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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

Category: Arts; Education; Exploration, discovery and travel; Sports, recreation and leisure

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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Jean Knox Petrie fonds

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Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds relate to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Canada. The fond consists of three series: I. Textual records consist of 8 newsclippings from July 1938 pertaining to the first ascent of Mount Columbia by women: Lillian Gest, Kathleen Chapman, Christine Reid, Jean McDonald, and Jean Petrie as…

Date Range: 1938-1940

Reference Code: M237 / V281

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Map; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 237; V 281

Sous-Fonds: M 237; V 281

Accession Number: 7694

Reference Code: M237 / V281

GMD: Photograph; Album; Map; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1938-1940

Physical Description: 1 cm textual records. -- 8 albums (257 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller). -- 4 photographs : b&w silver gelatin prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller.

History / Biographical: Dr. Jean Knox (McDonald) Petrie, born 1913, was an active member of the Alpine Club of Canada, Edmonton Section during the 1930s and 1940s, attending the Alpine Club of Canada summer camps from 1937-1940, 1942 and 1946 as well as making many weekend climbs in the Jasper area with Captain E. R. Gibson. In 1938 she was one of the four women to make a first ascent of Mount Columbia by women, as well as Mount Forbes in 1940. Married in 1960 to Robert Petrie (died 1966), Dr. Jean Petrie worked in Ottawa, Ontario (1940-1945) in munitions gauge testing for the National Research Council. Following the war, she worked as an astrophysicist for the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia (1945-1966) and taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1966-1971).

Scope & Content: Fonds relate to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Canada. The fond consists of three series: I. Textual records consist of 8 newsclippings from July 1938 pertaining to the first ascent of Mount Columbia by women: Lillian Gest, Kathleen Chapman, Christine Reid, Jean McDonald, and Jean Petrie as well as a photocopied "Guide to the Tonquin" signed by K. G. Chapman ca.1935. II. Photographic records include an unbound album of 44 pages: 111 prints divided by the donor into 3 sections: 1. To the Tonquin Valley, July 1938; 2. Alpine Club Camp, Columbia Icefields, July 12-31, 1938; 3. Alpine Club Camp Tonquin Valley, April 1939. The album also includes artwork and map. A second unbound photograph album of 28p: 170 prints are divided into 5 sections: 1. ACC camp in the Ice River Valley, July 1939; 2. ACC ski camp in Little Yoho Valley, March 23-31, 1940; 3. Our climb of Roche Miette, May 24, 1940; 4. Our summertime journey into the Little Yoho Valley, July 1940; 5. Our climb of Mts. Fitzwilliam & Bucephelas, September 3, 1940. III. Photographic Prints consist of 4 loose prints unrelated to other contents of the fond.

Notes: Unbound books are numbered in pencil by the creator, pages appear to be missing due to absent page numbers.

Name Access: Petrie, Jean K.; McDonald, Jean; Gale, Ethne; Taylor, Morris; Cooper, Art; Rault, Reg; Brewster, Norman; Cassils, Mary; Hind, Rob; Chapman, Kathleen; Gibson, Rex; Feuz, Edward; Gest, Illian; Walker, Hazel; Carscallan, Alan; McLean, Hector

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Ski lodges and cabins; Ski touring; Skiing; Backcountry skiing; Banff Jasper Highway; Cabins and shelters; Camps; Glaciers; Huts; Mountaineering; Sunshine Lodge; Trail guides; Trail making; Trails; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Alberta; Canada; Banff National Park

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: No finding aid

Creator: Petrie, Jean Knox

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Sports, recreation and leisure

Biographical Source Notes: Accession record; Donor

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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1907 Diary [Hector Wheeler]

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Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1907 personal diary/daytimer of Hector Wheeler. Topics include: Diary begins June 30 leaving Calgary for ACC camp. Introductory pages hold geometrical drawings. Short documentation of camp and climbing June 30-July 14. Begins again August 1-October 30. Trip to Golden camp and s…

Date Range: 1907

Reference Code: M546 / 53

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Diary

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M546 / V771

Sous-Fonds: M546

Accession Number: 2014.8312

Reference Code: M546 / 53

GMD: Diary

Date Range: 1907

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 7.5 x 11.8 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1907 personal diary/daytimer of Hector Wheeler. Topics include: Diary begins June 30 leaving Calgary for ACC camp. Introductory pages hold geometrical drawings. Short documentation of camp and climbing June 30-July 14. Begins again August 1-October 30. Trip to Golden camp and surrounding camps and climbs. Mention of A. O. and Oliver Wheeler August 14. In and out of Calgary and Golden. Camping and climbing in Ptarmigan, Donald Camp, Beaueumouth [?]. Memoranda at back monetary notations for trip expenses. Notations of expenses for 1907 and 1908 trips.

