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Alpine Guide to southwestern British Columbia

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1974
Author
Culbert, Dick
Publisher
West Vancouver : Alpine Guide
Call Number
F1089 C7 C8 1974
Author
Culbert, Dick
Publisher
West Vancouver : Alpine Guide
Published Date
1974
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Coast Mountains
Guidebooks
Call Number
F1089 C7 C8 1974
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Beach Combers, Burrard Inlet, B.C.

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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.38
Description
A coastal seascape of Burrard Inlet, BC, shows a floating house or shack in the centre right of the image. It has a railing running around it and a covered porch. A walkway runs from the shore at the bottom of the image to the shack. Part of another shack is cropped at the left of the image. L…
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Beach Combers, Burrard Inlet, B.C.
Date
n.d.
Medium
watercolour on paper
Description
A coastal seascape of Burrard Inlet, BC, shows a floating house or shack in the centre right of the image. It has a railing running around it and a covered porch. A walkway runs from the shore at the bottom of the image to the shack. Part of another shack is cropped at the left of the image. Logs are floating around these buildings. Beyond the buildings is Burrard Inlet on which there are two or three boats. A dock runs out the boats in the upper left corner. Beyond, at the top of the image are Coast mountains, some covered in snow.
Subject
landscape
coastal
seascape
Pacific
British Columbia
Burrard Inlet, mountains, Coast
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.38
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Date
1900 – 1930
Material
glass; shell, abalone; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.01.0016
Description
A child's bracelet strung on a twisted cloth strap. The bracelet has six blue Chinese trade beads separated by a shaped abalone shell from two white, one cobalt blue, and one red white-heart bead.
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Title
Beaded Bracelet
Date
1900 – 1930
Material
glass; shell, abalone; fibre
Dimensions
7.5 cm
Description
A child's bracelet strung on a twisted cloth strap. The bracelet has six blue Chinese trade beads separated by a shaped abalone shell from two white, one cobalt blue, and one red white-heart bead.
Subject
Indigenous
West Coast
beadwork
regalia
children
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0016
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Date
1850 – 1880
Material
glass; shell
Catalogue Number
103.01.0012
Description
A necklace made by alternating sets of two dentalium shells with various coloured beads. A triangular shaped abalone shell hanging from centre as a pendant.
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Title
Beaded Necklace
Date
1850 – 1880
Material
glass; shell
Dimensions
38.0 cm
Description
A necklace made by alternating sets of two dentalium shells with various coloured beads. A triangular shaped abalone shell hanging from centre as a pendant.
Subject
Indigenous
West Coast, California
beadwork
decorative
regalia
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0012
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1922
Author
Golder, F.A
Publisher
New York : American Geographical Society
Call Number
G370 B4 G6 I
Author
Golder, F.A
Publisher
New York : American Geographical Society
Published Date
1922
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alaska
Bering, Vitus Jonasson
Pacific Coast
Accession Number
AC252
Call Number
G370 B4 G6 I
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1925
Author
Golder, F.A
Publisher
New York : American Geographical Society
Call Number
G370 B4 G6 II
Author
Golder, F.A
Publisher
New York : American Geographical Society
Published Date
1925
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alaska
Bering, Vitus Jonasson
Pacific Coast
Accession Number
AC252
Call Number
G370 B4 G6 II
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Canada and America 28 Sept. to 14 Dec. 1889

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Part Of
Canada and America album fonds
Scope & Content
