An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers.
After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world.
A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others.
In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
Contents
Foreward
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
Chapter III - Nine to Five
Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
Chapter V - Kindred Souls
Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
Chapter VIII - Albatross
Chapter IX - Elephantastic
Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
Chapter XII - The Wild Side
Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
Index
Notes
Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild for 1944 including bylaws, life members, donations, annual meetings, president's address, branch summaries, Victory Banner Competition photographs, annual report including treasurers report, programs, special committees, statement of receipts and disbursements, prize winners, auditor's report, and a chart of stitches
Accession Number
2020.20
Call Number
06.1 C16c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Additional information pertaining to the Canadian Handicrafts Guild within the larger Arts and Crafts Movement in Canada
Pertains to the Canadian Rocky Mountains as a tourist destination in 1947 and features main geographical attractions such as the Mount Rundle, Athabaska River, Maligne Lake, Bow River in addition to the Banff Springs Hotel with map of Banff National Park and Jasper National Park.
Notes
In Life, June 9, 1947, pp. 68 - 76
Accession Number
7889
Call Number
02.6 L11c PAM OS
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Specific volume with article can be viewed online via Google Books
Pertains to the breathtaking photography captured by members of the Canadian Mountain Holiday Heli-skiing and Summer Adventurers in Banff, Alberta. The Canadian Mountain Holiday Company (CMH) worked to create a gallery in their book that would showcase some of the stunning photography they hold in their collection. The photographs are vast, showcasing skiing adventures, snowboarding adventures, hiking trips and the outdoors in its most natural state. Alongside each photograph is a short excerpt written by Hans Gmoser. Although never intended to be a concise story, the captions help to provide context and evoke a greater appreciation for nature and adventure.
Accession Number
2019.64
Call Number
06.4 G11t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is linked to the official website for the CMH. Interested users can explore the site for more information concerning the CMH and the services they offer.
This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer. Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr’s interest in art. Carr’s relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did not flourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to become the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms was only twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked to visit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warm friendship developed. The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr was regarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in the Vancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip about the local art community, providing a very personal and often exceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time. Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of the letters and includes Carr’s misspellings and grammatical irregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. There are numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how she felt “rag rug level” when depressed and how she “was sat down with a spank” when ill. Perhaps most significant are the many revelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry and perseverance despite her failing health. “Queer how we go on,” she wrote to Cheney, “luck there is so much rubber in human composition.” (from UBC Press website)
Contents
Foreward
Introduction
Note on the text
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Colour Plates
Chronology
Illustrations
The Letters
Postscript
Transcription of the Carr Letters
Emily Carr’s “Variations”
Index
Pertains to Elsie Park Gowan who was an adjudicator and instructor at the Banff School of Fine Arts between 1930 and 1958.
Contents
Homestead -- The hungry spirit -- Back to the kitchen, women! -- The last caveman -- High green gate -- Breeches from Bond Street -- Woman in the twentieth century -- The freedom of Mrs. Rodway.
ISBN
0-920897-19-3
Accession Number
p2019-07
Call Number
05.3 Da33t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Biographical information found in the Canadian Encyclopedia