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North American Ski Championships

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Catalogue Number: WyP.06.03

Description: A loosely rendered skier, skiing the North American continent on a sphere 59.0 cm diameter on a black, square wood base.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: North American Ski Championships

Date: 1949

Dimensions: 53.0 x 24.5 cm

Description: A loosely rendered skier, skiing the North American continent on a sphere 59.0 cm diameter on a black, square wood base.

Subject: figure; activity; skiing; winter; North American Ski Championships; world

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: WyP.06.03

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Trinket Box

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Date: 1945 – 1945

Material: stone

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0201

Description: A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green fel…

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Title: Trinket Box

Date: 1945 – 1945

Material: stone

Dimensions: 4.3 x 5.7 x 9.2 cm

Description: A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green felt. The marble is black, streaked with white.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; Pete Neish; crafts; carving

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

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0201

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Letters to Mother [June - December 1944]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 80 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from June 3 to December 31, 1944. Topics include day to day life, Catharine travelling to and from Calgary to meet Pete on weekends [sometimes staying in Calgary, sometimes coming back to Banff], news pertai…

Date Range: 1944

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 118

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; 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 / 118

GMD: Postcard; Private record

Date Range: 1944

Physical Description: 1.7 cm of textual records (106 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 80 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from June 3 to December 31, 1944. Topics include day to day life, Catharine travelling to and from Calgary to meet Pete on weekends [sometimes staying in Calgary, sometimes coming back to Banff], news pertaining to the war [D-Day, the liberation of Rome, the death of Mussolini], Pete's work and movements as part of the RCAF, weather, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross, painting, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, cleaning and household chores, gardening and yardwork, wildlife, Banff events, events and people in Concord, the Calgary Stampede, going to the movies, train travel between Banff and Calgary, various holidays [both Canadian and American], the filming of a Lassie movie in Banff National Park in September, going to Ottawa when Pete is reassigned to Air Force Headquarters in October [Catharine goes with him], Catharine going to Concord for November and then returning to Ottawa, Pete and Catharine returning to Banff/Calgary to begin Pete's discharge, and Christmas/New Years Eve parties and activities. Also includes postcards.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are typed and hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters written on hotel, Canadian Pacific Railway, and RCAF letterhead. 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.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Phil; Campbell, Gray; Campbell, Eleanor; White, Annie; Morant, Nicholas (Nick); Morant, Willie; Whyte, Jon; White, Clifford; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); Whyte, Barbara; Stockand, Lila (White); Stockand, Cameron; Brewster, Fern; Strom, Erling; Harmon, Lloyd; Harmon, Eileen; Jackson, A. Y.; McLean, George; Walking Buffalo (George McLean); Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Paris, Cyril; Paris, Mary; Ward, Sam; Ward, Louise (Cis); Kerr, Jasper

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Birds; Bird watching; Birthday; Books; Businesses; Calgary Stampede; Canadian Pacific Railway; Children; Christmas; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Deer; Family; Family and personal life; First Nations; Funeral; Gardening; Hockey; Home; Hospital; Indigenous Peoples; Lake Louise; Leisure; Literature; Lord Elgin Hotel; Moose; Mountain; Painting; Paliser Hotel Calgary; Paris Tea Room; Personal and Family Life; Post Office; Red Cross; Royal Canadian Airforce; RCAF; Scenery; Stoney Nakoda; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Upper Hot Springs; War; War Artists; Weather; Weddings; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; McLeod; Calgary; Alberta; Ottawa; Ontario; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Conservation: Locate the rest of 118-53.

