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Mushrooms of Western Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26228
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Author
- Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Call Number
- 04.1 Sch1m 1991
- 04.1 Sch1m 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Illustrated key to fruiting bodies -- Classification overview -- Keys to colour illustrations -- Colour illustrations -- Species descriptions.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0919433472
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 Sch1m 1991
- 04.1 Sch1m 2021
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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.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26160
- Medium
- 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.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.3 B36i
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The Group of Seven : art for a nation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25678
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Hill, Charles C.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55t
- Author
- Hill, Charles C.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 374 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Group of Seven
- History-Canada
- Artists
- ISBN
- 077106716X
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55t
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Contemporary japan : a review of Japanese affairs, March 1934, Vol. II, No. 4
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25565
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
- Call Number
- 08 F76g
- Responsibility
- The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
- Publisher
- Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
- Published Date
- 1934
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs includes various contributors writing about a variety of topics focused on Japan. This quarterly review was published by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan.
- Contents
- The Open Door in China and Manchuria / Sakutaro Tachi ; Anglo-Japanese Relations / M. D. Kennedy ; Japan and Soviet Russia / Katsuji Fusé ; The New Delhi Conference / Tanzan Ishibashi ; The Real Hirota / Taketora Ogata ; The Japanese Spirit / Masaatsu Yasuoka ; Seventy Years with the Chisel (illustrated) / Koun Takamura ; War Clouds in the Far East / Hatsutaro Haraguchi ; Dissolve the Political Parties / Yosuké Matsuoka ; Sen Katayama / H. vere Redman ; Whither the Japanese Peasantry? / Akira Kazami ; Outdoor Sports in Japan / G. Caiger ; Konjaku Monogatari -- Another Heian Masterpiece / Masajiro Kojima
- Notes
- From Catharine Robb Whyte Estate. Contains image that has been tipped-in.
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 08 F76g
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The rise of American civilization : Volume One
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25559
- Medium
- 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
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 08 B38t
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The pathfinder [film]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25526
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- [1932?]
- Publisher
- Associated Screen News Limited
- Call Number
- 08.3 W69 NF
- Responsibility
- B.E. Norrish [producer]
- Photographer: Alfred Jacquemin
- described by B.K. Sandwell
- narrated by Corey Thomson
- Publisher
- Associated Screen News Limited
- Published Date
- [1932?]
- Physical Description
- 1 16mm film reel
- Subjects
- Wilson, Tom
- Abstract
- Biography about Tom Wilson. Storyline includes reenactments of unidentified Indigenous men who showed him where the locations of Lake Louise and Emerald Lake were. Also includes the real Tom Wilson, Pat Brewster, ca. 1932.
- Notes
- 16mm film copied to digital file May 27, 2021: mp4; .mov and .mxf. Former 08.3 W69 V DVD copy was from a VHS copy.
- Call Number
- 08.3 W69 NF
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3275
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Call Number
- 01.2 K69
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- translated from the 3rd German ed. by Erwin and Pleasaunce von Gaisberg
- edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- xiii, 329p. : ill., ports, map
- Accession Number
- 1886
- 5891 - weed
- Call Number
- 01.2 K69
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3289
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Beach, William Nicholas
- Publisher
- New York : Derrydale Press
- Call Number
- 01.3 B35
- Author
- Beach, William Nicholas
- Responsibility
- foreword by John Burnham
- introduction by Robert Sterling Yard
- illustrated from paintings by Carl Rungius and from photographs by the author
- Publisher
- New York : Derrydale Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- xiii, 289p. : ill., ports., map
- Notes
- Signed by author;3350 -
- Accession Number
- 492
- 3350
- Call Number
- 01.3 B35
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Round Mystery Mountain : a ski adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3336
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Publisher
- London : E. Arnold
- Call Number
- 01.4 C63w
- Author
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Responsibility
- Sir Norman Watson and Edward J. King
- Publisher
- London : E. Arnold
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- xii, 246p. : ill., ports, maps
- Subjects
- Waddington, Mount
- Accession Number
- 220 - weed
- 411 - missing?
