Indian tribes of North-Western Canada

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

Published Date: 1886

Author: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham

Publisher: Toronto : A.H. Hovey

Call Number: 08.2 M91 1886

Author: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham

Publisher: Toronto : A.H. Hovey

Published Date: 1886

Physical Description: 440p. : ill., maps, ports

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

Subjects: Riel rebellions; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Contents: Includes list of 63 illustrations

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 08.2 M91 1886

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway as per Melton Prior who travelled from Montreal to Vancouver on the train and provided a review of the journey which includes sketches of Sir Donald, Great Glacier, Glacier Hotel, Hermit Range, Mount Carroll, Stony Creek Bridge and the interior of a colonial sleeping car.

Notes: In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2591, Saturday December 15, 1888, pp. 720 - 722

Accession Number: 7864

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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With ice-axe and camera in the Rocky Mountains

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

Published Date: 1889

Publisher: The Graphic

Call Number: 02.6 G75w PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Rev. W. Spotswood Green (sketches); Rev. H. Swanzy (photographs)

Publisher: The Graphic

Published Date: 1889

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Glacier House; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Lake Louise; Lake Louise District; Selkirk Mountains; Selkirk Range

Abstract: Pertains to Glacier House and a paper read at the Royal Geographical Society by Rev. W. Spotswood Green who traversed the Selkirks accompanied by Rev. H. Swanzy in 1889 with accompanying photographs/sketches of Beaver Creek, snow shed, Glacier House kitchen staff, aftermath of a snow slide, Mount Bonney, Lower Columbia Lake, goats, Mount Lefroy and Lake Louise, and an avalanche.

Notes: In The Graphic, October 19, 1889, pp. 484 - 486

Accession Number: 7830

Call Number: 02.6 G75w PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Pacific Railway : Banff and British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

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

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Hot springs; Hotels; Sanitarium Hotel; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Banff and Mount Stephen including railway access and hotels, hotsprings, sanitarium with associated sketches.

Notes: In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2588, Saturday, November 24, 1888, pp. 613 - 614

Accession Number: 7864

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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The Great Glacier of the Selkirks

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

Published Date: 1889

Author: Ingersoll, Ernest

Publisher: Harper's Weekly

Call Number: 02.6 In4t PAM O.S.

Author: Ingersoll, Ernest

Responsibility: Ernest Ingersoll

Publisher: Harper's Weekly

Published Date: 1889

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

Subjects: Glaciers; Selkirk Mountains; Selkirk Mountains - Hermit Range; Selkirk Range; Selkirk Range - B.C.; Hotels; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Travel; Tourism; Geography; Illecillewaet Glacier

Abstract: Pertains to the Selkirk Mountains, Illecillewaete Glacier, Glacier Creek, Sir Donald, the hotel and Canadian Pacific Railway access to the area as of 1889.