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In time and place : master plan 2005 for the protection, preservation, and presentation of Alberta's past

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24956
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Tracey, William
Field, Dorothy
Myers, Patricia A.
Vickers, J. Rod
Wyman, Marlena
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Community Development
Call Number
00.5 T67i
  1 website  
Author
Tracey, William
Field, Dorothy
Myers, Patricia A.
Vickers, J. Rod
Wyman, Marlena
Responsibility
William Tracey
Dorothy Field
Patricia A. Myers
J. Rod Vickers
Marlena Wyman
Publisher
Edmonton : Alberta Community Development
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
vi, 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
Alberta - History
Archives
History
History of Alberta
Guide
Abstract
Pertains to a suggested plan by heritage professionals to thematically protect, preserve and present history in Alberta
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Master Plan 2005: A New Approach to Preserving Alberta's History
Part I: Preservation Strategy
Part II: A Thematic Approach
Part III: Using Master Plan 2005
Part IV: The Thematic Framework
Part V: CD with Printable Appendices
Notes
Includes letter from author Marlena Wyman
ISBN
0778543374
Accession Number
2019.93
Call Number
00.5 T67i
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Full text of publication available online
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The Cave and Basin : Banff's hot springs and the birth of Canada's national parks

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25251
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Hart, E.J. (Ted)
Publisher
Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
Call Number
08.3 H11c
  1 website  
Author
Hart, E.J. (Ted)
Responsibility
Ted (E.J.) Hart
Publisher
Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
91 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Cave and Basin
History
History of Alberta
History-Canada
National parks
Tourism
Abstract
THE CAVE AND BASIN by Ted Hart is the story of mineral springs in Banff National Park that were instrumental to the growth of Banff and formed the nucleus of Canada’s national park system. Authored by renowned historian E.J. (Ted) Hart, Cave and Basin offers background on what is now protected as a national historic site, exploring the story of its discovery and the lives of those involved in its development as a world-famous attraction. It describes these unique and fascinating hot springs and how they became the catalyst for important developments in Canadian history and culture. The book details the story of the springs’ first discovery, their critical place in a government decision to create a reserve to protect them for public use and their development into a tourist location where generations of Canadians and those from around the world came to enjoy their soothing balm. In the process, the springs, and the Cave and Basin particularly, became the epicentre for both the creation and the commemoration of Canada’s national parks. (From publisher's website)
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Sacred waters of the mountains
Chapter 2 - Like some fantastic dream
Chapter 3 - The hot springs investigation
Chapter 4 - Recuperate the patients and recoup the treasury
Chapter 5 - As near perfetion as it is possible to make
Chapter 6 - Walter Painter's wonder
Chapter 7 - Different guises
Chapter 8 - Recent times
Index
Photo credits
About the author
ISBN
9781926983271
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.3 H11c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25285
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Brown, Ron
Publisher
Toronto : Dundurn
Call Number
08.3 B78r
  1 website  
Author
Brown, Ron
Responsibility
Ron Brown
Publisher
Toronto : Dundurn
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
156 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Railways
History
History of Alberta
History-Canada
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Abstract
Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)
Contents
The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.
ISBN
9781459733596
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.3 B78r
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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North of America : Canadians and the American century, 1945-60

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26238
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 M19n
Responsibility
Edited by Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Government
Politics
History
History-Canada
History-United States
Abstract
In 1941, influential publishing magnate Henry Luce wrote a stirring essay on American global power, declaring that the world was in the midst of the first great American century. What did a newly outward-looking and hegemonic United States mean for its northern neighbour? From constitutional reform to transit policy, from national security to the arrival of television, Canadians were ever mindful of the American experience. This sharp-eyed volume provides a unique look at postwar Canada, bringing to the fore the opinions and perceptions of a broad range of Canadians--from consumers to diplomats, jazz musicians to urban planners, and a diverse cross-section in between. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
"A Natural Development": Canada and Non-Alignment in the Age of Eisenhower / David Webster -- Cheers to the Canadian Wheat Surplus! Lester Pearson's Visit to the Soviet Union and the West's Détente Dilemma / Susan Colbourn -- Living Dangerously: Canadian National Security Policy and the Nuclear Revolution / Timothy Andrews Sayle -- From Normandy to NORAD: Canada and the North Atlantic Triangle in the Age of Eisenhower / Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson -- An Emerging Constitutional Culture in Canada's Postwar Moment / P.E. Bryden -- Rethinking Postwar Domesticity: The Canadian Household in the 1950s / Bettina Liverant -- Racial Discrimination in "Uncle Tom's Town": Media and the Americanization of Racism in Dresden, 1948-56 / Jennifer Tunnicliffe -- Between Distrust and Acceptance: The Influence of the United States on Postwar Quebec / François-Olivier Dorais and Daniel Poitras -- Living the Good Life? Canadians and the Paradox of American Prosperity / Stephen Azzi -- Make Room for (Canadian) TV: Print Media Cover the Arrival of Television in the Shadow of American Cultural Imperialism, 1930-52 / Emily LeDuc -- Getting Off the Highway: Frederick Gardiner and Toronto's Transit Policy in the Age of the Interstate Highway, 1954-63 / Jonathan English -- Talking Jazz at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1956-58 / Eric Fillion.
ISBN
9780774868846
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.1 M19n
Collection
Archives Library
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art : a handbook of the American Wing