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…

Date Range: 1942

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; 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 / 114

GMD: Postcard; Private record

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. 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.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Phil; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.; White, Annie; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; Whyte, Dorothy; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Ward, Sam; Ward, Louise (Cis); Brewster, Fern; Brewster, Jack Walker; Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Link, Adeline; Campbell, Gray; Campbell, Eleanor; Watson, Sir Norman; Rummel, Elizabeth; Rummel, Lizzie; Rungius, Carl; Noble, George

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Birds; Bird watching; Birthday; Books; Bow Lake; Businesses; Canadian Pacific Railway; Children; Christmas; Columbia Icefield; Columbia Icefield Chalet; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Home; Hospital; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Mountain; Mount Royal Hotel; Mount Temple Chalet; Norquay Ski Hill; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Red Cross; Royal Canadian Airforce; RCAF; Scenery; Skiing; Ski areas; Trains; Transportation; Travel; War; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Bow Lake; Icefield Parkway; Banff National Park; Calgary; Alberta; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Harold S. Blight fonds

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Part Of: Harold S. Blight fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of photographs by Blight pertaining to Banff and Great Divide on May 31, 1942. Also includes two postcards collected by Blight.

Date Range: 1942

Reference Code: V70

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

Part Of: Harold S. Blight fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: V 70

Sous-Fonds: V 70

Accession Number: 3981

Reference Code: V70

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 13 photographs : prints, postcards

History / Biographical: Harold S. Blight was in the Canadian Army and travelled through the Canadian Rockies on a troop train in 1942.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of photographs by Blight pertaining to Banff and Great Divide on May 31, 1942. Also includes two postcards collected by Blight.

Name Access: Blight, Harold S.

Subject Access: Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Public domain (other restrictions may apply)

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description

Creator: Blight, Harold S.

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession record

Processing Status: Processed

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The First Crossing of the Kicking Horse

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a railroad bridge going over the Kicking Horse River - title on the back

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1940]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 5 / PA - 307

Description Level: 6 / Image

GMD: Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Image

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 5 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Landscapes

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 5 / PA - 307

GMD: Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1940]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of a railroad bridge going over the Kicking Horse River - title on the back

Subject Access: Bridges; Kicking Horse River; Mountains; Rivers; Trains

Geographic Access: Yoho National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Sulphur Mountain Gondola Lift

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of the Sulphur Mountain gondola with the townsite, Tunnel Mountain, and Cascade Mountain in the background - title and details on the back

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1960]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 5 / PA - 308

Description Level: 6 / Image

GMD: Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Image

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 5 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Landscapes

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 5 / PA - 308

GMD: Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1960]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of the Sulphur Mountain gondola with the townsite, Tunnel Mountain, and Cascade Mountain in the background - title and details on the back

Subject Access: Banff townsite; Banff Springs Hotel; Gondolas; Mountains

Geographic Access: Banff

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Portrait of an unidentified man

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified man wearing a military uniform

Date Range: [ca. 1939-1945]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 70

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 70

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1939-1945]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified man wearing a military uniform

Subject Access: Military; Portrait

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Court of the Patriarchs

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of the Court of the Patriarchs clifs in Zion National Park, Utah

Date Range: [ca. 1929-1972]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 76

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 76

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1929-1972]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of the Court of the Patriarchs clifs in Zion National Park, Utah

Subject Access: Mountains

Geographic Access: Utah

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Group of boys

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of four unidentified boys wearing Boy Scout[?] uniforms posed on Banff Avenue

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1964]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 241

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 241

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1964]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of four unidentified boys wearing Boy Scout[?] uniforms posed on Banff Avenue

Subject Access: Banff townsite; Buildings; Businesses; Churches; Children; Portrait

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Group on Tofino Road

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified family standing on a grassy road lined with trees and with a house on the left

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1963]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 419

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 419

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1963]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified family standing on a grassy road lined with trees and with a house on the left

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Portrait

Geographic Access: Tofino; British Columbia

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Summer house

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a house surrounded by trees - "My home in summer Mystic [illegible] - Mason's Island - SB Mitchell 58 The Tenon[?] Rutherford, N.J." written on the back in pencil

Date Range: [ca. 1914-1959]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 600

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 600

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1914-1959]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of a house surrounded by trees - "My home in summer Mystic [illegible] - Mason's Island - SB Mitchell 58 The Tenon[?] Rutherford, N.J." written on the back in pencil