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Indians in the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19886
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1985
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
- Call Number
- 07.2 W62i
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Responsibility
- Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta., Canada : Altitude Pub.
- Published Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and movement of Indigenous Peoples into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Written through a colonial perspective, author Jon Whyte offers his insight into Indigenous culture and the ways in which settlers were dependent on traditional Indigenous knowledge upon their arrival in North America. The book follows the migration of Indigenous Peoples into the valley of the Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Foreward (pg. 7)
- Introduction (pg. 11)
- The first hundred centuries (pg. 15)
- The mountain peoples (pg. 23)
- Strangers in the land (pg. 37)
- Calling cards 1840-1870 (pg. 41)
- The art of beadwork (pg. 51)
- Capital in reserve (pg. 55)
- Civilization: its discontents (pg. 61)
- Indian Days (pg. 71)
- All our yesterdays (pg. 81)
- Portfolio (pg. 85)
- Epilogue (pg. 122)
- Acknowledgments (pg. 123)
- Bibliography (pg. 127)
- About the author (pg. 128)
- ISBN
- 0919381154
- Accession Number
- 2019.60
- Call Number
- 07.2 W62i
- 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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A hunter of peace : Mary T.S. Schaffer's Old Indian trails of the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21091
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples, 1861-1939
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- TR140 S33 H37
- Responsibility
- introduced and edited by E.J. Hart
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 151p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Women photographers - Canada - Biography
- Rocky Mountains, Canada - Description and travel - 1900-1950
- Maligne Lake
- Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples, 1861-1939
- Notes
- Contents : Yahe-Weha-Mountain Woman : the life and travels of Mary Schaffer Warren, 1861-1939 / E.J. Hart -- Old Indian trails expedition of 1907 / Mary T.S. Schaffer -- Old Indian trails expedition of 1908 / Mary T.S. Schaffer -- The 1911 expedition to Maligne Lake / Mary T.S. Schaffer
- Call Number
- TR140 S33 H37
- Location
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- Collection
- Art Library
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Vittorio Sella, fotographie e montanga nell' ottocento
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21125
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Fontana, Claudio
- Publisher
- Torino (Italy) : Museo Nazionale della Montaga
- Call Number
- TR647 V5 F6
- Author
- Fontana, Claudio
- Responsibility
- Claudio Fontana
- Publisher
- Torino (Italy) : Museo Nazionale della Montaga
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 361p. : ill. (some col.), facsims, col. maps, ports.
- Notes
- Text in Italian
- Cataloguer's title : Vittorio Sella : photographer of Ne
- Call Number
- TR647 V5 F6
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
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- Art Library
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Montagne : photographes de 1845 a 1914
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21186
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Guichon, Francoise
- Publisher
- Paris : Musees de Chambery
- Call Number
- TR787 G8 M66
- Author
- Guichon, Francoise
- Responsibility
- Francoise Guichon
- Publisher
- Paris : Musees de Chambery
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 127p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Photography of mountains - France
- Mountains - France - History - 20th century - Photography
- Notes
- Collection of mountain photographs from France
- Call Number
- TR787 G8 M66
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Geology : Beaver Mines (West half : Carbondale...) : Alberta-British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24714
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1989
- Author
- Norris, D.K.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Calgary : Geological Survey of Canada
- Call Number
- C7-1.26
- Author
- Norris, D.K.
- Responsibility
- D.K. Norris
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Calgary : Geological Survey of Canada
- Published Date
- 1989
- Physical Description
- 1 map
- Scale
- 1:50,000
- Notes
- (Open file 2405)
- Accession Number
- 24,000
- Call Number
- C7-1.26
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tectonic assemblage map of the Canadian Cordillera and adjacent parts of the United States of America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24754
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Tipper, H.W.
- Call Number
- C7-3.25
- Author
- Tipper, H.W.
- Responsibility
- co-ordinators: H.W. Tipper, G.J. Woodsworth and H. Gabrielse
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- 1:2,000,000
- Notes
- (Map 1505A)
- Accompanied by legend
- Accession Number
- 29,500
- Call Number
- C7-3.25
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Beauty Pageant
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14746
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1985
- Author
- Enns, Maureen
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Peter Whyte Gallery ; Peter & Catherine Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- 06 En6b Pam
- Author
- Enns, Maureen
- Responsibility
- paintings by Maureen Enns
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Peter Whyte Gallery ; Peter & Catherine Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 0-920308-18-3
- Call Number
- 06 En6b Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountain passages; an Appalachia anthology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue80
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Boston : Appalachian Mountain Club
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- F41.1 M6
- Responsibility
- edited by Robert E. Manning
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Boston : Appalachian Mountain Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Subjects
- White Mountains
- Call Number
- F41.1 M6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Lightweight expeditions to the Great Ranges
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue199
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Alpine Club (London)
- Publisher
- London : Alpine Club
- Call Number
- DS485 L5 Pam
- Author
- Alpine Club (London)
- Publisher
- London : Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1984
- Call Number
- DS485 L5 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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