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Glacier surveys in British Columbia - 1978
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5572
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Reid, I. A
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Supply and Services Canada
- Call Number
- 03.4 R27 1978
- Author
- Reid, I. A
- Responsibility
- by I.A. Reid and J.O.G. Charbonneau
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Supply and Services Canada
- Published Date
- 1980
- Series
- Inland Waters Directorate, report series, 66
- Subjects
- Bugaboo Glacier
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 3398
- Call Number
- 03.4 R27 1978
- Collection
- Archives Library
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National Topotraphic System
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue23887
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Dept of Energy Mines and Resources
- Edition
- Edition 2
- Call Number
- NTS
- 92N/11
- Edition
- Edition 2
- Publisher
- Dept of Energy Mines and Resources
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 1:50,000
- Relief: Contour Interval 100 ft.
- Subjects
- Siva Glacier
- Accession Number
- 13,000
- Call Number
- NTS
- 92N/11
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mount Walker, Mount Pilkington and the Freshfield Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthrc.18.04
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- cibachrome on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HrC.18.04
- Description
- A colour photographic positive, 3 snow capped mountain peaks dominate the horizon, the sky is clear blue, a glacier meanders from centre left to bottom left, the bottom right of the picture is very dark, the sun is hitting the 3 peaks only
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- Title
- Mount Walker, Mount Pilkington and the Freshfield Glacier
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- cibachrome on paper
- Dimensions
- 47.3 x 58.3 cm
- Description
- A colour photographic positive, 3 snow capped mountain peaks dominate the horizon, the sky is clear blue, a glacier meanders from centre left to bottom left, the bottom right of the picture is very dark, the sun is hitting the 3 peaks only
- Credit
- Purchased from Carole Harmon, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- HrC.18.04
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Ice Cave in the Athabasca Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthrd.18.05
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- cibachrome on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HrD.18.05
- Description
- A colour photographic positive, the entire picture is of ice and rocks, the rocks foreground and lower left while the rest of the picture is of ice formations, colours blues with green tones in some of the rocks
1 image
- Title
- Ice Cave in the Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- cibachrome on paper
- Dimensions
- 44.7 x 57.3 cm
- Description
- A colour photographic positive, the entire picture is of ice and rocks, the rocks foreground and lower left while the rest of the picture is of ice formations, colours blues with green tones in some of the rocks
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- glacier
- Athabasca Glacier
- Credit
- Purchased from Don Harmon, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- HrD.18.05
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Glacier surveys in Alberta, 1979
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue10982
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Reid, I.A
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Directorate
- Supply and Services Canada
- Call Number
- 03.4 R27a 1979 Pam
- Author
- Reid, I.A
- Responsibility
- I.A. Reid and J.O.G. Charbonneau
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Directorate
- Supply and Services Canada
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- v, 19p. : ill., map
- Series
- Report series 69
- Subjects
- Athabaasca Glacier
- Saskatchewan Glacier
- Notes
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 0-662-11612-7
- Accession Number
- 3620
- Call Number
- 03.4 R27a 1979 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Exploring the Columbia Icefield
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7138
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Kucera, Richard E
- Publisher
- Canmore : High Country
- Call Number
- 03.4 K95e Pam
- Author
- Kucera, Richard E
- Publisher
- Canmore : High Country
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 64p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Athabasca Glacier
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 14000
- Call Number
- 03.4 K95e Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mt. Jackson, Glacier National Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwbg.04.044
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.044
- Description
- Mt. Jackson in distance, yellow and black trees in foreground.
- Title
- Mt. Jackson, Glacier National Park
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.7 x 14.6 cm
- Description
- Mt. Jackson in distance, yellow and black trees in foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Donna Tingley, Edmonton, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.044
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Research in glacial, glacial-fluvial and glacio-lacustrine systems : proceedings of the . . . Symposium . . .
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5548
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Guelph Symposium on Geomorphology (6th : 1980)
- Publisher
- iv, 318p. : ill., maps
- Call Number
- 03.4 G93
- Responsibility
- edited by R. Davidson-Arnott, W. Nickling, B.D. Fahey
- Publisher
- iv, 318p. : ill., maps
- Published Date
- 1982
- Accession Number
- 15000
- Call Number
- 03.4 G93
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Golden memories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6116
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- 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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