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Anthracite breaker of the Pacific Coal Company, Limited, Bankhead
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7355
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Stockett, Lewis
- Call Number
- 03.6 St6 Pam
- Author
- Stockett, Lewis
- Responsibility
- by Lewis Stockett and B.R. Warden
- Physical Description
- p.261-272 : ill
- Subjects
- Chinese
- Notes
- From a publication of Canadian Mining Institute, 1904-1924
- Accession Number
- 21500
- Call Number
- 03.6 St6 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Banff Springs magic
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8114
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Paterson, Pat
- Call Number
- 08.5 P27 Pam
- Author
- Paterson, Pat
- Published Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- p.18-22 : ill
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Chinese
- Notes
- In Alberta Motorist, vol.20, no.3
- Accession Number
- 3066
- Call Number
- 08.5 P27 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Beaded Necklace
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.01.0237
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- beans; beads
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0237
- Description
- A simple single strand necklace made of greyish-white, red, and brown beads/beans. Pattern is 3 white, 1 red, 3 white, 1 large brown.
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- Title
- Beaded Necklace
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- beans; beads
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 32.0 cm
- Description
- A simple single strand necklace made of greyish-white, red, and brown beads/beans. Pattern is 3 white, 1 red, 3 white, 1 large brown.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- beads
- beadwork
- beans
- Chinese
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0237
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Blood and iron : building the railway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13891
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Yee, Paul
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON Scholastic Canada
- Call Number
- 05.2 Ye3b
- Author
- Yee, Paul
- Responsibility
- by Paul Yee
- Publisher
- Toronto, ON Scholastic Canada
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 233 p. : ill
- Series
- I am Canada
- Notes
- Cover title: Blood and iron : building the railway, Lee Heen-gwong British Columbia, 1882. Pertains to fictional child's experiences working on the building of the CPR. Includes bibliographical references: p. 231
- ISBN
- 9780545985932
- Accession Number
- 60000 2010-12-17
- Call Number
- 05.2 Ye3b
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- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1920 – 1932
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0380 a-e
- Description
- Five octagonal bowls with green coloured interiors. Roughly made, all decorated with a very careless hand, colours run over borders, etc. All bottom rims are painted in red linear designs. (a) decorated with yellow rectangles outlined in yellow, an indecipherable hand painted stamp on bottom of…
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- Title
- Bowl Set
- Date
- 1920 – 1932
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 4.5 x 15.6 cm
- Description
- Five octagonal bowls with green coloured interiors. Roughly made, all decorated with a very careless hand, colours run over borders, etc. All bottom rims are painted in red linear designs. (a) decorated with yellow rectangles outlined in yellow, an indecipherable hand painted stamp on bottom of base. (b) base bottom is green, sides are illustrated with multi coloured abstract flowers. Upper rim is green outlined with a shakey black scalloped line. (c) sides have a roughly drawn chicken eating and three with large flowers on a white background, bottom of base is green. (d) sides are yellow with child like flowers and clouds outlined in brown, base is green. (e) similar to (a), decorated with yellow rectangles outlined in red. Stamp on bottom is indecipherable.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Chinese
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0380 a-e
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The boy in the picture : the Craigellachie Kid and the driving of the Last Spike
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13907
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Argyle, Ray
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundern Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 Ar4b
- Author
- Argyle, Ray
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundern Press
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 143p. : ill., ports
- Notes
- Pertains to the youth, Edward C. Mallandaine, pictured behind Donald A. Smith in the official "Last Spike" photograph by Alexander J. Ross, November 7, 1885.
- ISBN
- 978-1-55488-787-3
- Accession Number
- 60000 2010-12-17
- Call Number
- 08.5 Ar4b
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- Archives Library
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Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit : no Chinese labour, no railway = Epoee Chinoise du rail Canadian : sans la main-d'oeuvre Chinoise, pas de rail. = : , /
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15482
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Lai, David Chuenyan
- Publisher
- [Canada] : National Executive Council of the Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit Heritage Documentary
- Call Number
- 08.1 La14c Pam
- Author
- Lai, David Chuenyan
- Publisher
- [Canada] : National Executive Council of the Canadian Steel, Chinese Grit Heritage Documentary
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 39 p. : ill
- Notes
- Is wirtten in English, French and Chinese
- Call Number
- 08.1 La14c Pam
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- Archives Library
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Canadian steel, Chinese grit : the story of Chinese railway workers and the completion of Canada's national railroad
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15283
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Lee, Karin
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Moving Images Distribution
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16c DVD
- Author
- Lee, Karin
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Moving Images Distribution
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 1 DVD, 48 minutes
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16c DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A celestial love story, or was it?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13464
- Author
- Greene, Ronald
- Physical Description
- p.6-7
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Chinese
- Ethnic groups
- Notes
- In British Columbia History : the journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation, vol. 40, no. 2 (2007)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Challenging frontiers : the Canadian west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19801
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Felske, Lorry W., Beverly Jean Rasporich (editors)
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 Fe33c
- Responsibility
- Edited by Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Jean Rasporich
- Publisher
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- vii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Landscapes
- Artists
- Prairies, Canadian
- First Nations
- Mining
- Music
- Immigration
- Chinese
- Politics
- Ranching
- Abstract
- Pertains to Indigenous people and Asian immigration in Western Canada, the Banff Springs Hotel, coal mining in Calgary, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Wilf Carter, Group of Seven, Sid Marty
- Contents
- Introduction : challenging frontiers / Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Rasporich -- Shooting a Saskatoon (whatever happened to the Marlboro man?) / Aritha van Herk -- Regionalism, landscape, and identity in the prairie west / R. Douglas Francis -- Celebrating magpies : artists Paul Kane, Hongeeyesa, and Emily Carr / Ann Davis -- Two months in big bear's camp, 1885 : narratives of "Indian captivity" and the articulation of "race" and "gender" hierarchies in western Canada / Sarah Carter -- Roughing it in the west, or, whose frontier, whose history? / Janice Dickin -- Diversifying our past : finding a place for coal mining communities in Alberta's historic identity / Lorry W. Felske -- When the "wild west" is me : re-viewing cowboys and Indians / Emma LaRocque -- Managing contradictory visions of the west : the great Richardson/Weadick experiment / Robert Seiler and Tamara Seiler -- Hank Snow and the eastern frontiers of western music / Brian Rusted -- Standard prairie grain elevators : a disappearing icon / Geoffrey Simmins -- From somewhere to everywhere to nowhere : the bank of Montreal as a case of vanishing identity / Michael McMordie -- Asian immigration to western Canada / Madeline A. Kalbach -- Chinese-language media across the west / Lloyd Sciban -- The reform and alliance experiments : federal politics in Western Canada / David Taras -- Constancy amid change : ranching in Western Canada / Max Foran -- North/Western aurages : the soundscapes of Allan Gordon Bell / Marcia Jenneth Epstein -- Rodeos, ranching and the house of tea : Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov re-invent the West / Beverly Rasporich.
- ISBN
- 1-55238-140-4
- Accession Number
- p2019-21
- Call Number
- 08.2 Fe33c
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- Archives Library
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