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Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24995
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- MacFarlane, John
- Salmon, Lynn J.
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.1 M11a
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- Author
- MacFarlane, John
- Salmon, Lynn J.
- Responsibility
- John M, MacFarlane
- Lynn J. Salmon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 268 p.
- Abstract
- "For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage--and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment--is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- John Claus Voss -- Treasure Hunting in the Xora -- Norman Kenny Luxton -- “Out-Slocuming” Joshua Slocum -- Preparing to Voyage -- Across the Pacific -- Penrhyn Island and Beyond -- The Mate Walter Louis Begent -- Australia -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Brazil and up the Atlantic to England -- Repatriation to Victoria -- The Sea Queen, the Tilikum II and Voss’s Last Years.
- Notes
- Contains materials from the Luxton family fonds from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
- Signed by John MacFarlane
- ISBN
- 9781550178791
- Accession Number
- 2019.106
- Call Number
- 02.1 M11a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on publisher's website
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Morning light : triumph at sea and tragedy on everest : a story of George Griffiths written by his wife, Margaret, based on tape recordings, letters, diaries, conversations and reports
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14824
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Griffiths, Margaret
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 G75 2008
- Author
- Griffiths, Margaret
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- xxii, 288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- Sailing
- ISBN
- 9781897522080
- Call Number
- G512 G75 2008
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Exploring South Georgia & the Falklands : M/S Endeavour November 12th - 29th, 2004
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20171
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Napoli, Jim
- Publisher
- Lindblad Expeditions
- Call Number
- G370-480 N27 E97
1 website
- Author
- Napoli, Jim
- Responsibility
- Jim Napoli
- Publisher
- Lindblad Expeditions
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette (59 min., 52 sec.) : colour
- Abstract
- Film pertains to a trip aboard the M/S Endeavour from November 12th to November 29th, 2004 of South Georgia and the Falklands which included a trekking party who crossed South Georgia Island following Shakleton's route, led by guides David Hahn, Deirdre Galbraith, James Norton
- Notes
- Margaret Gmoser was in the trekking party
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 N27 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Daily Expedition Reports from this expedition
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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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Quest for adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Bonington, Chris
- Publisher
- New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
- Call Number
- 02.1 B64q
- Author
- Bonington, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color)
- Subjects
- Travel
- History
- Sailing
- Mountaineering
- Hiking
- Abstract
- Pertains to the travels of Thor Heyerdahl, John Ridgeway, Chay Blyth, John Fairfax, Sylvia Cook, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, David Lewis, Wilfred Thesiger, John Blashford-Snell, Mike Jones, Maurice Herzog, John Hunt, Herbert Tichy, Walter Bonatti, Hermann Buhl, Reinhold Messner, Vivian Fuchs, Edmund Hillary, Wally Herbert, Naomie Uemura, Max Anderson, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, Neil Armstrong, Geoff Yeadon, Oliver Statham
- Contents
- Introduction
- Oceans:
- 1) Kon-tiki
- 2) Rowing the Atlantic
- 3) Across Two Oceans
- 4) The Man Who Raced Himself
- 5) Golden Globe
- 6) Ice Bird
- Deserts:
- 7) The Empty Quarter
- Rivers:
- 8) The Blue Nile
- Mountains:
- 9) Annapurna, the First 1800
- 10) The Challenge of Everest
- 11) Cho Oyu
- 12) The Bonatti Pillar
- 13) Board Peak
- 14) Annapurna, South Face
- 15) Diamir - Messner on Nanga Parbat
- The Poles:
- 16) The Crossing of Antarctica
- 17) The Last Great Polar Journey
- 18) Solo to the Pole
- Air:
- 19) Double Eagle
- Space:
- 20) First on the Moon
- Beneath the Earth:
- 21) Dead Man's Handshake
- Facets of Adventure
- A Chronology of Adventure since 1945
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Picture Credits
- Index
- Notes
- Addressed to Hans Gmoser from Philippe Delesalle - dated 1983
- ISBN
- 0517546965
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 02.1 B64q
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Letters to Mother [April 1933 - September 1933]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7440
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cab…
- Date Range
- 1933
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1933
