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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
Medium
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
  1 website  
Author
Rutter, Nat
Coppold, Murray
Rokosh, Dean
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Thinking like a mountain

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25273
Medium
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Skiing
History
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
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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  
Author
Grafe, Steven L.
Farr, William E.
Smith, Sherry L.
Robes Kipp, Darrell
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art Volume 5, Number 1, 2009

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25122
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Publisher
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Call Number
06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
  1 website  
Author
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Publisher
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
46 pages ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Volume 5, Number 1
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife artists
Art
Art galleries
Artists
Abstract
Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
Contents
Patrons without peer: selections from the McCoy Collection
He speaks for the trees: Dr. Suess and the Lorax
On the natural world
Collection spotlight: Dan Ostermiller's "The Emperor"
Walter Hood to design sculpture trail for museum
Wildlife in American art
Community focus committee: engaging the community
Notes
Features article on page 18 entitled "Looking at Wildlfe - the maturing Carl Rungius" - the National Museum of Wildlife Art holds the largest collection of Carl Rungius pieces in the United States
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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A crown of maples : constitutional monarchy in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25103
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2008
Author
Canadian Heritage
Publisher
Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
Call Number
08.1 C16a PAM
  1 website  
Author
Canadian Heritage
Publisher
Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
Published Date
2008
Physical Description
63, xviii pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
History-Canada
History
Abstract
Pertains to how the Constitutional Monarchy functions in Canada
Contents
Introduction The Canadian Crown - An Overview The Modern Reality of Constitutional Monarchy The Role and Powers of the Canadian Crown Today Canadian Representatives of the Crown Comparison with Other Systems of Government The Visual Presence of the Canadian Crown Conclusion The Royal Anthem - “God Save the Queen” Appendices Photographic Credits Glossary Acknowledgements
ISBN
9780662460121
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
08.1 C16a PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
2015 version available online via the Government of Canada
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Dendroarchaeological and contextual investigations of remote log structures in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks, Canada.

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline
Publisher
Victoria : University of Victoria
Call Number
06.5 B74d
  1 website  
Author
Brelsford, Karen Jacqueline
Responsibility
Karen Jacqueline Brelsford
Publisher
Victoria : University of Victoria
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
310 pages ; illus. , maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
National parks
Architecture
Buildings
Cabins
Cabins and shelters
Thesis
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to undertake a comprehensive dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of 35 sites (44 log structures) in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks. Through tree-ring analysis and investigations of relevant documents (i.e., archives and interviews), three main objectives are met: (1) an architectural inventory and tree-ring analysis of sampled structures in the three parks; (2) an exploration of remote construction activity in the three parks, in terms of functional, temporal, and spatial distributions, and tree species selection; and (3) a detailed dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of three structure case studies. The results provide new insights into remote construction activity from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century in the three parks. It assists Parks Canada in their attempt to interpret the cultural heritage resources of this area and contributes to the international need to document and explore vernacular architecture. (from the University of Victoria library website)
Contents
Title Page Abstract Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Literature Review 3.0 Study Sites and Methods 4.0 Characteristics of living and structure chronologies in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks Construction Activity in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks 6.0 Case Studies 7.0 Conclusions 8.0 References Appendix A: Tree-ring dating results and site descriptions for 35 sites (44 structures) sampled in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay Parks Appendix B: Interview Transcriptions Appendix C: Copyright Permissions
Accession Number
7561
Call Number
06.5 B74d
Collection
Archives Library
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Available online via the University of Victoria
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Reid, Gordon
Publisher
Calgary : Fifth House Publishers
Call Number
07.3 R27h
  1 website  
Author
Reid, Gordon
Responsibility
Gordon Reid
Publisher
Calgary : Fifth House Publishers
Published Date
2002
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Bison
Archaeology
Buffalo
Abstract
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved buffalo jump sites in North America and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981. Author Gordon Reid has compiled a history of this significant site, describing the importance of the buffalo to Native peoples, how the jump was used, and the traditions and skills surrounding the hunt. He also looks at the excavation of the site, explaining how archaeologists uncovered artifacts, and what they learned about the history of the site and the people who used it. Also included is an overview of the resources offered by the Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump interpretive centre. This book, originally published in 1993, has been a very popular resource for tourists, educators, students, and people interested in Alberta's heritage. Completely updated and redesigned for this new edition, it will be the only book available that explains, in depth, the vital role of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Native history. (from Fifth House Publishing website)
Contents
Part I - The Buffalo and the Native Peoples Part II - Unearthing the Past Part III - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Today
ISBN
1894004833
Accession Number
2017.8665
Call Number
07.3 R27h
Collection
Archives Library
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First voices : an Aboriginal women's reader

