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- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds 26
- Luxton family fonds 24
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- Nicholas Morant fonds 14
- Kidney family fonds 10
- Charles Reid fonds 8
- Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds 8
- Aileen Harmon fonds 4
- Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds 3
- Archives General File Collection 2
- Dorothy Whyte fonds 2
- Ford Family fonds 2
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- 1750s 1
Extended family records
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions22344
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Records in this series consist of three sub-series: C.1. William Luxton family papers and photographs; C.2. McDougall and Ross families papers, correspondence, and photographs; C.3. Other extended family records. Sub-series C.1. consists of four sub-sub-series: William Luxton; Sarah Luxton; Geor…
- Date Range
- 1893-1970
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / C
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- III.C. Extended Family
- Sous-Fonds
- III. Luxton Family sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / C
- Date Range
- 1893-1970
- Physical Description
- 0.28 m textual records ; ca.147 photographs : b&w prints; 15 x 21 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Records in this series consist of three sub-series: C.1. William Luxton family papers and photographs; C.2. McDougall and Ross families papers, correspondence, and photographs; C.3. Other extended family records. Sub-series C.1. consists of four sub-sub-series: William Luxton; Sarah Luxton; George Luxton; Louis Luxton. Sub-series C.2. consists of two sub-sub-series: McDougall family; Ross family.
- Language
- English
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Communications
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Southern Alberta research project
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55619
- 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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Cornelia Cook Adams and Catharine Cook transcribed letters
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56759
- Part Of
- Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of transcribed correspondence between members of the Cook, Wright and Adams families. File includes letters between Catharine Cook, Mary Wright, Cornelia Cook Adams and "Arianna" [ranging between 1844-1866]; and a letter sent from Cornelia to her brother, Roger Cook Adams, pertaining …
- Date Range
- 1844-1850
- 1860-1866
- 1944
- Reference Code
- M555 / I / B / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Part Of
- Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M555
- V777
- Series
- M555 / I : Correspondence
- Sous-Fonds
- M555
- Sub-Series
- M555 / I / B : Extended family correspondence
- Accession Number
- 2018.8685
- Reference Code
- M555 / I / B / 1
- Date Range
- 1844-1850
- 1860-1866
- 1944
- Physical Description
- 1.5 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of transcribed correspondence between members of the Cook, Wright and Adams families. File includes letters between Catharine Cook, Mary Wright, Cornelia Cook Adams and "Arianna" [ranging between 1844-1866]; and a letter sent from Cornelia to her brother, Roger Cook Adams, pertaining to the transcribed letters [ca.1944].
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Correspondence
- Geographic Access
- United States of America
- New York
- Language
- English
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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The Great Divide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11453
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Call Number
- 05.5 G79 Pam
- Responsibility
- Anonymous
- Published Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Physical Description
- 2 p
- Notes
- Religious sermon with references to the Great Divide. Page taken from an unknown book.
- Accession Number
- 7297
- Call Number
- 05.5 G79 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountains of the morning
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11740
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1938
- Publisher
- Scotland : Moray Press
- Call Number
- 02.4 St8m
- Responsibility
- by "Stravaiger"
- Publisher
- Scotland : Moray Press
- Published Date
- 1938
- Physical Description
- 268 p
- Subjects
- Ethnic groups
- Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Partial contents include biography of worker on railway survey line to Tete Jaune
- Accession Number
- 34000 06-09-2001
- Call Number
- 02.4 St8m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Personal Papers, Business Papers, and Ephemera
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions53980
- Part Of
- Dorothy Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File contains memoranda, radio scripts, diaries, lecture notes, itineraries, reports, and correspondence regarding Dorothy Whyte’s work as a special representative for Canadian Pacific. Materials include a memorandum titled “From Smiling Surf to Peaks of Pleasure,” a trip on the White Empress of th…
- Date Range
- 1927 - 1935
- Reference Code
- M59 / I / 24
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Diary
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Dorothy Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M59 / V689
- Series
- I. Personal Papers, Business Papers, and Ephemera
- Sous-Fonds
- M59
- Accession Number
- 5127
- Reference Code
- M59 / I / 24
- Date Range
- 1927 - 1935
- Physical Description
- 1.5 cm of textual material
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File contains memoranda, radio scripts, diaries, lecture notes, itineraries, reports, and correspondence regarding Dorothy Whyte’s work as a special representative for Canadian Pacific. Materials include a memorandum titled “From Smiling Surf to Peaks of Pleasure,” a trip on the White Empress of the Pacific (ocean liner) from Honolulu to Victoria, through the Rockies and across the prairies. She describes the details of notable stops along the way. Other materials in this folder pertain to this trip including a Luncheon menu from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and letters regarding events on the trip. Other subjects include Chateau Frontenac, reporting to the Western Hotels office in Winnipeg, proposed stay at the Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park.
