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Bruno Engler fonds

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds is primarily a broad-ranging commercial negative collection pertaining to Banff and area, including businesses, buildings, projects, events, people and scenic views; skiing, mountain travel and recreation; Sunshine Village Ski Area; warden activities in the mountain parks; national and provin…

Date Range: [ca.1886]-1998, predominant ca.1940-1995

Reference Code: M323 / S40 / V190

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Machine-readable data file; Motion picture; Film; Video; Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Sound recording; Cassette; Reel to reel; Textual record; Corporate record; Map; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 323; S 40; V 190

Sous-Fonds: M 323; S 40; V 190

Accession Number: 188, 1300, 2622, 2998, 3468, 3496, 5507, 6200, 6770 (unproc), 7045(unproc), 7436 (unproc)

Reference Code: M323 / S40 / V190

GMD: Machine-readable data file; Motion picture; Film; Video; Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Sound recording; Cassette; Reel to reel; Textual record; Corporate record; Map; Private record; Published record

Date Range: [ca.1886]-1998, predominant ca.1940-1995

Physical Description: ca.31,580 photographs: negatives, prints, and transparencies. -- 1 photograph album (ca.150 prints). -- 50 motion pictures: 1 original, 8 copies on 3 video cassettes, 41 film reels: 16mm, 35mm. -- 18 sound recordings: audio tape reels, audio tape cassettes. -- 5 electronic records: computer diskettes. -- 3 maps. -- 15 cm textual records.

History / Biographical: Bruno Engler, 1915-2001, was a mountain guide, ski instructor, photographer and film maker at Banff and Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Engler arrived from Switzerland in 1939 and initially worked as a mountain guide and ski instructor for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Sunshine ski area and for Deer Lodge at Lake Louise, Alberta. During the Second World War, he served as a mountain warfare instructor for the Canadian Army. Following the war, Engler worked as a free-lance photographer for the National Film Board and others; as coach of the University of Alberta Ski Team; and as a technical advisor, cameraman and actor for numerous movies made in the Banff area. Throughout his career, Engler worked as a still and motion picture photographer, both for the movie industry and for governments at all levels, as well as operating his own business, Alpine Films of Banff, Alberta.

Scope & Content: Fonds is primarily a broad-ranging commercial negative collection pertaining to Banff and area, including businesses, buildings, projects, events, people and scenic views; skiing, mountain travel and recreation; Sunshine Village Ski Area; warden activities in the mountain parks; national and provincial parks; scenic views of western Canada, particularly mountain landscapes; some portraits and candid shots of local and international personalities. Photographs pertaining to film making include helicopter rescue; highway construction; Norquay, Sunshine, and Lake Louise ski areas' histories; Banff events and buildings; Canmore events and buildings; professional and amateur ski races; scenic mountain and wildlife; mountaineering and highway accidents; mountain guiding trips including Pierre Trudeau, Roland Michener and Peter Lougheed. Fonds consists of four series: Photography, Motion Pictures, Sound Recordings, and Textual records. Photography series consists of four sub-series established by the photographer: I. Old file, 1949-1970; II. Main file, alphabetical A - Z, 1950-1976; III Sunshine file, [1939], 1950-1975; IV. Warden file, 1954-1976.; Motion pictures on video cassettes are footage of skiing at Sunshine, 1930s; Clifford White films, 1930s, from WMCR Archives collection (V682); "Snow Capers" by Thomas Mead, 1946, includes Engler; "Ski Pro's Holiday" by George Encil, 1950?; "Mount Bulyea" by George Encil, 1950?, includes Engler; "Diary of a Mountain Man," a CBC documentary feature on Bruno Engler broadcast on "20/20" in 1965 (ca.27 minutes); "Great Days in the Rockies" by National Film Board of Canada, 1983; "Mountain Man" by Banff Centre, 1985, re Engler. Original film is "Sunshine 1940" and includes Brewster Transport ski buses travelling from train station to Sunshine Lodge, skiers, guide, lessons, games, rope tow, ski action, slalom, Bruno Engler, other. 16mm and 35mm film reels, 1946-1964 are films produced by the National Film Board.; Sound recordings, electronic records and and related textual material pertain to interviews with Bruno Engler, 1987, done by Brian Patton and Jon Whyte for Bruno Engler autobiography project. Interviews covered Engler's life, but are not complete to 1987. Transcripts, prepared from recordings by Brenda Goeres, are not verbatim. Audio tape cassettes consist of portions of content of audio tape reels.; Textual records include corporate records, newspaper clippings and magazine articles pertaining to film making, cast and crew listings and schedules for various movies, ski racing, mountain guiding trips and ski race listings. Also included is documentation pertaining to film making with producer National Film Board including letters, film stock footage, press releases, and film summaries; maps indicate film location shots for Arctic Rampage.