- Physical Description
- 1.3 cm of textual records (173 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cabinets and cupboards to the Whyte Home, Catharine practicing typewriting and the beginning of some typewritten letters to her mother, the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, moving a cabin on the property for their Stoney friends to stay in while they paint portraits, selling two sketches, various baking recipes from Edith, Peter painting Mark Poucette, a visit from children from the Mountain School, Peter and Catharine visiting the west coast [via Bonners Ferry and Spokane] and seeing Fern Brewster in Vancouver, writing Mrs. Paley, attending the Calgary Stampede, painting J.D. Curren, painting David Bearspaw, hiking at Lake O'Hara with Skyline Trail Hikers [with participant names], a visit with Mary Vaux in Banff, a Pacific Relations Conference at the Banff Springs Hotel and cleaning the house expecting visits from participants, Catharine discussing Adolf Hitler with a Swiss man visiting the house, a boat trip with the White Family and Allen Mather to Lake Minnewanka, meeting Mr. Anasaki from the Conference [an old friend of Edward Morse] and looking at Catharine's Japanese collection with Mr. Miyoaka and Mr. Takaki, Peter taking photographs at the Indigenous Camp during Banff Indian Days, Peter receiving a beaded coat from Mrs. Jonie, buying some items from the Indigenous Camp that belonged to Old Hector [Crawler?], Jackie heading east to meet Barbara before the birth of their child, and Peter and Catharine heading east via the United States to attend the World Fair and visit Edith Morse Robb and then family in Gorham, Maine.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Letters are all handwritten and typewritten and include some hotel, business and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- White, Annie
- White, Clifford
- White, Mildred
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- White, David Mackintosh (Dave)
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Stockand, Cameron
- Ward, Sam
- Boyce, Jim
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Phil
- Mills, Ike
- Poucette, Mark
- Paris, Cyril
- Knight, Norman
- Edwards, Chess
- Edwards, Rupe
- Hansen, Ed
- Kutschera, Vic
- Mather, Allan
- Greenham, Margaret
- Brewster, Fern
- Standard, Paul
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Curren, John Donaldson
- Bearspaw, David
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Rungius, Carl
- Engelhard, Georgia
- McCowan, Dan
- Pollard, Harry
- Feuz, Ernest
- Aemmer, Rudolf
- Walcott, Mary Vaux
- Strom, Erling
- McLean, George
- Wildman, Dan, Sr.
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Art
- Artists
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Indian Grounds
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Cabins
- Calgary Stampede
- Community life
- Conferences and conventions
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Fire
- First Nations
- Hiking
- Indigenous Peoples
- Japanese
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara region
- Mountain School
- Painting
- Photography
- Portrait
- Property
- Regalia
- Sailing
- Sanitarium Hotel
- School
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Stoney Nakoda
- Swiss Guides
- Teepees
- Whyte House
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Concord
- Calgary
- Lake O'Hara
- Vancouver
- Montana
- Colorado
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Princess May Shipwreck Framed Print
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54228
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- 1 framed print, signed and annotated by W.H. Case (presumably the creator of the photograph), depicting shipwrecked S.S. Princess May, 1910 (Canadian Pacific envelope attached to the back, contains 2 news clippings about the Princess May ship and one page detailing the cargo weights, measurements, …
- Date Range
- 1910
- Reference Code
- V500 / III / D / 4 / PC - 8 O.S.
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M300 / V500 / S20
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / III / D / 4 : Personal and Family Photography
- Accession Number
- 7784
- Reference Code
- V500 / III / D / 4 / PC - 8 O.S.
- Responsibility
- Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- 1910
- Physical Description
- 1 Framed Photograph: print; b&w
- Scope & Content
- 1 framed print, signed and annotated by W.H. Case (presumably the creator of the photograph), depicting shipwrecked S.S. Princess May, 1910 (Canadian Pacific envelope attached to the back, contains 2 news clippings about the Princess May ship and one page detailing the cargo weights, measurements, etc. of the same ship).
- Notes
- Print annotated with the following: "C.P.R. CO. S.S. PRINCESS MAY, WRECKED, ON SENTINEL IS. ALASKA. AUG. 5. 1910." "W.H. CASE 433"
- Name Access
- Case, W.H.
- Geographic Access
- United States of America
- Alaska
- Access Restrictions
- This item is not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).
- Reproduction Restrictions
- This item is not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).
