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Connecting the Kootenays : the Kootenay Lake ferries, a hundred years of service 1921-2020
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25567
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- January 2022
- Author
- Cone, Michael A.
- Publisher
- Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
- Call Number
- 08.5 C75c
- Author
- Cone, Michael A.
- Publisher
- Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
- Published Date
- January 2022
- Physical Description
- 354 pages
- Abstract
- Connecting the Kootenays chronicles the history of the Kootenay Lake ferry service from its modest beginnings in 1921 through to its 100th anniversary in 2020. -- From back cover
- Contents
- The Great Trunk Road (1908-1921) ; The Canadian Pacific Railway Fills the Gap (1884-1913) ; The Nasookin: Queen of Kootenay Lake (1913-1930) ; Nelson to Kuskanook: A Trip to Remember (1921-1930) ; The Provinical Government Steps In (1931) ; The Great Depression and the Second World War (1931-1947) ; Saying Goodbye to the Nasookin (1947-1956) ; A New Ferry and a New Route (1947-1954) ; The Auxiliary Ferry: The Balfour (1954) ; Growing Pains for the Two-Ferry Service and the Opening of the "Skyway" (1955-1963) ; Labour Strife, Major Rebuilds and Looking beyond the New Millennium (1964-1999) ; The Osprey 2000, Privitization and Facing Challenges Ahead (2000-2020)
- ISBN
- 9781778350511
- Accession Number
- P2022.12
- Call Number
- 08.5 C75c
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- 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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The politics of the canoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25511
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 E4t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Canoeing
- Politics
- History
- History-Canada
- Water
- Abstract
- Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies. -- From back cover
- Contents
- The Politics of the Canoe / Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz ; Tribal Canoe Journeys and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Story from the Heiltsuk Nation / Frank Brown, Hillary Beattie, Vina Brown, and Ian Mauro ; This is What Makes Us Strong: Canoe Revitalization, Reciprocal Heritage, and the Chinnok Indian Nation / Rachel L. Cushman, Jon D. Daehnke, and Tony A. Johnson ; Whaehdoo Eto K'e / John B. Zoe and Jessica Dunkin ; Building Canoe, Knowledge, and Relationships ; Model Canoes, Territorial Histories, and Linguistic Resurgence: Decolonizing the Tappan Adney Archives / Chris Ling Chapman ; Ginawaydaganuc: The Birchbark Canoe in Algonquin Community Resurgence and Reconciliation / Chuck Commanda, Larry McDermott, and Sarah Nelson ; Beyond Birchbark: How Lahontan's Images of Unfamiliar Canores Confirm His Remarkable Western Expedition of 1688 / Peter H. Wood ; Monumental Trip: Don Starkell's Canoe Voyage from Winnipeg to the Mouth of the Amazon / Albert Braz ; The Dam That Wasn't: How the Canoe Became Political on the Petawa River / Cameron Baldassarra ; Unpacking and Repacking the Canoe: Canoe as Research Vessel / Danielle Gendron
- ISBN
- 9780887559099
- Accession Number
- P2022.03
- Call Number
- 07.2 E4t
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Fortress Mountain and the false promise of public participation in Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25149
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- March 2020
- Author
- Fluker, Shaun
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Call Number
- P
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- Author
- Fluker, Shaun
- Responsibility
- Shaun Fluker
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Published Date
- March 2020
- Physical Description
- p. 6 - 8
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Kananaskis
- Kananaskis Country
- Kananaskis Lakes
- Water
- Watersheds
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Abstract
- Pertains to the application by Fortress Mountain Ski Hill for an amendment to its water license which would allow for 50 million litres of water annually to be removed and bottled
- Notes
- In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.1, March 2020
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- PDF of publication can be downloaded on Alberta Wilderness' website
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Updates - They're still back - bison in Banff National Park ; increasing timber harvest in Alberta's forests, Alberta forests deserve more than the "forests (growing Alberta's forest sector) Amendment Act" ; The Forests Act - what should be included ; December WLA water update ; sentencing in grizzly bear poaching / assault incident ; Alberta - Canada Caribou Conservation Agreement
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25223
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Petterson, Nissa
- Heuer, Karsten
- Wark, Grace
- Campbell, Carolyn
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Responsibility
- Nissa Petterson
- Karsten Heuer
- Grace Wark
- Carolyn Campbell
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- pg. 34 - 38
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Politics
- Forestry
- Forests
- Forests and forestry
- Bison
- Bears
- Bears, Grizzly
- Poaching
- Water
- Watersheds
- Abstract
