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Banff Mountain Film Festival forerunners
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19954
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Published Date
- 2013
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Banff
- Films
- History
- Gmoser, Hans
- Abstract
- Pertians to how the Banff Mountain Film Festival was created
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol. 5, Iss. 1, Winter 2013, p. 36-41
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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The Canadian Himalayan Foundation - textual
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55072
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of textual records pertaining to the Canadian Himalayan Foundation; includes research documents, correspondence, administrative records and other related materials.
- Date Range
- 1978 - 1998
- Reference Code
- M57 / VIII
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- GMD
- Textual record
- Published record
- Newspaper clipping
- Organization record
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Fonds Number
- M57 / V40 / S47
- Series
- M57 / VIII : The Canadian Himalayan Foundation
- Sous-Fonds
- M57
- Sub-Series
- M57 / VIII / A: Foundation information
- M57 / VIII / B: Correspondence
- M57 / VIII / C: Board minutes 1978 - 1998
- M57 / VIII / D: Trip research and applications
- M57 / VIII / E: Financials
- M57 / VIII / F: News clippings
- M57 / VIII / G: Journals and Research drafts
- Accession Number
- 8110
- Reference Code
- M57 / VIII
- Date Range
- 1978 - 1998
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- The Canadian Himalayan Foundation was created by historian and mountaineer Chic Scott in 1978. The Foundation served as a registered charitable organization whose purpose was to promote Canadian mountaineering expeditions. Over a period of 25 years the foundation raised $250,000 to support Canadian climbing expeditions around the world.
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of textual records pertaining to the Canadian Himalayan Foundation; includes research documents, correspondence, administrative records and other related materials.
- Notes
- Series consists of seven sub-series: M57 / VIII / A: Foundation information M57 / VIII / A / 1 to 4 : Policy and mandate, foundation information M57 / VIII / A / 5: History M57 / VIII / A / 6 - 7: Foundation Grants and funds M57 / VIII / A / 8: Library M57 / VIII / A / 9: Membership Newsletters M57 / VIII / B: Correspondence M57 / VIII / C: Board minutes 1978 - 1998 M57 / VIII / D: Trip research and applications M57 / VIII / E: Financials M57 / VIII / F: News clippings M57 / VIII / G: Journals and Research drafts
- Name Access
- Scott, Chic
- Canadian Himalayan Foundation
- Subject Access
- Administration
- Communications
- Correspondence
- Finances
- History
- Membership
- Newspaper
- Organizations
- Publication
- Research
- Records
- Record keeping
- Sports and recreation
- Language
- English
- Biographical Source Notes
- http://www.chicscott.com/history_organizer.htm
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- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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A Century of American alpinism, 2002
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20146
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Fay, Charles Ernest
- Bent, Allen Herbert
- Palmer, Howard
- Thorington, James Monroe
- Kauffman, Andrew John
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
- Call Number
- G505 F39 C46
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- Author
- Fay, Charles Ernest
- Bent, Allen Herbert
- Palmer, Howard
- Thorington, James Monroe
- Kauffman, Andrew John
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Charles Earnest Fay, Allen Herbert Bent, Howard Palmer, James Monroe Thorington, Andrew John Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- ix, 196 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
- Subjects
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Mountaineering
- Clubs
- Abstract
- Pertains to a century of American alpinism from 1902 to 2002
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- I Earliest American Mountaineers
- II Pacific Crests
- III Later and Farther North
- IV Tidewater Alaska
- V Early Amerian Ascents in the Alps
- VI Appalachian Mountain Club Roots
- VII The Social Aspect of Alpinism
- VIII To the Top of the Continent
- IX Other Mountain Clubs of America
- X Momentous Events
- XI Afield and at War
- XII Changing Mores
- XIII Moving West
- XIV Not All Sweetness and Light
- XV The Study of Mountain Elevations
- XVI Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness
- XVII Changing Faces
- Appendices
- Index
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G505 F39 C46
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- American Alpine Club link to book
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Correspondence
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56832
- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of correspondence from 1960 to 1971. Correspondence includes letters between George K.K. Link, Lillian Gest, Sydney Vallance and The Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.
