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Minuetta Shumiatcher Kessler : how Alberta got a concerto of its own and a Westerner brought fresh ideas to the field of music
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13426
- Responsibility
- Gorman, Ruth
- Physical Description
- p.28-29 : port
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Notes
- In Canadian Golden West, vol. 6, winter (1970-1971)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
Peaks and parks of Western Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15347
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1941
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol. 80, No. 4, October 1941
- Call Number
- P
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol. 80, No. 4, October 1941
- Published Date
- 1941
- Physical Description
- p.516-526, illustrations
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Emerald Lake
- Jasper National Park
- Lake Louise
- Lake O'Hara
- Maligne Lake
- Vermilion Lakes
- Waterton Lakes National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
49th Parallel [DVD]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11643
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 1941
- Call Number
- 06.3 F82 DVD
- Responsibility
- produced and directed by Michael Powell
- starring Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massay, Anton Walbrook and Eric Portman
- Published Date
- 1941
- Physical Description
- 123 minutes : b&w
- Series
- Criterion Collection
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- World War II
- Notes
- Originally produced 1942 under the title "The Invaders". Features Norman Luxton and Banff Indian Days. 2 double video disc restored high-definition digital transfer
- Accession Number
- outstanding - donated by Luxton Foundation to replace VHS
- Call Number
- 06.3 F82 DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- paper; skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1033
- Description
- Stacked, pressed paper heel, lady's, waterlogged pressed paper heel, layers coming apart, 2 leather layers on bottom, very old and dry, 4 rounded head nails 1.8 in length in bottom, 5 smaller nails embedded also.
1 image
- Title
- Boot Heel
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- paper; skin; metal
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 4.5 x 5.0 cm
- Description
- Stacked, pressed paper heel, lady's, waterlogged pressed paper heel, layers coming apart, 2 leather layers on bottom, very old and dry, 4 rounded head nails 1.8 in length in bottom, 5 smaller nails embedded also.
- Subject
- sports
- climbing
- hiking
- Mount Schaffer
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Gift of Frances Klatzel, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1033
Images
- Date
- 1935 – 1970
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0317
- Description
- Hand made cane from birch tree branch. Bark has been removed only from handle, secondary branches have been sawed off. Branch otherwise in natural state. Handle is slightly curved with twist at end. Base is frayed from use.
1 image
- Title
- Walking Cane
- Date
- 1935 – 1970
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 94.0 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- Hand made cane from birch tree branch. Bark has been removed only from handle, secondary branches have been sawed off. Branch otherwise in natural state. Handle is slightly curved with twist at end. Base is frayed from use.
- Subject
- sports
- hiking
- Lawrence Grassi
- Lake O'Hara
- Skoki
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0317
Images
- Date
- 1929 – 1929
- Material
- mineral; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0129 a,b
- Description
- Two pins made from small clusters of clear, large transparent crystals. Long, angular crystals with oblique ends are of quartz. Silver fitting on back roughly follows shape of each pin, with long curving prongs clasping around crevices and angles of crystals to hold them securely. Hinged pin spike …
1 image
- Title
- Scatter Pin
- Date
- 1929 – 1929
- Material
- mineral; metal
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 2.3 x 3.0 cm
- Description
- Two pins made from small clusters of clear, large transparent crystals. Long, angular crystals with oblique ends are of quartz. Silver fitting on back roughly follows shape of each pin, with long curving prongs clasping around crevices and angles of crystals to hold them securely. Hinged pin spike fastens into slotted clasp with locking mechanism. (a) larger - cloudy crystals lying in all directions, discolouration on back. (b) smaller - clear crystals all lying in same direction.
- Subject
- households
- adornment
- Lake O'Hara
- Crystal Cave
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0129 a,b
Images
Mount Biddle at Lake O'Hara
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthba.02.01
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- HbA.02.01
- Description
- General colour: lower canvas: greens and purples, upper canvas: blues and purples. In the foreground there is water surrounded by rocks. In the middle ground there are trees rising to a mountain face which goes to the top of the canvas. Cloudy sky appears in the upper left corner.
1 image
- Title
- Mount Biddle at Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 87 x 76.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: lower canvas: greens and purples, upper canvas: blues and purples. In the foreground there is water surrounded by rocks. In the middle ground there are trees rising to a mountain face which goes to the top of the canvas. Cloudy sky appears in the upper left corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- HbA.02.01
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Canada's coolest escapes : 21 places to do winter right
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12835
- Author
- Arnold, Kevin
- Responsibility
- Kevin Arnold and Steve Metcalf
- Physical Description
- p.40-48 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Notes
- In Explore, iss. 136 (Winter 2005)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
An artist's reminiscences
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14689
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1918
- Author
- Bell-Smith, F.M
- Call Number
- 06 B33a Pam
- Author
- Bell-Smith, F.M
- Responsibility
- by F.M. Bell-Smith
- Published Date
- 1918
- Physical Description
- Pages 90-97 : illustrations
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Lake Louise
- Lake O'Hara
- Selkirk Mountains
- Notes
- Reprinted from Canadian Alpine Journal, vol. IX, 1918
- Article is a photocopy from the reprint
- Call Number
- 06 B33a Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.04
- Description
- General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner ar…
1 image
- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 91.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner are three rocks.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Purchased from Dorothy H. Wardle, Sidney, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.04
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
Images
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- PeC.12.01
- Description
- A realistic rendering of a portion of Lake O'Hara, the foregound is a mass of colours, grasses and flowers, the lake is below centre from the left , the right side is covered with foliage, the mountains rise behind the lake to top left edge, the right top corner is sky
1 image
- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1992
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 122.0 cm
- Description
- A realistic rendering of a portion of Lake O'Hara, the foregound is a mass of colours, grasses and flowers, the lake is below centre from the left , the right side is covered with foliage, the mountains rise behind the lake to top left edge, the right top corner is sky
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Lake O'Hara
- lake
- summer
- Credit
- Purchased from Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- PeC.12.01
Images
Canada's Great Divide Trail : hiking the backbone of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15342
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Edwards, Mike W.
