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Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

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Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian…

Date Range: [ca.1900-1950]

Reference Code: M584 / V782

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Transparency; Lantern slide; Print; Organization record; Textual record

Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M584 / V782

Sous-Fonds: V782

Accession Number: 303, 304, 625, 1471, 1086, 1544, 3288, 3502, 6740, 7071, 2014.8366, 2021.18

Reference Code: M584 / V782

GMD: Photograph; Transparency; Lantern slide; Print; Organization record; Textual record

Date Range: [ca.1900-1950]

Physical Description: 69 b&w lantern slides, 5 cm of textual records, ca. 309 prints : b&w ; 27.9 x 20.3 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian Pacific" screenplay and associated documents. Visual material includes black and white lantern slides and black and white prints depicting various scenes pertaining to travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway and depict dining rooms, scnes involving trains and mountains, farming scenes and fields, people in train cars, various cities and towns, figures in natural landscapes, horses and horseback riding, mountains, waterfalls, skiing, ships, CP hotels, and other grand buildings [across Canada] such as Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal. Textual material includes paper reports [some compiled by Canadian Pacific Hotels Architectural Engineer Ed Steel] detailing various construction and/or renovation projects for hotels, lodges, tea houses, bugalow camps, huts, and backcountry lodges throughout the Canadian Rockies as well as records pertaining to CP hotels in the Canadian Rockies, and the screenplay for "Canadian Pacific."

Notes: Slides were stored in rectangular wood box with leather handle on top, and metal handle at one end. White label that says “Lyon & Turnbull 432 04 February 2009” on lid of the box. Old, peeling, and stained label on top under handle, illegible. Faded, peeling labels on front, some words legible: “from the Canadian Pacific…” 2 stained and water damaged labels detached from box appear to be English shipping labels.“10” stamped in black on both ends of box. Stamped in black on rear of box: “Canadian Pacific Rly Co. 62 to 65 Charing Cross, London, S.W. 1. “3” engraved on upper rim of box. Box is divided into 3 sections with removable wood separators, small pieces of felt line 2 sections of the box.

Name Access: Canadian Pacific Railway

Subject Access: Buildings; Buildings and facilities; Camps; Construction; Environment; Huts; Tourism; Trains; Transportation

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Glacier; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: Language is English

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Content Details: Prints and some textual records absorbed from old records V121 and M48. Lantern slides donated to the Whyte Museum by Dr. William and Mrs. Wynn Bensen. The slides were purchased by the Bensens from Lyon and Turnbull in Scotland.

Processing Status: Processed

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The spell of the Rockies

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

Published Date: 1912

Author: Mills, Enos A

Publisher: London : Constable

Call Number: 04 M62

Author: Mills, Enos A

Publisher: London : Constable

Published Date: 1912

Physical Description: xi, 355p. : ill

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

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 04 M62

Collection: Archives Library

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Explorations and field-work

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

Published Date: 1915-1925

Author: Smithsonian Institution

Call Number: 04 Sm6

Author: Smithsonian Institution

Published Date: 1915-1925

Physical Description: 6v. : ill

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

Subjects: Geology; Indians

Notes: Library has 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1924

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 04 Sm6

Collection: Archives Library

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Life zone investigations in Wyoming

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

Published Date: 1917

Author: Cary, Merritt

Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : U.S. Government Printing Office

Call Number: 04 C25

Author: Cary, Merritt

Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : U.S. Government Printing Office

Published Date: 1917

Physical Description: 95p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Botany; Wildlife

Accession Number: 8000

Call Number: 04 C25

Collection: Archives Library

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Handbook of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum

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

Published Date: 1914

Author: Smith, Harlan I

Publisher: Ottawa : Dominion Parks Branch; Government Printing Bureau

Call Number: 04 Sm5

Author: Smith, Harlan I

Publisher: Ottawa : Dominion Parks Branch; Government Printing Bureau

Published Date: 1914

Physical Description: 126p. : ill

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

Subjects: Banff

Accession Number: 184; 4086

Call Number: 04 Sm5

Collection: Archives Library

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Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve : report of Boundary Survey parties

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

Published Date: 1911

Author: Edgecombe, G. H

Publisher: Ottawa : Dept. of the Interior; Government Printing Bureau

Call Number: 04 Ed3 Pam

Author: Edgecombe, G. H

Responsibility: by G.H. Edgecombe and P.Z. Caverhill

Publisher: Ottawa : Dept. of the Interior; Government Printing Bureau

Published Date: 1911

Physical Description: 27p. : ill

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

Accession Number: 7500

Call Number: 04 Ed3 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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George Hunter, John Hunter's Son

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Part Of: Eliza Hunter fonds

Scope & Content: Item consists of a photograph print of a couple sitting side by side inside a tepee. The man is identified as George Hunter by Catharine Robb Whyte, possibly in consultation with Eliza Hunter, on the back of the photo.

