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The geography of memory : reclaiming the cultural, natural and spiritual history of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First people

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25654
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
07.2 D37a
Author
Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geography
Human Geography
Kootenay
History
British Columbia
Indigenous
Abstract
This compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes, the tribe lived along the upper Columbia River and its tributaries for thousands of years. In a story unique to First Nations in Canada, the Canadian federal government declared them “extinct” in 1956, eliminating with the stroke of a pen this tribe’s ability to legally access 80 per cent of their trans-boundary traditional territory. Part travelogue, part cultural history, the book details the culture, place names, practices, and landscape features of this lost tribe of British Columbia, through a contemporary lens that presents all readers with an opportunity to participate in reconciliation. -- From publisher
ISBN
9781771605212
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
07.2 D37a
Collection
Archives Library
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The Great Glacier of the Selkirks

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24915
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1889
Author
Ingersoll, Ernest
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Call Number
02.6 In4t PAM O.S.
Author
Ingersoll, Ernest
Responsibility
Ernest Ingersoll
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Published Date
1889
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Glaciers
Selkirk Mountains
Selkirk Mountains - Hermit Range
Selkirk Range
Selkirk Range - B.C.
Hotels
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Travel
Tourism
Geography
Illecillewaet Glacier
Abstract
Pertains to the Selkirk Mountains, Illecillewaete Glacier, Glacier Creek, Sir Donald, the hotel and Canadian Pacific Railway access to the area as of 1889.
Notes
In Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXIII No. 1702, August 3, 1889, pp. 616 - 618
Accession Number
7890
Call Number
02.6 In4t PAM O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
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Truth and beauty in the Canadian Rockies : an explorer's guide to the art of Walter J. Phillips

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24945
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Christensen, Lisa
Publisher
Markham, Ontario : Fifth House Publishers
Call Number
06 C46t copy 1
06 C46t copy 2
06 C46t copy 3
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Author
Christensen, Lisa
Responsibility
Lisa Christensen
Publisher
Markham, Ontario : Fifth House Publishers
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
147 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Phillips, Walter J
Hiking
Authors
Geography
Abstract
Full colour testimonial (with some hiking and tourist notes attached) to the art and craft of one of Canada’s earliest and most talented watercolour landscape artists-- Provided by publisher
Contents
Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Walter J. Phillips ; Printmaking Explained : Etchings ; Wood-Cuts, and Wood Engravings ; Places, Prints, and Paintings ; Canmore ; Around Banff ; Sunshine Meadows ; The Bow Valley Parkway ; Lake Louise ; Moraine Lake ; Yoho National Park ; The Icefields Parkway ; Conclusion ; Chronology ; Glossary of Printmaking and Watercolour Terms ; Bibliography ; List of Illustrated Works ; Photo Credits ; Endnotes
Notes
Features photographs and art from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
ISBN
1927083583 9781927083581
Accession Number
2019.87
P2019-28
2022.12
Call Number
06 C46t copy 1
06 C46t copy 2
06 C46t copy 3
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Author's website
Websites
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Castleguard Cave 2005 - first ascent of the 200-foot aven

