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CN: the Canadian National Railway system
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24561
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- [197-?]
- Publisher
- [Montreal : C.N.R.]
- Call Number
- C11-3.12a
- Publisher
- [Montreal : C.N.R.]
- Published Date
- [197-?]
- Scale
- 5/8 inch = 100 miles
- Subjects
- Canadian National Railways
- Notes
- Info file transfer
- Accession Number
- SL 94C30QNB
- Call Number
- C11-3.12a
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- Archives Library
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The Canadian Historical Review
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25083
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- June 1970
- Author
- Brown, R, Craig (editor)
- Cross, Michael (associate editor)
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 R26ca
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- Responsibility
- Craig R Brown (editor)
- Michael Cross (associated editor)
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- June 1970
- Physical Description
- 246 pages
- Series
- Volume LI No 2
- Subjects
- Railroads - Alberta
- Railway routes
- Railways
- History
- History of Alberta
- Canadian Northern Railway
- Contents
- Sitting Bull : Indian WIthout a Country Arthur Puttee and the Liberal Party : 1899 - 1904 The Winnipeg General Strike, Collective Bargaining, and the One Big Union Issue The Canadian Northern Railway : The West’s Own Product Contributors Reviews Recent publications relating to Canada Books received Notes and comments
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.5 R26ca
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Canadian Historical Review website via University of Toronto Press
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Canada west magazine, vol. 2, no. 2, summer 1970
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25102
- 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
- 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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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25243
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Edition
- First, revised
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Responsibility
- Cecil Foster
- Edition
- First, revised
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 296 pages
- Abstract
- Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781771962612
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25244
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M42n
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- Author
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
- Responsibility
- Sarah-Jane Mathieu
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Physical Description
- xv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs
- Abstract
- North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.
- ISBN
- 9780807871669
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 M42n
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25285
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
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- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Responsibility
- Ron Brown
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 156 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Railways
- History
- History of Alberta
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.
- ISBN
- 9781459733596
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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When trains rules the Kootenays : a short history of railways in Southeastern British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25533
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12w
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 240 pages : illustrations
- Series
- When Trains Ruled
- Subjects
- Travel
- Transportation
- Railways
- Railway routes
- History
- Abstract
- When Trains Ruled the Kootenays is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from the mines, move people, and service the communities during the early years of the 20th century in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Terry Gainer's latest book documents sixty years of change in the railway industry of British Columbia. The evolving transformations of life and landscape noted in the text and photos also reflect a period of rapid change in Canada. Threaded through the narrative are anecdotes from Kootenay pioneers recounting their experiences and the means of transportation of the times. -- Publisher's website
- Contents
- Part I : Rails to the Kootenays: The Kootenays ; The Antagonists ; The Battle Begins : Rails to the West Kootenays ; The Battle Moves East : Rails to the Crowsnest Pass ; Ship Ahoy! The Clash on Kootenay Lake ; The Battle Moves West : Peace at Last? ; Part II : The Trains to Gold and Silver: Nelson Becomes the Hub ; The Trains of the Kootenays ; A Day at the Station ; Trains to Rossland and Trail ; Trains to Castlegar ; Arrowhead and Nakusp : The North Kootenay Gateway ; The Travellers of Yesterday ; Special Trains and Excursions ; Not-So-Special Trains : Canada's Shame, Japanese Canadian Internment ; Into the 20th Century ; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Epilogue - The End of a Dream
- ISBN
- 9781771604017
- Accession Number
- 2022.08
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12w
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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Alberta labour : a heritage untold
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5869
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Caragata, Warren
- Publisher
- Toronto : James Lorimer
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1cl
- Author
- Caragata, Warren
- Publisher
- Toronto : James Lorimer
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- x, 162p. : ill., ports., facsim
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 0-88862-264-3
- Accession Number
- 13500
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1cl
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In the sea of sterile mountains : the Chinese in British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5923
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1974
- Author
- Morton, James
- Publisher
- Vancouver : J.J. Douglas
- Call Number
- 08.2 B77m
- Author
- Morton, James
- Publisher
- Vancouver : J.J. Douglas
- Published Date
- 1974
- Physical Description
- xiii, 280p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Immigration
- Railways
- Accession Number
- 7500
- Call Number
- 08.2 B77m
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- Archives Library
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The Scotsman in Canada : volume II : Western Canada, including Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and portions of old Ruperts Land and the Indian territories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5936
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Author
- Bryce, George
- Publisher
- Toronto : Musson
- Call Number
- 08.2 B84
- Author
- Bryce, George
- Publisher
- Toronto : Musson
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 439p
- Subjects
- Fur trade
- McDougall family
- Railways
- Notes
- Index
- Accession Number
- 400 (?)
- Call Number
- 08.2 B84
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- Archives Library
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