Date Range: [ca. 1900-1950]

Reference Code: V804 / PA - 04

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

2 images

Part Of: Eliza Hunter fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: V804

Sous-Fonds: V804

Accession Number: 1077

Reference Code: V804 / PA - 04

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [ca. 1900-1950]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : print, 8.9 x 11.7 cm

Scope & Content: Item consists of a photograph print of a couple sitting side by side inside a tepee. The man is identified as George Hunter by Catharine Robb Whyte, possibly in consultation with Eliza Hunter, on the back of the photo.

Name Access: Hunter, Eliza; Hunter, George; Hunter, John

Subject Access: Family and personal life; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Portrait; Stoney Nakoda; Recognizing relations

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: English

Related Material: Recognizing Relations number RR 511

Title Source: *Image was part of the Recognizing Relations project, an archives initiative undertaken in 2014 to identify Stoney people in photographs held in the Whyte Museum Archives. Title from annotation on the back of the print written by Catharine Robb Whyte.

Processing Status: Processed

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Taking a break from saving the world : a conservation activist's journey from burnout to balance

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

Published Date: 2020

Author: Legault, Stephen

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 L52t

Author: Legault, Stephen

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 166 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

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

Subjects: Self-Help; Conservation; Activism; Environment

Abstract: A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and commitment to our causes. Following a river-running metaphor, and proposing a variety of techniques to help with various states of anxiety resulting from burnout, including clarity of purpose, recognition of limits, fitness and diet, mediation and yoga, as well as organizational structural changes such as leave-of-absence policies, Legault encourages readers to find time to 'eddy out'--to rest a moment in quieter waters and scout downriver--to ensure our lifetime of engagement is fulfilling, effective, and self-sustaining. -- From Backcover

ISBN: 9781771603638

Accession Number: P2023.25

Call Number: 04 L52t

Collection: Archives Library

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Moths : a complete guide to biology and behavior

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

Published Date: 2021

Author: Less, David C. and Zilli, Alberto

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books

Call Number: 04 L46m

Author: Less, David C. and Zilli, Alberto

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm

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

Subjects: Moths; Lepidoptera

Abstract: Moths are a crucial insect group encompassing more than 160,000 species, and they are among the most ancient of Earth's inhabitants with some fossils believed to be 190 million years old. This richly illustrated guide to their biology, evolution, and history demonstrates the incredible diversity of these winged insects and reveals the ruthless survival tactics used by some--including blood-sucking moths, cannibalism in the cocoon, and carnivorous caterpillars. The book also explores their extraordinary life cycle, charting development from egg to larva to cocoon to airborne adult, as well as the surprising variations of color and wing patterns that moths have evolved. Engaging narrative and specially commissioned photographs of moth specimens make Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior a perfect gift book for scientists and science enthusiasts alike. -- From back cover

Contents: Introduction: What is a moth? ; Blueprint for success ; Becoming a moth ; A matter of taste ; Mating ; Moth warfare ; Diversity and distribution ; Evolution in action ; Of moths and man

ISBN: 9781588346544

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 04 L46m

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Old Swiss Guides - negatives

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 4 b&w negatives of a commemorative plaque for Swiss Guides mounted on a rock with guide pins posed below it.

Date Range: 1901-1963

Reference Code: V190 / VI / O / v / NA - 01 to NA - 04

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, O : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: v : Old Swiss Guides

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / O / v / NA - 01 to NA - 04

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: 1901-1963

Physical Description: 4 photographs : b&w negatives ; 6.5 x 7.6 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 4 b&w negatives of a commemorative plaque for Swiss Guides mounted on a rock with guide pins posed below it.