- 1039 - keep
- Call Number
- 01.4 C63w
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Ski-ing from A-Z : an instructional film...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3400
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1939
- Author
- Amstutz, Walter
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press
- Call Number
- 01.5 Am8
- Author
- Amstutz, Walter
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press
- Published Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1v. (unpaged) : ill
- Accession Number
- 400 - weed
- 5199
- Call Number
- 01.5 Am8
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60 centuries of skiing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3427
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Dudley, Charles M
- Publisher
- Brattleboro (VT) : Stephen Daye
- Call Number
- 01.5 D86
- Author
- Dudley, Charles M
- Publisher
- Brattleboro (VT) : Stephen Daye
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 207p. : ill., ports
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 400
- 4083 - weeded
- Call Number
- 01.5 D86
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Improve your skiing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3441
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1936
- Author
- Hall, Frederick A
- Publisher
- New York : Dodge
- Call Number
- 01.5 H14
- Author
- Hall, Frederick A
- Responsibility
- Frederick A. Hall and Nathaniel A. Benson
- Publisher
- New York : Dodge
- Published Date
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 221p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 478 - weed
- 3350
- Call Number
- 01.5 H14
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Away to the Canadian Rockies and British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3887
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1938
- Author
- Brinley, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 02.6 B77 c.1
- 02.6 B77 c.2
- Author
- Brinley, Gordon
- Responsibility
- illustrated by D. Putnam Brinley
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1938
- Physical Description
- X, 301 P. Illus., Map (On Lining Papers)
- Subjects
- Rungius, Carl
- Moore, Philip
- Luxton, Norman
- McLean, George
- Brewster family
- Whyte, Dorothy V
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Accession Number
- 323
- 400
- 1482 - weeded 2020-12-08
- 7864 - weeded 2020-12-08
- 2019.71 - weeded 2020-12-08
- Call Number
- 02.6 B77 c.1
- 02.6 B77 c.2
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Place names of the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11952
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.01 P98
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- William Putnam, Glen W. Boles, Roger W. Laurilla
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- xviii, 383 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps
- Notes
- Maps on endpapers and in pocket attached to back cover
- ISBN
- 0969162146
- Accession Number
- 23500
- Call Number
- 02.01 P98
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Barbara Spohr : apparent reasons = raisons apparentes.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25144
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Spohr, Barbara
- Publisher
- Banff, Alb. : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 06.4 Sp6a
1 website
- Author
- Spohr, Barbara
- Responsibility
- Barbara Spohr
- Publisher
- Banff, Alb. : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 81 pages : illustrations, portraits
- Abstract
- Exhibition catalogue for the 1995 exhibit of Barbara Spohr's show 'Apparent Reasons' at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Contents
- Introduction
- Road trip
- From where she stood
- Barbara Spohr's border crossings
- ISBN
- 0920608418
- Accession Number
- 2021.23
- Call Number
- 06.4 Sp6a
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- URL Notes
- Link to Banff Centre's Barbara Spohr Memorial Award page - includes biographical information
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Land, spirit, power : First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25118
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Nemiroff, Diana
- Houle, Robert
- Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
1 website
- Responsibility
- Diana Nemiroff
- Robert Houle
- Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 231 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada that focussed on art by Indigenous Peoples
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Land, Spirit, Power
- Modernism, Nationalism, and Beyond - a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art - Diana Nemiroff
- The Spiritual Legacy of the Ancient Ones - Robert Houle
- Kinds of Knowing - Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Notes
- Carl Beam
- Rebecca Belmore
- Dempsey Bob
- Domingo Cisneros
- Robert Davidson
- Jimmie Durham
- Dorothy Grant
- Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Faye HeavyShield
- Alex Janvier
- Zacharias Kunuk
- James Lavadour
- Truman Lowe
- James Luna
- Teresa Marshall
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Kay WalkingStick
- Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
- ISBN
- 0888846509
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
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- URL Notes
- National Gallery of Canada information on exhibition
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