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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
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The soo line's famous trains to Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 90 pages ; 8 cm
- Subjects
- CP Rail
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Railway
- Railway routes
- Transportation
- History
- Abstract
- The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America. -- From publisher
- Contents
- Part 1: A brief history of the soo line -- 1. In the beginning -- 2. The birth of the railway -- 3. What a tangled web we weave -- 4. Westward ho through great northern's backyard -- 5. Wisconsin central, the final piece of the puzzle -- 6. Setting the stage, Canadian pacific steamship company and Canadian pacific hotels and resorts -- Part 2: Famous trains of the soo -- 7. The Atlantic limited -- 8. The soo Pacific express -- 9. The Manitoba express, the Winnipeg express, the winnipeger -- 10. The soo-Spokane-Portland train deluxe -- 11. The mountaineer -- 12. The mystique of the mountaineer -- 13. The depression and the dirty thirties -- 14. My mountaineer -- 15. 1962, triumph and tragedy -- 16. The end of an era.
- ISBN
- 9781771606714
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
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- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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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
- 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
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What about me?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26191
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17w
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 336 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Literature
- Canadian Rockies
- Young Adult
- Abstract
- Jillian has to start grade 10 a month after the semester begins in a new school where everyone knows everyone's business. And it totally sucks. She loves her Opa but moving from Toronto to Banff to help Aunt Steph take care of him was not Jillian's idea. As she navigates unfamiliar hallways, bear attacks and strangers she makes choices which impact relationships and a potential boyfriend. Will the last choice Jillian makes be the right one? -- From backcover
- ISBN
- 9780228622833
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17w
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The wind and the sky and everything else
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26199
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Klevgaard, Annette
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Annette Klevgaard
- Call Number
- 05.1 K67a
- Author
- Klevgaard, Annette
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Annette Klevgaard
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 121 pages
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Canadian Rockies
- Nature
- Environment
- Abstract
- Coloured by the magnificience of the Western Canadian landscape, The Wind and The Sky and everything else is a stark exploration of our connection and disconnection to the Earth, ourselves, and each other. -- From Backcover
- ISBN
- 9781778135309
- Accession Number
- P2023.23
- Call Number
- 05.1 K67a
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- Archives Library
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Aloft : Canadian Rockies aerial photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25493
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Zizka, Paul
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 Z7a
- Author
- Zizka, Paul
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Abstract
- An astounding, unique collection of some of the most stunning mountain landscapes in North America. There is a reason why the Canadian Rockies are some of the most photographed mountains in the world. Rugged peaks encircle glacier-fed lakes, rise up like protective walls around tree-filled valleys, and offer a stunning backdrop to open alpine meadows. They have been photographed from the valley bottoms, from the shores of famous lakes, and from the summits of prominent peaks. They are accessible by vehicle, boat, gondola, skis and hiking boots. But a lucky few have photographed the Rockies from the air. In the most comprehensive collection of aerial photos to date, Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photography by Paul Zizka gives the reader a unique bird's-eye view of this prized mountain range. From vast glaciers to winding rivers, animal overpasses to lakes that look like brilliant spills of turquoise paint on the landscape, these images provide a rare look at mountains that are as grandiose from the skies as they are from their better-known vantage points.
- ISBN
- 9781771603973
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 06.4 Z7a
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- Reading Room
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Uninvited : Canadian women artists in the modern moment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25674
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Milroy, Sarah
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1
- Call Number
- 06.1 M64u
- Author
- Milroy, Sarah
- Responsibility
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 317 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm.
