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- Alpine Club of Canada fonds 197
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds 36
- Lillian Gest fonds 18
- Kidney family fonds 16
- Chic Scott fonds 8
- Luxton family fonds 8
- Jean Knox Petrie fonds 7
- Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds 5
- Elmer and Grace Charlton fonds 5
- Bruno Engler fonds 4
- Ron Duke fonds 3
- Charlotte Tuerck fonds 2
The romance of mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 320 pages ; 40 ill.
- Contents
- PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Raising Kain : "the adventurous life of Conrad Kain, Canada's greatest mountaineer" : a historical novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14012
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Powell, Keith G.
- Publisher
- Cranbrook, B.C. : Wild Horse Creek Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 P87r c.1
- 05.2 P87r c.2
- Author
- Powell, Keith G.
- Responsibility
- Keith G. Powell
- Publisher
- Cranbrook, B.C. : Wild Horse Creek Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 238 p. : ill.
- Notes
- Copy 2 is signed by the author
- ISBN
- 9780981214627
- Accession Number
- 70,500
- 13-01-15
- Call Number
- 05.2 P87r c.1
- 05.2 P87r c.2
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Above the bush : A century of climbing on Vancouver Island 1912-2012
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14015
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Elms, Lindsay
- Publisher
- Comox, B.C. : Misthorn Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 El6a
- Author
- Elms, Lindsay
- Responsibility
- Lindsay Elms
- Publisher
- Comox, B.C. : Misthorn Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- ii, 165 p. : ill., maps, ports.
- Notes
- Centennial book for Vancouver Island section of ACC
- ISBN
- 978-0-9680159-1-9
- Accession Number
- 8172
- Call Number
- 01.4 El6a
- Collection
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Divided Landscapes: The emergence and dissipation of "The Great Divide" landscape narrative
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14032
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Atkins, Sean Howard
- Publisher
- University of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.3 At5d
- Author
- Atkins, Sean Howard
- Responsibility
- Sean Howard Atkins
- Publisher
- University of Alberta
- Published Date
- 2011
- Notes
- Thesis for Doctorate of Philosophy in History
- Accession Number
- 8181
- Call Number
- 08.3 At5d
- Collection
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Conrad Kain : letters from a wandering mountain guide, 1906-1933
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14535
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Kain, Conrad
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 01 K12c
- 01 K12c c.2
- 01 K12c c.3
- Author
- Kain, Conrad
- Responsibility
- edited with an introduction by Zac Robinson ; translated by Maria and John Koch
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 468 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Biography
- Kain, Conrad
- Malek, Amelie
- Mountaineering
- Mountain guides
- Pistor, Dr. Erich
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Notes
- Partial contents: Foreword : Conrad Kain, guide and mountaineer / Chic Scott; Epilogue: The Kain-Malek correspondence: provenance, 1934-2005 / Don Bourdon
- ISBN
- 9781772120042
- Accession Number
- 2015-8404
- P2015.06.30
- P2015-06-30
- Call Number
- 01 K12c
- 01 K12c c.2
- 01 K12c c.3
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Climber's paradise : making Canada's mountain parks, 1906-1974
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14538
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Responsibility
- PearlAnn Reichwein
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
- Series
- Mountain cairns
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Mountaineering
- National parks
- Recreation
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Sport climbing
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9780888646743
- Accession Number
- 2015-8405
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
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Mount Robson : spiral road of art
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14583
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Gooch, Jane Lytton
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.1 G59m
- 06.1 G59m Copy 2
- Author
- Gooch, Jane Lytton
- Responsibility
- Jane Lytton Gooch ; preface by Robert W. Sandford
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Includes artwork of A. P. Coleman, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Byron Harmon and others, plus contemporary artists and photographers
- ISBN
- 9781927330609
- Accession Number
- 2015.8519
- 2016.8602 (Copy 2)
- Call Number
- 06.1 G59m
- 06.1 G59m Copy 2
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Expedition Yukon 1967 : centennial and the politics of mountaineering in Kluane
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14651
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Publisher
- Toronto : The University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 R27e Pam
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Responsibility
- PearlAnn Reichwein
- Publisher
- Toronto : The University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- pages 481-512
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Kluane National Park
- Mountaineering
- Recreation
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Yukon
- Notes
- In The Canadian Historical Review 92 (3 September 2011)
- Copied manuscript of the article
- Summary: "The article is an outcome of academic research related to Canada's Centennial commemorations and Canadian mountaineering in the Yukon under the auspices of the Alpine Club of Canada. Part of this research was conducted at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies"
- Call Number
- 01.4 R27e Pam
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- Published Date
- 2015
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada Huts
- Boyce, Jim
- Bungalow camps
- Elizabeth Parker Hut
- Gardom, Basil
- Place names
- Notes
- In O'Hara 2015; Contents: The story of the lakeshore cabins
- Call Number
- P
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Herstory 2013 : the Canadian women's calendar
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15185
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Coteau Books
- Call Number
- 08.1 Sa7h 2013
- Responsibility
- Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective
- Publisher
- Coteau Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 147 pages, illustrations
- Subjects
- Schaffer, Mary
- Lake Louise
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Engelhard, Georgia
- Whyte, Catharine
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Edwards, Rhoda W.
- Notes
- Mary Schaffer story p.16
- Women curling at Banff Winter Carnival, ca. 1910, p.24
- Early female adventurers in the Canadian Rockies, p.70
- Poem "Graduation" by Rhoda W. Edwards, re: ACC, p.72
- ISBN
- 9781550504798
- Accession Number
- 2016.8629
- Call Number
- 08.1 Sa7h 2013
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