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Through their eyes : a graphic history of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25709
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Barrett, Matthew and Engen, Robert C.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 B25t
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- viii, 337 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Abstract
- By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. After securing the hill on 15 August, Canadian soldiers endured days of shelling, machine-gun fire, and poison gas as they repelled relentless enemy counterattacks. Through Their Eyes depicts this remarkable but costly victory in a unique way. With full-colour graphic artwork and detailed illustration, Matthew Barrett and Robert Engen picture the battle from different perspectives -Currie's strategic view at high command, a junior officer's experience at the platoon level, and the vantage points of many lesser-known Canadian soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. This innovative graphic history invites readers to reimagine the First World War through the eyes of those who lived it and to think more deeply about how we visualize and remember the past. Combining outstanding original art and thought-provoking commentary, Through Their Eyes uncovers the fascinating stories behind this battle while creatively expanding the ways that history is shared and represented.-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780228010579
- Accession Number
- P2023.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 B25t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A hero from history : Banff guide Sid Unwin part of 'big events' in First World War
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25001
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- November 2019
- Author
- Alexander, Rob
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Alexander, Rob
- Responsibility
- Rob Alexander
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Published Date
- November 2019
- Physical Description
- p.31-33
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- World War I
- World Wars
- Unwin, Sid
- History
- Abstract
- Pertains to Sidney J. Unwin's service in the First World War as part of the 22nd Battery (Howitzer) of the 6th Canadian Artillery Field Brigade includes photographs and excepts from diary entries from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (M31 / V25)
- Notes
- In 51 North, Winter/Spring 2020
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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No free man : Canada, the Great War, and the enemy alien experience
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19794
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Kordan, Bohdan S.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ko84n
- Author
- Kordan, Bohdan S.
- Responsibility
- Bohdan S. Kordan
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Abstract
- Presents the history of approximately 8,000 Canadians, who were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic origins from Germany, Austria-Hungary and other enemy nations.
- Contents
- The uncertainty of war and the limits of acceptance: aliens of enemy Nationality -- Political choices and the prerogatives of state: dealing with the enemy alien problem -- Behind Canadian barbed wire: the policy, process, and practice of internment -- The alien as "enemy": questions of acceptance, belonging, and fit -- The enemy alien experience: towards an understanding.
- ISBN
- 978-0-7735-4778-0
- Accession Number
- p2019-15
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ko84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alberta-NWT Command Legion Military Service Recognition Book Volume X 2018
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25092
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- The Royal Canadian Legion Alberta-NWT Command
- Publisher
- Calgary : The Royal Canadian Legion Alberta-NWT Command
- Call Number
- 08.1 R11 m PAM
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- Publisher
- Calgary : The Royal Canadian Legion Alberta-NWT Command
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 352 pages ; illus.
- Series
- Volume X
- Subjects
- World War I
- World War II
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- World Wars
- History
- History of Alberta
- Abstract
- Includes alphabetical list of veterans in Alberta and NorthWest Territories, some with photographs
- Contents
- Messages Legion Information Articles of Interest Veterans Advertiser’s Index Submission Requirements Veteran Submission Form
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.1 R11 m PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via the The Royal Canadian Legion Alberta-NWT Command website
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100th anniversary of the formation of The Rocky Mountains Park Branch of the Great War Veterans’ Association - The Banff Legion - Saturday March 31, 2018
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25093
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- The Banff Legion
- Publisher
- The Banff Legion
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22o PAM
- Author
- The Banff Legion
- Responsibility
- The Banff Legion
- Publisher
- The Banff Legion
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 14 pages ; photographs
- Subjects
- History
- History of Alberta
- Canada
- World War I
- World War II
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- World Wars
- Banff
- Banff (residents)
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the Banff Legion, celebrating 100 years of the Great War Veterans’ Association
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22o PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The stories were not told : Canada's First World War Internment Camps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19795
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Semchuk, Sandra
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Se5t
- Author
- Semchuk, Sandra
- Responsibility
- Sandra Semchuk
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 312 p.
