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How to identify plants

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26230
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1957
Author
Harrington, H.D.
Publisher
Chicago : The Swallow Press Inc.
Call Number
04.1 H24h
Author
Harrington, H.D.
Responsibility
Illustrations by L.W. Durrell
Publisher
Chicago : The Swallow Press Inc.
Published Date
1957
Physical Description
296 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebook
Identification
Botany
Plants
Science
Illustrations
Contents
Introduction -- How plants are classified -- Common names and scientific names -- Terms relative to the flower -- Terms relative to the inflorescence -- Terms relative to underground parts -- Terms relative to the stem -- Terms relative to the leaves -- Terms relative to surfaces -- General terms -- Fruits and seeds -- Use of keys in plant identification -- Collecting and pressing plants -- Manuals and floras -- Illustrated glossary.
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
0804001499
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 H24h
Collection
Archives Library
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Ski-runs in the high Alps

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1913
Author
Roget, F. F.
Publisher
London : T. Fisher Unwin
Call Number
01.5 R63s
Author
Roget, F. F.
Responsibility
Illustrations by L. M. Crisp
Publisher
London : T. Fisher Unwin
Published Date
1913
Physical Description
312 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Skiing
Education
Alps
Switzerland
Skiing, Cross Country
Ski mountaineering
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.5 R63s
Collection
Archives Library
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In praise of Switzerland : being the alps in prose and verse

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1912
Author
Spender, Harold
Publisher
London : Constable and Company Ltd.
Call Number
05 Sp3i
Author
Spender, Harold
Publisher
London : Constable and Company Ltd.
Published Date
1912
Physical Description
291 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alps
Literature
Poetry
History
Fiction
Contents
I. The Alps in admiration -- II. The Alps in description -- III. The Alps in adventure, i. The pioneers, ii. The heroes -- The Alps in tragedy -- The Alps in comedy -- The Alps in history -- The Alps in fiction
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
05 Sp3i
Collection
Archives Library
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Flora of Southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1915
Author
Henry, Joseph Kaye
Publisher
Toronto : W. J. Gage & Co., Limited
Call Number
04.1 H39f
Author
Henry, Joseph Kaye
Publisher
Toronto : W. J. Gage & Co., Limited
Published Date
1915
Physical Description
363 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Glossary
British Columbia
Contents
Abbreviations, metric system -- Analytical key to the families -- Tabular analysis -- flora -- glossary -- addenda -- index.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
04.1 H39f
Collection
Archives Library
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Through the heart of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1913
Author
Yeigh, Frank
Publisher
London : T. Fisher Unwin
Edition
2nd Edition, 4th Impression
Call Number
02.4 Ye3 1913 (Great Britain)
Author
Yeigh, Frank
Edition
2nd Edition, 4th Impression
Publisher
London : T. Fisher Unwin
Published Date
1913
Physical Description
319p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alpine Club of Canada
Camps
Accession Number
400
Call Number
02.4 Ye3 1913 (Great Britain)
Collection
Archives Library
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Invertebrate fossils

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1952
Author
Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.
Publisher
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Call Number
04 M78i
Author
Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.
Publisher
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Published Date
1952
Physical Description
766 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fossils
Invertebrate
Geology
Contents
1. The nature of fossils -- 2. Foraminifera and radiolaria -- 3. Sponges and spongelike fossils -- 4. Coelenterates -- 5. Bryozoans -- 6. Brachiopods -- 7. Mollusks -- 8. Gastropods -- 9. Cephalopods -- 10. Pelecypods -- 11. Annelids and other worms -- 12. Arthropods -- 13. Trilobites -- 14. Ostracodes and other crustaceans -- 15. Chelicerates, myriapods, and insects -- 16. Echinoderms -- 17. Primitive attached echinoderms -- 18. Crinoids -- 19. Holothuroids -- 20. Starfishes -- 21. Echinoids -- 22. Graptolites and pterobranchs -- 23. Condonts
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04 M78i
Collection
Archives Library
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The study of rocks in thin section