Name Access: Aemmer, Rudolf; Feuz, Edmund; Feuz, Edward; Feuz, Edward, Jr.; Feuz, Ernest; Kaufmann, Christian; Hasler, Christian

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Climbing; Films and film making; Guides; Guiding; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Portrait; Swiss Guides

Geographic Access: Lake Louise; Banff National Park

Language: English

Related Material: V190 / VI / O / v / PA - 01 to PA - 19

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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Cascadia field guide : art, ecology, poetry

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

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books

Call Number: 04 B73c

Responsibility: Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Derek Sheffield

Publisher: Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

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

Subjects: Poetry; Nature; Literature; Botany; Zoology; Writing

Abstract: A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher."Through engaging natural history, poetry, and art, Cascadia Field Guide celebrates [more than 120 beings in the Cascadia region], exploring how they interconnect. It's a useful guide to understanding behavior, appearance, and adaptation, as well as an inspirational anthology - a book that embraces science, while appealing to the mind and heart. This is a guide to be savored and treasured, bringing an imaginative perspective to our "known" natural world"....Also featured is a diverse community of regional voices - more than 100 poets and writers, along with fourteen artists, who speak for, and with, the natural world: Colleen J. McElroy, Theodore Roethke, Rena Priest, David James Duncan, Claudia Castro Luna, Tess Gallgher, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Doyle, Chris Dombrowski, Kim Heacox, Claire Emery, Joe Feddersen, Raya Friday, and more. -- From interior

ISBN: 9781680516227

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 04 B73c

Collection: Archives Library

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Old Swiss Guides

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 19 b&w prints of Swiss Guides, usually posed either on their own or in a group, shots from a National Film Board documentary production, the Lyall Group mountain range, and a collection of Guide pins. Also includes documents: a copy of the Kicking Horse Chronicle and the 1992 Mount…

Date Range: 1901-1963

Reference Code: V190 / VI / O / v / PA - 01 to PA - 19

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

14 images

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, O : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: v : Old Swiss Guides

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / O / v / PA - 01 to PA - 19

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: 1901-1963

Physical Description: 19 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 19 b&w prints of Swiss Guides, usually posed either on their own or in a group, shots from a National Film Board documentary production, the Lyall Group mountain range, and a collection of Guide pins. Also includes documents: a copy of the Kicking Horse Chronicle and the 1992 Mountain Guides' Ball pamphlet.

Name Access: Aemmer, Rudolf; Feuz, Edmund; Feuz, Edward; Feuz, Edward, Jr.; Feuz, Ernest; Kaufmann, Christian; Hasler, Christian

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Climbing; Films and film making; Guides; Guiding; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Portrait; Swiss Guides

Geographic Access: Lake Louise; Banff National Park

Language: English

Related Material: V190 / VI / O / v / NA - 01 to NA - 04

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

Images

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Capturing glaciers : a history of repeat photography and global warming

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

Published Date: 2023

Author: Inkpen, Dani

Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press

Call Number: 04 In5c

Author: Inkpen, Dani

Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: In Capturing Glaciers, Dani Inkpen examines the many ways scientists have made and used photographs of receding glaciers and how the meanings and evidential value of such images evolved over time. This project sheds light on the challenges of conducting research about climate change, the challenges of enacting social change around environmental problems, and the ways that well-intentioned scientists can still replicate social inequalities"-- Provided by publisher.

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

Subjects: Glaciers; glaciology; Global warming; Climate change; Photography; Repeat photography; Environment; Nature

Abstract: In Capturing Glaciers, Dani Inkpen examines the many ways scientists have made and used photographs of receding glaciers and how the meanings and evidential value of such images evolved over time. This project sheds light on the challenges of conducting research about climate change, the challenges of enacting social change around environmental problems, and the ways that well-intentioned scientists can still replicate social inequalities. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction : thinking historically about photos of ice -- Documenting : glacier naturalism -- Transitions : the limits of photography -- Measuring : geophysical glaciology -- Monitoring : environmental glaciology -- Witnessing : the iconography of ice -- Conclusion : people and glaciers.

Notes: Whyte Museum collections utilized for research purposes and imagery.

