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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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Banff : park of all seasons
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19832
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Downs, Art (ed.)
- Publisher
- Surrey (B.C.) : Heritage House
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22d Pam c.3
- Author
- Downs, Art (ed.)
- Responsibility
- Art Downs
- Publisher
- Surrey (B.C.) : Heritage House
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 62p. : ill., ports
- Series
- Frontier series, 10
- Subjects
- Accidents
- Geddes, Malcolm Daniel
- Frank Lloyd Wright Pavilion
- Johnston's Canyon
- Paley
- Skoki
- Elk
- Tourism
- Birds
- History
- Feuz Ernest
- Contents
- hot water from the mountain side
- Banff today
- Wapiti
- Bighorn at Banff
- Gray Jay - friendly symbol of the wilderness
- Notes
- "Fred A. Feuz Salmon Arm" with phone number written on front cover in black ink
- ISBN
- 0-919214-10-X
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22d Pam c.3
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Bankhead map project
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56117
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of textual records pertaining to a brochure describing the history of Bankhead, which Ben Gadd researched, designed and produced on behalf of Parks Canada in 1981. File includes research notes, reference maps, correspondence, paste-up drafts and finished copies of the brochures.
- Date Range
- 1981
- Reference Code
- M590 / III / D / 93
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- S61
- Series
- M590 / III : Professional records
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- Sub-Series
- M590 / III / D : Other contracts and projects
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Reference Code
- M590 / III / D / 93
- GMD
- Textual record
- Responsibility
- Produced by Ben Gadd, Parks Canada
- Date Range
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of textual records pertaining to a brochure describing the history of Bankhead, which Ben Gadd researched, designed and produced on behalf of Parks Canada in 1981. File includes research notes, reference maps, correspondence, paste-up drafts and finished copies of the brochures.
- Name Access
- Gadd, Ben
- Subject Access
- Settlement
- Townsite development
- History
- Research
- Education
- Publication
- Tourism
- Tourist information
- Parks Canada
- Government
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Bankhead
- Banff National Park
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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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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Mount Edith Cavell on-site exhibit texts
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56079
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of informational text which was produced by Ben Gadd during his employment with Parks Canada as a Seasonal Naturalist, for use in the creation of interpretive signs about Mount Edith Cavell.
- Date Range
- 1982
- Reference Code
- M590 / III / A / 17
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- S61
- Series
- M590 / III : Professional records
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- Sub-Series
- M590 / III / A : Parks Canada records
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Reference Code
- M590 / III / A / 17
- GMD
- Textual record
- Responsibility
- Produced by Ben Gadd
- Date Range
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 0.2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of informational text which was produced by Ben Gadd during his employment with Parks Canada as a Seasonal Naturalist, for use in the creation of interpretive signs about Mount Edith Cavell.
- Name Access
- Gadd, Ben
- Subject Access
- Parks Canada
- Government
- Environment
- Employment
- Mountains
- Geology
- Natural history
- Flowers
- Tourism
- Tourist information
- Publication
- Education
- Research
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Jasper National Park
- Mount Edith Cavell
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Category
- Environment
- Government
- Education
- Title Source
- Original title used
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Trail of iron : the CPR and the birth of the West, 1880-1930
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6319
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- McKee, Bill
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow-Alberta Institute
- Call Number
- 08.5 M19
- Author
- McKee, Bill
- Responsibility
- Bill McKee and Georgeen Klassen
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow-Alberta Institute
- Published Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 192p. : ill., ports., maps, facsim
- Subjects
- Artists
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Hotels
- Tourism
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 0-88894-399-7
- Accession Number
- 16000
- Call Number
- 08.5 M19
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Small Business Quarterly
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12989
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sm1 Pam
- Published Date
- 1984
- Series
- Vol.3, no. 3 (Summer 1984)
- Subjects
- Brewster family
- Guest ranches
- Tourism
- Notes
- Partial contents: Silverhorn Ltd: not your average jewelery store; Guiding and Outfitting; Family Atmosphere; Mountain luxury at Sawridge
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sm1 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian patriotic post card handbook 1904-1914 : a handbook of the British North America Philatelic Society
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13771
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Gutzman, W. L.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Unitrade Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 G98c
- Author
- Gutzman, W. L.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Unitrade Press
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 140 p. : ill
- Subjects
- Photographers
- Postcards
- Tourism
- ISBN
- 0-919801-19-6
- Accession Number
- 50500 09-09-02
- Call Number
- 08.5 G98c
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- Archives Library
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The romantic journey : the story of Thomas Cook and Victorian travel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3523
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Swinglehurst, Edmund
- Publisher
- New York : Harper & Row
- Call Number
- 02 C77s
- Author
- Swinglehurst, Edmund
- Publisher
- New York : Harper & Row
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 201p. : ill., ports., facsim
- Subjects
- Tourism
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 01-06-014191-3
- Accession Number
- 3626
- Call Number
- 02 C77s
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- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1984
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1056
- Description
- Luxton Museum, a colorful pennant (22.8 x 7.0) with the Luxton log museum pictured on the left half, lime green grass, bright orange roof, yellow trail and powder blue sky distinguish the picture. A white, red, and blue mountain and green trees stand behind the museum. A black, yellow, and orange s…
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- Title
- Pennant
- Date
- 1984
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 7.0 cm
- Description
- Luxton Museum, a colorful pennant (22.8 x 7.0) with the Luxton log museum pictured on the left half, lime green grass, bright orange roof, yellow trail and powder blue sky distinguish the picture. A white, red, and blue mountain and green trees stand behind the museum. A black, yellow, and orange shield and spear are in the bottom left. On the right half of the pennant in orange writing is"Luxton Museum Banff," "Canada" in blue at the far right. The left has a red,felt border.
- Subject
- Luxton Museum
- souvenirs
- tourism
- Credit
- Purchased from Luxton Museum, Banff, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1056
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