- Abstract
- A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Director's foreword / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Uninvited: Canadian women artists in the Modern Moment / Sarah Milroy -- The politics of invitation: Canadian women's art history and the settler-colonial context / Kristina Huneault -- Teachers, colleagues, and friends: Canadian men and women artists in the modern period / Katerina Atanassova and Jocelyn Anderson -- Anne Savage / Jocelyn Anderson, Anna Hudson -- Winifred Petchey Marsh / Maureen Matthews -- Attatsiaq / Christina Williamson -- Kathleen Munn / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Yvonne McKague Housser / Sara Angel, Alicia Boutilier -- Elizabeth Katt Petrant / Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, Christi Belcourt -- Bess Harris / Ian M. Thom -- Regina Seiden Goldberg / Alma Mikulinsky -- Vera Weatherbie / Michelle Jacques -- Emily Coonan / Anne-Marie Bouchard -- Suzanne Duquet / Anne-Marie Bouchard -- Lilias Torrance Newton / Shelley Adler, Gerta Moray -- Prudence Heward / Jacques Des Rochers, Tobi Bruce, Michelle Jacques -- Yulia Biriukova / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Mary Wrinch / John Geoghegan -- Marion Long / Anna Hudson -- Frances Loring and Florence Wyle / Catharine Mastin, Luis Jacob -- Elizabeth Wyn Wood / Renée van der Avoird -- Margaret Watkins / Sarah Parsons -- Mrs. Walking Sun / Tanya Harnett -- Kathleen Daly Pepper / Gerald McMaster -- Annora Brown / Mary-Beth Laviolette -- Elizabeth Styring Nutt / Sarah Fillmore -- Bridget Anne Sack / Jordan Bennett and Melissa Peter-Paul -- Isabel McLaughlin / Tobi Bruce -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Georgiana Uhlyarik, Shary Boyle -- Marian Dale Scott / Alicia Boutilier, Gwendolyn Owens -- Paraskeva Clark / Jocelyn Anderson, Panya Clark Espinal -- Sewinchelwet (Sophie Frank) / Sesemiya (Tracy Williams) -- Emily Carr / Kristina Huneault, Jisgang Nika Collison -- Note -- List of works -- Figures -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements.
- Notes
- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from September 10, 2021 to January 16, 2022
- ISBN
- 9781773271194
- Accession Number
- P2021.01
- Call Number
- 06.1 M64u
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- Reading Room
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Wharton, Thomas
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 W55 2021
- Author
- Wharton, Thomas
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 336 pages
- Abstract
- In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus Glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne's lover. First published in 1995, Thomas Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. -- From the publisher
- Notes
- This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr.
- ISBN
- 9781774390368
- Accession Number
- P2023.16
- Call Number
- 05.2 W55 2021
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Tales from the Great Divide : vignettes on the origins and early history of Canada's Great Divide Trail and the Great Divide Trail Association
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25736
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Feick, Jenny
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC: L. B. Words
- Call Number
- 08.3 F32t
- Author
- Feick, Jenny
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC: L. B. Words
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 369 pages
- Subjects
- Great Divide Trail
- Trails
- Canadian Rockies
- Abstract
- Tales from the Great Divide brings to life the memories of many of the "originals" whose vision, idealism, dedication and hard work over five decades made Canada's Great Divide Trail a reality. Transcripts of interviews and storytelling sessions, combined with excerpts from letters and other documents, and with over 300 photographs and illustrations, reveal the adventurous, heartbreaking and hilarious moments that characterized the early history of the Great Divide Trail. -- Excerpt from backcover
- Contents
- Introduction -- Origins of the Great Divide Trail concept -- Project Great Divide trails -- Early history of the Great Divide Trail Association -- Rejuvenation of the Great Divide Trail Association -- Reflections, then and now.
- ISBN
- 9781927945285
- Accession Number
- P2022.09
- Call Number
- 08.3 F32t
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Summer of lies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26192
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17s
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 311 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Literature
- Canadian Rockies
- Young Adult
- Abstract
- Fourteen-year-old Jillian as no idea who her dad is but uses her banishement from summer parties in Toronto to isolation in Banff National Park to track him down. But it's not easy. A reclusive log cabin, a grumpy aunt, few trips to civilization and seriously--no cell phone reception? When she's not searching for her dad, Jillian pursues an elusive girl, Mika, who lives on her own in the wilderness. Together they track down a poacher and Jillian reunites Mika with her family. All should be well -- but it isn't. Big secrets in Jillian's family surface, Jillian's boyfriend ditches her, and her dad wants proof he's her dad. Like she's make this up? -- From backcover
- ISBN
- 9780228615767
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17s
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