topic:"Banff" found 92 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Bill Brewster interview

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Part Of: Whyte Museum Oral History Programme collection

Date Range: 1969

Reference Code: S1 / 26

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Whyte Museum Oral History Programme collection

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: S1

Series: I. Interviews

Sous-Fonds: S1

Reference Code: S1 / 26

Responsibility: Interviewer: Maryalice Harvey Stewart

Date Range: 1969

Physical Description: 1 sound recording

Subject Access: Boyd family; Buildings - Banff; Douglas, Howard; Fire wardens; Potts family; Ranchers and ranching; Schools - Banff; Stewart, George; Indigenous Peoples; Trails

Finding Aid: Recording summary and reference cassette available

Title Source: Title based on contents of recording

Processing Status: Processed

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Castle Mountain Battle

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Part Of: Dorothy Wardle fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 127 pages of compiled research, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, H28 cm x W21.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the renaming of Castle Mountain to Mt. Eisenhower in 1946 under the William Lyon Mackenzie King administration and the restoration of the Castle name in 1975-1976…

Date Range: ca.1946 - 1987; 1946; 1975; 1987

Reference Code: M521 / I / A / 1-2

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Newspaper clipping; Government record

Part Of: Dorothy Wardle fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M521 / V75

Series: M521 / I : Dorothy Wardle Personal Papers

Sous-Fonds: M521

Sub-Series: M521 / I / A : Research and Writing

Accession Number: 5391; 7504

Reference Code: M521 / I / A / 1-2

GMD: Textual record; Private record; Newspaper clipping; Government record

Date Range: ca.1946 - 1987; 1946; 1975; 1987

Physical Description: 2 cm of textual records (127 pages ; 21.5 x 28 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: Freeman Keyte was a scientist originally from Ontario who was living in Calgary at the time when Castle Mountain was renamed to Mt. Eisenhower. He argued for the Castle name to be reinstated and communicated with the Geographic Board of Alberta, Members of Parliament, and the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names.

Scope & Content: File consists of 127 pages of compiled research, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, H28 cm x W21.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the renaming of Castle Mountain to Mt. Eisenhower in 1946 under the William Lyon Mackenzie King administration and the restoration of the Castle name in 1975-1976. File includes photocopies of government records, newspaper clippings, and other research compiled by Freeman Keyte. It also includes handwritten correspondence between Dorothy and Freeman, Dorothy and Ted Hart, and newspaper clippings that were collected by Dorothy.

Notes: On March 12, 1980, Freeman sent a copy of his findings in a 113-page binder to Dorothy, who then gifted it to the Whyte Museum in 1987.; Included a photocopy of the letter from Dorothy to Ted Hart. The photocopy was discarded. Dorothy filed the original with Freeman's compilation of research as represented in this file.; Records from accn.7504 were filed in an envelope titled, "The Castle Mountain Battle (from Castle to Eisenhower & back to Castle."

Name Access: Wardle, Dorothy; Keyte, Freeman; Hart, E. J. (Ted)

Subject Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Calgary Herald; Geography; Government; Mountains; Newspaper; Politics; Research

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Castle Mountain

Language: English

Creator: Wardle, Dorothy; Keyte, Freeman

Category: Government; Natural resources; Politics

Biographical Source Notes: Rayburn, Alan. Naming Canada: Stories About Place Names from Canadian Geographic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.