- Language
- English
- Creator
- W.H. Case
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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"Light and Shadow' by W.R. Macaskill
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54226
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Black and white large framed print, titled 'Light and Shadow', of 2 sailing ships by photographer W.R. Macaskill; signed copy (no date)
- Date Range
- [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]
- Reference Code
- V500 / III / D / 4 / PC - 6 O.S.
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M300 / V500 / S20
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / III / D / 4 : Personal and Family Photography
- Accession Number
- 7784
- Reference Code
- V500 / III / D / 4 / PC - 6 O.S.
- Responsibility
- Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]
- Physical Description
- 1 Framed Photograph: print; b&w
- History / Biographical
- W.R. Macaskill (1886 - 1956) was a Canadian photographer from Nova Scotia, famous for his images of schooners and other ships in the coastal Maritimes region of Canada. Macaskill was especially well known for his photographs of the Bluenose schooner.
- Scope & Content
- Black and white large framed print, titled 'Light and Shadow', of 2 sailing ships by photographer W.R. Macaskill; signed copy (no date)
- Name Access
- Macaskill, W. R.
- Subject Access
- Boating
- Ship
- Photography
- Sailing
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Nova Scotia
- Access Restrictions
- This item is not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).
- Reproduction Restrictions
- This item is not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of its identified owner(s).
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Item must be stored flat to prevent strain on the frame.
- Creator
- W.R. Macaskill
- Biographical Source Notes
- https://novascotia.ca/archives/macaskill/essay.asp?Language=English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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LaPorte family travels, fishing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54984
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 62 photograph prints sent to Norman Luxton from the LaPorte family. Content pertains to fishing trips, boating, and travels in various locations including: Ontario [The Barracks Club near Lake Ontario], the British West Indies, Barbados, Colorado, the Grand Canyon, Pirates Cove [Fl…
- Date Range
- 1926
- 1929
- 1931-1935
- 1937-1939
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 224 to 285
- 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 - 224 to 285
- Date Range
- 1926
- 1929
- 1931-1935
- 1937-1939
- Physical Description
- 62 photographs : b&w prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 62 photograph prints sent to Norman Luxton from the LaPorte family. Content pertains to fishing trips, boating, and travels in various locations including: Ontario [The Barracks Club near Lake Ontario], the British West Indies, Barbados, Colorado, the Grand Canyon, Pirates Cove [Florida], Palm Beach, Useppa Island [Florida], and Paris. Includes a picture of a public speaking event with United States President Herbert Hoover [1929].
- Name Access
- LaPorte, Eugene
- LaPorte, Bill
- LaPorte, Morgan
- LaPorte, Constance
- Radford, Francis
- Luxton, Norman
- Rogers, Jack
- Hoover, Herbert
- Subject Access
- Boats
- Club
- Community life
- Fish
- Fishing
- Public events
- Politics
- Sailing
- Sailboats
- Shorelines
- Sports
- Tourism
- Travel
- War Memorial
- World War I
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Ontario
- Lake Ontario
- West Indies
- Barbados
- United States of America
- Colorado
- Arizona
- Grand Canyon
- Florida
- New Jersey
- France
- Paris
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Photographs stored in mylar
- Category
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Natural resources
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Politics
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 37 b&w prints. The prints pertain to Catharine Robb Whyte's activities ca.1925-6. Prints document summer activities at Seal Harbor with friends, like sailing and at the beach and includes candid photographs. Some prints also pertain to Salem Day celebration in Mass. ca.1926.
- Date Range
- ca.1925 -1926
- Reference Code
- V683 / I / A / PA - 338 to 375
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph, print
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- V683 / I / A : Catharine Robb Whyte: Catharine Robb
- Reference Code
- V683 / I / A / PA - 338 to 375
- Date Range
- ca.1925 -1926
- Physical Description
- Photographs: 37 prints; b&w.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 37 b&w prints. The prints pertain to Catharine Robb Whyte's activities ca.1925-6. Prints document summer activities at Seal Harbor with friends, like sailing and at the beach and includes candid photographs. Some prints also pertain to Salem Day celebration in Mass. ca.1926.
- Subject Access
- Sailing
- Beach
- Seal Harbor
- Zeppelin
- Period costume
- Salem Day
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file.
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