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- Author
- Nikiforuk, Andrew
- Physical Description
- p.34-38, 66-70 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In Explore, iss. 129 (October 2004)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Geology and Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11460
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1970
- Author
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
- Edition
- Adapted from "Prospecting in Canada, 4th ed."
- Call Number
- 03.1 G29g Pam
- Author
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Edition
- Adapted from "Prospecting in Canada, 4th ed."
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
- Published Date
- 1970
- Physical Description
- 32 p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Mineral resources
- Accession Number
- 7131
- Call Number
- 03.1 G29g Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Glacier surveys by district personnel of the Water Survey of Canada. 1, The Victoria glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24962
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1971
- Author
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment
- Call Number
- 03.4 O1g
- Author
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.
- Responsibility
- C. Simon L. Ommanney
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment
- Published Date
- 1971
- Physical Description
- v, 18 pages : illustrations, maps
- Series
- Glacier Inventory Note No. 6
- Abstract
- Pertains to the
- Contents
- Introduction
- Description
- Surveyors
- Snout Activity
- Surface Movement
- Discharge
- Diagrams
- Photographs
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Errata slip inserted
- Accession Number
- 2019.96
- Call Number
- 03.4 O1g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Heart waters : sources of the Bow River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25255
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Van Tighem, Kevin
- Van Tighem, Brian
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 03.5 V26h
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- Responsibility
- Kevin Van Tighem (author)
- Brian Van Tighem (photographer)
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps
- Abstract
- Water does not come from the river. It comes to the river. Heart Waters takes us to the sources of that water – and into the living beauty, human stories and future possibilities that also arise from the green uplands and valleys of Alberta’s Eastern Slopes, where the mighty Bow River is born. For more than a century the foothills and Front Range mountains of western Alberta have been recognized as being vital to the water supply for western Canada. Virtually all the water that sustains communities, ecosystems and the economy of prairie Canada comes from this narrow strip of land arrayed along the Continental Divide. For all its importance, however, water management decisions affecting this enormous region have ignored the significance of land health and focused almost exclusively on building dams. The result, as the author points out, is that the Bow River’s annual flows have decreased by more than a tenth, even as spring floods become more frequent and more destructive. The solutions to prairie Canada’s water challenges lie in healing the wounded landscapes of our headwaters. Heart Waters delves deeply into the history and ecology of a landscape whose critical value as a watershed is matched by its sheer beauty and diversity. A rich array of stunning images by Jasper-based photographer Brian Van Tighem complements the author’s well-researched explorations of the stories whispered by the living waters that drain from Banff National Park, Kananaskis Country and the famous ranchlands of the Bow River watershed. Kevin Van Tighem’s latest book is a deep exploration of place and an invitation to recognize that our water future depends upon knowing our headwaters better and caring for them more passionately — as our heart waters. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- 1. Voices in the water -- 2. River origins: Bow River -- 3. A prodigal's return: Johnson Creek -- 4. Caterpillars and cutthroats: Quirk Creek -- 5. The past and future trout: Meadow Creek -- 6. Lake of the spirits: Cascade River and Ghost River -- 7. Dammed splendor: Kananaskis River -- 8. Buck-toothed volunteers: Bateman Creek -- 9. The under-river: Middle Bow River -- 10. Water and wildness: Sheep River -- 11. Cattle in the creek: Pekisko Creek -- 12. Mountains breathing: Highwood River -- 13. Healing the headwaters -- 14. Home and heart waters -- Index.
- Notes
- Shortlisted for the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival award for Mountain & Wilderness Literature
- ISBN
- 9781771601399
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.5 V26h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Legacy in ice : three generations of mountain photography in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue368
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Vaux, Henry, Jr.
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46v
- Author
- Vaux, Henry, Jr.
- Responsibility
- Dr. Henry Vaux Jr.
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 125p : illl, ports
- Subjects
- Environment
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Notes
- Repeat photography comparing photographs taken by the Vaux family (George IX, William and Mary) in the late 19th and early 20th century to contemporary photographs by Henry Vaux Jr.
