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Luxton family fonds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions588
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of textual, visual and sound materials pertaining to Norman Luxton, Eleanor Luxton and their family members and friends (including Georgina Luxton, Norman's parents and siblings, and members of the Ross, Graham and McDougall families). Includes correspondence, personal and profession…
- Date Range
- [ca.1860]-1995
- Reference Code
- LUX
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Cabinet card
- Framed print
- Negative
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Textual record
- Corporate record
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
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- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX
- Accession Number
- Lux1 - EL estate, 1996
- Lux2 - Whyte Museum, 2000
- Lux3 - Glenbow Archives, 2001
- Reference Code
- LUX
- GMD
- Photograph
- Cabinet card
- Framed print
- Negative
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Textual record
- Corporate record
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Other Title Info
- Also known as the Eleanor Luxton archives
- Date Range
- [ca.1860]-1995
- Physical Description
- ca.32.1 m of textual records (29.3 m textual records, 47 scrapbooks) -- ca.7290 photographs (ca.5300 b&w and col. prints, ca.1915 negatives, 75 transparencies, 2 tintypes) -- 17 albums -- ca.74 cm sound recordings (29 CDs, 45 audio cassettes, 17 R120 DAT tapes, 1 VHS, 8 voicewriter discs)
- History / Biographical
- The Norman Luxton family was a prominent family in Banff, Alberta, Canada from 1904 until 1962. Daughter Eleanor Luxton maintained the family's position in the town until her death in 1995.
- Publisher and businessman Norman K. Luxton, 1876-1962, was the son of Winnipeg Free Press co-founder William Luxton. After working for the Winnipeg Free Press, Norman Luxton travelled, then joined the Calgary Herald for eight years. In 1901, he journeyed 10,000 miles on the Pacific in the dug-out canoe Tilikum. After becoming ill, Luxton abandoned the trip in Fiji and came to Banff to recuperate. The around-the-world trip was subsequently completed by his sailing partner, Capt. John Voss.
- Luxton bought Banff's Crag and Canyon newspaper in 1902 and remained as publisher until 1951. Also in 1902, he established the Sign of the Goat Curio store which specialized in Stoney Indian handicrafts and taxidermy specimens. Other significant Luxton businesses were the King Edward Hotel and Livery, Luxton Bros. insurance (with brother Louis Luxton) and the Lux Block, which included a hotel, the Lux Theatre and retail stores.
- In 1904, Norman Luxton married Georgina (Georgie) Elizabeth McDougall, 1870-1965, of the pioneer missionary McDougall family of Morley, Alberta. In addition to her McDougall connections, Georgie Luxton was related by marriage to Senator George Ross. Norman and Georgie Luxton had one child, Eleanor Georgina, born in Banff in 1908.
- The Luxtons were important Banff "boosters" with involvement in numerous local organizations and events. Norman Luxton managed the Banff Indian Days from 1909 to 1950, was a founder of Banff Winter Carnival and was involved with native events at the Calgary Stampede for 25 years. In 1953, Norman established a museum to house his native artifacts. The Luxton Museum was built in co-operation with Eric Harvie of the Glenbow Foundation of Calgary. After Luxton's death, the museum continued to be managed by the Glenbow until 1992.
- Eleanor Luxton, 1908-1995, was a writer, historian, researcher, engineer, teacher and business woman. After graduating from high school in Banff in 1926, she attended the University of Alberta from 1926 until 1939, receiving degrees in history (BA '30, MA'33), a Diploma in Education (1931) and subsequent education, biology and natural history courses during the summers.
- Between 1937 and 1956, Eleanor received further degrees and certificates from studies at Garbutt Business College (Calgary), St. Stephen's College (Edmonton), Ottawa Technical High School, Havergal Ladies College (Ontario), St. George Williams College (Montreal), McGill University (Montreal) and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Subjects studied included office practices, shorthand, machine draughting, English, civil engineering (BSc '46), German, broadcast writing, management, commerce, accounting and commercial law.
