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In the shadow of the Rockies : diary of the Castle Mountain Internment Camp, 1915-1917
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6096
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, University of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.3 C27 c.1
- 08.3 C27 c.2
- Responsibility
- edited and introduced by Bohdan S. Kordan and Peter Melnycky
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, University of Alberta
- Published Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 143p. : ill., ports., map, plan, facsim
- ISBN
- 0-920862-79-9
- Accession Number
- 6311
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 08.3 C27 c.1
- 08.3 C27 c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Light footsteps at Vermilion Lakes : early people in a mounatin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15480
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- Author
- Helgason, Gail
- Publisher
- Canada : Helgason and Dodd Ltd
- Call Number
- 08.3 He34
- Author
- Helgason, Gail
- Publisher
- Canada : Helgason and Dodd Ltd
- Published Date
- 1991
- Physical Description
- 71 p. ; 26 unnumbered plates : ill
- Subjects
- History
- Vermilion Lakes
- Archaeology
- Indians
- Notes
- Includes bibliography
- Accession Number
- 8201
- Call Number
- 08.3 He34
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The predicament of belonging : the status of Enemy Aliens in Canada, 1914
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12850
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Farney, James
- Call Number
- 08.3 J82cs 2005
- Author
- Farney, James
- Responsibility
- Mes Farney and Bohdan S. Kordan
- Physical Description
- p.74-89
- Subjects
- Camps, Internment
- World War I
- Notes
- In Journal of Canadian Studies, vol.39, no. 1 (2005 Winter)
- Accession Number
- 7606
- Call Number
- 08.3 J82cs 2005
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Golden memories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6116
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- 08.3 G56gm 1982
- Responsibility
- Golden and District Historical Society
- Ethel King, Editor
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 314p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Big Bend Highway
- Camps, Internment
- Enemy aliens
- Columbia Valley
- Glacier House
- Mountain guides
- Accession Number
- 19000
- Call Number
- 08.3 G56gm 1982
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"In my charge" : the Canadian internment camp photographs of Sergeant William Buck
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11028
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1997
- Author
- Luciuk, Lubomyr Y
- Publisher
- Kingston (ON) : Kashtan Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 B85l Pam
- Author
- Luciuk, Lubomyr Y
- Responsibility
- Lubomyr Y. Luciuk & Borys Sydoruk
- Publisher
- Kingston (ON) : Kashtan Press
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 41p. : ill., ports
- ISBN
- 1-896354-14-9
- Accession Number
- 6998
- Call Number
- 08.3 B85l Pam
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Between the peaks [videocassette]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue9332
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Calgary : SAIT/CTSR
- Call Number
- 08.3 B46 V
- Responsibility
- producer: Karen Linka
- director: Jason Delesoy
- Publisher
- Calgary : SAIT/CTSR
- Published Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 1 cassette (16 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences
- Notes
- Features diary: In the shadow of the Rockies. DVD copy made from VHS
- Accession Number
- 6595
- Call Number
- 08.3 B46 V
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The forgotten side of the border : British Columbia's Elk Valley and Crowsnest Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11475
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Norton, Wayne
- Publisher
- Kamloops : Plateau Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 N75f
- Author
- Norton, Wayne
- Responsibility
- edited by Wayne Norton and Naomi Miller
- Publisher
- Kamloops : Plateau Press
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- x, 238 p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Biography
- Camps, Internment
- Coal and coal mines
- Crowsnest Pass
- Ghosts
- Hockey
- Kootenay region
- ISBN
- 0-9698842-2-2
- Accession Number
- 2-8-2001 33,500
- Call Number
- 08.3 N75f
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Imagining difference : legend, curse and spectacle in a Canadian mining town
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13553
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Robertson, Leslie A
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 C88r
- Author
- Robertson, Leslie A
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Physical Description
- xlv, 300 p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Camps, Internment
- Communications
- Enemy aliens
- Ethnic groups
- Fernie
- Folklore
- Indians
- Politics
- Social services
- World War I
- World War II
- ISBN
- 0774810920
- Accession Number
- 40500 08-02-01
- Call Number
- 08.3 C88r
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In the shadow of the Rockies : as I walk through Canada [compact disc sound recording]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13896
- Medium
- Library - Sound recording
- Published Date
- [2001?]
