Pertains to a pamphlet detailing the animal species that have been discovered in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Located in Yoho National Park, the Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit that was originally founded by Charles Walcott. The pamphlet tells of Walcott’s history and the early beginnings following his findings, as well as the species that inhabited the area millions of years prior.
Notes
Front reads: Exquisitely detailed fossils found in layer of shale in Yoho National Park open a window on life on Earth 530 millions years ago
Pertains to an in depth analysis of geological features in and around Banff, as well as a descriptive segment on new fossil species. The geological features pertains to both the mountains in and around Banff, as well as a separate discussion on economic geology.
Geology of Alberta map -- Albanerpetontids, as we say -- Ammonites and ammolites -- Albertosaurus, Alberta's dinosaur -- Amber, fossilized tree sap -- Amia, the bowfin -- Atrociraptor, the new raptor -- Basilemys, a very large turtle -- Bison, as opposed to buffalo -- The Blindman River -- Belonostomus, a pointy-headed fish -- Barnum Brown, fossil hunter -- Burbank, Alberta -- Calgary and the things that lay beneath it -- Extinct camels -- The Canadian shield -- Centrosaurus, a herding horned dinosaur -- Champsosaurus, a kind of non-crocodile -- Chasmosaurus, a short-horned dinosaur -- North American cheetahs -- The Bow Valley at Cochrane -- Cretaceous lizards -- Alberta's crocodilians -- Dawn redwood trees -- Devil's Coulee and its dinosaur nests -- Didelphodon, a sort of primitive possum -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Dromaeosaurus, a snappy little raptor -- The Drumheller Badlands -- Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park -- Dunkleosteus, a very scary fish -- Edmonton, a modest sort of dinosaur graveyard -- Edmontosaurus, Edmonton's duck-billed dinosaur -- Edmontonia, Edmonton's other dinosaur -- Feathered dinosaurs -- Fossil frogs -- Gar, the fish -- Horn corals -- How do you know where to dig? -- Hypacrosaurus, less than the ultimate dinosaur -- The Kleskun Hills -- Lambeosaurus, Lambe's dinosaur -- Leptoceratops, a hornless horned dinosaur -- Alberta's lions -- Lundbreck Falls and the black beauty -- Mammoths and mastodons -- The Milk River -- Mosasaurs, the giant marine lizards -- Multituberculates, common but extinct mammals -- Myledaphus, a guitar fish -- New fossil names -- The oil sands -- Ornithomimids, the bird mimics -- Pachyrhinosaurus, the thick-nosed dinosaur -- Palaeontology in Alberta -- Pantodonts, giant Palaeocene mammals -- Parasaurolophus, a long-headed duck-bill -- Parksosaurus, Park's dinosaur -- The world's oldest pike -- Plants of the ornithomimid quarry -- Plesiadapis, a weird early primate -- Plesiosaurs, the sea serpents of the Mesozoic -- "Primitive" plants -- Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles -- Fossil salamanders -- Sandy Point -- Saurornitholestes, a raptor -- Short-faced bear -- Since the Ice Age -- Snakes of the dinosaur times -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Stegoceras -- The Sternberg family -- Sedimentology, the science of sediments -- Sturgeon, a living fossil fish -- Styracosaurus, a classic Alberta dinosaur -- Trace fossils -- Troodon, the "smart" dinosaur -- Triceratops, the three-horned face -- Tyrannosaurus or "T. rex"-- The venomous mammal.
Notes
Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum.
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to the Drumheller area of the Badlands in southern Alberta. Includes shots of dinosaur statues around the town, hoodoos, a fossil trail, and two men reassembling a partial fossil in the ground.
The original label on the case reads "Drumheller, Ba…
1 motion picture (1 film reel: 186'): 16 mm, original, b&w, silent
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to the Drumheller area of the Badlands in southern Alberta. Includes shots of dinosaur statues around the town, hoodoos, a fossil trail, and two men reassembling a partial fossil in the ground.
The original label on the case reads "Drumheller, Badland, Date: 1960, Camera B. Engler, Footage B&W 186 ft."
