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An Empty Landscape
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25287
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- September/October 2021
- Author
- Mitchell, Alanna
- Publisher
- Aaron Kylie
- Edition
- Vol. 141
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Mitchell, Alanna
- Responsibility
- with photography by Peter Mather
- Edition
- Vol. 141
- Publisher
- Aaron Kylie
- Published Date
- September/October 2021
- Physical Description
- p.34-44
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Alpine tundra
- Animal populations
- Animals
- Canada
- Canadian Endangered Species Protection Act
- Caribou
- Climate change
- Abstract
- The ecological importance of the caribou and their current population decline due to climate change and human influences. Herds in the northern Canadian Rockies are already on the endangered species list.
- Notes
- "In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 5, September/October, 2021"
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Villain, vermin, icon, kin : wolves and the making of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25704
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Rutherford, Stephanie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04.2 R93v
- Author
- Rutherford, Stephanie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and free, wolves have been at the heart of Canada's national story since long before Confederation. Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin contends that the role in which wolves have been cast - monster or hero - has changed dramatically through time. Exploring the social history of wolves in Canada, Stephanie Rutherford weaves an innovative tapestry from the varied threads of historical and contemporary texts, ideas, and practices in human-wolf relations, from provincial bounties to Farley Mowat's iconic Never Cry Wolf. These examples reveal that Canada was made, in part, through relationships with nonhuman animals. Wolves have always captured the human imagination. In sketching out the connections people have had with wolves at different times, Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin offers a model for more ethical ways of interacting with animals in the face of a global biodiversity crisis. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- PART ONE: VILLIANS AND VERMIN -- Fear: settler encounters with wildness out of place -- Disgust: bounties and bureaucracies of extermination -- PART TWO: RECUPERATING THE WOLF -- Passion: writing the wolf in Canadian literature -- Curiosity: the scientific reimagining of a predator -- Devotion: wolf live in modern times -- PART THREE: KNOWING THE WOLF -- Ambivalence: dwelling in multispecies assemblages -- Empathy: Indigneous teachings offer a way out (and in) -- Epilogue: the hazards of a symbol
- ISBN
- 9780228011088
- Accession Number
- P2023.07
- Call Number
- 04.2 R93v
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- Archives Library
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Traces of the animal past : methodological challenges in animal history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25705
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 04.2 B64t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- vii, 419 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Leading scholars in animal history confront key questions of how we can know and understand the more-than-human past, showcasing the innovative methods historians use to discover and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives. Whether in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections. In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing together seventeen original essays by a leading group of international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of current research, this book presents new approaches and new directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction: traces of the animal past / Bonnell, Jennifer and Kheraj, Sean -- PART I: EMBODIED HISTORIES -- Kicking over the traces? freeing the animal from the archive / Swart, Sandra -- Occupational hazards: honeybee labour as an interpretive device in animal history / Bonnell, Jennifer -- Hearing history through hoofbeats: exploring equine volition and voice in the archive / Stallones Marshall, Lindsay -- PART II: TRACES -- Who is greyhound? reflections on the non-human digital archive / Nance, Susan -- Accessing animal health knowledge: popular educators and veterinary science in rural Ontario / Hodgins, Jody -- Animal Cruelty, metaphoric narrative, and the hudson's bay company, 1919-1939 / Colpitts, George -- PART III: THE UNKNOWABLE ANIMAL -- Vanishing flies and the lady entomologist / McNeur, Catherine -- Guinea Pig agnotology / Dean, Joanna -- Tuffy's cold war: science, memory, and the US navy's dolphin / Colby, Jason M. -- The elephant in the archive / Rothfels, Nigel -- PART IV: SPATIAL SOURCES AND ANIMAL MOVEMENT -- Making tracks: a grizzly and entangled history / Campbell, Colleen and Loo, Tina -- Spatial analysis and digital urban animal history / Kheraj, Sean -- Visualizing the animal city: digital experiments in animal history / Robichaud, Andrew -- What's guanaco? tracing the llama diaspora through and beyond South America / Wakild, Emily -- PART V: LOOKING AT ANIMALS -- Hidden in plain sight: how art and visual culture can help us think about animal histories / Cronin, J. Keri -- Creatures on display: making an animal exhibit at the archives of Ontario / Young, Jay -- Portraits of extinction: encountering bluebuck narratives in the natural history museum / Jørgensen, Dolly -- Epilogue: combinations and conjunction / Ritvo, Harriet
- ISBN
- 9781773853840
- Accession Number
- P2023.07
- Call Number
- 04.2 B64t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian animals for kids
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26184
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought
- Call Number
- 05 El6c
- 05 El6c Reference copy
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 24 pages ; ill.
- Subjects
- Literature
- Children
- Animals
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- How does a beaver warn of danger? What's the advantage of being a tiny wood frog? Where do walruses like to live? Kids love to learn about wildlife, and the colours and textures of Max Elliot's mixed media artwork make it even more fun to engage with a variety of Canadian animals, their habits and habitats. -- From back cover.
- ISBN
- 9781926983615
- Accession Number
- P2023.17 (2)
- Call Number
- 05 El6c
- 05 El6c Reference copy
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- Archives Library
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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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Beaded Necklace
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.01.0008
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- claws, cougar; metal, brass; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0008
- Description
- A man's necklace made of cougar claws alternating with brass trade beads. This necklace would be tied around the neck with leather thongs.
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- Title
- Beaded Necklace
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- claws, cougar; metal, brass; skin
- Dimensions
- 45.0 cm
- Description
- A man's necklace made of cougar claws alternating with brass trade beads. This necklace would be tied around the neck with leather thongs.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- animals, cougar
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0008
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Oxshoe Shoe, Animal
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.03.0006
- Date
- 1884 – 1900
- Material
- metal, iron
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.0006
- Description
- A roughly crescent shaped piece of forged iron with flat tabs turned up at each end. There is a groove along the outside edge with three small square nail holes through the iron (two more holes are filled in with dirt and corrosion).
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- Title
- Oxshoe Shoe, Animal
- Date
- 1884 – 1900
- Material
- metal, iron
- Dimensions
- 2.2 x 12.5 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- A roughly crescent shaped piece of forged iron with flat tabs turned up at each end. There is a groove along the outside edge with three small square nail holes through the iron (two more holes are filled in with dirt and corrosion).
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.0006
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Horseshoe Nail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.03.1018
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.1018
- Description
- Short squared nail.
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- Title
- Horseshoe Nail
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- metal
- Description
- Short squared nail.
- Subject
- animals
- horses
- buildings
- Peyto Cabin
- Credit
- Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.1018
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- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- metal, brass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0101
- Description
- A tarnished (greenish colour) brass bell with tall long-legged bird standing on top on one leg with wings outspread. The bird has a long neck that is upraised and the bird’s beak is open. The bird’s bent leg holds a metal bead suspended from a chain that clangs against the outside of the bell.
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- Title
- Service Bell
- Date
- 1880 – 1920
- Material
- metal, brass
- Dimensions
- 21.0 cm
- Description
- A tarnished (greenish colour) brass bell with tall long-legged bird standing on top on one leg with wings outspread. The bird has a long neck that is upraised and the bird’s beak is open. The bird’s bent leg holds a metal bead suspended from a chain that clangs against the outside of the bell.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0101
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- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- metal, copper; metal, brass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0466
- Description
- A simple copper bowl with three brass paw-like feet which support the bowl.
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- Title
- Bonbon Dish
- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- metal, copper; metal, brass
- Dimensions
- 8.5 cm
- Description
- A simple copper bowl with three brass paw-like feet which support the bowl.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- animals
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0466
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