- Author
- Dunn, Maria
- Call Number
- 08.3 D91i SR
- Author
- Dunn, Maria
- Responsibility
- music and lyrics by Maria Dunn; Maria Dunn vocal, Brian Cherwick tsymbaly
- Published Date
- [2001?]
- Physical Description
- 1 sound disc (00:5:17) : digital, 4 3/4 in
- Medium
- Library - Sound recording
- Subjects
- Camps, Internment
- Enemy aliens
- Music
- World War I
- Notes
- From full length recording "We were good people". Manufacture of this single made possible by funding from Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko
- Accession Number
- 8041
- Call Number
- 08.3 D91i SR
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- Archives Library
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A Frontier guide to mystic Jasper and the Yellowhead Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19891
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Anderson, Frank W.
- Publisher
- Aldergrove, B.C. : Frontier Pub
- Call Number
- 08.3 J31a c.2 Pam
- Author
- Anderson, Frank W.
- Responsibility
- Frank W. Anderson
- Publisher
- Aldergrove, B.C. : Frontier Pub
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 56 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Jasper
- Jasper National Park
- History
- Rocky Mountains and Jasper Parks
- Rocky Mountains
- Yellowhead Pass
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history, and early events that led to the creation of Jasper National Park. The author, Frank Anderson, encourages readers to delve into the history surrounding the unmarked territory in Jasper. Through discussion of the Fur Trade era, the Railroad era and the Peaceful era, the author demonstrates the ways in which Jasper has since evolved from its earlier beginnings.
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 08.3 J31a c.2 Pam
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Mountain romantics : the Whytes of Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25280
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Assiniboine Publishing Limited
- Edition
- First hardcover edition
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sc3m copy 1 (signed)
- 08.3 Sc3m copy 2
1 website
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Edition
- First hardcover edition
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Assiniboine Publishing Limited
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 232 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour)
- Subjects
- Whyte (White) family
- Whyte Jon
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Whyte, Barbara
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- White, Brad
- White, Cliff J
- White, Clifford
- White, Clifford A.
- White, Jack (Dave Jr.)
- Whyte, Peter
- History
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Abstract
- This book tells the story of the White/Whyte family of Banff — pioneers Dave and Annie who created a successful mercantile business in Banff, their son Cliff who played a major role in creating the Mount Norquay ski resort and Skoki Lodge, his brother Peter and his wife Catharine who became two of the most famous artists of the Canadian Rockies, Clifford Jackson White and his wife Bev who created modern Sunshine Village Ski Resort, Jon Whyte the poet and historian and Cliffy, Brad and Tristan White who have had distinguished careers in the Warden Service and the tourist industry. This book tells the story of one of the most unique towns in Canada, through its ups and downs, and the colourful characters who have called Banff home. (From author's website)
- Contents
- Dave White -- go west, young man -- Dave and Annie -- partners -- Cliff White -- ski pioneer -- Pete 'n' Catharine -- Camelot on the bow -- Jackie and Barbara -- one good woman -- The White compound -- good and bad times -- Clifford and Bev -- the sunshine years -- Pete's later years and Catharine reborn -- Jon Whyte -- the bard of Banff -- Cliffy, Brad and Tristan -- new directions -- The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
- Notes
- Copy 1 signed by author
- ISBN
- 9780981105925
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sc3m copy 1 (signed)
- 08.3 Sc3m copy 2
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100th anniversary of the formation of The Rocky Mountains Park Branch of the Great War Veterans’ Association - The Banff Legion - Saturday March 31, 2018
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25093
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- The Banff Legion
- Publisher
- The Banff Legion
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22o PAM
- Author
- The Banff Legion
- Responsibility
- The Banff Legion
- Publisher
- The Banff Legion
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 14 pages ; photographs
- Subjects
- History
- History of Alberta
- Canada
- World War I
- World War II
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- World Wars
- Banff
- Banff (residents)
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the Banff Legion, celebrating 100 years of the Great War Veterans’ Association
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22o PAM
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26249
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Chinese
- Women
- Immigration
- Canada
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9781773860749
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
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The Cave and Basin : Banff's hot springs and the birth of Canada's national parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25251
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Hart, E.J. (Ted)
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.3 H11c
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- Author
- Hart, E.J. (Ted)
- Responsibility
- Ted (E.J.) Hart
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 91 pages
- Abstract
