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- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds 166
- Dan and Mary McCowan fonds 42
- Vaux family fonds 36
- Moore family fonds 16
- Lillian Gest fonds 8
- Caroline Hinman fonds 4
- Archives General File Collection 2
- Bob Hind fonds 2
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds 1
- Browne family fonds 1
- Bruno Engler fonds 1
- Canadian Pacific Railway fonds 1
- McCowan, Dan 42
- Vaux family (Philadelphia USA) 21
- Whyte, Catharine 21
- Whyte, Peter 21
- Whyte, Peter and Catharine 21
- James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian) 16
- Bearspaw, David 13
- Hinman, Caroline 9
- Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA) 9
- McLean, George 9
- Twin, William 9
- Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian) 9
Deer in the Woods, 1949
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.05.01
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.01
- Description
- Colour: white, brown. Lower half is snow. In the upper half are four tree trunks left of center behind which are two deer - one facing right and the other behind her and left, facing right but looking out. Along the upper edge of the picture are the lower sections of the trunks.
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- Title
- Deer in the Woods, 1949
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.4 x 37.2 cm
- Description
- Colour: white, brown. Lower half is snow. In the upper half are four tree trunks left of center behind which are two deer - one facing right and the other behind her and left, facing right but looking out. Along the upper edge of the picture are the lower sections of the trunks.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.01
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Pipestone Creek Facing Mount Temple
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- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.05
- Description
- Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and up into the right of center area is a river. Rocks sit here and there across it. On each side shrubs and trees grow. In the background to the right side is a purple green hill and in the center behind is a snow capped mountain. The sky is cloudy with a b…
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- Title
- Pipestone Creek Facing Mount Temple
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 39.1 x 55.3 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and up into the right of center area is a river. Rocks sit here and there across it. On each side shrubs and trees grow. In the background to the right side is a purple green hill and in the center behind is a snow capped mountain. The sky is cloudy with a break upper cnter and in the upper right corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Louise Wilson, Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.05
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- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on heavy paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.32
- Description
- A Gift for You card To Catharine & Pete from Jim & Billie S 1949
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on heavy paper
- Dimensions
- 14.7 x 19.5 cm
- Description
- A Gift for You card To Catharine & Pete from Jim & Billie S 1949
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.32
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- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.12
- Description
- Mountains to the the left, a small hill mid-centre right with some rocks in the foreground hiding part of of a small blue lake. Clear blue sky.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 16.5 cm
- Description
- Mountains to the the left, a small hill mid-centre right with some rocks in the foreground hiding part of of a small blue lake. Clear blue sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.12
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- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.49
- Description
- Green meadow in the foreground, a few dark evergreens to the left, with brown trees above, darker trees meet the mountain and what appears to be a green ledge mid centre. A touch of blue lower mid third could be a stream, a stand of brown trees to the right meeting the mountains which are mostly wh…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 14.9 cm
- Description
- Green meadow in the foreground, a few dark evergreens to the left, with brown trees above, darker trees meet the mountain and what appears to be a green ledge mid centre. A touch of blue lower mid third could be a stream, a stand of brown trees to the right meeting the mountains which are mostly white, tinged with blue. A very light blue sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Albert Roberge, Edmonton, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.49
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Logs and Mountain on Ellesmere Island
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.22
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.22
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- Title
- Logs and Mountain on Ellesmere Island
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.3 x 45.4 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- water
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.22
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- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.45
- Description
- Mountain sides slope from left and right to a valley with greenery and trees,in the background is a mountain range with a glacier evident to the left; the sky is cloudy.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.1 x 20.3 cm
- Description
- Mountain sides slope from left and right to a valley with greenery and trees,in the background is a mountain range with a glacier evident to the left; the sky is cloudy.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- pass
- Credit
- Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.45
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- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.48
- Description
- Grassy green and brown slope with rock ledge goes from left middle to bottom right corner. Dark treeline meets right slope. Mauve and blue snowtipped jagged mountain range in the background with a cloudy sky.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 14.9 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Grassy green and brown slope with rock ledge goes from left middle to bottom right corner. Dark treeline meets right slope. Mauve and blue snowtipped jagged mountain range in the background with a cloudy sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Credit
- Gift of B. R. Painter, California City, USA, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.48
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Soap Lake in the Grand Coulee
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- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.25
- Description
- bottom middle:Soap Lake in the Grand Coulee, Washington State USA
1 image
- Title
- Soap Lake in the Grand Coulee
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.3 x 45.4 cm
- Description
- bottom middle:Soap Lake in the Grand Coulee, Washington State USA
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- lake, Soap
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.25
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Ashcroft Country, B.C.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.57
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.57
- Description
- See photo blhc: brhc: “E Lamarque”
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- Title
- Ashcroft Country, B.C.