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24963
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Vokac, Marek
Publisher
Oslo, Norway : Marek Vokac
Edition
1st
Call Number
03.2 V85c PAM
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Author
Vokac, Marek
Responsibility
Marek Vokac
Christian Rushfeldt
Bjorn Myrvold
Jorn Halvorsen
Edition
1st
Publisher
Oslo, Norway : Marek Vokac
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
127 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Caves
Castleguard Cave
Research
Exploration
Geography
Geology
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the 2005 first ascent into the Castleguard Cave near the Saskatchewan Glacier in Banff National Park by Marek Vokac, Christian Rushfeldt, Bjorn Myrvold and Jorn Halvorsen
Notes
Includes copy of report on CD
Accession Number
2019.97
Call Number
03.2 V85c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Additional information and maps
Websites
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Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Hogue, Michel
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Call Number
08.1 H65m
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Author
Hogue, Michel
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
ix, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Metis
Geography
Canada
History
Surveyors
Surveys
Surveys and Mapping
Abstract
Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story of individuals and families, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. It begins with the emergence of the Plains Metis and ends with the fracturing of their communities as the Canada-U. S. border was enforced. It also explores the borderland world of the Northern Plains, where an astonishing diversity of people met and mingled: Blackfoot, Cree, Gros Ventre, Lakota, Dakota, Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Anishinaabes, Metis, Europeans, Canadians, Americans, soldiers, police, settlers, farmers, hunters, traders, bureaucrats. In examining the battles that emerged over who belonged on what side of the border, Hogue disputes Canada's peaceful settlement story of the Prairie West and challenges familiar bromides about the "world's longest undefended border. (From U of R Press website)
Contents
Emergence : creating a Metis borderland -- Exchange : trade, sovereignty, and the forty-ninth parallel -- Belonging : land, treaties, and the boundaries of race -- Resistance : dismantling Plains Metis borderland settlements, 1879-1885 -- Exile : scrip and enrollment commissions and the shifting boundaries of belonging, 1885-1920.
ISBN
9780889773806
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 H65m
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on University of Regina Press website
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John L. Stoddard's lectures

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25073
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1901
Author
Stoddard, John L.
Publisher
Boston : Balch Bros.
Call Number
02 St6j Volume 3
02 St6j Volume 4
02 St6j Volume 6
02 St6j Volume 7
02 St6j Volume 9
02 St6j Volume 10
02 St6j Supplementary Volume 1
Author
Stoddard, John L.
Publisher
Boston : Balch Bros.
Published Date
1901
Physical Description
7 volumes : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
World
Geography
Essays
Abstract
Lectures pertaining to the travels of John Lawson Stoddard
Contents
Volume 3 - Japan (two lectures), China
Volume 4 - India (two lectures), The Passion Play
Volume 6 - Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Moscow
Volume 7 - The Rhine, Belgium, Holland, Mexico
Volume 9 - Scotland, Englad, London
Volume 10 - California, Colorado, Yellowstone Park
Supplementary Volume 1 - Ireland (two lectures), Denmark, Sweden
Notes
Incomplete set - missing Volume 1 - Norway, Switzerland, Athens, Venice (in Alpine Club of Canada Library D919 S8); Volume 2 - Constantinople, Jerusalem, Egypt; Volume 5 - Paris, La belle France, Spain; Volume 8 - Florence, Naples, Rome; Volume 11 - Photographs, Supplementary Volume 2 - Canada (two lectures), Malta, Gibralter (separate in Archives Library 02.4 St6j); Supplementary Volume 3 - South Tyrol, Around Lakd Garda, The Dolomites; Supplementary Volume 4 - Sicily, Genoa, A drive through the Engadine; Supplementary Volume 5 - Lake Como, The upper Danube, Bohemia
Stoddard Edition Limited to Five Hundred Copies No. 305
Accession Number
2020.20
Call Number
02 St6j Volume 3
02 St6j Volume 4
02 St6j Volume 6
02 St6j Volume 7
02 St6j Volume 9
02 St6j Volume 10
02 St6j Supplementary Volume 1
Collection
Archives Library
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Understanding the Banff Hot Springs: through Karst hydrogeology

