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Exploring the southern Selkirks: including the Valhallas and Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25090
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Carter, John
- Leighton, Doug
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre
- Call Number
- 02.6 C24e
- Author
- Carter, John
- Leighton, Doug
- Responsibility
- John Carter
- Doug Leighton
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 119 pages: illustrations, maps
- Abstract
- Guidebook for exploring the Southern Selkirk mountains, including photographs, maps and trail descriptions
- Contents
- Preface Introduction The Land The Plant Communities Mammals Birds Fish Man in the Southern Selkirks Winter Activities Wilderness Ethics Trail Descriptions: Kokanee Region Valhalla Region Lardeau Region Bonnington Region The Valhalla Park Proposal Equipment Checklist Information Sources and Resource Agencies Reading List
- ISBN
- 0888942737
- Accession Number
- 2018.9003
- Call Number
- 02.6 C24e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The ghost walker
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6839
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- Lawrence, R. D (Ronald Douglas)
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 04.2 L43
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 242p
- Subjects
- Cougars
- Outdoor life
- Selkirk Mountains
- ISBN
- 0-7710-4733-9
- Accession Number
- 15500
- Call Number
- 04.2 L43
- 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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Rogers Pass alpine guide : the heart of the Selkirk Range
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14384
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Jones, David P
- Publisher
- Squamish, BC : High Col Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 J6r
- Author
- Jones, David P
- Responsibility
- David P. Jones
- Publisher
- Squamish, BC : High Col Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Rogers Pass
- Selkirk Mountains
- Notes
- Includes index
- ISBN
- 9780986519123
- Accession Number
- 2015.8395
- Call Number
- 01.4 J6r
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Devine life at Selkirk lodge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15413
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2017
- Author
- Cooper, Abby
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.02, May 2017
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Cooper, Abby
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.02, May 2017
- Published Date
- May 2017
- Physical Description
- p.18-19
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Selkirk Mountains
- Ski mountaineering
- Skiing
- Notes
- Story of Steve Devine.
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Legacy in ice : the Vaux family and the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue630
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- Cavell, Edward
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- TR787 V3 C3
- TR787 V3 C3 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 6
- Author
- Cavell, Edward
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- AC605 copy 2
- Call Number
- TR787 V3 C3
- TR787 V3 C3 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The Selkirks : Nelson's mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1089
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Garden, John F
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Footprint
- Call Number
- F1089 S4 G3
- Author
- Garden, John F
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Footprint
- Published Date
- 1984
- Subjects
- Selkirk Mountains
- Call Number
- F1089 S4 G3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alpine huts in the Rockies, Selkirks and Purcells
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1448
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Kariel, Herbert G
- Publisher
- Banff : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- F1090 K35 Copy 1
- F1090 K35 Copy 2
- Author
- Kariel, Herbert G
- Responsibility
- Kariel, Herb, Kariel, Pat
- Publisher
- Banff : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 183 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Selkirk Mountains
- Purcell Mountains
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Alpine Club of Canada - Huts
- Notes
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Accession Number
- AC630 is copy 2 with letter and newsclipping pasted in
- Call Number
- F1090 K35 Copy 1
- F1090 K35 Copy 2
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Geobackcountry Rogers Pass : uptracks, bootpacks and bushwhacks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14897
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Sproul, Douglas
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Uptrack Publishing
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Call Number
- F1090 S57
- Author
- Sproul, Douglas
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Uptrack Publishing
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 301 pages, col. ill., maps
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Rogers Pass
- Skiing
- Selkirk Mountains
- Notes
- See maps for accompanying topographic route map
- ISBN
- 9780993769535
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- F1090 S57
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Art inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains 1809-2012
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Townshend, Nancy
- Publisher
- Calgary : Bayeux Arts
- Call Number
- N T69 A78
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- Author
- Townshend, Nancy
- Responsibility
- Nancy Townshend
- Publisher
- Calgary : Bayeux Arts
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- vi, 136p, 40 plates : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- O'Brien, Lucius
- Notman, William & Son
- Thompson, David
- Harmon, Byron
- Harris, Lawren
- MacDonald, J.E.H
- Sargent, John Singer
- Whyte, Peter
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Rocky Mountains
- Purcell Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains
- Abstract
- Nancy Townshend's book on art inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains presents these mountains' justifiable prominence in world art. For over two centuries, Canadian artists have admired their magnitude and grandeur, their endlessly changing light and atmospheric conditions, their four distinct seasons, and myriad other aspects. The book is organized chronologically into three eras: traditional (1809 –1899), Modern (1900–1973) and contemporary (1974–2012). From David Thompson's watercolours in the early nineteenth century (c. 1809) of the East Kootenays to Jan Kabatoff's multimedia art of the early twenty-first century that addresses the impact of global warming on glaciers, Townshend's book presents a whole gamut of Canadian art inspired by these great mountains. Featuring three comprehensive overviews and thirteen chapters on both central and western Canadian artists, as well as a chapter on American artist John Singer Sargent, the book offers insights into their art and inspirations. What did two centuries of artistic exploration in the infinitely facetted Canadian Rockies, Purcells and Selkirks yield? How did the resulting works of art serve to build a unique western Canadian identity? How does the West inform Canadians about themselves, about their own place in the world at this critical time in world history? Townshend answers these questions in this significant reference book for decades to come. Over the past two hundred years, a shift from the exploitative view of Canada's mountain West during the traditional era to the contemporary creative genesis of this area has occurred. Because of the contemporary artists' commitment to wildlife conservation and environmental issues, the contemporary era is more outward looking and expansive, concerned about the world's future. Townshend's all-encompassing text and selected stunning images confirm John Ruskin's observation that mountains are "the beginning and end of all natural scenery." That Canada's mountain West is indeed a place to be revered, a place from which we can learn about ourselves now and in the future. (from author's website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the Traditional Era (1809-1899):
- Chapter One - Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899)
- Chapter Two - William McFarlane Notman (1857-1913)
- Chapter Three - Frederic Bell-Smith (1846-1923)
- Chapter Four - David Thompson (1770-1857)
- Chapter Five - Richard Henery Trueman (1856-1911)
- Chapter Six - Byron Harmon (1976-1942)
- Introduction to the Modern Era (1900-1971):
- Chapter Seven - Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970)
- Chapter Eight - J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)
- Chapter Nine - John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
- Chapter Ten - Peter Whyte (1905-1966)
- Chapter Eleven - Catharine Robb Whyte (1906-1979)
- Introduction to the Contemporary Era (1972-2012):
- Chapter Twelve - Kent Monkman (1965-)
- Chapter Thirteen - Jin-Me Yoon (1960-)
- Chapter Fourteen - Jan Kabatoff (1948-)
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author
- ISBN
- 978-1-897411-37-7
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- N T69 A78
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Author's website
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