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Surveying the 120th meridian and the great divide : the Alberta/BC boundary survey, 1918-1924
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24952
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
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- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 192 p. ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 2
- Subjects
- Surveyors
- Surveys and Mapping
- Surveys
- Great Divide Trail
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- British Columbia - Boundaries
- British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
- Alberta - B.C. Boundary
- Alberta - Boundaries
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Cautley, Richard William
- History
- History of Alberta
- Abstract
- "Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Surveyors
- Surveying Methods 1918-1924
- Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953
- Conclusion
- Geographical Names
- Survey Crews, 1918-1924
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Notes
- Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771
- ISBN
- 9780773860091
- Accession Number
- 2019.90
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Dictionary of altitudes in the Dominion of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11982
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1916
- Author
- White, James
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Commission of Conservation Canada
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Call Number
- 03.3 W58d
- 03.3 W58d c.2
- Author
- White, James
- Responsibility
- Commission of Conservation Canada
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Commission of Conservation Canada
- Published Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- xii, 251 p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 400
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03.3 W58d
- 03.3 W58d c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Glacier surveys by district personnel of the Water Survey of Canada. 1, The Victoria glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24962
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1971
- Author
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment
- Call Number
- 03.4 O1g
- Author
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.
- Responsibility
- C. Simon L. Ommanney
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment
- Published Date
- 1971
- Physical Description
- v, 18 pages : illustrations, maps
- Series
- Glacier Inventory Note No. 6
- Abstract
- Pertains to the
- Contents
- Introduction
- Description
- Surveyors
- Snout Activity
- Surface Movement
- Discharge
- Diagrams
- Photographs
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Errata slip inserted
- Accession Number
- 2019.96
- Call Number
- 03.4 O1g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25011
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Hogue, Michel
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 H65m
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- Author
- Hogue, Michel
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- ix, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Abstract
- Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story of individuals and families, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. It begins with the emergence of the Plains Metis and ends with the fracturing of their communities as the Canada-U. S. border was enforced. It also explores the borderland world of the Northern Plains, where an astonishing diversity of people met and mingled: Blackfoot, Cree, Gros Ventre, Lakota, Dakota, Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Anishinaabes, Metis, Europeans, Canadians, Americans, soldiers, police, settlers, farmers, hunters, traders, bureaucrats. In examining the battles that emerged over who belonged on what side of the border, Hogue disputes Canada's peaceful settlement story of the Prairie West and challenges familiar bromides about the "world's longest undefended border. (From U of R Press website)
- Contents
- Emergence : creating a Metis borderland -- Exchange : trade, sovereignty, and the forty-ninth parallel -- Belonging : land, treaties, and the boundaries of race -- Resistance : dismantling Plains Metis borderland settlements, 1879-1885 -- Exile : scrip and enrollment commissions and the shifting boundaries of belonging, 1885-1920.
- ISBN
- 9780889773806
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 08.1 H65m
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on University of Regina Press website
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Atlas of the international boundary between the United States and Canada Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias to accompany the report of the International Boundary Commission
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25066
- Medium
- Library - Map
- Published Date
- 1913
- Author
- Department of the Interior
- Publisher
- US Geological Survey
- Call Number
- 03.1 In8 OS
- Variant Title
- Joint maps of the International Boundary between United States and Canada along the 141st meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mt. St. Elias - surveyed and monumented 1907 - 1913 under the convention signed at Washington April 21st 1906
- Author
- Department of the Interior
- Responsibility
- O.H. Tittmann 1906-1915 (United States Commissioner)
- E.C. Barnard 1915- (United States Commissioner)
- W.F. King 1906-1916 (His British Majesty's Commissioner)
- J.J. McArthur 1917- (His British Majesty's Commissioner)
- Publisher
- US Geological Survey
- Published Date
- 1913
- Physical Description
- atlas (38 leaves of plates : maps)
- Scale
- 1:62500
- Medium
- Library - Map
- Subjects
- Atlases
- Canada
- United States
- Surveys
- Surveys and Mapping
- Abstract
- Atlas to accompany "Joint report upon the survey and demarcation of the international boundary between the United States and Canada along the 141st meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias : in accordance with the provisions of Article IV of the Convention signed at Washington April 21, 1906"
- Notes
- Atlas only - report separate - 03.1 In8
- Call Number
- 03.1 In8 OS
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Lost obelisks of the Rockies - Jerry Auld walks through history and into the alpine to discover a piece of Alberta's heritage, finding evidence that hasn't seen sunlight since it was first placed
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25136
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Author
- Auld, Jerry
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Auld, Jerry
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Physical Description
- p.76 - 81
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Cautley, Richard William
- Surveyors
- Surveys
- Surveys and Mapping
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- Pertains to small brass obelisks placed along the British Columbia and Alberta border as part of Alberta's demarcation from the North West Territories in 1905 with the survey beginning in 1913, executed by A.O. Wheeler and Richard Cautley
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Golden, British Columbia, Kootenay Land District
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24058
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1964-5
- Publisher
- Victoria : Surveys and Mapping, Dept. of Lands and Forests
- Edition
- 1st status ed.
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N
- Edition
- 1st status ed.
- Publisher
- Victoria : Surveys and Mapping, Dept. of Lands and Forests
- Published Date
- 1964-5
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- 1:250,000
- Subjects
- Golden
- British Columbia
- Surveys and Mapping
- Notes
- National Topographic System
- Accession Number
- 6802
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N
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- Archives Library
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Golden : British Columbia Alberta west of fifth meridian
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24234
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Natural Resources Canada
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N
- Publisher
- Natural Resources Canada
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- 1:250,000
- Subjects
- Golden
- British Columbia
- Surveys and Mapping
- Notes
- National Topographic System
- Accession Number
- 30500 3.2.98
- Call Number
- NTS
- 82N
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- Archives Library
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