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Artist
David Thauberger (1948 – , Canadian)
Date
2023
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Catalogue Number
ThD.12.01
Description
Landscape painting of a bright red canoe floating on a deep blue lake. Above the lake in the background is a large white and purple mountain [Mt. Rundle], surrounded by trees at the base., The lake is semi-stylized and has a strip of bright orange between the lake and the trees. Large trees rise up…
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Artist
David Thauberger (1948 – , Canadian)
Title
Autumn Woods
Date
2023
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
107.0 x 137.0 cm
Description
Landscape painting of a bright red canoe floating on a deep blue lake. Above the lake in the background is a large white and purple mountain [Mt. Rundle], surrounded by trees at the base., The lake is semi-stylized and has a strip of bright orange between the lake and the trees. Large trees rise up into the sky at the left and right of the painting.
Subject
Banff
canoe
Banff National Park
Credit
Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2023
Catalogue Number
ThD.12.01
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Date
2022
Material
paper; glass
Catalogue Number
105.02.0162
Description
A dark glass beer bottle with a printed label showing a stylized mountain scene with “ROCKIES REPEAT TONKA PORTER” below and “BREWED IN BANFF ALBERTA” above. Label also has Rockies Repeat and Banff Ave Brewing logos.
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Title
Beer Bottle
Date
2022
Material
paper; glass
Dimensions
17.5 cm
Description
A dark glass beer bottle with a printed label showing a stylized mountain scene with “ROCKIES REPEAT TONKA PORTER” below and “BREWED IN BANFF ALBERTA” above. Label also has Rockies Repeat and Banff Ave Brewing logos.
Subject
Rockies Repeat
Banff avenue Brewing
beer
community
Banff
Credit
Gift of Banff Avenue Brewing, Banff, 2022
Catalogue Number
105.02.0162
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Under the Mountain’s Shadow

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Artist
Elise Findlay (1987 – , Canadian)
Date
2021
Medium
mixed media; acrylic paint; garbage
Catalogue Number
FiE.13.01 a-c
Description
A triptych all measured at the same size that form into one landscape collage of mountains, showing Cascade mountain at left, Sleeping Buffalo mountain in centre right, and the edge of Rundle at right. The town of Banff lays beneath them. The mountain formations are composed of strips of paper, and…
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Artist
Elise Findlay (1987 – , Canadian)
Title
Under the Mountain’s Shadow
Date
2021
Medium
mixed media; acrylic paint; garbage
Dimensions
61.0 x 51.0 cm
Description
A triptych all measured at the same size that form into one landscape collage of mountains, showing Cascade mountain at left, Sleeping Buffalo mountain in centre right, and the edge of Rundle at right. The town of Banff lays beneath them. The mountain formations are composed of strips of paper, and garbage with varying colours of blue, pink, black, and orange. Some of the strips of paper have text on it about lived experiences in Banff.
Subject
Mountains
collage
mental health
community
Banff
Credit
Purchased from Elise Findlay, Banff, 2023
Catalogue Number
FiE.13.01 a-c
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Vertical reference : the life of legendary mountain helicopter rescue pilot Jim Davies

