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Portrait, unidentified young woman

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Framed photograph depicts a portrait of an unidentified young woman, ca.1880-1900.

Date Range: [ca.1880-1900]

Reference Code: LUX / II / F2 / PC - 17

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Framed print; Photograph

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / F : Collected material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / II / F2 : Photographs

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / F2 / PC - 17

GMD: Framed print; Photograph

Date Range: [ca.1880-1900]

Physical Description: 1 framed photograph : b&w print ; 12.5 x 15 cm

Scope & Content: Framed photograph depicts a portrait of an unidentified young woman, ca.1880-1900.

Material Details: Photograph set in oval-shaped cutout with glass cover on front, beige textured paper on back with strips of red tape attached in circular design around photograph. Border/exterior frame missing - replaced with paper/tape folded around outer edges.

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Portrait

Language: N/A

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Lizzie Hall and family

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Photograph depicts Elizabeth (McKenzie) Hall, her husband Arthur, and five other relatives. Baby in photograph is possibly Elizabeth's daughter, Annie (McKenzie Hall McDougall).

Date Range: [ca.1890-1900]

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PC - 92

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Framed print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III / D : Other material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PC - 92

GMD: Photograph; Framed print

Date Range: [ca.1890-1900]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w framed print ; 32.5 x 28 cm

Scope & Content: Photograph depicts Elizabeth (McKenzie) Hall, her husband Arthur, and five other relatives. Baby in photograph is possibly Elizabeth's daughter, Annie (McKenzie Hall McDougall).

Material Details: Photograph frame made of plain wood and glass, photograph attached to grey matboard under glass with adhesive(?). Metal hanging wire attached to back

Name Access: Hall, Elizabeth McKenzie; Hall, Arthur George

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Portrait

Language: N/A

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: 1 map; Tongue and moraines of the Illecillewaet Glacier, British Columbia. Showing the position of marked rocks on Moraines and of line old plates placed on glacier to determine Rate of Flow. 1906. Drawing of Tongue and moraines of the Illecillewaet Glacier detailing movement between 1899 – 1906. 6…

Date Range: ca. 1899 - 1906

Reference Code: M107 / III / D - 18 / O.S. / "F"

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Series: Publication Series: Maps

Reference Code: M107 / III / D - 18 / O.S. / "F"

Date Range: ca. 1899 - 1906

Physical Description: 1 cartographic record. -- oversize.

Scope & Content: 1 map; Tongue and moraines of the Illecillewaet Glacier, British Columbia. Showing the position of marked rocks on Moraines and of line old plates placed on glacier to determine Rate of Flow. 1906. Drawing of Tongue and moraines of the Illecillewaet Glacier detailing movement between 1899 – 1906. 65cm x 94cm. Ink and Watercolour

Title Source: Title based on contents

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Letter from CPR (1895) re: Death of Burton Wheatley

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: Item is a three-page typed document on yellow tissue paper released by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Solicitor Office in 1895. Pertains to the death of Burton Wheatley, CPR Engineer, in 1894 at Field Hill, B.C. and provides a statement waiving CPR's liability in Wheatley's death. spaces on last pa…

Date Range: 1895

Reference Code: M300 / III / D3 / A / 76 (O.S.)

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Corporate record

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: M300 / III / D: Personal and Family Records : Collected Material

Accession Number: 182

Reference Code: M300 / III / D3 / A / 76 (O.S.)

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Corporate record

Responsibility: Canadian Pacific Railway

Date Range: 1895

Physical Description: 1 Textual Record (3 pages): tissue paper; non-annotated

History / Biographical: Burton Wheatley was an engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway company, who died during a railway accident in 1894 which occurred at Field Hill, B.C. The Wheatley family were related to Ivy "Willie" Morant (1910-1986), wife of photographer Nicholas Morant.

Scope & Content: Item is a three-page typed document on yellow tissue paper released by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Solicitor Office in 1895. Pertains to the death of Burton Wheatley, CPR Engineer, in 1894 at Field Hill, B.C. and provides a statement waiving CPR's liability in Wheatley's death. spaces on last page of the document to write the date and witness signatures have not been filled in (likely a copy of a completed form).

