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Postcard album, Brewster family

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Part Of: Jim Brewster family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one postcard album with ca.65 images pertaining to members of the Brewster family; extended family and friends, some unidentified; buildings and landscapes from in and around Banff; winter sporting events; portraits of Indigenous men in regalia, including Hector Crawler [image by p…

Date Range: [ca.1900-1920]; 1918; 1921; 1942; 1949; 1962

Reference Code: V90 / VI / PD - 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Postcard; Print; Photograph

Part Of: Jim Brewster family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M436; V90

Series: V90 / VI : Later acquisitions

Sous-Fonds: V90

Accession Number: 2023.09

Reference Code: V90 / VI / PD - 1

GMD: Album; Postcard; Print; Photograph

Date Range: [ca.1900-1920]; 1918; 1921; 1942; 1949; 1962

Physical Description: 1 album (ca.65 postcards and postcard prints): 23 x 39 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of one postcard album with ca.65 images pertaining to members of the Brewster family; extended family and friends, some unidentified; buildings and landscapes from in and around Banff; winter sporting events; portraits of Indigenous men in regalia, including Hector Crawler [image by photographer Byron Harmon]; members of the British royal family; men in military uniforms [World War I]; political satire and cartoon illustrations; and Australian wildlife.

Notes: Some postcard prints are annotated on the back; NOTE: some materials in this album contain offensive subject matter, including racist content. These materials reflect views from their original time period and have not been censored.

Subject Access: Banff; Businesses; Community life; Family and personal life; Home; Homestead; Indigenous people; Landscape; Military; Municipal views; Public events; Portrait; Recreation; Regalia; Royalty; Royal Visit; Sports; War; World War I; Winter sports; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Australia

Access Restrictions: Contains offensive subject matter- accessible at researcher's individual discretion

Language: English

Category: Family and personal life; Indigenous Peoples; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Annie Wiseman postcard collection

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Scope & Content: File consists of 31 postcards collected by Annie (Creagh) Wiseman between ca.1920-1940. Postcards pertain to natural views and tourist attractions in Banff, Lake Louise, the Great Divide, Kicking Horse Canyon and other nearby areas. Some postcards are annotated with correspondence sent between Anni…

Date Range: [ca.1920-1940]

Reference Code: V8 / 2022.10

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard

Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M8; V8; S8

Sous-Fonds: V8

Accession Number: 2022.10

Reference Code: V8 / 2022.10

GMD: Postcard

Date Range: [ca.1920-1940]

Physical Description: 31 commercial postcards

History / Biographical: Annie (Creagh) Wiseman (1891-1972) was born in Deptford, England, where she married Stanley Wilfred Ernest Wiseman. The couple had one daughter, Ethel, before moving to Winnipeg. The family returned to England following the outbreak of World War I, in which Stanley served as a Private in the 61st Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Annie and Ethel later returned to Winnipeg, where Stanley joined them following a serious injury which he sustained in active duty. In Winnipeg, Annie and Stanley had two more children: a daughter (Hilda) and a son (Stanley). Stanley Sr. worked as a foreman for Canadian Pacific Railway, which enabled Annie to travel throughout the Canadian Rockies and other regions by train for free or a reduced price. Annie collected postcards from her travels, which included numerous visits to Banff National Park. Annie, Stanley Sr. and their two youngest children permanently settled in Victoria, B.C. in 1935.

Scope & Content: File consists of 31 postcards collected by Annie (Creagh) Wiseman between ca.1920-1940. Postcards pertain to natural views and tourist attractions in Banff, Lake Louise, the Great Divide, Kicking Horse Canyon and other nearby areas. Some postcards are annotated with correspondence sent between Annie, her children (including Hilda and Ethel), and friends of the Wiseman family.

Name Access: Wiseman, Annie

Subject Access: Travel; Tourism; Mountains; Landscape; Hotels

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; British Columbia; Banff National Park; Bow Lake; Castle Mountain; Sulphur Mountain; Canmore; Lake Louise; Field

Language: English

Category: Tourism; Exploration and travel

Biographical Source Notes: https://cgwp.uvic.ca/person.php?pid=181701; Most information in bio collected from donor, Annie Wiseman's granddaughter, Patty Pitts (daughter of Hilda [Wiseman] Pitts)

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Bill Olson friends and family photographs

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Part Of: Olson family fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.

Date Range: 1889-1967

Reference Code: V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print; Print

37 images

Part Of: Olson family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M97 / V475

Sous-Fonds: V475

Accession Number: 670 ; 1107 ; 1021

Reference Code: V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print; Print

Date Range: 1889-1967

Physical Description: 19 prints : b&w and col. ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.

