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Railway timetables
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions21623
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of 5 files of Canadian Pacific and VIA rail timetables
- Date Range
- 1892-1992
- Reference Code
- M300 / C2 / 1 to 7
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Series
- II.C. Professional records : topical files
- Reference Code
- M300 / C2 / 1 to 7
- Date Range
- 1892-1992
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of 5 files of Canadian Pacific and VIA rail timetables
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of files. File titles assigned during monetary appraisal
- Content Details
- LIST OF FILES (M300 / C2 / 1 to 7) :
- * Canadian Pacific annotated timetable 1892 (M300/C2/1)
- * Canadian Pacific Railway, Eastern Region timetable 1968 (M300/C2/2)
- * VIA system timetables 1980-1987, 13 items (M300/C2/3,4,5)
- * VIA Western Canada services, 1986, 1986, 1987 (M300/C2/6)
- * CP Rail West timetable 1987 (M300/C2/7)
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Railway publications
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of 18 files of publications, including Spanner and Rail News; also papers pertaining to publications
- Date Range
- 1969-1994
- Reference Code
- M300 / C2 / 8 to 24
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Series
- II.C. Professional records : topical files
- Reference Code
- M300 / C2 / 8 to 24
- Date Range
- 1969-1994
- Physical Description
- ca.30 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of 18 files of publications, including Spanner and Rail News; also papers pertaining to publications
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of files. File titles assigned during monetary appraisal
- Content Details
- LIST OF FILES (M300 / C2 / 8 to ) :
- * Spanner stories (1969) (M300/C2/8)
- * Spanner dope sheets 1971-2 (M300/C2/9)
- * Spanner stories (1975) (M300/C2/10)
- * Spanner stories (1976) (M300/C2/11)
- * Rail News stories (1977) (M300/C2/12)
- * Rail News stories (1978) (M300/C2/13)
- * Rail News stories (1979) (M300/C2/14)
- * Rail News stories (1980, 1981) (M300/C2/15)
- * Rail News stories (1982) (M300/C2/16)
- * Rail News "Sons of Martha" (M300/C2/17)
- * "Sons of Martha", Harry McLean (M300/C2/18,19)
- * Rail News - 4 files of stories (M300/C2/20,21)
- * Spanner / Rail News correspondence, 1969-1980 (M300/C2/22)
- * Canadian Railway Scenes - calendars 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994 (M300/C2/23)
- * Canadian Railway Scenes - greeting cards (4 different Morant photographs) (M300/C2/24)
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Exhibition and gallery files
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of 5 files of catalogues, correspondence and bulletins
- Date Range
- 1957-1993
- Reference Code
- M300 / C2 / 73 to 77
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Series
- II.C. Professional records : topical files
- Reference Code
- M300 / C2 / 73 to 77
- Date Range
- 1957-1993
- Physical Description
- 12 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of 5 files of catalogues, correspondence and bulletins
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of files. File titles assigned during monetary appraisal
- Content Details
- LIST OF FILES (V500 / C2 / 73 to 77) :
- * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston bulletin 1957 (M300/C2/73)
- * Ellis Memorial Antiques Show catalogue 1960 (M300/C2/74)
- * Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogues 1977-1993, 6 issues (M300/C2/75)
- * Smithsonian Institute catalogues 1990, 2 issues (M300/C2/76)
- * Smithsonian Institution catalogue 1993 (M300/C2/77)
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Career binders
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- S-s-series consists of files created by Nick Morant about his career. The files combine items in various formats that were created by, pertain to, or were of interest to Nick Morant, or that incorporate Morant images. Files include textual items, photographic prints, brochures, postcards, clippin…
- Date Range
- [ca.1940-ca.1995], predominant ca.1950-ca.1980
- Reference Code
- M300 / B1 / 1 to 21
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- II.B. Professional records : career records
- Reference Code
- M300 / B1 / 1 to 21
- Date Range
- [ca.1940-ca.1995], predominant ca.1950-ca.1980
- Physical Description
- 21 textual records (21 v. : ca.60 cm)
- Scope & Content
- S-s-series consists of files created by Nick Morant about his career. The files combine items in various formats that were created by, pertain to, or were of interest to Nick Morant, or that incorporate Morant images. Files include textual items, photographic prints, brochures, postcards, clippings and other print material items. Files were originally in volume form and stored in binders
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Content Details
- LIST OF ITEMS (M300 / B1) :
- * #1, #2. Files contain ca.170 photo-mechanically printed postcards, ca.1950-ca.1965.
