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How to identify plants

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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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Outdoor life cyclopedia : a complete guide for sportsmen

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1945
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
Responsibility
Prepared by the editorial staff of Outdoor Life
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Published Date
1945
Physical Description
334 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fishing
Firearms
Hunting
Deer
Elk
Bears
Dogs
Water Travel
Camping
Woodcraft
Food
Contents
Angling equipment -- Methods of fishing -- Fresh water fishing -- Ocean fishing -- The sporting rifle -- Learning to shoot -- Methods of hunting -- The deer family -- Elk, antelope, sheep, bear -- Hunting small game -- The shotgun -- American waterfowl -- Our upland birds -- Mastering the handgun -- Your gun dog -- The sportsman's boat -- Camping and woodcraft -- Camp recipies.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
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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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1949
Author
Murray Gibbon, John
Publisher
Toronto : The Ryerson Press
Call Number
05.1 M96t
Author
Murray Gibbon, John
Publisher
Toronto : The Ryerson Press
Published Date
1949
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books
Subjects
Poetry
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05.1 M96t
Collection
Archives Library
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Douglas of the fir : a biography of David Douglas botanist

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1947
Author
George Harvey, Athelstan
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Call Number
04.1 H26d
Author
George Harvey, Athelstan
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Published Date
1947
Physical Description
x, 290 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Science
Travel
Canada
Upper Canada
Columbia River
Contents
Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
04.1 H26d
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
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1940
Author
Smythe, Francis Sydney
Publisher
London : Hodder and Stoughton
Call Number
01 W62s
Author
Smythe, Francis Sydney
Publisher
London : Hodder and Stoughton
Published Date
1940
Physical Description
330p. : ill., maps (fold.)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineers, British
Accession Number
3000
5891 - weed
Call Number
01 W62s
Collection
Archives Library
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The new Canadian loyalists

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1941
Author
Gibbon, John Murray
Publisher
Toronto : Macmillan of Canada
Call Number
08.1 G35 Pam
Author
Gibbon, John Murray
Publisher
Toronto : Macmillan of Canada
Published Date
1941
Physical Description
39p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Ethnic groups
Notes
3069A signed by J.M. Gibbon to Peter and Catharine Whyte
Accession Number
400
3069A
Call Number
08.1 G35 Pam
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
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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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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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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
Archives Library
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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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The Canadian Handicrafts Guild 1944

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1944
Author
The Canadian Handicrafts Guild
Publisher
Affiliated with the Canadian Association for Adult Education
Call Number
06.1 C16c PAM
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Author
The Canadian Handicrafts Guild
Publisher
Affiliated with the Canadian Association for Adult Education
Published Date
1944
Physical Description
36 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Clubs
Abstract
Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild for 1944 including bylaws, life members, donations, annual meetings, president's address, branch summaries, Victory Banner Competition photographs, annual report including treasurers report, programs, special committees, statement of receipts and disbursements, prize winners, auditor's report, and a chart of stitches
Accession Number
2020.20
Call Number
06.1 C16c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Additional information pertaining to the Canadian Handicrafts Guild within the larger Arts and Crafts Movement in Canada
Websites
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Down north; souvenir of the Alaska Highway workers. Yarns of the road

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1944
Author
Hobo Ben
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : J.W. Dick
Edition
2nd enl. ed.
Call Number
05.1 H65d PAM
Author
Hobo Ben
Responsibility
James Ward Dick
Edition
2nd enl. ed.
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : J.W. Dick
Published Date
1944
Physical Description
44 pages illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Alaska
Alaska highway
Alaska, United States
Highways
Abstract
Stories and poems pertaining to the construction of the Alaska Highway
Contents
Road Adventures
Alaska Highway Builders, 1942
Truckers - Alaska Highway
The Gravel-Truck Man
New Worlds (Reflections)
Free Beer ("Exchange")
Army Engineers Versus Old-Timers (Alcan Road)
Dust and Road Hazards
"Short" (Beer)
Lodgings Down North, 1942
Mud - on the North-West "Tote"
Mail - From Home
Ode To a Fly
Mile Twenty-Three to Twenty-Eight Alaska Highway
Alaska Highway and Lateral Roads (map)
Over-Loads - Down North
Women - Down North
Notes
Dedicated to those who in any way took part in work on the Alaska Highway
Accession Number
2020.20
Call Number
05.1 H65d PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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This is photography; its means and ends

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1947
Author
Miller, Thomas H.
Brummitt, Wyatt
Publisher
Garden City, N.Y. Garden City Publishing Co. Inc.
Edition
1st ed.
Call Number
06.4 M61t
Author
Miller, Thomas H.
Brummitt, Wyatt
Responsibility
Thomas H. Miller
Wyatt Brummitt
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
Garden City, N.Y. Garden City Publishing Co. Inc.
Published Date
1947
Physical Description
260 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Guide
Abstract
Pertains to how to successfully take photographs as of 1947
Contents
You and Your Camera
Which Camera?
Lenses
Be Camera-Wise
Films
Developing Film
Photographic Paper and Printing
Enlarging
Sensitometry
Filters
Color Photography
Shooting in Color
What About Exposure Meters?
Pictures, Free Style
Land, Sea and Sky
Action
By Flood and Flash
Pictures and People
There are Tricks in all Trades
Special Purpose Photography
Now That They're Finished
Notes
Third printing
Accession Number
2019.104
Call Number
06.4 M61t
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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