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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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Kanada 1927 Photo Album

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album, comprising ca. 432 photographs, 10.5 x 16 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to a trip through Banff to Mount Assiniboine by the Duke Dimitri and Duchess Catherine Leuchtenberg in 1927. Photographs document travel on horseback to the Mount Assiniboine Lodge, h…

Date Range: 1927

Reference Code: V8 / PD / 2020.04

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Private record

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M8 / V8 / S8

Series: Accession number : 2020.04

Sous-Fonds: V8

Accession Number: 2020.04

Reference Code: V8 / PD / 2020.04

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Private record

Date Range: 1927

Physical Description: 1 album (ca. 432 photographs : b&w ; 10.5 x 16 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: Dimitri Georgevitch de Leuchtenberg (1898-1972), Duke of Leuchtenberg was a member of the Franco-Russian Beauharnais house. In 1927 the Marquis Nicholas degli Albizzi invited Dimitri and his wife Catherine (1900-1991) to join him for the summer at the cabin he had subleased from A.O. Wheeler at Mount Assiniboine. Albizzi and Dimitri were cousins. The Duke and Duchess de Leuchtenberg lived in Germany following the Russian Civil War and in 1931 began annual winter trips to Quebec to visit Albizzi and his new winter sports station in Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts in the Laurentians mountains in Quebec. The Duke worked for Albizzi as a ski school instructor. In 1937 he was chosen to be a member of the Canadian Ski School Committee and in 1938 was a founding member of the Ski Instructor's Alliance. In 1939 the Duke de Leuchtenberg bought the Saint-Sauveur station from Albizzi and moved his family permanently to Quebec, Canada.

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album, comprising ca. 432 photographs, 10.5 x 16 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to a trip through Banff to Mount Assiniboine by the Duke Dimitri and Duchess Catherine Leuchtenberg in 1927. Photographs document travel on horseback to the Mount Assiniboine Lodge, hiking up Mount Assiniboine, swimming and boating on Lake Magog, horses, camping, and other leisure activies.

Notes: The album is titled "Kanada 1927" with a photo of Mount Assiniboine on the first page. Not all of the photos in the album are captioned, some are captioned partially or entriely in Russian. Frequently used names in captions: Duma = Dimitri Kata = Catherine Kora = Albizzi Translated version of album captions available in Chic Scott fonds (see "Related Material")

Name Access: Albizzi, Marquis Nicholas degli; Albizzi, Nicholas delgi; Leuchtenberg, Dimitri

Subject Access: Backcountry skiing; Banff; Boats; Brewster Mountain Pack Trains; Cabins; Cross-country skiing; Family; Family and personal life; Glaciers; Guide; Horseback riding; Horses; Leisure; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine Lodge; Mountaineering; Swimming; Travel

Geographic Access: Banff; Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine; Lake Magog; Banff National Park; British Columbia; Alberta; Canada

Language: English; Russian

Related Material: Translation of album captions located in Chic Scott fonds (M57/S47/V40), donated as part of accn. 2021.15

Biographical Source Notes: http://www.royalhistorian.com/how-a-romanov-duke-popularized-skiing-in-quebecs-laurentian-mountains/; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Georgevitch_de_Leuchtenberg; Lytton Gooch, Jane. Mount Assiniboine: Images in Art. Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books, 2007. pg. 37-38.

Title Source: Original title in album

Processing Status: Processed

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Book Prizes and Miscellaneous

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 4 published books. Contains 1 copy of 'New World Ballads' by John Murray Gibbons (1939) with a note to Nicholas Morant from the author inside; 1 copy of 'Tom Brown's School Days' (1894) with a certificate attached labelling the book as a prize for Mollie Wylde (Morant) dated 'Xmas …

Date Range: 1894; 1896; 1921; 1923; 1931; 1939

Reference Code: M300 / III / D / 5 / 26 to 29

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Private record

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: M300 / III / D / 5 : Personal Interest and Gifts

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: M300 / III / D / 5 / 26 to 29

GMD: Textual record; Private record

Responsibility: John Murray Gibbons , Mollie Morant , R.C. MacBeth , Stephen Coleridge

Date Range: 1894; 1896; 1921; 1923; 1931; 1939

Physical Description: 4 Textual Records: books

Scope & Content: File consists of 4 published books. Contains 1 copy of 'New World Ballads' by John Murray Gibbons (1939) with a note to Nicholas Morant from the author inside; 1 copy of 'Tom Brown's School Days' (1894) with a certificate attached labelling the book as a prize for Mollie Wylde (Morant) dated 'Xmas 1896'; 1 copy of 'The Romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway' by R.C. MacBeth (1931) signed by author and annotated by Nicholas Morant; 1 copy of 'Letters to My Grandson' by Stephen Coleridge (1921) with writing prize certificate for Nicholas Morant from the Victoria University Boys' School, dated 1923.