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1959
Author
Moorhouse, W. W.
Publisher
New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
Call Number
03 M78t
Author
Moorhouse, W. W.
Publisher
New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
Published Date
1959
Physical Description
514 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Harper's geoscience series
Subjects
Petrology
Geology
Science
mineralogy
Contents
1. Introduction. -- 2. Methods of optical mineralogy -- 3. Description of minerals -- 4. Mineral identification tables -- 5. Petrography of igneous rocks and related rocks -- 6. Volcanic and hypabyssal rocks : basalts, diabases, and related rocks -- 7. Andesites, dacites, and related rocks -- 8. quartz latites (rhyodacites) and rhyolites -- 9. Latites, trachytes, phonolites, and leucite trachytes -- 10. tuffs and pyroclastics -- 11. The plutonic rocks : gabbro, norite, and related rocks -- 12. The alkali gabbos : essexite, theralite, and related rocks -- 13. Quartz diorite, granodiorite, granite, and related rocks -- 14. Diorites, monzonites, syenites, and related rocks -- 15. Nepheline syenites and other delfspathoidal rocks -- 16. Ultrabasic rocks : peridotite, pyrozenite, and hornblendite -- 17. Lamprophyres -- 18. Sedimentary rocks in thin section -- 19. Conglomerates and breccias -- 20. Sandstones and arkoses -- 21. Greywackes -- 22. Argillaceous rocks -- 23. Limestones and dolomites -- 24. Cherts, iron formations, glauconitic sediments, phosphatic sediments, saline rocks, and coals -- 25. Metamorphic rocks -- 26. Dynamic metamorphism -- 27. Thermal metamorphism -- 28. Regional metamorphism -- 29. Metasomatism -- 30. Petrography of ore
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
9780060446109
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 M78t
Collection
Archives Library
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A little town and a little girl

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1951
Author
Carr, Emily
Publisher
Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
Call Number
06 C23a
Author
Carr, Emily
Responsibility
With a Foreword by Ira Dilworth
Publisher
Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
Published Date
1951
Physical Description
xvii, 124 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Artists
Artists books
Arts
Carr, Emily
British Columbia
Autobiography
Abstract
Emily Carr describes her life in Victoria, British Columbia.
Contents
Beginnings ; James' Bay and Dallas Road ; Silence and Pioneers ; Saloons and Roadhouses ; Ways of Getting Round ; Father's Store ; New Neighbours ; Visiting Matrons ; Servants ; East and West ; Cathedral ; Cemetery ; Schools ; Christmas ; Regatta ; Characters ; Loyalty ; Doctor and Dentist ; Chain Gang ; Cook Street ; Waterworks ; From Carr Street to James' Bay ; Grown Up
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
06 C23a
Collection
Archives Library
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Pioneer days of Nakusp and the Arrow Lakes

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
August 20, 1951
Author
Johnson, Kate
Publisher
Nakusp : Kate Johnson
Call Number
08.2 J62p
Author
Johnson, Kate
Publisher
Nakusp : Kate Johnson
Published Date
August 20, 1951
Physical Description
146 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Kootenay
Kootenay region
History
Abstract
History of Nakusp written for the Nakusp Diamond Jubliee (1892-1952).
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08.2 J62p
Collection
Archives Library
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The conquest of Mount McKinley

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1913
Author
Browne, Belmore
Publisher
New York : G. P Putnam's Sons
Call Number
01.3 B81
Author
Browne, Belmore
Publisher
New York : G. P Putnam's Sons
Published Date
1913
Physical Description
xvii, 381p. : ill., map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Accession Number
492
5142 - weed
Call Number
01.3 B81
Collection
Archives Library
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Report of the Commissioner of Dominion Parks for the year ending March 31, 1913 : Part V Annual Report 1913

