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The boreal herbal : wild food and medicine plants of the North
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26221
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gray, Beverley
- Publisher
- Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
- Call Number
- 02.7 G78b
- Author
- Gray, Beverley
- Publisher
- Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 440 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Contents
- Part I: Getting started -- Part II: Plant profiles -- Part III: Preparations and recipes -- Part IV: Economics -- Part V: For reference.
- Notes
- Many of the plants included in this publication can be found in the Canadian Rockies.
- ISBN
- 9780986827105
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 02.7 G78b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25485
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 390 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Traditional Knowledge
- Science
- Botany
- Abstract
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
- Contents
- Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift
- ISBN
- 978-1-57131-356-0
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Douglas of the fir : a biography of David Douglas botanist
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25554
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1947
- Author
- George Harvey, Athelstan
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 H26d
- Author
- George Harvey, Athelstan
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
- Published Date
- 1947
- Physical Description
- x, 290 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 23 cm
- Subjects
- Botany
- Science
- Travel
- Canada
- Upper Canada
- Columbia River
- Contents
- Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 04.1 H26d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Edward W. D. Holway : a pioneer of the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19831
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
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- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Responsibility
- Howard Palmer
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 81p. : ill., port., map
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Canada
- Selkirk Range
- Botany
- Abstract
- Mountaineers will find in this little volume the authentic account of the ascents in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks which made the name of E. W. D. Holway so well known to the climbing fraternity not many years ago. Readers who may never have seen a mountain will enjoy the book simply as the true tale of a remarkable man whogave up commercial pursuits to become a professor of botany and an explorer of little-known Alpine ranges. The book is composed largely of Mr. Holway’s intimate letters and diaries which tell his story with an engaging touch that continually makes light of the dangers, difficulties and hardships inseparable from pioneer work. The trials and tribulations of “backpacking” are graphically portrayed by the author. The book was designed to cover, as a part of a well-rounded biography, the mountaineering experiences of its subject. We think that the task has been well done and commend the work to the attention of readers interested in the Canadian Alps. Mr. Palmer’s book, with an introduction by the late Professor J. Arthur Harris, former head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota, is enriched with illustrations of many of the peaks referred to in the text. It is very well printed and attractive in format. (From American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Preface
- A pioneer of the Canadian Alps
- Earliest climbs
- The maturity of mountaineer
- The first expedition into the Cariboos
- Conclusion
- Supplementary letters
- List of ascents and explorations by Edward W.D. Holway
- Mountaineering papers by Edward W.D. Holway
- Notes
- Annotated by Ernest Feuz
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book review as per the American Alpine Club
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
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- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Responsibility
- Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 320 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- The sketchbooks
- Biographies
- Selected reading
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
- ISBN
- 9780452158273
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Julia : a biography of Julia W. Henshaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19805
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Kluckner, Michael
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Kl66j
- Author
- Kluckner, Michael
- Responsibility
- Michael Kluckner
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 131 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
- Abstract
- "A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Prelude
- Mrs. Charles Henshaw
- Julian Durham
- Julia W. Henshaw
- Gwen
- Captain Julia Henshaw
- "Gentle Julia"
- Afterword
- Key players
- Supplementary notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Graphic novel with mention of Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Signed copy.
- ISBN
- 978-1-988242-20-0
- Accession Number
- p2019-25
- Call Number
- 08.3 Kl66j
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- Archives Library
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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25230
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
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- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Responsibility
- Maria Zytaruk
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Botany
- Birds
- Art
- History
- Exhibition catalogue
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book
- Chapter 2: Paper birds
- Chapter 3: Containing nature
- Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany
- Chapter 5: Orchids for the few
- Epilogue
- Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition
- ISBN
- 9780772761262
- Accession Number
- 2021.07
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publishers website
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1930
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19976
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1930
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1931
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1930. Published in 1931, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the Museum (pg. 6)
- Object (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 8, 15, 17)
- Palaeontology (pg. 15, 18)
- Botany (pg. 15, 18)
- Amphibians (pg. 19)
- Icthyology (pg. 16,19)
- Entomology (pg. 14, 19)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 16, 20)
- Ornithololgy (pg. 16, 20)
- Oology (pg. 22)
- Mammalogy (pg. 17, 22)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 23)
- Accessions (pg. 17)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1930
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1931
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1931
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1932
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1931. Published in 1932, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Object (pg. 5)
- Admission (pg. 5)
- Visitors (pg. 5)
- Activities (pg. 5)
- Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 7, 11)
- Palaeontology (pg. 12)
- Botany (pg. 9, 12)
- Amphibia and Reptilia (pg. 6, 13)
- Ichthyology (pg. 9, 13)
- Entomology (pg. 10, 13)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 10, 13)
- Ornithology (pg. 10, 14)
- Oology (pg. 10, 14)
- Mammalogy (pg. 10, 14)
- Publications recieved from other Museums (pg. 14)
- Accesions (pg. 11)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1931
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1933
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1934
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1933
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1934
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1933. Published in 1934, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Accessions (pg. 8)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 8)
- Botany (pg. 9, 13, 24)
- Entomology (pg. 9, 33)
- Ichthyology (pg. 10)
- List of Hepatics of Pacific Coast and Adjoining Territory, by A. H. Brinkman (pg. 24)
- Mammalogy (pg. 11)
- Marine (pg. 10)
- Notes on the Flora of the Peace River, by Roy Graham, B.A.Sc., Ph.D (pg. 13)
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Oology (pg. 11)
- Ornithology (pg. 11)
- Palaeontology and Geology (pg. 9)
- Publications (pg. 11)
- Reptilia (pg. 9)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Plates I. to VI.
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1933
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- Archives Library
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