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https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55796
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual records and photographs collected by Ben Gadd. Content pertains to various research subjects, current events and other topics of interest, including: environmental science; wildlife; sports and recreation; Parks Canada; clubs, charities and organizations; natural hist…
- Date Range
- [ca.1980-2015]
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / C
- V810 / I / C
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Textual record
- Photograph
- Digital image
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- Series
- Series I : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- V810
- Sub-Series
- Subseries C : Personal Interest Files
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / C
- V810 / I / C
- Date Range
- [ca.1980-2015]
- Physical Description
- ca.180 cm of textual records -- 5 CDs with digital image files -- 1 floppy disk -- ca.122 photograph prints : b&w and col. -- 2 negatives : b&w ; 6 x 7.5 cm -- 26 film strips : col. negatives ; 35 mm
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual records and photographs collected by Ben Gadd. Content pertains to various research subjects, current events and other topics of interest, including: environmental science; wildlife; sports and recreation; Parks Canada; clubs, charities and organizations; natural history; and conservation.
- Notes
- Subjects are arranged alphabetically by title. Original titles and arrangement of materials by Ben Gadd has been preserved. See file-level descriptions for content details.
- Name Access
- Gadd, Ben
- Subject Access
- Animals
- Buildings
- Buildings and facilities
- Businesses
- Boats
- Climbing
- Columbia Icefield
- Community events
- Community life
- Conservation
- Dams
- Environment
- Events
- Forestry
- Fishing
- Flowers
- Government
- Geography
- Geology
- Hiking
- History
- Ice climbing
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Landscapes
- Laws and legislation
- Membership
- Mining
- Mountaineering
- Municipal views
- Natural history
- Natural resources
- Parks Canada
- Politics and government
- Property
- Provincial parks and reserves
- Recreation
- Rivers
- Science and technology
- Settlement
- Skiing
- Snakes, Insects
- Sports
- Tourism
- Townsite development
- Trails
- Transportation
- Travel
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- United States of America
- Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Government
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Law and justice
- Natural resources
- Politics
- Science and technology
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Transportation
- Title Source
- Original title used
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Personal photographs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions21720
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of prints, mainly collected by Nick Morant, and photograph albums created by Morant when a young man. List of contents: * Photograph album, 1926-1927, 60 prints. Pertains to landscape and development in Kamloops area, Morant home and travels. Includes small prints and panorama…
- Date Range
- [before 1998]
- Reference Code
- V500 / E / 1 to 4 (PA)
- V500 / E / PD 1 to 3
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Album
3 images
3 Electronic Resources
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Series
- III.A. Personal and family records : Nick and Willie Morant
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Reference Code
- V500 / E / 1 to 4 (PA)
- V500 / E / PD 1 to 3
- Date Range
- [before 1998]
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of photographs : prints. -- 3 photograph albums (ca.120 prints)
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of prints, mainly collected by Nick Morant, and photograph albums created by Morant when a young man. List of contents:
- * Photograph album, 1926-1927, 60 prints. Pertains to landscape and development in Kamloops area, Morant home and travels. Includes small prints and panoramas with captions (V500 / E / PD - 1)
- * Photograph album, 1928, 37 prints. Pertains to University School, Victoria campus, activities and friends in Victoria. Includes small to medium prints with captions (V500 / E / PD - 2)
- * Photograph album, ca.1930?, 22 prints. Pertains to Kamloops and area?, no identifications (V500 / E / PD - 3)
- * Nick Morant with family and friends, before 1998, ca.72 prints (V500 / E / 1, 2 PA)
- * Flowers, before 1998, ca.30 prints (V500 / E / 3 PA)
- * Other prints, before 1998, 5 prints. Consists primarily of photographs of Nick, including one with Bruno Engler. Original enclosure was titled "Photo of files Rick Anderson Aug 98" (V500 / E / 4 PA)
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
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Photograph album
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- Part Of
- Walter S. Painter fonds
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to CPR hotels (Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise Chalet, Empress Hotel); the Painter family and home in Banff; friends and activities
- Date Range
- [ca.1905-ca.1920]
- Reference Code
- V481 / PD 1
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
7 images
- Part Of
- Walter S. Painter fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- V481
- Series
- II.B. Painter family : Photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- V481
- Reference Code
- V481 / PD 1
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Date Range
- [ca.1905-ca.1920]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album (301 prints)
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to CPR hotels (Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise Chalet, Empress Hotel); the Painter family and home in Banff; friends and activities
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- LIST OF PRINTS (V481 / PD 1 - 1 to 301):
- 1 Banff Springs Hotel
- 2 Mrs. painter at Banff Springs Hotel on a horse "Blythe"
- 3 Bow River from back of B.S.H.