Notes: Item was previously numbered as M27/3/O.S./"H" and is entered into database twice; more recently updated as item in Nicholas Morant fonds

Name Access: Wheatley, Burton

Subject Access: Wheatley family; Wheatley, Burton; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific; Engineer; Death

Geographic Access: Canada; British Columbia

Reproduction Restrictions: Reference use only; no reproduction

Language: English

Conservation: Must be stored flat in mylar sheets

Creator: Nicholas Morant

Biographical Source Notes: http://www.archivesalberta.org/findingaids/whyte/Morant/M300-III%20inv.pdf

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Part Of: Rodney Touche fonds

Scope & Content: Beach House Hotel register 1887-1892; photocopy from National Archives of Canada. Held in oversize storage "E"

Date Range: 1887-1892

Reference Code: M377 / O.S. / "E"

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Rodney Touche fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 2647

Reference Code: M377 / O.S. / "E"

Date Range: 1887-1892

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual records ; 1 register

Scope & Content: Beach House Hotel register 1887-1892; photocopy from National Archives of Canada. Held in oversize storage "E"

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Personal Daytimers

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Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1898 & 1899 personal diaries/daytimers of A. O. Wheeler. M546 / 5 : Includes travel from Ottawa to Calgary, travel around High River area. July measuring. Notations of office work and correspondence. Extensive documentation of weather, particularly during times at camp througho…

Date Range: 1898-1899

Reference Code: M546 / 5 to 6

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Diary

2 images 2 Electronic Resources

Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M546 / V771

Sous-Fonds: M546

Accession Number: 2014.8312

Reference Code: M546 / 5 to 6

GMD: Diary

Date Range: 1898-1899

Physical Description: 2.7 cm of textual records (2 volumes ; 8.3 x 14.2 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1898 & 1899 personal diaries/daytimers of A. O. Wheeler. M546 / 5 : Includes travel from Ottawa to Calgary, travel around High River area. July measuring. Notations of office work and correspondence. Extensive documentation of weather, particularly during times at camp throughout August and September. Diary blank from November 17 to end. Memoranda section filled with numbers and names. Cash account section filled in for May to October and December. Diary blank up to May 25. M546 / 6 : includes daily notations of weather, office work, day to day activities, leisure. Diary blank up to February 21 regarding meter reading. Following two weeks list temperature highs and lows. Blank until April 21. Following entries regard camp throughout to September and throughout October travel around Mosquito Creek. Working on report and negatives throughout early December. On many entries he overwrites himself vertically. Memoranda, Notes and Bills Payable, Cash Account March to November.

Notes: M546 / 5 : blank pages not scanned - exception is first days of months prior to May. M546 / 6 : blank pages not scanned. Loose sheet in pocket at back is a recipe for [illegible].

Name Access: Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver); Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Subject Access: Camps; Climbing; Family and personal life; Finances; Leisure; Mountains; Professional and Personal Life; Sports and recreation; Record keeping; Travel and Exploration; Weather; Work

Geographic Access: Ottawa; Toronto; Ontario; Winnipeg; Manitoba; Calgary; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Creator: Wheeler, Arthur O.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

Electronic Resources

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Canadian Rockies Scrapbook

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Part Of: Ford Family fonds

Scope & Content: Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for…

Date Range: 1908-2003

Reference Code: M583 / 01

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Scrapbook; Private record

Part Of: Ford Family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M583 / V274

Sous-Fonds: M583

Accession Number: 2021.16

Reference Code: M583 / 01

GMD: Scrapbook; Private record

Date Range: 1908-2003

Physical Description: 4 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 24.5 x 29.3 cm)

