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Mysterious Canada : strange sights, extraordinary events, and peculiar places
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1988
- Author
- Colombo, John Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Doubleday
- Call Number
- R 08.1 C71
- Author
- Colombo, John Robert
- Publisher
- Toronto : Doubleday
- Published Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- xii, 436p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Big Horn Storage and Power Development
- Canmore Opera House
- Ghosts
- Lost Lemon Mine
- Stoney Indians
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 0385251505
- Accession Number
- 23500
- Call Number
- R 08.1 C71
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1875 â 1925
- Material
- metal; glass; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0052
- Description
- An ornate, pressed copper box in shape of complex pointed arch with window opening in front; arch is composed of two convex shoulders, one atop the other, with the uppermost, smaller, reversing itself and becoming concave at the point; window opening in upper part of box follows this shape and is fâŚ
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- Title
- Reliquary
- Date
- 1875 â 1925
- Material
- metal; glass; paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 x 3.3 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- An ornate, pressed copper box in shape of complex pointed arch with window opening in front; arch is composed of two convex shoulders, one atop the other, with the uppermost, smaller, reversing itself and becoming concave at the point; window opening in upper part of box follows this shape and is further defined at its edges with cut out curlicues, wall surrounding the window has pressed, relief flowers and symbols in a bed curlicues, and small holes pierced through; sides of box follow shape and are plain with a dovetailed joint at the bottom, copper double strap handle on either side across the middle (for hanging?); plain copper back is flat of glass loose inside box appears to once have sat on two small copper flanges (now broken off) just below the window.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0052
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