topic:"Alberta" found 10 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Alberta wilderness arts and recreation

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

Published Date: [1976?]

Publisher: Edson, Alberta : Big Bear Wilderness Services

Call Number: GV191.2 A43 Pam

Responsibility: Editors : Mors Kochanski and Don Bright

Publisher: Edson, Alberta : Big Bear Wilderness Services

Published Date: [1976?]

Physical Description: 80p. : ill.

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

Series: Volume 1, No. 1

Subjects: Alberta; Outdoor life; Skiing; Hypothermia; Survival

Call Number: GV191.2 A43 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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At home in nature : a life of unknown mountains and deep wilderness

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Wood, Robert Julian

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.

Call Number: G512 A84 W66

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Author: Wood, Robert Julian

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Architecture; Autobiography; Alberta; British Columbia

Abstract: Rob Wood grew up in a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, where he eventually developed a preoccupation with rock climbing. After studying architecture for five years at the Architectural Association School in London, England, he made his way to Montreal and ended up in Calgary. During his time in Calgary, Rob became a pioneer of ice climbing and posted numerous first ascents in the Rockies during the early 1970’s. Eventually, life in corporate Alberta proved unfulfilling and Rob realized that he needed to find a place where he could reconnect with nature, which brought him to the remote reaches of Canada’s West Coast. Settling on Maurelle Island, he and his wife built an off-the-grid homestead and focussed on alternative communities and developing a small house-design practice specializing in organic and wholesome building techniques. At Home in Nature is a gentle and philosophical memoir that focuses on living a life deeply rooted in the natural world, where citizens are connected to the planet and individuals work together to help, enhance and make the world a better — and sustainable — place. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Leaving the old country; Allegiance to nature; Settling down; Cosmic shack; Back to the land community; Island schooling; Domestic animals; Wild animals; Fiordland boat; Mystery mountain; Deep wilderness; Cancer; Aorta attack; Outer islands community; Off-grib homestead; Organic house; Heavy weather; Flight of the imagination; Legend of Kayak Bill; Whirlpools in the tide

ISBN: 9781771602501

Accession Number: A639

Call Number: G512 A84 W66

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Rocky Mountain Books

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The bold and cold : a history of 25 classic climbs in the Canadian Rockies

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

Published Date: 2016

Author: Pullan, Brandon

Publisher: Victoria : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G510 P85

Author: Pullan, Brandon

Publisher: Victoria : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: 264 pages, colour illustrations

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

Subjects: Alberta, Mount; Assiniboine, Mount; Banff National Park; British Columbia; Bugaboos; Canmore; Edith Cavell, Mount; Robson, Mount; Rock climbing; Rocky Mountains, Canada; Yamnuska, Mount

ISBN: 9781771601153

Accession Number: AC633

Call Number: G510 P85

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Celebrating Alberta's centennial - mountain style

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Taylor, Angus

Call Number: P

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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Highway wilding : build them and they will live

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Allison, Leanne

Call Number: S918 A44 H54

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Author: Allison, Leanne

Responsibility: Leanne Allison

Published Date: 2013

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

Subjects: Wildlife; Wildlife corridors; Wildlife management; Film making; Films; Highways; Highways - Alberta; Banff National Park; Banff National Park - Roads & Trails

Abstract: Highway Wilding sets out to convince us that roads as we know them are a serious problem and make a case for doing something smarter, and achieves both beyond all doubt. Better yet, it deepens into the long-distance lives of animals and evokes that powerful sense of nature as a world operating outside of our daily understandings. Everyone will have their own moment where the film crosses over from interesting to urgent; for me, it was the story of a transplanted lynx that walked over 1500 kilometres home from America. Beautiful." - J.B. Mackinnon - author of 'The 100-Mile Diet' and 'The Once and Future World' (2013)