photo courtesy the Canadian Pacific Railway Archives/Exporail NS.92

curated by Dr. Colleen Skidmore of the University of Alberta, and circulated by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

The Canadian Rockies compelled many women whose intellects and imaginations rose to the challenge between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit presents a sampling of women’s creative responses to that magnificent land and its cultures.