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Wilderness and waterpower : how Banff National Park became and hydroelectric storage reservoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19798
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Armstrong, Christopher and H.V. Nelles
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 03.5 Ar1w
- Responsibility
- Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- xviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to hydropower development in Banff National Park and the altering of the Bow River to accommodate the production of electricity for Southern Alberta.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Water falls
- Power strugge
- Doubling down
- Downstream benefits
- Selling scenery
- Political logic
- Minnewanka redux
- War measures
- Public power
- Reversing rivers
- Leaving the bow
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
- ISBN
- 978-1-55238-634-7
- Accession Number
- p2019-19
- Call Number
- 03.5 Ar1w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Shining mountains : ancient ones, episode 1 [DVD video]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13349
- 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.1
- 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 (48:52) : 1 sd., col. with b&w sequences
- Series
- Shining mountains
- Notes
- Pertains to: climate change, archeological sites including Indian Pit Houses at the Banff Springs Hotel golf course, Indian tools uncovered at Ya Ha Tinda Ranch,pictographs at Grotto Canyon, and sacred Indian medicine and rites
- Accession Number
- 7738
- Call Number
- 04 Sh6 DVD v.1
- 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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