Album contains 73 b&w photographs, pasted in, captioned. Photographs pertain to Medicine Hat, Alberta; the Rocky Mountains and the Canadian Pacific Railway; Banff National park; the Kicking Horse and Columbia Rivers; Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia; Mariposa County, California; Mount Shast…
Date Range
ca.1889
Reference Code
V388 / PD - 1
Description Level
5 / File
Part Of
Canada and America album fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Accession Number
6261
Reference Code
V388 / PD - 1
Date Range
ca.1889
Physical Description
Photograph Album: 1 photograph album (73 b&w prints)
Scope & Content
Album contains 73 b&w photographs, pasted in, captioned. Photographs pertain to Medicine Hat, Alberta; the Rocky Mountains and the Canadian Pacific Railway; Banff National park; the Kicking Horse and Columbia Rivers; Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia; Mariposa County, California; Mount Shasta; Yosemite National Park, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Muir's Glacier, Alaska. Subjects include numerous views of railway infrastructure of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Oregon and California Rail Road (O & C.R.R.), images of ferries and steamers, mountains, waterfalls, bays, and other ‘natural wonders’ like the giant Sequoia trees of California, cedar trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The album also contains photographs of Victoria, Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington. The album was most likely assembled by an unknown traveller. The photographs were taken by professional Canadian photographers A. B. Thom (1849-1926) and C. S. Bailey (1869-1896), and American photographers Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912), George Fiske (1835-1918), C. R. Savage (1832-1909), and possibly Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916). For more information regarding the photographers, see scope 2B. 25 photographs have no author referenced in the album. Prints on pages 2, 5, 6, 8, 12, 17, and 18 have been attributed to A.B. Thom through consultation of captions and catalogue numbers found through the Manitoba Historical Society. Prints on pages 26 - 30, and 32 have been attributed to C.S. Bailey through matching the catalogue numbers and captions on the print with the catalogue numbers of the photographer found in a 1889 catalogue. Prints on pages 20 - 25 may be attributed to Carleton E. Watkins (see scope 2B). Square brackets in list below indicate attribution made by archives staff. Page Photographer Image # Caption: 1 A.B. Thom 2146 Banff from the Sanitarium and Cloud Effects, Cascade Mountains 2 [A.B. Thom] 2102 Bow River Valley from Kanaskis Falls 3 A.B. Thom 2151 Banff and Surrounding Mountains from Sulfur Mountain 4 A.B. Thom 2176 Bow River Rapids and Cascade Peak, Banff 5 [A.B. Thom] 2010 Bow River Valley from C.P.R Hotel, Banff Park 6 [A.B. Thom] 2134 Bird’s eye view of C.P.R Hotel above Bow Rapids, Banff 7 A.B. Thom 2135 General View of Banff and Surrounding Mts. From the Hot Springs 8 [A.B. Thom] 2115 Tunnel Mountain from Junction of Bow and Spray Rivers 9 A.B. Thom 2144 Beaver Mouth Canyon, Mount Swett's in the distance 10 A.B. Thom 2138 Glacier on East Side of Mount Stephen 10,500 feet high 11 A.B. Thom 2156 Cascade Falls Near Rogers Pass, Selkirks 12 [A.B. Thom] 2033 Kicking Horse Canyon Looking West From Muir's Tunnel 13 A.B. Thom 2158 In the Kicking Horse at Muir's Tunnel 14 A.B. Thom 2140 Seventh and Eighth Crossing Kicking Horse Canyon 15 A.B. Thom 2160 View of the Glacier Peak from the Long Shed 16 A.B. Thom 2150 Banks of the Columbia River, Six Miles West of Donald 17 [A.B. Thom] 2047 Stony Creek Bridge, Highest Wooden Bridge in World 18 [A.B. Thom] 2119 Albert Canyon, Illecillwaet River, BC 19 A.B. Thom 2174 Vancouver, as seen from Hotel Vancouver 20 Unknown Hand-written caption only: Victoria, BC 21 Unknown Hand-written caption only: Victoria, BC 22 Unknown Hand-written caption only: Victoria, BC 23 Unknown Hand-written caption only: Victoria, BC 24 Unknown Hand-written caption only: Seatle 25 Unknown Hand-written caption only: Tacoma 26 [C.S. Bailey] 508 Squamish Indian Mission 26 [C.S. Bailey] 574 Str (Steamer) 'Yosemite' rounding Brocton Point Vancouver, B.C 27 [C.S. Bailey] 624 The Loop, CPR Selkirks 27 [C.S. Bailey] 645 Mountain Creek Bridge, Selkirks 28 [C.S. Bailey] 626 The Loop, CPR Selkirks, Showing three Tracks 28 [C.S. Bailey] 608 A Glimpse