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Letters to Mother [July - November 1952]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7477
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 34 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 3 to November 3, 1952. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visitis from friends, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, installing electrical outlet…
- Date Range
- 1952
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 131
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 131
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1952
- Physical Description
- 1.2 cm of textual records (63 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fond level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 34 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 3 to November 3, 1952. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visitis from friends, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, installing electrical outlets in the living room, trips to Bow Lake, Banff Indian Days [including having David and Peggy (Rider) Bearspaw stay the night with Peter and Catharine during a bad storm], the Jasper Park Lodge burning down [July 15], the funeral for John Murray Gibbon, camping/sketching trips to Yoho National Park, several visits by Rockwell and Betty Kent, and leaving for a road trip to Concord for Christmas [Peter and Catharine left in late October and drove to Massachusetts]. Also includes an airmail card.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are typed and hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. 131 - 07 [dated July 24, 1952] describes making a sound recording with Jacob Twoyoungmen and family. See S37 / 73 for actual recording 131 - 08 appears to have been cut 3/4 up the page prior to accession.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Ward, Sam
- Moore, Pearl
- Campbell, Gray
- Campbell, Eleanor
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- White, Annie
- Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
- Morant, Willie
- Philpott, Cecil
- Whyte, Jon
- Bearspaw, David
- Bearspaw, Peggy
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Kent, Rockwell
- Kent, Betty
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Banff Indian Days
- Birthday
- Businesses
- Camping
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Children
- Christmas
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Deer
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Funeral
- Home
- Hospital
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Louise
- Leisure
- Mountain
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Post Office
- Scenery
- Stoney Nakoda
- Trains
- Trans-Canada Highway
- Travel
- Winter
- Weather
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Bow Lake
- Banff National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Calgary
- Edmonton
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Letters to Mother [July 1930 - October 1930]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7433
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brews…
- Date Range
- 1930
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 84
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 84
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 1.3 cm of textual records (82 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brewster, Jim Brewster, Guy Davenport, Sid Graves, Sid Brewster, Mary Vaux Walcott, Jimmy Simpson, Byron Harmon, Fern Brewster, Wayne Palmer, Fred McCauley, Mrs. Brett, Julia Raymond, Pearl Moore, Edmee Moore, Philip Moore, J.E.H. MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Link, Mr. and Mrs. Painter, George Brewster, Jessie McLean, Buddy van Dyke, Dorothy Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, Fred Arbrister, Neil Begg, Rudolph Aemner,] painting outdoors, people in Concord, meeting Noel Odell of the 1924 Everest Expedition, a fire at a tea house in town, plans for building their home [including a sketch of the lots along Bow River], visiting Castle Mountain Camp and Kicking Horse Tea House, description of Skoki Lodge building plans [with Cliff White, Cyril Paris, and Ike Mills], and builders Earl Spencer and Spud White, and painting in Morley [Mrs. Twoyoungmen, John Simian or Black Buffalo, Jonas Richson [?], Dan Wildman and other illegible names], the climb to Abbot Pass, Lake Oesa, and Lake O'Hara Camp.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
- Name Access
- Brewster, Bill
- Brewster, Fern
- Brewster, Jim
- Brewster, George
- Davenport, Guy
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Harmon, Byron
- Graves, Syd Brewster
- Paris, Cyril
- Mills, Ike
- Rungius, Carl
- Spencer, Earl
- Link, Adeline
- Link, George K.K.
- MacDonald, J. E. H.
- Browne, Belmore
- Mather, Allan
- Wildman, Dan, Sr.
- Curren, John Donaldson
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- White, Clifford
- Aemmer, Rudolf
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Armbrister, Fred
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Bow River
- Camps
- Castle Mountain
- Climbing
- Community events
- Community life
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Hiking
- Home
- Indigenous Peoples
- Japanese
- Lake Louise
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara region
- Log structures
- Moore House
- Mountains
- Pack trips
- Painting
- Paris Tea Room
- Personal and Family Life
- Property
- Skoki Lodge
- Stoney
- Stoney Nakoda
- Summit
- Yoho Valley Bungalow Camp
- Geographic Access
- Abbot Pass
- Alberta
- Banff
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Castle Mountain
- Concord
- Lake Louise
- Yoho National Park
- Field
- Lake O'Hara
- Skoki
- Morley
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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Letters to Mother [April 1933 - September 1933]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7440
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cab…
- Date Range
- 1933
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
it was the reading room in a Public
Library they were so quiet and busy reading . We were all pretty
busy when i
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 91
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1933
- Physical Description
- 1.3 cm of textual records (173 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 58 handwritten and typewritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb between April 1933 and September 1933. Topics include news from Concord, daily life in Banff, the fire at Bretton Hall, Peter out painting and sketching, Sam Ward continuously adding cabinets and cupboards to the Whyte Home, Catharine practicing typewriting and the beginning of some typewritten letters to her mother, the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, moving a cabin on the property for their Stoney friends to stay in while they paint portraits, selling two sketches, various baking recipes from Edith, Peter painting Mark Poucette, a visit from children from the Mountain School, Peter and Catharine visiting the west coast [via Bonners Ferry and Spokane] and seeing Fern Brewster in Vancouver, writing Mrs. Paley, attending the Calgary Stampede, painting J.D. Curren, painting David Bearspaw, hiking at Lake O'Hara with Skyline Trail Hikers [with participant names], a visit with Mary Vaux in Banff, a Pacific Relations Conference at the Banff Springs Hotel and cleaning the house expecting visits from participants, Catharine discussing Adolf Hitler with a Swiss man visiting the house, a boat trip with the White Family and Allen Mather to Lake Minnewanka, meeting Mr. Anasaki from the Conference [an old friend of Edward Morse] and looking at Catharine's Japanese collection with Mr. Miyoaka and Mr. Takaki, Peter taking photographs at the Indigenous Camp during Banff Indian Days, Peter receiving a beaded coat from Mrs. Jonie, buying some items from the Indigenous Camp that belonged to Old Hector [Crawler?], Jackie heading east to meet Barbara before the birth of their child, and Peter and Catharine heading east via the United States to attend the World Fair and visit Edith Morse Robb and then family in Gorham, Maine.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Letters are all handwritten and typewritten and include some hotel, business and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- White, Annie
- White, Clifford
- White, Mildred
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- White, David Mackintosh (Dave)
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Stockand, Cameron
- Ward, Sam
- Boyce, Jim
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Phil
- Mills, Ike
- Poucette, Mark
- Paris, Cyril
- Knight, Norman
- Edwards, Chess
- Edwards, Rupe
- Hansen, Ed
- Kutschera, Vic
- Mather, Allan
- Greenham, Margaret
- Brewster, Fern
- Standard, Paul
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Curren, John Donaldson
- Bearspaw, David
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Rungius, Carl
- Engelhard, Georgia
- McCowan, Dan
- Pollard, Harry
- Feuz, Ernest
- Aemmer, Rudolf
- Walcott, Mary Vaux
- Strom, Erling
- McLean, George
- Wildman, Dan, Sr.
