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Abstract: Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet includes works exclusively from the Banff area and covers topics pertaining to nature, places and people.

Notes: Annotated – the author has signed the inside front page with the following, “Best wishes Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 05.1 B92c Pam

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: The URL is linked to Gordon Burles archival fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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Crossing the pass : new poems from Banff

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

Published Date: 1986

Author: Burles, Gordon

Call Number: 05.1 B92 1986 Oct PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Published Date: 1986

Physical Description: 55p

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

Subjects: Boom Lake; Cascade Mountain; Johnson Lake; Kain, Conrad; Phillips, Walter J; Wheeler, Clara; Wilcox, Walter J

Notes: Contents: Crossing the pass (p.1); Mt. Rundle twilight (p.2); The old trail (p.3); In the winter forest(p.4); Twilight (p.5); The meeting (p.6); Night-time parting (p.7); Mrs. Lewthwaite’s summer (p.8); Walter Wilcox in Paradise Valley (p.9); September hike (p.10); The night road (p.11); A July walk (p. 12); Exhortation (p.13); Banff dawn (p.14); The meadow (p.15); Elegy (p.16); Autumn at Johnson’s Lake (p.17); The aspens (p.18); Burial (p.19); The unknown woman (p.20); Reflection (p.21); Dusk (p.22); Lost love (p.23); The crocuses (p.24); At the zoo (p.25); Walking home (p.26); Fossil-hunting (p.27); Musings from Mt. Cascade (p.28); Two birches (p.29); Autumn requital (p.30); Manifestation (p.31); Two lovers in spring (p.32); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.33); Near Boom Lake (p.34); Hypocrisy (p.34); Husband and wife (p.35); Avant-garde artist (p.36); Night adventure (p.37); For Conrad Kain (p.38); Darkling meditation (p.39); To Edward Thomas (p.40); On the road to Sundance Canyon (p.41); The death of the deer (p.42); Alone (p.43); Summer dusk (p.44); The stream (p.45); Famous thinker (p.46); Menthenuena (p.47); Autumn dawn (p.48); First love (p.49); The mining camp (p.50); For Katherine Mansfield (p.51); Stewart Canyon (p.52); Inglismaldie Creek (p.53); Old Miss Hastings and the Rockies (p.54); Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (revision)(p.55); Cover: drawing by Wesley Watts, a Banff-born artist

Accession Number: 6340; 19000

Call Number: 05.1 B92 1986 Oct PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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Gordon Burles fonds

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Scope & Content: Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem.…

Date Range: 1970-2017, 2022

Reference Code: M196 / V103

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Machine-readable data file; Private record

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Part Of: Gordon Burles fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 196; V 103

Sous-Fonds: M 196; V 103

Accession Number: 1199, 1367, 1414, 1674, 2061, 2212, 2239, 2890, 3233, 3769, 3874, 5526, 5689, 5903, 6347, 6487, 6927,7215, 7483, 7486, 7612

Reference Code: M196 / V103

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Machine-readable data file; Private record

Date Range: 1970-2017, 2022

Physical Description: ca. 36.5 cm textual records + 9 CD-R (textual records). -- 7 photographs : prints, negatives.