- Eleanor Luxton's extensive education overlapped and preceded a long and varied professional career. Her teaching career extended from high school teacher in Alberta (Banff and Sexsmith), 1933-1940, to university lecturer in Montreal in the 1950s. During the 1940s, she worked in locomotive design for the CPR in Montreal. Beginning in 1956 and continuing until 1965, when she returned to Banff to care for her mother, Eleanor worked throughout southern Alberta as a field researcher for Calgary's Glenbow Foundation. From 1965 until her death in 1995, Eleanor remained in Banff in her family home and pursued an active career in writing and research.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of textual, visual and sound materials pertaining to Norman Luxton, Eleanor Luxton and their family members and friends (including Georgina Luxton, Norman's parents and siblings, and members of the Ross, Graham and McDougall families). Includes correspondence, personal and professional records, financial documents, organization and volunteer records, business and property records, scrapbooks and albums, research materials, candid and professional portraits, various collected materials, and other related content.
- Notes
- Fonds consists of three sous-fonds:
- I. Norman Luxton sous-fonds, [ca.1880]-1962, ca. 7.5 m. of textual records and photographs in four series: A. Correspondence, B. Business, financial and legal, C. Personal, D. Personal and professional, E. Collected materials.
- II. Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds, [ca.1890]-1995, ca. 15 m. of textual records, sound recordings and photographs in six series: A. Correspondence, B. Professional, C. Personal, D. Business, financial and legal, E. Travel and events, F. Collected materials.
- III. Luxton family sous-fonds, 1836-1972, ca.6.5 m. of textual records and photographs in four series: A. Norman Luxton family series, [ca.1900-ca.1970]; B. Georgina Luxton series, [ca.1890]-1967; C. Related family series, [ca.1890]-1972; D. Other material series, 1836-1970; E. Luxton family home records [1996].
- Name Access
- Luxton, Eleanor
- Luxton, Georgina
- Luxton, Norman
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Commerce and industry
- Education
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Professional and Personal Life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Research
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction/s on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: electronic finding aid for processed material
- box list for unprocessed material
- Category
- Arts
- Commerce and industry
- Education
- 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
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Ron Duke fonds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions166
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds is a commercial negative collection from more than 4000 professional jobs. Includes family, personal and school portraits, weddings, conventions and passport photographs; Banff School of Fine Arts classes, activities, productions, business and convention programs; photographs of government a…
- Date Range
- [ca.1900, ca.1930-ca.1975]
- Reference Code
- M175 / V180
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 175
- V 180
- Sous-Fonds
- M 175
- V 180
- Accession Number
- 168, 232, 1572, 1593, 1644, 1868, 2626, 3379, 5772
- Reference Code
- M175 / V180
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Responsibility
- Fonds includes primarily the private business records of Ron Duke, including the work of some predecessors. Images attributed to Bill Jamieson, working in the employ of George Noble, are V180 / II.A.i. through V180 / II.A.vi., and V180 / III.A.- 1 to 51.
- Date Range
- [ca.1900, ca.1930-ca.1975]
- Physical Description
- ca.40,000 photographs (ca.38,400 negatives, ca.800 prints, ca.800 transparencies). -- 1 photograph album. -- 3 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- Ronald Leslie Duke, 1912-1978, was a professional photographer at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Duke was educated at Calgary, Banff and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. After wartime service with the National Film Board of Canada, Ron Duke returned to Banff, where he worked in the photography business for the next thirty years. Here he formed a link in a business lineage of photographers, including George Noble, and was for a time an employee of Noble's corporate successors. After 1958, Duke worked closely with the Banff School of Fine Arts, photographing productions and providing documentary services. After sustaining considerable damage in a fire which destroyed Banff's Mount Royal Hotel in 1967, Ron Duke's business resumed and, in partnership with George Baracos, continued until retirement in 1975.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds is a commercial negative collection from more than 4000 professional jobs. Includes family, personal and school portraits, weddings, conventions and passport photographs; Banff School of Fine Arts classes, activities, productions, business and convention programs; photographs of government and private construction, commercial and industrial projects, Banff National Park; Banff community life, including Banff Winter Carnival, sports and recreation, Banff High School, Banff activities, places and events; personal and occupational photographs arising from Duke's interest in aeronautics, work with the Canadian Army, World War II, and involvement in the oil industry, 1930s; scenic and landscape photographs. Most pertain to Banff National Park; also Vancouver, British Columbia; Seattle, United States; Turner Valley, Alberta and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- Textual records include job registers, 2 v.; samples of works orders, price lists, letters, equipment lists, invoices, receipts and technical information, mainly pertaining to business, some personal items; brochures, publications and postcards containing credited or attributed Ron Duke photographs.