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Calvert, Kathy
Publisher
[Canada] : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
08.5 C11v
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Author
Calvert, Kathy
Responsibility
Kathy Calvert
Publisher
[Canada] : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Helicopter Skiing
Helicopters
Davies, Jim
Banff
Bugaboos
Transportation
Abstract
An exciting and heart-pounding look at one of Western Canada’s most adventurous individuals, known as a pioneer pilot of the heli-ski industry and as the first mountain-rescue pilot in the Canadian National Parks system. Jim Davies is an icon of competence and courage as the first heli-skiing pilot in Canada. But it is his groundbreaking work as a helicopter rescue pilot for Parks Canada that made him a legend to all who worked with him. His stellar career as a pilot overshadowed his other talents as a ski racer and artist. Jim received several awards for his work in mountain rescue, including the Helicopter Association International – Pilot Safety Award of Excellence, the Alberta Achievement Award for excellence in helicopter flying, the Summit of Excellence Award at the Banff Film and Book Festival, and the Robert E. Trimble Memorial Award for “distinguished performance in helicopter mountain flying.” He is now retired and living in Banff, pursuing his love of painting and photography. (From Rocky Mountain Books)
Contents
Foreward
Acknowledgements
Growing up
A glimpse of the world
Birth of heli-skiiling in the Bugaboos
Changes: from Bugaboos to Banff
Permission or forgiveness
Development of the public safety program
Eclectice use of the helicopter
The contract
No lack of work
The coast and home again
Appendix: public safety in parks today
Endnotes
Bibliography
ISBN
9781771604154
Accession Number
2021.05
Call Number
08.5 C11v
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Storry, Lea
Carleton, Brian
Carleton, Mike
Carleton, Terry
Publisher
Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
Call Number
08.3 F21e
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Author
Storry, Lea
Carleton, Brian
Carleton, Mike
Carleton, Terry
Responsibility
Lea Storry
Brian Carleton
Mike Carleton
Terry Carleton
Publisher
Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
307 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History of Alberta
Biography
Wardens
Banff
Banff (residents)
Abstract
The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)
Contents
Foreward
Introduction
Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton
Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders
Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler
Chapter Four: Exercising War
Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future
Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton
Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff
Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living
Chapter Nine: Nature reels
Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes
Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife
Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family
Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns
Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old
Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Sources
ISBN
9780991707522
Accession Number
2021.06
Call Number
08.3 F21e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Uplift : visual culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Reichwein, PearlAnn and Wall, Karen
Publisher
Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
Call Number
08.3 R27u
Author
Reichwein, PearlAnn and Wall, Karen
Publisher
Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Banff
Banff Centre
Banff School of Fine Arts
Tourism
Schools
History-Canada
Abstract
In 1933, the Banff School was established as a summer outreach program of the University of Alberta, offering a single course in drama. Since then, it has become a renowned cultural destination and educational institution, today known as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. As PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall recount in this engaging history, over its first four decades the school produced and circulated ideals of culture and liberal democratic citizenship that were intrinsic to the development of modern Canada. Uplift traces the role of the school in shaping arts and cultural education, as reflected in its array of interests from the artistic to the political, economic, and ideological. Situated within Banff National Park, the school and its surroundings combined stunning natural scenery and cultural capital in a symbolic national landscape. In an era of unstable cultural policy and state support for the arts, Uplift offers a nuanced account of one particular engine of nation building and tourism development. It draws attention to the past and present place of fine arts, culture, and the humanities in public education and in Canada's history, exploring what they mean to democracy, citizenship, and a life well lived. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Introduction: Artists, Tourists, and Citizens ; Uplifting the People: Extension Education and the Arts ; Branding Banff: Arts Education, Tourism, and Nation Building ; Building a “Campus in the Clouds”: Space, Design, Modernity ; “Wholesome, Understandable Pictures”: Practices of Landscape Painting and Production of Landscapes ; Presence and Portrait: Indigeneity in the Park ; “Leading Artists of the World”: Teachers as Tourist Attractions and Pedagogues ; “Some Paint, Some Tan”: Students Coming to the Mountains ; Conclusion: The Arts, Nature, and Democracy
ISBN
9780774864527
Accession Number
P2022.07
Call Number
08.3 R27u
Collection
Archives Library
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Goth girls of Banff : stories

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
O'Neill, John
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
Call Number
05.2 On2g
Author
O'Neill, John
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
202 pages ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff
Canadian Rockies
Short Stories
Fiction
Abstract
John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear, has an unusual encounter with both technology and humanity. Goth Girls of Banff is a superb collection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those on an iced-over mountain road. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
What is written or Talking to keep the bears away -- Athabasca -- Attacking the bear -- Rudy -- Three places -- Marilyn in the mountains: nine poses -- From Castle Mountain -- Goth girls of Banff -- Natural selection -- The book about the bear.
Notes
Includes discussion questions.
ISBN
9781988732954
Accession Number
P2023.16
Call Number
05.2 On2g
Collection
Archives Library
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The 1978 climber's guide to the Banff Townsite