An illustrated textbook detailing the ecology of fossils throughout various time periods.
Contents
1. Introduction / W. S. McKerrow -- 2. Classification of organisms / W. S. McKerrow -- 3. Precambrian / W.S. McKerrow -- 4. Cambrian / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 4. Ordovician / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 5. Silurian / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 6. Devonian / R. Goldring -- 7. Carboniferous / W. H. C. Ramsbottom -- 8. Permian / W. H. C. Ramsbottom -- 9. Triassic / B. W. Sellwood -- 10. Jurassic / B. W. Sellwood -- 11. Cretaceous / W. J. Kennedy -- 12. Cenozoc / J. Taylor -- 13. Present day / J. Taylor
File consists of 31 b&w, some captioned. The prints in this file pertain to various photographs of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia.
File consists of 31 b&w, some captioned. The prints in this file pertain to various photographs of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia.
Wendy Ryan provided and identification for the following print:
PA - 13 Stromatolite. The earth's oldest fossils, 3.5 billion years old, found all through the Castle, Waterton, Glacier, Montana. Formed on the ocean floor, now found on the tops of mountains or where they have fallen into the valleys.
Riggall's Grandson John Russell provided idendifications on some photographs they are as follows:
PA - 20 to 21 The kid a Iris (girl) and Chris (brother) of the George and Bea Crosby family
File consists of 8 b&w negatives. The negatives pertain to views of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia..
File consists of 8 b&w negatives. The negatives pertain to views of rock formations and fossils found in the Waterton and Akamina area of British Columbia..
File consists of lantern slides depicting Rocky Mountain scenic views, mountains, wildlife, horse rides. Includes Banff, Yoho, Lake O'Hara, Banff-Jasper Highway and surrounding areas.
Slides are a mix of colour and black & white photographs; some images are printed directly onto one pane of glass …
41 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10.2 x 8.2 cm
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File consists of lantern slides depicting Rocky Mountain scenic views, mountains, wildlife, horse rides. Includes Banff, Yoho, Lake O'Hara, Banff-Jasper Highway and surrounding areas.
Slides are a mix of colour and black & white photographs; some images are printed directly onto one pane of glass while others are transparencies on celullose film mounted between 2 glass panes. There is no order to the different mediums.
Slides were accompanied with 7 typed text papers listing the slide numbers and details of the images. See Notes for list.
Notes
[1] Sahdow Lake
[2] Summer scene in Banff
[3] Eifell Lake (some of the Ten Peaks)
[4] Pinnacle Mt. from Mt. Temple
[5] Consolation Mts. Biden and Quadra
[6] Un-named lake between Consolation Valley and Boom Lake
[7] Clouds on Mt. Cathedral
[8] Mt. Cathedral
[9] Glacier on east sloped of Mt. Narao, near Wapta
[10] Descending Mt. Narao
[11] Mt. Cathedral Lake O'Hara
[12] Mt. Cathedral near Lake O'Hara
[13] Alpine Club House in Lake O'Hara meadows
[14] Lake O'Hara
[15] On shores of Lake Margaret
[16] Waterfall in Opabin Pass, Mt. Biddle
[17] Chateau Lake Louise
[18] Twin Falls Yoho Park
[19] Below Twin Falls
[19a] Below Twin Falls
[20] Below Twin Falls
[21] On Burgess Pass Trail
[22] President group from Burgess Pass trail
[23] Hoodoos up Hoodoo Creek
[24] Shadow Lake
[25] Road up to Mt. Norquay
[26] On the trail in winter
[27] Winter in Banff
[28] Cloud of ridge
[29] On shore of Shadow Lake
[30] A short rest
[31] Shadow Lake
[32] Bow River near Banff -- Mt. Borgeau
[33] Mt. Rundle by moonlight -- Banff
[34] A promise of spring -- Forty Mile Creek
[35] Winter
[36] Sheep country in the foothills
[37] The Golden West
[38] Banff Springs Hotel
[39] Amid the glaciers -- Mt. Balfour
[40] Mt. Temple