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Nicholas Morant fonds

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: The Nicholas Morant fonds consists of Morant's freelance work from his early days with the Winnipeg Free Press to his retirement from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1981. It is national in scope and also includes some international material. The fonds is comprised of three series: I. Photograp…

Date Range: 1892-1995, predominant 1920-1981

Reference Code: M300 / S20 / V500

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Album; Drawing; Film; Government record; Map; Blueprint; Negative; Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard; Poster; Private record; Recording disc; Scrapbook; Sound recording; Textual record; Transparency

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300 / S20 / V500

Accession Number: 122, 182, 1273, 1460, 1612, 1685, 2175, 2265, 2631, 2703, 5117, 7438, 7784, 7672, 7914, 2023.01

Reference Code: M300 / S20 / V500

GMD: Album; Drawing; Film; Government record; Map; Blueprint; Negative; Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard; Poster; Private record; Recording disc; Scrapbook; Sound recording; Textual record; Transparency

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant, Canadian Pacific, various

Date Range: 1892-1995, predominant 1920-1981

Physical Description: ca.50,775 photographs: ca.23,795 negatives, ca.18,456 transparencies, ca.8524 prints. -- 11 photograph albums. -- 125 sound recordings

History / Biographical: Nicholas Everard Morant, 1910-1999, was a professional photographer based at Banff, Alberta, Canada. He was a Canadian commercial photographer of international repute and Canada's premier railway photographer of the 20th century.; Morant was born at Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of Francis and Mollie Morant. After attending the University School at Victoria, Morant served as Special Photographer to the CPR from 1929 to 1935 and again from 1944 to 1981. From 1935 to 1939, he was a cameraman for the Winnipeg Free Press, and from 1940 to 1944 worked with the Wartime Information Branch of the federal government (later to be known as the National Film Board Stills Division).; Morant had a prolific career as a freelance commercial, portrait, magazine, landscape and documentary photographer. His work appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Time, Life, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post, (Toronto) Star Weekly, Northern Sportsman, Reader's Digest, Country Guide, The Standard, National Home Monthly, Canadian Photography, Outdoor Canada, National Geographic, the Globe & Mail, Winnipeg Tribune, New York Daily News, and the two Canadian Pacific Railway magazines, The Spanner and Rail News.; Two wartime images were featured on postage stamps, while three landscape views appeared on Canadian $10, $50 and $100 bills. His images were also used for corporate annual reports, postcards, brochures, calendars and advertisements. From the 1950s to 1980s Morant gave public slide shows of his work, two of the most popular being "A Talk Without Words" and "The World At Your Feet".; Morant married Ivy May "Willie" Young in 1936 when he was a photographer with the Winnipeg Free Press. Beginning in 1929, and until the end of her life, Morant's travelling and working companion was his wife, "Willie," 1910-1986.

Scope & Content: The Nicholas Morant fonds consists of Morant's freelance work from his early days with the Winnipeg Free Press to his retirement from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1981. It is national in scope and also includes some international material. The fonds is comprised of three series: I. Photography; II. Professional records; III. Personal and family records.; I. Photography series consists of: A. Negatives and transparencies, B. Transparencies, C. Prints, D. Other photographs. II. Professional records series consists of: A. Working records, B. Career records, C. Topical files. III. Personal and family records series consists of: A. Nick and Willie Morant, B. Nick Morant funeral and memorial, C. Francis and Mollie Morant, D. Collected material

