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Baker Lake from Deception Mountain

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified person posed on a cliff on Mt. Deception with Baker Lake in the distance

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 720

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 720

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

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

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified person posed on a cliff on Mt. Deception with Baker Lake in the distance

Subject Access: Baker Lake; Mountains; Mt. Deception

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Indian Days parade

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of unidentified First Nations women dressed in regalia on horseback during the Banff Indian Days parade - "Mrs. Hector [Mary Jean] Crawler head of group Banff Indian Days about 1909 or '10" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte

Date Range: [ca. 1909-1910]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 872

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 872

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1909-1910]

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

Scope & Content: Image of unidentified First Nations women dressed in regalia on horseback during the Banff Indian Days parade - "Mrs. Hector [Mary Jean] Crawler head of group Banff Indian Days about 1909 or '10" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte

Name Access: Crawler, Mary Jean

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; First Nations; Horses; Indigenous Peoples; Parade; Recognizing relations; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Winter Carnvial

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a postcard depicting a group of men dressed in winter coats and hats, one with a large camera on a tripod, with "Banff Winter Carival Phil making a date with the movie man" written in white in the bottom right corner - Catharine Whyte has written on the back in pencil: "Left to right Jim W…

Date Range: [ca.1910-1935]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 817

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 817

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca.1910-1935]

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

Scope & Content: Image of a postcard depicting a group of men dressed in winter coats and hats, one with a large camera on a tripod, with "Banff Winter Carival Phil making a date with the movie man" written in white in the bottom right corner - Catharine Whyte has written on the back in pencil: "Left to right Jim Wardle, ?, Mr Stewart Clerk in Gov't office, Byron Harmon, Col P.A. Moore, ?, Leslie Mather, Pete Whyte [/] Swimming at Cave & Basin during Winter Carnival"

Name Access: Wardle, Jim; Harmon, Byron; Moore, Phil; Mather, Leslie; Whyte, Peter

Subject Access: Banff Winter Carnival; Cave and Basin; Cameras; Portrait; Winter; Winter Carnival

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Bill Olson friends and family photographs

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Part Of: Olson family fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.

Date Range: 1889-1967

Reference Code: V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print; Print

37 images

Part Of: Olson family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M97 / V475

Sous-Fonds: V475

Accession Number: 670 ; 1107 ; 1021

Reference Code: V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print; Print

Date Range: 1889-1967

Physical Description: 19 prints : b&w and col. ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.

Notes: Some of the people identified in the photos are Bill Kay, Jack Powell, Jack Doe, Fred Day, Charlie Fullhroch, Mac Lennat, Earl Squires, Bob Graham, Larry Foster, Willard Bell, Bush Ashley, Shorty Blasker, Casey Jones, Dan Zakaryk, Pete Finlay, Jon Douglas, Irene Straus, Marie Leong, and more.

Name Access: Olson, Bill; Olson, Irene; McTrowe, Florence

Subject Access: Activities; Biographical; Buffalo; Cave and Basin; Children; Family; Family and personal life; Garden; Home; Leisure; Mount Royal Hotel; Personal and Family Life; Personal and Professional Life; Portrait; War; World War I; WWI

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Dryas Octohetala[?] on Eagle Mountain

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a Dryas Octohetala[?] posed on Eagle Mountain with Temple Mountain visible in the background

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 719

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 719

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

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

Scope & Content: Image of a Dryas Octohetala[?] posed on Eagle Mountain with Temple Mountain visible in the background

Subject Access: Eagle Mountain; Mountains; Temple Mountain

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Moraine Lake

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks with two unidentified people on the shore at right

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 718

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 718

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

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

Scope & Content: Image of Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks with two unidentified people on the shore at right

Subject Access: Mountains

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Mount Temple and Victoria Range from Temple Lodge

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of Temple Mountain and the Victoria Range from across a tree-covered valley

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 725

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 725

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1885-1945]

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

Scope & Content: Image of Temple Mountain and the Victoria Range from across a tree-covered valley

Subject Access: Mountains; Temple Mountain; Victoria Range

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Mrs. John Simeon's sister

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a First Nations child [identified as Mrs. John Simeon's sister by Catharine Whyte on the back] dressed in regalia and standing in front of a tepee

Date Range: [ca.1910-1920]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 880

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

2 images

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 - 880

GMD: Photograph; Postcard

Date Range: [ca.1910-1920]

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

Scope & Content: Image of a First Nations child [identified as Mrs. John Simeon's sister by Catharine Whyte on the back] dressed in regalia and standing in front of a tepee

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; Children; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Recognizing relations; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda; Tepee

Geographic Access: Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Personal Photographs

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Part Of: O. Kathleen Wilson fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.

