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Andy Russsell Career Scrapbook

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Part Of: Andy Russell fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Andy Russell. Also includes an invitation presented to Russell from the Winnipeg Game and Fish Association and newspaper clippings pertaining to Cleo Mowers' career.

Date Range: 1947-1961

Reference Code: M153 / 575

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Andy Russell fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M153 / S43 / V555

Sous-Fonds: M153

Sub-Series: VII Russell family series

Accession Number: 5777

Reference Code: M153 / 575

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: 1947-1961

Physical Description: 3 cm of textual records (28 pages ; 31.5 x 35.5 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Andy Russell. Also includes an invitation presented to Russell from the Winnipeg Game and Fish Association and newspaper clippings pertaining to Cleo Mowers' career.

Name Access: Russell, Andy; Mowers, Cleo

Subject Access: Academics; Administration; Backpacking; Biographical; Climatology; Conservation; Ecology; Education; Environment and Nature; Forestry; Horseback riding; Personal and Professional Life; Photography; Natural history; Natural resources; Wildlife; Wildlife fatalities

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Jasper; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Kootenay National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Blank pages not scanned

Finding Aid: Access by advance appointment only

Creator: Russell, Kay

Title Source: Title based on item.

Processing Status: Processed

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Athabasca Glacier

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of the Athabasca Glacier

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1940]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 5 / PA - 138

Description Level: 6 / Image

GMD: Photograph

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Image

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 5 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Landscapes

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 5 / PA - 138

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1920-1940]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of the Athabasca Glacier

Subject Access: Athabasca Glacier; Columbia Icefield; Glaciers; Mountains

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Indian Days, Calgary Stampede scrapbook

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings related to Banff Indian Days and the Calgary Stampede; various other newspaper clippings related to local and international news, including the opening of a new school in Morley and the Luxton Museum [now the Buffalo Nations Museum] in Banff, a fire at Jasp…

Date Range: [1947 - 1952]

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 - 6

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook; Newspaper clipping

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: III.B.4. Georgina Luxton : Collected Material : Textual Records

Sous-Fonds: III. Luxton Family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 - 6

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook; Newspaper clipping

Date Range: [1947 - 1952]

Physical Description: 3 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings related to Banff Indian Days and the Calgary Stampede; various other newspaper clippings related to local and international news, including the opening of a new school in Morley and the Luxton Museum [now the Buffalo Nations Museum] in Banff, a fire at Jasper Park Lodge, and Canadian and international politics.

Name Access: Luxton, Norman; Luxton, Georgina; MacKinnon, Rev. Robert H.; Crowchild, Chief David; Bearspaw, David; Hunter, Eva; Rider, Eli; Rider, Diane; Bearspaw, Rosie; Bearspaw, Harold

Subject Access: Activities; Advertising; Animals; Banff Indian Days; Luxton Museum; Calgary Herald; Calgary Stampede; Children; Commerce and industry; Community events; Community life; Cultural pluralism; Construction; Education; Fire; Government; Hotel; Indigenous Peoples; Horseback riding; Horses; Museums; Multiculturalism; Newspaper; Parade; Politics; Public events; Recreation; Music; Sanitarium Hotel; School; Stoney Nakoda; Taxidermy; Winnipeg Free Press

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Canmore; Calgary; Jasper National Park; Morley

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Cultural pluralism; Education; Politics; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of item

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian Pacific film

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Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to the screenplay for the 1948 film "Canadian Pacific" by Jack DeWitt. The film was made in Banff, directed by Nat Holt, and follows the construction of the line through the Rockies in the 1880s.

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Reference Code: M584 / II / 01

Description Level: 3 / Series

GMD: Organization record; Textual record

Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Description Level: 3 / Series

Fonds Number: M584 / V782

Series: II : screenplay

Sous-Fonds: M584

Accession Number: 3502

Reference Code: M584 / II / 01

GMD: Organization record; Textual record

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Physical Description: 5 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: File pertains to the screenplay for the 1948 film "Canadian Pacific" by Jack DeWitt. The film was made in Banff, directed by Nat Holt, and follows the construction of the line through the Rockies in the 1880s.