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Monture, Patricia A. (editor)
McGuire, Patricia D. (editor)
Publisher
Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education
Call Number
05 M76f
  1 website  
Author
Monture, Patricia A. (editor)
McGuire, Patricia D. (editor)
Publisher
Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
xvii, 538 pages : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Essays
Poetry
First Nations
Women
Literature
Abstract
A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included. There are few books on Aboriginal women in Canada; this anthology provides a valuable addition to the literature and fills a critical gap in the fields of Native Studies, Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies. (from Inanna website)
Contents
Introduction / Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire -- Profiles of Aboriginal Women -- Kohkum would be Mad at me / Patricia A. Monture -- Response to Canada's Apology to Residential Shool Survivors / Beverley Jacobs -- Portrait of Gladys Taylor / Alice Olsen Williams -- Life of a Chief: An Interview / Nora Bothwell -- Nice Story of Nohkom / Lana Whiskeyjack -- Carrying the Pipe: Maliseet Elder, Healer and Teacher, Imelda Perley / Maura Hanrahan -- Poverty and the Poetry: A Native Woman's Life History / Garry Klugie -- Interview with Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, Turtle Clan / Kim Anderson -- Role Models: An Anishnaabe-kwe Perspective / Renee E. Mzinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard -- Sky Woman Lives On: Contemporary Examples of Mothering the Nation / Lina Sunseri -- Identity -- Healing Is / Isabel Louise O'Kanese -- Wiisaakodewikwe Anishinaabekwe Diabaajimotaw Nipigon Zaaga'igan: Lake Nipigon Ojibway Metis Stories About Women / Patricia D. McGuire -- Surviving as a Native Woman Artist / Joane Cardinal-Schubert -- N'tacimowin innan nah': Our Coming In Stories / Alex Wilson -- Triple Jeopardy: Aboriginal Women with Disabilities / Doreen Demas -- Inuit Women and the Politics of Naming in Nunavut / Valerie Alia -- Feminism and Aboriginal Culture: One Woman's View / Agnes Grant -- Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters / Shirley O'Connor-Anderson, Patricia A. Monture and Nerissa O'Connor -- Brown Girl Dancing / Kate Monture -- Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Sovereignty / Patricia A. Monture -- Territory -- I Lost My Talk / Rita Joe -- Reflections from a NamekosipiiwAnishinaapekwe My Trout Lake, Your Trout Lake / Kaaren Olsen Dannenmann -- Anishnaabekwe, Traditional Knowledge and Water / Deborah McGregor -- Nunavut: Whose Homeland, Whose Voices? / Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez -- First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies / Brenda McLeod -- Third World Housing Development and Indigenous People in North America / Winona LaDuke -- Matrimonial Real Property Solutions / Elizabeth Bastien -- Activism -- Invocation/Incantation to the Women Word-Warriors for Custom-Made Shoes / Monique Mojica -- Aboriginal Women at Midlife: Grandmothers as Agents of Change / Lynn M. Meadows, Wilfreda E. Thurston and Laura E. Lagendyk -- Two Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society / Michelle Cameron -- Ensuring Indigenous Women's Voices are Heard: The Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women / Mary Sillet -- "With the Appropriate Qualifications": Aboriginal People and Employment Equity / Patti Doyle-Bedwell -- HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women in Canada / Susan Judith Ship and Laura Norton -- Aboriginal Women and the Constitutional Debates: Continuing Discrimination / Native Women's Association of Canada -- Moving Beyond the Feminism Versus Nationalism Dichotomy: An Anti-Colonial Feminist Perspective on Aboriginal Liberation Struggles / Lina Sunseri -- Writing on the Wall: Metis Reflections on Gerald Vizenor's Strategies for Survival / Carole Leclair -- Confronting Power: Aboriginal Women and Justice Reform / Patricia A. Monture -- Confronting Colonialism -- White man tell me / Patricia A. Monture -- Racism, Sexism and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada / Carrie Bourassa, Kim McKay-McNabb and Mary Hampton -- Child Sexual Abuse: Words from Concerned Women / Aboriginal Women's Council of Saskatchewan -- Keeping the Circle Strong in the North: Solvent Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Strategies for the North / Rosemarie Kuptana -- Simpering Outrage During an "Epidemic" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. Tait -- For Kayla John / Robina Thomas -- Is Canada Peaceful and Safe for Aboriginal Women? / Anita Olsen Harper -- Culture of Loss: The Mourning Period of Paper Indians / Apryl Gladue -- Confronting the Canadian Legal System -- Freedom / Kate Monture -- "The Least Members of Our Society" / The Mohawk Women of Caughnawaga -- Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Contradictions and Challenges / Aki-Kwe and Mary Ellen Turpel -- Aboriginal Women's Rights as "Existing Rights" / Sharon D. McIvor -- Women and the Canadian Legal System: Examining Situations of Hyper-Responsibility / Caefs/Nwac -- Entrenched Social Catastrophe: Native Women in Prison / Fran Sugar -- Suitable Place: Positive Change for Federally-Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Canada / Lori Sparling -- Women and Risk: Aboriginal Women, Colonialism and Correctional Practice / Patricia A. Monture -- International Human Rights Standards and Instruments Relevant to Indigenous Women / M. Celeste Mckay -- Indigenous Knowledges -- When I Was a Child / Shirley Ida Williams-Pheasant -- Spirit of My Quilts / Alice Olsen Williams -- Our World / Osennontion & Skonaganleh:ra -- Indian Medicine, Indian Health / Lesley Malloch -- Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica -- Locating Ourselves in the Place of Creation: The Academy as Kisu'lt melkiko'tin / Emerance Baker -- Notokwe Opikiheet -- "Old Lady Raised" Aboriginal Women's Reflections on Ethics and Methodologies / Kim Anderson -- Conclusion / Patricia D. McGuire and Patrcia A. Monture.
ISBN
9780980882292
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
05 M76f
Collection
Archives Library
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Water, weather and the mountain west