- Storage Range
- M59 / I / 23 to M59 / II / 4
- Subject Access
- Travel
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title supplied by archival assistant
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album, comprising 108 photographs, 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to community life, schooling, business, and religion in and around Morely from the late 1800s to the early 1940s. File also contains three loose pages, possibly from the same album, wit…
- Date Range
- 1890-1942
- Reference Code
- V8 / 2014.8294
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M8 / V8 / S8
- Series
- Accession number : 2014.8294
- Sous-Fonds
- V8
- Accession Number
- 2014.8294
- Reference Code
- V8 / 2014.8294
- Date Range
- 1890-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 album (108 photographs : b&w ; 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album, comprising 108 photographs, 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to community life, schooling, business, and religion in and around Morely from the late 1800s to the early 1940s. File also contains three loose pages, possibly from the same album, with a total of nine full-colour photographs of structures around Morely taken ca. 1970s.
- Subject Access
- Animals
- Architecture
- Banff Indian Days
- Buildings and facilities
- Children
- Churches
- Communities
- First Nations
- Forestry
- Fur trade
- Horses
- Hunting
- Indigenous Peoples
- Portrait
- Religions
- Stoney
- Stoney Nakoda
- Geographic Access
- Morley
- Alberta
- Canada
- Access Restrictions
- Sundance
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Sundance
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Pages of photographs pertaining to sun dance not scanned.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
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The Great Dominion : Canada - Supplement to the Illustrated London News
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24927
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1912
- Publisher
- The Illustrated London News
- Call Number
- 02.4 Il6g PAM O.S.
- Publisher
- The Illustrated London News
- Published Date
- 1912
- Physical Description
- 28 pages
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Great Divide Trail
- Highways
- Highways - Alberta
- Mountaineering
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Tourism
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to Canada as of 1912 with articles on Duke of Connought, Canadian Pacific Railway "All Red Tour Through Canada" from Yarmouth to Alberni, the proposed construction of "The Motor Highway of the Great Divide" from Calgary to Banff and onto through the Columbia Valley, "On Dizzy Heights of the Dominion : Mountaineering in Canada" which explains trail riding options available to tourists in the Rocky Mountains and some mountain scenes entitled "The Charm of the Dominion : Beauty Rugged and Pastoral"
- Notes
- In The Illustrated London News, Vol. CXL, No. 3803 , Saturday, March 9, 1912, pp. i - xxviii
- Accession Number
- 7864
- Call Number
- 02.4 Il6g PAM O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
- Responsibility
- Recorded by Angus Graham
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Published Date
- 1935
- Contents
- I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
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- Archives Library
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Mineral springs of Canada : in two parts . . .
