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Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25247
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2011
Author
Gill, Charlotte
Publisher
Vancouver : Greystone Books
Call Number
03.6 G41e
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Author
Gill, Charlotte
Responsibility
Charlotte Gill
Publisher
Vancouver : Greystone Books
Published Date
2011
Physical Description
247 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Trees
Labour
Ecology
Industry
Abstract
A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest. Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. Eating Dirt also eloquently evokes the wonder of trees, which grow from tiny seeds into one of the world's largest organisms, our slowest-growing ""renewable"" resource. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees. (From publisher's website)
Contents
The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.
Notes
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
ISBN
9781553657927
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.6 G41e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2013
Author
Lane, C. Alexia
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
03.6 L24o
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Author
Lane, C. Alexia
Responsibility
C. Alexia Lane
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2013
Physical Description
127 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Environment
Environmental conservation
Pollution
Politics
Industry
Abstract
Around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater risks in order to fuel our consumption and over-use of this planet’s natural resources. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, has emerged as a lightning rod of controversy as engaged citizens grow more and more concerned with the threats facing fresh water resources, local geology and sensitive landscapes. C. Alexia Lane’s first RMB Manifesto introduces readers to the practice of “fracking” and makes it clear that there is an urgent need for current policies to be reformed in order to alleviate ever-growing community, ecological and environmental concerns. (from publisher's website)
Contents
That was then ... -- This is now ... -- The wild wests : governance of water and energy in North America -- Environmental and health concerns -- Groundwater -- Future focus.
ISBN
9781927330807
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.6 L24o
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Films and film making - Film industry

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25774
Medium
Library - Newsfile (Subject files)
Call Number
NEWSFILE
Medium
Library - Newsfile (Subject files)
Subjects
Motion picture
Films
Film making
Alberta
Canada
Businesses
Industry
Contents
This file contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the film industry. This file includes news regarding business, finance, and legal issues in Canada from 1980 onwards.
Call Number
NEWSFILE
Collection
Archives Library
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Adventures in small tourism : studies and stories

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
02 Sch2a
Responsibility
Edited and with introduction by Kathleen Scherf
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
ix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Tourism
Adventure
Industry
Abstract
The double blow of overtourism and COVID has shaken the travel industry and forced a reconsideration of what tourism is, and can be. This volume offers a vision of regenerative tourism beneficial to travelers and locals alike. Adventures in Small Tourism presents academic studies and personal stories about small tourism. While small tourism is not new, it has become increasingly important as the widespread negative effects of overtourism have become increasingly apparent, with cities like Amsterdam and Barcelona experiencing barriocide, the death of neighbourhoods, as they host overwhelming numbers of visitors. Small tourism, especially creative tourism, not only reduces the actual and potential negative impact of guests on local culture but actively seeks to strengthen and revive local communities by weaving together the experiences of guest and host. Participatory, respectful, and celebratory methods and manners of tourism, rooted in community and cultural networks, has the potential to strengthen cultural bonds, support economic development, and increase sustainability. Focusing on the provision of small-scale creative tourism experiences, Adventures in Small Tourism explores possibilities for local empowerment through community-based tourism. With stories and studies from Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Japan, Australia, and beyond, this collection tells stories of visitors and residents coming together to co-create place in walks and workshops, gastronomy and art, festivals, markets, and more. This is a book that dares to ask what the future can be. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
The development of inclusive small rural destinations for gay tourists in Canada / Spencer J. Toth, Josie V. Vayro, and Courtney W. Mason -- Rajzefiber: a community hub for small tourism in the small City of Maribor, Slovenia / Katja Beck Kos, Mateja Meh, and Vid Kmetic -- Sustaining Castello Sonnino: small tourism in a tuscan village / John S. Hull, Donna Senese, and Darcen Esau -- Revealing the restorers: small tourism in restored lands of the Noongar traditional area of the Fitz-Stirling in Southwestern Australia -- Moira A. L. Maley, Sylvia M. Leighton, Alison Lullfitz, Johannes E. Wajon, M. Jane Thompson, Carol Pettersen, Mohammadreza Gohari, and Keith Bradby -- The role of cultural associations in the promotion of small tourism and social inclusion in the neighbourhood of Bonfim, Oporto: the case of Casa Bo / Andre Luis Quintino Principe -- Small tourism in a big city: the story of Bogota / Diana Guerra Amaya and Diana Marcela Zuluaga Guerra -- Cultural festivals in small villages: creativity and the case of the Devil's Nest Festival in Hungary / Emese Panyik and Attila Komlós -- Artistic micro-adventures in small places / Donald Lawrence -- The power of small: creative in-migrant micro entrepreneurs in peripheral Japanese islands during COVID-19 / Meng Qu and Simona Zollet -- Small tourism and ecotourism: emerging micro-trends / Ian Yeoman and Una McMahon-Beattie.
ISBN
9781773854762
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
02 Sch2a
Collection
Archives Library
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Smith, Will
Publisher
[Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
Call Number
08.5 Sm5d
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Author
Smith, Will
Responsibility
Will Smith
Publisher
[Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
[248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Restaurants
Travel
Canada
Industry
History
History-Canada
Hotels
Abstract
Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
Chapter 2 - Research sources
Chapter 3 - Railway
Chapter 4 - Steamships
Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
Chapter 6 - Airline
Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
Chapter 12 - Market value
Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
ISBN
9781999382100
Accession Number
2019.27
Call Number
08.5 Sm5d
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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Images and enterprise ; technology and the American photographic industry, 1839 to 1925

