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John Murray Gibbon fonds
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- Part Of
- John Murray Gibbon fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of materials pertaining to John Murray Gibbon's personal life, his involvement with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Skyline Hikers, and his career with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Includes manuscripts titled "Scot to Canadian: one of more than a million" by…
- Date Range
- 1924-1952
- Reference Code
- M454 / V226 / S62
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- John Murray Gibbon fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 454
- V 226
- S 62
- Sous-Fonds
- M 454
- V 226
- S 62
- Accession Number
- 3574
- 524
- 3604
- 2022.16
- Reference Code
- M454 / V226 / S62
- Date Range
- 1924-1952
- Physical Description
- 36 cm of textual records -- 3 sound recordings -- 185 photograph prints -- 3 negatives
- History / Biographical
- John Murray Gibbon, born in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1875-1952, was a writer, historian, musician and Canadian Pacific Railway publicity agent at Montreal, Quebec. Gibbon attended the University of Aberdeen where he received a scholarship to attend Oxford, where he graduated with a BA in Literature. He also studied at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and received some musical training in London. Gibbon received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Université de Montréal in 1940. Following writing and editing work for British journals, he was approached in 1907 by the Canadian Pacific Railway to work on their European publicity program. In 1913, he was appointed general publicity agent in Montreal. For thirty years he promoted Canadian culture and the CPR He was responsible for the inauguration of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies and Highland Gatherings. Gibbon was a prolific author and in 1921 became the founding president of the Canadian Authors Association (CAA), which he co-founded with Stephen Leacock, Pelham Edgar and B.K. Sandwell. The CAA lobbied for the protection of authors’ rights and went on to establish the Governor General’s Literary Awards in 1936. Gibbon received the award, in the non-fiction category, for Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation (1938), in which he argued against the American idea of a “cultural melting pot” that encouraged immigrants to cut ties with their culture of origin and assimilate into a homogenous society. Canadian Mosaic greatly influenced Canada’s immigration policies and multicultural attitudes throughout the latter half of the 20th century, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of materials pertaining to John Murray Gibbon's personal life, his involvement with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Skyline Hikers, and his career with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Includes manuscripts titled "Scot to Canadian: one of more than a million" by John Murray Gibbon (204 p.) and "John Murray Gibbon (1875-1952)" by Watson Kirkconnell; a letter from Gibbon to Francis Dickie concerning trail riding; published articles and obituaries; and a scrapbook pertaining to trips with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Skyline Hikers, and views of landmarks throughout Canada. Photographs pertain to John Murray Gibbon and activities, including Highland Gatherings and Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies trips; also Gibbon's funeral, 1952.
- Name Access
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Musicians
- Travel
- Recreation
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Publication
- Obituary
- Newspaper
- Biography
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Creator
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Biographical Source Notes
- Pincoe, R., & Phillipson, D. (2015). John Murray Gibbon. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-murray-gibbon-emc
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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The ascent of Everest
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1956
- Author
- Hunt, John
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Edition
- The companion book club edtion
- Call Number
- DS486 H86
- Author
- Hunt, John
- Responsibility
- John Hunt
- Edition
- The companion book club edtion
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Published Date
- 1956
- Physical Description
- 300 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Notes
- Includes index
- Accession Number
- AC629
- Call Number
- DS486 H86
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The ascent of Everest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14629
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1953
- Author
- Hunt, John
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Edition
- The companion book club edtion
- Call Number
- 01.1 H91a
- Author
- Hunt, John
- Responsibility
- John Hunt
- Edition
- The companion book club edtion
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Published Date
- 1953
- Physical Description
- 320 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Notes
- Includes index
- Accession Number
- 2015.8535
- Call Number
- 01.1 H91a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Carleton College
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- Part Of
- Dorothy Wardle fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings, receipts, correspondence (photocopies), a bound copy of the second annual calendar for Carleton College (1943-1944), a programme for the First Commencement Exercises (November 3, 1943), Dorothy's personal reflections of her experiences working alongside Dr. H.M…
- Date Range
- 1942-1998
- 1942-1943
- 1947
- 1998
- Reference Code
- M521 / I / A / 6-7
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Newspaper clipping
- Textual record
- Calendar
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Dorothy Wardle fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M521 / V75
- Series
- M521 / I : Dorothy Wardle Personal Papers
- Sous-Fonds
- M521
- Sub-Series
- M521 / I / A : Research and Writing
- Accession Number
- 7504
- Reference Code
- M521 / I / A / 6-7
- Date Range
- 1942-1998
- 1942-1943
- 1947
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records (23 x 33.5 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings, receipts, correspondence (photocopies), a bound copy of the second annual calendar for Carleton College (1943-1944), a programme for the First Commencement Exercises (November 3, 1943), Dorothy's personal reflections of her experiences working alongside Dr. H.M. Tory at Carleton College (photocopies and handwritten originals), and two envelopes, 23 x 33.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the founding, early years, and community impact of Carleton College, including instructor profiles, corporation and registration, a tribute to Dr. H.M. Tory (college head), and Dorothy's personal experiences and memories while working at the college from 1942-1944 as the first secretary. Newspaper clippings come from the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Journal and are dated:
- September 14, 1942
- June 30, 1943
- November 7, 1942
- November 4, 1943
- June 9, 1942
- August 29, 1942
- February 7, 1947 Correspondence between Dorothy and Blair Neatby is dated February 19 and February 25, 1998.
