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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
- 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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The soo line's famous trains to Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 90 pages ; 8 cm
- Subjects
- CP Rail
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Railway
- Railway routes
- Transportation
- History
- Abstract
- The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America. -- From publisher
- Contents
- Part 1: A brief history of the soo line -- 1. In the beginning -- 2. The birth of the railway -- 3. What a tangled web we weave -- 4. Westward ho through great northern's backyard -- 5. Wisconsin central, the final piece of the puzzle -- 6. Setting the stage, Canadian pacific steamship company and Canadian pacific hotels and resorts -- Part 2: Famous trains of the soo -- 7. The Atlantic limited -- 8. The soo Pacific express -- 9. The Manitoba express, the Winnipeg express, the winnipeger -- 10. The soo-Spokane-Portland train deluxe -- 11. The mountaineer -- 12. The mystique of the mountaineer -- 13. The depression and the dirty thirties -- 14. My mountaineer -- 15. 1962, triumph and tragedy -- 16. The end of an era.
- ISBN
- 9781771606714
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The father of Canadian art : Thomas Mower Martin, 1838-1934
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13904
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Graeme, Toni
- Publisher
- [Victoria, B.C. : T&T Enterprises]
- Call Number
- 06.1 G75f
- Author
- Graeme, Toni
- Responsibility
- by Toni Graeme, a great granddaughter
- Publisher
- [Victoria, B.C. : T&T Enterprises]
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 72 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports
- Subjects
- Artists
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Biography
- Notes
- Cover title. -- Thomas Mower Martin was a CPR Railway artist , travelling to the Rocky Mountains 1887-1910
- ISBN
- 9780973297409
- Accession Number
- 50500 2009-11-30
- Call Number
- 06.1 G75f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canada's musical group of seven
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14683
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009?
- Author
- Rogers, Tim
- Publisher
- University of Calgary
- Call Number
- 06 R63c Pam
- Author
- Rogers, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim Rogers
- Publisher
- University of Calgary
- Published Date
- 2009?
- Physical Description
- 10 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Barbeau, Marius
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Highland gatherings
- Lismer, Arthur
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- Article gives an overview of the history of the Group of Seven including all the people involved in the group including festivals they performed in during the 1920's. One of these festivals was the highland gathering and Scottish music festivals in Banff.
- Call Number
- 06 R63c Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The black grizzly of Whiskey Creek
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13551
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Marty, Sid
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland & Stewart
- Call Number
- 04.2 M33b
- Author
- Marty, Sid
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland & Stewart
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 282 p. : maps
- Subjects
- Accidents
- Banff (townsite)
- Bears
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Garbage
- Indians
- Parks Canada
- Place names
- Tourism
- Wardens
- Wildlife management
- ISBN
- 9780771056994
- Accession Number
- 40500 08-05-21
- Call Number
- 04.2 M33b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alberta's medical history : "Young and lusty and full of life"
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13638
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Lampard, Robert
- Publisher
- Red Deer, Alberta : the author
- Call Number
- 08.2 L19a
- Author
- Lampard, Robert
- Responsibility
- written and edited by Robert Lampard M.D.
- Publisher
- Red Deer, Alberta : the author
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- x, 732 p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Brett, Robert George
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Crowsnest Pass
- Doctors
- Hector, Sir James
- Kennedy, George Allan
- Malcolmson, George Henry
- Medicine
- North West Mounted Police
- Sanitarium Hotel
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9780981038209
- Accession Number
- 50500 09-02-04
- Call Number
- 08.2 L19a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Snow war : an illustrated history of Rogers Pass, Glacier National Park, B.C
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13645
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Revelstoke, B.C. : Friends of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks
- Edition
- 1983,1985, 1992, 2008
- Call Number
- 08.3 R63s 2008
- Responsibility
- text and research by John G. Woods
- edited by John S. Marsh
- Edition
- 1983,1985, 1992, 2008
- Publisher
- Revelstoke, B.C. : Friends of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 52p. : ill., ports., maps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 978-0-921806-32-5
- Accession Number
- 7935
- Call Number
- 08.3 R63s 2008
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The West the railroads made
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14453
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Schwantes, Carlos A
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library
- Call Number
- 08.5 S3w
- 08.5 S3w reference copy
- Author
- Schwantes, Carlos A
- Responsibility
- Carlos A. Schwantes, James P. Ronda
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- xx, 229 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 27 cm
- Subjects
- Canadian National Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Cascade Mountains
- Columbia River
- Glacier National Park (U.S.)
- Indians
- Tourism
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contains: The magician's rod : railroads, the West, and Manifest destiny -- Space race ; or a tale of rival cities -- Tracking a transformation -- Lords of creation -- Manifest destinies : the railroad west and the modern world
- ISBN
- 9780295987699
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- 2024.26
- Call Number
- 08.5 S3w
- 08.5 S3w reference copy
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- Archives Library
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The black grizzly of Whiskey Creek
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14815
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Marty, Sid
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland & Stewart
- Call Number
- QL M37
- Author
- Marty, Sid
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland & Stewart
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 282 p. : maps
- Subjects
- Accidents
- Banff (townsite)
- Bears
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Garbage
- Indians
- Parks Canada
- Place names
- Tourism
- Wardens
- Wildlife management
- ISBN
- 9780771056994
- Accession Number
- AC609 copy 2 to dups
- Call Number
- QL M37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alberta art and artists : an overview
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13344
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Ainslie, Patricia
- Publisher
- Calgary : Fifth House, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ai6a
- 06.1 Ai6a Ref copy
- Author
- Ainslie, Patricia
- Responsibility
- Patricia Ainslie, Mary-Beth Laviolette
- Publisher
- Calgary : Fifth House, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 147p. : ill
- Notes
- Contents: The historical period to 1920 / Patricia Ainslie; A sense of place: modern art 1920-1970 / Patricia Ainslie; A new era for Alberta art: 1970-2000 / Mary-Beth Laviolette
- ISBN
- 978-1-894856-61-4
- Accession Number
- 7802
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ai6a
- 06.1 Ai6a Ref copy
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- Archives Library
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