Name Access: Engler, Bruno

Subject Access: Arts; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Government; Sports, recreation and leisure

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description; electronic finding aid

Related Material: Duplicate or further transcripts for sound recordings are found in Jon Whyte fonds (M88).

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Category: Arts; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Government; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed / Unprocessed

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Gordon Burles fonds

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Part Of: Gordon Burles fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem.…

Date Range: 1970-2017, 2022

Reference Code: M196 / V103

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Machine-readable data file; Private record

1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Gordon Burles fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 196; V 103

Sous-Fonds: M 196; V 103

Accession Number: 1199, 1367, 1414, 1674, 2061, 2212, 2239, 2890, 3233, 3769, 3874, 5526, 5689, 5903, 6347, 6487, 6927,7215, 7483, 7486, 7612

Reference Code: M196 / V103

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Textual record; Machine-readable data file; Private record

Date Range: 1970-2017, 2022

Physical Description: ca. 36.5 cm textual records + 9 CD-R (textual records). -- 7 photographs : prints, negatives.

History / Biographical: James Gordon Burles, b.1949, is a poet, surveyor and civil servant at Banff, Alberta, Canada. A native of Banff, Burles is a student of the Canadian Rockies. In Burles' own words, much of his poetry is inspired by four environments: the life and history of Banff National Park, the town of Banff, the Okanagan Valley, and Calgary.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem. Some poems pertain to mountain personalities such as Bill Peyto, Norman Sanson, Margaret Stone, Walter D. Wilcox, Walter J. Phillips, Conrad Kain, and Georgia Engelhard. Many are surrealist or nonsense poems and many deal with the Cemetery Tea House, an imaginary teahouse frequented by various characters.; Fonds consists of three series: I : Poetry Manuscripts; II : Prose and research; III: Digital typeset copies of published poems; Some poems deal with Burle's parents and family. The collection also holds fifty-three books and booklets, self-published by the author from 1984 to 2017. The books published from 2003 to 2017 contain all the poems which the author considers worth preserving. Some in one book have been revised in a later book. Some poems were revised more than once. The three books published in 1984, 1986, and 1990 are considered by the author as early works. Only the poems in those books that the author considered worth publishing have been republished in the 2003-2017 books. Names in the poem titles are usually made up.; Some titles are tongue-in-cheek. There were so many poems that the author resorted to names like "Portrait for Bertrand Clerihew-Guggenheim" to make it easier. Some titles, of course, are obviously connected to the content of the poem. Many titles were long enough to preclude the difficulty of getting the graphic designer to centre the title over the poem! Also included are manuscripts, research materials, articles, and notes etc. regarding Bill Peyto, the Copper Mountain Mine, Banff National Park museum, logging roads in the Johnson Lake area, and the Sanson-Bethune connection.; Photographs pertain to remains of hay rake and wagon in the Third Vermilion Lake area (1975) and remains of the Queen of the Hills Mine, above Silver City (1977).; CD-ROMS's contain typeset copies of manuscripts by Gordon Burles in Pagemaker, In Design and .pdf file formats. Manuscripts include "The Jagged Harmony," 2005, "An Avenue Without End," 2005, "That Perfect Elsewhere," n.d., "Much Like A Dream," 2004, "All the Universe of Sight," 2006, "Those Grand Poplars," 2004, "Lords of Many Orchards: Selected Best Poems of Gordon Burles," 2003, "That trellis of tombs: Further Selected Poems of Gordon Burles," 2004, "The Closing of Many Doors: More Poems by Gordon Burles," 2006.; II : Prose and research includes "Life story of James Gordon Burles," 2022

Notes: Books of poetry published by Gordon Burles are located in the Whyte Museum Archives Library 05.1/B92. In 2018 Gordon Burles compiled a listing of the original poems that were edited and re-published. This list is in the M196 document file, and is also a PDF attached to the fonds level record

Name Access: Burles, Gordon

Subject Access: Arts

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: file level descriptions with inventory

Creator: Burles, Gordon

Category: Arts

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

Electronic Resources

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The glory in a fossil: new poems and old favourites

