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New acquisitions - Heritage Collection

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11553
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Black, Carol
Call Number
P
Author
Black, Carol
Physical Description
p. 6 : ill
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Curling
Notes
In Cairn, (Fall/Winter 2001/2002)
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26244
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
Call Number
08.1 Ab3n
Responsibility
Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
Publisher
Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
239 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History-Canada
Sport
Curling
Olympic games
Alpinism
Fishing
Rodeos
Abstract
In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
ISBN
9781771993777
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.1 Ab3n
Collection
Archives Library
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Winter sports in Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7799
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Moore, Ralph R
Call Number
01.5 M78 Pam
Author
Moore, Ralph R
Physical Description
14p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff Winter Carnival
Curling
Mount Norquay ski lift
Notes
From Canadian Geographical Journal, February 1957
Accession Number
3091
Call Number
01.5 M78 Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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Date
1900 – 1970
Material
metal; glass
Catalogue Number
102.05.1006 a,b
Description
Two handmade metal and glass lanterns. Used to light curling rink on Bow River backwater ca. 1900 and later used as yard light at 317 Buffalo Street.
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Title
Outdoor Lantern
Date
1900 – 1970
Material
metal; glass
Description
Two handmade metal and glass lanterns. Used to light curling rink on Bow River backwater ca. 1900 and later used as yard light at 317 Buffalo Street.
Subject
sports
curling
winter
Credit
Gift of Neil Martin, Banff, 1986
Catalogue Number
102.05.1006 a,b
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Date
1930 – 1950
Material
hair,sheep; skin; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.05.1039
Description
Hudson's Bay blanket coat, 3/4 length coat, white with black bands at collar and cuffs, 11.0 wide at hips, 3 1/2 points at front closure, 2 buttoned flap pockets, 1 button belt 7.0 wide, shawl collar, 3 button closure,"Banff Curling Club" crest sewn onright arm, "Winter Sports Canadian Rockies Ban…
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Title
Hudson's Bay Coat
Date
1930 – 1950
Material
hair,sheep; skin; fibre
Dimensions
45.0 x 83.0 cm
Description
Hudson's Bay blanket coat, 3/4 length coat, white with black bands at collar and cuffs, 11.0 wide at hips, 3 1/2 points at front closure, 2 buttoned flap pockets, 1 button belt 7.0 wide, shawl collar, 3 button closure,"Banff Curling Club" crest sewn onright arm, "Winter Sports Canadian Rockies Banff" crest sewn on left arm.
Subject
sports
Banff Curling Club
Banff Winter Sports Association
Lou Crosby
Credit
Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
Catalogue Number
103.05.1039
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Date
1910
Material
skin; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.07.1092
Description
Hand stitched beaver skin mittens with leather palms. Inside of the mittens are lined with cloth and fur.
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Title
Mitts
Date
1910
Material
skin; fibre
Dimensions
23.0 x 35.0 cm
Description
Hand stitched beaver skin mittens with leather palms. Inside of the mittens are lined with cloth and fur.
Subject
clothing
curling
Niven Jackson
Credit
Gift of Claire Parker, Delta, 2004
Catalogue Number
103.07.1092
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Date
n.d.
Material
fabric; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.09.0178
Description
A large felt and thread membership patch for the Banff Curling Club. In the circle, a landscape scene of a mountain, trees, and water with black text “Banff” in a handwriting font and a red embroidered border. Underneath this is a red scroll that reads “CURLING CLUB” in white embroidery, with two o…
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Title
Membership Patch
Date
n.d.
Material
fabric; fibre
Dimensions
12.0 x 14.0 cm
Description
A large felt and thread membership patch for the Banff Curling Club. In the circle, a landscape scene of a mountain, trees, and water with black text “Banff” in a handwriting font and a red embroidered border. Underneath this is a red scroll that reads “CURLING CLUB” in white embroidery, with two old school curling broom criss-crossed in an X with a curling rock in front.
Subject
curling
curling club
banff
membership
patch
Credit
Gift of Steve T. Hincks, Banff, 1998
Catalogue Number
103.09.0178
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Date
1895 – 1905
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.09.1065
Description
Johnstone Curling Cup handmade. Base diameter 12.6, rounded top has 7.5 long neck (made from funnel) welded to a molded muffin cup and to that is the stem. Hand written in black paint:"JOHNSTONE CURLING CUP WON BY DAVE WHITE Banff". Welded sheet metal tapered out at top. 0.5 wide metal handles sha…
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Title
Loving Cup
Date
1895 – 1905
Material
metal
Dimensions
25.0 cm
Description
Johnstone Curling Cup handmade. Base diameter 12.6, rounded top has 7.5 long neck (made from funnel) welded to a molded muffin cup and to that is the stem. Hand written in black paint:"JOHNSTONE CURLING CUP WON BY DAVE WHITE Banff". Welded sheet metal tapered out at top. 0.5 wide metal handles shaped like a bass clef musical sign welded to side in 2 places.
Subject
sports
winter
Dave White
curling
Johnstone
Credit
Gift of Barbara C. Whyte, Medicine Hat, 1984
Catalogue Number
103.09.1065
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Date
1960 – 1961
Material
metal; wood
Catalogue Number
103.09.1145
Description
A gold coloured curling rock 5.0 dia. stands atop a wooden base. The base is made out of several kinds of wood and in various shapes. On the front is a brass plaque 5.8x4.0 with engraving: "H.G. Nolan Trophy 1960-61"
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Title
Loving Cup
Date
1960 – 1961
Material
metal; wood
Dimensions
18.0 x 14.7 cm
Description
A gold coloured curling rock 5.0 dia. stands atop a wooden base. The base is made out of several kinds of wood and in various shapes. On the front is a brass plaque 5.8x4.0 with engraving: "H.G. Nolan Trophy 1960-61"
Subject
sports
curling
H.G. Nolan
Credit
Gift of Unknown, 1968
Catalogue Number
103.09.1145
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Date
1899 – 1900
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.09.1179
Description
One sliver plated trophy inscribed: “Brett Trophy. Banff Curling Club. 1900. Won by”. Vase-shaped with curling rock on front of base, curling brooms on either side, and flared opening. Back of trophy has etched scene of seven curlers in traditional Scottish dress playing a game outdoors with a tree…
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Title
Loving Cup
Date
1899 – 1900
Material
metal
Dimensions
31.0 cm
Description
One sliver plated trophy inscribed: “Brett Trophy. Banff Curling Club. 1900. Won by”. Vase-shaped with curling rock on front of base, curling brooms on either side, and flared opening. Back of trophy has etched scene of seven curlers in traditional Scottish dress playing a game outdoors with a tree and mountains in background.
Subject
sports
curling
Banff Curling Club
Brett family
Credit
Gift of Margaret Blackburn, Abbotsford, 2000
Catalogue Number
103.09.1179
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