topic:"water" found 26 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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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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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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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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.