Notes: Some of the people identified in the photos are Bill Kay, Jack Powell, Jack Doe, Fred Day, Charlie Fullhroch, Mac Lennat, Earl Squires, Bob Graham, Larry Foster, Willard Bell, Bush Ashley, Shorty Blasker, Casey Jones, Dan Zakaryk, Pete Finlay, Jon Douglas, Irene Straus, Marie Leong, and more.

Name Access: Olson, Bill; Olson, Irene; McTrowe, Florence

Subject Access: Activities; Biographical; Buffalo; Cave and Basin; Children; Family; Family and personal life; Garden; Home; Leisure; Mount Royal Hotel; Personal and Family Life; Personal and Professional Life; Portrait; War; World War I; WWI

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

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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[Photographs and Christmas Cards Album]

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing photographs from various trips taken by Lillian Gest, some of which include Alpine Club of Canada Annual Trips, and Christmas cards sent to Gest by various friends and club members. Greeting cards are dated from 1938-1948. Contents include: 1938: [Alpi…

Date Range: 1938-1948

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 11

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 - 11

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1938-1948

Physical Description: 1 album (306 photographs : b&w ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing photographs from various trips taken by Lillian Gest, some of which include Alpine Club of Canada Annual Trips, and Christmas cards sent to Gest by various friends and club members. Greeting cards are dated from 1938-1948. Contents include: 1938: [Alpine Club camp, Columbia Icefields; Maligne Lake and canyon, Caroline Hinman trip; Banff; Lake Louise; Christian Hasler]. 1939: [Ptarmigan Lake; Crosby Lake; Mount Vaux, Mount Ennis and Hanbury Peak; Ice River Valley; Goodsirs; Kate Gardiner; Phyllis Munday; Eric Brooks; Charles Hunter ranch, Pincher Creek; postcards of Washington and Oregon]. 1940: [Mount Athabasca; Lyell Glacier; Wapta River; Christian Hasler; Mount Waddington, Phyllis and Don Munday]. 1941: [Banff Indian Days; climbing Mount Odaray]. 1942: [Three Sisters; White Man's Pass area; Grassi Lakes; Bow River; Banff Indian Days; Lake Louise area; Mounts Temple, Fay and Pinnacle; Mount Quadra; Mount Neptuak from Tower of Babel]. 1943: [Lake O'Hara, Alpine Club camp; Browne home, Banff; Mount Edith]. 1946: [Bow Lake; Jimmy and Billie Simpson; St. Nicholas Peak]. 1948?: [Lake Minnewanka; Bow Lake; Mount Chephren; Peyto Glacier; Mount Rhonda; Dolomite Peak; Mummery Group; Freshfields; Mount Baker; Sherbrooke Lake; Mount Daly; Mount Balfour]. Inserts pertain to two typed text letters from Caroline Hinman to Lillian Gest and discuss various Off the Beaten Track information.

Notes: Blank pages not scanned. Inserts are photocopies of the originals that were included with the album.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Gest, Lillian; Hinman, Caroline; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Activities; Animals; Bighorn Sheep; Buildings; Camps; Christmas; Climbing; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; First Nations; Glaciers; Huts; Horses; Horse packing; Indigenous Peoples; Moose; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountain Goat; Off the Beaten Track; Postcards; Portrait; Scenery; Travel

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

Access Restrictions: Microfilm copy available for reference use by appointment only.

Language: English

Conservation: Removed from plastic sleeve and rehoused in acid-free paper, tied with flat string. Locate original copies of inserts and return them to PD - 11 Documents file - notes on the backs of the inserts note that the originals were moved to M67 but the documents could not be found.

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

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.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Gest, Lillian; Feuz, Ernest; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Activities; Buildings; Camps; Christmas; Climbing; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; First Nations; Glaciers; Huts; Horses; Horse packing; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara region; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountain Goat; Postcards; Portrait; Scenery; Travel

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

Language: English

Conservation: Rehoused with acid-free paper and flat string - flat string tied around book to hold pages together.

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Commercial travel postcards

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of collected commercial postcards from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom [non-annotated]. File includes loose postcards, postcard sets and fold-out photo card booklets.

Date Range: [1900-1960]

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Published record; Postcard

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III/ D : Other materials

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8

GMD: Published record; Postcard

Date Range: [1900-1960]

Physical Description: ca. 630 b&w and col. postcards ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of collected commercial postcards from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom [non-annotated]. File includes loose postcards, postcard sets and fold-out photo card booklets.