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Art
- Artists
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Indian Grounds
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Cabins
- Calgary Stampede
- Community life
- Conferences and conventions
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Fire
- First Nations
- Hiking
- Indigenous Peoples
- Japanese
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara region
- Mountain School
- Painting
- Photography
- Portrait
- Property
- Regalia
- Sailing
- Sanitarium Hotel
- School
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Stoney Nakoda
- Swiss Guides
- Teepees
- Whyte House
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Concord
- Calgary
- Lake O'Hara
- Vancouver
- Montana
- Colorado
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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- Scope & Content
- File consists of song books, sheet music and handwritten song lyrics pertaining to the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Music from these items was likely sung/played on instruments as entertainment during trail rides. Handwritten lyrics dated 1964 were used for "Stunt Night" by Margie Morrow a…
- Date Range
- 1939
- 1952
- 1953
- [ca. 1960 - ca. 1970]
- 1963
- 1964
- Reference Code
- M545 / I / 6
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Published record
1 image
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M545 / V635
- Series
- M545 / I : Events and Activities
- Sous-Fonds
- M545
- Accession Number
- 5939
- 2022.22
- Reference Code
- M545 / I / 6
- Responsibility
- Some items produced by Margie Morrow, Cheryl Feller and John Murray Gibbon
- Date Range
- 1939
- 1952
- 1953
- [ca. 1960 - ca. 1970]
- 1963
- 1964
- Physical Description
- 1.5 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of song books, sheet music and handwritten song lyrics pertaining to the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Music from these items was likely sung/played on instruments as entertainment during trail rides. Handwritten lyrics dated 1964 were used for "Stunt Night" by Margie Morrow and Cheryl Feller. One of the items was produced by author John Murray Gibbon.
- Notes
- Items were previously stored in two separate files titled "songs" and "songs and poetry", which have been combined into one file. Handwritten lyrics used for stunt night by Margie Morrow and Cheryl Feller [1964], 1953 Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies Song Book, and 3 sets of sheet music by George Jameson were previously filed separately from other items under the new file.
- Two additional song books (one 1939, one n.d.) incorporated in file during processin of accn. 2022.22
- Subject Access
- Music
- Songs
- Entertainment
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff National Park
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Category
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Part Of
- Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 1 cm of textual records, 21.5 x 35 or smaller. File pertains to Jean's participation in and accounts of trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. File includes a magazine or newspaper clipping accounting Jean's talk that s…
- Date Range
- 1937-1945
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939
- 1940
- 1945
- Reference Code
- M573 / I / 18
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Newspaper clipping
- Private record
- Published record
- Textual record
4 images
- Part Of
- Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M573 / V797 / S60
- Series
- M573 / I : Personal Papers
- Sous-Fonds
- M573
- Accession Number
- 2019.111
- Reference Code
- M573 / I / 18
- Date Range
- 1937-1945
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939
- 1940
- 1945
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records (21.5 x 35 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 1 cm of textual records, 21.5 x 35 or smaller. File pertains to Jean's participation in and accounts of trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. File includes a magazine or newspaper clipping accounting Jean's talk that she gave at the Royal Alexandra Hotel on January 18, 1938 and two copies of the invitation sent to attendees for the talk (one of them has a handwritten message on the back written by Jean); two copies of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies Bulletin No. 48 (1937), which Jean is featured in and wrote an article for (the first woman to do so); related correspondence between John Murray Gibbon and Jean (1937-1939) regarding writing the article and participating in the trail rides; related correspondence with the Canadian Pacific Association responding to the talk Jean gave; typed notes of Jean's trail rides talk (two drafts, similar with slight changes); a typed poem entitled "The 1937 Trail Ride" written by Jean; and an essay entitled "Boots and Saddles" by Jean.
- Notes
- John Murray Gibbon was the Secretary-Treasurer for the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies during this time.
- Jean also wrote an article for the Sky Line Trail - see related material.
- Name Access
- Hembroff MacDonald, Jean
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Subject Access
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Lecture
- Public Speaking
- Mount Assiniboine
- Poetry
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Alberta
- Canada
- Winnipeg
- Manitoba
- Assiniboine
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- The Sky Line Trail, Vol. 6, No. 24 (October 1939).
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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