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Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

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Part Of: Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60. M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Rider…

Date Range: ca.1908-ca.2011

Reference Code: M573 / V797 / S60

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Private record; Published record; Newspaper clipping; Transparency; Textual record; Sound recording; Lantern slide

Part Of: Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M573 / V797 / S60

Sous-Fonds: M573; V797; S60

Accession Number: 2019.111

Reference Code: M573 / V797 / S60

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Private record; Published record; Newspaper clipping; Transparency; Textual record; Sound recording; Lantern slide

Date Range: ca.1908-ca.2011

Physical Description: 26 cm of textual records.-- 109 photographs (42 prints, 67 lantern slides). -- 2 sound recordings.

History / Biographical: Jean Alexandra Hembroff was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 5, 1908 to Walter B. Hembroff (d. 1945) and Sarah Jane Hembroff (d.1952). Jean was accepted to the MacPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art at the University of Minnesota, from which she graduated in 1927. She returned to Winnipeg to begin teaching courses in speech arts and drama. To establish herself, she first volunteered as the "story lady" at the Williams Avenue Public Library and quickly became known as an excellent speaker sought by many different organizations. She taught at St. Mary's Academy and the Evening Institute at the University of Manitoba, as well as offered private sessions. Many of her students used the skills they learned from Jean as they entered radio, television, politics, and business. Jean was also very active in organizing and adjucating Speech Arts festivals in Manitoba, often going to inaccessible places to give workshops. Her teaching, broadcasting, adjucating, coaching, and speaking career spanned more than 50 years. Jean was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway's promotions manager to give presentations and broadcast interviews across Canada and the United States. In 1937, Jean joined the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and participated in their summer trail ride in the same year. For that year's issue of the Trail Rider's Bulletin Jean wrote an article - and became the first woman to ever do so. In 1938, during her lecture titled "Trail Riding in the Rockies" on January 18, 1938 at the Royal Alexandra Hotel, Jean met John David (Jack) MacDonald. Jack and Jean were married on June 18, 1938, and the couple had one son, Bruce Walter James MacDonald (August 28, 1946-August 25, 2016). Jean participated in several trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Trail, and produced articles reflecting her experiences. Jean loved to travel and visited places all around Canada and the United States, Borneo, Tangier, Montevideo, Stockholm, New Delhi, and Tonga. At the age of 102, Jean passed away on February 2, 2011 and is buried in Winnipeg.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60.; M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, particularly 1937-1939). Series II: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 4 cm, 1924-2000 (including correspondence with John Murray Gibbon, former students, and attendees at various talks, as well as newspaper articles that Jean wrote about various subjects and articles of her achievements). Series III: Collected Materials and Ephemera, 3 cm, ca.1930-1950 (including a variety of collected poems and ephemera, as well as a copy of The Beaver Magazine from 1940, for which Jean wrote an article titled "On the Trail of Sir George").; V797 consists of two series, 24.5 cm of visual records, ca.1928-1939. Series I: Photograph Prints, 3 cm, ca.1928-1939 (includes personal photographs of Jean and her family and friends as well as photographs of Jean and Jack's visit to Lake Louise in 1939). Series II: Lantern Slides, 21.5 cm, ca.1937-1939 (Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1937 to Mt. Assiniboine; Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1939 to Ptarmigan Valley and Skoki; collection of trail ride songs).; S60 consists of two sound recordings, 1 cm, 2004 and 2007 (Winnipeg at Christmas, narrated by Jean, broadcasted on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

Notes: Lantern slides include wooden case.

Name Access: Hembroff MacDonald, Jean

Subject Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Camps; Canadian Pacific Railway; Discovery and travel; Discovery and exploration; Empress Hotel; European travel; Family and personal life; Guides; Hiking; Horse packing; Horses; Horseback riding; Kananaskis Ranch; Lake Louise; Lantern slide; Mount Assiniboine; Mountain; Organizations; Personal and Professional Life; Photography; Poetry; Scenery; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Sports and recreation; Sunshine area; Trails; Trail guides; Tourism; Travel; Travel and Exploration; Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies; Women

Geographic Access: Assiniboine; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; British Columbia; Canada; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Ireland; Kananaskis Country; Lake Louise; Lake O'Hara; Manitoba; Mount Assiniboine; Rocky Mountains; Victoria; West Indies; Winnipeg

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Language: English

Creator: Hembroff MacDonald, Jean

Category: Arts; Education; Exploration, discovery and travel; Sports, recreation and leisure

Biographical Source Notes: Contents of the fonds; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122854759/jean-alexandra-macdonald; https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-174851/MACDONALD_JEAN; https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/winnipeg-mb/bruce-macdonald-7064958

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Across Canada to the Klondyke : being the journal of a ten thousand mile tour through the "Great North West" July 19th-October 13th, 1900

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

Published Date: 1984

Author: Graham, Harry

Publisher: Toronto : Methuen

Call Number: 02.4 G76a

Author: Graham, Harry

Responsibility: by Col. D. Streamer (Harry Graham)

Publisher: Toronto : Methuen

Published Date: 1984

Physical Description: xxi, 182p. : ill., maps, ports

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Notes: Bibliography

ISBN: 0-458-98240-7

Accession Number: 17500

Call Number: 02.4 G76a

Collection: Archives Library

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Across widest America : Newfoundland to Alaska

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

Published Date: 1906

Author: Devine, E. J

Publisher: New York : Benzinger Brothers

Edition: 2d ed

Call Number: 02.3 D49

Author: Devine, E. J

Edition: 2d ed

Publisher: New York : Benzinger Brothers

Published Date: 1906

Physical Description: 307p. : ill., ports., map

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 02.3 D49

Collection: Archives Library

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Alberta art and artists : an overview

