topic:"water" found 24 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Alberta Oil Sands #14

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Date: 2007

Medium: photograph on board

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.01

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Title: Alberta Oil Sands #14

Date: 2007

Medium: photograph on board

Dimensions: 162.56 x 121.92 cm

Subject: oil; water; chromogenic; print

Credit: Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.01

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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

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Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Responsibility: D.W. Schindler; W.F. Donahue

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 6 pages ; illustrations , maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Watersheds; Climate; Climate change; Climatology; Western Canada; Glaciers; Rivers; Lakes

Abstract: Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.

Notes: In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online via PNAS's website

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Ashcroft Country, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1948

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.57

Description: See photo blhc: brhc: “E Lamarque”

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Ashcroft Country, B.C.

Date: 1948

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: See photo blhc: brhc: “E Lamarque”

Subject: landscape; mountains; water; urban, buildings; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.57

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Dam Falls

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Date: 1947 – 1947

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: PeG.02.03

Description: Brown and blue slate rock in the foreground with one lone stilted tree to the left; rocks are higher on the left almost meeting the walkway on the top of the dam. Lower mid-centre of the painting is the mass of swirling green, blue and white water rushing from the gates of the falls. The grey gates…

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Title: Dam Falls

Date: 1947 – 1947

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 51.0 cm

Description: Brown and blue slate rock in the foreground with one lone stilted tree to the left; rocks are higher on the left almost meeting the walkway on the top of the dam. Lower mid-centre of the painting is the mass of swirling green, blue and white water rushing from the gates of the falls. The grey gates with water rushing down are mid-centre to the right. The walkway on the top of the dam extends throughout top-half of the painting. An outline of a rider and two horses are off to centre right, top of a mauve mountain behind and cloudy blue sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain; dam; water; figure, man; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: PeG.02.03

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Denying the source : the crisis of First Nations water rights

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Phare, Merrell-Ann

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 P49

Author: Phare, Merrell-Ann

Responsibility: Merrell-Ann S. Phare

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: xi, 99 p.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: First Nations - (SEE ALSO Indians); Water; Government; Environmental conservation

ISBN: 9781897522615

Accession Number: 13-2-1 70,500

Call Number: 04 P49

Collection: Archives Library

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Kootenay Plains/Mountain Study #7

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.11

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are green, blue, brown and grey. The top right corner is rimmed with white clouds, under which the mountain is rendered in a purple/grey. Under the mountain, in the lower third of the image, several blue streaks represent a river or lake. A…

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Kootenay Plains/Mountain Study #7

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 35.6 x 45.7 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are green, blue, brown and grey. The top right corner is rimmed with white clouds, under which the mountain is rendered in a purple/grey. Under the mountain, in the lower third of the image, several blue streaks represent a river or lake. At the blhc there is a segment of green. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in beige paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “45/H-2”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; water

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.11

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Lake O’Hara

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Artist: Kenneth Gillespie (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 2000

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: GiK.01.01

Description: The scene is dominated by the rock faces, and mountains, notably the Yukness Ledges. Very little sky is visible, mostly white and blue clouds. Mauve, pink and brown mountains with a few vestiges of snow; pink and brown rock faces with dark and light green trees leading down to the shore. Seven Sist…

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Artist: Kenneth Gillespie (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Lake O’Hara

Date: 2000

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 101.5 cm

Description: The scene is dominated by the rock faces, and mountains, notably the Yukness Ledges. Very little sky is visible, mostly white and blue clouds. Mauve, pink and brown mountains with a few vestiges of snow; pink and brown rock faces with dark and light green trees leading down to the shore. Seven Sisters Falls is visible mid-to viewer’s right. The bottom portion is turquoise blue water bisected by a line of brown/orange/pink rocks with seven shadowy trees and tree trunks, viewer’s right.Au verso printed in black marker, viewer’s left, Lake O’Hara 30x40; viewer’s right Lake O’Hara