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"A perfectly idiotic sport"

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11286
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Call Number
P
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Physical Description
p. 55 : ill
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell
Mountaineers Women
Notes
In Mountain Heritage Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2000
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Bown, Stephen R.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Call Number
08.5 B68d
Author
Bown, Stephen R.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canadian Pacific Railway
Transportation
Railway
Travel
History
History-Canada
Abstract
Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9780385698726
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
08.5 B68d
Collection
Archives Library
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In the footsteps of David Thompson

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11783
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Call Number
P
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Physical Description
p.13-19 : ill, map
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Continental Divide
Howse Pass
Kootenay Indians
Peigan Indians
Notes
In Beaver, vol. 82, no. 3 (June/July 2002)
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P
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Call Number
P
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Physical Description
p.42-46 : ill., map
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Maligne Lake
Schaffer, Mary
Notes
In Beaver, vol. 87, no. 3 (June / July 2007)
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P
Collection
Archives Library
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A travelling gourmand in the far west

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11271
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Call Number
P
Author
Bown, Stephen R
Physical Description
p. 12-16 : ill
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Food
Hunting
Southesk, James Carnigie, earl of
Notes
In Mountain Heritage Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 2000
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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