topic:"boating" found 2 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

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Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album containing 224 black and white photograph prints, one newspaper clipping and one pressed plant. Many photographs are annotated in white lettering or on reverse sides. Content pertains to family members and friends of Maud Woodworth and depicts people posing in …

Physical Description: 1 album (224 photographs : b&w) dimensions TBD - see "Admin Notes"

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album containing 224 black and white photograph prints, one newspaper clipping and one pressed plant. Many photographs are annotated in white lettering or on reverse sides. Content pertains to family members and friends of Maud Woodworth and depicts people posing in military uniforms, horseback riding/packing trips in the Canadian Rockies, portraits of various family members, Maud Woodworth at the Banff Winter Carnival ice palace, numerous babies and young children, skiing, children playing, horseback riding and ranching, camping, hiking, swimming, the Bankhead monument, and boating. Locations include Bear Creek, Brazeau Lake, Nigel Pass, Banff Springs Hotel, the Woodworth home in Banff, Cave and Basin, "The Great Divide" [Alberta/British Columbia border], and Vancouver. Individuals include Joe Woodworth, Annie and Maud Woodworth, Mary and Margaret Simpson [later known as the "Simpson Sisters"], "Billie" and numerous others who are mostly unnamed. Newspaper clipping pertains to Will Rogers memorial ice sculpture, n.d.

Notes: Some photographs annotated on reverse side with information re: individuals in photograph, location, etc.; Negatives have been removed from album [see "Conservation" notes]; newspaper clipping and pressed plant kept in album

Name Access: Woodworth, Maude; Woodworth, Joe; Simpson, Margaret; Simpson, Mary (Hallock); Woodworth, Annie

Subject Access: Hiking; Skiing; Boating; Horses; Packing; Camping; Family; Monument; Banff Winter Carnival; Ice sculpture; World War I; Travel; Swimming; Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; British Columbia; Victoria; Cave and Basin; Banff National Park; Bear Creek; Brazeau Lake; Nigel Pass

Conservation: Condition report completed by Karol Hancik in July 2017.; Pressed plant in album has been encapsulated to prevent damage to other album materials; 5 black and white negatives have been removed from album and will be stored with other V324 negatives in separate file box in downstairs vault, processed under V324 / I / A / NA; Album has been interleaved with acid-free tissue paper

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