Storage Range: In file box M300 / III / D / 5 / 26 to M300 / III / D / 5 / 29

Material Details: Nicholas Morant

Name Access: Morant, Mollie

Subject Access: Publication; Poetry; Victoria University Boys School; Canadian Pacific Railway

Geographic Access: Canada; British Columbia

Access Restrictions: Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.

Reproduction Restrictions: Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.

Language: English

Conservation: Items in this file with risky materials attached to surface, such as adhesives, must be covered with an acid-free barrier to protect adjacent items.

Creator: John Murray Gibbons , R.C. MacBeth , Stephen Coleridge

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Correspondence about O'Hara

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Part Of: George K. K. (Tommy) Link fonds

Scope & Content: Correspondence between Link and Austin H. Ford re operating Lake O'Hara Lodge, transportation to the Lake and Lake O'Hara warden cabin. Letters from Link to the National Geographic Magazine re footpath construction, annual visits to Lake O'Hara, total mileage of ways, photograph description in maga…

Date Range: 1971-1978

Reference Code: M60 / 23

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Private record

Part Of: George K. K. (Tommy) Link fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M60 / V276

Series: I. Writing, research and translation

Sous-Fonds: M60

Sub-Series: A.The Ways of Lake O'Hara

Accession Number: 2815; 2019.38

Reference Code: M60 / 23

GMD: Textual record; Private record

Date Range: 1971-1978

Physical Description: 2 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: Correspondence between Link and Austin H. Ford re operating Lake O'Hara Lodge, transportation to the Lake and Lake O'Hara warden cabin. Letters from Link to the National Geographic Magazine re footpath construction, annual visits to Lake O'Hara, total mileage of ways, photograph description in magazine, Wiwaxy Trail Crew, preparation of map and treatise, O'Hara Trails Club, lodge construction, horse trails. Correspondence between Link and Tim Auger re history of Yoho National Park trail crews, Wapta Lake warden cabin, path changes, trail naming, injuries, equipment environmental issues, skiing in winter. Correspondence between Link and Glen L. Brook re Park personnel at Lake O'Hara, wardens stationed at Wapta Lake, Yoho National Park Superintendents, autobiography of Brook, duties of Lawrence Grassi at O'Hara, changes in routes, horse trails, Trans- Canada Highway and Charlotte Tuerck. Letters to Link from Tom Westervelt re types of rock in O'Hara area. Notes on Don Quixote Loop.

Name Access: Link, George K.K.; Auger, Tim; Brook, Glen; Westervelt, Tom; Grassi, Lawrence; Tuerck, Charlotte

Subject Access: Trail making; Trail guides; Trails; Horses; Skiing; Trans-Canada Highway

Geographic Access: Lake O'Hara; Yoho National Park; British Columbia; Canada; Wapta Lake

Language: English

Finding Aid: In case file

Title Source: Title based on contents of folder

Processing Status: Processed

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Letter to Bruno about map in process

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Part Of: George K. K. (Tommy) Link fonds

Scope & Content: Between Link and Austin Ford, Bruno Struck, the draftsman and the photographer regarding changes or additions to the map re boundaries, ways and topographical features on the Lake O'Hara Region South Area. Letters to and from Link, Lillian Gest and the map printers. The Map includes a magnified vi…

Date Range: 1957 - 1975

Reference Code: M60 / I / B / 38

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Map; Private record

Part Of: George K. K. (Tommy) Link fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M60 / V276

Series: I. Writing, research and translation

Sous-Fonds: M60

Sub-Series: B. Map of Lake O'Hara region south area

Accession Number: 2019.36; 2815

Reference Code: M60 / I / B / 38

GMD: Map; Private record

Date Range: 1957 - 1975

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records (1 cm)

Scope & Content: Between Link and Austin Ford, Bruno Struck, the draftsman and the photographer regarding changes or additions to the map re boundaries, ways and topographical features on the Lake O'Hara Region South Area. Letters to and from Link, Lillian Gest and the map printers. The Map includes a magnified view of Lake O'Hara as well as detailed account of trails, geography, and other landmarks of interest in the O'Hara area.