topic:"mountain guides" found 48 records - Research Collections

Pushing the limits : the story of Canadian mountaineering

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2000

Author: Scott, Chic

Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 01.4 Sco3p

Author: Scott, Chic

Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2000

Physical Description: 440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Mountaineers; Mountain guides

Notes: Forewords by Hans Gmoser and Brian Greenwood; Bibliography and index

ISBN: 0-921-1102-59-3

Accession Number: 33000; 7278

Call Number: 01.4 Sco3p

Collection: Archives Library

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Summit tales : early adventures in the Canadian Rockies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2005

Author: Pole, Graeme

Publisher: Canmore : Altitude Publishing

Call Number: 01.4 P75s

Author: Pole, Graeme

Publisher: Canmore : Altitude Publishing

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 112p. ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Brown, Mount; Expedition, ACC-Smithsonian; Expedition, Ostheimer; Hooker, Mount; Mountain guides; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Photography

Notes: Topics include: phototopography, mountaineers (Gertrude Benham, A.P. Coleman, J. Norman Collie, Charles Fay, W.O. Field, Jean Habel, George Kinney, James Outram, Hugh Stutfield, Charles Thompson, J. Monroe Thorington, Arthur Oliver Wheeler, Edward Whymper, and Walter Wilcox)

ISBN: 1 55153 937 3

Accession Number: 7584 (2 copies - 1 in reference room); 7899

Call Number: 01.4 P75s

Collection: Archives Library

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The golden years of Canadian mountaineering: asserted ethics, form, and style, 1886-1925

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Robinson, Zac

Call Number: 01.4 R56g Pam

Author: Robinson, Zac

Physical Description: p.1-19

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alberta, Mount; Alpine Club (Great Britain); Alpine Club of Canada; American Alpine Club; Logan, Mount; Mountain guides; Mountaineers, British; Mountaineers, Japanese; Tourism

Notes: Scholarly article reprint from Sport History Review, 2004, 35, 1-19

Accession Number: 7627

Call Number: 01.4 R56g Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Conrad Kain compendium

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: March 2005

Publisher: Wilmer, British Columbia : Mark Kingsbury Foundation

Call Number: 01 K12p

Responsibility: prepared by Brian Patton for the Mark Kingsbury Foundation

Publisher: Wilmer, British Columbia : Mark Kingsbury Foundation

Published Date: March 2005

Physical Description: 1 vol : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Biography; Mountain guides

Notes: Includes separate appendix titled Commerating Conrad : a report on initiatives to celebrate the life of Conrad Kain; Archival research report. Table of contents: Chrononology; Commemeration; Tributes; Memories; Letters; Sources; Journals; Photographs

Accession Number: 7760

Call Number: 01 K12p

Collection: Archives Library

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Raising Kain : "the adventurous life of Conrad Kain, Canada's greatest mountaineer" : a historical novel

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2012

Author: Powell, Keith G.

Publisher: Cranbrook, B.C. : Wild Horse Creek Press

Call Number: 05.2 P87r c.1; 05.2 P87r c.2

Author: Powell, Keith G.

Responsibility: Keith G. Powell

Publisher: Cranbrook, B.C. : Wild Horse Creek Press

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 238 p. : ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies; Mountaineering; Mountain guides

Notes: Copy 2 is signed by the author

ISBN: 9780981214627

Accession Number: 70,500; 13-01-15

Call Number: 05.2 P87r c.1; 05.2 P87r c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Conrad Kain : letters from a wandering mountain guide, 1906-1933

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2014

Author: Kain, Conrad

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press

Call Number: 01 K12c; 01 K12c c.2; 01 K12c c.3

Author: Kain, Conrad

Responsibility: edited with an introduction by Zac Robinson ; translated by Maria and John Koch

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press

Published Date: 2014

Physical Description: 468 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission; Alpine Club of Canada; Biography; Kain, Conrad; Malek, Amelie; Mountaineering; Mountain guides; Pistor, Dr. Erich; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Notes: Partial contents: Foreword : Conrad Kain, guide and mountaineer / Chic Scott; Epilogue: The Kain-Malek correspondence: provenance, 1934-2005 / Don Bourdon

ISBN: 9781772120042

Accession Number: 2015-8404; P2015.06.30; P2015-06-30

Call Number: 01 K12c; 01 K12c c.2; 01 K12c c.3

Collection: Archives Library

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Where the clouds can go

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Kain, Conrad

Publisher: Surrey, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G512 K35 2009

Author: Kain, Conrad

Responsibility: Kain, Conrad, original forewords by J. Monroe Thorington & Hans Gmoser ; new foreword by Pat Morrow ; edited, with additional chapters by J. Monroe Thorington

Publisher: Surrey, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: xxvii, 531 p. : ill., ports.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountain guides; Mountaineering; Bugaboos; Mount Louis; Alpine Club of Canada

Notes: First ed. by: American Alpine Club, 1935. Includes bibliographical references (p. 520-522) and index.

ISBN: 9781897522455

Accession Number: AC622

Call Number: G512 K35 2009

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Key Chain

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Date: 1998

Material: plastic; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0564

Description: A miniature camping lantern on a silver key ring and chain. The lantern is green with a silver plate that reads “1998 GUIDES BALL” and is branded “COLEMAN” on the opposite side. There is a small light bulb inside the clear plastic “lantern”, powered by a battery (removed)

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Title: Key Chain

Date: 1998

Material: plastic; metal

Dimensions: 10.0 x 2.5 cm

Description: A miniature camping lantern on a silver key ring and chain. The lantern is green with a silver plate that reads “1998 GUIDES BALL” and is branded “COLEMAN” on the opposite side. There is a small light bulb inside the clear plastic “lantern”, powered by a battery (removed)