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20255
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
c1975
Author
Jenkins, Reese V.
Publisher
Baltimore : The John Hopkins University Press
Call Number
HD9999 P5 J4
Author
Jenkins, Reese V.
Responsibility
Reese V. Jenkins
Publisher
Baltimore : The John Hopkins University Press
Published Date
c1975
Physical Description
xvi, 371p. : ill. tables
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photographic industry - U.S.
Notes
Bibliography p.353-357
Includes index
ISBN
0-8018-1588-6
Accession Number
13,500
Call Number
HD9999 P5 J4
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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The primary structures of fabrics : an illustrated classification

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21014
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
c1966
Author
Emery, Irene
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : The Textile Museum
Call Number
NK8804 E5
Author
Emery, Irene
Responsibility
by Irene Emery
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : The Textile Museum
Published Date
c1966
Physical Description
xxvi, 339p. : ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Textile industry and fabrics
Notes
Bibliography p.260-306
Accession Number
325
Call Number
NK8804 E5
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
(n.d.)
Author
Barbeau, Marius
Publisher
(Ottawa) : National Museum of Canada
Call Number
TS1490 B3
Author
Barbeau, Marius
Publisher
(Ottawa) : National Museum of Canada
Published Date
(n.d.)
Physical Description
51p. : illus. plates, diagr.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
National Museum of Canada. Bulletin 93 ; Anthropological Series
Subjects
Weaving
Indians of North America - Textile industry and fabrics
Sashes (costumes)
Accession Number
838
Call Number
TS1490 B3
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13737
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2003
Author
Pauli, Lori
Haworth-Booth, Mark
Baker, Kenneth
Torosian, Michael
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
Edition
Fifth printing 2006
Call Number
06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
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Author
Pauli, Lori
Haworth-Booth, Mark
Baker, Kenneth
Torosian, Michael
Responsibility
Lori Pauli
Mark Haworth-Booth
Kenneth Baker
Michael Torosian
Edition
Fifth printing 2006
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
Published Date
2003
Physical Description
160 p. : col. ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Environment
Exhibition catalogue
Industry
Mining
Photographers
Photography
Pollution
Abstract
"....documenting the effect of industrialization on the environment, Burtynsky provokes his viewers to contemplate the world he shoots. Published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of Burtynsky's work, this book requires more than a quick flip through the pages. At first one is dazzled by the color and apparent fluidity in the landscapes that he captures, but on deeper examination one begins to realize that these are quarry mines, oil refining factories, and recycling centers. Not your typical coffee-table book, this comes with a social and environmental message that should not be ignored. Essays by three curator/critics and an interview with the artist complement the 64 large-scale color images. Recommended for academic libraries and large art photo collections." – Sheila Devaney, University of Georgia (from Edward Burtynsky website)
Contents
Message from the sponsor
Foreward
Author's acknowledgements
Seeing the big picture - Lori Pauli
Edward Burtynsky : traditions and affinities - Mark Haworth-Booth
Form versus porten t: Edward Burtynsky's endangered landscapes - Kenneth Baker
The essential element : an interview with Edward Burtynsky - Michael Torosian
Plates
List of works
Chronology
Selected exhibitions
Public collections
Selected bibliography
Notes
Published as a companion to exhibition of National Gallery of Canada in 2003
With essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview by Michael Torosian
ISBN
9780300099430
Accession Number
50500
2021.08
Call Number
06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Book on artist's website
Websites
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Edward Burtynsky manufactured landscapes : a film by Jennifer Baichwal [DVD]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13741
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2006
Publisher
National Film Board
Call Number
06.4 B95mb DVD
Responsibility
documentary by director Jennifer Baichwal
Publisher
National Film Board
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
1 digital video disc (1:30:00) : 1 sd., col.
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Environment
Industry
Mining
Notes
Genie award for Best Documentary, 2007. Documentary follows Burtynsky to China as he captures the effect of the country's industrial revolution. NFB: 153E9906 443
Accession Number
50500
Call Number
06.4 B95mb DVD
Collection
Archives Library
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