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Best of Alberta : the search for our greatest citizen : 125 of our greatest citizens
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24911
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Jarvie, Michele (editor)
- Publisher
- Calgary Herald
- Call Number
- 08.2 C11 B11 PAM
- Author
- Jarvie, Michele (editor)
- Responsibility
- Michele Jarvie (editor)
- Publisher
- Calgary Herald
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- Newpaper insert
- Subjects
- History of Alberta
- Biography
- Read, Ken
- Tyson, Ian
- Russell, Andy
- Carter, Wilf
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Whyte, Peter
- Harvie, Eric
- Brewster, Jim
- McDougall, John
- Nordegg, Martin
- Abstract
- Pertains to a search for Alberta's Greatest Citizen and summarizes the lives of 125 people from various decades including several specific to the Bow Vally such as Peter Lougheed, Ken Read, Ian Tyson, Andy Russell, Wilf Carter, Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte, Eric Harvie, Roland Michener, James Gladstone [Akay-na-muka], Jim Brewster, Bill Brewster, Ernest Poole, Martin Nordegg, Chief Crowfoot [Isapo-Muxika], Father Albert Lacombe, Rev. John Chantler McDougall.
- Notes
- Section BA in the Sunday, June 8, 2008 Calgary Herald
- Call Number
- 08.2 C11 B11 PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Drawing from the mountain : an illustrated journey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24999
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Perry, Lorne
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- 06.1 P41d
- Author
- Perry, Lorne
- Responsibility
- Lorne Perry
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 141 p. : ill., ports.
- Subjects
- Art
- Trees
- Flora
- Flowers
- Geology
- Wildlife
- Mountaineering
- Equipment
- Biography
- Mountains
- Rocky Mountains
- Photography
- Wilderness
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to art created by Lorne Perry during
- Contents
- Prologue
- Beginning with trees
- The limstone triangle
- A fine kind of madness
- "Real good" stories
- Lords of the dance
- The power of one
- Flesh and blood
- The gift
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Signed by Lorne Perry
- ISBN
- 9781894765817
- Accession Number
- 2019.110
- Call Number
- 06.1 P41d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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John L. Stoddard; traveller, lecturer, litterateur
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25074
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Crane Taylor, D.
- Publisher
- New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons
- Call Number
- 02 C85j
- Author
- Crane Taylor, D.
- Publisher
- New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 325 pages illustrations
- Abstract
- Biography of author John Lawson Stoddard
- Contents
- Preface
- Foundations
- The Troubled Waters
- A Traveller Sets Out
- Before the Public
- The Published Lectures
- Retirement
- Preferences and Prejudices
- Into Thy Vineyard
- Late Harvest
- Index
- Accession Number
- 2020.20
- Call Number
- 02 C85j
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- Archives Library
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Tiger of the Snows : the autobiography of Tenzing of Everest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25168
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1955
- Author
- Tenzing Norkey
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Call Number
- 01.1 T26u
- Author
- Tenzing Norkey
- Responsibility
- written in collaboration with james Ramsey Ullman
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Published Date
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 294 pages : illustrations, maps
- Notes
- Includes dust jacket
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 01.1 T26u
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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
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- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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A life in the wild : the story of mountain explorer John Baldwin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25238
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
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- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 43 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Skiing
- Mountaineering
- Travel
- Biography
- Abstract
- Known affectionately to his friends as the King of the Coast Range, John Baldwin has spent his life in a quest to experience the west coast wilderness. Since his teenage years he has explored the rugged Coast Mountain Range, climbing 700 peaks, many of them first ascents, and making perhaps one hundred multi-week, long-distance forays across the icefields and along the ridges of what is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth. Shunning the easy path, John has forged his own way through some of the toughest geography on the planet. He is a mountaineer and explorer of the first order (from Alpine Club of Canada)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One - an idyllic childhood
- Chapter Two - the Varsity Outdoor Club
- Chapter Three - a world of snow and ice
- Chapter Four - adventures with John Clark
- Chapter Five - the mountains of the coast
- Chapter Six - soul of wilderness
- Chapter Seven - a life dedicated to mountains
- ISBN
- 9780920330777
- Accession Number
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available to order via Alpine Club of Canada
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25246
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
1 website
- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Responsibility
- Ayesha Clough (author)
- Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
- Abstract
- Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781999108786
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Our trip around the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25248
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Belczyk, Renate
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02 B41o
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- Author
- Belczyk, Renate
- Responsibility
- Renate Belczyk
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 208 pages
- Abstract
- A spirited 1950s travelogue that takes the reader around the world during a time when two independent young women travelling alone was considered almost revolutionary. Renate Belczyk was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. When she was three years old her family moved to Berlin, where they settled into a small apartment building on the outskirts of the city. It was in this building that she met another adventurous girl, Sigrid, with whom she would travel around the world as young women after the Second World War. Having spent most of their childhood and teenage years climbing trees, swimming, cycling, hiking, and adventuring around Germany the two young women attended a talk by the German writer Heinrich Böll. During his presentation the renowned author suggested to the crowd that they all travel to different countries and make friends with the locals whenever they could, as this would help prevent another war. Renate and Sigrid took this advice to heart, and from that point their adventures together took flight. Starting in 1955 and travelling for three years to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Egypt, Turkey, Macedonia, and Greece, their adventures together culminated with their joint return to Germany in 1958. In 1959 Renate returned to the Canadian Rockies to work in the backcountry, and in 1960 she married mountaineer Felix Belczyk and settled in Castlegar, BC, where they raised three children. Our Trip Around the World is an endearing snapshot of the postwar era when adventure travel – mountaineering, hiking, hitchhiking, and cycling – was enticing those with adventurous spirits to experience the world like never before. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Early Years -- Chapter 2: Mexico, 1955-56 -- July 1955 -- September 1955 -- October 1955 -- November 1955 -- December 1955 -- January 1956 -- February 1956 -- March 1956 -- April 1956 -- May 1956 -- June-July 1956 -- Chapter 3: Canada, 1956-57 -- July 1956 -- August 1956 -- September 1956 -- Winter 1956-57 -- Spring 1957 -- May 1957 -- Chapter 4: Japan, 1957 -- May to October, 1957 -- June 1957 -- July 1957 -- Photo Section -- September 1957 -- October 1957 -- Chapter 5: India and Nepal, 1957-58 October 1957 -- November 1957 -- December 1957 -- January 1958 -- Chapter 6: Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Home, 1958 -- February 1958 -- March 1958 -- April 1958 -- May 1958 -- Afterword: A Life of Travel
- ISBN
- 9781771603775
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 02 B41o
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- Archives Library
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25250
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
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- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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Raven's witness : the Alaska life of Richard K. Nelson
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25252
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Lentfer, Hank
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 08 L46r
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- Author
- Lentfer, Hank
- Responsibility
- Hank Lentfer
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 251 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Before his death in 2019, cultural anthropologist, author, and radio producer Richard K. Nelson's work focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, on the relationships between people and nature. Nelson lived for extended periods in Athabaskan and Alaskan Eskimo villages, experiences which inspired his earliest written works, including "Hunters of the Northern Ice." In "Raven's Witness," Lentfer tells Nelson's story--from his midwestern childhood to his first experiences with Native culture in Alaska through his own lifelong passion for the land where he so belonged (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreword / Barry Lopez -- Prologue: Solid Ground -- Part I: Niglik -- Part II: Making Prayers -- Part III: Island Years -- Part IV: True Wealth -- Afterword: Wings
- Notes
- 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Grand Prize
- 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781680513073
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08 L46r
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