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Streams of consequence : dispatches from the conservation world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26207
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Fitch, Lorne
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
04 F55s
Author
Fitch, Lorne
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
217 pages ; 19 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife management
Conservation
Animals
Alberta
Abstract
A collection of essays highlighting the splendour and diversity of the landscape of southern Alberta. Streams of Consequence weaves together a bit of “ecology for dummies,” a cross-section of stories and essays on Alberta’s biodiversity riches and treasured landscapes, and a backdrop of selections on conservation issues. These are stories of the land and of Alberta’s plants, fish, and wildlife told through the voice of a biologist with decades of experience on the front lines of conservation efforts. Through stories, metaphor, and allegory, basic ecological principles are made clear, ecosystems are described, and our human role in stewarding these natural treasures is revealed. Infused in these “dispatches from the conservation world” is the special magic of biology, taking mute organisms at a variety of scales and understanding their lives and habitats so that they have meaning and a connection to us. The role, the unstated objective of biologists, is to remind us, unceasingly, that it is only in our minds that we live apart from the natural world. These stories have power to engage and educate, to help create and sustain an ecologically literate constituency that knows and cares about Alberta’s wilder side. Readers can look back on the changes, weigh their significance, and think about where we came from, where we are today, and where the trend might take us if we choose one road or another. There are some rocks heaved at our economy-centred, consumer-driven world. Scattered between them are the acts of altruism, of caring, of forethought, and of stewardship. These are rays of hope amid dark clouds threatening our very existence. -- From publisher
ISBN
9781771606691
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
04 F55s
Collection
Archives Library
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Remembering our relations : De¨nesu liné oral histories of Wood Buffalo National Park

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26250
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
07.2 At3r
Responsibility
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation with Sabina Trimble and Peter Fortna.
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xxxiii, 307 pages cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Oral History
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations
Wood Buffalo National Park
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Elders and leaders remind us that telling and amplifying histories is key for healing. Remembering Our Relations is an ambitious collaborative oral history project that shares the story of Wood Buffalo National Park and the De¨nesu line´ peoples it displaced. Wood Buffalo National Park is located in the heart of De¨nesu line´ homelands, where Dené people have lived from time immemorial. Central to the creation, expansion, and management of this park, Canada’s largest at nearly 45, 000 square kilometers, was the eviction of De¨nesu line´ people from their home, the forced separation of Dene families, and restriction of their Treaty rights. Remembering Our Relations tells the history of Wood Buffalo National Park from a Dene perspective and within the context of Treaty 8. Oral history and testimony from Dene Elders, knowledge-holders, leaders, and community members place De¨nesu line´ voices first. With supporting archival research, this book demonstrates how the founding, expansion, and management of Wood Buffalo National Park fits into a wider pattern of promises broken by settler colonial governments managing land use throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By prioritizing De¨nesu line´ histories Remembering Our Relations deliberately challenges how Dene experiences have been erased, and how this erasure has been used to justify violence against De¨nesu line´ homelands and people. Amplifying the voices and lives of the past, present, and future, Remembering Our Relations is a crucial step in the journey for healing and justice De¨nesu line´ peoples have been pursuing for over a century. -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781773854113
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
07.2 At3r
Collection
Archives Library
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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Graham, Mary
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
Call Number
06.3 G76a
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Author
Graham, Mary
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Film making
Canadian Rockies
History of Alberta
History-Canada
Indigenous
Abstract
The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960
Notes
Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.
ISBN
9781773853932
Accession Number
P2023.20
Call Number
06.3 G76a
Collection
Archives Library
Websites
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Johnstone, Mindy
Publisher
Banff, Alberta : Summerthought
Call Number
05 J64a
05 J64a Reference copy
Author
Johnstone, Mindy
Publisher
Banff, Alberta : Summerthought
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
32 pages ; ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Literature
Children
Alberta
History
Abstract
Discover the special places of Alberta in this colourful alphabet book by local artist Mindy Johnstone. The vibrant scenes are acrylic paintings highlighting the diverse landscape and activities of Alberta -- a rhyming journey from A to Z that visits city festivals, ancient badlands, the northern lights, and snowy peaks. From back cover.
ISBN
9781926983554
Accession Number
P2023.17 reference copy
P2022.14 signed
Call Number
05 J64a
05 J64a Reference copy
Collection
Archives Library
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25529
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
Call Number
08.1 B38b
Responsibility
Edited by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxx, 333 pages; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Politics
History of Alberta
Indigenous
Feminism
Activism
Resistance
Heteropatriarchy
Environmentalism
Abstract
Highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists--those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics--and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice / Leon Crane Bear ; Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy / Tarisa Dawn Little ; "We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians": Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968-85 / Corinne George ; Fed Up with Status Quo: Alberta Women's Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964-71 ; Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary / Nevena Ivanovic, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannan ; Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972-78 / Karissa Robyn Patton ; "Ultra Activists" in a "Very Closeted Place": The Early Years of Edmonton's Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972-77 / Erin Gallagher-Cohoon ; Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s / Ken Novakowski ; Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta / Mack Penner ; Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s / Larry Hamnant ; Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton / Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein ; Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton / Larry Hannant ; From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Louise Swift ; The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964-75 / PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson ; "A Lot of Heifer-Dust": Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art / Jennifer E. Salahub ; Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters / PearlAnn Reichwein ; Death of a Delta / Tom Radford ; Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now / Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
ISBN
9781771992572
Accession Number
P2021.03
Call Number
08.1 B38b
Collection
Archives Library
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The wonders that i find