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25201
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1914
Author
Canada. Department of the Interior
Call Number
02.4 C16i Part V 1913
Author
Canada. Department of the Interior
Published Date
1914
Physical Description
96p : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Sessional papers
Subjects
Banff (townsite)
Businesses
Government
Hot springs
Indigenous
Mining
National parks
Roads
Surveys
Tourism
Utilities
Contents
Includes extract from address delivered at Ottawa, March 12, 1913 by the Duke of Connaught
Notes
Issued as a separate publication, but is also included in full Department of Interior Report, Volume 1 - 02.4 C16i 1913 volume 1
Accession Number
7201
Call Number
02.4 C16i Part V 1913
Collection
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1953
Author
Campbell, Gray
Publisher
Toronto : Thomas Allen
Call Number
03.6 C15
Author
Campbell, Gray
Publisher
Toronto : Thomas Allen
Published Date
1953
Physical Description
244p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Ranching
Whyte, Catharine Robb
Whyte, Peter
Notes
3069A copy signed by author to Peter and Catharine Whyte with accompanying letter from author and newsclipping
Accession Number
400
3069A - 3 copies - weeded 2 unsigned 2020-12-08
Call Number
03.6 C15
Collection
Archives Library
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The dangerous river

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1954, 1955 second impression
Author
Patterson, Raymond M.
Publisher
London : George Allen & Unwin
Call Number
02.5 P27d
Author
Patterson, Raymond M.
Responsibility
Raymond Murray Patterson
Publisher
London : George Allen & Unwin
Published Date
1954, 1955 second impression
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canoeing
Nahanni River
Accession Number
224
Call Number
02.5 P27d
Collection
Archives Library
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Tiger of the Snows : the autobiography of Tenzing of Everest

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1955
Author
Tenzing Norkey
Publisher
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Call Number
01.1 T26u
Author
Tenzing Norkey
Responsibility
written in collaboration with james Ramsey Ullman
Publisher
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published Date
1955
Physical Description
294 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Everest, Mount
Mount Everest Expedition 1953
Notes
Includes dust jacket
Accession Number
492
Call Number
01.1 T26u
Collection
Archives Library
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A climber’s guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1953
Author
Thorington, J. Monroe
Publisher
[New York] : The American Alpine Club
Edition
Revised Edition, 5th printing
Call Number
01.4 C61 1953
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Author
Thorington, J. Monroe
Responsibility
J. Monroe Thorington
Edition
Revised Edition, 5th printing
Publisher
[New York] : The American Alpine Club
Published Date
1953
Physical Description
xx, 323 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Guide
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Rocky Mountains
Abstract
A guide for mountaineers for the Canadian Rocky Mountains arranged geographically including map references.
Contents
Introduction Preface Part One - International Boundary to Kicking Horse Pass Part Two - Kicking Horse Pass to Yellowhead Pass Yellowhead Pass to Jarvis Pass List of authorites Principle maps of the Canadian Rocky Mountains Huts of the Alpine Club of Canada Annual Camps of the Alpine Club of Canada
Notes
First ed., by Howard Palmer and J. Monroe Thorington, published in 1921.
Accession Number
8062
Call Number
01.4 C61 1953
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publication information on the American Alpine Club website
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The trail the bunny took : and other stories for boys and girls

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1958
Author
Fuller, Edith C.
Publisher
New York : Vantage Press
Edition
1st
Call Number
05.2 F95t
Author
Fuller, Edith C.
Responsibility
Edith C. Fuller
Edition
1st
Publisher
New York : Vantage Press
Published Date
1958
Physical Description
53 pages ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wildlife
Fiction
Abstract
Children’s stories pertaining to wildlife, magic, and childhood
Contents
The Trail the Bunny Took The Song of Croaker The Little Harmonica The Magic Mirror Chatty the Squirrel Gretchen and the Mermaid
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
05.2 F95t
Collection
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The lords of the lakes and forests

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1950
Author
Moore, Augustus (editor)
Publisher
[Montreal] : [Printed by The´rien fre`res]
Call Number
08.1 M78t
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Author
Moore, Augustus (editor)
Publisher
[Montreal] : [Printed by The´rien fre`res]
Published Date
1950
Physical Description
109 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-Canada
Fur trade
Abstract
Pertains to individual reminisces of those involved with the North West Company
Contents
Introduction
Arma Virumque Cano
An Always Sordid Existence
And Seldom Nefarious Environment
Living in Isolated Posts
The Humble Routine of Traffic with the Indians
Improbe Amor! Quid non mortalia pectora cogis?
The Evil that Men do lives after them
Illium Fuit
Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
Fish and Chips
A Northwest Kennel Club and Horse Show
Bos Americanus
Higher Education and Medicine
Travelogues
Envoy
Appendix I - Bibliography
Appendix II - (translations)
Notes
Inscribed "To Pearl, a country is not over until one hundred is completed. Here it is [?], Runt"
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies - copy 100/100
Note found inside "Luxton Museum Banff Alta J.G. "Red" Cathcart, curator" in the shape of a bison skull - placed in mylar and back between pages 98-99
Accession Number
2020.20
Call Number
08.1 M78t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via Peel's Prairie Provinces
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Report of the Commission Appointed to Delimit the Boundary between the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia - Part I - from 1913 to 1916

