topic:"water" found 32 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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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Climbers and climate change

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Call Number: P

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Physical Description: p.71-72 : ill

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Environment; Glaciers; Vaux family; Water

Notes: In Canadian Alpine Journal, vol.87, 2004

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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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 surveys by district personnel of the Water Survey of Canada. 1, The Victoria glacier

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

Published Date: 1971

Author: Ommanney, C. Simon L.

Publisher: Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment

Call Number: 03.4 O1g

Author: Ommanney, C. Simon L.

Responsibility: C. Simon L. Ommanney

Publisher: Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment

Published Date: 1971

Physical Description: v, 18 pages : illustrations, maps

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

Series: Glacier Inventory Note No. 6

Subjects: Glaciers; Victoria Glacier; Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta; Surveys; Surveys and Mapping; Water

Abstract: Pertains to the

Contents: Introduction; Description; Surveyors; Snout Activity; Surface Movement; Discharge; Diagrams; Photographs; Bibliography

Notes: Errata slip inserted

Accession Number: 2019.96

Call Number: 03.4 O1g

Collection: Archives Library

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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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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”.