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Glacial geology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15224
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Author
- Geikie, James
- Publisher
- New York : Scientific American Supplement
- Call Number
- 03.4 G27g Pam
- Author
- Geikie, James
- Publisher
- New York : Scientific American Supplement
- Published Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- 4 pages, illustrations
- Accession Number
- 7964
- Call Number
- 03.4 G27g Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Glacial studies in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks (Smithsonian expedition, season of 1904.) preliminary report
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15218
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1905
- Author
- Sherzer, William Hittell
- Publisher
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sh5g Pam
- Author
- Sherzer, William Hittell
- Publisher
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution
- Published Date
- 1905
- Physical Description
- 44 pages, illustrations
- Subjects
- Deville Glacier
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Lefroy Glacier
- Mitre Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Victoria Glacier
- Wapta Glacier
- Wenkchemna Glacier
- Yoho Glacier
- Accession Number
- 7913
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sh5g Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
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- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3369
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Great Glacier of the Selkirks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24915
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Author
- Ingersoll, Ernest
- Publisher
- Harper's Weekly
- Call Number
- 02.6 In4t PAM O.S.
- Author
- Ingersoll, Ernest
- Responsibility
- Ernest Ingersoll
- Publisher
- Harper's Weekly
- Published Date
- 1889
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Selkirk Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains - Hermit Range
- Selkirk Range
- Selkirk Range - B.C.
- Hotels
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Travel
- Tourism
- Geography
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Selkirk Mountains, Illecillewaete Glacier, Glacier Creek, Sir Donald, the hotel and Canadian Pacific Railway access to the area as of 1889.
- Notes
- In Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXIII No. 1702, August 3, 1889, pp. 616 - 618
- Accession Number
- 7890
- Call Number
- 02.6 In4t PAM O.S.
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- Archives Library
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Legacy in ice : the Vaux family and the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue630
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- Cavell, Edward
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- TR787 V3 C3
- TR787 V3 C3 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 6
- Author
- Cavell, Edward
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- AC605 copy 2
- Call Number
- TR787 V3 C3
- TR787 V3 C3 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Pacific crest trails from Alaska to Cape Horn
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14132
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1946
- Author
- Hazard, Joseph Taylor
- Publisher
- Seattle, Wash : Superior publishing company
- Call Number
- 02 H33p
- Author
- Hazard, Joseph Taylor
- Responsibility
- Joseph T. Hazard
- Publisher
- Seattle, Wash : Superior publishing company
- Published Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 317 p. front., plates.
- Accession Number
- 7864
- Call Number
- 02 H33p
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Picturesque California : The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24928
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1894
- Author
- Muir, John (editor)
- Ingersoll, Ernest (author)
- Publisher
- San Francisco, New York : J. Dewing Company, Publishers
- Call Number
- 02.6 In4p PAM O.S.
- Responsibility
- John Muir (editor)
- Ernest Ingersoll (author)
- Eminent American Artists (photos, photogravures, wood engravings derived from paintings)
- Publisher
- San Francisco, New York : J. Dewing Company, Publishers
- Published Date
- 1894
- Physical Description
- 16 pages
- Series
- California Series No. 32, April 23, 1894
- Subjects
- Travel
- Tourism
- Rocky Mountains
- Art
- Fraser, John Arthur
- Notman, William & Son
- Banff
- Canmore
- Kamloops
- Vancouver
- Victoria
- Sir Donald, Mount
- Bow River
- Hot springs
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Emerald Lake
- Selkirk Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains - Hermit Range
- Asulkan Glacier
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Canadian Rockies as authored by Ernest Ingersoll with introduction by John Muir including a variety of sketches of Sir Donald, Bow River, Canmore, the Great Glacier, hot springs, open pool, Mount Burgess and Emerald Lake, Bow Falls and Banff Springs Hotel, the Selkirks and Hermit Mountain, Cheops, Asulkan Glacier, Stanley Park, Victoria, Shushwap Mission at Kamloops, and the Canadian Pacific Docks at Vancouver.
- Notes
- Part XXVI - The Canadian Rockies by Ernest Ingersoll
- Accession Number
- 7901
- Call Number
- 02.6 In4p PAM O.S.
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- Archives Library
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Rogers pass : uptracks, bootpacks and bushwhacks : a topographic route map to backcountry skiing at Rogers Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21550
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Map
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Sproul, Douglas
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Uptrack Publishing
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- A6.4
- Author
- Sproul, Douglas
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Uptrack Publishing
- Published Date
- 2014
- Notes
- This map is a companion to the GeoBackcountry Rogers Pass Guidebook. Refer to the book for important information not included on this map.
- Call Number
- A6.4
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The Selkirks - Nelson's Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20153
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Garden, J.F.
- Publisher
- Revelstoke, BC : Footprint
- Call Number
- F1089 G37 S45
- Author
- Garden, J.F.
- Responsibility
- J.F. Garden (author), William Lowell Putnman (introduction)
- Publisher
- Revelstoke, BC : Footprint
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 143 pages : chiefly color illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains
- Selkirk Range
- Selkirk Range - B.C.
- Purcell Mountains
- Purcell Range
- Bugaboos
- Expeditions
- Asulkan Glacier
- Clubs
- Photography
- Geography
- Abstract
- Features the photography of Glen Boles, Fred Duchman, Roger Laurilla, Jim Maitre, Mike Pirnke, Dust Veideman with text by J.F. Garden pertaining to the Selkirk Mountains
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction by W.L. Putnam
- I Nelson's Mountains
- II Purcells - Conrad Icefield, Bugaboos, Lake of the Hanging Glaciers
- III Southern Selkirks - Valhalla, The Battle Range, An Expedition, Asulkan Pass, Bivouac!
- IV Norther Selkirks - Clachnacudainn, Founding of the "Club", Balu Pass, The Major's Mountain, Conquering Mermaid, Mt. Sir Sandford and the Adamants
- V Bibliography
- VI Notes
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0969162103
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- F1089 G37 S45
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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