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My forty-five years on the campus
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26585
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1958
- Author
- Lister, Reg
- Publisher
- [Edmonton] University of Alberta
- Call Number
- 05 L69m
- Author
- Lister, Reg
- Responsibility
- Edited for publication by Elsie Park Gowan.
- Publisher
- [Edmonton] University of Alberta
- Published Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- 75 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Autobiography
- University of Alberta
- Alberta
- Alberta centennial
- Alberta - History
- World War, 1939-1945
- Abstract
- Complelling autobiography of a man essential to the day-to-day running of the University of Alberta campus with 45 years of tales of from raising his young family in univeristy building basements, student schenanigans, and War efforts.
- Notes
- Banff reference page 61
- Page 75 contains a leaflet 'News of The Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club - WINTER 1958'
- Accession Number
- 2024.43
- Call Number
- 05 L69m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Alberta 100 : a centennial countdown [DVD video]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13358
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Calgary : Pyramid Productions
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1t DVD
- Responsibility
- hosted by Ron Maclean
- Publisher
- Calgary : Pyramid Productions
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 1 digital video disc : 1 sd., col. with b&w sequences
- Subjects
- Alberta centennial
- Notes
- 100 notable personalities of Alberta, including: Catharine Robb Whyte; Pat Brewster; Beckie Scott; Ed Whelen; John Ware: Bob Edwards; W.O. Mitchell; Andy Russell; Senator Matthew Cochrane; Grant MacEwan; Ken Read; Mary Schaffer Warren; Frank Oliver; Wilf Carter: Peter Lougheed; Ian Tyson; Crowfoot; Lois Hole
- Accession Number
- 7809
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1t DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Summit Canister
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.1175
- Date
- 2005
- Material
- plastic; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1175
- Description
- A plastic container with a white paper lid surrounded by black plastic. There is a small round hole in the centre of the paper lid. On the front is black lettering (outlined in black) “ALBERTA CENTENNIAL MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION”. There is a black line simulating mountains over the writing, and the sole…
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- Title
- Summit Canister
- Date
- 2005
- Material
- plastic; paper
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A plastic container with a white paper lid surrounded by black plastic. There is a small round hole in the centre of the paper lid. On the front is black lettering (outlined in black) “ALBERTA CENTENNIAL MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION”. There is a black line simulating mountains over the writing, and the sole of a boot, viewer’s left with “AC” printed, then a simulated mountain with “2005” and on the heel of the sole an “E”. On the bottom of the container there is a raised triangle with a “2” in the middle, underneath that, “PRETIUM”, and underneath that , viewer’s right “16”.
- Credit
- Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1175
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Alberta formed, Alberta transformed
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26582
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 1
- Responsibility
- edited by Payne, Michael and Wetherell, Donald and Cavanaugh, Catherine with Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Alberta centennial
- Abstract
- 'Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial.' - Aurora
- Contents
- v. 1.: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 13,001 years ago: human beginnings in Alberta / John W. Ives -- The day the dry snow fell: the record of a 7,627-year-old disaster / Alwynne B. Beaudoin and Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Buffalo and dogs: the prehistoric lifeway of aboriginal people on the Alberta Plains, 1004-1005 / Trevor R. Peck and J. Rod Vickers -- The never-ending journey of Anthony Henday / Eldon Yellowhorn -- "With tears, shrieks, and howling of despair": the smallpox epidemic of 1781-1782 / Ted Binnema -- Fatal quarrels and fur trade rivalries: a year of living dangerously on the North Saskatchewan 1806-07 / Gerhard J. Ens -- Economy must now be the order of the day: George Simpson and the reorganization of the fur trade to 1826 / Heather Devine -- On the edge of the great transformation: 1857-58 / Frits Pannekoek -- 1870: a year of violence and change? Hugh A. Dempsey -- "A better life with honour": treaty 6 (1876) and treaty 7 (1877) with Alberta First Nations / Sarah Carter and Walter Hildebrandt -- Too many scared people: Alberta and the 1885 north-west rebellion / Bill Waiser -- 1899 and the political economy of Canada's north-west: Treaty 8 as a compact to share and peacefully co-exist / Brian Calliou -- 1904-1905: Alberta Proclaimed / David Hall.
- Notes
- Volume One and Volume Two
- ISBN
- 1552381943
- Accession Number
- 7871
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 1
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Alberta formed, Alberta transformed
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26583
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 2
- Responsibility
- edited by Payne, Michael and Wetherell, Donald and Cavanaugh, Catherine with Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press ; Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Alberta centennial
- Abstract
- 'Thirty essays in 2 volumes represent a wide range of voices and points of view. Moving beyond a straightforward commemorative history, the contributors often tackle contentious issues and question previous, more conventional approaches and assumptions. Each essay represents a snapshot in time, focusing on a person, a trend or an event that has played a significant part in shaping Alberta. Contains maps, archival photographs and illustrations, and explanatory sidebars. Vol. 1 covers from human beginnings to Alberta's inauguration as a province in 1905, vol. 2 takes readers through the 20th century up to the 2005 centennial.' - Aurora
- Contents
- v. 2. The dance of the grizzly bear: boom to bust, 1912-13 / David C. Jones -- Enthusiasm embattled: 1916 and the great war / Duff Crerar -- 1919: "a year of extraordinary difficulty" / David Bright -- From idealism to pragmatism: 1923 in Alberta / Bradford J. Rennie -- 1929: "things are seldom what they seem" / Donald Smith -- 1935: the social credit revolution / Alvin Finkel -- 1948: ghosts and dreams / Patricia Myers -- 1947: the making of modern Alberta / David Breen -- 1951: oil's magic wand / Doug Owram -- 1955 -- celebrating together, celebrating apart: Albertans and their golden jubilee / Frances Swyripa -- 1967: embracing the future ... at arm's length / Max Forna -- Alberta's quiet revolution: 1973 and the early Lougheed years / James H. Marsh -- 1980: duel of the decade / Tammy Nemeth -- 1986: the bloom comes off the wild rose province / Herb Emery -- 1996 -- two Albertas: rural and urban trajectories / Roger Epp -- Alberta in 2004 / David Taras -- Looking back in Alberta history: reflections in a rear-view mirror / Michael Payne. Donald Wetherell, and Catherine Cavanaugh -- Contributors -- Index.
- Notes
- Volume One and Volume Two
- ISBN
- 1552381943
- Accession Number
- 7871
- Call Number
- 08.1 P29a Vol. 2
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Climb every mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12737
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Call Number
- 01.4 Al1m Pam
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Physical Description
- p.36-41 : ill
- Notes
- In Westworld, vol.31, no.3 (June 2005)
- Call Number
- 01.4 Al1m Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Reach for the top
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12819
- Author
- Vlessides, Michael
- Physical Description
- p.11
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In Canadian Geographic, vol.125, no.6 (November / December 2005).
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Living mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13014
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Call Number
- 02.5 Al1l Pam oversize
- Physical Description
- p.4-11 : ill
- Subjects
- Authors
- Alberta centennial
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- Outfitters, trail guides, packers
- Photographers
- Richards, Craig
- Sandford, Robert W
- Vinson, Tom
- Wood, Sharon
- Notes
- In Our Alberta : a Calgary Herald magazine series celebrating Alberta's centennial, issue 2
- Call Number
- 02.5 Al1l Pam oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Celebrating Alberta's centennial - mountain style
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12667
- Author
- Taylor, Angus
- Physical Description
- p.19
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Alberta centennial
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- In The Alpine Club of Canada Gazette, vol.20, no.1 (Winter 2005)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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