at the Fraser Above North Bend 29 [C.S. Bailey] 546 Cedar Tree, On Park Road Vancouver 29 [C.S. Bailey] 573 Part of Stanely Park Road, Vancouver 30 [C.S. Bailey] 506 Vancouver, B.C From South 31 C.S. Bailey x609 C.P.R Bridge over Fraser River near Cisco 32 [C.S. Bailey] x659 Bow River Valley from Hot Springs, Banff, National Park 33 C.S. Bailey x587 Hope Mountains from Hope Station 34 Taber 3749 Mossbrae Falls, from O & C.R.R. Shasta County, California 35 Taber 3743 O & C.R.R. and Eagle Cliff, Shasta, Co. California 36 Taber 3741 Sacramento River near its source and O & C.R.R. Shasta County, Cal. 37 Taber B2068 Mt. Shasta from Strawberry Valley 38 Taber 2116 Castle Rock, from Lower Soda Spring 39 Taber 3740 O & C.R.R. Loop Showing Three Trestles, Siskiyou Mts. Cal. 40 Taber B2075 Mt. Shasta from Butteville 41 Taber 3744 Mt. Shasta, Cal. 42 Taber B522 Market Street from Third Street, San Francisco Looking East 43 Taber B920 View of Telegraph Hill and Water from S.t. from the Bay 44 Taber B868 San Francisco Bay 45 Taber B1674 Oakland Ferry Boat "Piedmont" 46 Taber B532 Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean 47 Taber 4222 Conservatory, Golden Gate Park, San Fran. Cal. 48 Taber B3092 Wawana Station, Cal - 1887 49 Taber 3097 Big Trees, Mariposa Grove, Cal. On distant mountain - From point Miller - Yosemite Valley, Cal. 50 Taber B2455 Mariposa Grove 51 Taber A260 "Grizzly Giant" 33 Feet diameter, Mariposa 52 Taber 2538 The Grizzly Giant, diameter 33 feet Mariposa Grove, Cal 53 Taber 3070 Big Trees and Cabin, Mariposa Grove, Cal. 54 Taber A278 Sequoia Group, 270 feet high, Mariposa Grove 55 Taber B953 Hercules (Fallen Tree) Calaveras Grove 56 Fiske 376 Handwritten caption: 'Mariposa' 56 Fiske 494 No caption 57 Fiske 379 Handwritten caption: 'Grizzly Giant' 57 Fiske 378 Handwritten caption: 'Orion' 58 Fiske 735 Sunset Study, San Franciso Bay, Copywright 1884 59 Taber 4495 The Grounds of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterry Cal. 60 Taber 4491 Hotel Del Monte - Side - Monterry Cal. 61 Taber B2202 Midway Point 62 Taber B2292 Cypress Tree and Carmel Point 63 Taber B2195 Arizona Garden, Hotel Del Monte 64 Unknown 1337.A Amphitheatre of Williams Canon - Canyon Col. Springs 64 Unknown Gateway Garden of the Gods Colorado 65 C.R. Savage Garfield Beach, Salt Lake 66 Taber 4552 Longitudinal view of Muir Glacier, Across the Face, Alaska
Subject Access
Rail Travel, Tourism, Landscapes, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Coast
Title Source
Titled based on the title on album
Content Details
Alexander Barton Thom (1849-1926) was predominantly a landscape photographer working mostly out Winnipeg, Manitoba but was to known to travel extensively. In 1886, he took over 2000 photographs along the Canadian Pacific Railway. Thom took photographs of the rocky mountain landscape found along the tracks of the CPR and in the towns along the way (in the case of this album - Banff and views of the Bow Valley from Banff), as well as railway infrastructure including bridges, loops, and tunnels. Thom travelled during the winters of 1885 through 1889; he spent his time travelling through the USA and England. During these travels, Thom would give illustrated lectures using his photographs. Since Thom believed that his presentations and images were benefiting the CPR and Canadian immigration, he requested that the CPR provide a photographic car on the train that could be a portable photographic studio. Found in the Canadian Pacific Archives was a letter from Thom requesting the CPR add a photographic car to the CPR. There is however no record of a reply to Thom’s request. Apparently, the impetus for Thom requesting the portable photographic studio was not only his perceived benefits of the photographs for immigration purposes but that Thom wanted to make a series of 21x25 views on glass plates. Having a portable studio on the rails would make the processing and developing images of this size much easier for the photographer. Other archival holdings of Thom’s work include an album housed at the McCord Museum in Montreal, which formerly belonged to Canadian Pacific Railway historian Omer Lavallee. This album was compiled circa 1888 in Winnipeg - possibly for William Whyte who was the Western Superintendent of the CPR. After his time traveling extensively, Thom owned and operated several photographic studios in