- * #3, #4. Files contain hotel and travel brochures, ca.1950-ca.1965
- * #5, #6. Files contain brochures, advertisements, postcards and calendars, ca.1965, ca.1976
- * #7. File contains brochures and annual reports, ca.1960-ca.1975
- * #8. File contains press clippings and biographical information, [ca.1940-ca.1980?]
- * #9. File contains clippings, articles, watercolours by Cy Harris of Banff (2 items), family snapshots, small panoramas, and family obituaries, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #10. File contains clippings, articles, small panoramas, CPR ticket stubs and obituaries of family and friends, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #11. File contains clippings, articles, photographs and writings by Morant, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #12. File contains clippings and articles from "The Spanner" magazine, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #13. File contains clippings and articles, photographs and writings by Morant, and clippings pertaining to Canadian Pacific Railway, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #14. File contains clippings and articles, and photographs and writings by Morant, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #15. File contains clippings, articles and brochures pertaining to CP Travel in British Columbia, Ontario, Atlantic Canada, Alaska, Quebec, Peru, ca.1920-ca.1980
- * #16. File contains annual reports, clippings and postcards re Canadian Pacific Railway, ca.1920-ca.1980
- * #17. File contains clippings, articles, discussion of slide lectures, ca.1940-ca.1995
- * #18. File contains articles and clippings pertaining to environmental concerns, Banff, mountains and development, Canadian Pacific Railway, ca.1950-ca.1995
- * #19. File contains clippings and articles pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway, ca.1930-ca.1980
- * #20. File contains clippings pertaining to natives, 1950s, and Canadian Pacific Railway, ca.1955
- * [un-numbered]. File contains photographs, b/w and col, possibly for calendars,1930-ca.1980. Includes 56 prints re the Canadian Pacific Railway trains and rail lines; also postcards (2), calendar prints (2), brochure (1)t
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Date Range
- 1985-1992
- Reference Code
- M300 / D / 52
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.A. Personal and family records : Nick and Willie Morant
- Reference Code
- M300 / D / 52
- Date Range
- 1985-1992
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of notes by Bruce Campbell re photographs loaned out and returned between 1996 and 2002, and list by David Morant, 1999
- Date Range
- 1999-2002
- Reference Code
- M300 / D / 65
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.B. Personal and family records : Nick Morant funeral, memorial and estate
- Reference Code
- M300 / D / 65
- Date Range
- 1999-2002
- Physical Description
- 2 textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of notes by Bruce Campbell re photographs loaned out and returned between 1996 and 2002, and list by David Morant, 1999
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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Burton Wheatley family papers and photographs
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains mainly to Canadian Pacific Railway engineer, Burton Wheatley, and his death in a railway accident on the Field Hill, 1894. Includes CPR Solicitor’s Office Release re death of Burton Wheatley, 1895, 3 p. The Wheatley family was related to Willie Morant. File also contains notes and o…
- Date Range
- 1884-1903
- Reference Code
- M300 / D / 74 to 77
- V500 / E / 5 (PA)
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- III.D. Personal and family records : collected material
- Reference Code
- M300 / D / 74 to 77
- V500 / E / 5 (PA)
- Date Range
- 1884-1903
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records. -- 2 photographs : prints
- Scope & Content
- File pertains mainly to Canadian Pacific Railway engineer, Burton Wheatley, and his death in a railway accident on the Field Hill, 1894. Includes CPR Solicitor’s Office Release re death of Burton Wheatley, 1895, 3 p. The Wheatley family was related to Willie Morant. File also contains notes and other material pertaining to railway history, tunnels, other
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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Postcards, greeting cards and ephemera collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions21736
