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Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.12

Description: A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)

Date: 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 17.5 cm

Description: A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.12

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Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.19

Description: A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 17.5 cm

Description: A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.19

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Pyrola picta (Wintergreen)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.13

Description: Broad green leaves with white veins are at the bottom centre of the picture; a long red/brown stem protrudes straight up, many small buds hang from the stem near the top.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Pyrola picta (Wintergreen)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 17.5 cm

Description: Broad green leaves with white veins are at the bottom centre of the picture; a long red/brown stem protrudes straight up, many small buds hang from the stem near the top.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.13

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Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.09

Description: Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.09

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Oncideum forbesii / Brasilidium forbesii? (Wildflower)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.01

Description: A light green stem branches off into three stems on which a dark yellow and brown flower with scalloped petals on each end.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Oncideum forbesii / Brasilidium forbesii? (Wildflower)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: A light green stem branches off into three stems on which a dark yellow and brown flower with scalloped petals on each end.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.01

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Bunchberry [Creeping Dogwood]

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour / gouche?; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.32

Description: Botanical painting of 3 stems of a plant. stems have green leaves and two have bunches of red berries. The uppermost stem has a white flower with four petals and purple stamen. Written below in pencil is “Bunchberry”

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Bunchberry [Creeping Dogwood]

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour / gouche?; ink on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 16.0 cm

Description: Botanical painting of 3 stems of a plant. stems have green leaves and two have bunches of red berries. The uppermost stem has a white flower with four petals and purple stamen. Written below in pencil is “Bunchberry”

Subject: bunchberry; creeping dogwood; Cornus canadensi

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.32

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Rhododendron albifloriem (White-flowered Rhododendron)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.31

Description: The plant has long narrow oblong green leaves top and bottom of the stem with small white flowers in between.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Rhododendron albifloriem (White-flowered Rhododendron)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 17.5 cm

Description: The plant has long narrow oblong green leaves top and bottom of the stem with small white flowers in between.

Subject: botanical; flower, rhododendron

Credit: Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.31

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Letter from CPR (1895) re: Death of Burton Wheatley

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: Item is a three-page typed document on yellow tissue paper released by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Solicitor Office in 1895. Pertains to the death of Burton Wheatley, CPR Engineer, in 1894 at Field Hill, B.C. and provides a statement waiving CPR's liability in Wheatley's death. spaces on last pa…

Date Range: 1895

Reference Code: M300 / III / D3 / A / 76 (O.S.)

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Corporate record

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: M300 / III / D: Personal and Family Records : Collected Material

Accession Number: 182

Reference Code: M300 / III / D3 / A / 76 (O.S.)

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Corporate record

Responsibility: Canadian Pacific Railway

Date Range: 1895

Physical Description: 1 Textual Record (3 pages): tissue paper; non-annotated

History / Biographical: Burton Wheatley was an engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway company, who died during a railway accident in 1894 which occurred at Field Hill, B.C. The Wheatley family were related to Ivy "Willie" Morant (1910-1986), wife of photographer Nicholas Morant.

Scope & Content: Item is a three-page typed document on yellow tissue paper released by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Solicitor Office in 1895. Pertains to the death of Burton Wheatley, CPR Engineer, in 1894 at Field Hill, B.C. and provides a statement waiving CPR's liability in Wheatley's death. spaces on last page of the document to write the date and witness signatures have not been filled in (likely a copy of a completed form).