Manitoba from 1891 to 1900 and retired from photography in 1904. More information pertaining to Thom can be found through the Manitoba Historical Society. Charles S. Bailey (1869-1896) born in Creemore, Ontario, was an active professional photographer from 1887 until his death in 1896. Originally based out of Vancouver from 1887 to 1895, Bailey is well known as a landscape photographer. Twelve of Bailey’s views can be found in this album. The views in this album are very significant because of Bailey’s untimely death at 27 years of age. The view numbers of the photographs in this album can be matched with those found in the catalogue "Bailey and Neelands: Views Along the Canadian Pacific Railway," which was published in 1889 in Vancouver by Bailey and Neelands. He later moved to Kamloops, BC and has been credited with managing a branch of the Bailey Brothers Store Ltd. It has also been speculated that he was one of the first photographers to visit Hawaii in January to May 1895. Bailey’s photographs and prints will hold the markers: C.S. Bailey, Bailey & Neelands, or Bailey Bros. Information pertaining Bailey can be found in the City of Vancouver Archives. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) began working in a California photographic studio in 1864 and opened his own gallery in 1875. Taber is known for his views of California and the San Francisco area. After the bankruptcy of photographer Carleton E. Watkins in 1875, Taber bought Watkins’ Yosemite gallery and began marketing Watkins’ stereoviews under his own I.W. Taber label while keeping Watkins’ original view numbers. In 1906, at the time of the San Francisco earthquake, he lost his gallery and negative collection. At this time Taber was 76 years old and this loss marked the end of his photographic career. Because of this loss of his gallery and negatives the 29 views that can be seen in this album are parts of the remaining, rare Taber works that are circulating. Through the cross referencing of the Watkins views numbers with Taber’s, none of the Watkins views owned by Taber seem to appear in this album. George Fiske (1835-1918), a professional American photographer known for his views of the Yosemite Valley is represented in this album by five photographs in and around Mariposa Grove and San Francisco California. Fiske worked as an assistant to photographer Carleton E. Watkins. A year following Watkins’ bankruptcy, Fiske moved to Yosemite was the first photographer to be a year round resident of the Valley. Tragically, in 1904, Fiske’s home and studio was destroyed by fire. Along with the home and studio, the fire also destroyed three quarters of his glass-plate negatives, two cameras, two lenses, and large portion of his stock prints. Again, in 1943, a second fire destroyed his remaining glass-plate negatives. The second fire occurred in the sawmill of the Yosemite Company where Fiske’s negatives were being stored. Fiske’s work had caught the eye of a young Ansel Adams, who had made prints from Fiske remaining negatives prior to the fire. Adams warned of the possible demise of Fiske’s remaining work but nothing was done and they were lost. In light of the destruction of Fiske’s negatives and stock collection, the five photographic prints in the Canada and America Album of a great historical significance. More about Fiske can be found in the publication The life and Photographic Works of George Fiske, 1835-1918 (1979) by Paul Hickman and the publication Yosemite Photographer (1980) by Paul Hickman and Terence Pitts. Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was a prominent landscape and portrait photographer based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Savage is best known as one of three photographers present at the joining of the rails at Promontory, Utah in 1869 (Andrew J. Russell and Alfred A. Hart being the other two). Savage photographed mostly Salt Lake City, Utah, and California. He was also known to have been the premier photographer of LDS (Latter Day Saints) church leaders. Savage owned the ‘Pioneer Art Gallery’ from 1870 until 1875 when he opened a larger space and he opened his ‘Art Bazaar.’ In June of 1883, the ‘Art Bazaar’ burned to the ground and all of his negatives were destroyed. After his death, another fire in 1911 destroyed the negatives from the last 25 years of his life. Like the other photographers in this album who had their collections destroyed, the photographs, stereographs, cabinet cards, etc. that remain are originals and therefore rare. The largest collection (839 images total) of Savage’s views is held in The Brigham Young University Collection in Utah. This collection does not, however, hold the photographers original numbering system. Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) born in Oneota, New York began his photographic career in San Francisco in 1854 and went on to be one of the most well known photographers of the Yosemite Valley. The locations Watkins photographed spanned from Tombstone, Arizona to Victoria, British Columbia. He was also commissioned over the span of his career to document mining works in California and Oregon, various subjects for the California Geological survey. His mining views from the Mariposa area were exhibited in London in 1862. The year previous, Watkins traveled to Yosemite were he made thirty mammoth photographs and one hundred stereographs of the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa grove. In 1864, Watkins views of Yosemite proved influential in the United States congress to pass legislation to preserve the Yosemite Valley. Watkins owned and operated the ‘Yosemite Gallery’ in San Francisco out of which his sold his photographic products. In 1875, after a series of business decisions that put Watkins in financial jeopardy, over production of his stereoviews by eastern publishers, and an economic slump in San Francisco, Watkins’ loan from John Jay Cook was foreclosed on and Watkins was forced into bankruptcy. In the bankruptcy Watkins lost the gallery and its holdings, which was all of his negatives, his collection of prints, and all of the photographic equipment. Cook, in association with photographer I.W. Taber subsequently ran the gallery. Taber began selling Watkins’ photographs and stereoviews under the Taber label but maintained Watkins’ original view numbers. Following this Watkins attempted to rebuild the lost negatives but failed to regain financial stability. During the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire in 1906, Watkins lost everything. The largest holdings of Watkins’ work can be found at the Bancroft library at the University of California, the California State library, Huntington library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford University. A series of the unknown photographs in this album may be attributed to Watkins (pages 20-25). One image in particular (in the album captioned as ‘Tacoma’ by the album’s author on page 25) has been matched to a Watkins image that is held in the photographic collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art titled “New Tacoma, Washington, Puget Sound, 1882; albumen print.”
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Canada's newest mountains

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Munday, Don
Call Number
01.4 C63c
Author
Munday, Don
Physical Description
p.227-238 : ill., ports
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Coast Mountains
Waddington, Mount
Notes
In Canadian Geographical Journal, vol.V, nos.4-6, December 1932
Accession Number
6500
Call Number
01.4 C63c
Collection
Archives Library
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The climbers guide to Powell River

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2002
Author
Armstrong, Chris
Publisher
Chris Armstrong
Call Number
F1089 A74 P6
Author
Armstrong, Chris
Publisher
Chris Armstrong
Published Date
2002
Physical Description
73 p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Coast Mountains
Guidebooks
Call Number
F1089 A74 P6
Collection
Archives Library
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The climbers guide to Squamish

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1999, 2001
Author
McLane, Kevin
Publisher
Squamish (B.C.) : Elaho
Edition
rev. March 2001
Call Number
F1089 S6 M22
Author
McLane, Kevin
Edition
rev. March 2001
Publisher
Squamish (B.C.) : Elaho
Published Date
1999, 2001
Physical Description
443, 24 p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Coast Mountains
Guidebooks
Rock climbing
Notes
Includes index
Previous title: The Rockclimbers Guide to Squamish
ISBN
0968247210
Call Number
F1089 S6 M22
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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