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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
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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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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
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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
URL Notes
Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website
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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.
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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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Country post : rural postal service in Canada, 1880 to 1945

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19833
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2003
Author
Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
Publisher
Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
Call Number
08.1 Am1c
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Author
Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
Responsibility
Chantal Amyot and John Willis
Publisher
Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
Published Date
2003
Physical Description
210 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Postal services
History
Canada
Abstract
Pertains to the ways in which rural postal service combat isolationism in rural communities across Canada while using examples in Alberta. References and/or photos pertaining to Alberta include the following locations, Bently, Beverly, Big Valley, Capon, Claresholm, Consort, Coronation, Cressman, Gadsby, Hanna, Kinnodale, Lacombe, Ogden, Rapid City, Lethbridge, Red Lodge, Richdale, Rimbey, Stand Off, Troche, Wardlow and Worsley. The book draws similarities to the isolationism that was likely to exist in the Rocky Mountains at the time of early settlement, and the ways in which rural postal services increased communication among communities.
Contents
Foreword -- Canadian Postal Museum -- Foreword -- Canada post -- Foreword -- Canadian postmasters and assistants association -- Ch. 1. The transformation of rural society in Canada and the post office -- Ch. 2. The significance and symbolism of post offices and their locations -- Ch. 3. The rural postmaster -- Ch. 4. Social role of the post -- Ch. 5. Sending saving, and spending money -- Conclusion : whither the rural post office?
Notes
References and/or photographs of locations in Alberta can be found on the following pages Bently (98), Beverly (103), Big Valley (132), Capon (80), Claresholm (109), Consort (123), Coronation (114), Cressman (43), Gadsby (107), Hanna (98 and 124), Kinnodale (57 and 59), Lacombe (51), Lethbridge (89), Ogden (88), Rapid City (59), Red Lodge (59), Richdale (85), Rimbey (98), Stand Off (41), Troche (116), Wardlow (105) and Worsley (97)
ISBN
0660189984
Accession Number
2019.44
Call Number
08.1 Am1c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Avaliable through online subscription to jstor
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