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Yonge, Chas
Publisher
Altona, Manitoba : Friesens Corporation
Edition
First
Call Number
03.5 Y7u
  1 website  
Author
Yonge, Chas
Responsibility
Chas Yonge
Edition
First
Publisher
Altona, Manitoba : Friesens Corporation
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
104 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Geography
Geology - Alberta - Mountain Park
Hot springs
Banff
Banff National Park
Abstract
The Banff Hot Springs is an iconic location with a long and storied history, having been first found and used by indigenous peoples. In 1883, Canadian Pacific Railway workers found the springs, which led to the development of Banff National Park and tourism in the Canadian Rockies. But the geologic history encompassed in the rocks of the Banff area extends back more than a billion years. In Understanding the Banff Hot Springs through Karst Hydrogeology, Chas Yonge looks at the Banff Hot Spring system from a new perspective: that of karst. Karst landforms are created by dissolution of rock, which leads to some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. This karst perspective leads to some very different conclusions regarding the nature of the hot springs. For example: How old is the thermal water? How far has it travlled underground? And how extensive are its pathways? Anyone with an interest in the science behind the Banff Hot Springs and exploring the local geology and landscape of the Canadian Rockies will find this book the perfect answer to their curiousity. Featuring a foreword by Arthur N. Palmer, Professor of Hydrogeology, Emeritus, at State University of New York. As of a few years ago, Chas Yonge was the former owner and operator of Canmore Cave Tours, offering interpretive tours underground. He has been an enthusiastic caver for almost 50 years, taking him all over the world. Since earning a PhD in karst paleoclimatology, he has applied isotope studies to karst, culminating in a number of publications. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and is currently a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. (From Amazon website)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreward
Hot springs in Canada where do you find them?
Rocky Mountain geology around Banff
Geological setting of the Banff Springs Hotel
Sources and depth of the Banff thermal spring water
Carbonate hot springs viewed as hypogene karst
Hydrogeology of the the Rockies and Banff Hot Springs
Flow nets developed along thurst faults
Conduits developed along a thurst fault, nearby examples in Rats Nest Cave
Hypogene recharge at the Banff Hot Springs: mechanisms and chemistry
Epigene recharge; the invasion of cold, shallow groundwater at Banff
Age of the groundwater
Spring elevation: relevance to the Late Wisconsin Glaciation
Tufa deposits and tufa caves
Cave formation by microbes: tufa speleogenesis
The cave deposits (speleothems)
Banff Hot Springs Summary
Appendices
Glossary
References and further reading
Index
About the author
About the designer
ISBN
9780987936936
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.5 Y7u
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Further research via Research Gate
Websites
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Rutter, Nat
Coppold, Murray
Rokosh, Dean
Publisher
Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
Edition
Revised Second Edition
Call Number
03.2 R93c
03.2 R93c Reference copy
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Author
Rutter, Nat
Coppold, Murray
Rokosh, Dean
Responsibility
The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
Nat Rutter
Murray Coppold
Dean Rokosh
Edition
Revised Second Edition
Publisher
Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Glaciers
Climatology
Climate change
Environment
Environmental conservation
Geography
Geology
Abstract
Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
Contents
Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
Notes
Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
ISBN
9780978013219
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.2 R93c
03.2 R93c Reference copy
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Further research
Websites
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Canada's place names and how to change them

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Beck, Lauren
Publisher
Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
Call Number
02.1 B39c
Author
Beck, Lauren
Publisher
Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
ix, 251 pages ; 21 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geography
Names, Geographical
Place names
Colonialism
Canada
Abstract
The first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect. This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada’s First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada’s place nomenclature. This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Knowing in Place -- A Brief History of Settler-Colonial Naming Practices in Canada -- Gender and Canada’s Place Names -- Indigenous Names in a Settler-Colonial Context -- Marginalized Groups and Canada’s Place Names -- How to Discuss and Change Names.
ISBN
9781988111391
Accession Number
P2023.01
Call Number
02.1 B39c
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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British Columbia : landforms and settlement

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5794
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1968
Author
Gunn, Angus M
Publisher
Richmond (B.C.) : Smith Lithograph
Edition
2d ed
Call Number
03.7 G95
Author
Gunn, Angus M
Edition
2d ed
Publisher
Richmond (B.C.) : Smith Lithograph
Published Date
1968
Physical Description
48p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geography
Maps
Accession Number
3000
Call Number
03.7 G95
Collection
Archives Library
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