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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
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Processing Status
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Adding gender to the archival contextual turn : the Rocky Mountain photographic records of Mary Schaffer Warren

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2011
Author
Rutkair, Jennifer
Publisher
Winnipeg : Jennifer Rutkair
Call Number
06.4 R93a
Author
Rutkair, Jennifer
Publisher
Winnipeg : Jennifer Rutkair
Published Date
2011
Physical Description
v, 131 pages, illustrations (colour), map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Rocky Mountains, Canada
Schaffer, Mary
Women
Accession Number
2016.8617
Call Number
06.4 R93a
Collection
Archives Library
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Brushes with climate change - Rockies Repeat project explores the intersection between conservation, art, history, and culture

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Campbell, Brooke
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Campbell, Brooke
Responsibility
Brooke Campbell
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
p. 12 - 13
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Art
Art galleries
Artists
Women
First Nations
Climate
Climate change
Photography
Abstract
Pertains to the Rockies Repeat Project which involves a group of women travelling to specific locations and re-creating the paintings of Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte with the end result of creating a documentary, exhibition and digital storytelling capsule
Notes
In Canada's History, Vol. 101, No.2 (April-May)
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online
Websites
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Herrington, Jim
Child, Greg
Honnold, Alex
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
TR H47 C55 OS
  1 website  
Author
Herrington, Jim
Child, Greg
Honnold, Alex
Responsibility
Jim Herrington (photographs), Greg Child (essay), Alex Honnold (foreward)
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
191 p.; illus (some colour)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Mountaineers
Mountaineers Women
Abstract
Pertains to climbers including portraits of Glen Dawson, Hamish McInnes, Dinko Bertoncelj, Gwen Moffat, Francois Guillot, Minoru Higeta, Thomas Hornbein, Joe Brown, Bradford Washburn, Robert Gabriel, Sonia Livanos, Martin Boysen, Doug Robinson, Chuck Pratt, Jim Wickwire, Louis Reichardt, Armando Aste, Peter Haan, Serge Coupe, Dee Molenaar, Glen Denny, Royal Robbins, Joe Fitschen, Mark Powell, Junko Tabei, Jim Whittaker, Sir Christian Bonington, Doug Scott, Pertemba Sherpa, Fritz Wintersteller, Kurt Diemberger, Huntley Ingalls, George Hurley, Layton Kor, Cesare Maestri, Jim Bridwell, John Long, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost, Allen Steck, Steve Roper, Don Claunch Gordon, Fred Beckey, David Brower, Pierre Mazeaud, Kim Schmitz, John Roskelley, Bonnie Prudden, Henry Barber, Don Lauria, Robert Paragot, Reinhold Messner, Kancha Sherpa, Riccardo Cassin, Glen Exum, John Gill, Dave Rearick, Jules Eichorn, Pat Ament, Jeff Lowe
Contents
Foreward
Preface
Reflections on the golden age of climbing
Photographs
Climber biographies
Acknowledgements
Notes
Grand Prize - 2017 Banff Book Awards
Mountaineering History Award - 2017 Banff Book Awards
ISBN
9781680510836
Accession Number
AC634
Call Number
TR H47 C55 OS
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Website for book with author and publisher information, ordering information, images of inside of publication, reviews, etc.
Websites
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Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 Sk3r
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
356 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Women
History-Canada
Travel
Abstract
As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America’s first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women’s practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
The Daguerreans, 1841-61 ; The Livernois Studio, 1854-74 ; Notman's Printing Room, 1860-80 ; The Maynard Studio, 1862-1912 ; The Moodie Studio, 1895-1905 ; Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872-1940 ; Commercial Studio Photographers,1860-1940 ; Artists and Amateurs, 1890-1940
ISBN
9780774867054
Accession Number
2022.09
Call Number
08.1 Sk3r
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer : women wilderness photography

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
Call Number
06.4 sk3s
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Responsibility
Colleen Skidmore
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
xi, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mary Schaffer
Photography
Women
Bibliography
History
Abstract
"Mary Scha¨ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Scha¨ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Scha¨ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Author's notes on names
She Who Coloured Slides
Philadelphia, Paris and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889-1903
The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904-1906
Maligne Lake, 1907-1911
Japan, 1908-1909, and Banff, 1909-1939
Epilogue
Notes
Signed by Colleen Skidmore - dated 09/17
ISBN
978-1-77212-298-5
Accession Number
2019.16
Call Number
06.4 sk3s
Collection
Archives Library
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The West and beyond : new perspectives on an imagined region

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2010
Author
Carter, Sarah
Publisher
Edmonton : AU Press
Call Number
08.2 C24w
Author
Carter, Sarah
Responsibility
[edited by] Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, Peter Fortna
Publisher
Edmonton : AU Press
Published Date
2010
Physical Description
xxv, 435 p. : ill., map, ports
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The West unbound: social and cultural studies
Subjects
Biography
Ethnic groups
First Nations
Glenbow Museum
Inuit
Medicine
Photography
Politics
Tourism
Women
Notes
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19-21 June, 2008. --Includes bibliographical references and index Partial contents: Cree intellectual traditions in history / Winona Wheeler, pp. 47-61; Visual space race and history in the North: photographic narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp, pp.65-93. - Pertains to photographers Charles W. Mathers and Ernest Brown; The kaleidoscope of madness: perceptions of insanity in British Columbia aboriginal populations, 1872-1950 / Kathryn McKay, pp.94-111; The expectations of a queen: identity and race politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey, pp.153-155. - Pertains to controversy regarding 1954 Stampede Queen Evelyn Eagle Speaker known in the competition as "Princess Wapiti", pp.133-155 The Banff photographic exchange: albums, youth, skiing and memory making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler, pp.34-374. -- Pertains to photograph albums of Fulton Dunsmore, Cyril Paris, Peter Whyte and Fern Brewster Eric Harvie: without and within Robert Kroetsch's Alibi / Robyn Read, pp. 375-397
ISBN
9781897425800
Accession Number
8053
Call Number
08.2 C24w
Collection
Archives Library
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