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All-time high - an unprecedented number of visitors are heading to Banff National Park, with a million more tourists passing through the gates in just the last five years. Has the beloved park reached its limits?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25147
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
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Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Responsibility
Ryan Stewart (author)
Taylor Odynski (illustrator)
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.70 - 75
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Tourism
Ecology
Environment
Banff National Park
Wildlife
Town of Banff
Parks Canada
Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the rise in visitation to Banff National Park
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
Websites
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Vertical reference : the life of legendary mountain helicopter rescue pilot Jim Davies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25228
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
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25229
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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Editor's Notebook: Getting Out There

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25289
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
July/August 2021
Author
Kylie, Aaron
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Edition
Vol. 141
Call Number
P
Author
Kylie, Aaron
Edition
Vol. 141
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Published Date
July/August 2021
Physical Description
p.8
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Alberta
Canada
Banff
Banff (townsite)
Banff National Park
Tourism
Travel
Abstract
Editor, Aaron Kylie's address for the issue discussing Banff National Park with an image at the top of Sulphur Mountain.
Notes
"In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 4, July/August, 2021"
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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The mountains of Banff National Park : a roadside guide to the peaks

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25502
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Birrell, Dave
Publisher
Alberta : Dave Birrell
Call Number
02.6 B53t
Author
Birrell, Dave
Publisher
Alberta : Dave Birrell
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
118 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebook
Mountains
Banff National Park
Abstract
Through photographs, viewing tips and maps, this books will help you identify 126 peaks that are seen from the highways of Banff National Park. Knowing more about these mountains will make your visit much more reqrding. You'll learn about their naming history and the people, history, geology, and stories connected with each mountain. If you want to get to know your favourites even better, hikes that will lead you to the best trail views are suggested. Read about these outstanding peaks that we see from the highways and then keep the book in your vehicle as a hand reference. -- From back cover
ISBN
9780986533716
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
02.6 B53t
Collection
Archives Library
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Confessions of a ski bum : the Bow Valley Banff to Castle Valley junction

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25507
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Baranow, Marcus
Publisher
Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
Call Number
01 B23b
Author
Baranow, Marcus
Publisher
Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
350 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Confessions of a Ski Bum
Subjects
Skiing
Bow Valley
Castle Mountain
Banff National Park
Winter Sports
Guidebook
Abstract
A completely rewritten and expanded edition of the book that started "confessions." Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps for near-endless options, including everything from playful powder laps to yet to be skied big lines. -- from back cover
Contents
Roadside Runs; Cascade East Face ; Cascade South Face ; Cory Couloir ; Slabatha ; The Goat's Eye ; The Mason's Mistake ; Sunshine Backcountry ; Citadel Pass ; Quartz Hill ; Rock Isle, Larix & Grizzly Lakes ; Twin Cairns ; The Doors ; Wawa Ridge ; Healy Drainage ; Healy Pass ; Bourgeau Meadows ; Lost Horse Creek ; Egypt Lake ; Egypt Lake Access Routes ; Egypt Lake Exit Routes ; Shelter Runs ; The Sphinx ; Scarab Peak ; Pharaoh Peaks ; East Verdant Creek ; Massive Range Mountain ; Pilot & Brett ; Shadow Lake ; Gibbon Pass ; Shadow Valley ; Ball Pass ; Copper Mountain ; Sawback Range ; Cory Pass ; Mystic Pass ; Rockbound Lake ; Traverses
ISBN
9780991748532
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
01 B23b
Collection
Archives Library
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Uplift : visual culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25538
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

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25732
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

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25236
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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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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