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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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M.V. International
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8110
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- Author
- Morrison, Chris
- Publisher
- Waterton Park : Goathaunt
- Call Number
- 08.5 M83mvi Pam
- Author
- Morrison, Chris
- Responsibility
- by Chris Morrison and Ray Djuff
- Publisher
- Waterton Park : Goathaunt
- Published Date
- 1993
- Physical Description
- 32p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Boating
- Waterton Lakes National Park
- ISBN
- 0-9696974-0-6
- Accession Number
- 29000
- Call Number
- 08.5 M83mvi Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Stony Rapid, Athabasca River
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- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.12
- Description
- General colour: green. Four men are rowing while one poles a long barge up from the bottom left through turbulent water. Another boat moves across to the left on the right side near the trees which cut the picture horizontally in half. Above the trees is sky.signed lr: “E.C.W.Lamarque 1955”
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- Title
- Stony Rapid, Athabasca River
- Date
- 1955
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.2 x 52.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: green. Four men are rowing while one poles a long barge up from the bottom left through turbulent water. Another boat moves across to the left on the right side near the trees which cut the picture horizontally in half. Above the trees is sky.signed lr: “E.C.W.Lamarque 1955”
- Subject
- landscape
- river
- boating
- group, males
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.12
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- Date
- 1935
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1109
- Description
- Small metal cup with two scrolled handles on a wooden base. There is a manufacturer’s (?) sticker on the base. The cup is marked “BBC - 35.”
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- Title
- Loving Cup
- Date
- 1935
- Material
- wood; metal
- Description
- Small metal cup with two scrolled handles on a wooden base. There is a manufacturer’s (?) sticker on the base. The cup is marked “BBC - 35.”
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1109
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- Artist
- George C. Wales
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WaG.04.01
- Description
- Three masted schooner and buoy; inscribed J.D. poss. representing schooner name? and GCW 1929 initials in blc; brc signed George C. Wales. Poss. purchased in New England.
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- Artist
- George C. Wales
- Title
- J.D.
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 14.2 x 20.8 cm
- Description
- Three masted schooner and buoy; inscribed J.D. poss. representing schooner name? and GCW 1929 initials in blc; brc signed George C. Wales. Poss. purchased in New England.
- Subject
- activity, boating
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WaG.04.01
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- Date
- 1928
- Material
- metal, silver
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1152 a,b
- Description
- Round silver pins. (a) 4 people in a boat with oars, laurel wreath bottom balf, top have etched "B.B.C. 1928" obverse: "Men 2nd" (b) 2 people in a boat with oars, same as (a), obverse same as (a). Each has a silver loop at top for hanging.
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- Title
- Athletic Pin
- Date
- 1928
- Material
- metal, silver
- Description
- Round silver pins. (a) 4 people in a boat with oars, laurel wreath bottom balf, top have etched "B.B.C. 1928" obverse: "Men 2nd" (b) 2 people in a boat with oars, same as (a), obverse same as (a). Each has a silver loop at top for hanging.
- Subject
- Banff Boating Club
- Jim Boyce
- sports
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Boyce, Banff, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1152 a,b
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All afloat : a chronicle of craft and waterways
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6383
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1915
- Author
- Wood, William
- Publisher
- Toronto : Brook
- Call Number
- 08.5 W85
- Author
- Wood, William
- Publisher
- Toronto : Brook
- Published Date
- 1915
- Physical Description
- xi, 199p. : ill
- Subjects
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Exploration
- Notes
- Bibliographical note
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.5 W85
- Collection
- Archives Library
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New rivers of the north : the yarn of two amateur explorers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3777
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1913
- Author
- Footner, William Hulbert
- Publisher
- London : T. Fisher Unwin
- Call Number
- 02.5 F73
- Author
- Footner, William Hulbert
- Publisher
- London : T. Fisher Unwin
- Published Date
- 1913
- Physical Description
- 281p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Boating
- Fraser River
- Peace River
- Selwyn, Mount
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 02.5 F73
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1913
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1025 a,b
- Description
- Banff Boating Club trophy on black wood base. Tall, silver amphora-like trophy "The Banff Boating Club Annual Regatta --1913--presented by Supt. S.J.Clarke/Ladies and Gents Canoe Half-Mile Race", engraved canoe above. Round, lathe turned base holds three sheild-shaped silver name plates for "M. H…
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- Title
- Loving Cup
- Date
- 1913
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 31.7 x 15.7 cm
- Description
- Banff Boating Club trophy on black wood base. Tall, silver amphora-like trophy "The Banff Boating Club Annual Regatta --1913--presented by Supt. S.J.Clarke/Ladies and Gents Canoe Half-Mile Race", engraved canoe above. Round, lathe turned base holds three sheild-shaped silver name plates for "M. Horner/D. Winters--1928 M. Vernon/J.Porter-1929 D. Standish/N. Duncan-1931" Maker stamp amd "A 11" underneath base of cup.
- Subject
- sports
- Stan Peyto
- Banff Regatta
- boating
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Peyto, Banff, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1025 a,b
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Achievement Plaque
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.1031
- Date
- 1910
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1031
- Description
- Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia…
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- Title
- Achievement Plaque
- Date
- 1910
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 33.6 cm
- Description
- Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia. shows 2 people in a canoe, wreath along bottom edge.
- Subject
- sports
- summer
- boating
- Banff Regatta
- Credit
- Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1031
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