- Date Range
- 1960 - 1971
- Reference Code
- M50 / E / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M50
- V191
- Series
- M50 / E : Correspondence
- Sous-Fonds
- M50
- Accession Number
- 6701
- Reference Code
- M50 / E / 1
- GMD
- Textual record
- Date Range
- 1960 - 1971
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of correspondence from 1960 to 1971. Correspondence includes letters between George K.K. Link, Lillian Gest, Sydney Vallance and The Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.
- Subject Access
- Parks Canada
- History
- Recreation
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Lake O'Hara
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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Correspondence
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56833
- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of correspondence from 1972 to 1982. Correspondence includes letters wriiten by George K.K. Link, Lillian Gest, R.G.S Currie, and Farleigh Curson.
- Date Range
- 1972 - 1982
- Reference Code
- M50 / E / 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M50
- V191
- Series
- M50 / E : Correspondence
- Sous-Fonds
- M50
- Accession Number
- 6701
- Reference Code
- M50 / E / 2
- GMD
- Textual record
- Date Range
- 1972 - 1982
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of correspondence from 1972 to 1982. Correspondence includes letters wriiten by George K.K. Link, Lillian Gest, R.G.S Currie, and Farleigh Curson.
- Name Access
- Gest, Lillian
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, George K.K.
- Currie, R.G.S.
- Holt, W.G.
- Currie, Bob
- Wake, Tim
- Taylorson, Bob
- Subject Access
- Parks Canada
- History
- Recreation
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Lake O'Hara
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
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- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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High times : the adventures of Jim Davies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19946
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Published Date
- 2010
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains tot Jim Davies and his career as airplane and helicopter pilot
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol.2, Iss.1, Summer 2010, p.12-13
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings, a story titled "The Wayward Hiker", a written document outlining the borders at Lake O'Hara
- Date Range
- ca. 1974 - 1986
- Reference Code
- M50 / F / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M50
- V191
- Series
- M50 / F : Memorabilia
- Sous-Fonds
- M50
- Accession Number
- 6701
- Reference Code
- M50 / F / 1
- GMD
- Textual record
- Date Range
- ca. 1974 - 1986
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings, a story titled "The Wayward Hiker", a written document outlining the borders at Lake O'Hara
- Subject Access
- Parks Canada
- History
- Recreation
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Lake O'Hara
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a scrapbook, Lake O'Hara Trails Club stationary, and "History of Lake O'Hara" by Lillian Gest and logo designs for the Lake O'Hara Trails Club.
- Date Range
- ca. 1974 - 1986
- Reference Code
- M50 / F / 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M50
- V191
- Series
- M50 / F : Memorabilia
- Sous-Fonds
- M50
- Accession Number
- 6701
- Reference Code
- M50 / F / 2
- GMD
- Textual record
- Date Range
- ca. 1974 - 1986
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a scrapbook, Lake O'Hara Trails Club stationary, and "History of Lake O'Hara" by Lillian Gest and logo designs for the Lake O'Hara Trails Club.
- Name Access
- Gest, Lillian
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, George K.K.
- Subject Access
- Parks Canada
- History
- Recreation
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Lake O'Hara
- Language
- English
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Mount assiniboine : the story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25540
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 336 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Assiniboine, Mount
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Mountaineering
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Camping
- Backcountry
- Travel
- Abstract
- This book tells the story of the history of Mount Assiniboine and the surrounding area. Mount Assiniboine is a beautiful mountain located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in south eastern British Columbia. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- First Nations History at Mount Assiniboine ; Part One: The Discovery of Mount Assiniboine (1800-1910) ; Part Two: The Wheeler Years (1913-1927) ; Part Three: Strom's Half-century: Part I (1928-1950) ; Part Four: Strom's Half-century: Part 2 (1950-1983) ; Part Five: The Renner Years (1983-2010) ; Part Six: A New Generation Takes Over
- ISBN
- 9780981105932
- Accession Number
- P2022.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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