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Confessions of a ski bum : the Icefields Parkway Lake Louise to Bow Summit

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Baranow, Marcus

Publisher: Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing

Call Number: 01 B23i

Author: Baranow, Marcus

Publisher: Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 251 pages

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

Series: Confessions of a Ski Bum

Subjects: Skiing; Lake Louise; Lake Louise region; Bow Lake (region); Winter Sports; Guidebook

Abstract: A modern backcountry ski guide for the roadside areas found along The Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps of hundreds of options from chill yoyo laps to committing, no fall, ski lines.-- from back cover

Contents: East Side ; Hector South Ridge ; Hector South Peak ; Mount Hector Roadside ; Hector Pass ; Noseeum Creek ; Mosquito Creek ; Helen Creek ; Helen Shoulder ; Crystal Ridge Roadside ; Crystal Ridge Backside ; Cirque Forepeak ; Observation Sub Peak ; Observation Peak ; The Pulpit Knobs ; Pulpit 1 Knob ; Pulpit 2 Knob ; Pulpit 3 Knob ; Pulpit 4 Knob ; Pulpit 5 Knob ; Pulpit 6 Knob ; Bow Peak Roadside ; Crowfoot Pass ; Bow Lakeside ; Ferris Glacier ; Wapta Icefield ; Mount Jimmy Jr. ; Bow Summit ; Day Traverses

ISBN: 9780991748518

Accession Number: P2022.01

Call Number: 01 B23i

Collection: Archives Library

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Bow Lake

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 2014

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.12

Description: Watercolour of Bow Lake. Light blue boarder

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 2014

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.86 x 28.58 cm

Description: Watercolour of Bow Lake. Light blue boarder

Subject: mountain; bow lake; watercolour; hartman; landscape;

Credit: Gift of John Hartman, Tiny, 2017

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.12

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Bow Lake and the Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 2014

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.13

Description: Watercolour or Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier. Blue boarder

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake and the Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 2014

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.86 x 28.58 cm

Description: Watercolour or Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier. Blue boarder

Subject: mountain; bow lake; watercolour; hartman; landscape

Credit: Gift of John Hartman, Tiny, 2017

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.13

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Bow Lake Boler

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Artist: Colin Smith (1963 – , Canadian)

Date: 2013

Medium: camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper

Catalogue Number: SmC.18.02

Description: Coloured image of boler interior. browns, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. Two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. Landscape is a mountainous terrain with large body of water and some ever green trees. Interior furniture includes two …

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Artist: Colin Smith (1963 – , Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake Boler

Date: 2013

Medium: camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper

Dimensions: 121.92 x 152.4 cm

Description: Coloured image of boler interior. browns, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. Two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. Landscape is a mountainous terrain with large body of water and some ever green trees. Interior furniture includes two benches, fold down table and box in bottom right corner. The table holds an unfolded map, some books and a mug. The reflected image on the walls is projected upside down because it is done using a camera obscura technique. This print belongs to the 76 Boler series. “Nearly true stories of a wandering 76 Boler”

Subject: mountains; Bow Lake; camera obscura; boler

Credit: Gift of Colin Smith , Calgary , 2018

Catalogue Number: SmC.18.02

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Bow Lake : wellspring of art

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

Published Date: 2010

Author: Gooch, Jane Lytton

Publisher: [Surrey, B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: N G66 B69

Author: Gooch, Jane Lytton

Responsibility: Jane Lytton Gooch; preface by Robert Sandford

Publisher: [Surrey, B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2010

Physical Description: 191 p. : col. ill., col. map

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

Subjects: Bow Lake; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine; Rungius, Carl; Phillips, Walter J; Simpson, Jimmy; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge; Schaffer, Mary; Harmon, Byron; Alpine Club of Canada

Notes: Bibliography and index

ISBN: 9781926855059 (pbk.)

Call Number: N G66 B69

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…

Date Range: 1942

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Private record

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs

Sous-Fonds: M36

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

GMD: Postcard; Private record

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Phil; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.; White, Annie; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; Whyte, Dorothy; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Ward, Sam; Ward, Louise (Cis); Brewster, Fern; Brewster, Jack Walker; Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Link, Adeline; Campbell, Gray; Campbell, Eleanor; Watson, Sir Norman; Rummel, Elizabeth; Rummel, Lizzie; Rungius, Carl; Noble, George

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Birds; Bird watching; Birthday; Books; Bow Lake; Businesses; Canadian Pacific Railway; Children; Christmas; Columbia Icefield; Columbia Icefield Chalet; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Home; Hospital; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Mountain; Mount Royal Hotel; Mount Temple Chalet; Norquay Ski Hill; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Red Cross; Royal Canadian Airforce; RCAF; Scenery; Skiing; Ski areas; Trains; Transportation; Travel; War; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Bow Lake; Icefield Parkway; Banff National Park; Calgary; Alberta; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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The glittering mountains of Canada : a record of exploration and pioneer ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924

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

Published Date: 2012 [originally published in 1925]

Author: Thorington, J. Monroe

Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Edition: 1st RMB ed.

Call Number: 01.4 T39g 2012 c.1; 01.4 T39g 2012 c.2

Author: Thorington, J. Monroe

Responsibility: by J. Monroe Thorington ; [foreword by Robert William Sandford]

Edition: 1st RMB ed.

Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2012 [originally published in 1925]

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

Subjects: Kain, Conrad; Feuz, Edward; Simpson, Jimmy; Lake Louise; Bow Lake; Jasper National Park; Mount Robson Provincial Park

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 9781927330067

Accession Number: 13-02-01 70,500; P2015-03-31

Call Number: 01.4 T39g 2012 c.1; 01.4 T39g 2012 c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Pennant

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Date: 1940 – 1965

Material: hair, sheep

Catalogue Number: 105.02.1169 a-b

Description: Pennant (a) is green felt , triangular with 2 small red triangles attached at wide end. Appliqued sign post with signs reading: “LAKE LOUISE”, “CANADIAN ROCKIES”, “ MT. TEMPLE CHALET” “PTARMIGAN VALLEY”, “HALF WAY HUT”, “BAKER LAKE”, “SKOKI LODGE”, in red, yellow and white felt. A small rectangular…

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Title: Pennant

Date: 1940 – 1965

Material: hair, sheep

Dimensions: 19.0 x 63.0 cm

Description: Pennant (a) is green felt , triangular with 2 small red triangles attached at wide end. Appliqued sign post with signs reading: “LAKE LOUISE”, “CANADIAN ROCKIES”, “ MT. TEMPLE CHALET” “PTARMIGAN VALLEY”, “HALF WAY HUT”, “BAKER LAKE”, “SKOKI LODGE”, in red, yellow and white felt. A small rectangular piece of orange felt on bottom of sign post. Green and white paper manufacture’s tag on reverse. Pennant (b) is smaller than pennant (a) measuring, 14.5 cm by 48.0 cm. It is made of gold felt with a stamped on illustration of a pine marten and the words “NUM-TI-JAH LODGE BOW LAKE ALBERTA” in dark brown. Four small felt srtips attached to wide end. Stamp on back reads “LOCALLY MADE AT LAKE LOUISE”