topic:"Alberta" found 118 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Man on water - water almost claimed Bob Sandford's life, so why has the Alberta scientist devoted his entire career to saving the planet's most precious resource?

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: April 2009

Author: Gray, Kim

Publisher: Canadian Living

Call Number: P

Author: Gray, Kim

Responsibility: Kim Gray (author); George Webber (photographer)

Publisher: Canadian Living

Published Date: April 2009

Physical Description: p. 164 - 173

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Water; Sandford, Robert W.; Conservation; Conservation areas; Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta

Abstract: Pertains to Bob Sandford's work in the Canadian Rocky Mountains with water conservation

Notes: In Canadian Living, Vol. 34, No.4, April 2009 pg. 164-173

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Canada's Stonehenge : astounding archaeological discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Freeman, Gordon R

Publisher: [Calgary] : Kingsley Publishing

Call Number: 07 F7c

Author: Freeman, Gordon R

Responsibility: Gordon R. Freeman

Publisher: [Calgary] : Kingsley Publishing

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: xvii, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alberta; Archaeology; Astronomy; First Nations

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Partial contents: Spirituality of First Nations medicine wheels, and the large patterns of rocks near Majorville Alberta along the Bow River , known by the Siksika as "Omahkiyaahkohtoohp"

ISBN: 9780978452612

Accession Number: P2015-03-31

Call Number: 07 F7c

Collection: Archives Library

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Alberta and the Rockies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Publisher: Greenville, SC : Michelin Travel Publications

Call Number: 02.6 M58a

Publisher: Greenville, SC : Michelin Travel Publications

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 288 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: The green guide

Subjects: Alberta; Guidebooks; Maps; Tourism; Travel

Notes: On cover: Track dinosaurs in the badlands -- Sample Calgary's famed Stampede -- Evoke Fort Edmonton's past; Includes index; Map on inside cover

ISBN: 9781906261559

Accession Number: 2015.8545

Call Number: 02.6 M58a

Collection: Archives Library

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Best of Alberta : the search for our greatest citizen : 125 of our greatest citizens

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2008

Author: Jarvie, Michele (editor)

Publisher: Calgary Herald

Call Number: 08.2 C11 B11 PAM

Author: Jarvie, Michele (editor)

Responsibility: Michele Jarvie (editor)

Publisher: Calgary Herald

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: Newpaper insert

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History of Alberta; Biography; Read, Ken; Tyson, Ian; Russell, Andy; Carter, Wilf; Whyte, Catharine Robb; Whyte, Peter; Harvie, Eric; Brewster, Jim; McDougall, John; Nordegg, Martin

Abstract: Pertains to a search for Alberta's Greatest Citizen and summarizes the lives of 125 people from various decades including several specific to the Bow Vally such as Peter Lougheed, Ken Read, Ian Tyson, Andy Russell, Wilf Carter, Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte, Eric Harvie, Roland Michener, James Gladstone [Akay-na-muka], Jim Brewster, Bill Brewster, Ernest Poole, Martin Nordegg, Chief Crowfoot [Isapo-Muxika], Father Albert Lacombe, Rev. John Chantler McDougall.

Notes: Section BA in the Sunday, June 8, 2008 Calgary Herald

Call Number: 08.2 C11 B11 PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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From bombs to meadowlarks : the stories of the war brides of Medicine Hat and district as told to Carol Ann Ross, Kath Killcullen, Doreen Hortness and Angela J. Stubbs

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2008

Author: Stubbs, Angela J.

Publisher: Medicine Hat, AB : Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District

Call Number: 08.2 St9f

Author: Stubbs, Angela J.

Responsibility: Angela J. Stubbs (editor)

Publisher: Medicine Hat, AB : Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 152 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: No. 1 1944-1947

Subjects: Women; Women in war; War Brides; World War, 1939-1945; Alberta; History of Alberta; Immigration

Abstract: Pertains to the experiences of warbrides who immigrated to Medicine Hat and district during the World War II time period.

Contents: Forward; Jenny Gratrix Wartime Memories; Bardsley, Theresa; Beasley, Gladys; Blades, Margaret; Bowering, Margaret; Burles, Olive; Byan, Doreen; Capper, Minnie; Clark, Eileen; Crowther, Esme; Dudley-Rees, Peg; Eremenko, Renee; Gazdag, Kea; Goodine, Isabel; Gratrix, Jenny; Hollingsworth, Finnie; Hyland, Doris; Keeler, Daphne; Kehn, Elza; McCarten, Betty; McKay, Amy; Niemen, Madge; Olmstead, Bette; Pahl, Ruby; Pederson, Audrey; St.George, Joan; Solley, Lynn; Stevens, Kathy; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Modern Photographs of Warbrides

ISBN: 978-0-9737894-1-6 pbk

Accession Number: 2019.01

Call Number: 08.2 St9f

Collection: Archives Library

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Days of heaven

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2007

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection

Call Number: 06.3 D33 DVD

1 website

Responsibility: Terrence Malick (director); Richard Gere (actor); Brooke Adams (actor); Sam Shepard (actor)

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Film making; Films; Waterton; Waterton Lakes; Southern Alberta; Engler, Bruno

Abstract: In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and his little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

Contents: Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings.

Notes: Still photography by Bruno Engler; Filmed in Southern Alberta and Waterton National Park; Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature] (22 min.); Interview with Sam Shepard (13 min.); Interview with John Bailey (21 min.); Interview with Haskell Wexler (12 min.). Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros.

Accession Number: P2019-31

Call Number: 06.3 D33 DVD

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Days of Heaven on IMDb

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Water, weather and the mountain west

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2007

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5wa c.1; 03.5 Sa5wa c.2; 03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3

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Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 207 pages : illustrations

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Conservation; Water; Watersheds; Canada; Climate; Climate change; Climatology; Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta

Abstract: Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada. Since many rivers are already fully allocated to numerous uses, future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water resources and how effectively we manage them—especially in the face of climate change. The message to take home from this eloquent book is that it is time to dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in Canada and throughout North America. We all need to be mindful that though our technologically sophisticated society is largely fuelled and lubricated by refined petroleum, it ultimately runs on plain water. In his conclusion to this authoritative book, Robert Sandford, chair of Canada’s United Nations Water for Life Decade, offers a realistic picture of the various issues and threats related to the future availability and quality of fresh water in Canada. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Invocation: through mist and rainbow the water speaks; One: water, weather and the west; Two: the drinking-water supply in Canada; Three: what can we learn from others; Four: reading the wind: reframing the climage-change debate; Five: future landscapes in the mountain west; Appendix One; Appendix Two; Written on the wind: a climate-change bookshelf; Index; Acknowledgements