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13641
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Sandford, Robert W
Publisher
Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
03.5 Sa5wa c.1
03.5 Sa5wa c.2
03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3
  1 website  
Author
Sandford, Robert W
Publisher
Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
207 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Conservation
Water
Watersheds
Canada
Climate
Climate change
Climatology
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada. Since many rivers are already fully allocated to numerous uses, future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water resources and how effectively we manage them—especially in the face of climate change. The message to take home from this eloquent book is that it is time to dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in Canada and throughout North America. We all need to be mindful that though our technologically sophisticated society is largely fuelled and lubricated by refined petroleum, it ultimately runs on plain water. In his conclusion to this authoritative book, Robert Sandford, chair of Canada’s United Nations Water for Life Decade, offers a realistic picture of the various issues and threats related to the future availability and quality of fresh water in Canada. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Invocation: through mist and rainbow the water speaks
One: water, weather and the west
Two: the drinking-water supply in Canada
Three: what can we learn from others
Four: reading the wind: reframing the climage-change debate
Five: future landscapes in the mountain west
Appendix One
Appendix Two
Written on the wind: a climate-change bookshelf
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198) and index
ISBN
9781894765930
Accession Number
40500 - 2 copies
P2020-2
Call Number
03.5 Sa5wa c.1
03.5 Sa5wa c.2
03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3
Collection
Archives Library
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Castleguard Cave 2005 - first ascent of the 200-foot aven

