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Mollie E. Smith Ross and Peter Murray Ross fonds

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Part Of: Mollie E. Smith and Peter Murray Ross fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds includes Rev. F. G. Christmas scrapbook, 1888-1889, of sketches, poems and writings pertaining to social life among Christmas's circle of Banff friends, including Mollie Smith and Peter Ross. Scrapbook also contains several loose items. Fonds also includes letter, marriage license, wedding …

Date Range: 1888-1928

Reference Code: M490

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Textual record; Drawing; Private record; Scrapbook

Part Of: Mollie E. Smith and Peter Murray Ross fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 490

Sous-Fonds: M 490

Accession Number: 5013

Reference Code: M490

GMD: Textual record; Drawing; Private record; Scrapbook

Other Title Info: Scrapbook is also known as the Christmas scrapbook

Date Range: 1888-1928

Physical Description: ca.6 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: Mollie E. Smith Ross, ca.1860-1897, and Peter Murray Ross, ca.1863-1928, lived at Banff and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Mary Emma Jane (Mollie) Smith was born in Jackson, Michigan, USA and came to Banff for health reasons, ca.1889. Among her friends in Banff were Anglican church minister Rev. F. Granville (Eric) Christmas, 1854-1931, and druggist Peter Ross. Mollie Smith and Peter Ross were married in 1892 by Rev. Charles W. Gordon and moved to Edmonton in 1893, where Ross continued in the pharmaceutical business and the couple raised a family. Rev. F. G. Christmas chronicled his admiration of Mollie Smith in a scrapbook that he later presented to her.

Scope & Content: Fonds includes Rev. F. G. Christmas scrapbook, 1888-1889, of sketches, poems and writings pertaining to social life among Christmas's circle of Banff friends, including Mollie Smith and Peter Ross. Scrapbook also contains several loose items. Fonds also includes letter, marriage license, wedding and death notices re Mollie Smith Ross and Peter Ross, 1891-1928, and photocopies of photographs of Smith and Ross.

Name Access: Christmas, Rev. F. G.; Ross, Mollie E. Smith; Ross, Peter Murray

Subject Access: Arts; Community life; Family and personal life; Religions

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Creator: Ross, Mollie E. Smith; Ross, Peter Murray

Category: Arts; Family and personal life; Religions

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.01

Description: Group of trees on the lower right in front of distant mountains.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: Group of trees on the lower right in front of distant mountains.

Subject: landscape, mountains

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.01

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Cathedral Mountain In Yoho

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.02

Description: General colour: black on white. In the foreground is a lake and ten trees on the opposite shore. Beyond is a treed slope up to rocky peaks. Behind is cloudy sky.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Cathedral Mountain In Yoho

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: General colour: black on white. In the foreground is a lake and ten trees on the opposite shore. Beyond is a treed slope up to rocky peaks. Behind is cloudy sky.