- Date
- 1948
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- See photo blhc: brhc: “E Lamarque”
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.57
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Old Barns Banff
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CrH.05.01
- Description
- General colour: green, grey, brown, blue. Log building, center, has two poles leaning up on it in front. Trees fill in the background. Another building visible on the left side. Purple mountains beyond and cloudy blue sky.
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- Title
- Old Barns Banff
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 43 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, grey, brown, blue. Log building, center, has two poles leaning up on it in front. Trees fill in the background. Another building visible on the left side. Purple mountains beyond and cloudy blue sky.
- Subject
- architecture
- rural
- Credit
- Gift of Harry S. Craig, Edmonton, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- CrH.05.01
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Deer on Banff Avenue
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.02
- Description
- Colour: grey, brown, blue, green, yellow. A deer right of center crosses the road which fills the lower half. Across the middle going into the distance at the left are a row of store front with cars parked in front - one car appears to be travelling to the left. Behind the buildings are mountains a…
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- Title
- Deer on Banff Avenue
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.8 x 37.9 cm
- Description
- Colour: grey, brown, blue, green, yellow. A deer right of center crosses the road which fills the lower half. Across the middle going into the distance at the left are a row of store front with cars parked in front - one car appears to be travelling to the left. Behind the buildings are mountains and sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.02
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.39
- Description
- Left foreground is a grass covered hill with evergreens on top; below that a valley and behind a long range of mountains, blues/purples, some with a little snow; cloudy sky. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or i…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Left foreground is a grass covered hill with evergreens on top; below that a valley and behind a long range of mountains, blues/purples, some with a little snow; cloudy sky. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0394 A; 20657.
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.39
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The Monarch from Sunshine Meadows
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.05.18
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.18
- Description
- The Monarch with Sunshine Meadows in foreground.
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- Title
- The Monarch from Sunshine Meadows
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.9 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- The Monarch with Sunshine Meadows in foreground.
- Credit
- Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.18
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Autumn 1947 Canadian Rockies & US Auto Trip [2/2]
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 100 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1947 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, variou…
- Date Range
- 1947
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 117 to 124a
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Photograph
- Transparency
90 images
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- II.C. Activities / photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V225
- Sub-Series
- ii.a.i Photographic material / transparencies / boxes
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 117 to 124a
- Parallel Title
- R79-1 to R124-15. -- 1943-1947 V225 / NS - 4
- Date Range
- 1947
- Physical Description