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24963
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Vokac, Marek
Publisher
Oslo, Norway : Marek Vokac
Edition
1st
Call Number
03.2 V85c PAM
  1 website  
Author
Vokac, Marek
Responsibility
Marek Vokac
Christian Rushfeldt
Bjorn Myrvold
Jorn Halvorsen
Edition
1st
Publisher
Oslo, Norway : Marek Vokac
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
127 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Caves
Castleguard Cave
Research
Exploration
Geography
Geology
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the 2005 first ascent into the Castleguard Cave near the Saskatchewan Glacier in Banff National Park by Marek Vokac, Christian Rushfeldt, Bjorn Myrvold and Jorn Halvorsen
Notes
Includes copy of report on CD
Accession Number
2019.97
Call Number
03.2 V85c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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A Useful Institution: William Twin,"Indianness," and Banff National Park, c.1860-1940

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24965
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Bradford, Tolly
Publisher
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Department of Indigenous Studies , University of Saskatchewan
Call Number
07.2 B72u PAM
  1 website  
Author
Bradford, Tolly
Responsibility
Tolly Bradford
Publisher
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Department of Indigenous Studies , University of Saskatchewan
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
22p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff National Park
Tourism
First Nations
Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
Abstract
This paper examines the life of William Twin (c. 1860–1940), a member of the Nakoda (or Stoney) First Nation, and pays particular attention to his connection with Banff National Park and role in facilitating the tourism empire that still flourishes there. Being careful to distinguish between who William Twin was and how he was imagined to be, this paper argues that his life story has at least two aspects: William as an ‘institution’ useful to the development of Banff National Park, and William as a person who enjoyed sustained and very personal interactions with both Stoney and Euro-Canadian communities (abstract)
Notes
In Native Studies Review . 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p 77-98.
Call Number
07.2 B72u PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Native Studies Review via the University of Saskatchewan Department of Indigenous Studies
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In time and place : master plan 2005 for the protection, preservation, and presentation of Alberta's past

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24956
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Tracey, William
Field, Dorothy
Myers, Patricia A.
Vickers, J. Rod
Wyman, Marlena
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Community Development
Call Number
00.5 T67i
  1 website  
Author
Tracey, William
Field, Dorothy
Myers, Patricia A.
Vickers, J. Rod
Wyman, Marlena
Responsibility
William Tracey
Dorothy Field
Patricia A. Myers
J. Rod Vickers
Marlena Wyman
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Community Development
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
vi, 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
Alberta - History
Archives
History
History of Alberta
Guide
Abstract
Pertains to a suggested plan by heritage professionals to thematically protect, preserve and present history in Alberta
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Master Plan 2005: A New Approach to Preserving Alberta's History
Part I: Preservation Strategy
Part II: A Thematic Approach
Part III: Using Master Plan 2005
Part IV: The Thematic Framework
Part V: CD with Printable Appendices
Notes
Includes letter from author Marlena Wyman
ISBN
0778543374
Accession Number
2019.93
Call Number
00.5 T67i
Collection
Archives Library
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Expanding horizons : painting and photography of American and Canadian landscape, 1860-1918

