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Murray Hay fonds

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Part Of: Murray Hay fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of four paintings on coreboard, posters, photographs, newspaper clippings and drawings

Date Range: 1970 - 1999?

Reference Code: M570 / V795

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph

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Part Of: Murray Hay fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M570 / V795

Sous-Fonds: M570 / V795

Accession Number: 2019.41; 2020.03

Reference Code: M570 / V795

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: 1970 - 1999?

Physical Description: 4 paintings. 10 cm of textual and visual records

History / Biographical: Murray Hay is a self taught artist who left Regina at age 16 and began a career as a commercial artist. Murray Hay was born in 1931 and passed away in 2015 at the age of 84 years. Murray Hay moved to Alberta in1963? In 1976 Sir Rodney Touche approached him and asked if he would paint a ski map. The first ski map Murray painted was one of Lake Louise, the second was of Ski Big Three and the third was Sunshine Mountain ski resort

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of four paintings on coreboard, posters, photographs, newspaper clippings and drawings

Name Access: Hay, Murray

Language: English

Related Material: Accn.5959

Creator: Hay, Murray

Biographical Source Notes: From the family of Murray Hay

Title Source: based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Mabel Aubin fonds

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Part Of: Mabel Aubin fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of ration books; ephemera pertaining to Banff musical and variety productions; Christmas cards from the Beil family, the de Grandmaison family, Peter and Catharine Whyte and the Christofferson family; Alberta Hotel menu, 1913; and photographs pertaining to the Stenton family, ca.1888…

Date Range: [ca.1888]-1980

Reference Code: M166 / V34

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

4 images

Part Of: Mabel Aubin fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 166; V 34

Sous-Fonds: M 166; V 34

Accession Number: 550, 1002, 1101, 2029, 3541, 3833, 5173

Reference Code: M166 / V34

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: [ca.1888]-1980

Physical Description: 4 cm of textual records. -- 32 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: Mabel Sarah Aubin, 1905-1990, was a life-long resident of Banff, Alberta, Canada. Mabel Aubin's parents, the Stenton family, ran the Alberta Hotel beginning ca.1908.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of ration books; ephemera pertaining to Banff musical and variety productions; Christmas cards from the Beil family, the de Grandmaison family, Peter and Catharine Whyte and the Christofferson family; Alberta Hotel menu, 1913; and photographs pertaining to the Stenton family, ca.1888-ca.1950, and 1918 Banff Peace Day parade (First World War), which shows citizens wearing masks in response to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919

Name Access: Aubin, Mabel

Subject Access: Family and personal life

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

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description

Creator: Aubin, Mabel

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession records

Processing Status: Processed

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Browne family fonds

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Part Of: Browne family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists mainly of diary excerpts and transcripts, 1912-1913, 1921-1954; also includes a guest book, 1924-1956, posters, ca.1942, publications relating the story of Belmore Browne Peak, 1992-1993, and photographs, ca.1930, ca.1955, 1991-1992. Diaries are mainly trip diaries pertaining to summ…

Date Range: 1912-1993, predominant 1921-1954

Reference Code: M473 / V39

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Poster; Private record; Published record

1 image

Part Of: Browne family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 473; V 39

Sous-Fonds: M 473; V 39

Accession Number: 3429, 3813, 3863, 3873, 3892, 3901, 3975, 3995, 4007, 4021, 4037, 4039, 5075, 5149, 5220, 6382, 6596, 6741, 6742, 6774

Reference Code: M473 / V39

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Poster; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1912-1993, predominant 1921-1954

Physical Description: 24 cm of textual records. -- 108 photographs : prints, copy negatives, transparencies

History / Biographical: Belmore Browne, d.1954, was a well-known artist who lived and worked at Banff and Seebe, Alberta, Canada and in the United States. Browne and Agnes Evelyn Sibley, 1882-1976, were married in 1913. In 1921, they bought property in Banff for a summer home and with their children, George, 1918-1958, and Evelyn, 1915-1994, travelled extensively throughout the 1920s and 1930s in pursuit of subjects for Belmore Browne's paintings. In 1946, the Brownes built a home near Seebe. Agnes Browne was a diarist for the family and much of her extensive writing centres around the career of Belmore Browne. Her daughter Evelyn consolidated the diaries in the 1980s. George Browne was also an artist.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists mainly of diary excerpts and transcripts, 1912-1913, 1921-1954; also includes a guest book, 1924-1956, posters, ca.1942, publications relating the story of Belmore Browne Peak, 1992-1993, and photographs, ca.1930, ca.1955, 1991-1992.; Diaries are mainly trip diaries pertaining to summer travels and family life in the Canadian Rockies, 1921-1933. Included are trips to Red Earth Creek, Skoki, Mystic Lake, Sawback Lake, Red Deer Valley, Hector Lake, Bow Lake, Kananaskis Valley, Cascade and Panther rivers, Elbow Pass, and other locations. Other diaries cover the years 1943 to 1954, years partly spent at Seebe until Belmore Browne's death. Diary copies and typescripts have been annotated by Evelyn Browne.; Posters on alpine and wilderness survival, ca.1942, were done by Belmore Browne for the American military's Arctic Training Program.; Photographs are mainly photographic copies of paintings by Belmore and George Browne produced by Peter A. Juley & Son, Photographers of Fine Arts, New York, ca.1955, 79 items. Other photographs pertain to Belmore Browne and the Browne family, their Banff home and painting activities, ca.1930; the site of Belmore Browne plaque on Browne Peak, rediscovered and photographed by Tony and Gillean Daffern in September 1991, and dedication of the Belmore Browne plaque, 1992.; Official correspondence pertaining to the naming of Belmore Browne Peak, 1989-1993, is available in document file.

Name Access: Browne, Belmore; Browne, George

Subject Access: Arts; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: Reference use only; Other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; file list and index

Creator: Browne, Belmore

Category: Arts; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Elik, and other stories of the MacKenzie Eskimos

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1970

Author: Schwarz, Herbert T.; Ohoveluk, Mona

Publisher: Toronto, McCelland and Stewart

Call Number: 06.1 Sc1e

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Author: Schwarz, Herbert T.; Ohoveluk, Mona

Responsibility: Herbert T. Schwarz (author); Mona Ohoveluk (illustrator)

Publisher: Toronto, McCelland and Stewart

Published Date: 1970

Physical Description: 79 pages illustrations, portraits

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Art; Inuit

Abstract: Pertains to Inuit stories with associated illustrations by Mona Ohoveluk, and highlights Inuit story tellers

Contents: Part One:; Introduction: Inside the Arctic Circle; The MacKenzie Land; The Northern Lights People; Elik; Elik, the Far Seeing One; Akaluk and the Stolen Soul of Ugpik; The Origin of the White Whale; The Rave and the Whale; The Whale Hunt; The Great Eskimo Rally and Fort McPherson; Part Two:; Story-tellers of Old; Alik Aluhuk Stefansson, Inuvik, NWT; Elizabeth Blake and William Firth, Fort McPherson, NWT; Felix Nuyaviak, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT; Archie (Headpoint) Erigaktuk, Aklavik, NWT; Susie Tiktalik, Sach Harbour, Banks Island, NWT; Kenneth Peeloolook, Inuvik, NWT; Jessie Olorgrak, Paulatuk, NWT; Acknowledgements; Dedication