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A life in the wild : the story of mountain explorer John Baldwin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25238
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
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- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 43 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Skiing
- Mountaineering
- Travel
- Biography
- Abstract
- Known affectionately to his friends as the King of the Coast Range, John Baldwin has spent his life in a quest to experience the west coast wilderness. Since his teenage years he has explored the rugged Coast Mountain Range, climbing 700 peaks, many of them first ascents, and making perhaps one hundred multi-week, long-distance forays across the icefields and along the ridges of what is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth. Shunning the easy path, John has forged his own way through some of the toughest geography on the planet. He is a mountaineer and explorer of the first order (from Alpine Club of Canada)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One - an idyllic childhood
- Chapter Two - the Varsity Outdoor Club
- Chapter Three - a world of snow and ice
- Chapter Four - adventures with John Clark
- Chapter Five - the mountains of the coast
- Chapter Six - soul of wilderness
- Chapter Seven - a life dedicated to mountains
- ISBN
- 9780920330777
- Accession Number
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available to order via Alpine Club of Canada
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25250
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
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- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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My heroes have always been Indians : a century of great Indigenous Albertans
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25267
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Voyageur, Cora J.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Call Number
- 07.2 V85m
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- Author
- Voyageur, Cora J.
- Responsibility
- Cora J. Voyageur
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 226 pages
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- First Nations
- History
- Biography
- Alberta
- Abstract
- In a series of inspirational profiles, Cora Voyageur celebrates the achievements of 100 remarkable Indigenous Albertans in the fields of art, literature, business, politics, sports, education, human rights and more. From world-renowned architect Douglas Cardinal, whose iconic designs are seen from Edmonton to Washington, DC, to Nellie Carlson, a tireless activist whose work has advanced the rights of Indigenous women, the contributions of Indigenous Peoples have greatly enriched the social, cultural and economic fabric of Alberta. An introduction provides a brief history of Indigenous Peoples in Alberta, including an explanation of the Numbered Treaties. (from publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781550597547
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 07.2 V85m
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Tides : a climber's voyage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25737
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.8 T87t
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- viii, 246 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Tides, the award-winning follow-up to Nick Bullock's critically acclaimed debut book Echoes, is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one's life to climbing.
- ISBN
- 9781911342533
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 02.8 T87t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Sons of Canada : short stories of characteristic Canadians
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5156
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1916
- Author
- Bridle, Augustus
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dent
- Call Number
- 08.1 B76
- Author
- Bridle, Augustus
- Responsibility
- drawings by F.S. Challoner
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dent
- Published Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- viii, 280p. : ports
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.1 B76
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The makers of Canada : index and dictionary of Canadian history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12356
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Publisher
- Toronto : Morang & Co
- Call Number
- R 08.1 B89
- Responsibility
- edited by Lawrence J. Burpee, Librarian of the Carnegie Library Ottawa and Arthur G. Doughty, Dominion Archivist Ottawa
- Publisher
- Toronto : Morang & Co
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 446 p
- Notes
- Includes fold-out chart "Illustrated chart of Canadian history"
- Accession Number
- 580
- Call Number
- R 08.1 B89
- Collection
- Archives Library
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J. B. Harkin : father of Canada's national parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13802
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing
- Call Number
- 13.117 H25h
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Responsibility
- E.J. (Ted) Hart
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- xxii, 564p. : ill
- Series
- Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rockies
- Notes
- Bibliography and index.
- ISBN
- 9780888645128
- Accession Number
- 8037
- 60500 2010-06-03
- Call Number
- 13.117 H25h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The West and beyond : new perspectives on an imagined region
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13906
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Carter, Sarah
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 C24w
- Author
- Carter, Sarah
- Responsibility
- [edited by] Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, Peter Fortna
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- xxv, 435 p. : ill., map, ports
- Series
- The West unbound: social and cultural studies
- Subjects
- Biography
- Ethnic groups
- First Nations
- Glenbow Museum
- Inuit
- Medicine
- Photography
- Politics
- Tourism
- Women
- Notes
- Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19-21 June, 2008. --Includes bibliographical references and index Partial contents: Cree intellectual traditions in history / Winona Wheeler, pp. 47-61; Visual space race and history in the North: photographic narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp, pp.65-93. - Pertains to photographers Charles W. Mathers and Ernest Brown; The kaleidoscope of madness: perceptions of insanity in British Columbia aboriginal populations, 1872-1950 / Kathryn McKay, pp.94-111; The expectations of a queen: identity and race politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey, pp.153-155. - Pertains to controversy regarding 1954 Stampede Queen Evelyn Eagle Speaker known in the competition as "Princess Wapiti", pp.133-155 The Banff photographic exchange: albums, youth, skiing and memory making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler, pp.34-374. -- Pertains to photograph albums of Fulton Dunsmore, Cyril Paris, Peter Whyte and Fern Brewster Eric Harvie: without and within Robert Kroetsch's Alibi / Robyn Read, pp. 375-397
- ISBN
- 9781897425800
- Accession Number
- 8053
- Call Number
- 08.2 C24w
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- Archives Library
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Memories of war
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14055
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Smith, Elwyn
- Publisher
- Banff : Elwyn Smith
- Call Number
- 08.1 Sm5m
- Author
- Smith, Elwyn
- Responsibility
- Elwyn Smith
- Publisher
- Banff : Elwyn Smith
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 57p. : ill., port
- Subjects
- Biography
- World War II
- Notes
- Second World War reminiscences of WWII veteran Elwyn Smith, who joined Queen's Own Rifles, 3rd Battalion in 1942. After the war, Smith moved to Banff with his wife Bobbe in 1945
- Accession Number
- 8221
- Call Number
- 08.1 Sm5m
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- Archives Library
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Memories of a front line professional worker in the service of the church or chance encounters unexpected consequences
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14072
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- ca. 2010
- Author
- Travis, John
- Publisher
- Self published
- Call Number
- 08.1 T69m
- Author
- Travis, John
- Responsibility
- John Travis
- Publisher
- Self published
- Published Date
- ca. 2010
- Physical Description
- 158 pp.
- Accession Number
- 8215
- Call Number
- 08.1 T69m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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