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21002
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1928
Author
Halsey, R. T. H.
Publisher
New York : The Museum
Edition
4th ed.
Call Number
NK2003 H3
Author
Halsey, R. T. H.
Responsibility
by R. T. H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius
Edition
4th ed.
Publisher
New York : The Museum
Published Date
1928
Physical Description
295p. : ill. plans
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Furniture - U.S. - History
House furnishings - U.S. - History
Interior decoration - U.S. - History
Notes
Includes index
Accession Number
3069
Call Number
NK2003 H3
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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Surveying the 120th meridian and the great divide : the Alberta/BC boundary survey, 1918-1924

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24952
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Sherwood, Jay
Publisher
Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
Call Number
08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
  1 website  
Author
Sherwood, Jay
Responsibility
Jay Sherwood
Publisher
Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
192 p. ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Volume 2
Subjects
Surveyors
Surveys and Mapping
Surveys
Great Divide Trail
Alberta
British Columbia
British Columbia - Boundaries
British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
Alberta - B.C. Boundary
Alberta - Boundaries
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Cautley, Richard William
History
History of Alberta
Abstract
"Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Surveyors
Surveying Methods 1918-1924
Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953
Conclusion
Geographical Names
Survey Crews, 1918-1924
Sources Consulted
Index
Notes
Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771
ISBN
9780773860091
Accession Number
2019.90
Call Number
08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Thumbing a ride : hitchhikers, hostels, and counterculture in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24955
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Mahood, Linda
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
02.4 M11th
  1 website  
Author
Mahood, Linda
Responsibility
Linda Mahood
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
Description:xii, 331 pages : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Highways
Hiking
Culture Guide
History
History-Canada
Abstract
In the 1920s, as a national network of roads and youth hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. By the 1960s, the Trans-Canada Highway had become the main thoroughfare for thousands of young baby boomers seeking adventure. Thumbing a Ride examines the rise and fall of hitchhiking in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. The Trudeau Liberals responded to youth unemployment by subsidizing a network of hostels to make travel an educational adventure, and many equated hitching and hostelling with the freedom to do their own thing. At the same time, a counter-narrative emerged, of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists called for a nationwide clampdown on a transient youth movement that they believed was spreading hippie sensibilities and anti-establishment nomadism. Hitchhiking is a ritual that requires trust, boundary negotiation, and control. Neither the identity of the hitchhiker nor the motives of the motorist can be determined in advance. Linda Mahood unearths good and bad stories and key biographical moments that formed young travellers’ understandings of personal risk, agency, and national identity. Thumbing a Ride asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of passage, and about adult interventions that turned a subculture into a pressing moral and social issue. This book will appeal to students and scholars of history, sociology, and social policy. It will also find an appreciative audience among baby boomers who recall the transient youth movement. (from publisher's website)
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Get your Motor Running: Risk, Ritual, and Rite of Passage Travel
Thumb Wars: Adventure Hitchhiking
Rucksack Revolution: Quest in the Age of Aquarius
Cool Aid: The Transient Youth Movement
Crash Pads: Blue-Jean Bureaucrats versus the Canadian Youth Hostels Association
Head Out on the Highway: Stories from the Trans-Canada Highway
Car Sick: Hitchhiking Dos and Don'ts
Conclusion: The Vanishing Hitchhiker Eulogy
Notes
Index
ISBN
978077483733
Accession Number
P2019-30
Call Number
02.4 M11th
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Pincher Creek memories

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24960
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1975
Author
Pincher Creek Historical Society
Publisher
[Pincher Creek, Alta.] : [New Horizons Local History Committee of the Pincher Creek and District Historical Society]
Call Number
08.2 P65p
  1 website  
Author
Pincher Creek Historical Society
Responsibility
Pincher Creek Historical Society
Publisher
[Pincher Creek, Alta.] : [New Horizons Local History Committee of the Pincher Creek and District Historical Society]
Published Date
1975
Physical Description
96 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History of Alberta
Pincher Creek
Abstract
"The New memories book, the Old Timers souvenir album 1878-1958, reprinted and enlarged and including several of Mr. A.L. Freebairn's poems"p. 73
Accession Number
3069a
Call Number
08.2 P65p
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Pincher Creek Historical Society website
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1974
Author
Colclough, Albert
Schofield, Fred H.
Publisher
Pincher Creek, Alta. : Pincher Creek & District Historical Society and local New Horizons project
Call Number
08.2 C67p O.S.
Author
Colclough, Albert
Schofield, Fred H.
Responsibility
Albert Colclough
Fred H. Schofield
Pincher Creek & District Historical Society
Publisher
Pincher Creek, Alta. : Pincher Creek & District Historical Society and local New Horizons project
Published Date
1974
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History of Alberta
Pincher Creek
Ranching
Abstract
Pertains to the memoirs of Fred H. Schofield and Albert Colclough and their reminisces about Pincher Creek and area.
Accession Number
3069a
Call Number
08.2 C67p O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
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Calgary Heritage Authority Annual Report 2010

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24966
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2010
Author
Calgary Heritage Authority
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Calgary Heritage Authority
Call Number
08.2 C11c PAM
  1 website  
Author
Calgary Heritage Authority
Responsibility
Lesley Beale
Joni Carroll
Sarah Meilleur
Clea Sturgess
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Calgary Heritage Authority
Published Date
2010
Physical Description
38 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
History
History of Alberta
Buildings
Research
Architecture
Abstract
Pertains to built heritage resources in the city of Calgary as of 2010 - includes photographs, timelines, maps, recommendations
Contents
Executive Summary
Identify Protect Manage
Looking Back
Who We Are
Implementing
Saving Places
Reaching Out
Raising Awareness
Acknowledging
Funding
Identifying Places
Notes
Table of Contents page has information about James Langlands Thomson who also sculpted the faces on the Banff stone bridge.
Accession Number
2019.98
Call Number
08.2 C11c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Final 2012 version of report available online via the Calgary Heritage Authority
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