topic:"Biography" found 32 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Alberta miners : a tribute

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

Published Date: 1993

Author: Chrismas, Lawrence

Publisher: Calgary : Cambria

Call Number: 03.6 C46 oversize c.1; 03.6 C46 oversize c.2

Author: Chrismas, Lawrence

Responsibility: photography and text by Lawrence Chrismas; foreword by Thomas H. Patching; produced in collaboration with the Alberta Chamber of Resources

Publisher: Calgary : Cambria

Published Date: 1993

Physical Description: 224p. : ports., maps

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

Subjects: Biography; Coal and coal mines; Photography; Portraits

Notes: Bibliography and index

ISBN: 0-9697023-0-2

Accession Number: 26000; copy 2 from unknown source (possibly Museum Shop?) in 2006/07

Call Number: 03.6 C46 oversize c.1; 03.6 C46 oversize c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Andy Russell's campfire stories

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

Published Date: 1998

Author: Russell, Andy

Call Number: 05 R91a

Author: Russell, Andy

Responsibility: Andy Russell; with illustrations by Don Brestler

Published Date: 1998

Physical Description: 317 p. : ill

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

Subjects: Biography; Outfitters trail guides packers; Ranching; Waterton Glacier International Peace Park; Wildlife

ISBN: 0-7710-7882-X

Accession Number: 1-19-99 31,500

Call Number: 05 R91a

Collection: Archives Library

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At rest in the peaks : a guided walk through the old Banff Cemetery

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

Published Date: 1994

Author: Deziel-Letnick, Helene

Publisher: Banff : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies; Friends of Banff National Park

Call Number: 08.3 B22d c.1; 08.3 B22d c.2

Author: Deziel-Letnick, Helene

Responsibility: text: Helene Deziel-Letnick, E.J. Hart; design assistance: Kerstin Quintin

Publisher: Banff : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies; Friends of Banff National Park

Published Date: 1994

Physical Description: 40p. : ill., ports., map

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

Subjects: Banff (residents); Biography

Notes: Bibliography

ISBN: 0920608-42-6

Accession Number: 6794

Call Number: 08.3 B22d c.1; 08.3 B22d c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Cassette Interviews and VHS Recordings

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 7 cassette tapes and 10 VHS tapes re: Nicholas Morant and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Includes 6 cassette tapes with recorded 1986/1987 interviews with Nicholas Morant; 1 cassette recording of steam locomotive sounds used for a Revelstoke Museum exhibit on Nicholas Morant; and 10…

Date Range: 1986; 1987; [ca. 1990 - ca. 1995]; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1999

Reference Code: S20 / III / A6 / 1 to 17

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Cassette; Film; Video; Sound recording

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: S20

Sub-Series: S20 / III / A : Nick and Willie Morant

Accession Number: Unknown

Reference Code: S20 / III / A6 / 1 to 17

GMD: Cassette; Film; Video; Sound recording

Responsibility: Canadian Pacific, Edgar Rozon (?)

Date Range: 1986; 1987; [ca. 1990 - ca. 1995]; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1999

Physical Description: 17 sound and video recordings: cassettes, VHS

Scope & Content: File consists of 7 cassette tapes and 10 VHS tapes re: Nicholas Morant and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Includes 6 cassette tapes with recorded 1986/1987 interviews with Nicholas Morant; 1 cassette recording of steam locomotive sounds used for a Revelstoke Museum exhibit on Nicholas Morant; and 10 VHS tapes containing various content, including footage of Nick Morant receiving the Order of Canada in 1990, TV and film features on Nicholas Morant and TV news broadcasts discussing CP Rail and/or Nicholas Morant.

Notes: Originally stored in box for mandarin oranges, accompanied by business card for J.C. Edgar Rozon.

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas

Subject Access: Biographical; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific; Photography; Interview; Biography

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Canadian Rocky Mountains

Reproduction Restrictions: Reference use only; no reproduction

Language: English

Creator: Canadian Pacific Railway, various, unknown

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: Individual item titles (original):; S20/III/A6/1: CP Rail Video News 12 JANUARY 1991; S20/III/A6/2: Copy of Nick Morant - CBC TV Segment Jan 18 1990; S20/III/A6/3: Winston Link: Trains that Passed in the Night: Broadcast TV Ontario Nov. 19 /92 10:30 pm; S20/III/A6/4: End of the Line CFCN-TV News Aired: February 5, 1990; S20/III/A6/5: Investiture: Order of Canada Railroader U.S. Transcontinental Railroad; S20/III/A6/6: CPR - Still Life: The Story of Nicholas Morant (5:30); S20/III/A6/7: "Canadian Profiles" featuring Bert Coughlin Produced by Humber College Recorded in 1993; S20/III/A6/8: Riding the Rails in the Rockies: The Best Years (Cam Cathcart) Rocky Mountaineer; S20/III/A6/9: Jan. 18 /90 Thu. N. Morant CBC - 6 Srigley; S20/III/A6/10: Order of Canada Awards - Rideau Hall - October 24, 1990; S20/III/A6/11: Nick Morant Tape 1 1986 Interviews; S20/III/A6/12: Nick Morant Tape 2 cont.'d 1986 1986 interviews continued; S20/III/A6/13: Nick Morant tape #3 1986 Interviews N. Morant; S20/III/A6/14: Nick Morant Tape #4 1987 Interviews; S20/III/A6/15: Nick Morant Tape #5 1987 1987 Interviews; S20/III/A6/16: Nick Morant Tape #6 1987 Interviews; S20/III/A6/17: CPR Sounds. Nick Morant Steam Locos [On front of cassette:] "NICHOLAS MORANT DEDICATION OF RVELSTOKE [sic] MUSEUM - STEAM LOCO SOUNDS - EDITED TO 9 mins."