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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
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- 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
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- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Abraham Lake #3
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- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- Grl.01.07
- Description
- An oil sketch of a lake landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, blue and brown. The sky is dominated with thick grey strokes of colour. Surrounding the water at the top and bottom are thick strokes of green. The blue of the water is a streak across the middle of the work. The artist’s …
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- Title
- Abraham Lake #3
- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a lake landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, blue and brown. The sky is dominated with thick grey strokes of colour. Surrounding the water at the top and bottom are thick strokes of green. The blue of the water is a streak across the middle of the work. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in green paint.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- Grl.01.07
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Abraham Lake/East
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- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.17
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, orange, red and brown. The image is composed of a mountain range in the background, with a body of water and a segment of land in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black…
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- Title
- Abraham Lake/East
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, orange, red and brown. The image is composed of a mountain range in the background, with a body of water and a segment of land in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the trhc, “45/W”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.17
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Across the North Saskatchewan River/Shadows
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- Date
- 2003 – 2003
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.28
- Description
- An oil sketch of a landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, purple and beige. The upper third of the piece is in green, red and beige, with the shadows of the trees depicted as red lines. The majority of the canvas centre is grey, with a variety of colours on the right centre. The artis…
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- Title
- Across the North Saskatchewan River/Shadows
- Date
- 2003 – 2003
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 40.7 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, purple and beige. The upper third of the piece is in green, red and beige, with the shadows of the trees depicted as red lines. The majority of the canvas centre is grey, with a variety of colours on the right centre. The artist’s signature is in the blhc in purple paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “47/R”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.28
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Approaching Rain - West Kootenay Plains #1
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- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.39
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are grey, brown, and blue. From the left side of the image raises a dark grey mountain lined in blue. The lower part of this mountain extends to the right side of the canvas. The sky is grey with modeling that suggests the presence of cloud…
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- Title
- Approaching Rain - West Kootenay Plains #1
- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are grey, brown, and blue. From the left side of the image raises a dark grey mountain lined in blue. The lower part of this mountain extends to the right side of the canvas. The sky is grey with modeling that suggests the presence of clouds, or a storm. The bottom of the piece has a small strip of blue, above which there are a series of vertical forms in green, blue and grey which could represent trees. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in orange paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “49/W”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.39
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Approaching Rain - West Kootenay Plains #2
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- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.40
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are grey, purple and beige. The sky is composed of swirls of grey , and the mountain on the left rises high into the sky and runs low across the centre of the work towards the right. The lower third of thework is blue, with lines of mo…
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- Title
- Approaching Rain - West Kootenay Plains #2
- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are grey, purple and beige. The sky is composed of swirls of grey , and the mountain on the left rises high into the sky and runs low across the centre of the work towards the right. The lower third of thework is blue, with lines of mottled green and beige. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in purple paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “49/X”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.40
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Approaching Rain - West Kootenay Plains #3
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- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.41
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are grey, purple, green and beige. From the left side of the image raises a grey mountain in light and dark grey sections. The lower part of this mountain extends to the right side of the canvas. The sky is grey with modeling that sugg…
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- Title
- Approaching Rain - West Kootenay Plains #3
- Date
- 2005 – 2005
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 45.7 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are grey, purple, green and beige. From the left side of the image raises a grey mountain in light and dark grey sections. The lower part of this mountain extends to the right side of the canvas. The sky is grey with modeling that suggests the presence of clouds, or a storm. The bottom of the piece has a small strip of grey-blue, above which there is a line of green. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in grey paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “49/Y”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.41
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- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Catalogue Number
- MiR.02.02
- Description
- Bag of apples spilling out onto a black, grey, and white checkered tablecloth. Wood of table is visible in the trc.
- Title
- Bag of Apples
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 50.9 x 50.6 cm
- Description
- Bag of apples spilling out onto a black, grey, and white checkered tablecloth. Wood of table is visible in the trc.
- Subject
- still life
- apples
- bag
- tablecloth
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Francis Michael McInnis, Winnipeg, 2005
- Catalogue Number
- MiR.02.02
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Black Study with Spatula
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- Date
- 2002
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Catalogue Number
- MiR.02.03
- Description
- Two frying pans, one small, one large, with spatula at right.
- Title
- Black Study with Spatula
- Date
- 2002
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 50.4 x 50.9 cm
- Description
- Two frying pans, one small, one large, with spatula at right.
- Subject
- still life
- frying pan
- spatula
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Francis Michael McInnis, Winnipeg, 2005
- Catalogue Number
- MiR.02.03
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- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on reclaimed door
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.05
- Description
- A highly varnished painting of Boulder Pass. At the bottom of the image there is snow that sweeps up the right side of the image and caps a rocky cliff. The snow is quite yellow at the centre of the image but becomes shadowed and dark in the bottom right corner. A lower snow-capped cliff is in t…
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- Title
- Boulder Pass
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on reclaimed door
- Dimensions
- 75.0 x 75.0 cm
- Description
- A highly varnished painting of Boulder Pass. At the bottom of the image there is snow that sweeps up the right side of the image and caps a rocky cliff. The snow is quite yellow at the centre of the image but becomes shadowed and dark in the bottom right corner. A lower snow-capped cliff is in the lower left corner. It forms a pass between it and the cliff on the right. The sky is quite dark at the top of the image but quite cloudy and grey-yellow lower down at the centre of the image. The vantage point makes the viewer feel as if they are peering over the ledge of a cliff and that all that is visible is sky.
- Credit
- Purchased from Michael Cameron, Banff, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.05
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