Notes: Items in this file have been organized by geographical location. See "Content Details" entry field for contents of individual folders.

Subject Access: Advertising; Events; Environment; European travel; Environment and Nature; Travel; Tourism; Waterfalls; Wildlife; Leisure; Landscapes; History; Mountains; Public events; Public entertainment; National parks and reserves; Centennial; Buildings and memorials; Banff National Park; Art; Photography; Postcards; Royalty; Seascapes; Ship; Souvenir; Sports and recreation; Tourist information; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Lake Louise; Calgary; British Columbia; Vancouver; Rocky Mountains; Selkirks; Ontario; Sault Ste. Marie; Owen Sound; Toronto; Quebec; Montreal; United States of America; Yellowstone National Park; Colorado; Denver; Florida; California; Chicago; Michigan; France; Paris; England; London; Cuba; Mexico; Ireland; Dublin

Reproduction Restrictions: Some copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English; French

Related Material: Items in this file were separated from annotated postcards [processed as LUX / III / A1 / 25 to 27]

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Sports, recreation and leisure; Environment

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: File is organized into 8 folders, numbered LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8. PG - 1 : Banff National Park PG - 2 : Canadian Rockies and Selkirks PG - 3 : Alberta and British Columbia [Other] PG - 4 : Canada PG - 5 : United States of America PG - 6 : United States of America, cont.'d [postcard sets and 1933 Chicago World Fair] PG - 7 : Foreign PG - 8 : Other [location not specified]

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Travel scrapbook of commercial postcard prints and souvenirs

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one scrapbook containing ca. 200 attached postcard prints and commercial postcards, as well as two portrait photograph prints and two souvenir booklets. Content pertains to scenic views of the Canadian Rockies including Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Maligne Lake, Revelstoke and the At…

Date Range: [ca. 1925 - ca. 1940]; 1932

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook; Postcard

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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

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / 1

GMD: Scrapbook; Postcard

Responsibility: Some items produced by George S. Cladds [?], Byron Harmon, Gerta Christoffersen, Detroit Publishing Co., and A.C. Leighton

Date Range: [ca. 1925 - ca. 1940]; 1932

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook : ca. 200 b&w and col. postcards ; 14 x 21.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of one scrapbook containing ca. 200 attached postcard prints and commercial postcards, as well as two portrait photograph prints and two souvenir booklets. Content pertains to scenic views of the Canadian Rockies including Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Maligne Lake, Revelstoke and the Athabasca River; portrait paintings of unidentified Indigenous girls by artist Gerta Christoffersen; scenes from Australia, Brussels, Venice, Bermuda, Fiji, Portugal, London, Windsor Castle, California, Mexico, the Grand Canyon, Montana, Niagara Falls, Maine, Ohio and Pennsylvania; and sketched art by A.C. Leighton depicting horses and riders. Many postcards are colorized.

Notes: A few postcards are annotated, mostly blank

Name Access: Harmon, Byron; Christoffersen, Gerta; Leighton, Alfred Crocker

Subject Access: Travel; Tourism; Horses; Horseback riding; Landscapes; Environment; Mountains; Indigenous Peoples; Art; Biography; Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff National Park; England; London; Australia; Belgium; Italy; Venice; Bermuda; Fiji; Portugal; United States of America; California; Maine; Pennsylvania; Ohio; Lake Louise; Massachusetts; Moraine Lake; Maligne Lake; Athabasca Falls; Niagara Falls; British Columbia

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Family and personal life; Exploration, discovery and travel; Environment; Arts

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…

Date Range: 1942

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Private record

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs

Sous-Fonds: M36

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

GMD: Postcard; Private record

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Phil; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.; White, Annie; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; Whyte, Dorothy; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Ward, Sam; Ward, Louise (Cis); Brewster, Fern; Brewster, Jack Walker; Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Link, Adeline; Campbell, Gray; Campbell, Eleanor; Watson, Sir Norman; Rummel, Elizabeth; Rummel, Lizzie; Rungius, Carl; Noble, George

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Birds; Bird watching; Birthday; Books; Bow Lake; Businesses; Canadian Pacific Railway; Children; Christmas; Columbia Icefield; Columbia Icefield Chalet; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Home; Hospital; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Mountain; Mount Royal Hotel; Mount Temple Chalet; Norquay Ski Hill; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Red Cross; Royal Canadian Airforce; RCAF; Scenery; Skiing; Ski areas; Trains; Transportation; Travel; War; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Bow Lake; Icefield Parkway; Banff National Park; Calgary; Alberta; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America