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Alpine huts in the Rockies, Selkirks and Purcells

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Rocky and Selkirk Mountains
Guide
Guidebook
Guidebooks
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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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
Author
Lawrence, R. D (Ronald Douglas)
Publisher
Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
Published Date
1983
Physical Description
242p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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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/catalogue3369
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 P98
Author
Putnam, William Lowell
Publisher
New York : American Alpine Club
Published Date
1982
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Glacier House
Illecillewaet Glacier
Selkirk Mountains
Call Number
01.4 P98
Collection
Archives Library
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Legacy in ice : the Vaux family and the Canadian Alps

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
British Columbia
Glacier National Park
Rocky Mountains, Canada
Selkirk Mountains
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

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Selkirk Mountains
Call Number
F1089 S4 G3
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The Selkirks - Nelson's Mountains

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1984
Author
Garden, J.F.
Publisher
Revelstoke, BC : Footprint
Call Number
F1089 G37 S45
Author
Garden, J.F.
Responsibility
J.F. Garden (author), William Lowell Putnman (introduction)
Publisher
Revelstoke, BC : Footprint
Published Date
1984
Physical Description
143 pages : chiefly color illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountains
Selkirk Mountains
Selkirk Range
Selkirk Range - B.C.
Purcell Mountains
Purcell Range
Bugaboos
Expeditions
Asulkan Glacier
Clubs
Photography
Geography
Abstract
Features the photography of Glen Boles, Fred Duchman, Roger Laurilla, Jim Maitre, Mike Pirnke, Dust Veideman with text by J.F. Garden pertaining to the Selkirk Mountains
Contents
Foreward
Introduction by W.L. Putnam
I Nelson's Mountains
II Purcells - Conrad Icefield, Bugaboos, Lake of the Hanging Glaciers
III Southern Selkirks - Valhalla, The Battle Range, An Expedition, Asulkan Pass, Bivouac!
IV Norther Selkirks - Clachnacudainn, Founding of the "Club", Balu Pass, The Major's Mountain, Conquering Mermaid, Mt. Sir Sandford and the Adamants
V Bibliography
VI Notes
Notes
Signed by author - addressed to Margaret Gmoser
ISBN
0969162103
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
F1089 G37 S45
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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