Notes: Full summary of sub-sub-series levels: I / A : 1) Darkroom Files [ a) Negative Albums b) Black/White Series I and II c) Colour Series I and II d) Leica Negs ] 2) GD Files I / B : 1) Presentations [ a) Topical Files b) Thematic Files ] 2) General Files 3) Other I / C : 1) Print Files I / D : 1) Exhibition and Display Prints 2) Photographs used by John Garden 3) Other Photographs II / A : 1) Log Books 2) Notebooks II / B : 1) Career Binders [ a) Postcards b) Brochures and Advertising c) clippings and articles d) Calendar Photographs ] 2) Scrapbooks [ a) Content 1933 - 1946 b) Content 1940 - 1980 ] II / C : 1) Numbered / Titled Files [ a) Group A b) Group B c) Group C d) Group D e) Group H f) Group P g) Group R ] 2) Other Topical Files [ a) Railway; i) Timetables ii) Publications iii) Other b) Photography; i) Textual Records ii) Print Material c) Travel d) Exhibitions and Galleries e)Personal f) Other ] 3) Postcards, Greeting Cards and Ephemera Collection 4) Published Images and Text 5) Professional Photography 6) Promotional Items, Awards and Correspondence 7) Presentation and Interview Materials III / A : 1) Correspondence 2) Personal Papers [ a) Personal Records b) Notes and Notebooks c) Lists and Card Files d) Awards and Retirement ] 3) Personal Photographs 4) House Records [ a) Construction b) Household Records ] 5) Business, Financial and Legal Papers 6) Interviews, Reminiscences Personal Recordings 7) Other Records (Signs, Cartoons, Drawings, etc.) 8) Personal Correspondence and Notes 9) Travel Documents and Maps III / B : 1) Nick Morant Funeral, Memorial and Estate III / C : 1) Mollie Morant Papers 2) Other Family Papers III / D : 1) Sound Recordings 2) Biographical Material 3) Other Papers and Photographs [ a) Burton Wheatley Family b) Other ] 4) Personal and Family Photography 5) Personal Interest and Gifts

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas

Subject Access: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Transportation

Geographic Access: Alberta; Banff; British Columbia; Peru; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Canada; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; Ontario; Quebec; Saskatchewan

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series and file description; electronic and online finding aids

Creator: Morant, Nicholas

Category: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Transportation

Biographical Source Notes: Brock Silversides; We Live in a Postcard: Banff Family Histories (Banff: Banff History Book Committee, 2005)

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed / Unprocessed

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Patrick Fuller fonds

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Part Of: Patrick Fuller fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of scrapbook pages with photographs (b&w), film, transparencies, school records, professional papers, bound math book and "Highway Handbook," a suede writing case, school pins and ring, 3 school achievement medals, and a leather case with slide ruler.

Date Range: 1928-2007

Reference Code: M207 / V201

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Patrick Fuller fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 207; V 201

Sous-Fonds: M 207; V 201

Accession Number: 7965 (unproc), 2014.8272 (unproc)

Reference Code: M207 / V201

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1928-2007

Physical Description: 33 cm of textual records, 5 objects

History / Biographical: Patrick Edward John Fuller, 1928-2007, was born and raised in Banff, Alberta. Fuller attended high school in Banff and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1951, earning a number of academic awards and scholarships. In 1965 he married Catherine Collier. Fuller worked for the Lands and Development Services Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources doing highway reconnaissance and preliminary and construction surveys in the Rocky Mountains, 1945-1947. Fuller also worked as a geophysicist for Shell Canada.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of scrapbook pages with photographs (b&w), film, transparencies, school records, professional papers, bound math book and "Highway Handbook," a suede writing case, school pins and ring, 3 school achievement medals, and a leather case with slide ruler.

Name Access: Fuller, Patrick

Subject Access: Education; Community life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: box list for unprocessed material

Creator: Fuller, Patrick

Category: Education; Family and personal life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Biographical Source Notes: Records, obituary notice

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Unprocessed

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Ray Bagley fonds

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Part Of: Ray Bagley fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of poems in manuscript and published form, n.d., 1969; other textual material, n.d., 1926; photographs pertaining to the Bagley family, undated; and a sound recording of Bagley reading poems, ca.1970. Included are components for book "Those Other Days"; calendar from Ike and Alma Mil…

Date Range: 1918-1969

Reference Code: M98 / S2 / V37

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Sound recording; Cassette; Textual record; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Ray Bagley fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 98; S 2; V 37

Sous-Fonds: M 98; S 2; V 37

Accession Number: 143, 684, 789, 897, 1032, 2459, 3753

Reference Code: M98 / S2 / V37

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Sound recording; Cassette; Textual record; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1918-1969

Physical Description: 2 cm of textual records. -- 12 photographs : prints. -- 1 sound recording : audio tape cassette

History / Biographical: Raphel (Ray) Bagley, 1880-1973, was a rancher and guide in the Red Deer, Onion Lake and Coleman districts of Alberta, Canada. Bagley came to the Lacombe district of Alberta in 1892. He homesteaded and ranched while guiding with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and conducting private trail rides throughout the southern Rockies from Waterton Lakes National Park to Banff National Park. Bagley wrote poems on western and trail riding themes, self-publishing a volume titled "Those Other Days" in 1969.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of poems in manuscript and published form, n.d., 1969; other textual material, n.d., 1926; photographs pertaining to the Bagley family, undated; and a sound recording of Bagley reading poems, ca.1970. Included are components for book "Those Other Days"; calendar from Ike and Alma Mills, 1926; letterhead from Crowsnest Ranch, Coleman, Alberta, n.d.; and scrapbook, 1918-1925, pertaining to the winter sports career of Bagley's niece Syd Brewster (Graves), including Banff Winter Carnival, competitive skating and employment at the Chateau Frontenac as winter sports instructor. Recorded poems are "The Bulgy Squaw", "Sweet Annabelle" and "Muskeg Joe."

