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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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Seeing and believing : ecology and wonder in Canada's mountains

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21305

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2002

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: [S.l. : S.n.]

Call Number: SB484 C3 S4

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Responsibility: R. W. Sandford & The International Year of Mountains Canadian Steering Committee

Publisher: [S.l. : S.n.]

Published Date: 2002

Physical Description: 256p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Tourism

Notes: The interpretive manual for Canada's United Nations International Year of the Mountains celebration

Call Number: SB484 C3 S4

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Indians in the Rockies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1985

Author: Whyte, Jon

Publisher: Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.

Call Number: 07.2 W62i

Author: Whyte, Jon

Responsibility: Jon Whyte

Publisher: Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.

Published Date: 1985

Physical Description: 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: First Nations; Banff Indian Days; Rocky Mountains; Banff; First Nations (SEE ALSO Indians)

Abstract: Pertains to the history and movement of Indigenous Peoples into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Written through a colonial perspective, author Jon Whyte offers his insight into Indigenous culture and the ways in which settlers were dependent on traditional Indigenous knowledge upon their arrival in North America. The book follows the migration of Indigenous Peoples into the valley of the Rocky Mountains.

Contents: Foreward (pg. 7); Introduction (pg. 11); The first hundred centuries (pg. 15); The mountain peoples (pg. 23); Strangers in the land (pg. 37); Calling cards 1840-1870 (pg. 41); The art of beadwork (pg. 51); Capital in reserve (pg. 55); Civilization: its discontents (pg. 61); Indian Days (pg. 71); All our yesterdays (pg. 81); Portfolio (pg. 85); Epilogue (pg. 122); Acknowledgments (pg. 123); Bibliography (pg. 127); About the author (pg. 128)