The Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

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Overview:The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The museum collects, preserves, and exhibits materials integrating the cultural and natural heritage of the Rocky Mountains of Canada, making them available for education as well as research. Containing an archive and a library, the institution was the inspiration of Banff artists Peter and Catharine Whyte, and is the fourth largest museum in Alberta. The Museum opened in 1968 and houses the Art Galleries, Archives, Heritage Gallery and Museum Shop. In respect to national parks and biodiversity conservation, the Whyte’s archival collections and publishing history includes extensive photographic and documentary archival material on First Nation’s use of the Rocky Mountains, the establishment of Banff National Park (Canada’s first nationally protected area), and the cultural and ecological influences of a century of management by Parks Canada. The museum facilitates community outreach facilities for national park ecological and cultural research and restoration programs, and regional First Nations. To evaluate ecological and cultural baseline for western North America, the Whyte’s research associates have compiled extensive databases of regional historic wildland occurrence (from newspaper and government agency accounts), and daily cultural, wildlife, vegetation, and other observations (n>20,000 journal days) for Western North America from first person journals from early European travellers (AD 1540 to AD 1920). The museum’s large archive of historical photographs has been utilized in several repeat photography projects documenting natural and cultural change. Select Cultural and Natural History Related Publications of Whyte Museum and Research Associates, or Materials Largely Derived from WMCR Archives:Cavell, E. 1983. Legacy in Ice: The Vaux Family and the Canadian Alps. Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Banff, AB. Hart, E. J. 1999. The Place of Bows: Exploring the Heritage of the Banff: Bow Valley. Part 1 to 1930. EJH Literary Enterprises, Banff AB.Hart, E. J. 1999. The Place of Bows: Exploring the Heritage of the Banff: Bow Valley. Part 2 to 1930 to 1985. EJH Literary Enterprises, Banff AB.Hart, E. J. 2010. J. B. Harkin: The Father of Canada’s National Parks. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, AB. Hart, E. J. 2015. Banff: A History of the Park and Town. Summerthought, Banff, AB.Hamstead, A. 2008. Historic Photographs of the Canadian Rockies. Summerthought, Banff, AB.Kay, C. E. 2007. “Were Native People Keystone Predators? A Continuous-Time Analysis of Wildlife Observations Made by Lewis and Clark”. Canadian Field-Naturalist 121: 1-16.Kay, C. E., and C. A. White. 1995. “Long-Term Ecosystem States and Processes in the Central Canadian Rockies: A New Perspective on Ecological Integrity and Ecosystem Management.” George Wright Society Annual Conference on Research and Resources in Parks and on Protected Lands 8 (1995): 119–32.Kay, C. E. and C. A. White. “Reintroduction of Bison into the Rocky Mountain Parks of Canada: Historical and Archaeological Evidence.” George Wright Society Annual Conference on Research and Resources in Parks and on Protected Lands 11 (2001): 143–51.Kay, C. E., C. A. White, I. R. Pengelly, and B. Patton. Long-term Ecosystem States and Processes in Banff National Park and the Central Canadian Rockies. Occasional Report 9. National Parks Branch. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1999.Kay, C. E., B. Patton, and C. A. White. 2000. “Historical Wildlife Observations in the Canadian Rockies: Implications for Ecological Integrity.” Canadian Field Naturalist 114:561–83.Locke. H. 2016. The Last of the Buffalo Return to the Wild. Summerthought. Banff, AB.Luxton, E. G. 1975. Banff: Canada’s First National Park. Summerthought, Banff, AB.Vaux, H. J. 2014. Legacy in Time: Three Generations of Mountain Rephotography in the Canadian West. Rocky Mountain Books. Canmore, AB.White, C. A. 1985. Wildland Fires in Banff National Park, 1880–1980. National Parks Branch. Occasional Paper 3. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1985.White, C. A. 2018. Historical Ecology of Bison Movement Corridors, Western Cordillera, North America: A Cross Watershed Comparison. Progress Report 2018-07-10. Canmore, AB: Canadian Rockies Bison Initiative. White, C. A., and M. C. Feller. 2004. “Repeat Photography of Trembling Aspen in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Temperate, Boreal, and Montane Ecosystems, edited by R. T. Engstrom, K. E. M. Galley, and W. J. de Groot, 2–22. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station.White, C. A., and W. Fisher. 2007. “Ecological Restoration in the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Developing and Implementing the 1997 Banff National Park Management Plan.” In Interdisciplinary Research and Management in Mountain Areas, Pages 212-242 in: M. Price, editor. Mountain Area Research and Management: Integrated Approaches. Earthscan, London.White, Cliff A. and E. J. (Ted) Hart. 2007. The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. White, C. A., C. E. Olmsted, and C. E. Kay. 1998. “Aspen, Elk, and Fire in the Rocky Mountain National Parks of North America.” Wildlife Society Bulletin 26: 449–62.White, C. A., E. G. Langemann, C. C. Gates, C. E. Kay, T. Shury, and T. E. Hurd. 2001. “Plains Bison Restoration in the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Ecological and Management Considerations.” Proceedings of the George Wright Biannual Conference on Research and Resource Management in National Parks and on Public Lands 11: 152–60. White, C. A., I. R. Pengelly, D. Zell, and M. P. Rogeau. 2005.“Restoring Heterogeneous Fire Regimes in Banff National Park.” In Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: Ecology and Management, edited by L. Taylor, J. Zelnik, S. Cadwallader, and B. Hughes, 255–66. Association of Fire Ecology. Pullman: Washington State University Extension.White, C. A., D. D. B. Perrakis, V. G. Kafka, and T. Ennis. 2011. “Burning at the Edge: Integrating Biophysical and Eco-Cultural Fire Processes in Canada’s Parks and Protected Areas.” Fire Ecology 7:74-106.Whyte, J. 1985. Indians in the Rockies. Banff: Altitude Publishing.

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