- ISBN
- 978-1-77160-060-6
- Accession Number
- P2015-01-20
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46v
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- Archives Library
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Legacy in time : three generations of mountain photography in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14441
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46l c.1
- 06 V46l c.2
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Responsibility
- Henry Vaux Jr.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 125 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Environment
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Photographers
- Photography
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Vaux family
- Notes
- Includes bibliography references
- Repeat photography of glacier formations in the mountains of Western Canada, comparing the photographs taken by Vaux family members in the late 19th and early 20th century with photographs taken by Henry Vaux Jr. of in the early 21st century
- ISBN
- 9781771600606
- Accession Number
- P2015-01-20
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- Call Number
- 06.4 V46l c.1
- 06 V46l c.2
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- Archives Library
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Meditations at 10,000 feet : a scientist in the mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5276
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Trefil, James
- Publisher
- New York : Charles Scribner
- Call Number
- 03 T71
- Author
- Trefil, James
- Responsibility
- illustrations by Judith Peatross
- Publisher
- New York : Charles Scribner
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- xiii, 236p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Continental drift
- Geophysics
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- ISBN
- 0-684-18627-6
- Accession Number
- 18500
- Call Number
- 03 T71
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- Archives Library
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Mount Snow Dome : a triple, triple divide, the Icefields Parkway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13514
- Physical Description
- p.32-33 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Youth hostels
- Notes
- In Experience the Mountain Parks, 2008/2009 (iss 3)
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- P
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Mountains as water towers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13147
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre
- Call Number
- 04 M86b November 2003
- Responsibility
- edited by Leslie Taylor and Anne Ryall
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 201 p. : ill
- Series
- Mountain communities conference series
- Banff Mountain Summit
- Notes
- Proceedings of conference held at The Banff Centre, Novermber 23-26, 2003
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- Partial contents: The effects of forest fire on water chemistry and mercury dynamics in aquatic systems in the Canadian Rockies / Erin Kelly; The effect of climate change on the Bow River / Gary Parkstrom; Impacts of climate change and variablity on freshwater ecosystems / Fred J. Wrona; The wonder of water / Robert W. Sandford
- ISBN
- 1-894773-14-4
- Accession Number
- 7645
- Call Number
- 04 M86b November 2003
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- Archives Library
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Our vanishing glaciers : the snows of yesteryear and the future climate of the mountain West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25256
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sa5o
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- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Responsibility
- Robert W. Sandford
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Water
- Watersheds
- Rivers
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Rocky Mountains
- Climate change
- Abstract
- Written by one of the most respected experts in water and water-associated climate science and featuring stunning photography collected over the past four decades, Our Vanishing Glaciers explains and illustrates why water is such a unique substance and how it makes life on this planet possible. Focusing on the Columbia Icefield, the largest and most accessible mass of ice straddling the Continental Divide in western North America, and featuring photographs, illustrations, aerial surveys and thermal imaging collected over more than 40 years of the author’s personal observations, the book reveals the stunning magnitude of glacial ice in western Canada. Citing evidence to suggest that in the Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks alone, as many as 300 glaciers may have disappeared since 1920, this large-format, fully illustrated coffee table book graphically illustrates the projected rate of glacier recession in the mountain West over the rest of this century and serves as a profound testament to the beauty and importance of western Canada’s water, ice and snow. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- 1. The wonder of water -- 2. What winter does to water -- 3. Ecology as defined by winter water -- 4. How ice fields and glaciers form -- 5. Canada's most accessible glaciers -- 6. The death of Peyto glacier : A case for more comprehensive -- 7. The Columbia ice field today -- 8. Glaciers in a changing climate -- 9. What we stand to lose -- 10. Water, climate and the National Parks ideal.
- Notes
- Winner, 2017 Lane Anderson Award for Best Canadian Science Writing
- ISBN
- 9781771602020
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sa5o
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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