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2008

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2008 April PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 16p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: Incident for Katherine (p. 3); A portrait for Mariko and Natsuko (p.3); Tableau for Annalee Westheim (p.4); Portrait for Garrison Upham (p.5); Portrait for Kristelle Dejeune (p. 6); Noctuary for Lazenby Horton (p. 6); Penultimate Tableau for Kristelle (p. 7); Poem dedicated to Helen Wells (p.7); Tableau for Etherspear Wugbyson (p.10); Noctuary for Lousandra Ellerton (p. 10); Nocturne for Amanda (reprint) (p. 11); At the Tea House (reprint) (p.12); Portrait for Leonora (reprint) (p.13); Letter to Wallace (reprint) (p. 14); Another portrait for Maria (reprint) (p.15); Summer carnival (reprint) (p. 16); Cover: photograph by author in 1979 of fossil coral (Lithostrotionella) near summit of Mount Stoney Squaw

Accession Number: 2015.8397 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2008 April PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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ACMG [Association of Canadian Mountain Guides] - File, Mountain Guide training - negatives

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 33 b&w negatives of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides training courses and members. Includes shots of potential members participating in training courses [usually on Tunnel Mountain] as well as posed group shots of ACMG members.

Date Range: 1980-1992

Reference Code: V190 / VI / A / v / NA - 01 to NA - 33

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, A : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: v : ACMG

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / A / v / NA - 01 to NA - 33

GMD: Negative

Date Range: 1980-1992

Physical Description: 33 photographs : b&w negatives ; 15.2 x 5.8 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 33 b&w negatives of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides training courses and members. Includes shots of potential members participating in training courses [usually on Tunnel Mountain] as well as posed group shots of ACMG members.

Name Access: Auger, Tim; Engler, Bruno; Gallagher, Lloyd (Kiwi); Gmoser, Hans; Wood, Sharon

Subject Access: Climbing; Helicopters; Guides; Guiding; Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Mountains; Portrait

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta

Language: English

Related Material: V190 / VI / A / v / PA - 01 to PA - 34

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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The adoration of reality : new poems

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2014

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2014 Jun PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2014

Physical Description: 8p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: Portrait for Lucinda (p.2); Recollection in June (p.3); Vision for Nigel (p.4); Memoir for Denise (p.5); Tableau for Erin (p.6); Toward the adoration of reality (p.7); Memoir for Laetitia (p.8); Cover: photograph of (left to right) Bill Ward, Annie Ward, and Kay Ward (the author’s mother) on the summit ridge of Sulphur Mountain about 1920; weather station in background; object above weather station is dirt on photo

Accession Number: 2015.8397 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2014 Jun PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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All the universe of sight : more poems by Gordon Burles

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Published Date: 2006

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2006 April PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 30p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: (one copy signed by author); Portrait of old age (revision of poem previously titled “Portrait for Sandra) (p.1); I’ll call the surveyor tomorrow (revision)(p.2); Noctuary for Helena Saddington (revision) (p.3); August at the Cemetery Tea House (p.4); After the holiday(for Jenna)(p.5); A portrait for Victoria (p.5); Noctuary for Jacobson Penner (p.6); Metropolis (for Leanna)(p.6); Noctuary for Lathom Crittenden (p.7); Noctuary for Lathom Srigley (p.7); Tableau for Nigel Dunn (p.8); Esplanade of divinity (for Gisela) (p.8); Daydream (for Kathleen)(p.9); Ode to Natalie (p.9); Story for Etherspear Ghently (p.10); Noctuary for Hermione Grafton (p.11); Otter Street (for Miranda)(p.11); A lament in March (p.12); The Saturday adventure (p.13); Ode to a sunny day (p.14); Penultimate letter to Kezia Upton (p.14); An incident in early June (p.15); One vernal portrait for Mary (p.16); One more portrait for Bridget Hawthorne (p.17); Another memoir for Nathan (p.18); A noctuary for Andzia (p.19); One portrait for Nigel Westfall (p.19); A portrait for Nigel Westlock (p.20); That old Tyrolean dream (p.21); Carrot Creek (for Jane)(p.22); Tableau in the desert (p.23); Portrait of July for Wallace (p.23); The warning (for Astrid)(p.24); The great trash dump(p.25); Ah, when I was young (p.26); The things that are no more (revision)(p.26); Another noctuary in memory of her (revision)(p.27); Tableau for Jessop Dunn-Easton (p.28); Experience in November (for Kazimiera)(p.28); Last narrative for Lilia (p.29); Autumn vision (for Nathaniel)(p.29); Not long after her funeral (p.30); Cover: photograph by author looking south from Mount Thompson in evening in 1979; Mount Hector in distance on left; Margo McTaggart standing on other peak of Thompson on right

Accession Number: 7629 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2006 April PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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An ammonite amid flowers : new poems and old favourites