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Name Access: Bagley, Ray

Subject Access: Arts; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description

Creator: Bagley, Ray

Category: Arts; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Stocken family fonds

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Part Of: Stocken family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds includes Percy Stocken papers, 1894-1941, and Stocken family photographs, pre-1900. Textual records include legal and financial papers pertaining to Banff and Calgary property, 1924, 1927; scrapbook and other papers re family, literary, religious and personal matters, 1894-1955. Some materi…

Date Range: 1894-1955

Reference Code: M11 / V606

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Print; Textual record; Private record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Stocken family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 11; V 606

Sous-Fonds: M 11; V 606

Accession Number: 9, 30, 47, 536, 942, 996, 1061

Reference Code: M11 / V606

GMD: Photograph; Print; Textual record; Private record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1894-1955

Physical Description: 5 cm of textual records. -- 40 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: Percy Edward Stocken, 1866-1955, and Eliza J. C. Stocken, 1865-1952, lived in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Percy Stocken was the brother of Canon H. W. G. Stocken.

Scope & Content: Fonds includes Percy Stocken papers, 1894-1941, and Stocken family photographs, pre-1900. Textual records include legal and financial papers pertaining to Banff and Calgary property, 1924, 1927; scrapbook and other papers re family, literary, religious and personal matters, 1894-1955. Some material concerns Canon H. W. G. Stocken. Photographs are early portraits and family photographs, most unidentified, ca.1870?

Name Access: Stocken, Percy

Subject Access: Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description

Creator: Stocken, Percy

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Tom Wilson family fonds

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Part Of: Tom Wilson family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds includes textual records and photographs generated and collected by the Wilson family and pertaining to Tom Wilson, son Ed Wilson, daughter Ada Wilson and other family members. Textual records include: Ed Wilson's scrapbook, 1881-1968, which includes mainly items pertaining to Tom Wilson, Ed …

Date Range: 1861-1982

Reference Code: M10 / V701

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Tom Wilson family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 10; V 701

Sous-Fonds: M 10; V 701

Accession Number: 551, 981, 1234, 1578, 1634, 2097, 3039, 7750 (unproc)

Reference Code: M10 / V701

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1861-1982

Physical Description: 2 v. and 2 cm of textual records. -- ca.400 photographs : prints, copy negatives. -- 1 cm of print material

History / Biographical: The Wilson family were guides, outfitters and ranchers at Morley, Kootenay Plains, Banff and Nordegg, Alberta, Canada. Thomas Edmonds (Tom) Wilson, 1859- 1933, and Minnie McDougall Wilson, 1865-1936, had six children, including sons John Clark Wilson, 1888-1932, and Thomas Edmonds (Ed) Wilson, 1892-1973. Daughters were Ada, 1886-1967?, Rene, Bessie and Dora. Tom Wilson is credited with the discovery of Lake Louise in July of 1882, while working as a packer on the Canadian Pacific Railway survey through the mountains. In 1883, Wilson established his own business at Banff, Lake Louise and Field, British Columbia. After selling the business in 1904, Tom Wilson operated a horse ranch at Kootenay Plains. He later retired to Banff. Ed Wilson was born at Morley and raised in Banff. Around 1910 he began working for Brewster Trading Company at Banff and, later, Lake Louise. Just before the First World War, he moved to Nordegg, where he worked for the Bighorn Trading Company for many years.