- 4 to 26 Banff Springs Hotel, ca.1905
- 27 Looking toward Tunnel Mtn. from Hoodoos
- 28 Spray River Road
- 29 Front Entrance to Banff Springs Hotel
- 30, 31 Banff Springs Hotel
- 32 Approach to C.P.R. Hotel
- 33 C.P.R. Hotel
- 34 View of Ballroom and Conservatory - before centre wing
- 35 Hotel - before centre wing
- 36, 37 Centre wing
- 38 At Banff Springs Hotel
- 39, 40 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel]
- 41 Courtyard and front entrance
- 42, 43 B.S.H. front entrance - during construction of hotel
- 44 From Red Terrace
- 45 View to courtyard from below Red Terrace
- 46 to 53 Banff Springs Hotel during construction
- 54 Front entrance - B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel]
- 55 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel]
- 56 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] during construction, Jan. 10, 1913
- 57 Workmen on Hotel roof
- 58 Man at B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel]
- 59 Men at B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel]
- 60 Garden Room - B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel]
- 62 Bow Valley from Red Terrace
- 63 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] Pool - inner and outer
- 64 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] Pool - inner
- 65 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] by night - lights reflecting on water in pool
- 66 Construction of pool
- 67 C.P.R. baths - inside
- 68 Construction of pool
- 69 Red Terrace
- 70 B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] from Tunnel Mtn. Drive - during construction
- 71 Lake Louise
- 72 Lake Louise - Lobby
- 73 to 81 Lake Louise - Interiors
- 82, 83 Lake Louise - Fireplace at end of Garden Room
- 84, 85 Hotel dining room (C.L.L.? or B.S.H.?) [Chateau Lake Louise or Banff Springs Hotel?]
- 86 to 88 Hotel - Interior
- 89 Hotel - Kitchen
- 90 Hotel - Interior
- 91 Glacier
- 92 Mt. Victoria and Lake Louise
- 93 Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier
- 94 (Saddleback?) Lake Louise
- 95 Lakes in the Clouds
- 98 Lake Louise and Mt. Lefroy
- 99, 100 Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier
- 101 Chateau Lake Louise
- 102 Lake Louise Chalet
- 109 Train
- 110 to 113 Lake Louise Chalet
- 114 to 123 Lake Louise Chalet - Staff Quarters
- 124 to 132 Lake Louise Chalet
- 133 Lake Louise Chalet - lit up at night
- 134 Lake Louise Chalet - during construction
- 135 to 148 Lake Louise Chalet - interiors, 1913
- 150, 151 Chateau Lake Louise
- 153 C.P.R. Hotel - "The Empress", Victoria
- 154 Gloucester Cathedral - South Transept (Architectural term)
- 155 Hotel Vancouver
- 156 Other side of Hotel Vancouver
- 157 to 162 Gloucester Cathedral - Lady Chapel
- 164 Gloucester Cathedral - The Cloisters
- 165 to 178 Cave and Basin Pool, 1914
- 179 Walter Painter's son, Brookman, first cowboy outfit
- 180 Jim Brewster and 3 others - hunting trip
- 181 Mr. Painter and 5 men in camp - hunting trip
- 182 Indigenous people on horseback - B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] - Banff Indian Days
- 183 Mrs. Painter and friend in buggy - "Blythe"
- 184 Mr. Painter and 1 other in camp - hunting trip
- 185 Brook and man on horseback
- 186 Brook and man
- 187 Mr. painter, Jim Brewster and 2 others in camp
- 188 Brook
- 189 Walter Painter?
- 190 Walter Painter home - first car (Ford)
- 191 Behind Painter home - with Brook and Betty
- 192, 193 At barn of W.S. Painter home - present home of Betty Walker
- 194 Woman and boy outside Painter home
- 195 Woman and boy
- 196 Painter home
- 197 Aunt Marion and Painter children outside home
- 198 Painter home
- 199 Mrs. Painter and children outside home
- 200 to 204 Painter home
- 205 Betty Painter outside home
- 206, 207 Painter home - kitchen porch
- 208 Mrs. Painter and friend
- 209 Painter children - home
- 210, 211 Painter children outside home - winter
- 212 Mrs. painter and children outside home
- 213 Mrs. Painter and friend in buggy
- 214, 215 Painter home
- 216 to 218 Painter children outside home
- 219 Painter home
- 220 Painter children outside home
- 221 Painter home
- 222 Painter children with Edme Reid, outide home
- 223 Painter home
- 224 Mr. Painter and children outside home
- 225 Painter children on a horse
- 226 Empress Hotel
- 227 Fireplace in Painter home
- 228 Man breaking a horse
- 229 Fireplace in Painter home
- 230 Piano in Painter home
- 231 Sun room in Painter home
- 232 Dining room table - Dining room, Painter home
- 233 Mrs. Painter and friend - buggy - B.S.H. [Banff Springs Hotel] Courtyard
- 234 Dining room table - Dining Room, Painter home
- 235 Piano
- 236 Man breaking a horse
- 237 Mrs. painter on a horse
- 238 Man breaking a horse
- 239 Indigenous people on horseback
- 240, 241 Painter children - Betty 8; Brook, nearly 7, 1915
- 243 Betty Painter on a horse (with friend)
- 244, 245 Brookman Painter
- 246 Mr. Painter and children on ice rink, 1914
- 247, 248 Mrs. Painter and children on ice rink, 1914
- 249 Mrs. Painter and Brook on ice rink, 1914
- 250 Grandmother Painter., Aunt Anna Painter, Mrs. Walter s. Painter at Middle Springs
- 251 Same women as above with Painter children at Middle Springs
- 252 Ram
- 253 Man with sheep skulls
- 254 Sheep skulls
- 254 Men with sheep skulls
- 256 Man with sheep skulls
- 257 Sheep skulls and heads