- Pertains to updates on the following projects in Alberta: They're still back - bison in Banff National Park ; increasing timber harvest in Alberta's forests, Alberta forests deserve more than the "forests (growing Alberta's forest sector) Amendment Act" ; The Forests Act - what should be included ; December WLA water update ; sentencing in grizzly bear poaching / assault incident ; Alberta - Canada Caribou Conservation Agreement
- Notes
- In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.4, December 2020
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- P
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- Digital copy available
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Rain comin' down : water, memory and identity in a changed world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25257
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5r
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- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Responsibility
- Robert W. Sandford
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 330 pages
- Subjects
- Water
- Watersheds
- Rivers
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Rocky Mountains
- Climate change
- Abstract
- Robert Sandford has spent a lot time watching and thinking about water. This was not because he was predisposed to do so, but because the importance of water gradually caught up with who he was and what he was doing with his life. As this self-reflective book demonstrates, when one takes up the serious study of water, one cannot but be surprised at how far that interest can take you: from the very origins of the cosmos right down to the unique structure and remarkable qualities of water as a molecule. It takes you to the depths of the oceans, to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere, and into the centres of storms. You fall to Earth with raindrops, travel tiny streams and great rivers, go round and round in lakes and ponds. Your study takes you down to the very roots of trees, into the soil, along the dark, dank banks of underground rivers. It takes you from one person’s thirst to the thirst of nations; from the demographics of the past to how those may drastically change in the absence of water in decades to come. Following water takes one back and forth in time, linking us to what the Earth was like in the past; what it is now; and how water will shape what it will be in the future. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Invocation - Rain comin' down
- Celestial rivers
- Rivers of cold
- Rivers of heat
- Rivers of words
- The heart of dryness
- Irrigating Eden
- Rivers of memory
- Rivers of ice
- As the world burns
- Learning from the burning: The summer of 2018
- Afterword - Rivers of hope
- Appendix - a Canadian National Glacier Act
- Bookshelf
- ISBN
- 9781771603171
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5r
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- Archives Library
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Where rivers meet : photographs and stories from the Bow Valley and the Kananaskis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25282
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Legault, Stephen
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB
- Call Number
- 03.5 L46w
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- Author
- Legault, Stephen
- Responsibility
- Stephen Legault
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps
- Subjects
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Rivers
- Water
- Watersheds
- Bow River Basin
- Spray River
- Highwood Pass
- Maps
- Photography
- Abstract
- Until the 1980s, Kananaskis Country, the Bow Valley and Canmore were places most people drove past on their way to Ban National Park, Lake Louise, Jasper and points beyond. Today, Kananaskis Country gets more than three million visitors a year, and Canmore is a town twice the size of Banff. Encompassing a dizzying array of natural environments, from grasslands and foothills to deep mountain valleys and sweeping alpine vistas, Kananaskis Country and the Bow Valley attract visitors from around the world each year to this mountain paradise. Calgarians consider this landscape to be their backyard and they turn to it for recreation, solace and wilderness adventure. Where Rivers Meet will bring the beauty and wonder of this profound landscape and its wild creatures to visitors from around the world and local residents alike. This artistically designed coffee table book features over 200 black and white and colour images together with short essays and personal reflections on natural history, geology, the cultural background and the region’s communities, as well as the threats and solutions to development and social challenges found throughout Kananaskis Country and the Bow Valley. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Bow Valley
- The Spray Valley
- The Kananaskis Valley
- The Highwood/Cataract
- The Elbow and Sheep Rivers
- Oz-ada Imne
- Epilogue: A love song
- Gratitude
- About the author
- Maps
- ISBN
- 9781771602396
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.5 L46w
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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Planning for the next big storm
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue514
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Symynuk, Amanda
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Symynuk, Amanda
- Editor
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- p.18-19
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Water
- Glaciers
- Kananaskis
- Floods
- Abstract
