Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park.
(From Good Reads)
Contents
Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
Thinking Like a Mountain is the result of many years of thinking, talking and writing about the world's growing environmental crisis. Beautifully designed and illustrated with original drawings, it is a gathering of questions, observations and ideas Robert Bateman has drawn from his own life experiences and gleaned from the writings of some of the visionaries who have influenced him.
As Einstein said, "We cannot solve the problems of today with the same thinking that gave us the problems in the first place."Only a profound shift in philosophy, Bateman believes, can save our species from extinction.
(from publisher's website)
This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport’s development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. The Story of Modern Skiing is laced with revelations from the author’s personal relationships with skiing greats such as triple Olympic gold medalists Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy, double gold medalist and environmental champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, first women’s World Cup winner Nancy Greene, World Alpine champion Billy Kidd, Sarajevo gold and silver medalists Phil and Steve Mahre, and industry pioneers such as Vail founder Pete Seibert, metal ski designer Howard Head, and plastic boot inventor Bob Lange. Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing’s relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport’s heritage.
(from publisher's website)
Contents
People and place -- Genesis -- A way of life -- From rope tow to resort -- Technique and equipment: partners in progress -- A revolution in equipment -- Technique: from stem to carve -- New ways to learn -- The story of alpine competition -- The world of alpine racing -- How skiing changed the Olympics -- Racing in America -- Diversity: new disciplines, old ones restored -- Cross-country -- Extremities -- Freestyle -- Snowboarding -- The culture and business of skiing -- "The industry" -- In print -- In movies, on television -- The new ski country.
Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
Contents
Patrons without peer: selections from the McCoy Collection
He speaks for the trees: Dr. Suess and the Lorax
On the natural world
Collection spotlight: Dan Ostermiller's "The Emperor"
Walter Hood to design sculpture trail for museum
Wildlife in American art
Community focus committee: engaging the community
Notes
Features article on page 18 entitled "Looking at Wildlfe - the maturing Carl Rungius" - the National Museum of Wildlife Art holds the largest collection of Carl Rungius pieces in the United States
Pertains to how the Constitutional Monarchy functions in Canada
Contents
Introduction
The Canadian Crown - An Overview
The Modern Reality of Constitutional Monarchy
The Role and Powers of the Canadian Crown Today
Canadian Representatives of the Crown
Comparison with Other Systems of Government
The Visual Presence of the Canadian Crown
Conclusion
The Royal Anthem - “God Save the Queen”
Appendices
Photographic Credits
Glossary
Acknowledgements
ISBN
9780662460121
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
08.1 C16a PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
2015 version available online via the Government of Canada
The aim of this thesis is to undertake a comprehensive dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of 35 sites (44 log structures) in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks. Through tree-ring analysis and investigations of relevant documents (i.e., archives and interviews), three main objectives are met: (1) an architectural inventory and tree-ring analysis of sampled structures in the three parks; (2) an exploration of remote construction activity in the three parks, in terms of functional, temporal, and spatial distributions, and tree species selection; and (3) a detailed dendroarchaeological-contextual investigation of three structure case studies. The results provide new insights into remote construction activity from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century in the three parks. It assists Parks Canada in their attempt to interpret the cultural heritage resources of this area and contributes to the international need to document and explore vernacular architecture. (from the University of Victoria library website)
Contents
Title Page
Abstract
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Literature Review
3.0 Study Sites and Methods
4.0 Characteristics of living and structure chronologies in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks
Construction Activity in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay National Parks
6.0 Case Studies
7.0 Conclusions
8.0 References
Appendix A: Tree-ring dating results and site descriptions for 35 sites (44 structures) sampled in Jasper, Banff, and Kootenay Parks
Appendix B: Interview Transcriptions
Appendix C: Copyright Permissions
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved buffalo jump sites in North America and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981. Author Gordon Reid has compiled a history of this significant site, describing the importance of the buffalo to Native peoples, how the jump was used, and the traditions and skills surrounding the hunt. He also looks at the excavation of the site, explaining how archaeologists uncovered artifacts, and what they learned about the history of the site and the people who used it. Also included is an overview of the resources offered by the Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump interpretive centre.
