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Ben Gadd fonds
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- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of materials pertaining to Ben Gadd's personal life and career as an environmental researcher, educator, interpretive guide, publisher, public speaker and author, ca.1956-2018. Fonds includes maps, research materials, publication notes/drafts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, …
- Date Range
- 1956-2018
- Reference Code
- M590 / V810 / S61
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Digital image
- Drawing
- Negative
- Newspaper clipping
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Published record
- Textual record
- Video
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- V810
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- 2024.01
- Reference Code
- M590 / V810 / S61
- GMD
- Digital image
- Drawing
- Negative
- Newspaper clipping
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Published record
- Textual record
- Video
- Transparency
- Date Range
- 1956-2018
- Physical Description
- ca. 7.9 metres of textual records -- ca. 274 maps -- 29 VHS tapes -- ca.15 discs with digital files -- 21 cassettes -- photographs -- oversized materials -- USB stick with 15 sldeshows
- History / Biographical
- Ben Gadd (1946-) is a retired naturalist, guide, geologist, instructor, freelance writer and award-winning author based in the Canadian Rockies. Ben was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1946. He met his wife, Cia (Langdon) Gadd at Colorado College in 1965, and the couple married four weeks later. Ben and Cia had two sons, Will and Toby. Ben and his family relocated to Jasper in the late 1960s. Ben later attended the University of Lethbridge and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Earth Science in 1972. Between 1976 and 1980, Ben taught classes at Mount Royal College and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology; he later taught additional classes at Grant MacEwan College and Lakeland College. From 1981, Ben also worked as a seasonal naturalist/guide for Parks Canada. Ben left Parks Canada in 1985 to start an independent naturalist guiding business with Cia based in Jasper and other parts of the Canadian Rockies, which the couple continued to operate for over two decades. Ben published his best-known work, "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies", through his publishing company Corax Press in 1986. The second edition of "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies" received multiple awards after its release in 1995. Ben's fiction book, "Raven's End" won the title of Best Canadian Rockies Book at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2001 and became a Canadian bestseller. Overall, Ben has authored or co-authored 11 books and received nearly one dozen awards for his achievements as a writer, researcher and guide. Ben continued to lead guided hikes and school programs until his retirement in 2016.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of materials pertaining to Ben Gadd's personal life and career as an environmental researcher, educator, interpretive guide, publisher, public speaker and author, ca.1956-2018. Fonds includes maps, research materials, publication notes/drafts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, video and sound recordings, and other related material. Materials donated in 2024 include one USB stick containing
- Notes
- Ben Gadd fonds arrangement: Series I : Personal records - Subseries A : Travel guides and maps - Subseries B : Education and early writings - Subseries C : Personal interest files - Subseries D : Other personal and collected Series II : Research and publication records - Subseries A : Handbook of the Canadian Rockies - Subseries B : Other publications Series III : Professional records - Subseries A : Parks Canada Records - Subseries B : Interpretive guiding - Subseries C : Teaching records - Subseries D : Other contracts and projects Series IV : Legal and financial records - Subseries A : Legal records - Subseries B : Financial records
- Subject Access
- Education
- Research
- Publication
- Environment
- Geology
- Tourism
- Family and personal life
- Personal and Professional Life
- Academics
- Guiding
- Guides
- Businesses
- Finances
- Conservation
- Wildlife
- Natural history
- Sports and recreation
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Jasper National Park
- Banff National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Lethbridge
- United States of America
- Colorado
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions apply
- Language
- English
- French
- Dutch
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed / Unprocessed
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Personal Interest Files - "Federation of Alberta Naturalists" to "Green Party"
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- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of personal interest materials, including newspaper clippings, research articles, loose notes, and other textual records collected by Ben Gadd. Materials are arranged alphabetically by subject title.
- Date Range
- [ca.1980-2015]
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / C / 57 to 70
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Published record
- Newspaper clipping
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- S61
- Series
- M590 / I : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- Sub-Series
- M590 / I / C : Personal Interest Files
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / C / 57 to 70
- Responsibility
- Compiled by Ben Gadd
- Date Range
- [ca.1980-2015]
- Physical Description
- 12 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of personal interest materials, including newspaper clippings, research articles, loose notes, and other textual records collected by Ben Gadd. Materials are arranged alphabetically by subject title.
- Notes
- Contents of individual folders in file: M590 / I / C / 57 : Federation of Alberta Naturalists M590 / I / C / 58 : Firesmart, Forestwise M590 / I / C / 59 : Fishing, Boats M590 / I / C / 60 : Flanagan, Rory M590 / I / C / 61 : Forest Fires M590 / I / C / 62 to 63 : Four Mountain Parks and Waterton [Files 1 and 2 of 2] M590 / I / C / 64 : Four Mountain Parks Planning Review, Other M590 / I / C / 65 : Free Trade, GATT, NAFTA M590 / I / C / 66 : Friends of Wells Gray Park M590 / I / C / 67 : Grassi Lakes Geology M590 / I / C / 68 : GSC M590 / I / C / 69 : Global Warming M590 / I / C / 70 : Green Party
- Name Access
- Gadd, Ben
- Subject Access
- Sports and recreation
- Tourism
- National parks and reserves
- Government
- Wildlife
- Conservation
- Environment
- Geology
- Fires
- Fishing
- Natural history
- Politics
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Jasper
- Waterton
- Grassi Lake
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Original title used
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Rutter, Nat
- Coppold, Murray
- Rokosh, Dean
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
1 website
- Responsibility
- The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Nat Rutter
- Murray Coppold
- Dean Rokosh
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Climatology
- Climate change
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Geography
- Geology
- Abstract
- Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
- Contents
- Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
- Notes
- Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780978013219
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Further research
Websites
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Science scrapbook : astronomy, agriculture, biology, etc.
