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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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
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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.
- 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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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
- 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
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Reference file
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56790
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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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