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Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
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- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Responsibility
- Charlotte Gill
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 247 pages
- Abstract
- A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest. Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. Eating Dirt also eloquently evokes the wonder of trees, which grow from tiny seeds into one of the world's largest organisms, our slowest-growing ""renewable"" resource. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.
- Notes
- Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
- ISBN
- 9781553657927
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Lane, C. Alexia
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 03.6 L24o
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- Author
- Lane, C. Alexia
- Responsibility
- C. Alexia Lane
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 127 pages
- Abstract
- Around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater risks in order to fuel our consumption and over-use of this planet’s natural resources. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, has emerged as a lightning rod of controversy as engaged citizens grow more and more concerned with the threats facing fresh water resources, local geology and sensitive landscapes. C. Alexia Lane’s first RMB Manifesto introduces readers to the practice of “fracking” and makes it clear that there is an urgent need for current policies to be reformed in order to alleviate ever-growing community, ecological and environmental concerns. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- That was then ... -- This is now ... -- The wild wests : governance of water and energy in North America -- Environmental and health concerns -- Groundwater -- Future focus.
- ISBN
- 9781927330807
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.6 L24o
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Films and film making - Film industry
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25774
- Contents
- This file contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the film industry. This file includes news regarding business, finance, and legal issues in Canada from 1980 onwards.
- Call Number
- NEWSFILE
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Adventures in small tourism : studies and stories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26248
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 02 Sch2a
- Responsibility
- Edited and with introduction by Kathleen Scherf
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- ix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- The double blow of overtourism and COVID has shaken the travel industry and forced a reconsideration of what tourism is, and can be. This volume offers a vision of regenerative tourism beneficial to travelers and locals alike. Adventures in Small Tourism presents academic studies and personal stories about small tourism. While small tourism is not new, it has become increasingly important as the widespread negative effects of overtourism have become increasingly apparent, with cities like Amsterdam and Barcelona experiencing barriocide, the death of neighbourhoods, as they host overwhelming numbers of visitors. Small tourism, especially creative tourism, not only reduces the actual and potential negative impact of guests on local culture but actively seeks to strengthen and revive local communities by weaving together the experiences of guest and host. Participatory, respectful, and celebratory methods and manners of tourism, rooted in community and cultural networks, has the potential to strengthen cultural bonds, support economic development, and increase sustainability. Focusing on the provision of small-scale creative tourism experiences, Adventures in Small Tourism explores possibilities for local empowerment through community-based tourism. With stories and studies from Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Japan, Australia, and beyond, this collection tells stories of visitors and residents coming together to co-create place in walks and workshops, gastronomy and art, festivals, markets, and more. This is a book that dares to ask what the future can be. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- The development of inclusive small rural destinations for gay tourists in Canada / Spencer J. Toth, Josie V. Vayro, and Courtney W. Mason -- Rajzefiber: a community hub for small tourism in the small City of Maribor, Slovenia / Katja Beck Kos, Mateja Meh, and Vid Kmetic -- Sustaining Castello Sonnino: small tourism in a tuscan village / John S. Hull, Donna Senese, and Darcen Esau -- Revealing the restorers: small tourism in restored lands of the Noongar traditional area of the Fitz-Stirling in Southwestern Australia -- Moira A. L. Maley, Sylvia M. Leighton, Alison Lullfitz, Johannes E. Wajon, M. Jane Thompson, Carol Pettersen, Mohammadreza Gohari, and Keith Bradby -- The role of cultural associations in the promotion of small tourism and social inclusion in the neighbourhood of Bonfim, Oporto: the case of Casa Bo / Andre Luis Quintino Principe -- Small tourism in a big city: the story of Bogota / Diana Guerra Amaya and Diana Marcela Zuluaga Guerra -- Cultural festivals in small villages: creativity and the case of the Devil's Nest Festival in Hungary / Emese Panyik and Attila Komlós -- Artistic micro-adventures in small places / Donald Lawrence -- The power of small: creative in-migrant micro entrepreneurs in peripheral Japanese islands during COVID-19 / Meng Qu and Simona Zollet -- Small tourism and ecotourism: emerging micro-trends / Ian Yeoman and Una McMahon-Beattie.
