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A Hunter of Peace: Mary T.S.
Schaffer’s Old Indian Trails of The Canadian Rockies
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Ain’t it Hell: Bill Peyto’s “Mountain Journal”Author: E.J. Hart. The life and times of Bill Peyto. Bill Peyto was one of Banff’s most colourful characters. Read about the adventures of this early guide and outfitter through this delightful book of thoughts, ideas and journal entries taken from the Whyte Museum’s Archival Collection. $17.95 Paperback Product # 610
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At Rest in the PeaksPublished by: The Whyte Museum of the Canadian
Rockies A guided walk through the Old Banff Cemetery. Here lies the very essence of Banff’s history, laid out as though each marker were the chapter in a book. $6.95 Paperback Product # 51For Wholesale inquiries, please contact shop@whyte.org
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Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada’s History Illustrated with Original MapsAuthor: Derek Hayes This book covers a period of a thousand years and contains essentially all the historically significant maps of the country. Here are the often colourful, sometimes bizarre charts of European explorers who discovered Canada while seeking an easier westerly route to the Orient. Many of these early surveys depict imagined straits and passages; one shows the St. Lawrence River flowing from an opening on the coast of California. These maps show the way things were in a unique geographical way. Explorers created their own maps, but the maps they took with them also depict what they expected to encounter, an expectation that often shaped their decisions. Rare First Nations maps show how the land was known to Canada’s aboriginal peoples before significant contact with Europeans. All of these-and more-are here in the Historical Atlas of Canada, an insightful outlook on the nation’s past. $50.00 Paperback Product # 391 |
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In Search Of Ancient Alberta: Seeking the Spirit of the Land Author: Doug Whiteway This book begins as a search for contectedness, an exploration of our place in the “New World.” Alberta seems young, brash, vibrant. In fact, it is almost as old as time. It is we who are new to it. A few among us can claim, “I have been here since the world began,” but most have family histories barley a century old in this part of the world. We might prize the land, appreciate its beauty, treasure its many moods. But how can we feel rooted if we do not truly understand it? This book was written on this premise: if we can begin to comprehend Alberta’s long history, we might see the landscape with new eyes. Then, and only then, might we find our place in this uncommonly beautiful part of the world. $26.95 Paperback Product# 987
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Famous Name Trains: Travelling in Style with the CPR Author: David Laurence Jones This book goes back in time to describe what it was like to travel on some of the CPR’s famous “name trains,” like the Pacific Express, the Imperial Limited, and the Canadian. The birth and growth of the CPR’s transcontinental passenger train service from Montreal signalled travel opportunities not only for the rich and famous, when travelling by train was the most sought after mode of transport by the wealthy, but also for immigrants, homesteaders, and entrepreneurs heading west in search of a new life. Famous Name Trains evokes the era of luxurious and practical rail travel as no other book could. With the CPR Archives at his fingertips and an unmatched storytelling talent, David Laurence Jones makes the sumptuous and successful rolling hotels of Canada’s past come alive. $29.95 Paperback Product# 1001
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Off The Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western CanadaAuthor: Cyndi Smith Off the Beaten Track is the story of fourteen women explorers, writers, artists, mountaineers and trail guides who were active during the period of the completion of the railway, and the Second World War-- it was half a century of feverish exploration. These women were a diverse lot, from the Quaker photographer to the indefatigable climbers, from a passionate literary critic to confident horsewomen. $18.95 Paperback Product # 25
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Portraits Of Canada: Photographic Treasures of the CPR Author: Jonathan Hanna Few individuals have had as much opportunity to traverse the breadth of Canada as the photographers who rode the rails for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Almost from the company's beginnings in 1881, CPR hired noted photographers, first on contract, then later in its own in-house photography and publicity departments. Portraits of Canada present the very best of their work in a visual journey across Canada in space and time. This book is a painstaking selection of 150 of the most thought-provoking, stunning, and sometimes quixotic images from the approximately 800,000 historic images in the Canadian Pacific Railway Archives, including momentous events in Canadian history, the social changes that swept through Canada from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and picturesque scenes from across Canada that were sent around the world by the CPR. These are postcards of a nation that allow us to see the country as it was, and how outsiders looking in perceived it. $39.95 Hardcover Product# 428
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Pushing The Limits: The Story of Canadian MountaineeringAuthor: Chic Scott In words and pictures, follow the evolution of climbing in Canada – from the West Coast to Quebec, from the Yukon to the Rockies – as it has unfolded during the last 200 years leading up to the millennium $59.95 Hardcover Product # 1392
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The Place of BowsAuthor: E.J. Hart The Place of Bows traces the vast epic of human interaction with the Banff-Bow Valley, one of the most glorious mountain landscapes on earth and a place where different cultures have come together for millennia. $24.95 Paperback Product # 1374
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Trains, Peaks and TouristsAuthor: E.J. Hart Trains, Peaks and Tourists returns us to the golden age of Canadian travel when the railway was king. Through the efforts of the C.P.R. and its competitors, the wonders of Canada were introduced to its own people and to its multitude of tourists from around the world. $21.95 Paperback Product # 1614
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