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Canadian National in the West : volume 1
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6314
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Love, J.A. (Al)
- Publisher
- Calgary : British Railway Modellers of North America
- Call Number
- 08.5 L94 v.1
- Author
- Love, J.A. (Al)
- Publisher
- Calgary : British Railway Modellers of North America
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 26p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Railway stations
- Rolling stock
- ISBN
- 0-9690798-5-0
- Accession Number
- 22000
- Call Number
- 08.5 L94 v.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian National's western depots
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6238
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Bohi, Charles W
- Publisher
- Toronto : Railfare
- Call Number
- 08.5 B63
- Author
- Bohi, Charles W
- Publisher
- Toronto : Railfare
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 128p. : ill., plans
- Subjects
- Railway stations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 11500
- Call Number
- 08.5 B63
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific in the Rockies : volume two
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20121
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Bain, D.M.
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta., Canada : Calgary Group of The British Railway Modellers of North America
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Call Number
- 08.5 B16ca Pam
- Author
- Bain, D.M.
- Responsibility
- D.M. Bain
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta., Canada : Calgary Group of The British Railway Modellers of North America
- Published Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 26 pages
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Railway stations
- Abstract
- Pertains to a pictorial work that aimed to capture the mountain section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The author, Donald Bain, argued that the mountain section of the Canadian Pacific Railway, while the most interesting, had been neglected the most. The photographs in the publication had been captured by Nicholas Morant, and were compiled in the hopes of appealing to railway enthusiasts.
- ISBN
- 0969079818
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.5 B16ca Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific in the Selkirks : 100 years in the Rogers Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6347
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1985
- Author
- Booth, Jan
- Publisher
- Calgary : British Railway Modellers of North America
- Call Number
- 08.5 R63b v.1 c.1
- Author
- Booth, Jan
- Publisher
- Calgary : British Railway Modellers of North America
- Published Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 50p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Landslides
- Railway stations
- Rolling stock
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 5134
- 7899 reference copy
- Call Number
- 08.5 R63b v.1 c.1
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
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- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Our wild westland : points on the Pacific province
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12923
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1889
- Author
- Spragge, Arthur (Mrs.)
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Spragge, Arthur (Mrs.)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- p.87,93 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In The Dominion Illustrated [newspaper], vol.3, no.58 (August 10, 1889)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Rails in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6293
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Hungry Wolf, Adolf
- Publisher
- Invermere : Good Medicine Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 H89
- Author
- Hungry Wolf, Adolf
- Publisher
- Invermere : Good Medicine Books
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 368p. : ill., maps, facsim
- Subjects
- Railway stations
- Rolling stock
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 3192
- Call Number
- 08.5 H89
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The railway : patron of the arts in Canada [catalogue of an exhibition]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8136
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1976
- Author
- Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Call Number
- 08.5 W73 Pam
- Author
- Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Responsibility
- Patricia A. Bovey, Associate Curator
- Published Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 20p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 3069A - copy 2
- Call Number
- 08.5 W73 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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They came west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6076
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Brewster, Forrest Oliver (Pat)
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Crag & Canyon
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22bt c.1
- 08.3 B22bt c.2
- 08.3 B22bt c.3
- 08.3 B22bt c.4
- Responsibility
- editing and design: Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Crag & Canyon
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 62p. : ill., port., facsim
- Notes
- Cover title: They came west : Pat's tales of the early days
- Contents: When I was five - includes Bill Brewster and brother John Brewster in 1886, Ed Loder lime kiln, story of Pat Brewster haircut with an axe;t Brewster as a five year old (p.11-16); Ed Loder (p.12); Howard Whitmere of Brewster Dairy (p.19-21); Mrs. Irving and daughter, the spiritualists (p.19-20); Princess Patricia and the Duke of Connaught visit of 1914 (p.21-22); Frank Oliver , newspaperman (p.21-27); ; stories of George Brewster (p.28-47) inclulding George Brewster and Tom Wilson at Silver City and social scene at the Montreal Hotel and the courting of David McDougall's daughter and niece, and stories of George in Finlay River in the Peace River area and prospecting in the Nordegg and Ghost Lake areas and resulting tensions with indians (p. 41-45) Kid Price, prospector (p.39-40); North-west Mounted Police (p.47-51): Fred Bagley, Sergeant Browning, Sergeant Taylor, Sergeant Casey Oliver, Inspector Harper, Michael Denis "Paddy" Ryan, Constable Stanley, Frank Bouchet (who was admitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame); locations of barracks (p.50-52); hockey (p.53-55) including Fred Pratt and photograph of the Banff Sulphur Rocks hockey team; Philip Moore, Powderface and the King of Siam (p.56-57); Cobb family (p.59); history of Banff's Lynx Street (p.61)
- Accession Number
- 3201
- 5533
- 7989
- 2014.8385
- 2019.68
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22bt c.1
- 08.3 B22bt c.2
- 08.3 B22bt c.3
- 08.3 B22bt c.4
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- Archives Library
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Tied to the rails : Jasper's railway connection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19804
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Covey, Bob
- Publisher
- Jasper, Alberta : Jasper Yellowhead Museum & Archives
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11t copy 1
- 08.5 C11t copy 2
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- Author
- Covey, Bob
- Responsibility
- Bob Covey
- Publisher
- Jasper, Alberta : Jasper Yellowhead Museum & Archives
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 99 pages : illustrated with photographs ; 19 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the railway as it relates to Jasper National Park.
- Contents
- Author's note
- Acknowledgements
- Yellowhead Pass National Historic Site
- Preface
- Mountain torrents
- Ahead of its time
- Stake out
- Following the fur trade
- Fly camps and locations scouts
- "An exceptional opportunity which no wise man will overlook"
- Ahead of the track : wagon trails and tote roads
- Life on the line : a hard advance
- Whisky skirts
- Frozen freighting
- Camplife
- Station to station
- GTP & CNoR station sites and flag stops
- A isolated national park
- Grand schemes and dissolved dreams
- A frame of a town
- Territorial tendancies
- Larger forces at work
- Nationalization
- Canvas tents and increased rents
- Luxury in the wilderness
- Resident relocation, station configuration
- Smooth as silk
- Jasper royaly - teh Beanerie Queens
- Four wheeled future
- Downsizing
- A lineage of commitment
- The Canoe River train wreck
- Jasper railway timeline
- Bibliography
- Index
- Image reproduction information
- ISBN
- 978-1-77084-379-0
- Accession Number
- P2019-24
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11t copy 1
- 08.5 C11t copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Article pertaining to book
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