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Trout tracks : essays on fly fishing

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
McLennan, Jim
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
02.8 M22t
Author
McLennan, Jim
Responsibility
Illustrations by Lynda McLennan
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
235 pages ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fly fishing
Fishing
Recreation
Sport
Water
Fish
Wildlife
Abstract
A new collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists. Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea. Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.” You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places. -- From publisher
Contents
1. Places -- 2. Bugs, real and fake -- 3. How -- 4. Navel gazing -- 5. The silly side -- 6. At the water -- 7. People 8. Aging (gracefully, more or less).
ISBN
9781771603652
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
02.8 M22t
Collection
Archives Library
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Rocky Mountain fishing and hiking maps : Banff Park area

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24355
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
c1983
Publisher
Calgary : Brock Hassell
Call Number
C6-.8.1c
Publisher
Calgary : Brock Hassell
Published Date
c1983
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
1 inch = 5 km
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Fishing
Banff National Park
Accession Number
17,000
Call Number
C6-.8.1c
Collection
Archives Library
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Rocky Mountain fishing and hiking maps : Kananaskis-Windermere

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Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
c1983
Publisher
Calgary : Brock Hassell
Call Number
C6-8.2b
Publisher
Calgary : Brock Hassell
Published Date
c1983
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
1 inch = 5 km
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Fishing
Kananaskis Country
Windermere region
Accession Number
17,000
Call Number
C6-8.2b
Collection
Archives Library
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Rocky Mountain fishing and hiking maps : Rocky Mountain House-Nordegg

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Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
c1983
Publisher
Calgary : Brock Hassell
Call Number
C6-8.3
Publisher
Calgary : Brock Hassell
Published Date
c1983
Physical Description
1 map : col
Scale
1 inch = 5 km
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Fishing
Nordegg Region
Accession Number
17,000
Call Number
C6-8.3
Collection
Archives Library
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Fishing bulletin for Banff National Park, nos. 2-3

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Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Published Date
1959-1960
Publisher
[Banff : s.n.]
Call Number
C6-8.4
Publisher
[Banff : s.n.]
Published Date
1959-1960
Physical Description
3 maps on 1 sheet : b & w
Scale
indeterminable
Medium
Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
Map
Subjects
Fishing - Banff National Park
Banff National Park
Notes
Textual material on reverse
Contents: Banff-Egypt Lake Area (Section 1). - Louise-Eisenhower Area (Section 2). -- Bow Summit Area (Section 3)
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Call Number
C6-8.4
Collection
Archives Library
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Outdoor life cyclopedia : a complete guide for sportsmen

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1945
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
Responsibility
Prepared by the editorial staff of Outdoor Life
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Published Date
1945
Physical Description
334 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fishing
Firearms
Hunting
Deer
Elk
Bears
Dogs
Water Travel
Camping
Woodcraft
Food
Contents
Angling equipment -- Methods of fishing -- Fresh water fishing -- Ocean fishing -- The sporting rifle -- Learning to shoot -- Methods of hunting -- The deer family -- Elk, antelope, sheep, bear -- Hunting small game -- The shotgun -- American waterfowl -- Our upland birds -- Mastering the handgun -- Your gun dog -- The sportsman's boat -- Camping and woodcraft -- Camp recipies.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
Collection
Archives Library
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Organizing nature : turning Canada's ecosystems into resources

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
04 B53o
Author
Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xviii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Environment
Environmental conservation
Environmentalism
Ecology
Mining
Oil
Fishing
Abstract
Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 1.1 From How to Why -- 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 1.3 Politics beyond Policy -- 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels -- 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes -- 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governments -- 2.3 Communities -- 2.4 Built Environments -- 2.5 Culture and Ideas -- 2.6 Economies -- 2.7 Bodies and Identities -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. From Fish to Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia -- 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. From Forests to Timber -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick -- 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods -- 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. From Carbon to Energy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia -- 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta -- 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking -- 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon -- 5.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. From H2O to Water -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Diversions and Damming -- 6.2.1 Diversion -- 6.2.2 Damming -- 6.3 Drinking Water -- 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 -- 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 -- 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek-Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962-? -- 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary -- 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. From Land to Property -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Soil -- 7.3 Symbol -- 7.4 Space -- 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. From Bodies to Life -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals -- 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species -- 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource -- 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife -- 8.3 Human Resources -- 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma -- 8.3.2 Surrogacy -- 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers -- 9.1 Channels in Action -- 9.2 Common Themes -- 9.2.1 Commodification -- 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession -- 9.2.3 Artificial Nature-Society Binary -- 9.3 Why Does 'Resource Thinking' Matter? -- 9.3.1 Winning and Losing -- 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy?
ISBN
9781487594848
Accession Number
P2023.22
Call Number
04 B53o
Collection
Archives Library
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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
Call Number
08.1 Ab3n
Responsibility
Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
Publisher
Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
239 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History-Canada
Sport
Curling
Olympic games
Alpinism
Fishing
Rodeos
Abstract
In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
ISBN
9781771993777
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.1 Ab3n
Collection
Archives Library
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Wild life and the camera

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1912
Author
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe
Publisher
Philadelphia : Lippincott
Call Number
04.2 D87wl
Author
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe
Publisher
Philadelphia : Lippincott
Published Date
1912
Physical Description
xi, 332p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Birds
Camping
Fishing
Porcupines
Accession Number
557
Call Number
04.2 D87wl
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1987
Author
McLennan, Jim
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine
Call Number
04.2 M22
Author
McLennan, Jim
Responsibility
photos: Jim and Lynda McLennan
illustrations: Jack Cowin
line drawings: Yuet C. Chan
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine
Published Date
1987
Physical Description
156p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fishing
Notes
Bibliography
ISBN
0-919433-21-9
Accession Number
20500
Call Number
04.2 M22
Collection
Archives Library
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