- THE CAVE AND BASIN by Ted Hart is the story of mineral springs in Banff National Park that were instrumental to the growth of Banff and formed the nucleus of Canada’s national park system. Authored by renowned historian E.J. (Ted) Hart, Cave and Basin offers background on what is now protected as a national historic site, exploring the story of its discovery and the lives of those involved in its development as a world-famous attraction. It describes these unique and fascinating hot springs and how they became the catalyst for important developments in Canadian history and culture. The book details the story of the springs’ first discovery, their critical place in a government decision to create a reserve to protect them for public use and their development into a tourist location where generations of Canadians and those from around the world came to enjoy their soothing balm. In the process, the springs, and the Cave and Basin particularly, became the epicentre for both the creation and the commemoration of Canada’s national parks. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Sacred waters of the mountains
- Chapter 2 - Like some fantastic dream
- Chapter 3 - The hot springs investigation
- Chapter 4 - Recuperate the patients and recoup the treasury
- Chapter 5 - As near perfetion as it is possible to make
- Chapter 6 - Walter Painter's wonder
- Chapter 7 - Different guises
- Chapter 8 - Recent times
- Index
- Photo credits
- About the author
- ISBN
- 9781926983271
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 H11c
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25229
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Storry, Lea
- Carleton, Brian
- Carleton, Mike
- Carleton, Terry
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.3 F21e
1 website
- Responsibility
- Lea Storry
- Brian Carleton
- Mike Carleton
- Terry Carleton
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 307 pages
- Abstract
- The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton
- Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders
- Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler
- Chapter Four: Exercising War
- Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future
- Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton
- Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff
- Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living
- Chapter Nine: Nature reels
- Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes
- Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife
- Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family
- Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns
- Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old
- Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- ISBN
- 9780991707522
- Accession Number
- 2021.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 F21e
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The green horse : my early years in the Canadian Rockies : a park warden's story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25013
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Portman, Dale
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.3 P81t
1 website
- Author
- Portman, Dale
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 368 pages : illustrations, map
- Abstract
- Born in the west but raised initially in the east, Dale Portman was eight years old when his family headed back to the land of the Rockies. Growing up in Calgary, he was introduced to the Rocky Mountains at an early age and as a young man eventually found work in Banff National Park, where he spent most of his time in the saddle while working for outfitter Bert Mickle, based out of Skoki Lodge near Lake Louise. Jobs in the local tourist industry and at a couple of ski hills followed. Eventually Dale was drawn to the warden service, doing avalanche control and forecasting in Rogers Pass, with the backcountry of northern Jasper, Yoho National Park and Field, BC, eventually becoming the stage for many memorable, humorous, tragic and life-affirming moments. The Green Horse takes the reader on a journey through a time when our mountain national parks were less touristy and more substantive. When there was space for everyone to enjoy without having to line up and there was a sense of freedom and adventure in the air. (From Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Foreword -- Prologue -- My youth -- Banff and Lake Louise -- Faye and Donny -- A mountain winter and a spring roundup -- Dale and the Mickles -- Lake Louise -- Rogers Pass -- Early Jasper -- Alfie and Ginger -- Jasper tales -- Blue Creek -- Yoho -- Yoho again -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9781771602266
- Accession Number
- P2020-2
- Call Number
- 08.3 P81t
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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25285
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
1 website
- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Responsibility
- Ron Brown
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 156 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Railways
- History
- History of Alberta
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.
- ISBN
- 9781459733596
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
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Surveying the 120th meridian and the great divide : the Alberta/BC boundary survey, 1918-1924
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24952
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
1 website
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 192 p. ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 2
- Subjects
- Surveyors
- Surveys and Mapping
- Surveys
- Great Divide Trail
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- British Columbia - Boundaries
- British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
- Alberta - B.C. Boundary
- Alberta - Boundaries
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Cautley, Richard William
- History
- History of Alberta
- Abstract
- "Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Surveyors
- Surveying Methods 1918-1924
- Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953
- Conclusion
- Geographical Names
- Survey Crews, 1918-1924
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Notes
- Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771
- ISBN
- 9780773860091
- Accession Number
- 2019.90
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
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