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Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
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- Part Of
- Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60. M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Rider…
- Date Range
- ca.1908-ca.2011
- Reference Code
- M573 / V797 / S60
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Private record
- Published record
- Newspaper clipping
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Sound recording
- Lantern slide
- Part Of
- Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M573 / V797 / S60
- Sous-Fonds
- M573
- V797
- S60
- Accession Number
- 2019.111
- Reference Code
- M573 / V797 / S60
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Private record
- Published record
- Newspaper clipping
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Sound recording
- Lantern slide
- Date Range
- ca.1908-ca.2011
- Physical Description
- 26 cm of textual records.-- 109 photographs (42 prints, 67 lantern slides). -- 2 sound recordings.
- History / Biographical
- Jean Alexandra Hembroff was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 5, 1908 to Walter B. Hembroff (d. 1945) and Sarah Jane Hembroff (d.1952). Jean was accepted to the MacPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art at the University of Minnesota, from which she graduated in 1927. She returned to Winnipeg to begin teaching courses in speech arts and drama. To establish herself, she first volunteered as the "story lady" at the Williams Avenue Public Library and quickly became known as an excellent speaker sought by many different organizations. She taught at St. Mary's Academy and the Evening Institute at the University of Manitoba, as well as offered private sessions. Many of her students used the skills they learned from Jean as they entered radio, television, politics, and business. Jean was also very active in organizing and adjucating Speech Arts festivals in Manitoba, often going to inaccessible places to give workshops. Her teaching, broadcasting, adjucating, coaching, and speaking career spanned more than 50 years. Jean was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway's promotions manager to give presentations and broadcast interviews across Canada and the United States. In 1937, Jean joined the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and participated in their summer trail ride in the same year. For that year's issue of the Trail Rider's Bulletin Jean wrote an article - and became the first woman to ever do so. In 1938, during her lecture titled "Trail Riding in the Rockies" on January 18, 1938 at the Royal Alexandra Hotel, Jean met John David (Jack) MacDonald. Jack and Jean were married on June 18, 1938, and the couple had one son, Bruce Walter James MacDonald (August 28, 1946-August 25, 2016). Jean participated in several trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Trail, and produced articles reflecting her experiences. Jean loved to travel and visited places all around Canada and the United States, Borneo, Tangier, Montevideo, Stockholm, New Delhi, and Tonga. At the age of 102, Jean passed away on February 2, 2011 and is buried in Winnipeg.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60.
- M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, particularly 1937-1939). Series II: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 4 cm, 1924-2000 (including correspondence with John Murray Gibbon, former students, and attendees at various talks, as well as newspaper articles that Jean wrote about various subjects and articles of her achievements). Series III: Collected Materials and Ephemera, 3 cm, ca.1930-1950 (including a variety of collected poems and ephemera, as well as a copy of The Beaver Magazine from 1940, for which Jean wrote an article titled "On the Trail of Sir George").
- V797 consists of two series, 24.5 cm of visual records, ca.1928-1939. Series I: Photograph Prints, 3 cm, ca.1928-1939 (includes personal photographs of Jean and her family and friends as well as photographs of Jean and Jack's visit to Lake Louise in 1939). Series II: Lantern Slides, 21.5 cm, ca.1937-1939 (Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1937 to Mt. Assiniboine; Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1939 to Ptarmigan Valley and Skoki; collection of trail ride songs).
- S60 consists of two sound recordings, 1 cm, 2004 and 2007 (Winnipeg at Christmas, narrated by Jean, broadcasted on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
- Notes
- Lantern slides include wooden case.
- Name Access
- Hembroff MacDonald, Jean
- Subject Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Camps
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Discovery and travel
- Discovery and exploration
- Empress Hotel
- European travel
- Family and personal life
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horse packing
- Horses
- Horseback riding
- Kananaskis Ranch
- Lake Louise
- Lantern slide
- Mount Assiniboine
- Mountain
- Organizations
- Personal and Professional Life
- Photography
- Poetry
- Scenery
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Sports and recreation
- Sunshine area
- Trails
- Trail guides
- Tourism
- Travel
- Travel and Exploration
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Women
- Geographic Access
- Assiniboine
- Alberta
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Ireland
- Kananaskis Country
- Lake Louise
- Lake O'Hara
- Manitoba
- Mount Assiniboine
- Rocky Mountains
- Victoria
- West Indies
- Winnipeg
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some restriction/s on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Hembroff MacDonald, Jean
- Biographical Source Notes
- Contents of the fonds
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122854759/jean-alexandra-macdonald
- https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-174851/MACDONALD_JEAN
- https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/winnipeg-mb/bruce-macdonald-7064958
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Other postcards - friends and family
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of postcards sent to extended family members and friends of the Luxton family. Senders and recipients include John Grant and George Millward McDougall, William [Bill] LaPorte, Emmeline Wheeler, and Effie Huppe.
