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The boreal herbal : wild food and medicine plants of the North
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26221
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gray, Beverley
- Publisher
- Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
- Call Number
- 02.7 G78b
- Author
- Gray, Beverley
- Publisher
- Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 440 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Contents
- Part I: Getting started -- Part II: Plant profiles -- Part III: Preparations and recipes -- Part IV: Economics -- Part V: For reference.
- Notes
- Many of the plants included in this publication can be found in the Canadian Rockies.
- ISBN
- 9780986827105
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 02.7 G78b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25485
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 390 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Traditional Knowledge
- Science
- Botany
- Abstract
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
- Contents
- Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift
- ISBN
- 978-1-57131-356-0
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
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- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Responsibility
- Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 320 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- The sketchbooks
- Biographies
- Selected reading
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
- ISBN
- 9780452158273
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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- Part Of
- Aileen Harmon fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one colour transparency photograph taken by Aileen Harmon depicting a group of bright pink-purple flowers, titled "Sax. oppositi folia" [n.d.]
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- Reference Code
- V262 / I / NS - 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Aileen Harmon fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M287 / V262
- Series
- V262 / I : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- V262
- Accession Number
- 2016.8596
- Reference Code
- V262 / I / NS - 1
- Responsibility
- Produced by Aileen Harmon
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one colour transparency photograph taken by Aileen Harmon depicting a group of bright pink-purple flowers, titled "Sax. oppositi folia" [n.d.]
- Notes
- Date is estimate provided by Processing Archivist based on medium and context of photograph
- V262/I/NS-1 originally stored in folder titled "Photos" which currently holds V262/I/PA items
- Name Access
- Harmon, Aileen
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- Latin
- Creator
- Aileen Harmon
- Category
- Environment
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Julia : a biography of Julia W. Henshaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19805
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Kluckner, Michael
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Kl66j
- Author
- Kluckner, Michael
- Responsibility
- Michael Kluckner
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 131 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
- Abstract
- "A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Prelude
- Mrs. Charles Henshaw
- Julian Durham
- Julia W. Henshaw
- Gwen
- Captain Julia Henshaw
- "Gentle Julia"
- Afterword
- Key players
- Supplementary notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Graphic novel with mention of Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Signed copy.
- ISBN
- 978-1-988242-20-0
- Accession Number
- p2019-25
- Call Number
- 08.3 Kl66j
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Part Of
- Aileen Harmon fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of assorted textual documents either written, copied or scanned by Aileen Harmon. Documents include correspondence, written accounts of life events by Aileen Harmon, scanned and written notes, poem "Awakening" by Theodore Stephanides, list of Aileen's life travels including dates, lis…
- Date Range
- 1926
- 1967
- [ca. 1970 - ca. 1980]
- 1977
- [ca.1990]
- [ca. 1995 - ca. 2005]
- Reference Code
- M287 / I / 5
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Aileen Harmon fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M287 / V262
- Series
- M287 / I : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- M287
- Accession Number
- 2016.8596
- Reference Code
- M287 / I / 5
- Responsibility
- Produced by Aileen Harmon
- Date Range
- 1926
- 1967
- [ca. 1970 - ca. 1980]
- 1977
- [ca.1990]
- [ca. 1995 - ca. 2005]
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of assorted textual documents either written, copied or scanned by Aileen Harmon. Documents include correspondence, written accounts of life events by Aileen Harmon, scanned and written notes, poem "Awakening" by Theodore Stephanides, list of Aileen's life travels including dates, lists of Latin plant names, a 1926 Toronto Star article, notes on Cree word translations, Harmon family genealogy notes, and text documents for a Canadian Geographic article titled "Hiking in the Canadian Rockies".
- Notes
- File originally contained 6 b&w negative photographs dated 1937 which have since been removed. Negatives are now processed under reference codes V262 / I / NA - 1 to 6 and stored accordingly
- Name Access
- Harmon, Aileen
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Ontario
- Toronto
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Cree
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title provided prior to processing
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25230
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
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- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Responsibility
- Maria Zytaruk
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Botany
- Birds
- Art
- History
- Exhibition catalogue
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book
- Chapter 2: Paper birds
- Chapter 3: Containing nature
- Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany
- Chapter 5: Orchids for the few
- Epilogue
- Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition
- ISBN
- 9780772761262
- Accession Number
- 2021.07
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publishers website
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- Date
- 1965
- Material
- glass; wood; paper; grass
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1018
- Description
- Black framed, glass covered dried flower specimen mounted on green paper. A description of the plant is written in pen “...found on Mt. Cautley-Assiniboine at altitude of 9318 ft. in 1965.”
1 image
- Title
- Picture
- Date
- 1965
- Material
- glass; wood; paper; grass
- Description
- Black framed, glass covered dried flower specimen mounted on green paper. A description of the plant is written in pen “...found on Mt. Cautley-Assiniboine at altitude of 9318 ft. in 1965.”
- Credit
- Gift of Elizabeth Rummel, Banff, 1981
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1018
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Wild flowers of America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19958
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1963
- Author
- Rickett, H.W.
- Publisher
- New York : Duenewlad Printing Corporation
- Call Number
- 04.1 R35w
- Author
- Rickett, H.W.
- Responsibility
- H.W. Rickett
- Publisher
- New York : Duenewlad Printing Corporation
- Published Date
- 1963
- Subjects
- Botany
- Flowers
- Vaux family
- Walcott, Mary Vaux
- Abstract
- Pertains to the comprehensive collection displaying paintings of 400 wild flowers of North America. Revealed in true color, the work of artist Mary Vaux Walcott, is astounding and beautiful. For each painting, a flower description is provided that shares the botanical name of the plant, their location in nature, and other relevant information. Her work is detailed, inspiring and reflective of nature’s mighty resilience. Edited and arranged by H.W. Rickett, Wild Flowers of America offers readers a wonderful look into the art of Mary Vaux Walcott, and the flowers of North America.
- Contents
- Introduction (pg. 7)
- Glossary (pg. 9)
- Flower Descriptions (pg. 11)
- Identification Chart (pg. 64)
- Index (pg. 68)
- The Plates, 1 to 400 (following 72)
- Notes
- 400 flowers in full colour based on paintings by Mary Vaux Walcott as published by the Smithsonian institute of Washington, with additional paintings by Dorothy Falcon Platt.
- Edited wtih an introduction and detailed descriptions by H. W. Rickett
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 04.1 R35w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Wildlife of the northern Rocky Mountains, including common wild animals and plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6427
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1961
- Author
- Baker, William H
- Publisher
- Healdsburg (CA) : Naturegraph
- Call Number
- 04 B17
- Author
- Baker, William H
- Responsibility
- by William H. Baker [et al.]
- edited by Vinson Brown
- Publisher
- Healdsburg (CA) : Naturegraph
- Published Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- 110p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 1000
- Call Number
- 04 B17
- Collection
- Archives Library
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