History / Biographical: James Gordon Burles, b.1949, is a poet, surveyor and civil servant at Banff, Alberta, Canada. A native of Banff, Burles is a student of the Canadian Rockies. In Burles' own words, much of his poetry is inspired by four environments: the life and history of Banff National Park, the town of Banff, the Okanagan Valley, and Calgary.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem. Some poems pertain to mountain personalities such as Bill Peyto, Norman Sanson, Margaret Stone, Walter D. Wilcox, Walter J. Phillips, Conrad Kain, and Georgia Engelhard. Many are surrealist or nonsense poems and many deal with the Cemetery Tea House, an imaginary teahouse frequented by various characters.; Fonds consists of three series: I : Poetry Manuscripts; II : Prose and research; III: Digital typeset copies of published poems; Some poems deal with Burle's parents and family. The collection also holds fifty-three books and booklets, self-published by the author from 1984 to 2017. The books published from 2003 to 2017 contain all the poems which the author considers worth preserving. Some in one book have been revised in a later book. Some poems were revised more than once. The three books published in 1984, 1986, and 1990 are considered by the author as early works. Only the poems in those books that the author considered worth publishing have been republished in the 2003-2017 books. Names in the poem titles are usually made up.; Some titles are tongue-in-cheek. There were so many poems that the author resorted to names like "Portrait for Bertrand Clerihew-Guggenheim" to make it easier. Some titles, of course, are obviously connected to the content of the poem. Many titles were long enough to preclude the difficulty of getting the graphic designer to centre the title over the poem! Also included are manuscripts, research materials, articles, and notes etc. regarding Bill Peyto, the Copper Mountain Mine, Banff National Park museum, logging roads in the Johnson Lake area, and the Sanson-Bethune connection.; Photographs pertain to remains of hay rake and wagon in the Third Vermilion Lake area (1975) and remains of the Queen of the Hills Mine, above Silver City (1977).; CD-ROMS's contain typeset copies of manuscripts by Gordon Burles in Pagemaker, In Design and .pdf file formats. Manuscripts include "The Jagged Harmony," 2005, "An Avenue Without End," 2005, "That Perfect Elsewhere," n.d., "Much Like A Dream," 2004, "All the Universe of Sight," 2006, "Those Grand Poplars," 2004, "Lords of Many Orchards: Selected Best Poems of Gordon Burles," 2003, "That trellis of tombs: Further Selected Poems of Gordon Burles," 2004, "The Closing of Many Doors: More Poems by Gordon Burles," 2006.; II : Prose and research includes "Life story of James Gordon Burles," 2022

Notes: Books of poetry published by Gordon Burles are located in the Whyte Museum Archives Library 05.1/B92. In 2018 Gordon Burles compiled a listing of the original poems that were edited and re-published. This list is in the M196 document file, and is also a PDF attached to the fonds level record

Name Access: Burles, Gordon

Subject Access: Arts

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Language: Language is English

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Creator: Burles, Gordon

Category: Arts

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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The old cabin : poems from Banff

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

Published Date: 1984

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff, Alta. : G. Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92o Pam

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Author: Burles, Gordon

Responsibility: Gordon Burles

Publisher: Banff, Alta. : G. Burles

Published Date: 1984

Physical Description: 50 pages ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Poetry; Canadian Rockies; Banff

Abstract: Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet’ includes works exclusively from the Banff area and covers topics pertaining to nature, places and people.

Notes: Annotated – the author has signed the front page with the following, “Best wishes, Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 05.1 B92o Pam

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: The URL is linked to the Gordon Burles fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

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The old cabin : poems from Banff

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

Published Date: 1984

Author: Burles, Gordon

Call Number: 05.1 B92 1984 July–Sep PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Published Date: 1984

Physical Description: 50p

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

Notes: Contents: The heron (p.1); The hermit (p.2); Biskobad changes (p.3); Striving stone (p.4); The children on the hill (p.5); The old cabin (p.6); Vision for vision (p.7); With her (p.8); Rural roads (p.9); Bill Peyto alone (p.10); After the funeral (p.11); Among the poplars (p.12); A dream of moonlight (13); Night and day (p.14); The road home (p.15); She goes away (p.16); Love lesson (p.17); We sat here (p.18); The hike (p.19); Reunion (p.20); Plato in the twilight (p.21); The horsemen (p.22); Funeral (p.23); Bill Peyto old (p.24); Spring (p.25); Testament (p.26); A promise of mountain days (p.27); Banff (p.28); After the concert (p.29); Mountain camp (p.30); New love (p.31); The wedding (p.32); Old age(p.33); Seeing Mt. Cascade from the Spray River (p.34); Lane Johnson returns to Banff, 1919 (p.35); With Mr. Sanson (p.36); The old alpinist (p.37); Meeting a former love (p.38); Old Antophon remembers (p.39); Daybreak (p.40); The ballerina (p.41); The first snow (p.42); Mrs. Stone remembers (p.43); Summer moments (p.44); Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (p.45); At the Banff Springs Hotel (p.46); Plato dying (p.47); Snowfall (p.48); When she walked by (p.49); At the Chateau Lake Louise (p. 50); Cover: drawing by Wayne Milburn of cabin with Mounts Stoney Squaw and Cascade

Accession Number: 6340; 17000

Call Number: 05.1 B92 1984 July–Sep PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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