About: Alpine Club of Canada     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatAlpineClubs, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FAlpine_Club_of_Canada&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an amateur athletic association with its national office in Canmore, Alberta that has been a focal point for Canadian mountaineering since its founding in 1906. The club was co-founded by Arthur Oliver Wheeler, who served as its first president, and Elizabeth Parker, a journalist for the Manitoba Free Press. Byron Harmon, whose 6500+ photographs of the Canadian Rockies in the early 20th century provide the best glimpse of the area at that time, was official photographer to the club at its founding. The club is the leading organization in Canada devoted to climbing, mountain culture, and issues related to alpine pursuits and ecology. It is also the Canadian regulatory organization for climbing competition, sanctioning local, regional and national events, a

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Alpine Club of Canada (en)
  • Alpine Club of Canada (de)
  • Club alpin du Canada (fr)
rdfs:comment
  • Der Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) ist eine 1906 in Winnipeg gegründete alpine Vereinigung in Kanada. Im Gegensatz zum britischen Alpine Club waren beim kanadischen ACC von Anfang an Frauen als Mitglieder zugelassen. Heute hat der ACC etwa 16.000 Mitglieder und besteht aus 22 regionalen Sektionen, davon zwei französischsprachigen. Er ist in der internationalen Alpinistenvereinigung UIAA Mitglied, betreibt seit 1927 in den kanadischen Rocky Mountains 28 Schutzhütten und Biwakschachteln und ist Teilhaber am Canadian Alpine Centre in Lake Louise. Der Vereinssitz befindet sich seit 1980 in Canmore in der Provinz Alberta. (de)
  • Le Club alpin du Canada (CAC) ou Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) est une organisation d'alpinisme basée à Canmore dans la province de l'Alberta au Canada. (fr)
  • The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an amateur athletic association with its national office in Canmore, Alberta that has been a focal point for Canadian mountaineering since its founding in 1906. The club was co-founded by Arthur Oliver Wheeler, who served as its first president, and Elizabeth Parker, a journalist for the Manitoba Free Press. Byron Harmon, whose 6500+ photographs of the Canadian Rockies in the early 20th century provide the best glimpse of the area at that time, was official photographer to the club at its founding. The club is the leading organization in Canada devoted to climbing, mountain culture, and issues related to alpine pursuits and ecology. It is also the Canadian regulatory organization for climbing competition, sanctioning local, regional and national events, a (en)
foaf:homepage
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balfour_hut_aug_2005.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ACC-triangle.png
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Acc_logo_bw.png
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Oliver_Wheeler.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 56 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software