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Army Daze : from Cranbrook to Apeldoorne : life in a man's army
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15438
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Boileau, Doris Ann
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Aldridge Street Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63ar
- Author
- Boileau, Doris Ann
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Aldridge Street Publishing
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 123 p : illustrations, portraits
- Subjects
- History
- World War II
- Women in war
- ISBN
- 9780986810503
- Accession Number
- 2017.8661
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63ar
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A century of antics, epics & escapades : the Varsity Outdoor Club, 1917-2017
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19924
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. ; University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club
- Call Number
- G505 V37 A58
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- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Responsibility
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. ; University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 252 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The Varsity Outdoor Club has turned 100. To celebrate the rich history of the clubs wilderness (mis-)adventures we’ve independently published the best of our collective stories from the last century into one beautiful coffee table book. The VOC has been intimately tied with the history of hiking, skiing, mountaineering and exploration of Southwestern British Columbia and beyond. From building a wooden cabin on the untamed wilds of Grouse Mountain (in the 1920s), to the first ski crossing of the now ultra-classic, “Neve Traverse” in Garibaldi Park, to modern adventures pushing how far and how fast we can go. Each chapter explores the decades from 1917 to 2017, combining primary written accounts, stunning photos and oral histories of the members into a larger unfolding narrative of the ever-evolving relationship between adventurers and nature. (from Varsity Outdoor Club website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- A history older than ours
- Table of contents
- Timeline
- 1917-1939 - Maps: VOC areas & traverses over time
- 1940s - Decades of Garibaldi Park
- 1950s - Decades of Loganeering
- 1960s - Buildering; decades of socializing
- 1970s - Conservation and advocacy in the VOC; Decades of transportation
- 1980s - Women in the VOC; decades of adventure
- 1900s
- Huts
- Nerdiness in the VOC; Maps: selection of traverses since 2000s & climbing pilgrimages
- 2000s
- VOC portrait: Roland Burton
- VOC marriage proposals
- 2010s
- Beyond 2017
- Acknowledgements
- A note on sources
- Appendix: executive lists
- ISBN
- 9781775043003
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G505 V37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Varsity Outdoor Club website - publication information
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26249
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
- Author
- Chow, Lily
- Publisher
- Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Chinese
- Women
- Immigration
- Canada
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9781773860749
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.3 C46h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Pourin' down rain : a Black woman claims her place in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25245
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Foggo, Cheryl
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.
- Call Number
- 08.1 F68p
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- Author
- Foggo, Cheryl
- Responsibility
- Cheryl Foggo
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Physical Description
- x, 118 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical table
- Subjects
- History
- History-Canada
- Canada
- Racism
- Women
- Abstract
- First published in 1990, Pourin' Down Rain is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in prairie communities with small Black populations. It thematizes the family, civil rights, and the learned art of Black Canadian storytelling. She drew much of the material from an unpublished manuscript called "The Story of My Father's Life," written by Daisy Smith Mayes Williams, Foggo's grandfather's sister. This manuscript remains in Foggo's personal archive. Pourin' Down Rain was a finalist for the Alberta Culture Non-Fiction Prize in 1990. A revised and updated 30th anniversary edition of Pourin' Down Rain is going to be released in 2020 by Brush Education and an audiobook is being released by ECW press as part of its Bespoke series of Canadian classics (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781550598339
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 F68p
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25718
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Gentile, Patrizia
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 G29q
- Author
- Gentile, Patrizia
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Feminism
- Women
- History
- Beauty contests
- Canada
- Abstract
- As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major, pageants from local to national formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex. Queen of the Maple Leaf demonstrates that these contests are designed to connect female bodies to white, middle-class, respectable femininity and wholesomeness, and that their longevity lies squarely in their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism -- Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness -- Labour of Beauty -- Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies -- Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety.
- ISBN
- 9780774864121
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 08.1 G29q
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer : women wilderness photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19772
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 06.4 sk3s
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Responsibility
- Colleen Skidmore
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xi, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Mary Schaffer
- Photography
- Women
- Bibliography
- History
- Abstract
- "Mary Scha¨ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Scha¨ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Scha¨ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author's notes on names
- She Who Coloured Slides
- Philadelphia, Paris and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889-1903
- The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904-1906
- Maligne Lake, 1907-1911
- Japan, 1908-1909, and Banff, 1909-1939
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Signed by Colleen Skidmore - dated 09/17
- ISBN
- 978-1-77212-298-5
- Accession Number
- 2019.16
- Call Number
- 06.4 sk3s
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- Archives Library
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Unsung : a history of women in American music
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19783
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Ammer, Christine
- Publisher
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
- Call Number
- 08 Am6u
- Author
- Ammer, Christine
- Responsibility
- Christine Ammer
- Publisher
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- x, 317 pages ; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Music
- Women
- Mills, Ike
- History
- Abstract
- Pertains to Alma (LaPalme) Mills who performed as a cellist as part of the Musical Art Quartet in 1920 and was a pupil of Charlotte White. Alma LaPalme was married to Ike Mills and they resided in Banff (Chapter 3, page 60)
- Contents
- The First Flowering--At the Organ -- The "Lady Violinists" and Other String Players -- Seated at the Keyboard -- The First "Lady Composers" -- Apartheid--The All-Women's Orchestras -- American Composers in European Idioms -- Grass Roots--Composers in American Idioms -- Opera Composers and Conductors -- Contemporary and Postmodern Idioms--After 1950 -- Electronic Music, Mixed Media, Film, Performance Art -- Today's Orchestras, Conductors, and Instrumentalists -- Teaching Music -- Angels and Advocates -- Women Musicians in Thirteen Major U.S. Orchestras.
- ISBN
- 978-1-48357-699-2
- Accession Number
- p2019-03
- Call Number
- 08 Am6u
- Collection
- Archives Library
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