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Calgary events and views
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55360
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 16 photographs pertaining to Calgary and local events. Includes images of: the Calgary Fire Department [ca.1895-1901]; Princess Pat's Regiment, Calgary [1914]; the Calgary Circus; airplanes which were part of Flying Days in Calgary [1918-1920]; unidentified individuals posing outsi…
- Date Range
- [1895-1901]
- [1900-1910]
- 1914
- 1918-1920
- [1950-1960]
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 616 to 631
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / E : Collected material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / I / E4 : Photography
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 616 to 631
- Responsibility
- Aerial photograph produced by Spartan Air Services Ltd., Calgary
- Date Range
- [1895-1901]
- [1900-1910]
- 1914
- 1918-1920
- [1950-1960]
- Physical Description
- 16 photographs : b&w prints ; 25.5 x 20 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 16 photographs pertaining to Calgary and local events. Includes images of: the Calgary Fire Department [ca.1895-1901]; Princess Pat's Regiment, Calgary [1914]; the Calgary Circus; airplanes which were part of Flying Days in Calgary [1918-1920]; unidentified individuals posing outside of a music store; and an aerial view of Calgary [ca.1950-1960].
- Notes
- Some items are annotated
- Subject Access
- Airplanes
- Community events
- Entertainment
- Fire fighters
- Aerial photography
- Military
- Public events
- World War I
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Calgary
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Letters to Mother [July - December 1955]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7483
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 43 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 2 to December 27, 1955. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [m…
- Date Range
- 1955
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 137
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- 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 / 137
- Date Range
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records (71 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 43 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 2 to December 27, 1955. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [mostly news and hockey games], various holidays [both Canadian and American], errand trips to Calgary, Catharine's nephew Rusty arriving [he worked at Bow Lake helping with hunting parties in July], trips to Bow Lake, Banff Indian Days, a climbing tragedy on Mt. Temple in July wherein several young boys died, visits to the Campbell's ranch in Cowley, attending a Sun Dance ceremony near Fort Macleod, camping and sketching trips around Banff National Park, the Alberta Jubilee celebrations, a trip to Concord in October [they took the train down and drove back in a newly purchased Jeep], construction of the new Trans-Canada Highway through Banff, working on the annual Christmas card, and various Christmas parties. Also includes postcards and notecards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. 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. Some letters written on Num-Ti-Jaw Lodge letterhead, one written on Banff Shell Station letterhead.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- Robb, Russell III (Rusty)
- Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
- Morant, Willie
- Vallance, Sydney
- Vallance, Doris
- Whyte, Dorothy
- Campbell, Gray
- Campbell, Eleanor
- Gmoser, Hans
- Tasker, Peter
- Amos, Amos
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Airplanes
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Banff Centre
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Banff Shell Station
- Birthday
- Businesses
- Camping
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Children
- Christmas
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Deer
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Funeral
- Home
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Louise
- Leisure
- Luxton Museum
- Moose
- Mountain
- Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Post Office
- Ranches
- Ranching
- Scenery
- Stoney Nakoda
- Trains
- Trans-Canada Highway
- Travel
- Weather
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Bow Lake
- Icefields Parkway
- Banff National Park
- Morley
- Cowley
- Fort MacLeod
- Alberta
- 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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News Clippings Scrapbook
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54865
- Part Of
- Charlotte Tuerck fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to skiing, skiers, Banff oldtimers, weddings, the Royal family, horses and horseracing. Also includes ads from newspapers and newsclippings about business, commerce, and war.
- Date Range
- ca. 1960
- Reference Code
- M116 / 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Scrapbook
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Charlotte Tuerck fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M116 / V631
- Sous-Fonds
- M116
- Accession Number
- 1503
- Reference Code
- M116 / 2
- GMD
- Scrapbook
- Date Range
- ca. 1960
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records (7 pages ; 25.5 x 33 cm)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to skiing, skiers, Banff oldtimers, weddings, the Royal family, horses and horseracing. Also includes ads from newspapers and newsclippings about business, commerce, and war.
