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100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14018
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Forster, Merna
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Call Number
- 08.1 F77
- Author
- Forster, Merna
- Responsibility
- by Merna Forster ; foreword by Julie Payette
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 408 p. : ill., ports.
- Subjects
- Women
- Schaffer Mary
- Parker, Elizabeth
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references:
- ISBN
- 9781554889709
- Accession Number
- 8175
- Call Number
- 08.1 F77
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Adding gender to the archival contextual turn : the Rocky Mountain photographic records of Mary Schaffer Warren
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15207
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Rutkair, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : Jennifer Rutkair
- Call Number
- 06.4 R93a
- Author
- Rutkair, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : Jennifer Rutkair
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- v, 131 pages, illustrations (colour), map
- Accession Number
- 2016.8617
- Call Number
- 06.4 R93a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An adventurous woman abroad : the selected lantern slides of Mary T. S. Schaffer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14122
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Lang, Michale
- Publisher
- Victoria B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books; copyright Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1a
- Author
- Lang, Michale
- Responsibility
- Michale Lang
- Publisher
- Victoria B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books; copyright Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 275 p. : col. ill., maps, ports
- Series
- The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies presents
- Subjects
- Asia
- Exploration
- First Nations
- Jasper
- Women
- Notes
- Includes magic lantern slide show scripts "In the heart of the Canadian Rockies with horse and camera, part I and part II" by Mary S. Warren. Most images used in book were scanned from original lantern slides taken or collected by Mary Schaffer Warren
- ISBN
- 978-1-926855-21-9
- Accession Number
- gratis - Reference copy 2012
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Beyond "the artist's wife": women, artist-couple marriage and the exhibition experience in postwar Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19806
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Mastin, Catharine Margaret
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothe`que et Archives Canada
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ma37b
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- Author
- Mastin, Catharine Margaret
- Responsibility
- Catharine Margaret Mastin
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothe`que et Archives Canada
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 358 pages ; PDF format
- Subjects
- Women
- Artists
- Exhibitions
- Thesis
- Abstract
- When art critic Lucy Lippard named "the artist's wife" to be a socially-assigned identity for female artists in the early 1970s, she understood some of the significance of women's companionship status. This dissertation considers how "the artist's wife" was a diverse and hierarchical problem for six female artists during their efforts to access Canada's postwar exhibition market. Joyce Wieland of Toronto, Ontario, Marion Nicoll of Calgary, Alberta, Mary Pratt of St. John's, Newfoundland, and Kenojuak Ashevak of Cape Dorset, Nunavut all experienced this social phenomenon differently. Because the two studios of Wieland and Pratt were combined with domestic life they were also dubbed "kitchen artists." As Marion Nicoll learned, it took much conviction to pursue an art practice focused on abstract painting in traditional institutional and marital contexts. The category "Eskimo" added racial difference to Kenojuak's creative and marital identities. Frances Loring and Florence Wyle of Toronto were persistently called "the Girls," an identity that underscored their non-compliance with heterosexual marriage. Using feminist theories of sexual difference and representation, and intersecting the traditionally distinct fields of history and art history, this study illuminates that the female artist's companionship status mattered much more than has been historically understood. These artists' experiences provide opportunity to reflect on curatorial practice and subject representation and expose that the solo exhibition cannot be fully separated from the artist-couple exhibition when studying the female artist's exhibition history. Their experiences also make visible that gender and female artist identities, including the category "woman artist," are important when studying the female artist in postwar North American art and marriage histories if the social conditions of women's art production are to be fully understood.
- Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter One : introduction : beyond "the artist's wife"
- Chapter Two : socializing women to marriage : the five artist-couple marraiges of Marion Nicholl, Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt, Frances Loring, Florence Wyle and Kenojuak Ashevak
- Chapter Three : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : the experience of abstract painting and the artist-couple marriages of Marion Nicholl and Joyce Wieland, 1959 - 1963
- Chapter Four : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt and the identity "kitchen artist" 1963 - 1973
- Chapter Five : two more women's "two-man" artist-couple exhibitions : the social emergence of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle as "the girls"
- Chapter Six : one women's "two-man" exhibitions : Kenojuak Ashevak's artist-couple exhibitions with Johnniebo Ashevak, 1967 - 1970
- Chapter Seven : conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Copyright permissions
- ISBN
- 978-0-494-89628-0
- Accession Number
- p2019-26
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ma37b
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online through University of Alberta
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A century of antics, epics & escapades : the Varsity Outdoor Club, 1917-2017
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19924
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. ; University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club
- Call Number
- G505 V37 A58
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- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Responsibility
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. ; University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 252 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The Varsity Outdoor Club has turned 100. To celebrate the rich history of the clubs wilderness (mis-)adventures we’ve independently published the best of our collective stories from the last century into one beautiful coffee table book. The VOC has been intimately tied with the history of hiking, skiing, mountaineering and exploration of Southwestern British Columbia and beyond. From building a wooden cabin on the untamed wilds of Grouse Mountain (in the 1920s), to the first ski crossing of the now ultra-classic, “Neve Traverse” in Garibaldi Park, to modern adventures pushing how far and how fast we can go. Each chapter explores the decades from 1917 to 2017, combining primary written accounts, stunning photos and oral histories of the members into a larger unfolding narrative of the ever-evolving relationship between adventurers and nature. (from Varsity Outdoor Club website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- A history older than ours
- Table of contents
- Timeline
- 1917-1939 - Maps: VOC areas & traverses over time
- 1940s - Decades of Garibaldi Park
- 1950s - Decades of Loganeering
- 1960s - Buildering; decades of socializing
- 1970s - Conservation and advocacy in the VOC; Decades of transportation
- 1980s - Women in the VOC; decades of adventure
- 1900s
- Huts
- Nerdiness in the VOC; Maps: selection of traverses since 2000s & climbing pilgrimages
- 2000s
- VOC portrait: Roland Burton
- VOC marriage proposals
- 2010s
- Beyond 2017
- Acknowledgements
- A note on sources
- Appendix: executive lists
- ISBN
- 9781775043003
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G505 V37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Varsity Outdoor Club website - publication information
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Chautauqua serenade : violinist Ruth Bowers on tour, 1910-1912
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15271
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 06.2 Sh5c
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 224 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- Music
- Travel
- United States
- Women
- ISBN
- 9781927575697
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 06.2 Sh5c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Early voices : portraits of Canada by women writers, 1639-1914 / edited by Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson ; with Elizabeth Jane Errington
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14010
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Downie, Mary Alice
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 D75e
- Author
- Downie, Mary Alice
- Responsibility
- Mary Alice Downie, Barbara Robertson, Elizabeth Jane Errington
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn Press
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 316 p. : ill., map, ports
- Series
- Natural Heritage Books
- Subjects
- Women
- Schaffer Mary
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- ISBN
- 9781554887699
- Accession Number
- 8167
- Call Number
- 08.1 D75e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25047
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
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- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- x, 303 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Mountaineering
- Women
- Biography
- Abstract
- In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford’s telling of heart-stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter-filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow. (from Counterpoint Press website)
- Contents
- First climb -- On the rocks -- Lion's layback -- The rescue -- Speed ruts -- Learning to roll -- Bugaboo -- World's toughest milkman -- Fragile ice -- We're gathered here today -- Aberdeen -- Show no fear -- Climbing girlfriend -- The final last straw -- The memo -- In the arms of a mountain -- The underwear drawer -- Teetering on the edge -- Pink wedding dress -- The waiting -- Miracles -- Into the shadows -- Back on the sharp end -- Yodel village -- You lead, I'll follow -- Carsick -- Die young, stay pretty -- Grant's lunch -- Fractured -- Playing dead -- Mama spiders -- Remember the lilac -- Power surge -- Leaving Chaba -- Only four years -- One little "non" -- Second chances.
- ISBN
- 9780345812315
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Counterpoint Press website
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Finding a way to the heart : feminist writings on Aboriginal and women's history in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14194
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Brownlie, Robin Jarvis
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 B81
- Author
- Brownlie, Robin Jarvis
- Responsibility
- edited by Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- viii, 269 p. : ill., map, ports
- Subjects
- Fur trade
- First Nations
- Women
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Notes
- "In offering this volume of essays in honour of Sylvia Van Kirk's scholarship..."--P. 4. Includes bibliographical references. Partial contents: "Multicultural bands on the Northern plains and the notion of "Tribal" histories" by Robert Alexander Innes; "Home tales: Gender, domesticity, and colonialism in the Prairie West, 1870-1900" by Kathryn McPherson
- ISBN
- 9780887557323
- Accession Number
- 12-2-22 70,500
- Call Number
- 07.2 B81
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The girl and the game : a history of women's sport in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Hall, Ann M.
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Call Number
- 02.8 H14g
- Author
- Hall, Ann M.
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 393 pages, illustrations
- Notes
- ACC, women mountaineering discussed on page 43.
- ISBN
- 9781442634121
- Accession Number
- 2016.8011
- Call Number
- 02.8 H14g
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- Archives Library
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