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Trail Ride of 1939

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Part Of: Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 33 colour photograph transparencies (lantern slides). File documents the official trail ride of the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, which Jean Hembroff MacDonald participated in. File pertains to the Ptarmigan Valley Camp, with landscape scenery and photographs of the…

Date Range: 1939

Reference Code: V797 / II / PS - 28 to 60

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Transparency; Photograph; Lantern slide

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Part Of: Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M573 / V797 / S60

Series: V797 / II : Lantern Slides

Sous-Fonds: V797

Accession Number: 2019.111

Reference Code: V797 / II / PS - 28 to 60

GMD: Transparency; Photograph; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1939

Physical Description: 33 photographs : col. slides

Scope & Content: File consists of 33 colour photograph transparencies (lantern slides). File documents the official trail ride of the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, which Jean Hembroff MacDonald participated in. File pertains to the Ptarmigan Valley Camp, with landscape scenery and photographs of the hikers (singing, eating, etc). Places that are documented in this file are the Redoubt Lake trail, Hidden Lake, Ptarmigan Lake, Boulder Pass, and Skoki. Notable people include Jean Hembroff MacDonald, her husband, Jack MacDonald, and sister-in-law, Anna Cran; Dan McCowan; James M. Wardle; George Fisher; Norman Sanson; Betsy Struthers; and Emmeline Savatard and John Wheeler (A.O. Wheeler's wife and grandson).

Notes: Each slide is labelled.; Jean wrote an article about her experience [see related material], and used this experience for future lectures; Slides were stored with a note stating: "Slides taken by the C.P.R. of Trail Ride, 1936-1937."

Name Access: Hembroff MacDonald, Jean; Wardle, James M.; McCowan, Dan; Sanson, Norman; MacDonald, Jack; Cran, Anna; Savatard, Emmeline; Struthers, Betsy; Fisher, George; Wheeler, John Oliver

Subject Access: Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Trails; Trail guides; Tourism; Travel; Hiking; Horse packing; Horseback riding; Horses

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Canada; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Lake Louise; Skoki

Language: English

Related Material: M573 / I / 18; The Sky Line Trail, Vol. 6, No. 24 (October 1939)

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

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Animals of the Canadian Rockies

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

Published Date: 1936

Author: McCowan, Dan

Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead

Call Number: 04.2 M13a; 04.2 M13a c. 2

Author: McCowan, Dan

Responsibility: frontispiece by Carl Rungius

Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead

Published Date: 1936

Physical Description: x, 302p. : ill

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

Subjects: Mammals

Accession Number: 492; 5142 (signed)

Call Number: 04.2 M13a; 04.2 M13a c. 2

Collection: Archives Library

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Animals of the Canadian Rockies

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

Published Date: 1936

Author: McCowan, Dan

Publisher: London : Lovat Dickson

Call Number: 04.2 M13a UK edition

Author: McCowan, Dan

Responsibility: frontispiece by Carl Rungius

Publisher: London : Lovat Dickson

Published Date: 1936

Physical Description: x, 302p. : ill

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

Subjects: Mammals

Accession Number: 6892

Call Number: 04.2 M13a UK edition

Collection: Archives Library

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Letters to Mother [April 1933 - September 1933]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cab…

Date Range: 1933

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91

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 / 91

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1933

Physical Description: 1.3 cm of textual records (173 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cabinets and cupboards to the Whyte Home, Catharine practicing typewriting and the beginning of some typewritten letters to her mother, the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, moving a cabin on the property for their Stoney friends to stay in while they paint portraits, selling two sketches, various baking recipes from Edith, Peter painting Mark Poucette, a visit from children from the Mountain School, Peter and Catharine visiting the west coast [via Bonners Ferry and Spokane] and seeing Fern Brewster in Vancouver, writing Mrs. Paley, attending the Calgary Stampede, painting J.D. Curren, painting David Bearspaw, hiking at Lake O'Hara with Skyline Trail Hikers [with participant names], a visit with Mary Vaux in Banff, a Pacific Relations Conference at the Banff Springs Hotel and cleaning the house expecting visits from participants, Catharine discussing Adolf Hitler with a Swiss man visiting the house, a boat trip with the White Family and Allen Mather to Lake Minnewanka, meeting Mr. Anasaki from the Conference [an old friend of Edward Morse] and looking at Catharine's Japanese collection with Mr. Miyoaka and Mr. Takaki, Peter taking photographs at the Indigenous Camp during Banff Indian Days, Peter receiving a beaded coat from Mrs. Jonie, buying some items from the Indigenous Camp that belonged to Old Hector [Crawler?], Jackie heading east to meet Barbara before the birth of their child, and Peter and Catharine heading east via the United States to attend the World Fair and visit Edith Morse Robb and then family in Gorham, Maine.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Letters are all handwritten and typewritten and include some hotel, business 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: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; White, Annie; White, Clifford; White, Mildred; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, David Mackintosh (Dave); Stockand, Lila (White); Stockand, Cameron; Ward, Sam; Boyce, Jim; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Phil; Mills, Ike; Poucette, Mark; Paris, Cyril; Knight, Norman; Edwards, Chess; Edwards, Rupe; Hansen, Ed; Kutschera, Vic; Mather, Allan; Greenham, Margaret; Brewster, Fern; Standard, Paul; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Curren, John Donaldson; Bearspaw, David; Gibbon, John Murray; Rungius, Carl; Engelhard, Georgia; McCowan, Dan; Pollard, Harry; Feuz, Ernest; Aemmer, Rudolf; Walcott, Mary Vaux; Strom, Erling; McLean, George; Wildman, Dan, Sr.

