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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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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- metal, silver
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0098
- Description
- A sterling silver napkin ring in the form of a snake. The napkin ring is stamped “Sterling”.
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- Title
- Napkin Ring
- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- metal, silver
- Description
- A sterling silver napkin ring in the form of a snake. The napkin ring is stamped “Sterling”.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0098
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Southern Alberta research project
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materia…
- Date Range
- [ca.1845-1920]
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / C6
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Cabinet card
- Diary
- Organization record
- Photograph
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Textual record
- Tintype
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / II / C : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / C6
- GMD
- Cabinet card
- Diary
- Organization record
- Photograph
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Textual record
- Tintype
- Date Range
- [ca.1845-1920]
- Physical Description
- 29 cm of textual records -- 29 photographs (28 b&w prints, 1 tintype) ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materials in sub-series believed to have been collected by Eleanor Luxton, possibly on behalf of the Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association or as part of Eleanor's personal research.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Buildings
- Businesses
- Community life
- Commerce and industry
- Communications
- Correspondence
- Environment
- Family and personal life
- Farmland
- Finances
- Genealogy
- History
- Homestead
- Immigration and homesteading
- Inventory
- Land use
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Manufacturing
- Municipal views
- Oil
- Postcards
- Portrait
- Property
- Real estate business
- Research
- Settlement
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some restrictions may apply - fragile materials
- Language
- English
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Communications
- Family and personal life
- Environment
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 2023
- Medium
- cotton
- Catalogue Number
- BkM.08.01
- Description
- A large woven tapestry featuring a central image of figures in ornate european 17th century clothing on a dias facing a large Bison. Around the Bison are other animals: a mule deer, a raven and crow, a magpie, and a squirrel. 4 other black birds are on the bison’s shoulders and another bird is on i…
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- Title
- Summit
- Date
- 2023
- Medium
- cotton
- Dimensions
- 152.0 x 210.0 cm
- Description
- A large woven tapestry featuring a central image of figures in ornate european 17th century clothing on a dias facing a large Bison. Around the Bison are other animals: a mule deer, a raven and crow, a magpie, and a squirrel. 4 other black birds are on the bison’s shoulders and another bird is on it’s rump. The ground is a geometric tiled floor and Cascade mountain rises up in the background. In the sky a small helicopter can be seen long lining. This scene is edged in gold thread with a thick blue border full of flora and fauna of the rockies. The bottom two corners have scrollwork, framing “SUMMIT” over a row of pink flowers in bottom centre.
- Subject
- Bison
- animals
- Banff National Park
- history
- Credit
- Purchased from Mary Anne Barkhouse, Minden, 2023
- Catalogue Number
- BkM.08.01
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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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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood, mahogany; glass; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0003
- Description
- A banjo clock with the front of the frame completely gilded. The clock has a rectangular glass door at the bottom, painted with a battle scene between two tall ships, opens to reveal a pendulum (push button release on side of clock). The tall rectangular stem has a glass panel painted with entwin…
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- Title
- Wall Clock
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood, mahogany; glass; metal
- Dimensions
- 105.0 x 9.5 x 26.8 cm
- Description
- A banjo clock with the front of the frame completely gilded. The clock has a rectangular glass door at the bottom, painted with a battle scene between two tall ships, opens to reveal a pendulum (push button release on side of clock). The tall rectangular stem has a glass panel painted with entwined U.S. emblems (shield, etc.). The clock’s round face is covered with clear glass and has a Roman numeral dial. The top of the clock has a gilt eagle finial. The face plate is marked “J.A. Willard Boston”.
- Subject
- households
- symbols
- animals
- eagle
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.0003
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