- Subject Access
- Airplanes
- Banff Ski Club
- Businesses
- Chairlifts and gondolas
- Commerce
- Crag and Canyon newspaper
- Horses
- Horse racing
- Newspaper
- Oldtimers
- Royal tours
- Royal Visit
- Ski areas
- Skiing
- Skiers
- War
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Calgary
- Nelson
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Europe
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Oil industry material
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56142
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series pertains to 270 black & white negatives of oil company operations in northern Alberta and northern Canada, portraits of employees at work, oil wells, planes, and camps - includes multiple negatives per envelope. [1B] - Beaumont [2B] - Tying Canoe on plane, McMurry [McMurray] [3B] - Ta…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950]
- Reference Code
- V180 / I / C / NA - 1B to 68
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M16 / V180
- Series
- I. Early material
- Sous-Fonds
- V180
- Accession Number
- 5772
- Reference Code
- V180 / I / C / NA - 1B to 68
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 270 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 10 x 12.5 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series pertains to 270 black & white negatives of oil company operations in northern Alberta and northern Canada, portraits of employees at work, oil wells, planes, and camps - includes multiple negatives per envelope. [1B] - Beaumont [2B] - Tying Canoe on plane, McMurry [McMurray] [3B] - Tank farm, Redwater [4B] - Nite Shot Derrick, Lac La Bische, Parksford [5B] - Tank farm, Redwater [6B] - Mustang Near Boyle [7B] - Derrick, Lac La Bisch, Parkland [8B] - Lac La Bisch, Aerial Shot [9B] - Aerial Shot, Derrick – Lac La Bische, Parkford [10B] - Aerial Shot, Redwater [11B] - Rapids at Athabaska [12B] - Loading Plane at Athabaska Landing [13B] - Plane at Barge at Beaumont [14B] - Plane at Athabaska [15B] - [-17B] Survey Party, unloading from plane [18B] - Rapids – Clearwater near McMurry [McMurray] [19B] - Survey Party, unloading from plane [21B] - Fishing shot, Commonwealth [22B] - Aerial Shot, Red Water Field [23B] - Barge [35B] - Plane at dock at McMurry [McMurray] [36B] - Blackie Jackson [37B] - Bent Derrick Jack at Dawson Creek [38B] - Zero Post at Dawon Creek with Street [B-39] - Zero Post at Dawson Creek, Lower Angle [B-40] - Refueling at Dawson Creek [B-41] - Oil from Well into Sump[?] at Redwater, Back lighting [B-42] - Miss McCormick [B-50] - [Tanks] [B-51] - [- B-71][Personnel] [B-74] - [- B-79][Personnel] [B-80] - [- B-87][Personnel] [B-100] - Premier Johnston [B-101] - [- B-105][Personnel?] 35 - Personnel Shot, Oil Co. 36 - P.J. 37 - Personnel 38 - Mr. Ma 39 - [Landscape] 40 - [Personnel inspecting equipment] 41 - [Construction site?] 42 - [Pipes] 43 - [Personnel] 44 - Maloney Crawford, Maloney, March 10 1950, Edmonton 45 - Maloney Crawford, Edmonton, March 23 ‘50 46 - Excelsior No. 2 fire March 23, ‘50 47 - Excelsior fire 48 - Pac. Pete Power wagon at Red Water, March ‘50 49 - Imp. Bat. 129 & 11, Maloney Crawford, April 20 ‘50 50 - [Oil industry operations – fire] 51 - [Oil industry personnel] 52 - [Oil industry personnel] 53 - [Unloading plane] 54 - [Forest camp] 55 - [Plane at dock] 56 - [Forest camp from lake] 57 - [Plane landing on lake] 58 - [Oil industry personnel] 59 - [Aerial views] 60 - [Aerial views] 61 - [Oil industry operations] 62 - [Oil industry personnel] 63 - [Oil industry aerial view] 64 - [Men at oil industry site] 65 - [Oil industry site – fire] 66 - [Oil industry personnel] 67 - [Oil tower] 68 - [Oil industry operations]
- Subject Access
- Airplanes
- Automobiles
- Buildings
- Camps
- Industry
- Oil
- Oil and gas
- Portrait
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Ski News Scrapbook
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions25625
- Part Of
- Charlotte Tuerck fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a scrapbook of mainly ski-related newspaper clippings. Includes newspaper clippings about skiing, ski racing, winter sports, Disney filming winter scenes for the film "Nomads of the North," all dated from 1960.
- Date Range
- ca. 1960
- Reference Code
- M116 / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Scrapbook
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Charlotte Tuerck fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M116 / V631
- Sous-Fonds
- M116
- Accession Number
- 1503
- Reference Code
- M116 / 1
- GMD
- Scrapbook
- Date Range
- ca. 1960
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records (17 pages ; 25.5 x 32 cm)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a scrapbook of mainly ski-related newspaper clippings. Includes newspaper clippings about skiing, ski racing, winter sports, Disney filming winter scenes for the film "Nomads of the North," all dated from 1960.
- Subject Access
- Airplanes
- Banff Ski Club
- Banff Ski Runners of the Canadian Rockies
- Chairlifts and gondolas
- Crag and Canyon newspaper
- Filmaking
- Films and film making
- Mount Norquay Chairlift
- Mount Norquay Ski Area
- Newspaper
- Ski areas
- Ski jumping
- Ski racing
- Skiing
- Skiers
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Mount Norquay
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
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