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Art; Artists; Banff Indian Days; Banff Indian Grounds; Banff Springs Hotel; Cabins; Calgary Stampede; Community life; Conferences and conventions; Family; Family and personal life; Fire; First Nations; Hiking; Indigenous Peoples; Japanese; Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp; Lake O'Hara region; Mountain School; Painting; Photography; Portrait; Property; Regalia; Sailing; Sanitarium Hotel; School; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Stoney Nakoda; Swiss Guides; Teepees; Whyte House

Geographic Access: Banff; Concord; Calgary; Lake O'Hara; Vancouver; Montana; Colorado

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [May - July 1932]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 28 handwritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from May 1932 to July 1932. Topics include daily life in Banff, more work on Peter and Catharine's home, Fern Brewster's engagement and marriage, land and lots along Bow Avenue, news in Concord [includin…

Date Range: 1932

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 88

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 / 88

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1932

Physical Description: 1.3 cm of textual records (155 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 28 handwritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from May 1932 to July 1932. Topics include daily life in Banff, more work on Peter and Catharine's home, Fern Brewster's engagement and marriage, land and lots along Bow Avenue, news in Concord [including the death of Catharine's Aunt Helen and Edith Morse Robb's health], conversations with Earl Spencer, the death of Ruth Carpenter Mather [and subsequent reactions of family and locals], visiting and sketching in Yoho, a trip with Barbara Carpenter White to Vancouver, a trip with Barbara Carpenter White and Mary Schaffer Warren to Yoho, Catharine trading a painting for a grizzly hide, Peter getting a commission to paint a pair of portraits, Peter and Catharine's work hanging at the Banff Springs Hotel, painting trips to Larch Valley, Lake O'Hara and other locations, attending the Calgary Stampede [and corresponding art exhibition and an invitation to participate from Gwen[?] Hutton], and interactions and house visits from locals and others [including Norman Luxton, Jackie White, Fern Brewster, Tex Woods, the Moore family, the Brewster family, Earl Spencer, Barbara Carpenter White, Allan Mather, Fred Armbrister, Betty Painter, Belmore Browne, Mary Schaffer Warren, Frances James, Vic Kutschera, Carl Rungius, Frances and Murray Adaskin, Charlie Beil, Lila White Stockand, Norman Knight, Rupe and Chessy Edwards, Cyril Paris, Ted Paris, Dorothy White, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Oakes [from Boston], Dan McCowan, Mr. Polenski, Mr. Kingsman, and Annie White].

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: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); Mather, Allan; Brewster, Fern; Spencer, Earl; Crosby, Lou; Luxton, Norman; "Tex" Vernon Wood; Moore, Phil; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Armbrister, Fred; Painter, Betty; Browne, Belmore; Warren, Mary Schaffer; Kutschera, Vic; Rungius, Carl; Adaskin, Murray; Stockand, Lila (White); McCowan, Dan

Subject Access: Art; Artists; Banff Springs Hotel; Calgary Stampede; Camps; Cinema; Community life; Family; Family and personal life; First Nations; Funeral; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp; Lake O'Hara region; Marriage; Mount Royal Hotel; Painting; Portrait; Property; Stoney Nakoda; Whyte House

Geographic Access: Banff; Concord; Calgary; Vancouver; Yoho National Park; Shadow Lake; Castle Mountain; Larch Valley; Moraine Lake; Lake O'Hara

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Dan McCowan letters of appreciation from American audiences

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Part Of: Dan and Mary McCowan fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of appreciation letters written to Dan McCowan from sports and community associations and clubs throughout the United States of America.

Date Range: 1927-1952

Reference Code: M55 / 15

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Dan and Mary McCowan fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M55 / V408

Series: I / D Dan McCowan : Professional activities

Sous-Fonds: M55

Accession Number: 6892

Reference Code: M55 / 15

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: 1927-1952

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records (42 pages ; 23.5 x 28.5 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of appreciation letters written to Dan McCowan from sports and community associations and clubs throughout the United States of America.

Name Access: McCowan, Dan

Subject Access: Administration; Canadian Pacific Railway; Communications; Professional and Personal Life

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Dan McCowan Career Scrapbook

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Part Of: Dan and Mary McCowan fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding the career of Dan McCowan. Includes entirely clippings about his photographs and lectures throughout North America.

Date Range: 1929-1941

Reference Code: M55 / 16

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Dan and Mary McCowan fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M55 / V408

Series: I / D Dan McCowan : Professional activities

Sous-Fonds: M55

Accession Number: 6892

Reference Code: M55 / 16

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: 1929-1941

Physical Description: 3 cm of textual records (49 pages ; 23 x 28 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding the career of Dan McCowan. Includes entirely clippings about his photographs and lectures throughout North America.

Name Access: McCowan, Dan

Subject Access: Academics; Community events; Description and travel; Education; Environment and Nature; Events; Lecture; Newspaper; Professional and Personal Life; Public Speaking

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Enoch Rider (Sûkârâgan) (Horse Rider), Stoney Nakoda

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: [Enoch Rider (Sûkârâgan) (Horse Rider), Stoney Nakoda]*

Date Range: ca. 1910

Reference Code: LUX/I/d3a-10-36a

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

1 image

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: I.C.2. Dan McCowan : Photography, lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: LUX

Accession Number: n/a

Reference Code: LUX/I/d3a-10-36a

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: ca. 1910

Physical Description: 1 Negative

Scope & Content: [Enoch Rider (Sûkârâgan) (Horse Rider), Stoney Nakoda]*

Name Access: McCowan, Dan; Rider, Enoch

Subject Access: First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Stoney Nakoda; Stoney

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: English

Creator: McCowan, Dan

Title Source: Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023.; The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.