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Caribou Highway & Merritt

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

Date: 1938

Catalogue Number: LaE.09.12

Description: a small note/sketchbook with no front cover “Caribou Highway & Merritt 1938” printed in black watercolour.photos only up to # 8 see sketchbook for subsequent drawings

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

Title: Caribou Highway & Merritt

Date: 1938

Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.0 cm

Description: a small note/sketchbook with no front cover “Caribou Highway & Merritt 1938” printed in black watercolour.photos only up to # 8 see sketchbook for subsequent drawings

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

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.09.12

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The Cascade

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.02

Description: A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in m…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: The Cascade

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 33.5 cm x 24.6 cm cm

Description: A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in monogram HEB bottom rhc.

Subject: landscape; forest; water; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Norma Bergman, Calgary , 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.02

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Cold matters : the state and fate of Canada's fresh water

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

Published Date: 2012

Author: Sandford, Robert William

Publisher: Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5wat c.1; 03.5 Sa5wat c.2

Author: Sandford, Robert William

Responsibility: Robert William Sandford

Publisher: Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: xiii, 256 p. : col. ill., col. maps, ports.

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

Subjects: Water; Continental Divide; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Kananaskis; Glaciers

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN: 9781927330197

Accession Number: 13-7-1 70,500; P2015-03-31

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5wat c.1; 03.5 Sa5wat c.2

Collection: Archives Library

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Glacier Catchment

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Date: 2012

Medium: photograph on board

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.06

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Title: Glacier Catchment

Date: 2012

Medium: photograph on board

Dimensions: 121.92 x 162.56 cm

Subject: water; glacier

Credit: Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.06

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Heart waters : sources of the Bow River

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Medium: 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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Author: Van Tighem, Kevin; Van Tighem, Brian

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

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

Subjects: Water; Watersheds; Rivers; Glaciers; Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta; Bow River

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

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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

Published Date: 1931

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Edition: 2nd edition

Call Number: 03 T89t

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Edition: 2nd edition

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 317 pages

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

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

Contents: PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.