Date Range: [ca.1916-1935]

Reference Code: V699 / PA - 01 to PA - 116

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

221 images

Part Of: O. Kathleen Wilson fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V699

Sous-Fonds: V699

Accession Number: 3012, 3255, 3815, 3856, 3938, 3976, 4040, 5178

Reference Code: V699 / PA - 01 to PA - 116

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: [ca.1916-1935]

Physical Description: 11 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: O. Kathleen Wilson was employed at the Chateau Lake Louise at Lake Louise, Alberta in the 1920s.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.

Name Access: Wilson, O. Kathleen; Feuz, Edward, Jr.; Feuz, Ernest; Feuz, Walter; Brewster, Pat

Subject Access: Abbot Pass Hut; Activities; Airplanes; Architecture; Automobiles; Banff Indian Days; Banff Springs Hotel; Banff townsite; Biographical; Buffalo; Camps; Castle Mountain; Cave and Basin; Chateau Lake Louise; Climbing; Clothing and dress; Employees; Entertainment; First Nations; Glacier House; Glacier House Hotel; Guides; Horses; Hotels; Indigenous Peoples; Lake Agnes Teahouse; Landscapes; Landslides; Mountaineering; Mountains; Movie Stars; Musicians; Portrait; Plain of Six Glacier Teahouse; Prisoners of War; Railways; Royal tours; Royal Visit; Scenery; Swimming; Swiss Guides; Teahouses; Trains; War; Waterfalls; Women; Work; World War I; Tally-hos

Geographic Access: Lake Louise; Glacier; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Alberta; British Columbia

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

Language: English

Creator: Wilson, O. Kathleen

Title Source: Title based on accession records

Processing Status: Processed

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Prisoner of War Internment Camps Photograph Album

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Part Of: William D. Buck fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album depicting snapshots of prisoners of war and surroundings taken by Seargent William D. Buck of the Banff, Castle Mountain, and Kapuskasing, ON, internment camps during World War I. Photograph album includes Banff and Kapuskasing River views; Castle and Banff inter…

Date Range: ca.1915-1920

Reference Code: V295 / PD

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

30 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: William D. Buck fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V295

Sous-Fonds: V295

Accession Number: 8010

Reference Code: V295 / PD

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: ca.1915-1920

Physical Description: 1 photograph album (199 photographs)

History / Biographical: William D. Buck, 1859-1922, was born in England and is thought to have served during the First World War with the 103 Calgary Rifles. Buck was a Sergeant at the Banff and Castle Mountain internment camps, ca.1915-1917, and appears to have accompanied prisoners to a camp at Kapuskasing, Ontario after closure of the Castle Mountain camp in 1917.

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album depicting snapshots of prisoners of war and surroundings taken by Seargent William D. Buck of the Banff, Castle Mountain, and Kapuskasing, ON, internment camps during World War I. Photograph album includes Banff and Kapuskasing River views; Castle and Banff internment camps views of prisoners, guards, facilities, activities, incidents and visit of Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia; gathering of prisoners at Winnipeg and life at Kapuskasing internment camp; prisoners and Cave and Basin bathing, more Banff camp views and funeral photographs; family portraits, Banff and possible Calgary; and Sergeant Buck. Consists of 199 numbered and captioned images, one un-numbered portrait on first page, as follows : Banff and area and Kapuskasing River views, 1 - 16 ; Castle and Banff Internment Camp views of prisoners, guards, activities, incidents and facilities, visit of Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia, 17-88 ; gathering . . . in prisoners at Winnipeg and life at Kapuskasing, Ontario Internment Camp, 89-100 ; prisoners and Cave and Basin bathing, more Banff Camp views and funeral photographs, 101-118 ; family portraits, Banff and possibly Calgary, 119-148 ; published postcards of : Calgary Stampede, Banff and Calgary views, [Indigenous] portraits, 148-195 ; Sergeant Buck with dogs, 1919, 196-197. Span dates : ca.1915-1920 (actual date). Note: Two images are labelled #148.

Notes: Album also contains 47 published postcards of the Calgary Stampede, Banff and Calgary views, and Indigenous portraits that were not copied. Attached individual images pertain solely to the Cave & Basin internment camp.