topic:"Canadian Rockies " found 132 records - Research Collections

Alpenstock

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Date: 1920 – 1935

Material: wood; antler; metal

Catalogue Number: 108.04.0002

Description: Cane (or short alpenstock) with a very smoothly polished wooden shaft and a black cast iron pointed tip. A black chamois antelope antler forms a sharp hook attached to the shaft. Black printing on the handle reads “Staubagh.”

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Title: Alpenstock

Date: 1920 – 1935

Material: wood; antler; metal

Dimensions: 8.0 (widest point) x 92.0 cm

Description: Cane (or short alpenstock) with a very smoothly polished wooden shaft and a black cast iron pointed tip. A black chamois antelope antler forms a sharp hook attached to the shaft. Black printing on the handle reads “Staubagh.”

Subject: hiking; Philip Moore; organizations, Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 108.04.0002

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At the Base of Cory Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927 – 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.377

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: At the Base of Cory Mountain

Date: 1927 – 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.0 x 27.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.377

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Baker Creek

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Baker Creek

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.2 x 100.2 cm

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; winter; Baker Creek

Credit: Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 60.3 cm

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.

Subject: architecture; Banff Springs Hotel; landscape; Canadian Rockies; activity; Highland Gathering

Credit: Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

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Banff National Park, Yoho Park and Kootenay Park

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Published Date: 1929

Publisher: Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: C3-6.3(a)

Publisher: Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1929

Physical Description: Colour

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Subjects: Canadian Rockies

Notes: Panoramic map showing main and branch lines of C.P.R.; 3 duplicates in Map Room

Accession Number: 131; 110; 1120; 3072

Call Number: C3-6.3(a)

Collection: Archives Library

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Bear Street Alley, Sulphur Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1922 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.534

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Sulphur Mountain

Date: 1922 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.2 x 40.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; winter; town, Banff

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.534

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Below Bow Falls

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.149

Description: Colour: green, grey, blue. The lower area is a river running from the lower right corner up left to center. Snow banks on either side give way to a rocky hillside on the left and a row of trees to the right. Behind in the centre is a treed slope going right to mountain and left to a distant mountai…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Below Bow Falls

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.8 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey, blue. The lower area is a river running from the lower right corner up left to center. Snow banks on either side give way to a rocky hillside on the left and a row of trees to the right. Behind in the centre is a treed slope going right to mountain and left to a distant mountain. Blue sky along the top.