This book, originally published in 1993, has been a very popular resource for tourists, educators, students, and people interested in Alberta's heritage. Completely updated and redesigned for this new edition, it will be the only book available that explains, in depth, the vital role of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Native history. (from Fifth House Publishing website)
Contents
Part I - The Buffalo and the Native Peoples
Part II - Unearthing the Past
Part III - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Today
A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included. There are few books on Aboriginal women in Canada; this anthology provides a valuable addition to the literature and fills a critical gap in the fields of Native Studies, Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies. (from Inanna website)
Contents
Introduction / Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire -- Profiles of Aboriginal Women -- Kohkum would be Mad at me / Patricia A. Monture -- Response to Canada's Apology to Residential Shool Survivors / Beverley Jacobs -- Portrait of Gladys Taylor / Alice Olsen Williams -- Life of a Chief: An Interview / Nora Bothwell -- Nice Story of Nohkom / Lana Whiskeyjack -- Carrying the Pipe: Maliseet Elder, Healer and Teacher, Imelda Perley / Maura Hanrahan -- Poverty and the Poetry: A Native Woman's Life History / Garry Klugie -- Interview with Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, of the Kanien'keha:ka Nation, Turtle Clan / Kim Anderson -- Role Models: An Anishnaabe-kwe Perspective / Renee E. Mzinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard -- Sky Woman Lives On: Contemporary Examples of Mothering the Nation / Lina Sunseri -- Identity -- Healing Is / Isabel Louise O'Kanese -- Wiisaakodewikwe Anishinaabekwe Diabaajimotaw Nipigon Zaaga'igan: Lake Nipigon Ojibway Metis Stories About Women / Patricia D. McGuire -- Surviving as a Native Woman Artist / Joane Cardinal-Schubert -- N'tacimowin innan nah': Our Coming In Stories / Alex Wilson -- Triple Jeopardy: Aboriginal Women with Disabilities / Doreen Demas -- Inuit Women and the Politics of Naming in Nunavut / Valerie Alia -- Feminism and Aboriginal Culture: One Woman's View / Agnes Grant -- Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters / Shirley O'Connor-Anderson, Patricia A. Monture and Nerissa O'Connor -- Brown Girl Dancing / Kate Monture -- Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Sovereignty / Patricia A. Monture -- Territory -- I Lost My Talk / Rita Joe -- Reflections from a NamekosipiiwAnishinaapekwe My Trout Lake, Your Trout Lake / Kaaren Olsen Dannenmann -- Anishnaabekwe, Traditional Knowledge and Water / Deborah McGregor -- Nunavut: Whose Homeland, Whose Voices? / Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez -- First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies / Brenda McLeod -- Third World Housing Development and Indigenous People in North America / Winona LaDuke -- Matrimonial Real Property Solutions / Elizabeth Bastien -- Activism -- Invocation/Incantation to the Women Word-Warriors for Custom-Made Shoes / Monique Mojica -- Aboriginal Women at Midlife: Grandmothers as Agents of Change / Lynn M. Meadows, Wilfreda E. Thurston and Laura E. Lagendyk -- Two Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society / Michelle Cameron -- Ensuring Indigenous Women's Voices are Heard: The Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women / Mary Sillet -- "With the Appropriate Qualifications": Aboriginal People and Employment Equity / Patti Doyle-Bedwell -- HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women in Canada / Susan Judith Ship and Laura Norton -- Aboriginal Women and the Constitutional Debates: Continuing Discrimination / Native Women's Association of Canada -- Moving Beyond the Feminism Versus Nationalism Dichotomy: An Anti-Colonial Feminist Perspective on Aboriginal Liberation Struggles / Lina Sunseri -- Writing on the Wall: Metis Reflections on Gerald Vizenor's Strategies for Survival / Carole Leclair -- Confronting Power: Aboriginal Women and Justice Reform / Patricia A. Monture -- Confronting Colonialism -- White man tell me / Patricia A. Monture -- Racism, Sexism and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada / Carrie Bourassa, Kim McKay-McNabb and Mary Hampton -- Child Sexual Abuse: Words from Concerned Women / Aboriginal Women's Council of Saskatchewan -- Keeping the Circle Strong in the North: Solvent Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Strategies for the North / Rosemarie Kuptana -- Simpering Outrage During an "Epidemic" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. Tait -- For Kayla John / Robina Thomas -- Is Canada Peaceful and Safe for Aboriginal Women? / Anita Olsen Harper -- Culture of Loss: The Mourning Period of Paper Indians / Apryl Gladue -- Confronting the Canadian Legal System -- Freedom / Kate Monture -- "The Least Members of Our Society" / The Mohawk Women of Caughnawaga -- Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Contradictions and Challenges / Aki-Kwe and Mary Ellen Turpel -- Aboriginal Women's Rights as "Existing Rights" / Sharon D. McIvor -- Women and the Canadian Legal System: Examining Situations of Hyper-Responsibility / Caefs/Nwac -- Entrenched Social Catastrophe: Native Women in Prison / Fran Sugar -- Suitable Place: Positive Change for Federally-Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Canada / Lori Sparling -- Women and Risk: Aboriginal Women, Colonialism and Correctional Practice / Patricia A. Monture -- International Human Rights Standards and Instruments Relevant to Indigenous Women / M. Celeste Mckay -- Indigenous Knowledges -- When I Was a Child / Shirley Ida Williams-Pheasant -- Spirit of My Quilts / Alice Olsen Williams -- Our World / Osennontion & Skonaganleh:ra -- Indian Medicine, Indian Health / Lesley Malloch -- Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica -- Locating Ourselves in the Place of Creation: The Academy as Kisu'lt melkiko'tin / Emerance Baker -- Notokwe Opikiheet -- "Old Lady Raised" Aboriginal Women's Reflections on Ethics and Methodologies / Kim Anderson -- Conclusion / Patricia D. McGuire and Patrcia A. Monture.
Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada. Since many rivers are already fully allocated to numerous uses, future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water resources and how effectively we manage them—especially in the face of climate change. The message to take home from this eloquent book is that it is time to dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in Canada and throughout North America. We all need to be mindful that though our technologically sophisticated society is largely fuelled and lubricated by refined petroleum, it ultimately runs on plain water. In his conclusion to this authoritative book, Robert Sandford, chair of Canada’s United Nations Water for Life Decade, offers a realistic picture of the various issues and threats related to the future availability and quality of fresh water in Canada. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Invocation: through mist and rainbow the water speaks
One: water, weather and the west
Two: the drinking-water supply in Canada
Three: what can we learn from others
Four: reading the wind: reframing the climage-change debate
Five: future landscapes in the mountain west
Appendix One
Appendix Two
Written on the wind: a climate-change bookshelf
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198) and index
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle.
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and his little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
Contents
Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings.
Notes
Still photography by Bruno Engler
Filmed in Southern Alberta and Waterton National Park
Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature] (22 min.); Interview with Sam Shepard (13 min.); Interview with John Bailey (21 min.); Interview with Haskell Wexler (12 min.). Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros.
In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and off the train, in and out of roomettes, bars, and dining cars, George teams up with an amiable small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the murder's henchmen, FBI agents and a host of other outrageous characters (from back of DVD)
Pertains to the 2005 first ascent into the Castleguard Cave near the Saskatchewan Glacier in Banff National Park by Marek Vokac, Christian Rushfeldt, Bjorn Myrvold and Jorn Halvorsen
This paper examines the life of William Twin (c. 1860–1940), a member of the Nakoda (or Stoney) First Nation, and pays particular attention to his connection with Banff National Park and role in facilitating the tourism empire that still flourishes there. Being careful to distinguish between who William Twin was and how he was imagined to be, this paper argues that his life story has at least two aspects: William as an ‘institution’ useful to the development of Banff National Park, and William as a person who enjoyed sustained and very personal interactions with both Stoney and Euro-Canadian communities (abstract)
Notes
In Native Studies Review . 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p 77-98.
Call Number
07.2 B72u PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Native Studies Review via the University of Saskatchewan Department of Indigenous Studies
Catalogue of an exhibition first held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 18 to Sept. 27, 2009 and then travelling to Vancouver Art Gallery, from Oct. 17, 2009 to Janu. 17, 2010. Issued also in French under title: Grandeur nature : peinture et photographie des paysages ame´ricains et canadiens de 1860 a` 1918.
Contents
Endangered horizons / Nathalie Bondil -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Crossed destinies: manifesting the paths of nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860-1918 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Flexible frontiers: expansion, contraction, regeneration / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Nature transcendent -- The most northerly horizon / Rosalind Pepall -- The forest, Niagara and the sublime / Franc¸ois-Marc Gagnon -- Works -- The stage of history and the theatre of myth -- Looking at landscape in athe age of environmentalism / Lynda Jessup -- Too silent to be real / Richard Hill -- Works -- Man versus nature -- Painting and photography in British Columbia, 1871-1916: some observations / Ian Thom -- Works -- Nature domesticated -- Word and image: North American landscape in nineteenth-century illustrated publications / Brian Foss -- John Singer Sargent's adventurous summer in the Canadian Rockies: the visit to rh Yoho Valley in 1916 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Works -- The urban landscape -- "To pavements and homesteads here" : landscape, photography, and the transcendence of time and space / Philip Brookman -- Works -- The return of nature -- Introduction -- Works.