topic:"boating" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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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Hooked Picture

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Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0023

Description: Hooked rug picture of a navy blue, green and orange sailboat riding a white wave, manned by two people. Sails, 30 x 12.5 cm are white outlined in light blue, masts and ropes are beige, water is royal blue. Horizon is a straight line designated by a 4.5 cm. wide light blue strip to represent backgr…

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Title: Hooked Picture

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: fibre

Dimensions: 46.5 x 57 cm

Description: Hooked rug picture of a navy blue, green and orange sailboat riding a white wave, manned by two people. Sails, 30 x 12.5 cm are white outlined in light blue, masts and ropes are beige, water is royal blue. Horizon is a straight line designated by a 4.5 cm. wide light blue strip to represent background haze, sky is a very light purple with yellow, pink and a darker purple lined to represent clouds. Picture is framed by a 3 cm. dark brown border. Picture is stitched on burlap, stitching is synthetic nylon like material hooked in very narrow straight rows. Marks: on red and white manufacturer's label in right hand corner of wrong side "GRENFELL LABRADOR INDUSTRIES Handmade in CANADIAN LABRADOR".

Subject: households; decorative; sports; boating; Grenfell Labrador Industries

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0023

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"Light and Shadow' by W.R. Macaskill

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: Black and white large framed print, titled 'Light and Shadow', of 2 sailing ships by photographer W.R. Macaskill; signed copy (no date)

Date Range: [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]

Reference Code: V500 / III / D / 4 / PC - 6 O.S.

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M300 / V500 / S20

Sous-Fonds: V500

Sub-Series: V500 / III / D / 4 : Personal and Family Photography

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: V500 / III / D / 4 / PC - 6 O.S.

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant

Date Range: [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]

Physical Description: 1 Framed Photograph: print; b&w

History / Biographical: W.R. Macaskill (1886 - 1956) was a Canadian photographer from Nova Scotia, famous for his images of schooners and other ships in the coastal Maritimes region of Canada. Macaskill was especially well known for his photographs of the Bluenose schooner.

Scope & Content: Black and white large framed print, titled 'Light and Shadow', of 2 sailing ships by photographer W.R. Macaskill; signed copy (no date)

Name Access: Macaskill, W. R.

Subject Access: Boating; Ship; Photography; Sailing

Geographic Access: Canada; Nova Scotia

Access Restrictions: This item is not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).

Reproduction Restrictions: This item is not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).

Language: English

Conservation: Item must be stored flat to prevent strain on the frame.

Creator: W.R. Macaskill

Biographical Source Notes: https://novascotia.ca/archives/macaskill/essay.asp?Language=English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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M.V. International

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

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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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

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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