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Banff : park of all seasons
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19832
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Downs, Art (ed.)
- Publisher
- Surrey (B.C.) : Heritage House
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22d Pam c.3
- Author
- Downs, Art (ed.)
- Responsibility
- Art Downs
- Publisher
- Surrey (B.C.) : Heritage House
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 62p. : ill., ports
- Series
- Frontier series, 10
- Subjects
- Accidents
- Geddes, Malcolm Daniel
- Frank Lloyd Wright Pavilion
- Johnston's Canyon
- Paley
- Skoki
- Elk
- Tourism
- Birds
- History
- Feuz Ernest
- Contents
- hot water from the mountain side
- Banff today
- Wapiti
- Bighorn at Banff
- Gray Jay - friendly symbol of the wilderness
- Notes
- "Fred A. Feuz Salmon Arm" with phone number written on front cover in black ink
- ISBN
- 0-919214-10-X
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22d Pam c.3
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Columbia River highway : America's greatest scenic drive
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20084
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1801
- Author
- Cross and Dimmitt
- Call Number
- 02.3 C87t
- Author
- Cross and Dimmitt
- Published Date
- 1801
- Physical Description
- Portland, Oregon : Cross and Dimmitt
- Subjects
- Columbia River
- Art
- Travel
- Tourism
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of hand colored images showcasing the beauty of Oregon in the United States of America. The publication follows the Columbia River highway, a stretch of road reaching west from Portland to the Pacific, and east to Central Oregon. The publication showcases various tourist locations in addition to other breathtaking hand-colored images.
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 02.3 C87t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
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- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Visit Canada program : publicity tours : a sampling of results in world media
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4130
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1970]
- Author
- Canadian Government Travel Bureau
- Call Number
- 02.8 C16v oversize
- Published Date
- [1970]
- Physical Description
- 1v. (unpaged) : facsim
- Subjects
- Tourism
- Accession Number
- 1249
- Call Number
- 02.8 C16v oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Useful pleasures : the shaping of leisure in Alberta, 1896-1945
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Wetherell, Donald G
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism
- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Centre
- Call Number
- 02.8 W53
- Author
- Wetherell, Donald G
- Responsibility
- Donald G. Wetherell with Irene Kmet
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism
- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Centre
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 430p. : ill., port., facsim
- Subjects
- Recreation
- Skiing
- Sports
- Tourism
- Notes
- Bibliographical notes and index
- Accession Number
- 23000
- Call Number
- 02.8 W53
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific posters : 1883-1963
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4497
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1988
- Author
- Choko, Marc H
- Publisher
- Montreal : Meridian Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 C45 oversize
- Author
- Choko, Marc H
- Responsibility
- Marc H. Choko and David L. Jones
- Publisher
- Montreal : Meridian Press
- Published Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- 186p. : ill
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Tourism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 2-920417-37-1
- Accession Number
- 21000
- Call Number
- 06.1 C45 oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
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[Various papers]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4651
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1971
- Author
- NPPAC Problem Solving Conference (1971 : [Banff?])
- Call Number
- 13.111 N21v
- Published Date
- 1971
- Notes
- Partial contents: A statement on the proposed master plans for the four mountain parks / J.G. Nelson, R.C. Scace, S. Herrero. -- Survey and analysis of non-resident travel / ... by Kates, Peat, Marwick. -- Alberta Recreation Plan
- Call Number
- 13.111 N21v
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- Archives Library
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Canadian National Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4806
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1904]
- Author
- Canada. Department of the Interior
- Call Number
- 13.113 C16 Pam
- 13.113 C16 Pam c.2
- Published Date
- [1904]
- Physical Description
- 63p. : ill
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Tourism
- Travel
- Mountains
- First Nations
- Rivers
- Flowers
- Lakes
- Trees
- Trails
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- Pertains to travel to the Rocky Mountain Parks (Banff National Park) including summaries and photos and drawings of popular attractions
- Notes
- Cover title: Canadian National Park (Rocky Mountains) Banff, Alberta. This cover was used on page 121 of "The selling of Canada" by E. J. Hart, which indicated that this was the Canadian Government's first major tourist literature to support the efforts of the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 2308
- 2019.103
- Call Number
- 13.113 C16 Pam
- 13.113 C16 Pam c.2
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The imaginary Indian : the image of the Indian in Canadian culture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4948
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- c1992
- Author
- Francis, Daniel
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Arsenel Pulp Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 F84 1992
- Author
- Francis, Daniel
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Arsenel Pulp Press
- Published Date
- 1993
- c1992
- Physical Description
- xii, 258p. : ill., ports
- Notes
- Bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 0-88978-251-2
- Accession Number
- 6535
- Call Number
- 07.2 F84 1992
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- Archives Library
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Picturing winter in the Rockies : public, private and archival imaginings of Banff, Alberta in the 1920s [thesis]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12643
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Wheeler, Lauren M
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Carleton University
- Call Number
- 06.4 W55p
- Author
- Wheeler, Lauren M
- Responsibility
- Lauren M. Wheeler
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Carleton University
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 106p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 7945
- Call Number
- 06.4 W55p
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- Archives Library
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