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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
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- Archives Library
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- Article pertaining to book
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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
- 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
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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When trains ruled the rockies: my life at the Banff railway station
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19859
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Call Number
- 08.5 G11w
- 08.5 G22w copy 2 (Reference)
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- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Responsibility
- Terry Gainer
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 272 pg
- Abstract
- When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962.Drawn from Terry Gainer’s personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of railway travel in the mountains of western Canada.Complete with a selection of archival photographs, When Trains Ruled the Rockies documents life at the Banff Railway Station and traces the huge role the station played in the local community. The author’s own story of growing up at the station winds a thread through the narrative and brings into clear focus Terry’s lifelong passion for passenger trains, at one time the most dominant means of transportation for Canadians but sadly an experience that is now fading into history.
- Contents
- Part I - The golden years: when trains ruled the rockies
- Part II - Special trains
- Part III - In the trains station's backyard
- Part IV - The glory years 1955 - 1962: I've been working on the railroad
- Part V - An ending or a beginning?
- ISBN
- 9781771603010
- Accession Number
- 2019.69
- Call Number
- 08.5 G11w
- 08.5 G22w copy 2 (Reference)
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. publishing company where the abstract for the book has been drawn from.
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A frontier guide to Calgary - Banff Highway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19861
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Canadian National Railway
- Publisher
- [Montreal] : C.N.R.
- Call Number
- 02.6 R13j Pam
- Author
- Canadian National Railway
- Responsibility
- Canadian National Railway
- Publisher
- [Montreal] : C.N.R.
- Physical Description
- 48 pg.
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of Jasper National Park. The Canadian National Railways have compiled a comprehensive pamphlet containing an extensive list of tourist information for those visiting Jasper National Park. Includes detailed information concerning cost, location, required time and other essentials effecting various tourist opportunities available in Jasper.
- Contents
- Accomodation in Jasper National Park
- All-Expense package tours
- Big game and camera hunting
- Canadian National equipment
- Canadian national representatives
- Columbia icefield
- Fishing
- Golfing
- Hiking trips
- Historical and physical features
- Jasper park lodge
- Maligne Lake (chalets, accomodation, rates, transportation, etc.)
- Maligne River Angler's club
- Maps - Canadian National System
- Miette Hot Springs
- Motoring
- Mount Robson park
- Trail riding and camping trips
- What to wear
- Winter sports
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 02.6 R13j Pam
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Railways in southern Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20076
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Bowman, R.F.P.
- Publisher
- Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
- Call Number
- 08.2 B67r Pam
- Author
- Bowman, R.F.P.
- Responsibility
- R.F.P. Bowman
- Publisher
- Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 40 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the southern Alberta railways, written as a labor of love from Lethbridge local, R.F.P. Bowman. The intent of the publication was to record the history of the early local railway, in an effort to preserve the history before it was to be forgotten. Author R.F.P. Bowman, worked to commemorate the events that were able to elevate the area of Lethbridge, Alberta from its infancy into a state of maturity.
- Contents
- Chapter I: The beginnings (pg. 7)
- Chapter II: The Galts (pg. 9)
- Chapter III: Enter Canadian Pacific (pg. 13)
- Chapter IV: The Canadian Pacific extends (pg. 24)
- Chapter V: Other efforts (pg. 27)
- Chapter VI: Passenger trains in the past tense (pg. 31)
- Chapter VII: Freight - the railway's main diet (pg. 34)
- Chapter VIII: The Lethbridge division (pg. 38)
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.2 B67r Pam
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The CP Rail high level bridge at Lethbridge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20115
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Johnston, Alex
- Publisher
- Lethbridge, Alberta : Whoop-up Country Chapter Historical Society of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.5 J62t Pam
- Author
- Johnston, Alex
- Responsibility
- Alex Johnston
- Publisher
- Lethbridge, Alberta : Whoop-up Country Chapter Historical Society of Alberta
- Published Date
- 1977
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and commemoration of Lethbridge’s railway system. The intent behind the publication was to commemorate the various men who had devoted their labor to the railway system in Lethbridge since 1885. The publication payed a particular homage to Lethbridge old-timer, Andrew Joseph Staysko. Topics explored pertain to the design, construction process, steelwork and personnel of those involved in the construction of the Lethbridge railway system.
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 08.5 J62t Pam
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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
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- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Breaking trail : pioneer Alberta women on skis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12795
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Harper, Janis Lawrence
- Call Number
- 01.5 H25a Pam
- Author
- Harper, Janis Lawrence
- Physical Description
- p.21-27 : ill
- Subjects
- Brewster, Fred
- Canadian National Railways
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Equipment
- Films
- Ski racing
- Notes
- In Alberta nordic skier, 1995/96 annual. Women skiers include: Ila LaCasse, Janet (Atkin) Crosby, Gladys Crosby, Kay Baxter, Doris Kensit, Nora Findlay, Phyllis Webb-Jeffery
- Also includes descriptions of cross country ski trails and poem "Unnamed lament" by Frank Darlow
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- 01.5 H25a Pam
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Alberta centennial 1905-2005
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12810
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Government of Alberta; Sun Media corporation
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1c Pam oversize
- Responsibility
- with a message from the Premier of Alberta, Ralph Klein
- Publisher
- Government of Alberta; Sun Media corporation
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 68p. : ill
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Bedaux Expedition
- Crime
- Film making
- Immigration
- Indians
- Medicine
- Meteorology
- Place names
- Politics
- Railways
- Sports
- Notes
- Magazine supplement to Banff Crag and Canyon newspaper with articles pertaining to the history of Alberta
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- 08.2 Al1c Pam oversize
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Hotels : the history of Alberta's hospitality
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13364
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Hotel Association
- Call Number
- 08.2 Sa5h
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Hotel Association
- Published Date
- 1995
- Subjects
- Alberta Liquor Control Board
- Ethnic groups
- Government
- Prohibition
- Railways
- Taverns
- World War I
- World War II
- Notes
- 75th anniversary publication for Alberta Hotel Association. Includes chapter on George Barr of the King Edward Hotel in Banff, the Andrew family of the Astoria Hotel in Jasper
- Call Number
- 08.2 Sa5h
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