Notes: Record absorbed from old M48.

Name Access: Canadian Pacific Railway

Subject Access: Buildings; Buildings and facilities; Camps; Construction; Environment; Huts; Tourism; Trains; Transportation

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Glacier; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian Pacific negatives

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Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of Canadian Pacific Railway negative photographs pertaining to trail riders, camp staff, guides and outfitters, trail rides, fishing, camps, ceremonies, scenic views of Yoho, Jasper, and Banff National Parks, Canmore and surrounding area, and Banff's townsite. Trail riders in photogr…

Date Range: [1943 - ca. 1946]

Reference Code: V635 / III / NA - 1 to 124 & LC - 1 to 5

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M545 / V635

Series: V635 / III : Published records

Sous-Fonds: V635

Accession Number: 5757

Reference Code: V635 / III / NA - 1 to 124 & LC - 1 to 5

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: [1943 - ca. 1946]

Physical Description: 129 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 9.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of Canadian Pacific Railway negative photographs pertaining to trail riders, camp staff, guides and outfitters, trail rides, fishing, camps, ceremonies, scenic views of Yoho, Jasper, and Banff National Parks, Canmore and surrounding area, and Banff's townsite. Trail riders in photographs include John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius and Charlie Beil.

Notes: Original order retained, appears to be chronological.; Most negative envelopes individually titled and dated, majority from 1943 and 1944. Mostly nitrate photographs.; Original CPR negative envelopes retained in document file.

Material Details: Includes 5 loan for copy negatives

Name Access: Beil, Charlie; Gibbon, John Murray; Rungius, Carl; McCowan, Dan

Subject Access: National parks; Trails; Hiking; Camping; Fishing; Guiding; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway

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

Access Restrictions: Access restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

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Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian…

Date Range: [ca.1900-1950]

Reference Code: M584 / V782

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Transparency; Lantern slide; Print; Organization record; Textual record

Part Of: Canadian Pacific Railway fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M584 / V782

Sous-Fonds: V782

Accession Number: 303, 304, 625, 1471, 1086, 1544, 3288, 3502, 6740, 7071, 2014.8366, 2021.18

Reference Code: M584 / V782

GMD: Photograph; Transparency; Lantern slide; Print; Organization record; Textual record

Date Range: [ca.1900-1950]

Physical Description: 69 b&w lantern slides, 5 cm of textual records, ca. 309 prints : b&w ; 27.9 x 20.3 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian Pacific" screenplay and associated documents. Visual material includes black and white lantern slides and black and white prints depicting various scenes pertaining to travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway and depict dining rooms, scnes involving trains and mountains, farming scenes and fields, people in train cars, various cities and towns, figures in natural landscapes, horses and horseback riding, mountains, waterfalls, skiing, ships, CP hotels, and other grand buildings [across Canada] such as Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal. Textual material includes paper reports [some compiled by Canadian Pacific Hotels Architectural Engineer Ed Steel] detailing various construction and/or renovation projects for hotels, lodges, tea houses, bugalow camps, huts, and backcountry lodges throughout the Canadian Rockies as well as records pertaining to CP hotels in the Canadian Rockies, and the screenplay for "Canadian Pacific."

Notes: Slides were stored in rectangular wood box with leather handle on top, and metal handle at one end. White label that says “Lyon & Turnbull 432 04 February 2009” on lid of the box. Old, peeling, and stained label on top under handle, illegible. Faded, peeling labels on front, some words legible: “from the Canadian Pacific…” 2 stained and water damaged labels detached from box appear to be English shipping labels.“10” stamped in black on both ends of box. Stamped in black on rear of box: “Canadian Pacific Rly Co. 62 to 65 Charing Cross, London, S.W. 1. “3” engraved on upper rim of box. Box is divided into 3 sections with removable wood separators, small pieces of felt line 2 sections of the box.