- Date Range
- 1904
- [1907-1909]
- [1940-1960]
- 1975
- 1978
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / D / 27
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Postcard
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / III / D : Other material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / D / 27
- Date Range
- 1904
- [1907-1909]
- [1940-1960]
- 1975
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 8 b&w and col. postcards ; 25 x 10 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of postcards sent to extended family members and friends of the Luxton family. Senders and recipients include John Grant and George Millward McDougall, William [Bill] LaPorte, Emmeline Wheeler, and Effie Huppe.
- Notes
- Some items in this file are not dated. Some postcards do not name recipients and/or senders.
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Correspondence
- Holidays
- Travel
- Tourism
- Landscapes
- Sports and leisure
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Morley
- British Columbia
- Prince George
- United States of America
- New York
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Seychelles
- Language
- English
- Category
- Communications
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Souvenir photographs travel album
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one album containing travel photographs, mostly captioned. Content pertains to Eleanor Luxton's national and international travels between ca. 1935 and 1940. Locations include the United States, Ontario, Quebec, Panama and Cuba. Subjects include unidentified Indigenous families and…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1935 - ca. 1940]
- 1939
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / E / PD - 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph print
- Photograph
- Album
352 images
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / II / E : Travel and home records
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / E / PD - 2
- Date Range
- [ca. 1935 - ca. 1940]
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 album (ca. 360 b&w and col. prints ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one album containing travel photographs, mostly captioned. Content pertains to Eleanor Luxton's national and international travels between ca. 1935 and 1940. Locations include the United States, Ontario, Quebec, Panama and Cuba. Subjects include unidentified Indigenous families and local scenics in Panama, buildings and landscapes, the 1939 World Fair in New York, boats and dockyard views, art portraits, Niagara Falls, monuments and statues. Most items are captioned with their respective subjects / locations, 4 items are colorized [rest are b&w].
- Notes
- Some items are postcard prints, vast majority are photograph prints
- Material Details
- Photographs are secured with paper corner fasteners attached to pages with adhesive
- Name Access
- Luxton, Eleanor
- Subject Access
- Travel
- Tourism
- Art
- Portrait
- Indigenous Peoples
- Buildings
- Memorial
- Statue
- Events
- Boats
- Fishing
- Landscapes
- Animals
- Farmland
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Ontario
- Niagara Falls
- Toronto
- Quebec
- Montreal
- United States of America
- New York
- Chicago
- Panama
- Cuba
- Havana
- Access Restrictions
- Caution when handling - some items are loose
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Consider removing metal bindings from album in future. Currently no signs of rust or damage to album
- Category
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Environment
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
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Tickets and itineraries, Canadian Pacific and Southern Pacific Railway
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of travel documents and train tickets issued by Canadian Pacific Railway and Southern Pacific Railway for travel within Canada and the United States [1936 and 1939], stored in two original booklets. Includes ticket stubs and receipts for travel between Banff, Regina, Toronto, Montreal…
- Date Range
- 1936
- 1939
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / D / 32
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / III / D : Other material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / D / 32
- Date Range
- 1936
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of travel documents and train tickets issued by Canadian Pacific Railway and Southern Pacific Railway for travel within Canada and the United States [1936 and 1939], stored in two original booklets. Includes ticket stubs and receipts for travel between Banff, Regina, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles; notes with hotel addresses and booking information; a travel pamphlet for Tanner Motor Tours in Los Angeles; and an instruction manual for a radio receiver.
- Notes
- Southern Pacific booklet is annotated with name and address of "H. J. Howe" of Michigan; not determined if H. J. Howe is booklet's original owner
- Subject Access
- Travel
- Tourism
- Leisure
- Hotels
- Advertising
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Southern Pacific Railway
- Trains
- Transportation
- Commerce and industry
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Saskatchewan
- Regina
- Ontario
- Toronto
- Quebec
- Montreal
- Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- Illinois
- Chicago
- California
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Metal clips have been removed and replaced with archival clips
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Transportation
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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