- ISBN
- 9781773854762
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 02 Sch2a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Smith, Will
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
1 website
- Author
- Smith, Will
- Responsibility
- Will Smith
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- [248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
- Subjects
- Railways
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Restaurants
- Travel
- Canada
- Industry
- History
- History-Canada
- Hotels
- Abstract
- Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
- Chapter 2 - Research sources
- Chapter 3 - Railway
- Chapter 4 - Steamships
- Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
- Chapter 6 - Airline
- Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
- Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
- Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
- Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
- Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
- Chapter 12 - Market value
- Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
- Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
- Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
- Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
- Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
- Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
- Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
- Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
- Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
- Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781999382100
- Accession Number
- 2019.27
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13737
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Pauli, Lori
- Haworth-Booth, Mark
- Baker, Kenneth
- Torosian, Michael
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
- Edition
- Fifth printing 2006
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
- 06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
1 website
- Responsibility
- Lori Pauli
- Mark Haworth-Booth
- Kenneth Baker
- Michael Torosian
- Edition
- Fifth printing 2006
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 160 p. : col. ill.
- Abstract
- "....documenting the effect of industrialization on the environment, Burtynsky provokes his viewers to contemplate the world he shoots. Published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of Burtynsky's work, this book requires more than a quick flip through the pages. At first one is dazzled by the color and apparent fluidity in the landscapes that he captures, but on deeper examination one begins to realize that these are quarry mines, oil refining factories, and recycling centers. Not your typical coffee-table book, this comes with a social and environmental message that should not be ignored. Essays by three curator/critics and an interview with the artist complement the 64 large-scale color images. Recommended for academic libraries and large art photo collections." – Sheila Devaney, University of Georgia (from Edward Burtynsky website)
- Contents
- Message from the sponsor
- Foreward
- Author's acknowledgements
- Seeing the big picture - Lori Pauli
- Edward Burtynsky : traditions and affinities - Mark Haworth-Booth
- Form versus porten t: Edward Burtynsky's endangered landscapes - Kenneth Baker
- The essential element : an interview with Edward Burtynsky - Michael Torosian
- Plates
- List of works
- Chronology
- Selected exhibitions
- Public collections
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Published as a companion to exhibition of National Gallery of Canada in 2003
- With essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview by Michael Torosian
- ISBN
- 9780300099430
- Accession Number
- 50500
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
- 06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
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- Archives Library
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- Book on artist's website
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Edward Burtynsky manufactured landscapes : a film by Jennifer Baichwal [DVD]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13741
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Film Board
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mb DVD
- Responsibility
- documentary by director Jennifer Baichwal
- Publisher
- National Film Board
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 1 digital video disc (1:30:00) : 1 sd., col.
- Subjects
- Environment
- Industry
- Mining
- Notes
- Genie award for Best Documentary, 2007. Documentary follows Burtynsky to China as he captures the effect of the country's industrial revolution. NFB: 153E9906 443
- Accession Number
- 50500
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mb DVD
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- Archives Library
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[Backus water motor]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57546
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of a photograph negative of a Backus water motor.
- Date Range
- 1900-1950
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / NA - 2
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / E : Collected Material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / I / E / 4 : Photographs
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / NA - 2
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Date Range
- 1900-1950
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: b&w negative ;
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of a photograph negative of a Backus water motor.