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5649
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1917-1918
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Call Number
- 03.5 M66
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Published Date
- 1917-1918
- Physical Description
- 2v. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Hot spings
- Notes
- Contents: Part I. The radioactivity of some Canadian mineral springs / by John Satter and R.T. Elworthy; Part II. The chemical character of some Canadian mineral springs / R.T. Elworthy
- Bibliography and index
- Accession Number
- 16500
- Call Number
- 03.5 M66
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Clay and shale deposits of the Western provinces Pts.II-V
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5720
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1913
- 1914
- 1915
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Call Number
- 03.6 C57
- Responsibility
- Heinrich Ries, Joseph Keele
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Published Date
- 1913
- 1914
- 1915
- Physical Description
- 3v. : ill., maps
- Series
- Geological Survey of Canada, memoirs 25, 47, 65, 66
- Accession Number
- 478
- 4000 (2)
- Call Number
- 03.6 C57
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Prospecting in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5732
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Ottawa : King's Printer
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- 03.6 G29p
- Responsibility
- by Officers of the Geological Survey of Canada
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Publisher
- Ottawa : King's Printer
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 288p. : ill
- Series
- Economic geology series 7
- Subjects
- Mineral resources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 1195
- Call Number
- 03.6 G29p
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- Archives Library
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Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific Railway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1918?]
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16ac
- Published Date
- [1918?]
- Physical Description
- v, 197p. : ill., maps
- Accession Number
- 3349
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16ac
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- Archives Library
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Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific Railway - the greatest transportation system in the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6248
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1914?]
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16ac 1914e
- Published Date
- [1914?]
- Physical Description
- 112p. : ill., maps
- Notes
- Eastbound
- Accession Number
- 3069?
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16ac 1914e
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- Archives Library
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Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific Railway - the greatest transportation system in the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6249
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1914?]
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16ac 1914w
- Published Date
- [1914?]
- Physical Description
- v, 105p. : ill., maps
- Notes
- Westbound
- Accession Number
- 20000
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16ac 1914w
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Canadian Pacific facts and figures
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6253
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1937
- Publisher
- Montreal : Canadian Pacific Foundation Library
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16cpf
- Responsibility
- compiled and edited by the General Publicity Department
- Publisher
- Montreal : Canadian Pacific Foundation Library
- Published Date
- 1937
- Physical Description
- 256p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Hotels
- Paddle steamers
- Rolling stock
- Accession Number
- 478
- Incomplete copy transferred from Banff Library
- Call Number
- 08.5 C16cpf
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- Archives Library
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North American big game : official measurement records
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6882
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Bridgeport (CT) : Remington Arms
- Call Number
- 04.2 N81bg
- Responsibility
- compiled by Prentiss N. Gray for the Boone and Crockett Club and the National Collection of Heads and Horns of the New York Zoological Society
- Publisher
- Bridgeport (CT) : Remington Arms
- Published Date
- 1934
- Physical Description
- 38p. : ill
- Subjects
- Hunting
- Simpson, Jimmy
- Call Number
- 04.2 N81bg
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Regulations governing placer mining in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7349
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1910
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Call Number
- 03.6 R26 Pam
- Responsibility
- approved by Order in Council dated February, 1909
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau
- Published Date
- 1910
- Physical Description
- 23p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 5207
- Call Number
- 03.6 R26 Pam
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General conditions and specifications for all trades for the erection of Auditorium Building, Banff National Park, for The Board of National Park School District No. 102, Banff, Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7389
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1938 or 9
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of Mines and Resources, Surveys and Engineering Branch
- Call Number
- 03.8 B22a Pam
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of Mines and Resources, Surveys and Engineering Branch
- Published Date
- 1938 or 9
- Physical Description
- 471
- Call Number
- 03.8 B22a Pam
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Banff, Kootenay, Yoho, Glacier and Mt. Revelstoke National Parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7529
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1939?]
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Parks Bureau
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22bky Pam c.1
- 13.113 B22bky Pam c.2
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Parks Bureau
- Published Date
- [1939?]
- Physical Description
- 44p. : ill., maps
- Accession Number
- 17500
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22bky Pam c.1
- 13.113 B22bky Pam c.2
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