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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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Canadian paintings in Hart House
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20321
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1955
- Author
- Harper, J. Russell
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Art Committee of Hart House
- Call Number
- N910 T63 H3
- Author
- Harper, J. Russell
- Responsibility
- selected and arranged, with notes by J. Russell Harper; with a foreword by Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Art Committee of Hart House
- Published Date
- c1955
- Physical Description
- xii, 90p. : ill. ports.
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- N910 T63 H3
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Camera work : a photographic quarterly
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20442
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- (1977?)
- Author
- Stieglitz, Alfred
- Publisher
- New York : A. Steiglitz
- Call Number
- N7633 S7 C3
- Author
- Stieglitz, Alfred
- Responsibility
- edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz
- Publisher
- New York : A. Steiglitz
- Published Date
- (1977?)
- Physical Description
- 4 photos : photogravure, b&w
- Subjects
- Photogravures - Exhibitions
- West house Gallery - Exhibitions
- Museum of Photographic Arts - Exhibitions
- Notes
- Exhibition from the West House Gallery and Museum of Photographic Arts
- "... from camera Work Volumes 29, 30, 32, and 34".
- From Sherman Hines private collection
- Contents : Auguste Rodine / Edward Steichen -- Brigitta / Frank Eugene -- East and West / J. Craig Annan -- Alvin Landon Coburn and mother / Clarence H. White
- Call Number
- N7633 S7 C3
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art : a handbook of the American Wing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21002
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1928
- Author
- Halsey, R. T. H.
- Publisher
- New York : The Museum
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Call Number
- NK2003 H3
- Author
- Halsey, R. T. H.
- Responsibility
- by R. T. H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Publisher
- New York : The Museum
- Published Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- 295p. : ill. plans
- Subjects
- Furniture - U.S. - History
- House furnishings - U.S. - History
- Interior decoration - U.S. - History
- Notes
- Includes index
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- NK2003 H3
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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A century of cameras from the collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21103
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1973
- Author
- Lothrop, Eaton S.
- Publisher
- Dobbs Ferry, New York : Morgan & Morgan
- Call Number
- TR250 L6
- Author
- Lothrop, Eaton S.
- Responsibility
- by Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr.
- Publisher
- Dobbs Ferry, New York : Morgan & Morgan
- Published Date
- c1973
- Physical Description
- 150p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Cameras - Collectors and collecting
- International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
- Notes
- Includes index
- ISBN
- 0-87-100-0-44X
- Accession Number
- 13,500
- Call Number
- TR250 L6
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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A history of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, 1884-1930
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4691
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Finch, David A.A
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45f
- Author
- Finch, David A.A
- Published Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- xiii, 338p. : ill., ports., plans, map
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- Accession Number
- 19500
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Historic period site survey inventory and assessment of Canadian Pacific's 1885 and 1916 railway alignments, Glacier National Park, British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4693
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1988
- Author
- Sumpter, Ian
- Publisher
- Calgary : Environment Canada - Parks
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45s
- Author
- Sumpter, Ian
- Publisher
- Calgary : Environment Canada - Parks
- Published Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- xviii, 451p. : ill., maps, plans
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Glacier House
- Accession Number
- 5818
- Call Number
- 13.117 G45s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mysterious Canada : strange sights, extraordinary events, and peculiar places
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12376
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1988
- Author
- Colombo, John Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Doubleday
- Call Number
- R 08.1 C71
- Author
- Colombo, John Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Doubleday
- Published Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- xii, 436p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Big Horn Storage and Power Development
- Canmore Opera House
- Ghosts
- Lost Lemon Mine
- Stoney Indians
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 0385251505
- Accession Number
- 23500
- Call Number
- R 08.1 C71
- Collection
- Archives Library
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House on the edge of ice
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12489
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Kletke, Glenn
- Publisher
- Kanata (Ontario) : Atyning Press
- Call Number
- 05.1 K67h
- Author
- Kletke, Glenn
- Publisher
- Kanata (Ontario) : Atyning Press
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 112 p. : ill
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- ISBN
- 0973001917
- Accession Number
- 7514
- Call Number
- 05.1 K67h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sk3t
- Copy 2 Reference Room Browser's Shelf
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Responsibility
- edited by Colleen Skidmore
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 295p. : ill., maps
- Series
- Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Subjects
- Adams, Mollie
- Glacier House
- Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell
- Henshaw, Julia W.
- Poetry
- Schaffer, Mary
- Swift, Suzette Chalifoux
- Sharples family
- Tourism
- Vaux family
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Young, Julia
- Notes
- Includes bibliography and index
- Partial contents: Includes excerpts from writings by Victorian and Edwardian era women describing their travel to the Canadian Rockies, including Lady Agnes Macdonald, Mrs. Arthur Spragge, The Countess of Aberdeen, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Sara Jeanette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes), Mrs. George Cran, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward
- Includes poetry by Rhoda W. Edwards, Moira O'Neill, Lynda R. Woods, and Elizabeth Ferguson
- Includes Jasper's first lady [act two] / Elsie Park Gowan; Hunter of Peace [prologue and act one, scene one] / Sharon Stearns
- ISBN
- 13:978-0-88864-466-4
- Accession Number
- 7638 (2 copies)
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sk3t
- Copy 2 Reference Room Browser's Shelf
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- Archives Library
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