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Mount assiniboine : the story

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25540
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Scott, Chic
Publisher
Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
Edition
First
Call Number
08.3 Sco3m
Author
Scott, Chic
Edition
First
Publisher
Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
336 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 32 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Assiniboine, Mount
Tourism
History-Canada
Mountaineering
Climbing
Hiking
Camping
Backcountry
Travel
Abstract
This book tells the story of the history of Mount Assiniboine and the surrounding area. Mount Assiniboine is a beautiful mountain located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in south eastern British Columbia. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
First Nations History at Mount Assiniboine ; Part One: The Discovery of Mount Assiniboine (1800-1910) ; Part Two: The Wheeler Years (1913-1927) ; Part Three: Strom's Half-century: Part I (1928-1950) ; Part Four: Strom's Half-century: Part 2 (1950-1983) ; Part Five: The Renner Years (1983-2010) ; Part Six: A New Generation Takes Over
ISBN
9780981105932
Accession Number
P2022.06
Call Number
08.3 Sco3m
Collection
Archives Library
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Tilikum : Luxton's Pacific crossing

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24949
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Luxton, Norman Kenny
Publisher
Banff, Alberta: Summerthought Publishing
Edition
3rd
Call Number
02.1 L97 2019 copy 1
02.1 L97 2019 copy 2
  1 website  
Author
Luxton, Norman Kenny
Responsibility
edited by Eleanor Georgina Luxton
forward by Harvey Locke
Edition
3rd
Publisher
Banff, Alberta: Summerthought Publishing
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
166 p. : ill., maps, ports
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Luxton Museum
Luxton, Eleanor
Luxton Norman
Voss, John Claus
Pacific Ocean
Abstract
Pertains the Pacific Ocean journey of Norman Luxton and John Claus Voss aboard the Tilikum
ISBN
9781926983370
Accession Number
2019.89
Call Number
02.1 L97 2019 copy 1
02.1 L97 2019 copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Link to the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation website
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Castle in the wilderness : the story of the Banff Springs Hotel

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24950
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Robinson, Bart
Publisher
Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
Edition
1st Edition
Call Number
08.5 R55c
  1 website  
Author
Robinson, Bart
Responsibility
Bart Robinson
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
160 p.; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Hotels
History
Travel
Tourism
Banff Springs Hotel
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Abstract
A Castle in the Wilderness: The Story of the Banff Springs Hotel is the definitive historical record of one of the world’s most famous mountain resorts. The story navigates the hotel’s early history from its construction by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the glittering era of the 1920s through to the changes of modern times. Local author and historian Bart Robinson has been exploring and writing about the Banff Springs Hotel since the 1970s. In A Castle in the Wilderness he combines a complete hotel history with rich anecdotes and snippets of the past that have enriched Banff and indeed Canada, from the hotel’s links to the construction of the transcontinental rail line to the visits of maharajahs and movie stars.How did such a gracious hotel come to be in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies? How much did it cost to build? Who designed it? Who selected its furnishings? Which famous visitors has it hosted? And why is now known as the Fairmont Banff Springs? These and many more questions are answered in the Castle in the Wilderness. (from publisher's website)
Contents
Introduction
Origins of a Hotel
Grand Designs
Vistas and Vendettas
Growing Pains
Towers and Troubles
Princes and Politicians
Out of the Fire
A Brief But Golden Moment
Tribulations and Triumph
A Second Century
Into the New Millenium
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Credits
Acknowledgements
About the Author
ISBN
9781926983356
Accession Number
2019.89
Call Number
08.5 R55c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Link to publishers website where publication can been purchased
Websites
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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
  1 website  
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.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Luxton, Norman
Voss, John Claus
Canoeing
Sailing
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
Websites
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Thumbing a ride : hitchhikers, hostels, and counterculture in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24955
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Mahood, Linda
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
02.4 M11th
  1 website  
Author
Mahood, Linda
Responsibility
Linda Mahood
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
Description:xii, 331 pages : illustrations, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Highways
Hiking
Culture Guide
History
History-Canada
Abstract
In the 1920s, as a national network of roads and youth hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. By the 1960s, the Trans-Canada Highway had become the main thoroughfare for thousands of young baby boomers seeking adventure. Thumbing a Ride examines the rise and fall of hitchhiking in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. The Trudeau Liberals responded to youth unemployment by subsidizing a network of hostels to make travel an educational adventure, and many equated hitching and hostelling with the freedom to do their own thing. At the same time, a counter-narrative emerged, of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists called for a nationwide clampdown on a transient youth movement that they believed was spreading hippie sensibilities and anti-establishment nomadism. Hitchhiking is a ritual that requires trust, boundary negotiation, and control. Neither the identity of the hitchhiker nor the motives of the motorist can be determined in advance. Linda Mahood unearths good and bad stories and key biographical moments that formed young travellers’ understandings of personal risk, agency, and national identity. Thumbing a Ride asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of passage, and about adult interventions that turned a subculture into a pressing moral and social issue. This book will appeal to students and scholars of history, sociology, and social policy. It will also find an appreciative audience among baby boomers who recall the transient youth movement. (from publisher's website)
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Get your Motor Running: Risk, Ritual, and Rite of Passage Travel
Thumb Wars: Adventure Hitchhiking
Rucksack Revolution: Quest in the Age of Aquarius
Cool Aid: The Transient Youth Movement
Crash Pads: Blue-Jean Bureaucrats versus the Canadian Youth Hostels Association
Head Out on the Highway: Stories from the Trans-Canada Highway
Car Sick: Hitchhiking Dos and Don'ts
Conclusion: The Vanishing Hitchhiker Eulogy
Notes
Index
ISBN
978077483733
Accession Number
P2019-30
Call Number
02.4 M11th
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Part Of
Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of scanned paper duplicates of materials donated in accession 2018.8685; includes scans of letters, one journal, postcards, planners and one album which belonged to Molly Wright Adams.
Date Range
2018
Reference Code
M555 / V777
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Private record
Textual record
Album
Part Of
Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M555
V777
Sous-Fonds
M555
V777
Accession Number
2018.8685
Reference Code
M555 / V777
GMD
Private record
Textual record
Album
Responsibility
Materials scanned in 2018
Date Range
2018
Physical Description
Scanned copies of text and one album
Scope & Content
File consists of scanned paper duplicates of materials donated in accession 2018.8685; includes scans of letters, one journal, postcards, planners and one album which belonged to Molly Wright Adams.
Notes
Reference scans for file M555/I/A/3 materials not included
Name Access
Adams, Molly
Subject Access
Correspondence
Family and personal life
Travel
Tourism
Recreation
Geographic Access
Canada
United States of America
Japan
Language
English
Category
Exploration and travel
Family and personal life
Sports, recreation and leisure
Tourism
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Lewis-Jones, Huw
Herbert, Kari
Publisher
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
Edition
1st ed.
Call Number
N L49 E97
  1 website  
Author
Lewis-Jones, Huw
Herbert, Kari
Responsibility
Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
320 p. : illus. (colour)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Travel
Maps
Botany
Ecology
Anthropology
Tourism
Abstract
The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
Contents
Foreward
Introduction
The sketchbooks
Biographies
Selected reading
Illustration credits
Acknowledgements
Index
Notes
Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
ISBN
9780452158273
Accession Number
AC635
Call Number
N L49 E97
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Sculpted in time : 4 experiences, 3 resorts, 1 National Park