Name Access: Canadian Pacific Railway

Subject Access: Buildings; Buildings and facilities; Camps; Construction; Environment; Huts; Tourism; Trains; Transportation

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Glacier; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: Language is English

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Content Details: Prints and some textual records absorbed from old records V121 and M48. Lantern slides donated to the Whyte Museum by Dr. William and Mrs. Wynn Bensen. The slides were purchased by the Bensens from Lyon and Turnbull in Scotland.

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian Rockies Scrapbook

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Part Of: Ford Family fonds

Scope & Content: Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for…

Date Range: 1908-2003

Reference Code: M583 / 01

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Scrapbook; Private record

Part Of: Ford Family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M583 / V274

Sous-Fonds: M583

Accession Number: 2021.16

Reference Code: M583 / 01

GMD: Scrapbook; Private record

Date Range: 1908-2003

Physical Description: 4 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 24.5 x 29.3 cm)

History / Biographical: Nancy (Ford) Dart, daughter of Minneapolis businessman Allyn K. Ford, became a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1953. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Scope & Content: Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for Jasper and the Jasper Park Lodge from ca. 1954. Tucked into a pouch inside the front cover are two letters addressed to Nancy Dart in 2003 regarding her 50th anniversary as a member of the ACC, four ACC annual newsletter booklets from 1922, 1923, and 1925, and an envelope addressed to Nancy Ford (Dart) containing paperwork pertaining to her admission to the ACC in 1953. Items throughout the scrapbook are either tucked into the plastic sleeves or dispersed throughout the pages. Contents include annual ACC camp brochures (one from 1908, others from the 1940s and 50s), letters (one addressed to Geoffrey Howard from Allyn K. Ford, in 1941 and another addressed to Mr. Ford, probably Allyn Ford, in 1953), photographs/postcards taped to a page divider, seven dinner lists from 1953 for the Jasper Park Lodge (all dated Friday, July 10 but each has a different header picture), a booklet from the third annual ACC membership dinner, a brochure for the 1941 annual American Alpine Club meeting and dinner, three tourism magazines for Jasper from the Canadian National Railway, one trail map of Jasper and one of Banff, an ACC newsletter and brochure for the Mountain Leadership Conference from 1989, a typed copy of a short story "A Journey with the Men of Alps" held together with a small pin (possibly a dramatic retelling of Allyn Ford's first trip to the Rockies), two ACC crossword puzzels (one partially completed), and a notice from the American Alpine Club pertaining to America's involvement in World War II from 1941. Tucked inside the back cover is a red paper envelope containing two photographs (possibly printed off the computer) of A.O. Wheeler from the 1923 ACC camp in Larch Valley.

Name Access: Ford, Allyn; Dart, Nancy; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Advertising; Administration; Canadian National Railway; Correspondence; Family and personal life; Exploration, discovery and travel; Jasper Park Lodge; Sports, recreation and leisure; Trains

Geographic Access: Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States of America; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Public domain (other restrictions may apply)

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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[Christmas Card and Photograph Album]

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing some photographs of various Alpine Club of Canada, American Alpine Club, Sky-Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, and personal trips. Photographs primarily depict mountain views, buildings, lakes, and people, some of whom are identified. The bulk…

Date Range: 1949-1958

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 12

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.b. Photographic material / photograph album

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 12

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1949-1958

Physical Description: 1 album (173 prints : b&w and col. ; 25 x 22.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing some photographs of various Alpine Club of Canada, American Alpine Club, Sky-Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, and personal trips. Photographs primarily depict mountain views, buildings, lakes, and people, some of whom are identified. The bulk of the album is dedicated to Christmas cards sent to Lillian Gest by various people from 1949-1958. Inserts pertain to two photographs of a group of people sitting on the front porch of a cabin in Lake O'Hara. Ernest Feuz is seated far right.