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472. VIA Canadian, M-113, Lake Louise

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: "The Canadian" passenger train, Canadian Pacific Railway, at "Morant's Curve" near Lake Louise, Banff National Park AB

Date Range: [c. 1930 - 1980]

Reference Code: V500 / I / A / 1 / b / A4 / NA - 472

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative; Transparency

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Series: I.A. Photography : negatives and transparencies

Sous-Fonds: V500

Sub-Series: 1.c. Darkroom files : colour I

Accession Number: 7438

Reference Code: V500 / I / A / 1 / b / A4 / NA - 472

GMD: Film; Negative; Transparency

Date Range: [c. 1930 - 1980]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. negative ; 5.71 x 5.71 cm

Scope & Content: "The Canadian" passenger train, Canadian Pacific Railway, at "Morant's Curve" near Lake Louise, Banff National Park AB

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Advertising; Canadian Pacific Railway; Train; Trains; Photography; Scenery

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Morant's Curve; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: NA

Finding Aid: yes

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: The A4 denotes part I (one) of the colour series ; A5 deontes part II (two)

Processing Status: Processed

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Advertisement Scrapbook

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing magazine and newspaper clippings of articles and advertisements featuring Nicholas Morant's photographs. Also includes articles, notices, and ads for Morant's lectures and photography shows. Many clippings are the front covers of various Canadian magazine pub…

Date Range: [ca. 1970]

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 11

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: II / B Professional records : career records

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 11

GMD: Scrapbook

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant

Date Range: [ca. 1970]

Physical Description: 4.5 cm of textual records (139 pages ; 29 x 37 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing magazine and newspaper clippings of articles and advertisements featuring Nicholas Morant's photographs. Also includes articles, notices, and ads for Morant's lectures and photography shows. Many clippings are the front covers of various Canadian magazine publications. Includes articles and ads for travel destinations throughout Canada, articles featuring other Canadian photographers, and pages from calendars.

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Advertising; Magazine; Newspaper; Skiing; Swimming; Boats; Trains; Travel; Tourism

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Quebec; Canada; Holland; England

Language: English

Conservation: Blank pages not scanned.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Advertising Scrapbook Volume 1

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook (volume 1/2) containing articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and pamphlets using Morant's photographs or pertaining to Morant dating back to the 1930s and 1940s; includes adversizing work.

Date Range: [ca. 1950]

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: II / B Professional records : career records

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 1

GMD: Scrapbook

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant

Date Range: [ca. 1950]

Physical Description: 3 cm of textual records (130 pages ; 25.5 x 30 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook (volume 1/2) containing articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and pamphlets using Morant's photographs or pertaining to Morant dating back to the 1930s and 1940s; includes adversizing work.

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Advertising; Magazine; Newspaper; Skiing; Trains

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Blank pages not scanned

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Advertising Scrapbook Volume 2

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook (volume 2/2) containing articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and pamphlets using Morant's photographs or pertaining to Morant dating back to the 1930s and 1940s; includes adversizing work.

Date Range: [ca. 1950]

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 2

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: II / B Professional records : career records

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 2

GMD: Scrapbook

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant

Date Range: [ca. 1950]

Physical Description: 3.5 cm of textual records (152 pages ; 25.5 x 30 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook (volume 2/2) containing articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and pamphlets using Morant's photographs or pertaining to Morant dating back to the 1930s and 1940s; includes adversizing work.

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Advertising; Magazine; Newspaper; Skiing; Trains

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Blank pages not scanned

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff album

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of Eleanor Luxton's personal album which contains 195 black and white prints pasted in, most spreads are captioned. Content pertains to family and school photographs, events and travels between 1921 and 1925, in addition to potentional childhood photographs as well. Locations include …

Date Range: 1921 - 1925

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Album; Print

1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / E : Travel and home records

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD / 1

GMD: Photograph; Album; Print

Date Range: 1921 - 1925

Physical Description: Photograph Album: 1 image from album (195 b&w prints)

Scope & Content: File consists of Eleanor Luxton's personal album which contains 195 black and white prints pasted in, most spreads are captioned. Content pertains to family and school photographs, events and travels between 1921 and 1925, in addition to potentional childhood photographs as well. Locations include Banff, Lake Louise, Yoho, Marble Canyon, Takakkaw Falls, Lake Minnewanka, Summit Lake, Victoria, Vancouver, Yoho Valley Bungalow Camp and Radium Hot Springs. Events include the opening of the Banff-Wintermere Highway at Kootenay Crossing in 1921, a dog derby on frozen Lake Minnewanka, Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival. Subjects include unidentified and identified people including Norman Luxton, Georgina Luxton, Enos Hunter, Ben Kaquitts, Hector Crawler, John Englishman, Mrs. Wood, Edmée, Mrs Mitt and Miss Maemillan. Album cover is leather with burned annotation "Snap Shots" with paint and cloth leaf detailing. The album i sbound by a cord with leather tassels.

Notes: File consists of several loose photographs. Some photographs are detaching from the paper.

