topic:"Canada" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)

ISBN: 9781999108786

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 08.1 C62h

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://redbarnbooks.ca/products/john-ware

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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734

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

Published Date: 2022

Author: Graham, Mary

Publisher: Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 06.3 G76a

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Author: Graham, Mary

Publisher: Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm

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

Subjects: Film making; Canadian Rockies; History of Alberta; History-Canada; Indigenous

Abstract: The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960

Notes: Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.

ISBN: 9781773853932

Accession Number: P2023.20

Call Number: 06.3 G76a

Collection: Archives Library

Websites

https://www.whyte.org/fellowship

https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773853932/

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With the Maligne herd gone ... Jasper's caribou crisis deepens

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25214

Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: 2020

Author: Campbell, Carolyn

Publisher: The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal

Call Number: P

1 website

Author: Campbell, Carolyn

Responsibility: Carolyn Campbell

Publisher: The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: pg. 7 - 8

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Caribou; Maligne Lake; Jasper National Park; Wildlife; Wildlife corridors; Wildlife management; Foothills; Parks Canada

Abstract: Pertains to the extirpation of the Maligne caribou herd in Jasper National Park. Outlines the ongoing issues leading to extirpation and calls for immediate action to stop extinction

Notes: In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.3, September 2020

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Digital copy available

Websites

https://albertawilderness.ca/publications/wild-lands-advocate/

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