- 100 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 100 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1947 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, wildlife, the opening dedication of the A.O. Wheeler Hut, and the drive back home. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook. Titles: Reel 117 Sept 1947 2. [Wheeler Hugh Dedication] 3. group at [Dedication] 4. H.E. Sampson speaking 5. Sir Oliver Wheeler 6. Bonldew Prastice 7. [Bonldew Prastice] 8. Belaying from above 9. Roping down 11. Sid and Eric 12. Phebe and Polly on road 13. My tentmates 14. Banff Musance[?] Park sign 16. Elk on mud flats 17. [Elk on mud flats] 18. [Elk] morning 19. Elk and Roy T. 20. [Elk] overexp. 21. Elk 26. Lamb descending rocks 27. Ewe and lamb 29. Rams at Bankhead - nearer 30. [Rams at Bankhead] further 31. [Rams at Bankhead] moving off Reel 118 Sept 1947 8 pictures 6. Delphiniums good 10. Sheep in swamp fair 12. [Sheep in swamp] overexp. 20. Mt. Eisenhower good 8/2 Reel 119- Sept 1947 13. View down river 15. Dam at Seebe 8/10 18. Aileen and Mrs B. at Seebe 19. [Aileen and Mrs B.] and house at Seebe Reel 120 Sept 1947 1. Down Couloir fr. Sawback Pinnacle 7. Bear on road overexp. 8. [Bear on road overexp.] 17. House and garden near Grassi's 21. Buffalo Reel 121 Sept 1947 6. Bears at dump 13. The Bear Show 15. Goose flats - Bow R. 17. BHG. at window A-ha-hi-na 19. Mt Rundle and reflections Reel 122 Sept 22. 47 1. The Sea Cadet Races 2. [The Sea Cadet Races] Boathouses in b.g. 3. [The Sea Cadet Races] Mt. Cascade 4. Sunset on Fairholme Range 5. Goat at paddock 6. [Goat at paddock] 12. Rundle fr. Vermilion Lakes 13. Mt. Rundle and Reflections 15. Fr Bridge - moon over Bourgeau 16. At Mrs. Lyalls - C.H. and Mrs L. 18. The Wee Hoose 19. Mrs. Lyalls garden 20. Kilmorey Lodge - Dodge and C.H. 21. Waterton from P of W. Hotel Reel 123 Oct 1947 1. The road home 2. Sheep on road 3. Sheep moving off road 5. View out back of car - sheep 6. Giant Springs of great Falls, Mont. 7. Feeding dogs at Rodman Ranch 9. Mrs. Rodman and dog 10. Hayel and 2 pups - standing 11. Hayel sitting down and pups 12. Yellowstone 13. Caroline near pool - Yellowstone 14. L.G. by pool 15. Yellowstone - 16. Old Faithful and circle of people 19. [Old Faithful] no people 21. [Old Faithful] and trees and road Reel 124 Oct. 10 - 47 1. Durls Tower from foot on trail 2. [Durls Tower from foot on trail] 4. Blank 5. Durls Tower whole with trees 6. [Durls Tower] solid mass 7. [Durls Tower] fr. auto road 11. Grain fields and trees 13. [Rushmore memorial] 14. [Rushmore memorial] thru window 15. The road home - drive [illegible] 16. Wheat fields 18. BHG. on enclosed porch 19. Enclosed porch BHG. 20. 650 Hayle[illegible] ave - good of house 21. Peace Rose The last 10 slides [named 124a] depict sites around Yellowstone National Park and were most likely purchased by Lillian Gest while visiting the park. The slides' matting paper states they were manufactured by the park and all are wrapped in a thin plastic sleeve.
- Notes
- Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1). Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists. R112 - not numbered slides ; 12 omitted R113 - not numbered slides R114 - not numbered slides
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Administration
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Animals
- Automobiles
- Backpacking
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Boats
- Buildings
- Cabins
- Cabins and shelters
- Camping
- Camps
- Climbing
- Club
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- Exploration
- Family and personal life
- Fishing
- Flowers
- Glaciers
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horse packing
- Horses
- Hotels
- Landscapes
- Mountain
- Mountains
- Mountaineering
- National parks and reserves
- Organizations
- Outfitters
- Pack trips
- Personal and Professional Life
- Photography
- Prince of Wales Hotel
- Recreation
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Swiss Guides
- Tourism
- Trails
- Travel
- Wheeler Hut
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Seebe
- Kananaskis
- Waterton
- Waterton National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Great Falls
- Montana
- Yellowstone National Park
- United States of America
- Language
- NA
- Conservation
- Removed from original boxes and rehoused in slide sleeves and acid-free folders.