Name Access: Luxton, Eleanor; Luxton, Norman; Luxton, Georgina; Englishman, John; Kaquitts, Tom; Crawler, Hector; Hunter, Enos

Subject Access: Chateau Lake Louise; Banff Indian Days; Banff Winter Carnival; Banff; Banff Gun Club; Banff National Park; Bighorn Sheep; Cave and Basin; Community events; Dogs; Family and personal life; Indigenous Peoples; Parades; Takakkaw Falls; Twin Falls Chalet; Winter Carnival; Yoho Valley Bungalow Camp

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Victoria; Victoria Glacier; Vancouver; Butchart Gardens; Lake Louise; Lake Minnewanka; Radium; Yoho National Park; Marble Canyon

Language: English

Creator: Luxton, Eleanor

Title Source: Title given by Archivist based on contents of album

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Indian Days panoramic photographs

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Files consists of panorama photographs of Banff Indian Days, largely portraits of identified and unidentified Indigenous people, and camp at the base of Cascade Mountain. Some photographs have copy prints of varying paper textures. One negative, NA - 27, has three black and white prints, one print …

Date Range: [ca.1910s]

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3a / 10 / NA - 23 to NA - 33

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

14 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D / 3 : Organizations

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3a / 10 / NA - 23 to NA - 33

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: [ca.1910s]

Physical Description: 11 photograph : b&w negatives ; 30.2 x 9.8 cm

Scope & Content: Files consists of panorama photographs of Banff Indian Days, largely portraits of identified and unidentified Indigenous people, and camp at the base of Cascade Mountain. Some photographs have copy prints of varying paper textures. One negative, NA - 27, has three black and white prints, one print has been hand-coloured.

Name Access: Crawler, Hector; Dogtail, Philip; Englishman, Johnny; Hunter, Elijah; Kaquitts, Benjamin; Kaquitts, Tom; Luxton, Georgina; McLean, George; Wesley, Mary; Jimmyjohn, Susan; Poucette, Mark

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Cascade Mountain

Geographic Access: Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park

Conservation: All show some shift towards a yellowing film base, in particular NA - 33 NA - 28 shows notable nitrate detrioartion of the emulsion with amber discolouration and mirroring.

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Indian Grounds

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of tepees, wagons, and people with horses in a field with trees - "Photo by NICHOLAS MORANT" stamped on the back

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1960]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 6 / PA - 81

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

2 images

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 6 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Local Indigenous people and Banff Indian Days

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 6 / PA - 81

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1960]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of tepees, wagons, and people with horses in a field with trees - "Photo by NICHOLAS MORANT" stamped on the back

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; First Nations; Horses; Indigenous Peoples; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda; Tepee

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Alberta

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Banff Indian Grounds

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified First Nations woman beside a cook fire in front of two tepees - "Photo by NICHOLAS MORANT" stamped on the back

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1960]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 6 / PA - 82

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

2 images

Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 6 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Local Indigenous people and Banff Indian Days

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 6 / PA - 82

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1960]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of an unidentified First Nations woman beside a cook fire in front of two tepees - "Photo by NICHOLAS MORANT" stamped on the back

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; First Nations; Horses; Indigenous Peoples; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda; Tepee

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Alberta

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Canada Coast to Coast Scrapbook

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, magazine articles and covers, and pamphlets featuring leisure activities and travel/tourism activities across Canada. Includes some ads featuring Morant's photographs and a newspaper article about a murder investigation in Br…

Date Range: [ca. 1940]

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 9

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Sous-Fonds: M300

Sub-Series: II / B Professional records : career records

Accession Number: 7784

Reference Code: M300 / II / B2 / 9

GMD: Scrapbook

Responsibility: Nicholas Morant

Date Range: [ca. 1940]

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records (30 pages ; 31 x 35.5 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, magazine articles and covers, and pamphlets featuring leisure activities and travel/tourism activities across Canada. Includes some ads featuring Morant's photographs and a newspaper article about a murder investigation in British Columbia.

Name Access: Morant, Nicholas (Nick)

Subject Access: Advertising; Magazine; Newspaper; Skiing; Swimming; Boats; Crime; Trains; Tourist information

Geographic Access: British Columbia; Quebec; Ontario; Nova Scotia; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Blank pages not scanned.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Curtiss-Wright Corp. staff and family photographs album

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one personal photograph album [likely created by Eleanor Luxton]. Content pertains to staff members of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Aircraft Division and related events including a dinner party in New York, as well as friends and relatives of the Luxton family. Includes images of…

Date Range: [ca. 1910]; [ca. 1920 - ca. 1930]; [ca. 1940 - ca. 1945]; 1941 - 1944; 1950; 1954; 1956; [ca. 1960 - ca. 1970]; 1967 - 1969

Reference Code: LUX / II / C / PD - 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Scrapbook

203 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / C : Personal

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / C / PD - 1

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Scrapbook

Responsibility: Some photographs produced by Associated Screen News Ltd., Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Byron Harmon

Date Range: [ca. 1910]; [ca. 1920 - ca. 1930]; [ca. 1940 - ca. 1945]; 1941 - 1944; 1950; 1954; 1956; [ca. 1960 - ca. 1970]; 1967 - 1969

Physical Description: 1 album (193 b&w photographs ; 20 x 25.5 cm or smaller -- 2 textual records)

Scope & Content: File consists of one personal photograph album [likely created by Eleanor Luxton]. Content pertains to staff members of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Aircraft Division and related events including a dinner party in New York, as well as friends and relatives of the Luxton family. Includes images of Eleanor Luxton as a child and as an adult, group and individual portraits of mostly unidentified individuals [likely immediate and extended family and friends of Eleanor, including Norman and Georgina Luxton], unidentified children playing, images from the Calgary Stampede parade [ca. 1940s], unidentified Indigenous groups and individuals [possibly Stoney Nakoda community members during Banff Indian Days], Dr. Casey's Ranch [1944], and a family picnic. File also includes one small textual record describing a 1943 Curtiss-Wright Corporation staff event, as well as an annotated Christmas card from Ruth and Frank Neustadt [n.d.].

Notes: Some items are annotated on back; Items not in chronological or other clear order

Material Details: Album has clear plastic layer on surface of front and back covers; Green plastic stitched around border of both covers and side bindings