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Edward W. D. Holway : a pioneer of the Canadian Alps

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19831
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1931
Author
Palmer, Howard
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
Call Number
01.4 Pa18e
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Author
Palmer, Howard
Responsibility
Howard Palmer
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
Published Date
1931
Physical Description
81p. : ill., port., map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Canada
Selkirk Range
Botany
Abstract
Mountaineers will find in this little volume the authentic account of the ascents in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks which made the name of E. W. D. Holway so well known to the climbing fraternity not many years ago. Readers who may never have seen a mountain will enjoy the book simply as the true tale of a remarkable man whogave up commercial pursuits to become a professor of botany and an explorer of little-known Alpine ranges. The book is composed largely of Mr. Holway’s intimate letters and diaries which tell his story with an engaging touch that continually makes light of the dangers, difficulties and hardships inseparable from pioneer work. The trials and tribulations of “backpacking” are graphically portrayed by the author. The book was designed to cover, as a part of a well-rounded biography, the mountaineering experiences of its subject. We think that the task has been well done and commend the work to the attention of readers interested in the Canadian Alps. Mr. Palmer’s book, with an introduction by the late Professor J. Arthur Harris, former head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota, is enriched with illustrations of many of the peaks referred to in the text. It is very well printed and attractive in format. (From American Alpine Club)
Contents
Preface
A pioneer of the Canadian Alps
Earliest climbs
The maturity of mountaineer
The first expedition into the Cariboos
Conclusion
Supplementary letters
List of ascents and explorations by Edward W.D. Holway
Mountaineering papers by Edward W.D. Holway
Notes
Annotated by Ernest Feuz
Accession Number
2019.43
Call Number
01.4 Pa18e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Book review as per the American Alpine Club
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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)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Travel
Maps
Botany
Ecology
Anthropology
Tourism
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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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)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25141
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Brown, Annora
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
04.1 B81 2020
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Author
Brown, Annora
Responsibility
Annora Brown
Mary-Beth Laviolette (introduction)
Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black (forward)
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxii, 268 pages : illustrations (some colour)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Folklore
Art
Flowers
Brown, Annora
Abstract
Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published in 1954, Annora Brown’s Old Man’s Garden is a Canadian classic that tells the story of Southern Alberta’s native plants and wildflowers through art and in consideration of Indigenous traditional knowledge from the region. Accompanying the new RMB edition of Old Man’s Garden, Sidney Black of Fort Macleod, the Indigenous Anglican Bishop for Treaty 7, provides his own commentary about Annora’s art and writing in relation to the Blackfoot, while independent art curator Mary-Beth Laviolette broadens the story about the artist’s contribution to Canadian art. Also included in this new edition are full-colour images of Annora’s later paintings of Blackfoot lodges (tipis) and regalia, the dramatic landscape of the Oldman RIver region such as Waterton National Park, and her abiding, lifelong regard for the flora of her homeland. According to Annora Brown, Old Man’s Garden is a “book of gossip about the flowers of the West.” A one-of-a-kind work featuring 169 black-and-white drawings of flowers and native plants, this classic text is about more than botany. Throughout its pages there is a sparkle to her stories of early exploration and settlement, her concern for conservation, and her regard for the Blackfoot Nation, and Indigenous culture. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Forward by Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black
Introduction to the new edition by Mary-Beth Laviolette
Introduction to the 1954 edition
I Wi-suk-i-tshak
II Trail Blazers
III Moon-When-the-Grass-Turns-Green
IV Old Man's Vegetable Garden
V Old Man's Medicine Bag
VI Dyes
VII Desert and Swamp
VIII Incense
IX Moon-of-the-Flowers
X Berries
XI Trees
Index
Notes
Originally published in 1954 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and 1970 by Gray's Publishing Co.
ISBN
9781771603447
Accession Number
P2020-6
Call Number
04.1 B81 2020
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Book on Rocky Mountain Book's website
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Smithsonain Institution : Mary Vaux Walcott wildflowers : donor edition

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24938
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1925
Author
Vaux Walcott, Mary
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Call Number
04.1 W14m O.S.
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Author
Vaux Walcott, Mary
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Published Date
1925
Physical Description
1 portfolio (1 folded sheet, 5 plates, 4 loose leaves) : color illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Art
Walcott, Mary Vaux
Flowers
Smithsonian Institute
Research
Vaux family
Abstract
Pertains to wildflower prints by Mary Vaux Walcott reprinted by the Smithsonian Institution as a "Donor Edition - Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program" - short write up about the process and her career with 5 prints on rag paper created using the "Smithsonian Process"
Contents
White Epidendrum - epidendrum nocturnum Jaquin - 337 - MVW - 1925
Silverberry - elaeagnus commutata [additional single print - no write up] - 70 - MVW
Goldenpea - thermopsis rhombifolia (Nuttal) Richardson - 297 - MVW - 1925
Missouri Pricklypear - opuntia polyacantha - Haworth - 35 - MVW - 1925
Rabbitbean - cracca virginiana - Linnaeus - 44 - MVW - 1925
Notes
Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program
Accession Number
3089 (single print)
3077 (portfolio)
Call Number
04.1 W14m O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Mary Vaux Walcott spotlight with images of wildflower prints on the Smithsonian Art Museum website
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Treasures of the trail : a nature guide to Edworthy Park, Lawrey Gardens and the Douglas Fir Trail

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20078
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Osborn, Jerry
The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Publisher
Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Call Number
04 O1t
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Author
Osborn, Jerry
The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Responsibility
Jerry Osborn
The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Publisher
Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
Published Date
2002
Physical Description
164 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Wildlife
Archaeology
History
History of Alberta
Maps
Ecology
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Walking
Tours
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Trails
Abstract
Pertains to Edworthy Park in Calgary, Alberta, including the geology, paleontology, plant life, animal life, insect life, archaeology, Indigenous Peoples history, settler history and maps of walks which include plant and bird checklists. The three brick plants that operated in what is now Edworthy Park: Burnvale, Brickburn, Tregillus Clay Products were used to construct many buildings in Banff.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Geology and Paleontology
Plant Life
Animal Life
Butterflies
Archaeology and Native Culture
History
Park Map
Walk One - Wester Plateau of Edworthy Park
Walk Two - Brickburn and the Pond Lookout Trail
Walk Three - Edworthy Park Riverside
Walk Four - Douglas Fire Trail West
Walk Five - Quarry Road Trail, Lawrey Gardens, and Douglas Fire Trail East
Appendix One - Plant Checklist
Appendix Two - Bird Checklist
Contributors
Further Reading
Index of Photos
Notes
Brick information as per Ann Jones conversation with Lena Goon.
ISBN
0973176105
Accession Number
2014.8268
Call Number
04 O1t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
City of Calgary website re: Edworthy Park location and trail maps
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