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Published Date: 2009

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2009 June PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 12p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: End of a love affair (p.3); Poem in spring for Lucinda Mayhope (p.3);Meditation in spring (p.4); Incident in late May (p.5); We are etched upon darkness (p.6); A Banff moment (p.7); Memoir for Kathleen and Mary (reprint) (p.8); Some kind of Saturday (reprint) (p.9); Another portrait for Pat (reprint) (p.10); Nocturne for Kathleen (reprint) (p.11); Noctuary for Kathleen (reprint) (p.12); Cover: photograph by author of Triassic ammonite in flower bed at home of Kenneth Bunn in Banff

Accession Number: 2015.8397 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2009 June PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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An avenue without end : more poems by Gordon Burles

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Published Date: 2005

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2005 Oct PAM

Author: Burles, Gordon

Publisher: Banff : Gordon Burles

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 32p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Contents: (one copy signed by author); Incident for Jennifer Weston (p.3); A portrait in June (p.4); One portrait for Basil Roehampton-Northrup (p.5); Adventure for Natalia Von Humboldt (p.6); Sermon for Leander Oldstone (p.7); Tableau for Natalie Westbrook-Wassermann (p.7); Noctuary for Wyndham Saddington (p.8); Portrait of summer for Adrian (p.8); Portrait for Elmira Bracebridge (p.9); Tableau for Littleton Sundergaard (p.10); Portrait for Halliwell Dunn (p.10); Letter to Eleanor de Vavenarches (p.11); Noctuary for Ada Westfall (p.12); Portrait of a June morning (p.12); The elderly alpinist (p.13); Tableau for Ilya Gunning (p.14); Poem for householder (p.14); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (p.15); September dialogue (revision)(p.15); Tableau for Sandeman Westbrook (p.16); Another reckoning (p.16); One portrait for Lorna (revision)(p.17); The Cave and Basin (p.18); Long ago (for John) (p.18); Darkling meditation (p.19); One more narrative for Pelagia Sunderland (p.19); Larch Valley (for Judd) (p.20); Valencian interlude (p.21); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.22); Life in three-quarter time (p.23); Noctuary for Alma Tidswell (p.24); Noctuary for Melinda Dunn (p.25); Tableau for Jackson Weston-Murtha (p.25); Plato’s last night-dream (p.26); Memoir for Jacob Boulton-Smith (p.26); Crossing that pass (p.27); Stewart Canyon adventure (p.28); Another portrait for Eva (revision) (p.29); Tableau for Jason, Greg and Wellington (p.30); Tableau for Jack Dunn-Bridgeman (p.31); The second portrait for Miyuki (p.32); Cover: photograph by author of lane joining Otter street and Muskrat St. in 100 block; looking west from Otter street

Accession Number: 7612 (2 copies)

Call Number: 05.1 B92 2005 Oct PAM

Collection: Archives Library

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Assiniboine - negatives

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 6 colour & b&w negatives of Mount Assiniboine and its surrounding area. Includes scenic views of Assiniboine and its surrounding area from the ground and from a helicopter, as well as shots of the lodge.

Date Range: 1940-1989

Reference Code: V190 / VI / A / iv / NA - 01 to NA - 06

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

6 images

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, A : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: iv : Assiniboine

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / A / iv / NA - 01 to NA - 06

GMD: Negative

Date Range: 1940-1989

Physical Description: 6 photographs : col. & b&w negatives ; 15.2 x 5.8 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 6 colour & b&w negatives of Mount Assiniboine and its surrounding area. Includes scenic views of Assiniboine and its surrounding area from the ground and from a helicopter, as well as shots of the lodge.

Name Access: Engler, Bruno

Subject Access: Aerial photography; Cabins and shelters; Helicopters; Hiking; Mount Assiniboine; Mountains; Sports and leisure

Geographic Access: Assiniboine; Assiniboine Provincial Park; British Columbia

Language: English

Related Material: V190 / VI / A / iv / PA - 01 to PA - 46 V190 / VI / A / iv / NS - 01 to NS - 06

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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Assiniboine - transparencies

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 6 colour 35mm slides of Mount Assiniboine and its surrounding area. Includes scenic views of Assiniboine and the lodge with a helicopter in the winter.

Date Range: 1940-1989

Reference Code: V190 / VI / A / iv / NS - 01 to NS - 06

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

6 images

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, A : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: iv : Assiniboine

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / A / iv / NS - 01 to NS - 06

GMD: Negative

Date Range: 1940-1989

Physical Description: 6 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 6 colour 35mm slides of Mount Assiniboine and its surrounding area. Includes scenic views of Assiniboine and the lodge with a helicopter in the winter.