History / Biographical: Nancy (Ford) Dart, daughter of Minneapolis businessman Allyn K. Ford, became a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1953. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Scope & Content: Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for Jasper and the Jasper Park Lodge from ca. 1954. Tucked into a pouch inside the front cover are two letters addressed to Nancy Dart in 2003 regarding her 50th anniversary as a member of the ACC, four ACC annual newsletter booklets from 1922, 1923, and 1925, and an envelope addressed to Nancy Ford (Dart) containing paperwork pertaining to her admission to the ACC in 1953. Items throughout the scrapbook are either tucked into the plastic sleeves or dispersed throughout the pages. Contents include annual ACC camp brochures (one from 1908, others from the 1940s and 50s), letters (one addressed to Geoffrey Howard from Allyn K. Ford, in 1941 and another addressed to Mr. Ford, probably Allyn Ford, in 1953), photographs/postcards taped to a page divider, seven dinner lists from 1953 for the Jasper Park Lodge (all dated Friday, July 10 but each has a different header picture), a booklet from the third annual ACC membership dinner, a brochure for the 1941 annual American Alpine Club meeting and dinner, three tourism magazines for Jasper from the Canadian National Railway, one trail map of Jasper and one of Banff, an ACC newsletter and brochure for the Mountain Leadership Conference from 1989, a typed copy of a short story "A Journey with the Men of Alps" held together with a small pin (possibly a dramatic retelling of Allyn Ford's first trip to the Rockies), two ACC crossword puzzels (one partially completed), and a notice from the American Alpine Club pertaining to America's involvement in World War II from 1941. Tucked inside the back cover is a red paper envelope containing two photographs (possibly printed off the computer) of A.O. Wheeler from the 1923 ACC camp in Larch Valley.

Name Access: Ford, Allyn; Dart, Nancy; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Advertising; Administration; Canadian National Railway; Correspondence; Family and personal life; Exploration, discovery and travel; Jasper Park Lodge; Sports, recreation and leisure; Trains

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

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

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Inventory list - sound recordings

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Part Of: Maryalice Harvey Stewart fonds

Scope & Content: Inventory list of Maryalice Harvey Stewart's donated sound recordings, completed December 2003 by L. Dmytriev. Includes dates, names and descriptions of individual recordings.

Date Range: 2003

Reference Code: S13 / I; S13 / II

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Textual record

Part Of: Maryalice Harvey Stewart fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M9; S13; V605

Series: S13 / I; S13 / II

Sous-Fonds: S13

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: S13 / I; S13 / II

GMD: Textual record

Date Range: 2003

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: Inventory list of Maryalice Harvey Stewart's donated sound recordings, completed December 2003 by L. Dmytriev. Includes dates, names and descriptions of individual recordings.

Storage Range: In file box S13 / II / 17 to 34

Subject Access: Inventory

Reproduction Restrictions: Reference use only

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Part Of: Bill Waterworth fonds

Scope & Content: Collage consists of 14 b&w photographs of Stoney First Nations in the Kootenay Plains and Morley areas, 1877-1927. Images include John Hunter, George McLean (Chief Walking Buffalo), William Hunter, Paul Beaver, Sampson Beaver, Chief Tom Chinicka, John House, Silas Abraham, Job Beaver, Enos Hunter,…

Date Range: [1877-1927]

Reference Code: V176 / PC O.S.

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Bill Waterworth fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 8012

Reference Code: V176 / PC O.S.

Date Range: [1877-1927]

Physical Description: 1 framed photograph collage: 14 prints; b&w

Scope & Content: Collage consists of 14 b&w photographs of Stoney First Nations in the Kootenay Plains and Morley areas, 1877-1927. Images include John Hunter, George McLean (Chief Walking Buffalo), William Hunter, Paul Beaver, Sampson Beaver, Chief Tom Chinicka, John House, Silas Abraham, Job Beaver, Enos Hunter, Ben Choquitts, Dan Wildman Sr., Dan Wildman Jr., Moses Hunter, Wildman boy, Enoch Wildman, Tom Kaquitts Jr., Tom Kaquitts Sr., Leebie Crawler, Tom Wilson, Morley Beaver, Nat Hunter, William and Josh Hunter, Mark Poucette, Geo. Choquitts, Joe Peacemaker, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hunter.