Scope & Content: Fonds includes textual records and photographs generated and collected by the Wilson family and pertaining to Tom Wilson, son Ed Wilson, daughter Ada Wilson and other family members.; Textual records include: Ed Wilson's scrapbook, 1881-1968, which includes mainly items pertaining to Tom Wilson, Ed Wilson, the Wilson family, and early guiding and exploration in the Canadian Rockies (photocopy in two volumes); miscellaneous papers, 1905-1929, including a holograph speech by D. D. Galletly on the cave at Banff; letter and note re sale of horses to Frank Wellman, 1920; letters to Catharine Whyte from Ada Wilson re personal matters and Wilson family history, 1964-1965; transcripts of manuscripts by Tom Wilson and B. M. (Bess) Wilson re the CPR and tourism and 1916 pack trip Lake Louise to Kootenay Plains; letters of Col. Robert O'Hara to Tom Wilson, 1895- 1914, re Mount Assiniboine and Lake O'Hara; letter by Catharine Robb Whyte to Tom Link, 1965, re Lake O'Hara history based partly upon above material; diary, Trip to ranch by B. M. Wilson; essay, The last of the pathfinders by Dorie (Wilson) Legit; programmes, articles, clippings re Tom Wilson, 1924-1982; Eliza Edmonds certificate, 1845, and later clipping.; Photographs pertain to outfitting and guiding activities of Tom, John and Ed Wilson, including clients, associates and trips throughout the Rocky Mountains; Wilson family, friends and associates; Stoney Indians; Kootenay Plains; Banff people and events; Banff townsite and surrounding area; Canadian Pacific Railway; Nordegg area; 1861-1930. Includes photograph of Tom Wilson at Lake Louise inscribed to A. O. Wheeler, 1932. Many of the early photographs were taken by clients of Tom Wilson. Later, after settling at Kootenay Plains, Wilson was apparently given a camera by Mary Vaux and likely took many of the Stoney Indians views. Ed Wilson was an amateur photographer and likely took most of the views of staff at Lake Louise and of Nordegg.

Name Access: Wilson, Ada; Wilson, Ed; Wilson, Tom

Subject Access: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; First nations; Sports, recreation and leisure

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description; modern reference prints

Creator: Wilson, Ed; Wilson, Tom

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; First nations; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed / Unprocessed

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Ulysses LaCasse fonds

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Part Of: Ulysses LaCasse fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of two series: I. Professional series, ca.1910-1949; II. Professional / personal life series, ca.1896-ca.1967. Professional series contains volumes of textual records, photograph albums and photographs in two sub-series: A. Warden and civil service papers and photographs, and B. Gui…

Date Range: [ca.1896-ca.1967]

Reference Code: M90 / V340

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Tintype; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Ulysses LaCasse fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 90; V 340

Sous-Fonds: M 90; V 340

Accession Number: 139, 617, 936, 1097, 1219, 2659, 5747

Reference Code: M90 / V340

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Tintype; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Date Range: [ca.1896-ca.1967]

Physical Description: ca.15 cm of textual records. -- 4 photograph albums (ca.360 prints). -- ca.70 photographs : prints, copy negatives, negatives, tintype

History / Biographical: Ulysses LaCasse (or Ulysse; or La Casse), 1888-1972, was a trail guide and national park warden at Lake Louise and Banff, Alberta, Canada. LaCasse came to Banff in 1908 and worked in various cooking jobs including trail cook for surveys and trail outfits. He guided Caroline Hinman's trail riding groups before joining the Canadian Army in Europe and Siberia. LaCasse accompanied Byron Harmon, Soapy Smith and Louis Freeman on their five hundred mile expedition through the Canadian Rockies, 1924. LaCasse was a long-time warden in the Castle Mountain and Lake Louise districts

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of two series: I. Professional series, ca.1910-1949; II. Professional / personal life series, ca.1896-ca.1967. Professional series contains volumes of textual records, photograph albums and photographs in two sub-series: A. Warden and civil service papers and photographs, and B. Guiding and outfitting papers and photographs. Professional / personal life series contains volumes of textual records, as well as photographs, in two sub-series: A. Scrapbooks, and B. Other material.; Textual records consist of warden journals, 1934-1949, and scrapbooks, 1911-1961. Journals record weather conditions, wildlife observations, enforcement, construction and maintenance duties, etc. around Castle Mountain and Lake Louise. Scrapbooks contain correspondence and memoranda, 1929-1948, from LaCasse's civil service career. Textual records also include diary of Mavis Benedict, 1917, kept during Caroline Hinman pack trips; copy of a ski trip diary; and biographical notes on LaCasse, ca.1950. Photograph albums pertain to a Caroline Hinman trip in the Mount Assiniboine area, 1917; Columbia Icefield expedition, 1924; and horse trips in the Canadian Rockies, ca.1925.