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Summer & Autumn 1947 Canadian Rockies Trip [1/2]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55323
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 103 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1947 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, variou…
- Date Range
- 1947
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 111 to 116
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Photograph
- Transparency
98 images
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- II.C. Activities / photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V225
- Sub-Series
- ii.a.i Photographic material / transparencies / boxes
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 111 to 116
- Parallel Title
- R79-1 to R124-15. -- 1943-1947 V225 / NS - 4
- Date Range
- 1947
- Physical Description
- 103 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 103 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1947 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, wildlife, the opening dedication of the A.O. Wheeler Hut, and the drive back home. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook. Titles: Ansco film Reel 111 July 1-1947 1. China - merion 2. [China - merion] 3. [China - merion] 4. [China - merion] 5. [China - merion] 6. Cherry tree 7. Eva in cherry tree 8. Same 9. BH. G under cherry tree 10. [BH. G] looks at cherries 11. [BH. G] picking cherries 12. [BH. G] and cherries 13. BH. G and Eva 14. Eva eating cherries 17. Iron Deer in shade 18. [Iron Deer] house in b.g. 19. Tulip poplar 20. BHG. under fringe tree 21. BHG. [under] twin pine 22. [BHG.] and her basket 23. [BHG.] close up Canadian Rockies 1947 Reel 112 Aug 4-47 1. Buck on edge of bank - Underexp. 2. [Buck] and BHG on back porch not bad 3. 2 bucks [and BHG on back porch] 0 of 7 7. Tree, Mt Cascade, buck in willows 8. Buck in shadow - morning 12. --- 14. 2 bucks morning down [illegible] 15. 2 bucks below Jand[?] pit poor 16. 2 bucks near pit poor 25. Fly spotted oulies[?] by Hatchery 26. BH. G in Suring Light Stuck 27. [BH. G in Suring] Best 28. [BH. G in Suring] 29. Ah hahina and rose bough 30. Ah hahina fr. road below 31. Ah hahina fr. road below better 32. Ah ha hina from road in front 33. Whiteman House - Cascade 34. Our driveway St. Julien Rd. and Meadow 35. Norquay fr. Ahhahina 36. Telegraph Pole Lane to town Reel 113 Aug 4-1947 2. St. Julien Rd. and Mt. Brewster 4. [Banff Springs Hotel fr. Tunnell] 7. Flowers on Tunnell - Bow R. below 8. Precipice on Tunnell fr. trail 9. Deer on bank Cascade in b.g 10. Rundle slopes of Astley 12. Eric and Meus[illegible] - slopes of Astley 13. Party on slopes of Astley - Eugene Eric Jean Vallances 16. [Party] 4 figures not posed 17. [Party] 5 figures [not posed] 20. Peter and Jean 21. Party on shoulder of Mt. Astley 23. Fawns on lawn 28. Fawn by roadside 32. Fawn - doe and fawn back of tree 33. Fawn on lawn deep shadow 35. Fawn in grass - tree trunks in b.g 38. Doe and 2 fawns overexp. 39. 2 fawns 2 children Side and doe in b.g. Reel 114 Aug 1947 1. BH.G. in reclining chair 3. [Fawn in Harmon's garden] 4. [Fawn] nearer 5. Doe eating Mrs. H's flowers 6. Fawn moving - doe in b.g. poor 7. Deer at Harmon's gate 8. Fawn in woods 9. Little Bear and girl 10. Little bear and boy 11. [Little bear] on road 17. [Beaver] and one under water Reel 115 Aug 22. 47 1. Moose moving in woods - not mounted 2. Moose in stream 3. [Moose] running 6. [Moose] fair 9. BHG. at stream at Picnic Place 10. BHG and Sig [at Picnic Place] 12. Sawback Pinnacle 13. [Sawback Pinnacle] 16. P.O and Cars - Mt. Cascade 17. Mt. Astley 18A. Hermit Range 18B. Hermit Range 20. Line going up snow on Abbot Reel 116 Aug 31 - 1947 1. Mt Cheops 3. On [Glacier Creek] 2 climbers 4. Ascent on snow. gl. crest. 5. Crowd ascending snow 6. Lunch glacier Crest. 8. Avalanche and Eagle fr. gl. Crest. 9. Lunch on gl. Crest. 10. Mt. Burney 11. Castor and Pollux 12. Descent fr. gl. Crest. 13. Snow descent fr. Perley Rock 13A. Sir Donald 14. Party on Perley Rock 15. On Perley Rock 16. Mr. Dowler and Polly 17. Mr. [Dowler] and his saw 18. Packing to High Camp 19. [Packing to High Camp] 20. [Packing to High Camp] 21. [blank] 22. [blank] 23. Camp fr. Aval. Lookout 26. B.C. trail 27. Sunday Service McRuer up 28. [Sunday Service McRuer] 29. [Sunder Service] hymns 30. Washing dishes 32. Richardson and Horst 33. Edward and the Wheelers 34. Bob and Jim 35. Bob and Jim close up 36. Wheeler Hut
- Notes
- Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1). Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Administration
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Animals
- Automobiles
- Backpacking
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Boats
- Buildings
- Cabins
- Cabins and shelters
- Camping
- Camps
- Climbing
- Club
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- Exploration
- Family and personal life
- Fishing
- Flowers
- Glaciers
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horse packing
- Horses
- Hotels
- Landscapes
- Mountain
- Mountains
- Mountaineering
- National parks and reserves
- Organizations
- Outfitters
- Pack trips
- Personal and Professional Life
- Photography
- Prince of Wales Hotel
- Recreation
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Swiss Guides
- Tourism
- Trails
- Travel
- Wheeler Hut
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Seebe
- Kananaskis
- Waterton
- Waterton National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Great Falls
- Montana
- Yellowstone National Park
- United States of America
- Language
- NA
- Conservation
- Removed from original boxes and rehoused in slide sleeves and acid-free folders.
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file.
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
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Banff Campgrounds
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ShM.05.02
- Description
- A brown picnic shelter and a pitched white tent are side by side on a green slope, the slope runs down to the right. Some large evergreen trees are behind them and a blue sky with fluffy white clouds covers the top half of the picture.
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- Title
- Banff Campgrounds
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.0 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- A brown picnic shelter and a pitched white tent are side by side on a green slope, the slope runs down to the right. Some large evergreen trees are behind them and a blue sky with fluffy white clouds covers the top half of the picture.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- architecture, rural
- Credit
- Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- ShM.05.02
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The Hope Airfield, Looking West
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- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.40
- Description
- E. Lamarque 1946-47”
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- Title
- The Hope Airfield, Looking West
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.8 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- E. Lamarque 1946-47”
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- airfield
- Hope
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.40
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Rock Isle Lake
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- Date
- 1946
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.13
- Description
- A realistic rendering of Rock Isle Lake; the lake light green and mauve is in the foreground, a light yellow reflection is in the right; green moss and purple rocks from bottom left across in a line to the right; bright yellow meadow with rocks behind lake centre left, rocks and some green to right…
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- Title
- Rock Isle Lake
- Date
- 1946
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.8 x 54.7 cm
- Description
- A realistic rendering of Rock Isle Lake; the lake light green and mauve is in the foreground, a light yellow reflection is in the right; green moss and purple rocks from bottom left across in a line to the right; bright yellow meadow with rocks behind lake centre left, rocks and some green to right; blue mountains behind that; light blue sky with overhanding clouds. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0313 A; 20666.
- Credit
- Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.13
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Summer 1946 Canadian Rockies Trip
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 107 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1946 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, variou…
- Date Range
- 1946
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 101 to 110
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Photograph
- Transparency
107 images
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- II.C. Activities / photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V225
- Sub-Series
- ii.a.i Photographic material / transparencies / boxes
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 101 to 110
- Parallel Title
- R79-1 to R124-15. -- 1943-1947 V225 / NS - 4
- Date Range
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 107 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 107 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1946 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, fishing, and wildlife. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook. Titles: Reel 101 Aug 946 2. Lake Louise - crowd watching fish being put in lake 3. Mr. Martin by tank on truck 5. Upper trail to Plain - Jimmie and Miss Michael[?] 7. Balsom blue cones - Lefroy in b.g 8. Englemann spruce [blue ones] Aberdeen in b.g. 9. Acralacycle[?] from Lefroy 10. Blue balsam cones 11. Red spruce cones Aberdeen in b.g. 12. Blue balsam cones - close up 16. Salomons seal - beta 18. Pine cones against the metre game Aileen 21. JImmie taking photo flowers on table 23. Birds in mud hole on drive 25. Poppies and lawn of Chateau 32. Poppies against windows 35. [Reflections in} one [window] and people inside 38. Staff house and Bow Valley Reel 102 August 1946 1. Don M[?]day 4. Edee, Polly and Phyl on trail to Agnes 6. Avalanche from Lefroy 7. Mrs. M[?]day taking picture 9. [Marmot] by spruce 10. Ground squirrel on rock 11. Aberdeen 13. Not printed 14. Agnes Lake through [illegible] Reel 103 "R3" Aug 13-1946 3. White flower and stump [Emerald Lake] 7. Party for East Past on Bordeau 10. 4 climbers 11. 2 girls 13. [Crescent Peak and climbers] 15. Brenta Mt 18. View from Summint East Ast 19. Same further to the right 20. Cook rings gong - Irene Norris [?] 21. Photographer Reel 105 Ready Mts Aug 22-1946 1. Glacier Tour. Rex gibon by crevasse 7. Party on wide snow bridge 9. Bea Martin[?] by crevasse 11. Rex on snowfeild (better) 12. Same vertical 13. Snow patch and Pigeon 15. Descent on far side - glacier slope 16. Party going down snow below glacier 17. [Party going down snow] lower down 18. Party at Boulder camp 19. [Party at Boulder camp] different 20. [Party at Boulder camp different] 21. Picnic on river flat near camp. party on log Reel 106 Sept 16-1946 2. Edward and Measeurolls[?] 3. Measurolls[?] and Polly on porch Mitchell Hut 4. Polly at lake below Kiwetinok Pass 6. Falls just above Hut in [illegible] valley 7. From Emerald Pass towards Em. Lake 10. Peyto Lakes towards Bow Glacier 13. Caldeon Lake - Polly and Aileen H. 14. [Caldeon Lake] trail back - Kay 15. [Caldeon Lake] first[?] view (on last) fr. [Kay] 16. [Caldeon Lake] above Lake looking towards Bow 17. Bow glacier and Mt Rhonda 18. Polly on lakeshore (above Narrows) Dolomite Peak 19. Polly on boulder below Crowfoot gl. 21. Polly on boulder below Crowfoot [illegible] Reel 107 Sept 13-1946 1. Kay on boulder-bridge over canyon 2. L.G. [on boulder-bridge over canyon] 4. Lake Mary from far end 5. [Lake Mary from] nearer end - Polly 6. [Lake Mary from nearer end] vertical 9. [Kay and Polly on top] facing Yoho? [Yoho crossed out] 10. [Kay and Polly on top] and Bow Lake 11. [Kay and Polly] along ridge on snow 13. Kay taking drink at lake on glacier 16. Mr and Mrs Jim Simpson 17. Mrs. Simpson and Mary 18. Mary Simpson 21. Sheep on bank above Louise Road 22. Sheep on ridge above Louise Road 24. Banff R.R. station 27. 202 Muskrat St. Mother at gate 28. [202 Muskrat St. Mother at gate] nearer 29. Back door - Mother and boy cutting wood 30. L.G. and cabin 31. BHG in cahir on lawn 35. Sheep - Lake Louise Road 37. [Beaver in pond] 38. [Beaver in pond] Reel 108 1. View toward Mt Royal Hotel from 202 2. Buffalo and Fairholme Mts - baby 11. [Mt. Cascade] and delphiniums 17. Mt Edith fr. Sundance Creek and Rd. 19. Same fr. road, toward fishing creek Reel 109 Sept 18 '46 1. Bow Valley from upper Hot Springs 2. Airplane at airport 6. L.G on Sulphur Mt 8. Town of Banff and Mt Cascade fr. Sulphur 10. Caroline below observatory closer 11. [Caroline below observatory] closer 13. Mt. Rundle fr [Sulphur Mt.] 15. Bow Valley fr. [Sulphur Mt] and Lake Minne. 16. Tea House on Sulphur 17. Caroline and trail down 18. Flag on Admin Bldg. and aireplane 20. Sunshine Resorder[?] 21. Scotty Wright's house 22. 202 Muskrat and BHG 23. BHG and Sig in chairs Reel 110 Oct 1-1946 1. Bow Falls from distance 4. 2 buffalo through trees 10. Bear coming towards camera 12. [2 bears near box] b.g. better 14. View down Bow and Hoodoo 15. Sid and June at Hoodoo Lookout 16. Sid (and June) [at Hoodoo Lookout] 18. [BHG on chair on lawn] front view 21. [Pair canithus] near view 22. [Pair canithus] near porch
- Notes
- Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1). Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists. Reel 104 entirely used for other slide shows.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Administration
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Animals
- Automobiles
- Backpacking
- Boats
- Buildings
- Cabins
- Cabins and shelters
- Camping
- Camps
- Climbing
- Club
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- Exploration
- Family and personal life
- Fishing
- Flowers
- Glaciers
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horse packing
- Horses
- Hotels
- Landscapes
- Mountain
- Mountains
- Mountaineering
- National parks and reserves
- Organizations
- Outfitters
- Pack trips
- Personal and Professional Life
- Photography
- Recreation
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Swiss Guides
- Tourism
- Trails
- Travel
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Bow Lake
- Peyto Lake
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- Lake O'Hara
- Lake MacArthur
- Yoho National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Language
- NA
- Conservation
- Removed from original boxes and rehoused in slide sleeves and acid-free folders.
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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