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Golden memories
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- 08.3 G56gm 1982
- Responsibility
- Golden and District Historical Society
- Ethel King, Editor
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 314p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Big Bend Highway
- Camps, Internment
- Enemy aliens
- Columbia Valley
- Glacier House
- Mountain guides
- Accession Number
- 19000
- Call Number
- 08.3 G56gm 1982
- 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
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- 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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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
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- 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 P98
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Hiram R. Baker interview
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions15311
- Date Range
- 1983
- Reference Code
- S1 / 147
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Series
- I. Interviews
- Reference Code
- S1 / 147
- Responsibility
- Interviewer: E. J. (Ted) Hart
- Date Range
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording
- Subject Access
- Glacier House
- Kootenay Plains
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Simpson, Jimmy
- Stoney Indians
- Trapping
- Finding Aid
- Recording summary and reference cassette available
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of recording
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Historic period site survey inventory and assessment of Canadian Pacific's 1885 and 1916 railway alignments, Glacier National Park, British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4693
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1988
- Author
- Sumpter, Ian
- Publisher
- Calgary : Environment Canada - Parks
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45s
- Author
- Sumpter, Ian
- Publisher
- Calgary : Environment Canada - Parks
- Published Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- xviii, 451p. : ill., maps, plans
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Glacier House
- Accession Number
- 5818
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A history of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, 1884-1930
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Finch, David A.A
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45f
- Author
- Finch, David A.A
- Published Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- xiii, 338p. : ill., ports., plans, map
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- Accession Number
- 19500
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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House on the edge of ice
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Kletke, Glenn
- Publisher
- Kanata (Ontario) : Atyning Press
- Call Number
- 05.1 K67h
- Author
- Kletke, Glenn
- Publisher
- Kanata (Ontario) : Atyning Press
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 112 p. : ill
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- ISBN
- 0973001917
- Accession Number
- 7514
- Call Number
- 05.1 K67h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Information bulletins : numbers 1-9
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968-70
- Author
- Golden and District Historical Society
- Call Number
- 08.3 G56g
- Responsibility
- compiled by H.C. Graham
- Published Date
- 1968-70
- Physical Description
- 9 leaflets combined : ill
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Call Number
- 08.3 G56g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mary Warren Correspondence
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 4 type written letters written by Mary [Shaffer] Warren to Minnie Nickell regarding the former's first visit and subsequent survey of Maligne Lake in 1908, place names, botany, Jamaica, personal matters, and various individuals including Samuel Allen, J. Norman Collie, William "Bil…
- Date Range
- 1936-1937
- Reference Code
- M8 / accn. 4005
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Private record
- Textual record
was returning to Glacier House . He walked 1n and bad an AVIFUL
HOlE IN THE HEEL OF HIS STOCKING! \Vnen l named
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1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M8 / S8 / V8
- Sous-Fonds
- M8
- Accession Number
- 4005
- Reference Code
- M8 / accn. 4005
- Date Range
- 1936-1937
- Physical Description
- 0.2 cm of textual records (8 pages ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm)
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 4 type written letters written by Mary [Shaffer] Warren to Minnie Nickell regarding the former's first visit and subsequent survey of Maligne Lake in 1908, place names, botany, Jamaica, personal matters, and various individuals including Samuel Allen, J. Norman Collie, William "Billy" Warren, Mary Jobe, and Nellie McClung. Also inlcudes a newspaper clipping of Mary's obituary from 1939. Minnie Nickell and Mary Warren became acquainted during the 1930s through a mutual friend, a Mrs. Armstrong of Owen Sound, Ontario.
- Subject Access
- Botany
- Correspondence
- Exploration
- Family and personal life
- Glacier House
- Guides
- Horses
- Packing
- Personal and Family Life
- Scouting
- Surveying
- Travel
- Travel and Exploration
- Geographic Access
- Maligne Lake
- Jasper National Park
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Murray family fonds
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- Part Of
- Murray family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The artic…
- Date Range
- 1887-1960
- Reference Code
- M142 / V453
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Murray family fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 142
- V 453
- Sous-Fonds
- M 142
- V 453
- Accession Number
- 450, 941
- Reference Code
- M142 / V453
- Date Range
- 1887-1960
- Physical Description
- 33 photographs : prints. -- .5 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- George Murray, 1904-1968, and Gertrude Murray, 1891-1979, were residents of Banff, Alberta, Canada. George Murray was an employee of Rocky Mountain Tours and Transport Company from 1941 until 1957 and was later employed by Brewster Transport Company. The Murrays were friends of Major F. V. (Frederick Victor) Longstaff, 1879-1961, a mountaineer, architect and historian from Victoria, B.C.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The article includes photographic illustrations of the Lake O'Hara region and the interior of Abbot Pass Hut.
- Name Access
- Murray, George
- Murray, Gertrude
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Glacier House
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: basic description for photographs.
- Creator
- Murray, George
- Murray, Gertrude
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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