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

Published Date: 2007

Author: Ainslie, Patricia

Publisher: Calgary : Fifth House, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Call Number: 06.1 Ai6a; 06.1 Ai6a Ref copy

Author: Ainslie, Patricia

Responsibility: Patricia Ainslie, Mary-Beth Laviolette

Publisher: Calgary : Fifth House, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 147p. : ill

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

Subjects: Banff School of Fine Arts; Canadian Pacific Railway

Notes: Contents: The historical period to 1920 / Patricia Ainslie; A sense of place: modern art 1920-1970 / Patricia Ainslie; A new era for Alberta art: 1970-2000 / Mary-Beth Laviolette

ISBN: 978-1-894856-61-4

Accession Number: 7802; P2015-03-31

Call Number: 06.1 Ai6a; 06.1 Ai6a Ref copy

Collection: Archives Library

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Alberta's medical history : "Young and lusty and full of life"

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

Published Date: 2008

Author: Lampard, Robert

Publisher: Red Deer, Alberta : the author

Call Number: 08.2 L19a

Author: Lampard, Robert

Responsibility: written and edited by Robert Lampard M.D.

Publisher: Red Deer, Alberta : the author

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: x, 732 p. : ill., ports., maps

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

Subjects: Brett, Robert George; Canadian Pacific Railway; Crowsnest Pass; Doctors; Hector, Sir James; Kennedy, George Allan; Malcolmson, George Henry; Medicine; North West Mounted Police; Sanitarium Hotel

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN: 9780981038209

Accession Number: 50500 09-02-04

Call Number: 08.2 L19a

Collection: Archives Library

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All aboard! : romance and convenience keep passenger trains on track

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

Author: Demont, John

Call Number: 08.5 / C16ma / Pam

Author: Demont, John

Physical Description: p.16-19 : ill

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; VIA Rail

Notes: In Macleans, vol.115, no.4 (August 26, 2002). Cover depicts Canadian Pacific Railway poster art

Call Number: 08.5 / C16ma / Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Alpine Scenes and Work Near Home

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

Published Date: 1890

Author: J.R.

Publisher: Harper's Weekly

Call Number: 02.6 R11a PAM O.S

Author: J.R.

Responsibility: J.R. (author); Frederic Remington (illustrator)

Publisher: Harper's Weekly

Published Date: 1890

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers, British; Mountaineers, Swiss; Sir Donald, Mount; Glacier House; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels

Abstract: Pertains to Glacier House and the ascent of Sir Donald by Emil Huber and Carl Sulzer from Switzerland and Harry Cooper from England with illustration on page 725

Notes: In Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXIV No. 1760, September 13, 1890, pp. 723 - 725

Accession Number: 7979

Call Number: 02.6 R11a PAM O.S

Collection: Archives Library

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Amazing stories great railways of the Canadian West building the dream that shaped our nation

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

Published Date: 2006

Author: Pole, Graeme

Publisher: Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.

Call Number: 02.6 P76a

Author: Pole, Graeme

Publisher: Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 144 pages, 21.5cm

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

Series: True Canadian Amazing Stories

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies; Transportation

Abstract: True historical stories related to the building of the railways: the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern .

Contents: The pipedream of Millington Henry Synge -- Ocean to ocean -- The world according to Walter J. Moberly -- Two streaks of rust -- The bishop, the general, and the impossible -- One railroad too many -- Paper,rocks, and steel -- Railhead, roadhouse, and ruin -- A spike as good as any other -- The road of a thousand wonders

Notes: Includes images from the Whyte museum collection; Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 1554390621

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 02.6 P76a

Collection: Archives Library

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America's wonderlands : a pictorial and descriptive history of our country's scenic marvels as delineated by pen and camera

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

Published Date: 1893

Author: Buel, J. W

Publisher: Philadelphia : Historical Publishing

Call Number: 02.3 B86 oversize

Author: Buel, J. W

Publisher: Philadelphia : Historical Publishing

Published Date: 1893

Physical Description: 503p. : ill

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Accession Number: 18500

Call Number: 02.3 B86 oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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An editor goes west : a holiday notebook

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

Published Date: 1938

Author: Crocombe, Leonard

Publisher: London : George G. Harrap

Call Number: 02.3 C87

Author: Crocombe, Leonard

Publisher: London : George G. Harrap

Published Date: 1938

Physical Description: 255p. : port

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Spiral Tunnels

Accession Number: 18500

Call Number: 02.3 C87

Collection: Archives Library

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An idea whose time had come

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

Published Date: 2001

Author: Bemrose, John

Call Number: 06 En3b Pam

Author: Bemrose, John

Published Date: 2001

Physical Description: p.61-62 : ill

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Fleming, Sandford

Notes: In Macleans, vol.114, no.19 (May 7, 2001)

Call Number: 06 En3b Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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An unconventional holiday

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

Author: Macdonald, (Lady) Agnes

Call Number: 02.5 M14 Pam

Author: Macdonald, (Lady) Agnes

Physical Description: 5,3p. : ill

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

Subjects: Banff National Park; Canadian Pacific Railway

Notes: From the Ladies' Home Journal, August/September 1891

Accession Number: 6737

Call Number: 02.5 M14 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Art, artists and the rocky mountains

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

Published Date: 2010

Author: Wharton, Thomas

Call Number: 06 W55a Pam

Author: Wharton, Thomas

Responsibility: by Thomas Wharton

Published Date: 2010

Physical Description: 4 pages : illustrations

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Group of Seven; Van Horne, William; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies; Whyte, Catharine Robb; Whyte, Peter

Notes: Article printed from the web from Westworld Alberta from April 2010 about art in the Rocky Mountains and is does mention the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies as well as the Canada House Gallery