Name Access: Benedict, Mavis; Hinman, Caroline; LaCasse, Ulysses

Subject Access: Banff National Park - Wardens; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Government; Pack trips

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series and file description; electronic finding aid

Creator: LaCasse, Ulysses

Category: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Government

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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William L. Putnam collection

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Part Of: William L. Putnam collection

Scope & Content: Collection consists of research materials collected by Putnam. Textual items are a photocopy of the Glacier House scrapbook, 1897-1910, and a drawing titled "Panorama du Sommet M Sir Donald," by Felix LePrince-Ringuet, from photographs taken by him on July 26, 1899. The Glacier House scrapbook is …

Date Range: 1897-1910, 1951

Reference Code: M352 / V117

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Part Of: William L. Putnam collection

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 352; V 117

Sous-Fonds: M 352; V 117

Accession Number: 2393, 5137, 6008

Reference Code: M352 / V117

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1897-1910, 1951

Physical Description: 2 textual records (2 cm). -- 2 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: William L. Putnam is a mountaineer and writer from Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Putnam has written about Glacier House, the centre of alpinism in the Selkirks during the 1880s-1900s and about Swiss guides. He has also co-authored several climbing guides to the mountain regions of western Canada.

Scope & Content: Collection consists of research materials collected by Putnam. Textual items are a photocopy of the Glacier House scrapbook, 1897-1910, and a drawing titled "Panorama du Sommet M Sir Donald," by Felix LePrince-Ringuet, from photographs taken by him on July 26, 1899. The Glacier House scrapbook is a register/comment book containing writings of tourists and mountaineers, including accounts of climbs, Swiss guides, Illecillewaet Glacier, Glacier House Hotel and environs.; Photographs are views by Putnam at Rogers Pass, 1951, pertaining to remains of railway building and Harvard Mountaineering Club members preparing for a trip.

Name Access: Putnam, William L.

Subject Access: Exploration, discovery and travel

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Related Material: Related to the Howard Palmer fonds (V69). Howard Palmer fonds was originally collected by Putnam for research use

Creator: Putnam, William L. (collector)

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel

Title Source: Title based on accession records

Processing Status: Processed

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Woodworth family fonds

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Part Of: Woodworth family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of four series: I. Percy Woodworth series, ca.1908-1966, 3 cm of textual records, 212 photographs (prints, negatives). Consists of warden diaries, 1924-1927, and photographs pertaining to family, friends, warden activities, hunting, and camping. II. Joe Woodworth series, ca.1890-197…

Date Range: [ca.1890]-1973

Reference Code: M286 / V628

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Woodworth family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 286; V 628

Sous-Fonds: M 286; V 628

Accession Number: 328, 781, 973, 1424, 1606, 1832, 2003, 2071, 2105, 2169, 5723, 6754, 6910

Reference Code: M286 / V628

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Scrapbook

Date Range: [ca.1890]-1973

Physical Description: 9.5 cm of textual records. -- 355 photographs (294 prints, 61 negatives)

History / Biographical: The Woodworth family was a pioneer family of Banff, Alberta, Canada. Benjamin Franklin Woodworth, 1861-1920, and Fred Woodworth, 1860-1923, came to the Banff area in 1883, and established a homestead at the base of Cascade Mountain. They were sons of Douglas B. Woodworth, member of parliament in Nova Scotia who came to Banff briefly in 1883 regarding a claim on the hot springs at the Cave and Basin. Fred Woodworth became postmaster in Banff before returning to Nova Scotia some time after 1890. His only child, A.M. [Anna Maud?] Woodworth, died in Banff in 1890.; Ben Woodworth remained in Banff, working for the CPR on railway construction and later as stable foreman for the Banff Springs Hotel. He continued as stable foreman at the Sanitarium Hotel in 1892, moving to the Bankhead coal mine in 1905. In 1910 he became caretaker of the Buffalo Paddock, remaining in the position until his death in 1920 as a result of a horse-related accident.; In 1888, Benjamin Franklin Woodworth married Elizabeth Anne McIntyre (McIntire), 1868-1936, who had come to Banff in 1887 from Burnley, England. The Woodworths had eleven children: 1) Ethel, 1890-1958, married to Jack Edwards; 2) Benjamin Douglas, 1891-1956, a road builder with the federal government in Banff; 3) Joseph F., 1892-1976, a civil servant and realtor in Banff; 4) Ella Maude, 1894-1977, first married to Jack MacAulay who was killed in 1917, and later married to Forest H. Kidney; 5) Frederick A., 1895-1916, an electrician at the Bankhead Mine; killed in action in First World War; 6) Annie Elizabeth, 1897-1977, married to Ulysses LaCasse; 7) G. Percy "Beef", 1899-1966, Banff national park warden from 1921 to 1963; 8) Mary, 1900-1981, married to Howard J. Deegan; 9) Adelia "Day Day", 1902-1977, married to Nick Nickerson ; 10) Robert G.,1904-1904; 11) John H.,1907-1953, a member of the Calgary City Police for 25 years