Notes: Blank pages not scanned

Name Access: Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver); Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Wheeler, Hector

Subject Access: Camps; Climbing; Correspondence; Family and personal life; Finances; Leisure; Mountains; Professional and Personal Life; Sports and recreation; Record keeping; Travel and Exploration; Weather; Work

Geographic Access: Rocky Mountains; Calgary; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Creator: Wheeler, Hector

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Norman Luxton and friends, hunting and camping trips

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 18 photograph prints pertaining to Norman Luxton's travels in the Rocky Mountains and a trip to Lake Minnewanka [ca.1915-1920?]. Includes images of Norman Luxton with friends Eugene F. LaPorte, Mr. and Mrs. "Woodie" Campbell and others; a warden's cabin near Lake Minnewanka; and ca…

Date Range: [1915-1920]

Reference Code: LUX / I / E4 / PA - 206 to 223

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 : Photographs

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / E4 / PA - 206 to 223

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [1915-1920]

Physical Description: 18 photographs : b&w prints ; 15.5 x 9.5 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of 18 photograph prints pertaining to Norman Luxton's travels in the Rocky Mountains and a trip to Lake Minnewanka [ca.1915-1920?]. Includes images of Norman Luxton with friends Eugene F. LaPorte, Mr. and Mrs. "Woodie" Campbell and others; a warden's cabin near Lake Minnewanka; and camping and hiking in the Lake Minnewanka region.

Notes: Photographs originally in brown labelled envelope; envelope disposed of but original label separated and kept in file

Name Access: Luxton, Norman; LaPorte, Eugene; Campbell, Woodworth; Campbell, Theodora

Subject Access: Animals; Cabins; Camping; Camps; Environment; Hiking; Landscapes; Log structures; Family and personal life; Recreation; Travel; Warden cabins; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Lake Minnewanka

Language: English

Conservation: Items stored in mylar

Category: Environment; 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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Personal Daytimers

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Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1898 & 1899 personal diaries/daytimers of A. O. Wheeler. M546 / 5 : Includes travel from Ottawa to Calgary, travel around High River area. July measuring. Notations of office work and correspondence. Extensive documentation of weather, particularly during times at camp througho…

Date Range: 1898-1899

Reference Code: M546 / 5 to 6

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Diary

2 images 2 Electronic Resources

Part Of: Arthur Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M546 / V771

Sous-Fonds: M546

Accession Number: 2014.8312

Reference Code: M546 / 5 to 6

GMD: Diary

Date Range: 1898-1899

Physical Description: 2.7 cm of textual records (2 volumes ; 8.3 x 14.2 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to the 1898 & 1899 personal diaries/daytimers of A. O. Wheeler. M546 / 5 : Includes travel from Ottawa to Calgary, travel around High River area. July measuring. Notations of office work and correspondence. Extensive documentation of weather, particularly during times at camp throughout August and September. Diary blank from November 17 to end. Memoranda section filled with numbers and names. Cash account section filled in for May to October and December. Diary blank up to May 25. M546 / 6 : includes daily notations of weather, office work, day to day activities, leisure. Diary blank up to February 21 regarding meter reading. Following two weeks list temperature highs and lows. Blank until April 21. Following entries regard camp throughout to September and throughout October travel around Mosquito Creek. Working on report and negatives throughout early December. On many entries he overwrites himself vertically. Memoranda, Notes and Bills Payable, Cash Account March to November.

Notes: M546 / 5 : blank pages not scanned - exception is first days of months prior to May. M546 / 6 : blank pages not scanned. Loose sheet in pocket at back is a recipe for [illegible].

Name Access: Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver); Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Subject Access: Camps; Climbing; Family and personal life; Finances; Leisure; Mountains; Professional and Personal Life; Sports and recreation; Record keeping; Travel and Exploration; Weather; Work

Geographic Access: Ottawa; Toronto; Ontario; Winnipeg; Manitoba; Calgary; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Creator: Wheeler, Arthur O.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed