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https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21489
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1879
- Call Number
- C12-1.14
- Published Date
- 1879
- Subjects
- Prairies
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- two sections
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.14
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Topographical Survey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24795
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1879
- Call Number
- C12-1.23
- Published Date
- 1879
- Scale
- 8 miles: 1 inch
- Subjects
- North West Territory
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.23
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An approximate classification of the lands
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21497
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1878
- Call Number
- C12-1.22
- Published Date
- 1878
- Subjects
- North West Territory
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- two sections
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.22
- Collection
- Archives Library
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North West Frontiers of India
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21528
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1878
- Publisher
- W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh
- Call Number
- C13-8.6
- Publisher
- W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh
- Published Date
- 1878
- Subjects
- Afghanistan
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C13-8.6
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of the country between the provinces of Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21432
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- January, 1874
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(a)
- Published Date
- January, 1874
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- Accompanies: "Report on the Explorations and Surveys" 08.5/C16/rep
- Distances from Fort Garry (The Stone Fort) to Toronto and Montreal. All rail routes
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(a)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific Railway chart of Nepigon Bay Lake Superior
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21434
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(d)
- Responsibility
- Surveyed by Admiral Bayfield R.N.
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- To accompany: "Report of the Enginer in Chief Canadian Pacific Railway" 08.5/C16/
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(d)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Chart of the Coast of British Columbia North of Latitude, 51 degrees chiefly from Captain Vancouver's Surveys in 1792 and 1793
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21435
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1874
- Publisher
- C.P.R. 08.5/C16/rep
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(f)
- Publisher
- C.P.R. 08.5/C16/rep
- Published Date
- 1874
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- To accompany: Report of the Engineer-in-chief
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(f)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map from the Pacific Ocean across the Rocky Mountain Zone
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24555
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Call Number
- C11-3.7
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Scale
- Scale: 1/1:584,000 or 25 English Statute miles to 1 inch
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- Accompanies: "Report on the Explorations and Surveys" 08.5/C16/rep.
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific Railway chart of the Thunder Bay-Lake Superior
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24556
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(c)
- Responsibility
- Surveyed by Admiral Bayfield R.N.
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Scale
- Soundings are in feet
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- To accompany report of the Engineer in Chief, C.P.R. 08.5/C16/rep
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(c)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Plans of the Rivers Kamanistiquia and Nepigon
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24557
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Publisher
- Canadian Pacific Railway 08.5/C16/rep
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(e)
- Publisher
- Canadian Pacific Railway 08.5/C16/rep
- Published Date
- January 1874
- Scale
- Kamenestiquia Plan: 4000' - 1 inch
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- To accompany report of the Engineer-in-chief
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(e)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Drawing of Rocky Mountain by J.L.*
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21324
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1873
- Call Number
- C4-5.2
- Published Date
- 1873
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountain House
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives * See The Cairn, vol III, no. 2 last page re: Jean L'Heureux by E.J. Hart
- * See: The Cairn, vol III, no. 2 last page re: Jean L'Hereux by E.J. Hart
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C4-5.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of British Columbia to the 56th parallel. North Latitude.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21414
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1871
- Author
- Trutch, Honourable J.W.
- Call Number
- C10-2.4
- Author
- Trutch, Honourable J.W.
- Published Date
- 1871
- Notes
- Accompanies 03.7/77a (formerly 90/T76)
- Accession Number
- 1879
- Call Number
- C10-2.4
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Danubian Principalities
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21541
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1854
- Publisher
- W and A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh
- Call Number
- C13-12.17
- Publisher
- W and A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh
- Published Date
- 1854
- Subjects
- Europe - Central & Eastern
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C13-12.17
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Stations of the Church Missionary Society
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21486
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1852
- Call Number
- C12-1.10
- Published Date
- 1852
- Subjects
- Hudson's Bay Company's Territories
- Notes
- Route of the Bishop of Montreal from Quebec to Red River in 1844
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.10
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of North America engraved to illustrate Mitchell's school and family geography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24834
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1852
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania : S. Augustus Mitchell
- Call Number
- C13.4.6
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania : S. Augustus Mitchell
- Published Date
- 1852
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- 1 inch = ca 600 miles
- Subjects
- North America
- Hooker, Mount
- Brown, Mount
- Notes
- Map shows Mts. Hooker and Brown, and gives altitudes of same
- Accession Number
- 3612
- Call Number
- C13.4.6
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific Railway sketch plan of the mouth of the Saskatchewan River from Hinds Exploring Expedition also plan and section of the Mossy Portage between Cedar Lake and Lake Winnipegoosis and the Meadow Portage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21433
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- From a survey by Henry B. Smith, 1873
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(b)
- Published Date
- From a survey by Henry B. Smith, 1873
- Subjects
- Canada
- Railway routes
- Notes
- Accompanies 08.5/C16/rep
- Accession Number
- 10,000
- Call Number
- C11-3.7(b)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Routes in British North America explored by Captain Palliser, 1857-60
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21490
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1857-60
- Call Number
- C12-1.15
- Published Date
- 1857-60
- Subjects
- Captain Palliser
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- three sections
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.15
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Southern Alberta research project
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materia…
- Date Range
- [ca.1845-1920]
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / C6
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Cabinet card
- Diary
- Organization record
- Photograph
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Textual record
- Tintype
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / II / C : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / C6
- GMD
- Cabinet card
- Diary
- Organization record
- Photograph
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Textual record
- Tintype
- Date Range
- [ca.1845-1920]
- Physical Description
- 29 cm of textual records -- 29 photographs (28 b&w prints, 1 tintype) ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of textual and visual materials pertaining to the history of Southern Alberta. Includes personal accounts, day books and diaries, genealogical research, records of livestock and other trade, and portrait and group photographs depicting early settlers of Southern Alberta. Materials in sub-series believed to have been collected by Eleanor Luxton, possibly on behalf of the Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association or as part of Eleanor's personal research.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Buildings
- Businesses
- Community life
- Commerce and industry
- Communications
- Correspondence
- Environment
- Family and personal life
- Farmland
- Finances
- Genealogy
- History
- Homestead
- Immigration and homesteading
- Inventory
- Land use
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Manufacturing
- Municipal views
- Oil
- Postcards
- Portrait
- Property
- Real estate business
- Research
- Settlement
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some restrictions may apply - fragile materials
- Language
- English
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Communications
- Family and personal life
- Environment
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Brett family fonds
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- Part Of
- Brett family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds contains six series: I. Robert G. Brett series, 1873-1926, 36 cm of textual records, consisting of: A. Personal papers, 1873-1926 (1. Correspondence, 2. Financial papers, 3. Other papers); B. Business papers, 1897-1925, (1. Banff businesses, 2. Businesses outside Banff); C. Professional pap…
- Date Range
- [ca.1860]-1965
- Reference Code
- M1 / V83
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Diary
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Part Of
- Brett family fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M1 V83
- Sous-Fonds
- M1 V83
- Accession Number
- 5, 20, 58, 78, 102, 354, 1164, 1532, 5042, 2022.35
- Reference Code
- M1 / V83
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Diary
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Date Range
- [ca.1860]-1965
- Physical Description
- 73 cm of textual records. -- 11 photograph albums (ca.850 prints). -- ca.350 photographs (ca.320 prints, 28 negatives)
- History / Biographical
- Robert George Brett, 1851-1929, was a prominent physician, hotel-hospital owner, businessman and politician Banff, Alberta from 1883 until 1929. Brett was born in Strathroy, Ontario, son of James Brett and Catherine Mallon. He was educated as a physician at the University of Toronto (M.D., 1874), and practiced medicine at Arkona, Ontario. He moved to Winnipeg in 1880, where he helped found the Manitoba Medical College.
- R. G. Brett moved to Banff in 1886, founding the Banff Sanitarium. In 1909 he established the Brett Hospital. Brett also had numerous other businesses and real estate in Banff (including the National Park Drug Store, the Sanitarium Bottling Co., the Bretton Hall Hotel, Lithia Bottling Co.) and elsewhere.
- In 1878, Brett married Louise Theodora Hungerford, 1855-1935, of Waterford, Ontario. Of their five children, only two survived infancy, Reginald H. "Harry", 1879-1925, and Robert Earle, 1887-1912. Earle Brett was survived by Maidie (Stacpole) Brett, whom he married in 1910, and by an infant daughter. Dr. Harry Brett was married to Helen Brett, 1877-1964, who outlived the rest of her family by many years. Associated closely with the Brett family was Dr. Brett's nurse, Annie McLauchlin.
- From 1881 to 1901, R. G. Brett was Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the North-West Territories, and from 1889 to 1891 he was president of the executive council. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta from 1915 to 1925. He died in Calgary.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds contains six series:
- I. Robert G. Brett series, 1873-1926, 36 cm of textual records, consisting of: A. Personal papers, 1873-1926 (1. Correspondence, 2. Financial papers, 3. Other papers); B. Business papers, 1897-1925, (1. Banff businesses, 2. Businesses outside Banff); C. Professional papers, 1889-1925 (1. Political correspondence, 2. Official correspondence, 3. Other material);
- II. Louise H. Brett series, [between1855 and 1935], 10 cm of textual records, consisting of: A. Writing, betw.1885 and 1935; B. Scrapbooks, ca.1900, ca.1910; C. Diaries and letters, 1912-1925; D. Other, ca.1870-1924.