- From snowmelt to stream flows: scientists are using new technology to study how water moves through the landscape
- Language
- English
- Call Number
- P
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Our vanishing glaciers : the snows of yesteryear and the future climate of the mountain West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25256
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sa5o
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- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Responsibility
- Robert W. Sandford
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Water
- Watersheds
- Rivers
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Rocky Mountains
- Climate change
- Abstract
- Written by one of the most respected experts in water and water-associated climate science and featuring stunning photography collected over the past four decades, Our Vanishing Glaciers explains and illustrates why water is such a unique substance and how it makes life on this planet possible. Focusing on the Columbia Icefield, the largest and most accessible mass of ice straddling the Continental Divide in western North America, and featuring photographs, illustrations, aerial surveys and thermal imaging collected over more than 40 years of the author’s personal observations, the book reveals the stunning magnitude of glacial ice in western Canada. Citing evidence to suggest that in the Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks alone, as many as 300 glaciers may have disappeared since 1920, this large-format, fully illustrated coffee table book graphically illustrates the projected rate of glacier recession in the mountain West over the rest of this century and serves as a profound testament to the beauty and importance of western Canada’s water, ice and snow. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- 1. The wonder of water -- 2. What winter does to water -- 3. Ecology as defined by winter water -- 4. How ice fields and glaciers form -- 5. Canada's most accessible glaciers -- 6. The death of Peyto glacier : A case for more comprehensive -- 7. The Columbia ice field today -- 8. Glaciers in a changing climate -- 9. What we stand to lose -- 10. Water, climate and the National Parks ideal.
- Notes
- Winner, 2017 Lane Anderson Award for Best Canadian Science Writing
- ISBN
- 9781771602020
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sa5o
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Heart waters : sources of the Bow River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25255
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Van Tighem, Kevin
- Van Tighem, Brian
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 03.5 V26h
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- Responsibility
- Kevin Van Tighem (author)
- Brian Van Tighem (photographer)
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps
- Abstract
- Water does not come from the river. It comes to the river. Heart Waters takes us to the sources of that water – and into the living beauty, human stories and future possibilities that also arise from the green uplands and valleys of Alberta’s Eastern Slopes, where the mighty Bow River is born. For more than a century the foothills and Front Range mountains of western Alberta have been recognized as being vital to the water supply for western Canada. Virtually all the water that sustains communities, ecosystems and the economy of prairie Canada comes from this narrow strip of land arrayed along the Continental Divide. For all its importance, however, water management decisions affecting this enormous region have ignored the significance of land health and focused almost exclusively on building dams. The result, as the author points out, is that the Bow River’s annual flows have decreased by more than a tenth, even as spring floods become more frequent and more destructive. The solutions to prairie Canada’s water challenges lie in healing the wounded landscapes of our headwaters. Heart Waters delves deeply into the history and ecology of a landscape whose critical value as a watershed is matched by its sheer beauty and diversity. A rich array of stunning images by Jasper-based photographer Brian Van Tighem complements the author’s well-researched explorations of the stories whispered by the living waters that drain from Banff National Park, Kananaskis Country and the famous ranchlands of the Bow River watershed. Kevin Van Tighem’s latest book is a deep exploration of place and an invitation to recognize that our water future depends upon knowing our headwaters better and caring for them more passionately — as our heart waters. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- 1. Voices in the water -- 2. River origins: Bow River -- 3. A prodigal's return: Johnson Creek -- 4. Caterpillars and cutthroats: Quirk Creek -- 5. The past and future trout: Meadow Creek -- 6. Lake of the spirits: Cascade River and Ghost River -- 7. Dammed splendor: Kananaskis River -- 8. Buck-toothed volunteers: Bateman Creek -- 9. The under-river: Middle Bow River -- 10. Water and wildness: Sheep River -- 11. Cattle in the creek: Pekisko Creek -- 12. Mountains breathing: Highwood River -- 13. Healing the headwaters -- 14. Home and heart waters -- Index.
- Notes
- Shortlisted for the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival award for Mountain & Wilderness Literature
- ISBN
- 9781771601399
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.5 V26h
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