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Pin

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Date: 1890 – 1925

Material: metal; enamel

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1174

Description: Small gold pin, circular sculpted image on front of mountains and trees in foreground, with lettering above image: “SIR DONALD CLUB” in gold on blue enamel background, and lettering below image: “GLACIER, B.C.” in gold on white enamel background. Safety clasp on back and stamped “10K”.

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Title: Pin

Date: 1890 – 1925

Material: metal; enamel

Description: Small gold pin, circular sculpted image on front of mountains and trees in foreground, with lettering above image: “SIR DONALD CLUB” in gold on blue enamel background, and lettering below image: “GLACIER, B.C.” in gold on white enamel background. Safety clasp on back and stamped “10K”.

Subject: sports; climbing; hiking; packers and guides; Swiss guides; Ernest Feuz; Canadian Pacific Railway; Sir Donald Club; Glacier, B.C., Glacier House

Credit: Gift of Fred Feuz, Salmon Arm, 1999

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1174

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Publications, correspondence, events

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a published guidebook for ice hockey, three menus/programmes for events in Banff, three postcards, three pages of loose poetry, and news clippings/pages from newspapers. Content pertains to a community Christmas dinner event at the King Edward Hotel in Banff; loose poetry, handwrit…

Date Range: 1888; 1898; 1906; [ca. 1910]; 1911; 1914 - 1916; [ca. 1915 - ca. 1920]

Reference Code: M74 / IV / A / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Published record; Postcard

Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M74 / V324

Series: M74 / IV : Family, friends and community records

Sous-Fonds: M74

Sub-Series: M74 / IV / A : 1886 - 1920

Accession Number: 3109; 2016.8581

Reference Code: M74 / IV / A / 1

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Published record; Postcard

Date Range: 1888; 1898; 1906; [ca. 1910]; 1911; 1914 - 1916; [ca. 1915 - ca. 1920]

Physical Description: 1.5 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: Frederick Albert Woodworth (August 8, 1895 - April 16, 1916) was the fifth child of eleven, born to parents Elizabeth and Benjamin Woodworth in the town of Banff. Fred Woodworth worked as an electrician in the mines at Bankhead prior to joining the war effort in February 1915. Fred was shot by enemy fire on April 16, 1916 and is now buried in Ypres, Belgium. Fred has a second memorial located in the Woodworth family section of the Banff Town Cemetery.

Scope & Content: File consists of a published guidebook for ice hockey, three menus/programmes for events in Banff, three postcards, three pages of loose poetry, and news clippings/pages from newspapers. Content pertains to a community Christmas dinner event at the King Edward Hotel in Banff; loose poetry, handwritten; postcards sent to Benjamin Sr., Maud and Ethel Woodworth, between 1906 and ca. 1915; a copy of the newsletter "Trench Echo" from the 27th Battalion in Winnipeg from 1915; a dinner banquet menu/programme for the 56th Overseas Battalion dated 1916; a news clipping announcing the marriage of Ted and Minnie Davidson, ca. 1915; two pages of a June 7, 1888 publication of the "National Park Life" newspaper; an invitation to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Ladies Auxiliay Annual Ball 1914; and a news clipping of a memorial article for Frederick Woodworth who was killed in action during World War I.

Notes: One page of a two-page handwritten poem is signed "E M W" [likely "Ella Maud Woodworth"].

Name Access: Brett, Reginald H. (Harry); Tuthill, J. A.; Woodworth, Benjamin Frederick; Brett, Robert G.; Woodworth, Fred; Woodworth, Maude

Subject Access: Sports; Winter sports; Hockey; Community events; Hotels; Travel; Family and personal life; Cascade Lodge No. 5; Military; World War I; National parks and reserves; Canadian Pacific Railway

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Calgary; Manitoba; Winnipeg

Language: English

Conservation: Fragile newspaper and loose pages encased in mylar or acid free paper for protection, use caution when handling

Category: Family and personal life; Military

Biographical Source Notes: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12326261/frederick-albert-woodworth; https://albertaonrecord.ca/woodworth-family-fonds

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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The Royal Visit. - Banff Hotel, from across the Bow River

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: 1890

Call Number: P

Published Date: 1890

Physical Description: p.340, ill.

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Banff Springs Hotel; Canadian Pacific Railway

Notes: In The Dominion Illustrated [newspaper], vol.IV, no.100, (May 1890); photograph on p.340, description on p.342 under "Our Engravings"

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Rubber Stamp

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Date: 1890 – 1910

Material: wood; rubber

Catalogue Number: 105.06.1004

Description: Wooden office stamp with rounded handle. Typical stamp with flat base, handle 6.5 high, flat rounded grip 4.0 diameter. Rubber stamp 5.2x8.5 "FOR FULLER INFORMATION AS TO C.P.R. LANDS, & C., &C. APPLY TO (cut out) OFFICES, CALGARY & EDMONTON" incised on side "TORONTO".

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Title: Rubber Stamp

Date: 1890 – 1910

Material: wood; rubber

Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 cm

Description: Wooden office stamp with rounded handle. Typical stamp with flat base, handle 6.5 high, flat rounded grip 4.0 diameter. Rubber stamp 5.2x8.5 "FOR FULLER INFORMATION AS TO C.P.R. LANDS, & C., &C. APPLY TO (cut out) OFFICES, CALGARY & EDMONTON" incised on side "TORONTO".