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of postcards, greeting cards and ephemera collected by Nick Morant. Ephemera includes notes and lists, ration cards, blank notecards and stationery, cigarette cards, attendance cards, photographs, clippings, labels, silk samples, curiosities,$1 and 25 cent bills, other publishe…
- Date Range
- ca.1900-[ca.1990]
- Reference Code
- M300 / C3 / 1 to 104
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- M300
- Series
- II.C. Professional records : topical files
- Sous-Fonds
- M300
- Reference Code
- M300 / C3 / 1 to 104
- Date Range
- ca.1900-[ca.1990]
- Physical Description
- ca.50 cm of print material
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series consists of postcards, greeting cards and ephemera collected by Nick Morant. Ephemera includes notes and lists, ration cards, blank notecards and stationery, cigarette cards, attendance cards, photographs, clippings, labels, silk samples, curiosities,$1 and 25 cent bills, other published items
- Material is mainly in files numbered 1 to 102 by Morant (missing: #10, 29, 44, 45, 53, 88). Also includes one un-numbered file and 10 cm of postcards not in files
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of s-s-series
- Content Details
- LIST OF FILES (M300/C3 / 1 to 104) :
- 1. Old time cards: C.P. steamers, B.C.C.S., Great Lakes, lakes boats (.5 cm)
- 2. Gowen Sutton miniatures: Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver City
- 3. Old time cards: Old C.P.R. hotels: Banff Springs, Digby Pines, Empress Hotel, Chateau Frontenac, Sicamous Hotel - see also 78 (.5 cm)
- 4. Old time cards: Lake Superior, Fort William, Ontario (.5 cm)
- 5. Old time cards: Vancouver, Totems at Duncan, Siwash Rock, Toronto Union, Nova Scotia ships, Montreal, Malahat Drive (.5 cm)
- 6. Old time cards: Kamloops, Train along Main Street - see also 17, P-4 (.5 cm)
- 7. Byron Harmon: 20 pack set (1 cm)
- 8. Prairies: harvesting with tractor engines, old time cowboy, Canmore Opera House (1900) (.5 cm)
- 9. Old London cards: circa 1900 (.5 cm)
- 11. Old time cards: Coronation, violets, Xmas pc, etc., totems at Duncan (.5 cm)
- 12. Old U.S.:. R.R. pc's (.5 cm)
- 13. Swiss art (1 cm)
- 14. The travelling salesman: the typical travelling salesman of the early 1920s ....one Harry Spencer
- 15. Sample of Mourning writing paper: circa 1900 (1 cm)
- 16. Insects
- 17. Old time cards: railroad scenes (1.5 cm)
- 18. British Museum: locomotive exhibits (.5 cm)
- 19. Peru postcards (.5 cm)
- 20. Peruvian art (.5 cm)
- 21. Cats (.5 cm)
- 22. Swedish flower designs: to keep (1 cm)
- 23. Oriental cards
- 24. U.S. postcards: Desert, Oregon, etc. (.5 cm)
- 25. Tennant postcards
- 26. Christmas cards: European designs (.5 cm)
- 27. Xmas cards: Dwart's (2 cm)
- 28. Yoho Slide: Slide at Yoho, B.C., Aug. 9, 1925 re Seth Partridge Story - see 57-323 contains later accident (.5 cm)
- 30. Christmas cards: bird house, Swiss R.R.
- 31. World War II: ration cards, ARP (.5 cm)
- 32. Description of Christ: old religious tract
- 33. Old cigarette cards: 1945? (.5 cm)
- 34. Old time Xmas "gift" card
- 35. Old time school attendance card: old time (1890 or earlier) card given to schoolboy for "good attendance"
- 36. Indigenous letter
- 37. Old "dry goods" advertising: Silk samples
- 38. "Shin-Plaster": 25 cent bill
- 39. Micro-filmed bible: 1977
- 40. RR historic: free meal check given out by Stewards on dining cars to passengers whose train had been delayed in transit. I was travelling to pass over Canadian National tracks from Raith, Ontario, to Winnipeg, due to derailment of freight ahead of us
- 41. Nick's gall bladder
- 42. Old time aviation postcard
- 43. British postcards (.5 cm)
- 46. Some very old letters (1890?): no information available
- 47. Canoe etching by Palenske (.5 cm)
- 48. Animals etc.: Mr. ? (.5 cm)
- 49. Christmas transparencies: personal (.5 cm)
- 50. Old time photofinishing: envelopes
- 51. Peter Whtye Christmas cards (1.5 cm)
- 52. Beil Xmas cards (1.5 cm)
- 54. Art gallery postcards (1 cm)
- 55. Mexican art cards (1 cm)
- 56. Art cards
- 57. Marine art cards
- 58. Medical advertising cards: Nick Morant illustrations (.5 cm)
- 59. Rail roading cards (1 cm)
- 60. Xmas cards: from Bob Reck, Miriam Ellis, Hugh MacLennan, Soulsby's, Mrs. Joe Daem, miniature (.5 cm)
- 61. Baggage stickers: Alaska, Peru
- 62. Third Dimension: "moving picture" cards for kids 1965
- 63. Christmas cards on silk: from German Embassy (.5 cm)
- 64. Greenland (silk) postcard
- 65. Postcards: Taillon vaults, Quebec City (.5 cm)
- 66. Christmas cards (1 cm)
- 67. Cowboy (unidentified): Kamloops B.C. origin
- 68. Silverware reference materiel: also on rugs (.5 cm)
- 69. Humourous photo: men raising statue
- 70. Tim ffrench photo: etc.