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26182
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Ward, Meghan J.
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
05 W21t
05 W21t Reference copy
Author
Ward, Meghan J.
Responsibility
Illustrated by Tay Odynski
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
pages ; ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Literature
Children
Alberta
Nature
Abstract
It’s a beautiful summer day and Geneva’s parents have something special in mind: a hike to a scenic viewpoint in the mountains. So, they load up their car and drive to their chosen trail — a steep but rewarding hike called “Climb into the Sky.” With her teddy in tow, Geneva tries to keep up with her parents, who are eager to show her the view up high. A bird’s-eye view is what they promise, one that shows a winding river and trees down low, and rows of peaks that stretch into the distance. But, as she walks, she’s distracted by the wonders of nature that catch her eye and beckon her to take a closer look. What does she see along the trail that’s so fascinating? Does she ever reach the top? The Wonders That I Find taps into a child’s curiosity about the world — something we all possess but often neglect as we grow older. The book asks us to slow down as we join Geneva on the trail, to appreciate the smaller things and savour the journey as much as the destination. -- From Publisher.
ISBN
9781771604451
Accession Number
P2023.17 (2)
Call Number
05 W21t
05 W21t Reference copy
Collection
Archives Library
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Lost obelisks of the Rockies - Jerry Auld walks through history and into the alpine to discover a piece of Alberta's heritage, finding evidence that hasn't seen sunlight since it was first placed

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25136
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Auld, Jerry
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Auld, Jerry
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.76 - 81
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Cautley, Richard William
Surveyors
Surveys
Surveys and Mapping
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Pertains to small brass obelisks placed along the British Columbia and Alberta border as part of Alberta's demarcation from the North West Territories in 1905 with the survey beginning in 1913, executed by A.O. Wheeler and Richard Cautley
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Websites
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All-time high - an unprecedented number of visitors are heading to Banff National Park, with a million more tourists passing through the gates in just the last five years. Has the beloved park reached its limits?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25147
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Responsibility
Ryan Stewart (author)
Taylor Odynski (illustrator)
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.70 - 75
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Tourism
Ecology
Environment
Banff National Park
Wildlife
Town of Banff
Parks Canada
Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the rise in visitation to Banff National Park
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Websites
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Fortress Mountain and the false promise of public participation in Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25149
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
March 2020
Author
Fluker, Shaun
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Fluker, Shaun
Responsibility
Shaun Fluker
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
March 2020
Physical Description
p. 6 - 8
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Kananaskis
Kananaskis Country
Kananaskis Lakes
Water
Watersheds
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the application by Fortress Mountain Ski Hill for an amendment to its water license which would allow for 50 million litres of water annually to be removed and bottled
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.1, March 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
PDF of publication can be downloaded on Alberta Wilderness' website
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