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1917
Author
Alberta and British Columbia Boundary Commission
Publisher
Ottawa : Kings Printer
Call Number
03.2 Al1ab A Atlas oversize and report copy 3 reference Part I 1913-1916
Author
Alberta and British Columbia Boundary Commission
Responsibility
R.W. Cautley
J.N Wallace
A.O. Wheeler
Publisher
Ottawa : Kings Printer
Published Date
1917
Physical Description
1 atlas : illustrations ; 1 report
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Monuments and historic markers
Surveys
Boundaries
Alberta
British Columbia
British Columbia - Boundaries
British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
Alberta - B.C. Boundary
Alberta - Boundaries
Alberta British Columbia Boundary Commission
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Cautley, Richard William
Wallace, James Nevin
Atlases
Maps
Notes
Report and oversize atlas
Accession Number
8114
Call Number
03.2 Al1ab A Atlas oversize and report copy 3 reference Part I 1913-1916
Collection
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Atlas of the international boundary between the United States and Canada Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias to accompany the report of the International Boundary Commission

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Medium
Library - Map
Published Date
1913
Author
Department of the Interior
Publisher
US Geological Survey
Call Number
03.1 In8 OS
Variant Title
Joint maps of the International Boundary between United States and Canada along the 141st meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mt. St. Elias - surveyed and monumented 1907 - 1913 under the convention signed at Washington April 21st 1906
Author
Department of the Interior
Responsibility
O.H. Tittmann 1906-1915 (United States Commissioner)
E.C. Barnard 1915- (United States Commissioner)
W.F. King 1906-1916 (His British Majesty's Commissioner)
J.J. McArthur 1917- (His British Majesty's Commissioner)
Publisher
US Geological Survey
Published Date
1913
Physical Description
atlas (38 leaves of plates : maps)
Scale
1:62500
Medium
Library - Map
Subjects
Atlases
Canada
United States
Surveys
Surveys and Mapping
Abstract
Atlas to accompany "Joint report upon the survey and demarcation of the international boundary between the United States and Canada along the 141st meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias : in accordance with the provisions of Article IV of the Convention signed at Washington April 21, 1906"
Notes
Atlas only - report separate - 03.1 In8
Call Number
03.1 In8 OS
Collection
Archives Library
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Bigger and better, the book of enlarging

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1952
Author
Nibbelink, Don D.
Publisher
Rochester, N.Y. : Published by John P. Smith Co. for Garden City Books, Garden City, N.Y.
Call Number
06.4 N51b
Author
Nibbelink, Don D.
Responsibility
Don D. Nibbelink (author)
Sherman E. Nelson (artist)
Publisher
Rochester, N.Y. : Published by John P. Smith Co. for Garden City Books, Garden City, N.Y.
Published Date
1952
Physical Description
253 pages illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Guide
Abstract
Pertains to the processes involved in enlarging photographs
Contents
The Print's the Thing
Mixings and Fixings
About Darkrooms
About Enlargers
Getting Ready to Print
Enlarging from Eight to Late
New Prints for Old
Painting with Light
Tricks in Enlarging
Add a Dash of Color
Reducing and Intensifying
Control Processes
Let's Finish the Print
Print Mounting Methods
The Art of Framing and Hanging
Using the Enlarger to Make Slides
Pictures with a Purpose
All's Well That Ends Well
Alphabetical Subject Index
Accession Number
2019.104
Call Number
06.4 N51b
Collection
Archives Library
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