- Name Access
- Duke, Ron
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Buildings and facilities
- Community life
- Commerce and industry
- Education
- 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: series and file description
- electronic finding aid
- Creator
- Duke, Ron
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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[2 mountain sheep]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions43067
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Number "5" on back
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-072
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-072
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph1 : print, 18x29cm
- Scope & Content
- Number "5" on back
- Notes
- Framed size: 19x30cm
- Conservation
- Physical condition: ec
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[2 unidentified First Nations men enacting a battle]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions43049
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Man on horse with tomahawk, man on foot with spear. Number "1" on back
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-054
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-054
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph1 : col. print, 32x24cm
- Scope & Content
- Man on horse with tomahawk, man on foot with spear. Number "1" on back
- Notes
- Framed size 43x35cm
- Conservation
- Physical condition: ec
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[2unidentified women, Georgina Luxton (far right) and unidentified man in front of unidentified stone building]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions43027
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-032
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-032
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print, 17.5x12cm
- Notes
- Framed size 19.5x14.5cm
- Conservation
- Physical condition: mc (photo bent)
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[2unidentified women, Georgina Luxton (far right) and unidentified man in front of unidentified stone building]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions43031
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-036
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-036
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print, 17.5x12cm
- Notes
- Framed size 19.5x14.5cm. Same image as PC-032. In envelope marked "Eleanor". Stamp from photo lab on back
- Conservation
- Physical condition: ec
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[3 unidentified men in front of unidentified mountain]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions43043
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Photographer's stamp: "Byron Harmon, Banff Canada"
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-048
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-048
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph1 : print, 20x24.5cm
- Scope & Content
- Photographer's stamp: "Byron Harmon, Banff Canada"
- Notes
- Framed size 39x44 cm. Same mountain as PC-046 and 047
- Conservation
- Physical condition: mc (some staining; signicant damage to back of frame)
- Creator
- Byron Harmon
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Unidentified men in Stoney First Nations traditional dress
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-030
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-030
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. print, 17.5x12cm
- Scope & Content
- Unidentified men in Stoney First Nations traditional dress
- Notes
- Framed size 18.5x14cm
- Conservation
- Physical condition: ec
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10,000 miles in the Canoe Tilikum / N. K. Luxton : [bound manuscripts]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions17760
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of two different presentations of the same manuscript. Longer volume (4 cm) includes photographs. Shorter volume (2 cm) contains annotations attributed to Eleanor Luxton, likely made during her preparation of Luxton's Pacific Crossing
- Date Range
- 1927-1928
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / B1 - 6, 7
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- I.B. Tilikum voyage
- Sous-Fonds
- I. Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / B1 - 6, 7
- Date Range
- 1927-1928
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes of textual records (6 cm)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of two different presentations of the same manuscript. Longer volume (4 cm) includes photographs. Shorter volume (2 cm) contains annotations attributed to Eleanor Luxton, likely made during her preparation of Luxton's Pacific Crossing
- Access Restrictions
- Access to the original volume with photographs is restricted. Photocopy of pages with photographs is available for reference use
- Finding Aid
- Photocopy includes links to the negatives
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16th Green, Banff Springs Golf course
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions43056
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- 3 unidentified golfers
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-061
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Reference Code
- LUX III D PC-061
- GMD
- Photograph
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph1 : print, 32x26cm
- Scope & Content
- 3 unidentified golfers
- Notes
- Framed size: 54x44cm
- Conservation
- Physical condition: ec
- Creator
- Associated Screen News
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33|Canada Cement Banquet and Dance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions12465
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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34|Alberta Campers Association, BSFA
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions12466
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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35|Shirley's Drama Group [Shirley Tooke]
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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36|Duggan Family Group
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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37A|Hay-Wilson Wedding
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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37|Oxley Wedding
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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38|Mrs. Maberly [Maberley] Business Portrait
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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39|Insurance Agents Assoc., BSFA
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions12472
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.vii. General commercial work: 1963
- Reference Code
- III.A.vii.
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51|Stan Peyto Family and Trophies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions12192
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.ix. General commercial work: 1965
- Reference Code
- III.A.ix.
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52|Voyager Fire-Side Group
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A.ix. General commercial work: 1965
- Reference Code
- III.A.ix.
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