Notes: Item was previously numbered as M27/3/O.S./"H" and is entered into database twice; more recently updated as item in Nicholas Morant fonds

Name Access: Wheatley, Burton

Subject Access: Wheatley family; Wheatley, Burton; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific; Engineer; Death

Geographic Access: Canada; British Columbia

Reproduction Restrictions: Reference use only; no reproduction

Language: English

Conservation: Must be stored flat in mylar sheets

Creator: Nicholas Morant

Biographical Source Notes: http://www.archivesalberta.org/findingaids/whyte/Morant/M300-III%20inv.pdf

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Pinus albicaulis (White Pine)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.15

Description: A pine tree branch breaks into two sections with green needles and clusters of red/brown pine cones.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Pinus albicaulis (White Pine)

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 17.5 cm

Description: A pine tree branch breaks into two sections with green needles and clusters of red/brown pine cones.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.15

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Letters to Mother [July 1930 - October 1930]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brews…

Date Range: 1930

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 84

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs

Sous-Fonds: M36

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 84

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1930

Physical Description: 1.3 cm of textual records (82 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brewster, Jim Brewster, Guy Davenport, Sid Graves, Sid Brewster, Mary Vaux Walcott, Jimmy Simpson, Byron Harmon, Fern Brewster, Wayne Palmer, Fred McCauley, Mrs. Brett, Julia Raymond, Pearl Moore, Edmee Moore, Philip Moore, J.E.H. MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Link, Mr. and Mrs. Painter, George Brewster, Jessie McLean, Buddy van Dyke, Dorothy Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, Fred Arbrister, Neil Begg, Rudolph Aemner,] painting outdoors, people in Concord, meeting Noel Odell of the 1924 Everest Expedition, a fire at a tea house in town, plans for building their home [including a sketch of the lots along Bow River], visiting Castle Mountain Camp and Kicking Horse Tea House, description of Skoki Lodge building plans [with Cliff White, Cyril Paris, and Ike Mills], and builders Earl Spencer and Spud White, and painting in Morley [Mrs. Twoyoungmen, John Simian or Black Buffalo, Jonas Richson [?], Dan Wildman and other illegible names], the climb to Abbot Pass, Lake Oesa, and Lake O'Hara Camp.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.

Name Access: Brewster, Bill; Brewster, Fern; Brewster, Jim; Brewster, George; Davenport, Guy; Gibbon, John Murray; Harmon, Byron; Graves, Syd Brewster; Paris, Cyril; Mills, Ike; Rungius, Carl; Spencer, Earl; Link, Adeline; Link, George K.K.; MacDonald, J. E. H.; Browne, Belmore; Mather, Allan; Wildman, Dan, Sr.; Curren, John Donaldson; Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; White, Clifford; Aemmer, Rudolf; Alpine Club of Canada; Armbrister, Fred

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Bow River; Camps; Castle Mountain; Climbing; Community events; Community life; Family; Family and personal life; First Nations; Hiking; Home; Indigenous Peoples; Japanese; Lake Louise; Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp; Lake O'Hara region; Log structures; Moore House; Mountains; Pack trips; Painting; Paris Tea Room; Personal and Family Life; Property; Skoki Lodge; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda; Summit; Yoho Valley Bungalow Camp

Geographic Access: Abbot Pass; Alberta; Banff; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Castle Mountain; Concord; Lake Louise; Yoho National Park; Field; Lake O'Hara; Skoki; Morley

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.17

Description: General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.9 x 44.1 cm

Description: General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.17

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Untitled [cowboy roping horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on pressed paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.05.01

Description: A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yel…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [cowboy roping horse]

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on pressed paper

Dimensions: 32.5 x 25.4 cm

Description: A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yellow. The roped horse has a brand on left shoulder: lazy N over bar one.

Subject: figure, cowboy; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.05.01

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.0 x 30.4 cm

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

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Saddlehorse

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.392

Description: A realistic painting of a bay horse. He is facing to the left, has on a bridle, saddle and yellow rain slicker tied behind the saddle. The background is green.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Saddlehorse

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.6 x 30.2 cm

Description: A realistic painting of a bay horse. He is facing to the left, has on a bridle, saddle and yellow rain slicker tied behind the saddle. The background is green.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.392

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Lake O'Hara Region

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.542

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara Region

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38.3 x 39.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.542

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Cathedral Mountain, Yoho Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.547

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain, Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38.2 x 37.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Peter Whyte

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.547

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At the Yoho Camp

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.430

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: At the Yoho Camp

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.