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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Transportation
Water Travel
Travel
Kootenay Lake
Boat
Ferry
History
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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
  1 website  
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
URL Notes
PDF of publication can be downloaded on Alberta Wilderness' website
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The politics of the canoe

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25511
Medium
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Trout tracks : essays on fly fishing

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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  
Author
Petterson, Nissa
Heuer, Karsten
Wark, Grace
Campbell, Carolyn
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
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
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