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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
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- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Responsibility
- D.W. Schindler
- W.F. Donahue
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 6 pages ; illustrations , maps
- Abstract
- Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
- Notes
- In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via PNAS's website
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
- Call Number
- 07.2 C24a
- 07.2 C24a copy 2
- Responsibility
- Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
- Abstract
- This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
- Contents
- Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
- ISBN
- 9781551954547
- Accession Number
- P2022.05
- Call Number
- 07.2 C24a
- 07.2 C24a copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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French map showing various districts
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21477
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1869
- Call Number
- C12-1.4
- Published Date
- 1869
- Subjects
- Western Canada
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.4
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith : portrait of a Metis woman, 1861-1960
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19811
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne
- Publisher
- Regina : CPRC Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 M11t
- Author
- MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne
- Responsibility
- Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
- Publisher
- Regina : CPRC Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- x, 193 pages : illustrations, facsimile, genealogical table, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Women
- Metis
- Western Canada
- Western history
- Pincher Creek
- Abstract
- "This book relates the history and self-identifying process of a Me´tis woman who lived on the western plains of Canada during the transitional period from fur trade to sedentary agricultural economy. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Me´tis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. Sold by her mother at the age of sixteen to a robe and whiskey trader several years older than her, Marie Rose went on to raise seventeen children, establish a boarding house, take a homestead, serve as medicine woman and midwife, and to publish several articles in the early prairie ranch periodical, Canadian Cattlemen. The author relies on close readings of these articles, as well as the diaries, manuscripts, and fictional writing of Marie Rose Delorme Smith, along with personal interviews with her descendants. These sources allow a close examination of the self-identifying process for Marie Rose as she negotiated the changing environment of the western plains during the late 1800s and early 1900s when large numbers of Anglo-speaking immigrants settled in the area. Clearly proud of her Me´tis identity, Marie Rose was a member of an extended family who served as Louis Riel's soldiers, and she presented that identity tentatively in her own writings. Roles which Marie Rose assumed with pride were those of author, historian, mother, and historical character, and these roles serve as themes from which to examine her life."--Publisher's website.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - the historical character
- Chapter 2 - the "historian"
- Chapter 3 - the person
- Chapter 4 - the author
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 - terms and sources
- Appendix 2 - descendants of Joseph Henault et Enaud dit Canada
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 978-0-88977-236-6
- Accession Number
- 2019.33
- Call Number
- 08.2 M11t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Indians in the fur trade : their roles as hunters, trappers and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25546
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1976
- Author
- Ray, Arthur J.
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 r21i
- Author
- Ray, Arthur J.
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 1976
- Abstract
- In the western interior of Canada, the pre-confederation period was one of relative peace between Indians and Europeans. Nonetheless, it was a time of rapid cultural transformations for the Indians as they adjusted to changing environmental and economic conditions. This book examines these conditions, and the responses which various Indian groups made to them, from the perspectives of anthropology, ecology, economics, and history. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Trade rivalries, inter-tribal warfare, and migration ; Land and life in the western interior before 1763 ; Traders and middlemen ; Arms, brandy, beads, and sundries ; Migrations, epidemics, and population changes, 1763-1821 ; The destruction of fur and game animals ; New economic opportunities ; Economic dependency and the fur trade: contrasting trends ; Land and Life: a changing mosaic ; The changing demographic picture after 1821 ; Declining opportunities in a changing fur trade ; End of a way of life
- ISBN
- 0802021182
- Accession Number
- 2022.17
- Call Number
- 07.2 r21i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map from Tyrell Papers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21558
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1785
- Call Number
- C12-1.1
- Published Date
- 1785
- Subjects
- Western Canada
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of Canadian National lines in Western Canada showing location of various stations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21437
- Subjects
- Canadian National Railways
- Western Canada
- Notes
- Accompanies 08.5/B63 "Canadian National's Western Depots."
- Accession Number
- 11,500
- Call Number
- C11-3.12
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mushrooms of Western Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26228
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Author
- Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Call Number
- 04.1 Sch1m 1991
- 04.1 Sch1m 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Illustrated key to fruiting bodies -- Classification overview -- Keys to colour illustrations -- Colour illustrations -- Species descriptions.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0919433472
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 Sch1m 1991
- 04.1 Sch1m 2021
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- Archives Library
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The North West Mounted Police 1873-1885
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15455
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Dunn, Jack F
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Jack F. Dunn
- Call Number
- 08.2 M76du
- Author
- Dunn, Jack F
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Jack F. Dunn
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 812p : ill
- Notes
- Includes bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 9780969859611
- Accession Number
- 2017.8673
- Call Number
- 08.2 M76du
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- Archives Library
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The road west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19944
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Elkington, Peter W.
- Publisher
- Revelstroke, B.C. : Peter's Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 El5t
- Author
- Elkington, Peter W.
- Responsibility
- Peter W. Elkington
- Publisher
- Revelstroke, B.C. : Peter's Press
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- vi, 172 p. : maps ; 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Western Canada
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to the travelers and places Peter W. Elkington came across during his personal travels west. He captures an authentic humanity in each story, sharing hardships and hope. He writes of each traveler’s individual life, pain and successes. Elkington invites the reader to find ourselves in his stories, and reflect on the journeys we so often find ourselves on.
- Contents
- Preface (pg. III)
- Prologue (pg. IV)
- Chapter 1: The Pilgrim (pg. 1)
- Chapter 2: The Trader (pg. 11)
- Chapter 3: The Goldseeker (pg. 19)
- Chapter 4: The Golden Mountain (pg. 33)
- Chapter 5: The Prospectors (pg. 41)
- Chapter 6: The Railroad (pg. 49)
- Chaoter 7: Sligh and Friends (pg. 59)
- Chapter 8: Black bear (pg. 69)
- Chapter 9: The priest (pg. 77)
- Chapter 10: George (pg. 87)
- Chapter 11: The Immigrants (pg. 95)
- Chapter 12: The RCMP (pg. 105)
- Chapter 13: Emily (pg. 113)
- Chapter 14: The Explorer (pg. 127)
- Chapter 15: Alfred Mason (pg. 137)
- Chapter 16: Amy (pg. 149)
- Chapter 17: Willie (pg. 157)
- Chapter 18: Peter (pg. 165)
- Epilogue (pg. 168)
- Notes
- The front inside page of the book has been annotated by the author and reads, "Peter W. Elkington"
- ISBN
- 0969994427
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 08.1 El5t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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