- Subjects
- World War I
- World War, 1914-1918
- Internment Camps
- Government
- Calgary Stampede
- History-Canada
- Abstract
- "From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were imprisoned as "enemy aliens," many with their families. Most were Ukrainians; almost all were civilians. The Stories Were Not Told presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told at last by internees and their descendants. Semchuk describes how lives and society have been shaped by acts of legislated racism and how to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing. This is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the cross-cultural and intergenerational consequences of Canada's first internment camps."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund
- Introduction
- Learning from the Past
- Standing Where the Internees Stood
- Stories from Internees and Descendants
- Spirit Lake Photographs
- Engaging Memory Work
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 978-1-77212-378-4
- Accession Number
- p2019-16
- Call Number
- 08.1 Se5t
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- Archives Library
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For King and country
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue982
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J., Larosa, Dee
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J., Larosa, Dee
- Editor
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- p.64-71
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Banff (residents)
- World War I
- Abstract
- One century after the armistice, we look back on Banff and the Great War
- Language
- English
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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That never happened : Canada's first national internment operations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25003
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Boyko, Ryan
- Cofini, Diana
- Publisher
- Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63t DVD
1 website
- Author
- Boyko, Ryan
- Cofini, Diana
- Publisher
- Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, colour and black and white
- Abstract
- Follows the story of Canada's first national internment operations between 1914 and 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in internment camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed.
- Notes
- Director of photography, Oleksandr Kryshtalovych ; editor, Peter Chrapka ; music by Evan MacDonald.
- Accession Number
- 2019.113
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63t DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Amistice Films
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Surveying the Great Divide : the Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15485
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 1
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 176 pages, illustrations, maps
- Series
- Volume 1
- Subjects
- Cautley, Richard William
- Deville, Edouard
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Hope, Charles Vincent
- Kain, Conrad
- Place names
- Surveyors
- Wallace, James Nevin
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- World War I
- Abstract
- "In 1917, during Canada's 50th anniversary, there was little celebration in the country as it entered the fourth year of World War I. This conflict had a tremendous economic and emotional impact on the various levels of government in the country and on the lives of many people in Canada. In western Canada, despite the turmoil and uncertain outcome of the war, one of the country's major surveying projects continued. In 1913 the Alberta, British Columbia, and Dominion governments began surveying and marking the boundary between the two provinces along the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia's representative, A.O. Wheeler, scaled many of the peaks along the Great Divide and did the phototopographic surveying. R.W. Cautley, the representative for the Alberta and Dominion governments, mapped the boundary through the economically important mountain passes. During the years of 1913-1917, the Boundary Commission surveyors mainly covered the area from Kicking Horse Pass to the United States border."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Map of the Passes Surveyed 1913-1917
- The Rocky Mountains 1917
- Background
- Cast of Characters
- Surveying Methods
- 1913
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- Geographical Names
- Afterword
- Survey Crews
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Index
- Notes
- Includes photographs from the "Mountain Legacy Project" repeat photography
- ISBN
- 978-1-987915-52-5 (softcover)
- Accession Number
- gratis October 2017
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 1
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- Archives Library
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Norton of Everest : the biography of E.F. Norton, soldier and mountaineer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19919
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Norton, Hugh
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 N67 N67
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- Author
- Norton, Hugh
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 208 p.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineering
- World War I
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- E.F. Norton lived a life of distinction in the declining years of the British Empire. Born into an accomplished, well-travelled family, he followed his heart and enlisted for a professional career as a soldier. A distinguished military career followed, punctuated with indulgences in his passion for exploration and mountaineering. The British Empire was starting to crumble, and Norton would be called upon more than once to rise to a variety of challenges.Norton’s gift for leadership was first demonstrated via his rapid progression through the ranks in the First World War, which paved the way for future leadership appointments, having earned the confidence and respect of those under his command. Events in the Second World War followed suit, when Norton was abruptly assigned the post of acting governor of Hong Kong, entrusted to save the civilian population from imminent Japanese invasion. The 1924 Everest expedition also exemplifies the pattern of having had leadership thrust upon him – in this case when General Charles Bruce was struck down by malaria on the approach march. Leading from the front, Norton set an altitude record for climbing on Everest without supplementary oxygen – a record only bettered in 1978 when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen. Yet tragedy would follow Norton’s achievement, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared high on the mountain. In Norton of Everest, Hugh Norton has written sensitively and knowledgably about his father’s remarkable life as mountaineer, soldier, naturalist, artist and family man. As on Everest, the real story is not only the death of the gallant, but also the heroics of the quiet survivors like E.F. Norton. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Wade Davis
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - The early years
- Chapter 2 - Soldiering
- Chapter 3 - A pen portrait
- Chapter 4 - Mountaineering
- Chapter 5 - The middle years
- Chapter 6 - Acting governor of Hong Kong
- Chapter 7 - Retirement
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781910240922
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G512 N67 N67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Publisher's website
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