topic:"Geography" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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

Websites

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/M/Metis-and-the-Medicine-Line

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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

https://hikersart.ca/

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Understanding the Banff Hot Springs: through Karst hydrogeology

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25279

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

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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

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320553179_Hydrogeology_of_the_Banff_Hot_Springs_Banff_National_Park_Canada_A_karst_perspective

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