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24957
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Publisher
[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Call Number
06.1 G11e O.S.
  1 website  
Author
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Responsibility
Hilliard T. Goldfarb (editor)
Publisher
[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
318 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Landscapes
Artists
Photographers
Photography
Exhibitions
Canada
United States
North America
Abstract
Catalogue of an exhibition first held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 18 to Sept. 27, 2009 and then travelling to Vancouver Art Gallery, from Oct. 17, 2009 to Janu. 17, 2010. Issued also in French under title: Grandeur nature : peinture et photographie des paysages ame´ricains et canadiens de 1860 a` 1918.
Contents
Endangered horizons / Nathalie Bondil -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Crossed destinies: manifesting the paths of nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860-1918 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Flexible frontiers: expansion, contraction, regeneration / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Nature transcendent -- The most northerly horizon / Rosalind Pepall -- The forest, Niagara and the sublime / Franc¸ois-Marc Gagnon -- Works -- The stage of history and the theatre of myth -- Looking at landscape in athe age of environmentalism / Lynda Jessup -- Too silent to be real / Richard Hill -- Works -- Man versus nature -- Painting and photography in British Columbia, 1871-1916: some observations / Ian Thom -- Works -- Nature domesticated -- Word and image: North American landscape in nineteenth-century illustrated publications / Brian Foss -- John Singer Sargent's adventurous summer in the Canadian Rockies: the visit to rh Yoho Valley in 1916 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Works -- The urban landscape -- "To pavements and homesteads here" : landscape, photography, and the transcendence of time and space / Philip Brookman -- Works -- The return of nature -- Introduction -- Works.
ISBN
9782891923347
Accession Number
2019.94
Call Number
06.1 G11e O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Review and synopsis on Canadian Architect website
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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Schindler, D.W.
Donahue, W.F.
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Call Number
03.5 Sc1a PAM
  1 website  
Author
Schindler, D.W.
Donahue, W.F.
Responsibility
D.W. Schindler
W.F. Donahue
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
6 pages ; illustrations , maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Watersheds
Climate
Climate change
Climatology
Western Canada
Glaciers
Rivers
Lakes
Abstract
Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
Notes
In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
Call Number
03.5 Sc1a PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via PNAS's website
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A tale of two passes : an inquiry into certain alpine literature

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20167
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2008
Author
Putnam, William Lowell
Publisher
Flagstaff, Arizona : Light Technology
Co-published by American Alpine Club, Alpine Club of Canada and International Association of Alpine Societies
Call Number
08 P98 T14
  1 website  
Author
Putnam, William Lowell
Responsibility
William L. Putnam
Publisher
Flagstaff, Arizona : Light Technology
Co-published by American Alpine Club, Alpine Club of Canada and International Association of Alpine Societies
Published Date
2008
Physical Description
i, 219 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Alps
Alps, Italian
History
Passes
Literature
Abstract
Written by AAC Honorary President William L Putnam, "this text is devoted to that pair of passes: the Mont Cenis and the Great Saint Bernard. Both of these mountain crossings appear to have been known and used from pre-Roman times. Both were prominently and frequently used by the Romans inestablishing and maintaining their empire; both were long adorned with hospice/shelters near their crests; and both have been by-passed by modern tunnels but are still crossed by paved highways. Despite these similiarites, their historic prominence derives from distinctly different events and factors. Herein lies the histories of these passes and stories of many travelers amongst the Alps - told as much as possible in their own words." ( from book jacket)
Contents
Introduction
Part I:
Chapter I : Early Alpine Passages
Chapter II : The Terrain
Part II:
Chapter III : Hannibal's Crossing
Chater IV : The Argument
Chapter V : The Railway
Part III:
Chater VI : The Other Route of the Ancients
Chapter VII : Hazards of the Mountain
Chapter VIII : The Great Saint Bernard in Later Literature
Chapter IX : The Early Alpinists
Chapter X : The Largest Crossing
Chapter XI : Popes and Passes
Index
Notes
Signed by author - addressed to Margaret Gmoser - dated October 19th, 2008
ISBN
1-891824-66-X
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
08 P98 T14
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Book available through The American Alpine Club
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A Century of American alpinism, 2002

