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Exhibit celebrates role of winter

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue9864
Medium
Library - Periodical
Call Number
P
Physical Description
p.14
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Olympic games
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Notes
In Mountain Guide, souvenir edition, 1987
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26244
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
Call Number
08.1 Ab3n
Responsibility
Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
Publisher
Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
239 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History-Canada
Sport
Curling
Olympic games
Alpinism
Fishing
Rodeos
Abstract
In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
ISBN
9781771993777
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.1 Ab3n
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
1985
1986
Publisher
Calgary Herald
Call Number
ARC-P General oversize
Publisher
Calgary Herald
Published Date
1985
1986
Medium
Library - Periodical
Series
Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1985
Volume 1, Number 2 - Novemeber 1985
Volume 1, Number 3 - April 1986
Subjects
Winter Sports
Newspapers
Olympic games
Abstract
A supplement to the Calgary Herald newspaper on February 22, 1985, November 23, 1985; March 29, 1986 pertaining to the 1988 Winter Olympics to be in held in Calgary, Alberta
Call Number
ARC-P General oversize
Collection
Archives Library
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Revelstoke Ski Club

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12718
Medium
Library - Periodical
Call Number
P
Physical Description
p.79
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Banff Ski Club
Olympic games
Ski jumping
Notes
In Canadian Ski Annual, 1932
Accession Number
37500
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Ecological and earth sciences in mountain areas

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13148
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Publisher
Banff : Banff Centre
Call Number
04 M86b 2002
Responsibility
edited by Leslie Taylor, Kathy Martin, David Hik and Anne Ryall
Publisher
Banff : Banff Centre
Published Date
2002
Physical Description
296 p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Mountain communities conference series
Subjects
Birds
Climatology
Floods
Olympic games
Pollution
Notes
Proceedings of conference held at The Banff Centre, September 6-10, 2002
Includes bibliographic references and index
Accession Number
7645
Call Number
04 M86b 2002
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Call Number
02.8 M22g Pam
Physical Description
p.28-39 : ill., ports
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Olympic games
Notes
In Maclean's, vol.100, no.12, March 23, 1987
Call Number
02.8 M22g Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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Mount Allan master plan : summary information document : June 1, 1984

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11181
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1984
Author
Alberta Olympic Secretariat
Publisher
[Government of Alberta]
Call Number
01.5 Al1ma June 1984 oversize
Author
Alberta Olympic Secretariat
Publisher
[Government of Alberta]
Published Date
1984
Physical Description
41 p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Environment
Geology
Kananaskis Country
Olympic games
Wildlife
Notes
prepared for Alberta Tourism and Small Business
Accession Number
5305
Call Number
01.5 Al1ma June 1984 oversize
Collection
Archives Library
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Iconografie delle montagne : carta da collezione

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14084
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2010
Author
Audisio, Aldo
Publisher
Scarmagno (Torino) : Priuli & Verlucca
Call Number
06 Au2i
Author
Audisio, Aldo
Responsibility
a cura di Aldo Audisio
Publisher
Scarmagno (Torino) : Priuli & Verlucca
Published Date
2010
Physical Description
391 p. : chiefly col. ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Babelis turris
Subjects
Art
Olympic games
Notes
At head of title: Raccolte di documentazione del Museo nazionale della montagna.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and indexes.
Text in Italian and English.
This third book in the series is devoted to tourist and commercial posters, but also to papers of various types. Images of less important collcting have given rise to an iconography that is often humble and popular in spirit: subjects that have successfully established a new image of the mountains. (from back cover)
ISBN
9788880684886
Accession Number
8216
Call Number
06 Au2i
Collection
Archives Library
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The torch of controversy

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12982
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Bobrovitz, Gary
Call Number
P
Author
Bobrovitz, Gary
Physical Description
p.49-54 : ill
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Olympic games
Notes
In Banff Life, Winter 1983-84. Note: page 6 features a Sunshine Village advertisement with Karen Percy
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Valley athletes embrace Olympic dream

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14306
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Brisbane, Justin
Call Number
P - General
Author
Brisbane, Justin
Responsibility
by Justin Brisbane
Physical Description
p.25-27 : ill
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Olympic games
Notes
In Rocky Mountain Outlook: Decade; 2011
A look at all the Olympic athletes that have come out of the valley in various sports including: Thomas Grandi, Sara Renner, Mike Robertson, Robin McKeever, Milaine Theriault, Emily Brydon, Robin Clegg, Alison Forsyth, and Brian McKeever
Call Number
P - General
Collection
Archives Library
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