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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
- 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
- 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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Woodland tales
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6541
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- c1905
- 1920
- 1921
- Author
- Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Publisher
- Garden City (N.Y.) : Doubleday, Page
- Call Number
- 04 Se7
- Author
- Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Publisher
- Garden City (N.Y.) : Doubleday, Page
- Published Date
- 1926
- c1905
- 1920
- 1921
- Physical Description
- xv, 235p. : ill
- Subjects
- Outdoor life
- Accession Number
- 293
- Call Number
- 04 Se7
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Banff, Canadian National Park, in winter : Canada's winter playground
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8506
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1920
- Call Number
- 02.8 B22 Pam
1 Electronic Resource
- Responsibility
- compiled by B.W. Collison
- Published Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- 40p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Notes
- Cover shows Banff Winter Sports as title
- Accession Number
- 74 - ripped cover (display copy) - WEEDED 2020-12-04
- 781
- 3069
- 7320
- 8003 deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 02.8 B22 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Autobiography of John Macoun, M.A., Canadian explorer and naturalist, Assistant Director and Naturalist to the Geological Survey of Canada, 1831- 1920
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6510
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Macoun, John
- Call Number
- 04 M23
- Author
- Macoun, John
- Responsibility
- with introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton
- Published Date
- 1922
- Physical Description
- x, 305p. : ill., port
- Notes
- A memorial volume published by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Fleming Sandford
- Grant, George Munro
- Accession Number
- 371 deaccessioned c.2
- Call Number
- 04 M23
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The naturalists' directory : containing names, addresses and special subjects of study of professional and amateur naturalists of the United States, Canada and other countries including South America ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12262
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929-1943
- Publisher
- Salem : Samuel E. Cassino
- Call Number
- R 04 N21
- Publisher
- Salem : Samuel E. Cassino
- Published Date
- 1929-1943
- Physical Description
- 3v
- Subjects
- Museums
- Sanson, Norman Bethune
- ISBN
- Shelf-read August 2017 - condition alert: all volumes are worn
- Accession Number
- 224
- Call Number
- R 04 N21
- 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
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26197
- 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
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25515
- 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
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm
- 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
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26219
- 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
- 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
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- 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
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
- 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
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Capturing glaciers : a history of repeat photography and global warming
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26254
- 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.
- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19974
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1925
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1926
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1925. Published in 1926, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the museum (pg. 6)
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Anthropology (pg. 9)
- Petroglyphs (pg. 9)
- Palaentology (pg. 10)
- Botany (pg. 10)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 17)
- Amphibians and Reptiles (pg. 21)
- Coleoptera (pg. 24)
- Accessions (pg. 34)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 37)
- In Memoriam (pg. 38)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1925
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1921
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19972
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1921
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1922
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1921. Published in 1922, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Loan Collection of Lepidoptera (pg. 8)
- Mammals (pg. 8)
- List of Chipmunks in the Province of British Columbia (pg. 8)
- A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (pg. 9)
- Ornithology (pg. 11)
- Notes on the Occurrence of the White-winged Dove (Melopelia asiatica) (pg. 11)
- Accessions (pg. 11)
- Botany (pg. 13)
- Entomology (pg. 17)
- The Pterophoridae of British Columbia (pg. 34)
- Accession Number
- 7201 deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1921
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1928
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19975
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1928
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1929
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1928. Published in 1929, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the museum (pg. 6)
- Admission (pg. 6)
- Inception and History of Provincial Musuem (pg. 7)
- Objects (pg. 8)
- Visitors (pg. 9)
- Activities (pg. 9)
- Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 10, 23)
- Palaeontology (pg. 22, 23)
- Botany (pg. 15)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 12, 25)
- Entomology (pg. 24)
- Amphibians (pg. 24)
- Ornithology (pg. 24)
- Mammology (pg. 23)
- Accesions (pg. 23)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 26)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1928
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Streams of consequence : dispatches from the conservation world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26207
- 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
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26222
- 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
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25698
- 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.
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25571
- 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
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- 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
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- Archives Library
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