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20146
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Fay, Charles Ernest
Bent, Allen Herbert
Palmer, Howard
Thorington, James Monroe
Kauffman, Andrew John
Putnam, William Lowell
Publisher
Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
Call Number
G505 F39 C46
  1 website  
Author
Fay, Charles Ernest
Bent, Allen Herbert
Palmer, Howard
Thorington, James Monroe
Kauffman, Andrew John
Putnam, William Lowell
Responsibility
Charles Earnest Fay, Allen Herbert Bent, Howard Palmer, James Monroe Thorington, Andrew John Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam
Publisher
Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
Published Date
2002
Physical Description
ix, 196 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
American Alpine Club
History
Mountaineering
Clubs
Abstract
Pertains to a century of American alpinism from 1902 to 2002
Contents
Forward
Preface
I Earliest American Mountaineers
II Pacific Crests
III Later and Farther North
IV Tidewater Alaska
V Early Amerian Ascents in the Alps
VI Appalachian Mountain Club Roots
VII The Social Aspect of Alpinism
VIII To the Top of the Continent
IX Other Mountain Clubs of America
X Momentous Events
XI Afield and at War
XII Changing Mores
XIII Moving West
XIV Not All Sweetness and Light
XV The Study of Mountain Elevations
XVI Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness
XVII Changing Faces
Appendices
Index
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
G505 F39 C46
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
American Alpine Club link to book
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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20137
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Clark, Geoffrey E.
Publisher
Portsmouth Athenaeum
Call Number
G670 C53 A23
  1 website  
Author
Clark, Geoffrey E.
Responsibility
Geoffrey E. Clark
Publisher
Portsmouth Athenaeum
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
81 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Arctic
Arctic Regions
Research
Survival
Film making
Films
American
Abstract
In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)
Contents
Introduction
Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
The Beginning
Research and Exploration
The Retreat
The Rescue
Greely's Later Years
The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Notes
DVD of associated film included with publication
Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio
ISBN
0974089524
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
G670 C53 A23
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Link to publication on Abe Books
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Treasures of the trail : a nature guide to Edworthy Park, Lawrey Gardens and the Douglas Fir Trail

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20078
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Osborn, Jerry
The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Publisher
Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Call Number
04 O1t
  1 website  
Author
Osborn, Jerry
The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Responsibility
Jerry Osborn
The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Publisher
Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Published Date
2002
Physical Description
164 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Wildlife
Archaeology
History
History of Alberta
Maps
Ecology
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Walking
Tours
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Trails
Abstract
Pertains to Edworthy Park in Calgary, Alberta, including the geology, paleontology, plant life, animal life, insect life, archaeology, Indigenous Peoples history, settler history and maps of walks which include plant and bird checklists. The three brick plants that operated in what is now Edworthy Park: Burnvale, Brickburn, Tregillus Clay Products were used to construct many buildings in Banff.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Geology and Paleontology
Plant Life
Animal Life
Butterflies
Archaeology and Native Culture
History
Park Map
Walk One - Wester Plateau of Edworthy Park
Walk Two - Brickburn and the Pond Lookout Trail
Walk Three - Edworthy Park Riverside
Walk Four - Douglas Fire Trail West
Walk Five - Quarry Road Trail, Lawrey Gardens, and Douglas Fire Trail East
Appendix One - Plant Checklist
Appendix Two - Bird Checklist
Contributors
Further Reading
Index of Photos
Notes
Brick information as per Ann Jones conversation with Lena Goon.
ISBN
0973176105
Accession Number
2014.8268
Call Number
04 O1t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
City of Calgary website re: Edworthy Park location and trail maps
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A 2005 centennial addendum to the 1993 publication "pioneer families of Southern Alberta"

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19930
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
Publisher
[Calgary] : Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendents
Call Number
08.2 So8a
  1 website  
Author
Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
Responsibility
Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendants
Publisher
[Calgary] : Southern Alberta Pioneers and Their Descendents
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
94 p. ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History of Alberta
History
Biography
Pioneer life
Abstract
Pertains to the "Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta" publication compiled in 1995 - addendum for centennial with additional biographical information
Contents
Ascheson to Astley
Baille to Byers
Callaway to Cyr
Dalgleish to Dyke
Earl to Ewell
Faiery to Fullerton
Gaetz to Gunn
Haines to Hutchison
Ilugason to Irvine
Jack to Jukes
Kauntz to Kountz
Lacombe to Lyndon
MacDonald to Myers
Naessens to Norrish
O'Brien to Owens
Pace to Pullar
Quail
Ramsay to Ruers
Sample sto Sweinhurt
Talbot to Tyson
Vanwart to Vincent
Wakeford to Wright
York to Yuill
Zanoni
Illustrations - photos prepared by Robert (Bud) Vine
Notes
Addendum to 08.2 So8p
Accession Number
2019.68
Call Number
08.2 So8a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Southern Alberta Pioneers and their Descendants
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