- Notes
- Carleton College is now Carleton University.
- Blair Neatby was a historian who wrote a biography of Carleton College.He contacted Dorothy (ca. 1997-1998) to solicit her experiences and memories of when she worked there. "Creating Carleton: The Shaping of a University" was published in 2002.
- Envelopes were originally used to file the records. There are notations and labels on them created by Dorothy.
- Name Access
- Wardle, Dorothy
- Tory, Dr. H.M.
- Neatby, Blair
- Subject Access
- Education
- History
- Newspaper
- Organizations
- Professional and Personal Life
- World War II
- Biography
- Geographic Access
- Ottawa
- Canada
- Ontario
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Clippings are taped and glued together. May present conservation issues in the future.
- Creator
- Wardle, Dorothy
- Category
- Education
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Les conquerants de l'inutile : des Alpes a l'Annapurna
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1961
- Author
- Terray, Lionel
- Publisher
- France : Gallimard
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- G512 T47 L47
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- Author
- Terray, Lionel
- Responsibility
- Lionel Terray
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- France : Gallimard
- Published Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- 560 p. ; 88 illus. ; maps
- Abstract
- "All these faces that appear in close-up in the news or in the press are also men. The name of Lionel Terray, one of the most famous living mountaineers, comes back periodically in conversations, because he participated in a rescue or because he helped to conquer a great world summit like Annapurna or the Makalu. In The Conquerors of the Useless , it is the whole mountain and its secrets that it reveals to us without emphasis and especially without pretension. We see how a little boy can already sense his vocation and soon to live only for the mountain; how this passion led him from the Alps to the Himalayas, from Canada to Peru. Each story of his prodigious ascensions will fascinate those who know the mountain only through the cable car. Indeed, this book that Lionel Terray wrote entirely himself using notes and stories in which he fixed his memories throughout his career, was written for them. The Conquerors of the Useless is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the heroic fate of the last survivors of the Knights race. " (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Decouverte de la montagne
- Premieres conquetes
- La guerre des Alpes
- Je rencontre Lachenal
- La face nord de l'Eiger
- Guide de grandes courses
- L'Annapurna
- Sur les sommets du monde
- Notes
- EVE-DELACROIX PRIZE OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY 1962
- French edition signed by Lionel Terray
- Newsclipping tucked inside entitled "La mort de Lionel Terray a stufefie les membres du Ski Club"
- ISBN
- 2070262146
- Accession Number
- AC636
- Call Number
- G512 T47 L47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publication information on publisher's website
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A dictionary of Canadian artists
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1967-19
- Author
- Macdonald, Colin S.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Canadian Paperbacks
- Call Number
- N6548 M16
- Author
- Macdonald, Colin S.
- Responsibility
- compiled by Colin S. Macdonald
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Canadian Paperbacks
- Published Date
- c1967-19
- Physical Description
- v.
- Subjects
- Artists - Biography
- Artists - Canada
- Accession Number
- 376
- 2000
- 2757
- 2862
- 12,000
- 14,500
- Call Number
- N6548 M16
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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Fenollosa and his circle
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Publisher
- New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Call Number
- 05 B79f
- Author
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Publisher
- New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Published Date
- 1962
- Physical Description
- 321 pages
- Abstract
- A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover
- Contents
- Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 05 B79f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Fifty mighty men
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- c1958
- Author
- MacEwan, Grant
- Publisher
- Saskatoon : Modern Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 M15f
- Author
- MacEwan, Grant
- Responsibility
- illustrated by William W. Perehudoff
- Publisher
- Saskatoon : Modern Press
- Published Date
- 1959
- c1958
- Physical Description
- 342p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.2 M15f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The life and work of an english landscape architect : an autobiography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14675
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1914
- Author
- Mawson, Thomas H
- Call Number
- 13.112 M45l Pam
- Author
- Mawson, Thomas H
- Responsibility
- by Thomas H. Mawson
- Published Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 30 pages
- Subjects
- Art
- Banff
- Biography
- Hot spings
- Van Horne, William
- Whyte, Jon
- Notes
- Exerpts from the Annual reports of the Department of the interior for the fiscal year ending March 31,1914 ; Taking from new responsibilities ; The Mawson Report in historical perspective by Max Foran ; Thomas H. Mawson's plans for beautifying Banff ; Where man & mountain meet by Jon Whyte
- Report compiled in an email by John Whelan
- Call Number
- 13.112 M45l Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The makers of Canada : index and dictionary of Canadian history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12356
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Publisher
- Toronto : Morang & Co
- Call Number
- R 08.1 B89
- Responsibility
- edited by Lawrence J. Burpee, Librarian of the Carnegie Library Ottawa and Arthur G. Doughty, Dominion Archivist Ottawa
- Publisher
- Toronto : Morang & Co
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 446 p
- Notes
- Includes fold-out chart "Illustrated chart of Canadian history"
- Accession Number
- 580
- Call Number
- R 08.1 B89
- Collection
- Archives Library
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