topic:"Mining" found 61 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Geological survey [Atlin Mining District - British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1902

Publisher: Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa

Call Number: C7-3.8

Publisher: Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa

Published Date: 1902

Physical Description: 1 map : col

Scale: Scale: 4 miles to 1 inch; Contour interval 500 ft.

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

Subjects: Atlin Mining District - British Columbia

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: C7-3.8

Collection: Archives Library

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Canada west magazine, vol. 2, no. 2, summer 1970

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

Published Date: Summer 1970

Author: Barlee, N.L.

Publisher: Summerland, B.C. : N.L. Barlee

Call Number: 08.2 C16ca PAM

Author: Barlee, N.L.

Publisher: Summerland, B.C. : N.L. Barlee

Published Date: Summer 1970

Physical Description: 32 pages : illustrations, map

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

Series: Volume 2 Number 2

Subjects: Kaslo; Railways; Mining; Crime; First Nations

Abstract: Pertains to the Kaslo area of British Columbia, with focus on a flood in 1894, sign language used by the Salish people as observed by James A. Teit, third installment of a synopsis about Allison Pass by Susan L. Allison, gold stolen from Camp McKinney in 1896, and a spotlight on the Arlington Hotel in Slocan.

Contents: Publishers Comments General Map Historic Kaslo The Collector’s Page Indian Sign Language Allison Pass Memoirs The Lost Gold of Camp McKinney Our Vanishing Heritage

Accession Number: 3069a

Call Number: 08.2 C16ca PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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Report of the Commissioner of Dominion Parks for the year ending March 31, 1913 : Part V Annual Report 1913

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

Published Date: 1914

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Call Number: 02.4 C16i Part V 1913

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Published Date: 1914

Physical Description: 96p : ill

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

Series: Sessional papers

Subjects: Banff (townsite); Businesses; Government; Hot springs; Indigenous; Mining; National parks; Roads; Surveys; Tourism; Utilities

Contents: Includes extract from address delivered at Ottawa, March 12, 1913 by the Duke of Connaught

Notes: Issued as a separate publication, but is also included in full Department of Interior Report, Volume 1 - 02.4 C16i 1913 volume 1

Accession Number: 7201

Call Number: 02.4 C16i Part V 1913

Collection: Archives Library

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Jasper wild

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Mercer, George

Publisher: [North Saanich, British Columbia] : [George Mercer]

Call Number: 05.4 M46j

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Author: Mercer, George

Responsibility: George Mercer

Publisher: [North Saanich, British Columbia] : [George Mercer]

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 321 pages

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

Subjects: Jasper; Jasper National Park; Fiction; Parks Canada; Alberta; Mining

Abstract: Explore the first fiction series about Canada's National Parks. Jasper Wild is the third story in the Dyed in the Green mystery series about the challenges facing our contry's special places, and the people working tirelessly to protect these national treasures. After helping scuttle plans to slaughter Wood Buffalo National Park's entire bison population, Ben Matthews and Kate Jones end up in Jasper. Distracted by rumours of a new mine on the park's boundary, Ben and Kate help uncover a plot to build a backcountry lodge in Jasper's wilderness, leaving no stone unturned to stop an international mining giant who conspires with government politicians and Parks management to carve off a piece of the park for himself. (From McNally Robinson website)

Notes: Book three in the Dyed in the green series

ISBN: 9780987975447

Call Number: 05.4 M46j

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Author's website

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Organizing nature : turning Canada's ecosystems into resources

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

Published Date: 2023

Author: Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 04 B53o

Author: Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xviii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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

Subjects: Environment; Environmental conservation; Environmentalism; Ecology; Mining; Oil; Fishing

Abstract: Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 From How to Why -- 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 1.3 Politics beyond Policy -- 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels -- 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes -- 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governments -- 2.3 Communities -- 2.4 Built Environments -- 2.5 Culture and Ideas -- 2.6 Economies -- 2.7 Bodies and Identities -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. From Fish to Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia -- 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. From Forests to Timber -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick -- 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods -- 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. From Carbon to Energy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia -- 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta -- 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking -- 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon -- 5.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. From H2O to Water -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Diversions and Damming -- 6.2.1 Diversion -- 6.2.2 Damming -- 6.3 Drinking Water -- 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 -- 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 -- 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek-Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962-? -- 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary -- 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. From Land to Property -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Soil -- 7.3 Symbol -- 7.4 Space -- 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. From Bodies to Life -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals -- 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species -- 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource -- 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife -- 8.3 Human Resources -- 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma -- 8.3.2 Surrogacy -- 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers -- 9.1 Channels in Action -- 9.2 Common Themes -- 9.2.1 Commodification -- 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession -- 9.2.3 Artificial Nature-Society Binary -- 9.3 Why Does 'Resource Thinking' Matter? -- 9.3.1 Winning and Losing -- 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy?