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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Graham, Mary
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 06.3 G76a
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- Author
- Graham, Mary
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
- Abstract
- The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960
- Notes
- Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.
- ISBN
- 9781773853932
- Accession Number
- P2023.20
- Call Number
- 06.3 G76a
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- Archives Library
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At home in the backcountry - celebrating the legendary hospitality and rich heritage of Assiniboine Lodge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25135
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Physical Description
- p.62 - 69
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Assiniboine, Mount
- History
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of Mount Assiniboine Lodge, includes chronology of events, summary of Renner family and future plans for the lodge with photographs and ephemera from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25229
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Storry, Lea
- Carleton, Brian
- Carleton, Mike
- Carleton, Terry
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.3 F21e
1 website
- Responsibility
- Lea Storry
- Brian Carleton
- Mike Carleton
- Terry Carleton
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 307 pages
- Abstract
- The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton
- Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders
- Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler
- Chapter Four: Exercising War
- Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future
- Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton
- Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff
- Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living
- Chapter Nine: Nature reels
- Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes
- Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife
- Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family
- Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns
- Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old
- Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- ISBN
- 9780991707522
- Accession Number
- 2021.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 F21e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25246
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
1 website
- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Responsibility
- Ayesha Clough (author)
- Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
- Abstract
- Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781999108786
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Raven's witness : the Alaska life of Richard K. Nelson
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25252
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Lentfer, Hank
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 08 L46r
1 website
- Author
- Lentfer, Hank
- Responsibility
- Hank Lentfer
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 251 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Before his death in 2019, cultural anthropologist, author, and radio producer Richard K. Nelson's work focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, on the relationships between people and nature. Nelson lived for extended periods in Athabaskan and Alaskan Eskimo villages, experiences which inspired his earliest written works, including "Hunters of the Northern Ice." In "Raven's Witness," Lentfer tells Nelson's story--from his midwestern childhood to his first experiences with Native culture in Alaska through his own lifelong passion for the land where he so belonged (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreword / Barry Lopez -- Prologue: Solid Ground -- Part I: Niglik -- Part II: Making Prayers -- Part III: Island Years -- Part IV: True Wealth -- Afterword: Wings
- Notes
- 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Grand Prize
- 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner - Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781680513073
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08 L46r
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Indigenous identity formation in post-secondary institutions : I found myself in the most unlikely place
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25266
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Barnes, Barbara G.
- Voyageur, Cora J.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Call Number
- 07.2 B26i
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- Responsibility
- Barbara G. Barnes
- Cora J. Voyageur
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 132 pages
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- First Nations
- History
- Abstract
- This book presents a study conducted between 2005 and 2010 of 60 self-declared Indigenous university students from western Canada. The study explored Indigenous identity formation among these students through these central research questions:
- Do conventional definitions of identity, and conventional identity formation theories, offer ways to understand the identity of these Indigenous students?
- What role, if any, does postsecondary education play in the formation and/or confirmation of the identity of Indigenous students as Indigenous individuals? The study is unique for two reasons. First, little scholarly attention has been paid to Indigenous individuals’ sense of identity. While the literature and research on identity is diverse, it mostly focuses on Eurocentric definitions of identity. Second, this study emphasizes Indigenous identity formation in postsecondary institutions. This book moves beyond a simple understanding of Indigenous students’ concept of identity and delves into determining the role a university education can play in the development of an Indigenous individual’s identity (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Preface and dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Find the self: a history of defining Indigenous identity in Canada
- Conventional and Indigenous concepts of identity
- A history of Indigenous education in Canada
- Who were the participants?
- Identity and Blumer's symbolic interactionism: definitions and participant responses
- Identity and Mihesuah's Native identity development theory: definition and participant responses
- The university experience
- Building on Mihesuah: a Canadian Indigenous identity formation model
- References
- About the authors
- ISBN
- 9781550598544
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 07.2 B26i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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O'Hara : stories of a beloved landscape and the people who have shaped it
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19820
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Physical Description
- p.66-75
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara Lodge
- Lake O'Hara region
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club
- Alpine Club of Canada
- History
- Elizabeth Parker Hut
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Hiking
- Conservation
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Lake O'Hara area including the history of its "discovery", creation of trail systems, Alpine Club of Canada activities, lodges, huts and access parameters. Includes many images from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library.
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019
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- Archives Library
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Icefields Parkway : a drive through history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19823
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Author
- Alexander, Rob
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Alexander, Rob
- Responsibility
- Rob Alexander
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Physical Description
- p.12-18
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Highways - Alberta
- Banff
- Jasper
- History
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the Icefields Parkway - includes photographs from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library and Jasper-Yellowhead Museum & Archives with mentions of A.O. Wheeler, David Thompson, James Hector, Peter Erasmus, Tom Wilson, Bill Peyto, Jimmy Simpson, David Douglas, Arthur P. Coleman, Walter Wilcox, J. Norman Collie as well as the Ktunaxa, Carrier Sekani, Secwepemc, Stoney Nakoda, As'in'i'wa'chi, Iroquois, Piikani, Siksika, Tsuu T'ina and Metis Indigenous Peoples. Overview of construction history between 1931 and 1960 with mention of Num-Ti-Jah Lodge and Fred Brewster's Columbia Icefield Chalet and mention of the filming of "River of No Return".
- Notes
- In 51 North, Summer/Fall 2019
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Preserving Indigenous culture one name at a time
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19824
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Author
- Dulewich, Jenna
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Dulewich, Jenna
- Responsibility
- Jenna Dulewich
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Physical Description
- p.62-63
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the efforts by Elder Roland Rollinmud to preserve the tradtional Stoney Nakoda place names in the Bow Valley with the installation of plaques along the Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 1A and Highway 40 with information including name of location, history and cultural significance.
- Notes
- In 51 North, Summer/Fall 2019
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- Archives Library
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Castle in the wilderness : the story of the Banff Springs Hotel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24950
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Robinson, Bart
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Call Number
- 08.5 R55c
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- Author
- Robinson, Bart
- Responsibility
- Bart Robinson
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 160 p.; illus.
- Subjects
- Hotels
- History
- Travel
- Tourism
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- A Castle in the Wilderness: The Story of the Banff Springs Hotel is the definitive historical record of one of the world’s most famous mountain resorts. The story navigates the hotel’s early history from its construction by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the glittering era of the 1920s through to the changes of modern times. Local author and historian Bart Robinson has been exploring and writing about the Banff Springs Hotel since the 1970s. In A Castle in the Wilderness he combines a complete hotel history with rich anecdotes and snippets of the past that have enriched Banff and indeed Canada, from the hotel’s links to the construction of the transcontinental rail line to the visits of maharajahs and movie stars.How did such a gracious hotel come to be in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies? How much did it cost to build? Who designed it? Who selected its furnishings? Which famous visitors has it hosted? And why is now known as the Fairmont Banff Springs? These and many more questions are answered in the Castle in the Wilderness. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Origins of a Hotel
- Grand Designs
- Vistas and Vendettas
- Growing Pains
- Towers and Troubles
- Princes and Politicians
- Out of the Fire
- A Brief But Golden Moment
- Tribulations and Triumph
- A Second Century
- Into the New Millenium
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- ISBN
- 9781926983356
- Accession Number
- 2019.89
- Call Number
- 08.5 R55c
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- Archives Library
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- Link to publishers website where publication can been purchased
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