- 71. Postcards: sternwheelers, S.S. Klondike, U.S. ship in Iowa - see also R- 19
- 72. Morant coat of arms: "Resurgam" I will rise again - negative filed P-69
- 73. Postcards: old CPR locomotive at Golden Mill
- 74. References to Wylde: portraits in house (.5 cm)
- 75. Wlyde - Morant family history references from "Burke's Peerage" etc. - see also 72, 74, 44, P-6, B-3, B-4, P-1
- 76. Postcards 1914-20: John Bull war card 1916, Thanksgiving & Hallow'en, "Telescope" card
- 77. R.R. Christmas cards: Fogg - Sawatsky, Morant (.5 cm)
- 78. Historic RR cards: Rocky Mountain area, Harmon printings, circa 1980 - see also 15
- 79. Old Banff postcards: see also 78. (1 cm)
- 80. C.P. stone bridges
- 81. Fascimile original: Life magazine 1883
- 82. Maude Lewis: Nova Scotian "primitive" artist
- 83. Extra: social security cards
- 84. Walter Phillips pictures: reference materiel relative to Phillips' pictures in this house
- 85. Frank Lloyd Wright: historic article concerning Banff Pavilion 1913
- 86. Exhibition listing of C.P.R. posters in Montreal collection
- 87. R.C.M.P. "Crime indexing" information sheets 1965 (1 cm)
- 89. "Notes from Willie" "Snapshots" from Willie's albums: stained glass window info, list of antiques
- 90. Old train orders: VIA #1 into Wpg, June 20, 1987 - see also 91 (.5 cm)
- 91. Old train orders: 1988 - see also 90 (.5 cm)
- 92. CPR Pavilion: Wembley Exhibition 1925, Dunc McMurray collection (1 cm)
- 93. Spiral Tunnel: "Mineview"
- 94. Daem miniature Christmas cards: Mrs. Mary Daem of Revelstoke B.C. 1970's - see also 60
- 95. Thimbles: historic references
- 96. Man on velocipide with dog: U.S. origin likely Pacific N.W. location (logging RR?)
- 97. Oldtime airmail stickers: Wartime era TCA stickers, Canadian Pacific airlines airmail stickers "Airmail Arrow" stickers (.5 cm)
- 98. Postcards: old time Calgary street scenes
- 99. Postcard: old Empress Rose Gardens
- 100. Old company envelope
- 101. "Last of the dollar bills" : 2 new ones in successive numbering!
- 102. "Hungry Wolf"
- [103]. Some "nice" cards (.5 cm)
- [104.] [Other postcards] (6 cm)
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Banff Lantern Slides
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of 4 lantern slides. Slides are views of the Banff Hot Springs, Banff Avenue with Cascade Mountain, Devil's Lake, and the city of Calgary.
- Date Range
- [c. 1890]
- Reference Code
- V8 / 7919 / PS - 1 to PS - 4
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- GMD
- Transparency
- Lantern slide
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Fonds Number
- M8 / V8 / S8
- Series
- Accession Number : 7919
- Sous-Fonds
- V8
- Accession Number
- 7919
- Reference Code
- V8 / 7919 / PS - 1 to PS - 4
- Date Range
- [c. 1890]
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : b&w slides ; 8.2 x 8.2 cm
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of 4 lantern slides. Slides are views of the Banff Hot Springs, Banff Avenue with Cascade Mountain, Devil's Lake, and the city of Calgary.
- Subject Access
- Lantern slide
- Tourism
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- All slides were cleaned prior to scanning.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Anû Kathâ Îpa (Bald Eagle Peak)
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- Scope & Content
- Anû Kathâ Îpa (english translation Bald Eagle Peak) (formally called Squaw's Tit) summit register and notes, Sept 1998 - May 2003, 6 items. Name changed to Anû Kathâ Îpa in September 2020
- Date Range
- 1998 - 2003
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 8002 / 47
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M235
- Sous-Fonds
- M235
- Accession Number
- 8002
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 8002 / 47
- Date Range
- 1998 - 2003
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Scope & Content
- Anû Kathâ Îpa (english translation Bald Eagle Peak) (formally called Squaw's Tit) summit register and notes, Sept 1998 - May 2003, 6 items. Name changed to Anû Kathâ Îpa in September 2020
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