- Subject Access
- Industry
- Commercial products
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Alberta
- Related Material
- Corresponding print LUX / I / E4 / PA - 39
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Animals and wildlife, Red Cathcart, other family friends personal photographs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54988
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of photographs sent to Norman Luxton from various friends, including "Red" [Cathcart?], Eugene LaPorte, Woodworth and Theodora Campbell, the Green family, and Ernest Maunder. Content pertains to Red [Cathcart's?] work transporting oil to mines, and views from his travels in British Co…
- Date Range
- 1933
- [1935-1950]
- 1936
- 1943
- 1945
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 354 to 431
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / E : Collected material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / I / E4 : Photography
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 354 to 431
- Date Range
- 1933
- [1935-1950]
- 1936
- 1943
- 1945
- Physical Description
- 77 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 14.5 x 8.5 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of photographs sent to Norman Luxton from various friends, including "Red" [Cathcart?], Eugene LaPorte, Woodworth and Theodora Campbell, the Green family, and Ernest Maunder. Content pertains to Red [Cathcart's?] work transporting oil to mines, and views from his travels in British Columbia and Camp Debert in Nova Scotia; Eugene LaPorte fishing near Lake Ontario; Indigenous communities in Panama [sent by Mr. and Mrs. Campbell]; photos of the Green family [names missing]; photos from a community and nearby forested areas [location and source unknown] with detailed notes on back of related personal memories; Ernest Maunder's model boat hobby; "Dorothy" feeding geese in February 1954 in Inglewood [region in Calgary?]; and photographs of various wildlife by J.H. [Jack?] Munroe.
- Notes
- Some photographs have annotations on back. Items LUX/I/E4/PA-389 and 397 also have directions and illustrations of property layouts
- Name Access
- Cathcart, John George (Red)
- Luxton, Norman
- Campbell, Woodworth
- Campbell, Theodora
- LaPorte, Eugene
- Maunder, Ernest
- Subject Access
- Artist
- Boats
- Transportation
- Travel
- Sports
- Hunting
- Oil
- Natural resources
- Model boats
- Mines and mineral resources
- Immigration and homesteading
- Indigenous Peoples
- Industry
- Recreation
- Family and personal life
- Cabins and shelters
- Animals
- Birds
- Dogs
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Calgary
- Inglewood
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Central America
- Panama
- Ontario
- Lake Ontario
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- St. John's
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Items stored in mylar and archival envelopes
- Related Material
- LUX/I/E4/PA-363 related to photographs LUX/I/E4/PA-224 to 285
- LUX/I/E4/PA-364 to 374 related to photographs LUX/I/E4/PA-305 to 360 [some of photos in files are duplicates]
- LUX/I/E4/PA-399 to 413 related to photographs LUX/I/E4/PA-72 to 114
- Category
- Arts
- Cultural pluralism
- First nations
- Natural resources
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Transportation
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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Travel and landscape photographs, North America and Mexico
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54965
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 32 photograph prints [31 b&w, one hand-coloured] pertaining to Norman Luxton's travels within Western Canada, Manitoba, Montana and Mexico City. Includes photographs of Stan Barne's property near Lake Vernon, B.C., unidentified landscape and waterfall scenes, Norman Luxton in Winde…
- Date Range
- [1900-1910]
- [1920-1930]
- 1938
- [1940-1950]
- 1948
- [1950-1955]
- 1956
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 40 to 71
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / E : Collected material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 40 to 71
- Date Range
- [1900-1910]
- [1920-1930]
- 1938
- [1940-1950]
- 1948
- [1950-1955]
- 1956
- Physical Description
- 32 photographs : b&w and col ; 36.5 x 14 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 32 photograph prints [31 b&w, one hand-coloured] pertaining to Norman Luxton's travels within Western Canada, Manitoba, Montana and Mexico City. Includes photographs of Stan Barne's property near Lake Vernon, B.C., unidentified landscape and waterfall scenes, Norman Luxton in Windermere, aerial views of a landing field in Great Falls, Christmas decorations [1948, possibly in the Luxton family home], unidentified dogs playing with a dog, views of Winnipeg businesses and an unidentified house in the winter, and a man herding cattle.
- Notes
- Two photographs attached to matboard/paper backing.
- Name Access
- Barnes, Stan
- Luxton, Norman
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Aerial photography
- Animals
- Buildings and memorials
- Businesses
- Children
- Christmas
- Communities
- Dogs
- Environment
- Family and personal life
- Farmland
- Industry
- Landscapes
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Mountains
- Municipal views
- Personal and Family Life
- Property
- Recreation
- Travel
- Waterfalls
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Vernon
- Manitoba
- Winnipeg
- Windermere
- United States of America
- Montana
- Great Falls
- Mexico
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Items placed in mylar
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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