ISBN: 9780295752020

Accession Number: 2024.27

Call Number: 04 In5c

Collection: Archives Library

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Echo loba, loba echo : of wisdom, wolves and women

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

Published Date: 2023

Author: Swift, Sonja

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 S5e

Author: Swift, Sonja

Responsibility: Foreword by Winona LaDuke

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 248 pages ; 20 cm

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

Subjects: Wolves; Wildlife; Conservation; Women

Abstract: A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf. Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed in the lives and minds of people. A metaphor that embodies worldviews colliding, and the collision, the fallout, we live with still. It is a story about wolves’ own cultures, survival stories, acts of rebellion, and vital roles in maintaining healthy territories. And it is also a story about what we have been told to forget, or never even know, and what wolves show us about ourselves. Through essay and poetry, the metaphor of the wolf, and loba – for she-wolf – is examined the way one might observe the light off a prism, in multi-dimensional ways. The associations are many and diametrically varied. Wolf as scapegoat, villain, outcast, blamed for human violence. Wolf as warrior, guide, mother to stray or orphaned children as well as her own pups. The Ojibwe word for wolf is ma’iingan: the one sent here by that all-loving spirit to show us the way. Wolf (Latin: lupus), which is another word for whore (lupa), for woman. Wolf, another word for backcountry. Yet the choice is not an easy duality, not simply between the notion of wolf as heroine or wolf as devil. -- From publisher

ISBN: 9781771606288

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 04 S5e

Collection: Archives Library

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Streams of consequence : dispatches from the conservation world

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

Published Date: 2023

Author: Fitch, Lorne

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 F55s

Author: Fitch, Lorne

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 217 pages ; 19 cm

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

Subjects: Wildlife; Wildlife management; Conservation; Animals; Alberta

Abstract: A collection of essays highlighting the splendour and diversity of the landscape of southern Alberta. Streams of Consequence weaves together a bit of “ecology for dummies,” a cross-section of stories and essays on Alberta’s biodiversity riches and treasured landscapes, and a backdrop of selections on conservation issues. These are stories of the land and of Alberta’s plants, fish, and wildlife told through the voice of a biologist with decades of experience on the front lines of conservation efforts. Through stories, metaphor, and allegory, basic ecological principles are made clear, ecosystems are described, and our human role in stewarding these natural treasures is revealed. Infused in these “dispatches from the conservation world” is the special magic of biology, taking mute organisms at a variety of scales and understanding their lives and habitats so that they have meaning and a connection to us. The role, the unstated objective of biologists, is to remind us, unceasingly, that it is only in our minds that we live apart from the natural world. These stories have power to engage and educate, to help create and sustain an ecologically literate constituency that knows and cares about Alberta’s wilder side. Readers can look back on the changes, weigh their significance, and think about where we came from, where we are today, and where the trend might take us if we choose one road or another. There are some rocks heaved at our economy-centred, consumer-driven world. Scattered between them are the acts of altruism, of caring, of forethought, and of stewardship. These are rays of hope amid dark clouds threatening our very existence. -- From publisher

ISBN: 9781771606691

Accession Number: P2023.25

Call Number: 04 F55s

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian mountain assessment : walking together to enhance the understanding of mountains in Canada

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

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press

Edition: 2023

Call Number: 04 M14c

Responsibility: Graham McDowell (Project Lead), Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall [and 70 others]

Edition: 2023

Publisher: Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xvii, 355 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), color maps ; 28 cm

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

Subjects: Mountains; Ecology; Science; Indigenous People; Environment

Abstract: The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains in Canada, while also respecting and maintaining the integrity of different knowledge systems. The Canadian Mountain Assessment is a text-based document, but also includes a variety of visual materials as well as access to video recordings of oral knowledges shared by Indigenous individuals from mountain areas in Canada. The assessment is the result of over three years of work, during which time the initiative played an important role in connecting and cultivating relationships between mountain knowledge holders from across Canada. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Mountain environments -- 3. Mountains as homelands -- 4. Gifts of the mountains -- 5. Mountains under pressure -- 6. Desirable mountain futures.

Notes: Staff member Dawn Saunders Dahl contributed to this publication.; 2022-2023 Lillian Agnes Jones Scholarship Recipient, Kate Hanly contributed to this publication.; Publication utilized Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections materials.

ISBN: 9781773855097

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 04 M14c

Collection: Archives Library

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The domination of nature

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

Published Date: 2023

Author: Leiss, William

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press

Call Number: 04 L53t

Author: Leiss, William

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: 306 pages ; 23 cm.