Subject: Canadian Pacific Railway; Dr R G Brett

Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: 105.06.1004

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A social departure : how Orthodocia and I went round the world by ourselves

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

Published Date: 1891

Author: Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company

Call Number: 02 D91s

Author: Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Responsibility: Sara Jeannette Duncan, with illustrations by F.H. Townsend

Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company

Published Date: 1891

Physical Description: 417p. : ill

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Glacier House; Illecillewaet Glacier; Women

Notes: Partial contents: p.40-51 pertains to Victorian era tourism in Canadian Rocky Mountains around Banff, Lake Louise and Yoho areas

Accession Number: 39000

Call Number: 02 D91s

Collection: Archives Library

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Spike

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Date: 1890 – 1920

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 106.08.1003

Description: Long, iron spike, flattened head. Round iron bar, flat point on end 5.0 long, flattened head 3.3 diameter. A wire is twisted around spike for hanging.

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Title: Spike

Date: 1890 – 1920

Material: metal

Dimensions: 66.5 cm

Description: Long, iron spike, flattened head. Round iron bar, flat point on end 5.0 long, flattened head 3.3 diameter. A wire is twisted around spike for hanging.

Subject: transportation; railroad; CPR; Canadian Pacific Railway

Credit: Gift of A. Scovil Murray, Calgary, 1966

Catalogue Number: 106.08.1003

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Stephen J. Thompson fonds

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Part Of: Stephen J. Thompson fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to views along the Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver, B.C. to Canmore, Alberta. Also includes Banff views, including Banff Springs Hotel, Cave and Basin, Bow Valley, Banff townsite and Brett Hospital operating room.

Date Range: [ca.1895-ca.1905]

Reference Code: V116 / PA - 1 to 45

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

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Part Of: Stephen J. Thompson fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V116

Sous-Fonds: V116

Accession Number: 286, 2887, 5105, 5358, 6158 (PA -special storage formerly under accn.16,000), 6220

Reference Code: V116 / PA - 1 to 45

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [ca.1895-ca.1905]

Physical Description: 45 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to views along the Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver, B.C. to Canmore, Alberta. Also includes Banff views, including Banff Springs Hotel, Cave and Basin, Bow Valley, Banff townsite and Brett Hospital operating room.

Notes: IMAGES : 1. Looking up the Fraser near Salmon River [ca.1892] 2. Hell’s Gate, Fraser Canyon [ca.1892] 3. Looking down the Thompson near Kamloops [ca.1892] 4. Junction of the North and South Thompson near Kamloops, BC [ca.1892] 5. Albert Canyon [ca.1892] 6. Natural Bridge on the Kicking Horse River, near Field [ca.1892] 7. Mt. Stephen showing Silver Mine [ca.1892] 8. CPR showing four Tunnels [ca.1892] 9. Stoney Creek Bridge, Selkirks, CPR [ca.1892] 10. The Great Divide, Summit Rockies, CPR [ca.1892] 11. Emerald Lake, near Field, BC [ca.1892] 12. From Great Glacier, showing Glacier House [ca.1892] 13. A round-up on the cattle ranges near Kamloops, BC [ca.1892] 14. Winter scene at the Glacier House, Selkirks [ca.1892] 15. Fishing fleet at the mouth of the Fraser [ca.1892] 16. Brunette Bridge, New Westminster [ca.1892] 17. Lake Louise, near Laggan, CPR [ca.1892] 18. Three Sisters, Canmore [ca.1892] 19. Cannery fish house [ca.1892] 20. [Unidentified men posing below a Red Wood tree] [ca.1892] 21. Operating Room, Dr. Brett’s Private Hospital, Banff Alta [ca.1892] 22. Sundance Canyon, Banff [ca.1892] 23. Looking up the Thompson, Spences Bridge [ca.1892] 24. [View of the Bow River Bridge and Cascade Mountain] [ca.1900] 25. The “Basin,” Banff [ca.1900] 26. [CPR Hotel, Banff] [ca.1900] 27. [Bow River Bridge and Cascade Mountain] [ca.1900] 28. [View from Tunnel Mt. Dr. Brett’s Private Hospital and Sanitarium, Banff, Alberta] [ca.1900] 29. [View of CPR Hotel from Tunnel Mt.] [ca.1900] 30. Devils Head Canyon, Banff [ca.1900] 31. [Rundle Mountain, Banff] [ca.1900] 32. The “Basin,” Banff [ca.1900] 33. [Unidentified river and dirt road] [ca.1900] 34. [View of Bow River from CPR Hotel, Banff] [ca.1900] 35. [Looking down on The "Basin," Banff] [ca.1900] 36. [Dr. Brett's Private Hospital and Sanitarium, Banff] [ca.1900] 37. [Lake Minnewanka] [ca.1900] 38. [View of the town of Banff from Tunnel Mt.] [ca.1900] 39. [Eastbound road to Banff and Cascade Mt.] [ca.1900] 40. View from Upper Hot Springs, Banff [ca.1900] 41. View from Tunnel Mt. Dr. Brett’s Private Hospital and Sanitarium, Banff, Alberta [ca.1892] 42. CPR Hotel, Banff [ca.1892] 43. The Basin, Banff [ca.1900] 44. On the Kootenay Lake, BC [ca.1892] 45. Bow River Falls, Banff [ca.1892]