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
van Schaik, Bob
Burgess, C.L.
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta
Edition
Second
Call Number
02.8 Sc1t
Author
van Schaik, Bob
Burgess, C.L.
Responsibility
Bob van Schaik (concept and photography)
C.L. Burgess (design and layout)
Edition
Second
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
16 pages ; b&w illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff
Banff (townsite)
Rock climbing
Abstract
Pertains to sites to climb within the Banff townsite
Contents
Southwest wall of Donald Cameron Hall
The spectrum traverse
Book & Art Den
Cascade Tavern
Bud depot
King Edward Hotel
Credit Union
Liquor Store
Banff Park Lodge
Post Office
Bridge on Banff Avenue
Banff Springs Hotel
Notes
About the climber
Notes
First Limited edition Banff, Alberta 1978
Second edition, Edmonton, Alberta 2020
Accession Number
2021.08
Call Number
02.8 Sc1t
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Icefields Parkway : a drive through history

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2019
Author
Alexander, Rob
Publisher
Great West Newspapers
Call Number
P
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Author
Alexander, Rob
Responsibility
Rob Alexander
Publisher
Great West Newspapers
Published Date
May 2019
Physical Description
p.12-18
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Highways - Alberta
Banff
Jasper
History
Abstract
Pertains to the history of the Icefields Parkway - includes photographs from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library and Jasper-Yellowhead Museum & Archives with mentions of A.O. Wheeler, David Thompson, James Hector, Peter Erasmus, Tom Wilson, Bill Peyto, Jimmy Simpson, David Douglas, Arthur P. Coleman, Walter Wilcox, J. Norman Collie as well as the Ktunaxa, Carrier Sekani, Secwepemc, Stoney Nakoda, As'in'i'wa'chi, Iroquois, Piikani, Siksika, Tsuu T'ina and Metis Indigenous Peoples. Overview of construction history between 1931 and 1960 with mention of Num-Ti-Jah Lodge and Fred Brewster's Columbia Icefield Chalet and mention of the filming of "River of No Return".
Notes
In 51 North, Summer/Fall 2019
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online
Websites
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Family walks and hikes in the Canadian Rockies. Volume 2 : Bragg Creek , Kananaskis , Moraine Lake , Yoho , Icefields Parkway , Jasper

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Nugara, Andrew
Publisher
[Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Edition
First
Call Number
02.6 N89f Vol. 2
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Author
Nugara, Andrew
Responsibility
Andrew Nugara
Edition
First
Publisher
[Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
volumes : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Hiking
Travel
Kananaskis Country
Maps
Highways
Highways - Alberta
Banff
Moraine Lake
Yoho National Park
Jasper
Abstract
amily Walks and Hikes is an exciting series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature expertly curated routes, informative maps, and colour photographs. Andrew Nugara’s second book for families looking to experience the splendour of the Canadian Rockies describes additional trips in Bragg Creek, Banff, and Kananaskis that were not included in Volume 1 due to redevelopment of these hiking hotspots since the dramatic Alberta floods of 2013. As well, Volume 2 includes several new areas for family exploration, including Moraine Lake, Yoho, the north section of Highway 93 North, and Jasper. Some of the comfortable walks and spectacular hikes in this new volume are: Forgetmenot Ponds Nihahi Ridge King Creek Canyon Canadian Everest Trail Picklejar Lakes Yamnuska Ha Ling Peak Sunshine Meadows Paget Peak Lookout Takakkaw Falls Parker Ridge Athabasca Glacier Sunwapta Falls Maligne Canyon Ranging from charmingly easy to moderately challenging, all of these hikes are accessible from reliable roads and popular staging areas. In addition, each hike is accompanied by a clear, colourful map, step by step directions, and full-colour photographs. Each route includes: detailed directions to trailheads colour maps and photographs seasonal information round-trip distances trail commentary difficulty ratings (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Introduction
Area Maps
Highway 66, the Elbow
Highway 40 South, Kananaskis Trail
Highway 1, Bow Valley, Canmore, Highway 742 South
Banff Area
Moraine Lake
Yoho National Park
Icefields Parkway (Highway 93 North)
Jasper
Important Contacts
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
ISBN
9781771603058
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
02.6 N89f Vol. 2
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publishers website
Websites
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