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Double-Barrel Shotgun
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.04.0004
- Date
- 1875 – 1930
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.04.0004
- Description
- Double barreled, hinge action shotgun with wooden buttstock and fore-stock . Two triggers separately activate each of two hammers at barrel heads. Lever between hammers pulls to side to break shotgun barrel from stock. Barrels held together by solid strip of metal along length. Delicate cross hatch…
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- Title
- Double-Barrel Shotgun
- Date
- 1875 – 1930
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 6.0 x 118.0 cm
- Description
- Double barreled, hinge action shotgun with wooden buttstock and fore-stock . Two triggers separately activate each of two hammers at barrel heads. Lever between hammers pulls to side to break shotgun barrel from stock. Barrels held together by solid strip of metal along length. Delicate cross hatching decorates stock near breech and hand grip beneath. Steel breech and hammers ornately etched with floral design and 'W. Richards'. Carved wooden (plastic?) medallion screwed to small truncated projection on underside of stock. Marks: “16” carved into each side of buttstock; “W. Richards” engraved on each side in front of hammers; “2707” and “__0T0B” stamped into metal between barrels on undersideNote: trigger guard broken off; buttstock loose and held to breech with black electrician's tape; gouges on underside of buttstock and on underside of forestock.
- Subject
- sports
- hunting
- Indigenous
- Israel Rolling Mud
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.04.0004
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Game in the garden : a human history of wildlife in Western Canada to 1940
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13158
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Colpitts, George
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 04 C71g
- Author
- Colpitts, George
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 205 p
- ISBN
- 0-748-0962-0
- Accession Number
- 39000
- Call Number
- 04 C71g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1875 – 1925
- Material
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.0006
- Description
- A nearly rectangular flat piece of mottled green, black stone rounded at one end with the opposite end cut flat on a slight angle and bevelled to an edge. Deep straight scratch cut into one of flat surfaces running across at angle from rounded end.
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- Title
- Hide Scraper
- Date
- 1875 – 1925
- Material
- stone
- Dimensions
- 1.2 x 6.4 x 10.1 cm
- Description
- A nearly rectangular flat piece of mottled green, black stone rounded at one end with the opposite end cut flat on a slight angle and bevelled to an edge. Deep straight scratch cut into one of flat surfaces running across at angle from rounded end.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- households
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.24.0006
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Home range : writings on conservation and restoration
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13549
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Author
- Van Tighem, Kevin
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub
- Call Number
- 04 V36h
- Author
- Van Tighem, Kevin
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 206 p.
- Subjects
- Environment
- Hunting
- Wildlife management
- ISBN
- 1551539128
- Accession Number
- 40000 07-11-09
- Call Number
- 04 V36h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Hunters at the margin : native people and wildlife conservation in the Northwest Territories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13808
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Sandlos, John
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 07 S5h
- Author
- Sandlos, John
- Responsibility
- John Sandlos; foreword by Graeme Wynn
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 333p. : ill., maps
- Series
- Nature. History. Society series (devoted to scholarship in environmental history and allied fields)
- Subjects
- Government
- Hunting
- National parks
- Notes
- Original version Ph.D. dissertation, York University. Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-323) and index. Pertains to Wood Bison, muskox and caribou
- ISBN
- 9780774813624
- Accession Number
- 50500 2009-09-02
- Call Number
- 07 S5h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Let the line be drawn now : wilderness, conservation, and the exclusion of aboriginal people from Banff National Park in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13647
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Binnema, Theodore
- Publisher
- Co-published by the American Society for Environmental History & the Forest History Society
- Call Number
- 07.2 B51l Pam
- Author
- Binnema, Theodore
- Responsibility
- Theodore (Ted) Binnema and Melanie Niemi
- Publisher
- Co-published by the American Society for Environmental History & the Forest History Society
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 26p
- Subjects
- Hunting
- Tourism
- Wildlife management
- Notes
- Printed from pdf electronic article, from the History Cooperative Database. Vol. II, No. 4 (October 2006)
- Call Number
- 07.2 B51l Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountain masculinity : the life and writing of Nello "Tex" Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies 1906-1938
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13772
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Athabasca University Press
- Call Number
- 02.7 V59g
- Responsibility
- edited and introduced by Andrew Gow and Julie Rak ; in collaboration with Harry W. Gow and John R. Gow
- with foreword by Ted Bishop
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Athabasca University Press
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- ix, 226 p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Hunting
- Outfitters, trail guides, packers
- Notes
- Contents: essays by Tex Vernon-Wood which appeared in periodicals: The Sportsman (1930-1931), Canadian Alpine Journal (1932), Hunting and Fishing (1932-1937), National Sportsman (1933-1938); Recollections by grandsons John R. Gow and Harry W. Gow
- Accession Number
- 8035
- Call Number
- 02.7 V59g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Shining mountains : On the edge, episode 3 [DVD video]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13351
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Clarkson, Guy
- Publisher
- Canada : Raven HD productions
- Call Number
- 04 Sh6 DVD v.3
- Author
- Clarkson, Guy
- Responsibility
- Directed by Guy Clarkson
- Produced by Guy Clarkson, Bonnie Thompson
- Production agency: Shining Mountains Film Production Ltd., national Film Board of Canada
- Publisher
- Canada : Raven HD productions
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 1 digital video disc (46:47) : 1 sd., col. with b&w sequences
- Series
- Shining mountains
- Notes
- Pertains to recreational users and developers and their impact on the environment: Interview with Hans Gmoser in the Bugaboos on the advent of helicopter skiing; Tony Parisi in Valemount B.C. on snowmobiling; David Schindler on detrimental effects of tourism on the water supply; Chief Sophie Pierre at St. Eugene Mission resort on the perceived "right" of users to the back country; Kevin van Tiegham and the issue of development outside National Parks boundary areas; Park Wardens Scott Ward and Ross Heatherington re: managing on the ecosystem as a whole rather than specifically in a national park; Southern Alberta Land Trust and John Russell for the Nature Conservancy and the role of ranching lands acting as a buffer vs. the fragmentation and development of ranch land for acreages such as Jim Gardner's "Heaven on earth estates"
- Accession Number
- 7738
- Call Number
- 04 Sh6 DVD v.3
- Collection
- Archives Library
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States of nature : conserving Canada's wildlife in the twentieth century
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13162
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Loo, Tina
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 04 L87s
- Author
- Loo, Tina
- Responsibility
- Tina Loo
- foreword by Graeme Wynn
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 280 p. : ill
- ISBN
- 0-7748-1290-7
- Accession Number
- 7875
- Call Number
- 04 L87s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1875 – 1885
- Material
- skin, marten; fibre, silk
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0040
- Description
- A woman’s brown marten fur stole using the pelts of two martens. The stole has a brown silk lining. The label reads: “John McKay Ltd Kingston ‘from trapper to wearer’”.
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- Title
- Stole
- Date
- 1875 – 1885
- Material
- skin, marten; fibre, silk
- Dimensions
- 22.4 x 145.0 cm
- Description
- A woman’s brown marten fur stole using the pelts of two martens. The stole has a brown silk lining. The label reads: “John McKay Ltd Kingston ‘from trapper to wearer’”.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0040
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