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of four series:; I. Percy Woodworth series, ca.1908-1966, 3 cm of textual records, 212 photographs (prints, negatives). Consists of warden diaries, 1924-1927, and photographs pertaining to family, friends, warden activities, hunting, and camping.; II. Joe Woodworth series, ca.1890-1973, 94 photographs, 1 cm of textual records. Consists of photographs, trip accounts, autobiographies and other textual items.; III. Annie Woodworth (LaCasse) series, 1912-1971, 5 cm of textual records. Consists of autograph book and scrapbooks of Annie Woodworth.; IV. Woodworth family series, ca.1890-1930, 49 photographs. .5 cm of textual records. Consists of family photographs of Ben, Ethel, Mary, Maude, Adelia, Fred A. and John Woodworth and of Howard Deegan; Fred Woodworth papers; and other material.

Name Access: Woodworth, Annie; Woodworth, Ben; Woodworth, Joe; Woodworth, Percy

Subject Access: Environment; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series and file description; electronic finding aid

Related Material: Related material may be found in the Kidney family fonds (M74/V324)

Creator: Woodworth, Joe; Woodworth, Percy

Category: Environment; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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35 mm color magic

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: c1956

Author: Benser, Walther

Publisher: Stuttgart (Germany) : Dr. Diener & Co.

Edition: [Enl. ed. of the German language original / translated by F. Bradley]

Call Number: TR510 B4

Author: Benser, Walther

Responsibility: Walther Benser

Edition: [Enl. ed. of the German language original / translated by F. Bradley]

Publisher: Stuttgart (Germany) : Dr. Diener & Co.

Published Date: c1956

Physical Description: 200p. : ill. (some col.), ports.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Color photography

Accession Number: 3069

Call Number: TR510 B4

Location: Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access

Collection: Art Library

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36 views of Mt. Fuji

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1959

Author: Katsushika, Kokusai

Publisher: Tokyo : Toto Shuppan

Call Number: DS895 F9 K3

Author: Katsushika, Kokusai

Responsibility: introduction and notes on plates by Charles S. Terry

Publisher: Tokyo : Toto Shuppan

Published Date: 1959

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: DS895 F9 K3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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50 hikes in Mount Rainier National Park

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1959

Author: Spring, Ira

Publisher: Seattle : Mount Rainier Natural History Association : Mountaineers

Call Number: F897 R2 S6

Author: Spring, Ira

Publisher: Seattle : Mount Rainier Natural History Association : Mountaineers

Published Date: 1959

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: F897 R2 S6

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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[1940s and 1950s News Items Scrapbook]

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook consisting of news-clippings, correspondence from the Post Office Department of Canada, pasted-in calendar prints with accompanying calendar for the year 1950, 1949 calendar, pasted-in prints of photographs appearing in Luxton archival collections - various sub-series; …

Date Range: 1945-1951

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 / 9

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: III / B / 4 : Georgina Luxton : Collected Material : Textual Records

Sous-Fonds: III : Luxton Family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 / 9

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1945-1951

Physical Description: 5 cm of textual records (71 pages ; 30.5 x 38.5 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook consisting of news-clippings, correspondence from the Post Office Department of Canada, pasted-in calendar prints with accompanying calendar for the year 1950, 1949 calendar, pasted-in prints of photographs appearing in Luxton archival collections - various sub-series; articles about the Duke of Windsor, Prince Edward, and his youth and adulthood; b&w prints of photographs of the Royal couple visiting an Indian Camp at Fort William; coverage of Queen Elizabeth's and Prince Phillip's wedding in The Tatler and Bystander and The Picture Post publications.