- III. Reginald H. "Harry" Brett series, ca.1910-1921, 10.5 cm of textual records, print material and photographs. Consists of: A. Personal papers, ca.1910 (1.Scrapbooks, 2. Ephemera); B. Business papers, 1912-1921.
- IV. Helen Brett series, 1925-1965, 4.5 cm of textual records, consisting of: A. Correspondence, 1927-1950; B. R. G. Brett estate papers, 1925-1949; C. Financial and business records, 1936-1962; D. Other, 1935-1965.
- V. Brett family series, [ca.1860-ca.1935], consisting of : A. Photographs albums, ca.1860-ca.1910; B. Photographs, ca.1875-ca.1935.
- VI. Other material series, [before 1928], 2 cm of textual records, consisting of: A. Annie McLauchlin papers, 1914-1928; B. Other, before 1925.
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Health services
- Politics
- Access Restrictions
- Some restrictions on access to originals
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline
- series and file description
- electronic finding aid
- microfilm copies of albums
- Biographical Source Notes
- Earlier version of fonds description.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
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Pat Brewster fonds
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- Part Of
- Pat Brewster fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of four series: I. Personal, II. Professional, III. Activities, IV. Brewster family. I. Personal series, 1905-1982, 18 cm of textual records, 160 photographs, 2 sound recordings. Includes correspondence, interview and recorded conversation, address/notebook, artwork, other textua…
- Date Range
- 1841-1983
- Reference Code
- M2 / S21 / V91
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Textual record
- Drawing
- Map
- Poster
- Private record
- Part Of
- Pat Brewster fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M2 / V91 / S21
- Sous-Fonds
- V91
- Accession Number
- 12, 13, 80, 93, 110, 145, 340, 380, 899, 1006, 1110, 1179, 1210, 1235, 1398, 1409, 1440, 1505, 1784, 1874, 2176, 2216, 2303, 2361, 2410, 2643, 2791, 2816, 2880, 2903, 2933, 2940, 3051, 3157, 3181, 3393, 3642, 3733, 3734, 3780, 3821, 3921, 3969, 5028, 5336, 6018
- Reference Code
- M2 / S21 / V91
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Textual record
- Drawing
- Map
- Poster
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1841-1983
- Physical Description
- ca.80 cm of textual material. -- ca.900 photographs : prints, postcards, transparencies, negatives, copy negatives. -- 1 photograph album (50 prints). -- 3 sound recordings : audio tape cassettes
- History / Biographical
- Forrest Oliver "Pat" Brewster, 1896-1982, was a trail guide, outfitter and businessman in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Pat was a native and life-long resident of Banff. As a boy, he was an active Boy Scout and, by age seventeen, was a big game guide. After serving in World War I, Brewster established the first permanent camp at Lake O'Hara for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1926, he took over the Brewster Transport Company outfitting business from his brothers, Bill and Jim. In the 1930s, he became involved in skiing explorations in the Assiniboine, Skoki and Sunshine areas. Pat Brewster was active in community affairs and, in his later years, was an avid historian of the region. He published three books of reminiscences between 1975 and 1982.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of four series: I. Personal, II. Professional, III. Activities, IV. Brewster family.
- I. Personal series, 1905-1982, 18 cm of textual records, 160 photographs, 2 sound recordings. Includes correspondence, interview and recorded conversation, address/notebook, artwork, other textual records, photographs.
- II. Professional series, 1892-1982, 47.5 cm of textual records, 266 photographs, 1 sound recording. Includes papers pertaining to various Brewster family and other businesses, writing papers and sound recording, and photographs pertaining to guiding and outfitting, tourism promotion and other.
- III. Activities series, 1841-1983, 6.5 cm of textual records, 262 photographs. Pertains to genealogical research, other activities and collected material.
- IV. Brewster family series, 1841-1981, 2.5 cm of textual records, 132 photographs. Pertains to Brewster family, Jack Brewster, John Brewster, Pearl Brewster Moore and the Moore family.
- Name Access
- Brewster, Pat
- Access Restrictions
- Some restrictions on access to originals
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline
- series and file description
- electronic finding aid
- reference copies and summaries for sound recordings
- Creator
- Brewster, Pat
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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