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24994
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2014
Author
Mossop, Dave (screenplay, cinematographer, director)
Trusler, Jay (screenplay, cinematographer, editor)
Symes, Tim (editor)
Sangster, Malcolm (producer)
Norlander, Jessica (production manager)
Publisher
Whistler, BC : Sherpas Cinema
Call Number
06.3 Sc4 DVD
  1 website  
Author
Mossop, Dave (screenplay, cinematographer, director)
Trusler, Jay (screenplay, cinematographer, editor)
Symes, Tim (editor)
Sangster, Malcolm (producer)
Norlander, Jessica (production manager)
Responsibility
Starring:
Eric Hjorleifson
Christ Rubens
Eddie Hunter
Dan Hudson
Christian Bagg
Noah Maisonette
Keegan Cappel
Andrew Sheppard
Drew Witstock
Ruari MacFarlane
Leah Evans
Mystee Maisonette
Publisher
Whistler, BC : Sherpas Cinema
Published Date
2014
Physical Description
1 videodisc ; colour
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Films
Film making
Skiing
Norquay, Mount
Lake Louise ski area
Sunshine ski area
Sunshine Village
Banff National Park
Tourism
Travel
Hunter, Eddie
Abstract
We follow a handful of iconic Rockies ski characters through Lake Louise, Sunshine, Mt. Norquay and even tick off a few backcountry classics. Spanning generations from the young Rocky Mountain Freeriders, to pros like Hjorleifson and Rubens, to ski legends like Eddie Hunter who’s been shredding these slopes since the 1930s, it seems that a sense of humility and raw mountain skill are commonplace amongst the characters hailing from the area. The grandeur of the these peaks have been carved over millennia and their raw nature reigns supreme, inspiring generations to seek adventure amongst the Canadian Rockies in a variety of forms. (from website)
Contents
The Wise Man (Mt. Norquay)
The Character (Lake Louise)
The Artist (Sunshine Village)
The Innovator (Banff National Park)
Notes
Features Eddie Hunter and grandson Noah Maisonette
Accession Number
2015.8532
Call Number
06.3 Sc4 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Sherpas Cinema webpage for Sculpted in Time - includes trailer
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British Columbia and the Rockies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14619
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Publisher
Greenville, SC : Michelin Travel Publications
Call Number
02.6 M58b
Publisher
Greenville, SC : Michelin Travel Publications
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
288 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The green guide
Subjects
British Columbia
Guidebooks
Maps
Tourism
Travel
Notes
On cover: Take a tour of the totems -- Enjoy Vancouver's famed Stanley Park -- Ski Whistler's snowy slopes
Includes index
Map on inside cover
ISBN
9781906261542
Accession Number
2015.8545
Call Number
02.6 M58b
Collection
Archives Library
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Alberta and the Rockies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14620
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Publisher
Greenville, SC : Michelin Travel Publications
Call Number
02.6 M58a
Publisher
Greenville, SC : Michelin Travel Publications
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
288 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The green guide
Subjects
Alberta
Guidebooks
Maps
Tourism
Travel
Notes
On cover: Track dinosaurs in the badlands -- Sample Calgary's famed Stampede -- Evoke Fort Edmonton's past
Includes index
Map on inside cover
ISBN
9781906261559
Accession Number
2015.8545
Call Number
02.6 M58a
Collection
Archives Library
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