- 258 People on horseback
- 259 Mrs. Painter and friend in buggy - horse "Blythe"
- 260 Fred Painter? Walter S's brother
- 261 to 263 Jim Brewster and 4 others - hunting trip
- 264 to 266 Indian Days
- 267 Walter S. Painter
- 268 Indian Days
- 269 Men in camp - hunting trip (#3 - Walter S. Painter)
- 270 Indian Days
- 271 Race down at Indian track
- 272 Man with a horse
- 273 Indian mother with baby
- 274 to 276 Indian Days Celebrations
- 277, 278 Jim Brewster and 1 other on horseback
- 280 Uncle Jim and 1 other on horseback (Mrs. P's younger brother, Jim)
- 281 First house Painter lived in when he moved to Banff
- 282, 283 W. S. Painter, Jim Brewster and 2 others
- 284 Uncle Jim on a horse
- 285 Man
- 286 Painter's son Brook at Bow Falls
- 287 Walter Painter - June 1910
- 288 Men in camp - hunting trip
- 289 Jim Brewster and 4 men in camp
- 290 Mr. Painter on a horse
- 291 Men on horseback
- 292 Man - in camp
- 293 Men in camp
- 294 Man standing by tent
- 295 Men in camp - hunting trip
- 296 Mr. Painter in camp
- 297 Jim Brewster
- 298, 299 Mr. Painter with Jim Brewster and 4 other men
- 300 Man getting on a horse
- 301 Men
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Southern Alberta research project
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55619
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materia…
- Date Range
- [ca.1845-1920]
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / C6
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Cabinet card
- Diary
- Organization record
- Photograph
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Textual record
- Tintype
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / II / C : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / C6
- GMD
- Cabinet card
- Diary
- Organization record
- Photograph
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Textual record
- Tintype
- Date Range
- [ca.1845-1920]
- Physical Description
- 29 cm of textual records -- 29 photographs (28 b&w prints, 1 tintype) ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materials in sub-series believed to have been collected by Eleanor Luxton, possibly on behalf of the Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association or as part of Eleanor's personal research.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Buildings
- Businesses
- Community life
- Commerce and industry
- Communications
- Correspondence
- Environment
- Family and personal life
- Farmland
- Finances
- Genealogy
- History
- Homestead
- Immigration and homesteading
- Inventory
- Land use
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Manufacturing
- Municipal views
- Oil
- Postcards
- Portrait
- Property
- Real estate business
- Research
- Settlement
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some restrictions may apply - fragile materials
- Language
- English
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Communications
- Family and personal life
- Environment
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Travel guides and maps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56361
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of travel brochures and maps which were collected and used by Ben Gadd. Sub-series contains five sub-sub series: M590 / I / A / i : Travel guides and pocket maps M590 / I / A / ii : Topographical maps M590 / I / A / iii : Geological maps M590 / I / A / iv : Highway maps M590 / …
- Date Range
- [ca.1920-2010]
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / A
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Map
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- S61
- Series
- M590 / I : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- Sub-Series
- M590 / I / A : Travel guides and maps
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / A
- GMD
- Map
- Textual record
- Date Range
- [ca.1920-2010]
- Physical Description
- ca. 274 maps -- ca. 61 travel guides, brochures
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of travel brochures and maps which were collected and used by Ben Gadd. Sub-series contains five sub-sub series: M590 / I / A / i : Travel guides and pocket maps M590 / I / A / ii : Topographical maps M590 / I / A / iii : Geological maps M590 / I / A / iv : Highway maps M590 / I / A / v : Index maps, other
- Notes
- Some materials in sub-series are annotated with notes by Ben Gadd
- Name Access
- Gadd, Ben
- Subject Access
- Geography
- Geology
- Environment
- Map
- Tourism
- Tourist information
- Travel
- Trails
- Roads
- Transportation
- Natural history
- National parks and reserves
- Provincial parks and reserves
- Government
- Sports
- Recreation
- Hiking
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Banff National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Waterton Lakes National Park
- Columbia Icefields
- United States of America
- Colorado
- Montana
- Yellowstone National Park
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply - some materials are fragile
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Some fragile/torn materials stored in mylar
- Category
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Government
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Transportation
- Tourism
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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