topic:"Luxton, Norman" found 14 records - Research Collections

Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: MacFarlane, John; Salmon, Lynn J.

Publisher: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing

Call Number: 02.1 M11a

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Author: MacFarlane, John; Salmon, Lynn J.

Responsibility: John M, MacFarlane; Lynn J. Salmon

Publisher: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 268 p.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Luxton, Norman; Voss, John Claus; Canoeing; Sailing

Abstract: "For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage--and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment--is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: John Claus Voss -- Treasure Hunting in the Xora -- Norman Kenny Luxton -- “Out-Slocuming” Joshua Slocum -- Preparing to Voyage -- Across the Pacific -- Penrhyn Island and Beyond -- The Mate Walter Louis Begent -- Australia -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Brazil and up the Atlantic to England -- Repatriation to Victoria -- The Sea Queen, the Tilikum II and Voss’s Last Years.

Notes: Contains materials from the Luxton family fonds from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library; Signed by John MacFarlane

ISBN: 9781550178791

Accession Number: 2019.106

Call Number: 02.1 M11a

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Link to publication on publisher's website

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Away to the Canadian Rockies and British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1938

Author: Brinley, Gordon

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart

Call Number: 02.6 B77 c.1; 02.6 B77 c.2

Author: Brinley, Gordon

Responsibility: illustrated by D. Putnam Brinley

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart

Published Date: 1938

Physical Description: X, 301 P. Illus., Map (On Lining Papers)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rungius, Carl; Moore, Philip; Luxton, Norman; McLean, George; Brewster family; Whyte, Dorothy V; Gibbon, John Murray

Accession Number: 323; 400; 1482 - weeded 2020-12-08; 7864 - weeded 2020-12-08; 2019.71 - weeded 2020-12-08

Call Number: 02.6 B77 c.1; 02.6 B77 c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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The Calgary Herald's tales of the old town

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1966

Author: McNeill, Leishman

Publisher: Calgary: Calgary Herald

Edition: [Rev. ed.]

Call Number: 08.2 C12mc 1966

Author: McNeill, Leishman

Edition: [Rev. ed.]

Publisher: Calgary: Calgary Herald

Published Date: 1966

Physical Description: 102p. : ill., ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Brett, Robert George; Brewster family; Luxton, Norman

Notes: First published as a series of articles in the Calgary Herald during Calgary's 75th anniversary celebrations, 1950. Reprinted in book form 1951 under title: Tales of the old town.

Accession Number: 1743

Call Number: 08.2 C12mc 1966

Collection: Archives Library

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Curious Canadians

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2002

Author: Liss, Nancy

Publisher: Markham (Ontario) : Fitzhenry & Whitside

Call Number: 08.1 L69c

Author: Liss, Nancy

Responsibility: Nancy Liss and Ted Liss

Publisher: Markham (Ontario) : Fitzhenry & Whitside

Published Date: 2002

Physical Description: 252p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Biography; Belaney, Archibald Stansfield; Lost Lemon Mine; Luxton, Norman; Peyto, Bill

Notes: Incudes bibliography and index

Accession Number: 7543

Call Number: 08.1 L69c

Collection: Archives Library

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Eyewitness to history : William Bleasdell Cameron, frontier journalist

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1985

Author: Cameron, William Bleasdell

Publisher: Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books

Call Number: 08.2 C14e

Author: Cameron, William Bleasdell

Responsibility: edited by R.H. Macdonald

Publisher: Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books

Published Date: 1985

Physical Description: xxvi, 180p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Luxton, Norman

Notes: Index

ISBN: 0-88833-141-X

Call Number: 08.2 C14e

Collection: Archives Library

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Immaculate trophies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Simpson, Mark

Call Number: 04 Si5i Pam

Author: Simpson, Mark

Physical Description: p.77-106 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Hunting; Hornaday, William Temple; Luxton, Norman; Sanson, Norman Bethune; Sign of the Goat Curio Shop

Notes: Photocopy. In Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 68 (Summer 1999). Article pertains to the cultural and racial work of taxidermy of the early 1900s and includes an analysis of Department of Interior publication "A sprig of mountain heather" and early 20th century collecting practices for science and musuems