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Alberta, where mountains meet the plains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7907
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1970
- Author
- Tomkins, Doreen Margaret
- Publisher
- Toronto : W.J. Gage
- Call Number
- 02.5 Al1t Pam
- Author
- Tomkins, Doreen Margaret
- Responsibility
- by Doreen Margaret Tomkins [and others]
- Publisher
- Toronto : W.J. Gage
- Published Date
- 1970
- Physical Description
- 43p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Geography
- Accession Number
- 1000
- Call Number
- 02.5 Al1t Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The American aesthetic
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20503
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1969
- Author
- Owings, Nathanial Alexander
- Publisher
- New York : Harper and Row
- Call Number
- NA9031 O9
- Author
- Owings, Nathanial Alexander
- Responsibility
- Photographs by William Garnett. Introduction by S. Dillon Ripley
- Publisher
- New York : Harper and Row
- Published Date
- c1969
- Physical Description
- 198p. : illus. plans
- Accession Number
- 725
- Call Number
- NA9031 O9
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Banff area, Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19878
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Warren, Percival S.
- Publisher
- Ottawa, F.A. Acland, printer
- Call Number
- 03.2 W25b Pam
- Author
- Warren, Percival S.
- Responsibility
- Percival S. Warren
- Publisher
- Ottawa, F.A. Acland, printer
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 3 preliminary leaves, 94 pages including frontispiece (plates I) [II]-VII plates, tables, folded map 25 cm.
- Abstract
- Pertains to an in depth analysis of geological features in and around Banff, as well as a descriptive segment on new fossil species. The geological features pertains to both the mountains in and around Banff, as well as a separate discussion on economic geology.
- Contents
- Introduction (pg. 1)
- Physiography (pg. 4)
- General geology (pg. 4)
- Description of new species of fossils (pg. 44)
- Economic geology (pg. 93)
- Index to fossils (pg. 93)
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 03.2 W25b Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Bill Peyto guide to Canadian Rockies trivia : volume 1
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12062
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Peyto, David W
- Publisher
- Calgary : Peyto Lake Books
- Call Number
- 02.6 P46 v.1
- Author
- Peyto, David W
- Publisher
- Calgary : Peyto Lake Books
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 125 p
- ISBN
- 0973106611
- Accession Number
- 7474
- Call Number
- 02.6 P46 v.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Bill Peyto guide to Canadian Rockies trivia : volume 2
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12063
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Peyto, David W
- Publisher
- Calgary : Peyto Lake Books
- Call Number
- 02.6 P46 v.2
- Author
- Peyto, David W
- Publisher
- Calgary : Peyto Lake Books
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 121 p
- ISBN
- 0-9731066-2-X
- Accession Number
- 7474
- Call Number
- 02.6 P46 v.2
- 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
- Accession Number
- 3000
- Call Number
- 03.7 G95
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canada's place names and how to change them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25683
- 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
- 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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Castle Mountain Battle
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54606
- Part Of
- Dorothy Wardle fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 127 pages of compiled research, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, H28 cm x W21.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the renaming of Castle Mountain to Mt. Eisenhower in 1946 under the William Lyon Mackenzie King administration and the restoration of the Castle name in 1975-1976…
- Date Range
- ca.1946 - 1987
- 1946
- 1975
- 1987
- Reference Code
- M521 / I / A / 1-2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Newspaper clipping
- Government record
- Part Of
- Dorothy Wardle fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M521 / V75
- Series
- M521 / I : Dorothy Wardle Personal Papers
- Sous-Fonds
- M521
- Sub-Series
- M521 / I / A : Research and Writing
- Accession Number
- 5391
- 7504
- Reference Code
- M521 / I / A / 1-2
- Date Range
- ca.1946 - 1987
- 1946
- 1975
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records (127 pages ; 21.5 x 28 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- Freeman Keyte was a scientist originally from Ontario who was living in Calgary at the time when Castle Mountain was renamed to Mt. Eisenhower. He argued for the Castle name to be reinstated and communicated with the Geographic Board of Alberta, Members of Parliament, and the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 127 pages of compiled research, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, H28 cm x W21.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the renaming of Castle Mountain to Mt. Eisenhower in 1946 under the William Lyon Mackenzie King administration and the restoration of the Castle name in 1975-1976. File includes photocopies of government records, newspaper clippings, and other research compiled by Freeman Keyte. It also includes handwritten correspondence between Dorothy and Freeman, Dorothy and Ted Hart, and newspaper clippings that were collected by Dorothy.
- Notes
- On March 12, 1980, Freeman sent a copy of his findings in a 113-page binder to Dorothy, who then gifted it to the Whyte Museum in 1987.
- Included a photocopy of the letter from Dorothy to Ted Hart. The photocopy was discarded. Dorothy filed the original with Freeman's compilation of research as represented in this file.
- Records from accn.7504 were filed in an envelope titled, "The Castle Mountain Battle (from Castle to Eisenhower & back to Castle."
- Name Access
- Wardle, Dorothy
- Keyte, Freeman
- Hart, E. J. (Ted)
- Subject Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Calgary Herald
- Geography
- Government
- Mountains
- Newspaper
- Politics
- Research
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Castle Mountain
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Wardle, Dorothy
- Keyte, Freeman
- Category
- Government
- Natural resources
- Politics
- Biographical Source Notes
- Rayburn, Alan. Naming Canada: Stories About Place Names from Canadian Geographic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Title was written on an envelope containing these materials
- Processing Status
- Processed
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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.
- 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
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
- 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
1 website
- 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
- 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
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