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Scrapbook is titled "Science" on front cover, and consists of educational newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to various subjects including astronomy, weather patterns, science and technology, food production, and human and marine biology. Scrapbook contains a loose Table of Contents inside…
- Date Range
- 1936
- [1939 - 1940]
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / B4 - 18
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Scrapbook
- Newspaper clipping
- Published record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- III.B.4. Georgina Luxton : Collected Material : Textual Records
- Sous-Fonds
- III. Luxton Family sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / B4 - 18
- Date Range
- 1936
- [1939 - 1940]
- Physical Description
- 1.5 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- Scrapbook is titled "Science" on front cover, and consists of educational newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to various subjects including astronomy, weather patterns, science and technology, food production, and human and marine biology. Scrapbook contains a loose Table of Contents inside front cover listing subjects addressed in clippings [see "Content Details"].
- Name Access
- Rudaux, Lucien
- Subject Access
- Science and technology
- Research
- Medicine
- Geology
- Experiment
- Environment
- Education
- Ecology
- Commerce and industry
- Astronomy
- Agriculture
- Natural resources
- Natural history
- Neuroscience
- Fish
- Geographic Access
- France
- Canada
- Alberta
- Ontario
- Hamilton
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Scrapbook has been interleaved
- Handle with caution due to loose contents
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Education
- Environment
- Health services
- Natural resources
- Science and technology
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of item
- Content Details
- [Table of Contents] Contents 1939-1940 Other Planets: Artillery in the Skies Other Suns: Uses of different Parts of the Head Synthetic Products: Diamond Iron Salt: Technicolor Television: Man's conquest of the Air: Operations Vitamins: Pasteurization of milk The Five Senses and the Somatic Senses Development of Science; guns etc. Sugar Beets Shortest Day of the Year Sea Fish
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Globe-trotter : carnet de savoirs et d'activites
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13347
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Bergevin, Robert
- Publisher
- Quebec : Les editions CEC
- Call Number
- 03 B45g
- Author
- Bergevin, Robert
- Responsibility
- Robert Bergevin, Denis Bruneau
- Publisher
- Quebec : Les editions CEC
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- VI, 198p, 3p, 10p, 4p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Environment
- Geology
- Glaciers
- Juvenile literature
- Notes
- Juvenile school textbook. French text
- ISBN
- 2-7617-2253-1
- Accession Number
- 7805
- Call Number
- 03 B45g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Our Alberta : book 1
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Tyerman, Marcia
- Publisher
- Canada : Duval House; Thomson Nelson
- Call Number
- 03 Al1o
- Author
- Tyerman, Marcia
- Responsibility
- Marcia Tyerman, Trudie BonBernard, Phyllis Cardinal
- Publisher
- Canada : Duval House; Thomson Nelson
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- ix, 168p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Environment
- Geology
- Geography
- Juvenile literature
- Notes
- Juvenile school textbook
- ISBN
- 0-17-628352-8
- Accession Number
- 7805
- Call Number
- 03 Al1o
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Colonial Coral Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1030
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, fossil
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1030
- Description
- Fossilized colonial coral, middle Devonian in age. Common throughout North America. Species: Pachyphyllum. Warm shallow ocean environment. Limestone matrix. Has undergone weathering. Coral structure is well defined. Small crinoid fragments exposed on one side. Recrystallization of the rock is occur…
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- Title
- Colonial Coral Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, fossil
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 12.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Fossilized colonial coral, middle Devonian in age. Common throughout North America. Species: Pachyphyllum. Warm shallow ocean environment. Limestone matrix. Has undergone weathering. Coral structure is well defined. Small crinoid fragments exposed on one side. Recrystallization of the rock is occurring is some areas, calcite crystals growing in the vugs (cavities). These types of coral fossils are very common in Western Canada and could have been collected locally.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1030
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, petrified bone
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1031
- Description
- Fossilized bone, possibly dinosaur bone from Drumheller area. From the Cretaceous period.
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- Title
- Bone Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, petrified bone
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 11.0 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Fossilized bone, possibly dinosaur bone from Drumheller area. From the Cretaceous period.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1031
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Petrified Wood Fossil
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, petrified wood
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1032
- Description
- Petrified wood (chalcedony) with quartz crystals growing in the voids. The original woody structure has been replaced by silty material in some areas. Likely from the Drumheller area, not from the Bow Valley. From the Cretaceous period.
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- Title
- Petrified Wood Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, petrified wood
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 8.0 x 13.0 cm
- Description
- Petrified wood (chalcedony) with quartz crystals growing in the voids. The original woody structure has been replaced by silty material in some areas. Likely from the Drumheller area, not from the Bow Valley. From the Cretaceous period.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1032
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Petrified Wood Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1033
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, petrified wood
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1033
- Description
- Silicified wood, growth rings very well exposed and displayed. One side is weathered and one side is cut, displaying the rings more clearly. All the woody cells have been replaced by silica. Minor fracturing. From the Cretaceous period. This specimen is typical of the petrified wood found in the Ro…
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- Title
- Petrified Wood Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- stone, petrified wood
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 5.0 x 6.0 cm
- Description
- Silicified wood, growth rings very well exposed and displayed. One side is weathered and one side is cut, displaying the rings more clearly. All the woody cells have been replaced by silica. Minor fracturing. From the Cretaceous period. This specimen is typical of the petrified wood found in the Rocky Mountain House and Edmonton areas.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1033
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