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Banff rock : a guidebook to rock climbing in Banff National Park, Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14540
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Perry, Chris
- Publisher
- Altona, Manitoba : Friesens
- Call Number
- 01.4 P42b
- Author
- Perry, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Perry
- Publisher
- Altona, Manitoba : Friesens
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Guidebooks
- Kootenay National Park
- Rock climbing
- Sport climbing
- Thompson, David
- Yoho National Park
- ISBN
- 9780987937001
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 01.4 P42b
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- Archives Library
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Climber's paradise : making Canada's mountain parks, 1906-1974
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14538
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Responsibility
- PearlAnn Reichwein
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
- Series
- Mountain cairns
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Mountaineering
- National parks
- Recreation
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Sport climbing
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9780888646743
- Accession Number
- 2015-8405
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Decolonizing sport
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26241
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
- Responsibility
- Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canada
- History-Canada
- Education
- Sport
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Indigenous Customs
- Abstract
- The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization? -- Provided by publisher.
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- Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.
- ISBN
- 9781773636344
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 F77d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Educating the body : a history of physical education in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26240
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Hall, M. Ann, Kidd, Bruce and Vertinsky, Patricia
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- The thesis of this work sets out a history of physical education in Canada with a focus on the major advocates, innovators, and institutions that helped shaped it. This work places the historical narrative within the social, economic, and political conditions that impacted institutions, advocates, and innovators as they influenced the formulation of state physical education schooling in Canada between the Ryerson era (1803-1882) and ending with the early decades of the 21st century. The title of the work, "Educating the Body" recognizes that "the body" has its own unique vocabulary and analysis, and as such, reflects the authors' belief that physical education curriculum should ideally enable the learner to direct their own discovery of body agency (and the joy of movement) in ways that are creative, self-expressive and true to their lived body experience. As the work demonstrates, however, waves of state-directed physical education curriculum each held their own agenda about how the "ideal" child and adolescent body should be trained within the context of hegemonic paradigms of dominance and control. The work is framed around three major developments that shape the analysis: a) the significant growth of critical, social scientific research about physical education and sport during the last 50 years (through the lens of social, material, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theory); b) the tensions underlying the evolution of kinesiology and the "displacement" (p. 13) of physical education as a school subject; and c) evidence from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Ryerson and His Vision -- Towards a Pan-Canadian Curriculum -- The Margaret Eaton School: Forty Years of Women's Physical Education -- Fit for Living -- Setting a Heroic Agenda--Realizing the Possibilities -- Changing Times and New Initiatives -- Seeking Optimism in a Contested Field.
- ISBN
- 9781487508562
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 H14e
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- Archives Library
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Mountains and desire : climbing vs. the end of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26237
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 113 pages
- Subjects
- Climbing
- Sport
- Sport climbing
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there." Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story of interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the rise, from commerical mountaineering and climbing walls in university gyms to corporate workplaces to the flood of spectacular climbing imagery in advertising, cinema, and social media. [...] Taking the degradation of Everest and the success of Free Solo as its starting point, Mountains and Desire chases after what remains of this pursuit -- marred by its colonial history, coopted by national chauvinism, ableism, and the capitalist compulsion to unlimited growth -- for both climbers and their fans. -- From back cover
- Contents
- 1. The ends of desire -- 2. Who will marry you now? -- 3. Just because someone has done it doesn't mean it's humanly possible -- 4. Everest traffic and the economy of walking -- 5. Climbing technotopia, or: Did free solo really happen? -- 6. Gestures of climbing -- 7. The last problem of the Himalaya.
- ISBN
- 9781913462239
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
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- Archives Library
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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26244
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ab3n
- Responsibility
- Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 239 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
- ISBN
- 9781771993777
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ab3n
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- Archives Library
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Tales of western mountaineer : a record of mountain experiences on the Pacific coast
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26159
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- 309 pages ; 40 ill.
- Abstract
- This is a book of cliffs and crags, glaciers and crevasses, rope-work, axe-work, glissading, bergschrunds, arêtes, snow cornices, avalanches, -- everything that goes to make up mountain climbing of the genuine alpine sort. Excerpt from dustjacket.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Trout tracks : essays on fly fishing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26208
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- McLennan, Jim
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 M22t
- Author
- McLennan, Jim
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Lynda McLennan
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 235 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Fly fishing
- Fishing
- Recreation
- Sport
- Water
- Fish
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- A new collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists. Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea. Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.” You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places. -- From publisher
- Contents
- 1. Places -- 2. Bugs, real and fake -- 3. How -- 4. Navel gazing -- 5. The silly side -- 6. At the water -- 7. People 8. Aging (gracefully, more or less).
- ISBN
- 9781771603652
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 02.8 M22t
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