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

Subjects: Environment; Philosophy; Science; Technology; Nature

Abstract: Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the delicate balance of organic life in the global ecosystem will result in devastating problems for future generations. In The Domination of Nature William Leiss argues that this global predicament must be understood in terms of deeply rooted attitudes towards nature. He traces the origins, development, and social consequences of an idea whose imprint is everywhere in modern thought: the idea of the domination of nature. In Part One Leiss traces the idea of the domination of nature from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Francis Bacon’s seminal work provides the pivotal point for this discussion, and through an original interpretation of Bacon’s thought, Leiss shows how momentous ambiguities in the idea were incorporated into modern thought. By the beginning of the twentieth century the concept had become firmly identified with scientific and technological progress. This fact defines the task of Part Two. Using important contributions by European sociologists and philosophers, Leiss critically analyzes the role of science and technology in the modern world. In the concluding chapter he puts the idea of mastery over nature into historical perspective and explores a new approach, based on the possibilities of the liberation of nature. Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. In a new preface Leiss explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligations of human citizens of the twenty-first century.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: The Cunning of Unreason -- Mythical, Religious, and Philosophical Roots -- Francis Bacon -- The Seventeenth Century and After -- Science and Domination -- Science and Nature -- Technology and Domination -- The Liberation of Nature?

ISBN: 9780228017257

Accession Number: P2023.08

Call Number: 04 L53t

Collection: Archives Library

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Inhabited : wildness and the vitality of the land

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

Published Date: 2021

Author: Phillip Vannini and April Vannini

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 04 V33i

Author: Phillip Vannini and April Vannini

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: UNESCO; Environement; Anthropology; Natural Heritage; Colonialism; Indigenous

Abstract: People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness suggests a better - if messier - way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature's vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.-- Provided by publisher

Contents: Vitality and Relationality ;Ecological Heritage ; Interlude: Fog ; Entanglement ; Intensity ; Inhabitation ; Interlude: Bear Spray ; Atmosphere ; Interlude: The Lonsome Loon ; Exhaustion ; Interlude : NOT Alone ; Aliveness ; Sacred Ways of Life

ISBN: 9780228008965

Accession Number: P2022.13

Call Number: 04 V33i

Collection: Archives Library

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Hope matters : why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis

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

Published Date: 2020

Author: Kelsey, Elin

Publisher: Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books

Call Number: 04 K27h

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Author: Kelsey, Elin

Responsibility: Elin Kelsey

Publisher: Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 229 pages

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

Subjects: Environment; Conservation; Climate change

Abstract: We are at an inflection point: today, more people than ever before recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are urgent and existential threats. Yet constant reports of climate doom are fueling an epidemic of eco-anxiety, leaving many of us feeling hopeless and powerless—and hampering our ability to address the very real challenges we face. Hope Matters boldly breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom that has overtaken conversations about our future to show why hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for tackling the planetary crisis. Award-winning author, scholar, and educator Elin Kelsey reveals the collateral damage of despair—from young people who honestly believe they have no future to the link between climate anxiety and hyper-consumerism—and argues that the catastrophic environmental news that dominates the media tells only part of the story. She describes effective campaigns to support ocean conservation, species resilience, and rewilding, demonstrating how digital conservation is helping scientists target specific problems with impressive results. And she shows how we can build on these positive trends and harness all our emotions about the changing environment—anger and sadness as well as hope—into effective personal and political action. Timely, evidence-based, and persuasive, Hope Matters is an argument for the place of hope in our lives and a celebration of the turn toward solutions in the face of the environmental crisis. (from publisher's website)

Contents: The power of expectation and belief -- The collateral damage of doom and gloom -- Hope is contagious -- Stories change -- The age of personalization -- We are not the only ones actively responding -- The strength of empathy, kindness, and compassion -- Trending hopeful.

Notes: Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

ISBN: 9781771647779

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 04 K27h

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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History Photos

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56901

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 120 b&w prints of various historical topics, some photos taken by Bruno Engler, others collected [presumably] by him. Includes various Canadian Pacific Railway events, community events and celebrations, Skoki Lodge's 60th anniversary, the Norquay Ski Hill rope-tow, the 1968 Winter …

Date Range: [ca. 1886-1993]

Reference Code: V190 / VI / H / iv / b / PA - 01 to PA - 120

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

11 images

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, H : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: iv : History, b : Photos

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / H / iv / b / PA - 01 to PA - 120

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: [ca. 1886-1993]

Physical Description: 120 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 120 b&w prints of various historical topics, some photos taken by Bruno Engler, others collected [presumably] by him. Includes various Canadian Pacific Railway events, community events and celebrations, Skoki Lodge's 60th anniversary, the Norquay Ski Hill rope-tow, the 1968 Winter Olympics bid, Princess Margarite's [sic] visit in 1958, the Cosmic Ray Observatory operations, a Kiwanis Club event, ranching and ranch lands, portraits, and more.