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol.143, No.6, June 1973
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Edwards, Mike W.
- Responsibility
- Mike, W. Edwards
- Photographs by Lowell Georgia
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol.143, No.6, June 1973
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- p.795-817, illustrations (colour)
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Assiniboine, Mount
- Banff National Park
- Conservation
- Flora
- Great Divide Trail
- Hiking
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Lake O'Hara
- Maligne Lake
- Robson, Mount
- Yoho National Park
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
Lake O'Hara Lodge staff photos
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25159
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Gaynor, Don
- Publisher
- Don Gaynor
- Call Number
- 08.3 G25l 2020
- Author
- Gaynor, Don
- Responsibility
- Don Gaynor
- Publisher
- Don Gaynor
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- illustrations [colour]
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Photography
- Abstract
- Introduction July 2020 by Don Gaynor: This album began as a collection of all the Lake O'Hara Lodge annual staff photographs since 1987 when Tim Wake asked me to do them for display in the stairwell to the second floor in the Lodge. I added the group photographs taken of the two reunions I attended and recently scanned all the other staff photos displayed on the stairway walls for the last part of this book
- Contents
- Photographs from 1987 to 2019 of the Lake O'Hara Lodge staff taken by Don Gaynor except 2014
- Accession Number
- 2020.29
- Call Number
- 08.3 G25l 2020
- Collection
- Archives Library
Lake O'Hara Lodge staff photos : 1987 to 2016
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1956
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Gaynor, Don
- Publisher
- Don Gaynor
- Call Number
- 08.3 G25l 2016
- Author
- Gaynor, Don
- Publisher
- Don Gaynor
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- illustrations [colour]
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Photography
- Abstract
- Pertains to photographs of the Lake O'Hara Lodge staff from 1987 to 2016 taken by Don Gaynor (excluding 2014) with addition of early photos from 1926 to 1986 and photographs of chefs beginning in 1978.
- Contents
- Photographs from 1987 to 2016 of the Lake O'Hara Lodge staff taken by Don Gaynor
- Accession Number
- 2019.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 G25l 2016
- Collection
- Archives Library
Lake O'Hara Lodge staff photos : 1987 to 2015
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15205
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Gaynor, Don
- Publisher
- Don Gaynor
- Call Number
- 08.3 G25l
- Author
- Gaynor, Don
- Publisher
- Don Gaynor
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- illustrations [colour]
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2016.8624
- Call Number
- 08.3 G25l
- Collection
- Archives Library
Visitor survey, 1972 summer season, Lake O'Hara area, Yoho National Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4676
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Parks Canada. Western Region. Policy and Planning Research Division
- Call Number
- 13.116 C16yv c.1
- 13.116 C16yv c.2
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 127p. : maps
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Parks Canada
- Surveys
- Yoho National Park
- Accession Number
- 2014
- tbd
- Call Number
- 13.116 C16yv c.1
- 13.116 C16yv c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.132
- Description
- Colour: purple, turquoise, yellow. At the lower edge is a dark turquoise lake. The far shore goes from purple to green trees to grey to purple to yellow to brown mountain.
1 image
- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 27.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: purple, turquoise, yellow. At the lower edge is a dark turquoise lake. The far shore goes from purple to green trees to grey to purple to yellow to brown mountain.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.132
Images
Evening, Lake O'Hara
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactjkr.02.02
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.02
- Description
- In the foreground on the right side of the painting there are four green trees and a shore made out of mostly rocks. To the left and along the bottom edge a lake of bluegreen water sits in front of a brown mountain range. The mountains have snow on parts of the peaks and the sky is blue with white …
1 image
- Title
- Evening, Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 69.9 x 90.0 cm
- Description
- In the foreground on the right side of the painting there are four green trees and a shore made out of mostly rocks. To the left and along the bottom edge a lake of bluegreen water sits in front of a brown mountain range. The mountains have snow on parts of the peaks and the sky is blue with white clouds.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- JkR.02.02
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
Images
A geologist's paradise
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15349
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1911
- Author
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol. 22. No. 6, June 1911
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol. 22. No. 6, June 1911
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- p.509-536, illustrations
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- British Columbia
- Burgess Shale
- Field
- Geology
- Glaciers
- Lake O'Hara
- Paleontology
- Robson, Mount
- Takakkaw Falls
- Notes
- Supplement panorama of Van Horne range
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
O'Hara : stories of a beloved landscape and the people who have shaped it
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19820
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2019
- Physical Description
- p.66-75
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Lake O'Hara
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara Lodge
- Lake O'Hara region
- Lake O'Hara Trails Club
- Alpine Club of Canada
- History
- Elizabeth Parker Hut
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Hiking
- Conservation
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Lake O'Hara area including the history of its "discovery", creation of trail systems, Alpine Club of Canada activities, lodges, huts and access parameters. Includes many images from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library.
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual