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Robert J. McGuinness fonds
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- Part Of
- Robert J. McGuinness fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of two series: I. St. Mary's Parish, ca.1945-1983, 0.16 cm, and contains two sub-series: A. Architecture, ca.1945-1983 (architectural plans, general information); B. Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings (pertaining to Father McGuinness and St. Mary's Parish), 1950-1978. II. McGuinn…
- Date Range
- 1940-1950
- 1954
- 1955
- 1960
- 1977
- 1978
- 1980-1983
- Reference Code
- M460
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Textual record
- Plan
- Postcard
- Private record
- Part Of
- Robert J. McGuinness fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 460
- Sous-Fonds
- M 460
- Accession Number
- 960
- 3707
- 2018.9000
- Reference Code
- M460
- Date Range
- 1940-1950
- 1954
- 1955
- 1960
- 1977
- 1978
- 1980-1983
- Physical Description
- 1.11 cm of textual records (34 pages : 29 x 42 cm or smaller) -- 9 architectural drawings : annotations ; 89 x 58 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- Originally from ancient Iveagh, which is now County Down, Ireland, the McGuinness family eventually migrated to Liverpool at an unknown time. The McGuinness family were provision merchants in Liverpool, but found supplies limited so they emigrated to Canada. Born on June 20, 1886 in Liverpool, Father Robert James McGuinness moved to Belleville, Ontario, Canada with his family in 1890. He had 7 brothers and sisters, including Oswald A. McGuinness, who settled in Invermere, British Columbia. Robert attended St. Lawrence College in Ampleforth, Yorkshire, and completed his studies at St. Servan in Rhiems, France, qualifying as an engineer. He held a position with the federal government upon his return to Canada, however when World War I broke out Robert served in the 29th Battalion of CRTS building pontoons behind European battle lines. After returning to Canada, Robert worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway as an architectural engineer, which brought him west to Banff, Alberta. Robert was the resident architectural engineer overlooking the construction of the Banff Springs Hotel expansion in the 1920's. In the late 1920's, Robert traveled to Rome to enter the seminary and four years later he was ordained as a priest. After serving as priest in Calgary, Robert was appointed Catholic priest in Banff in 1936, where he lived and worked until his death in 1961. To fulfill a personal dream, Robert designed and supervised the construction of the new church building and grounds for St. Mary's Parish (St. Mary's of the Assumption) which was completed in 1951. During his years in Europe, Robert visited ancient churches and cathedrals which influenced the design of the church, primarily the Norman Chateau architectural style. Robert was also a talented artist. Some of his work can be seen in galleries in New York and in Banff. His work has been reproduced for Canadian Pacific Railway tourism material, including the Spiral Tunnels postcard included in this fonds. Robert died in Calgary on June 17, 1961, just shy of his 75th birthday, after being ill for a few months.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of two series:
- I. St. Mary's Parish, ca.1945-1983, 0.16 cm, and contains two sub-series: A. Architecture, ca.1945-1983 (architectural plans, general information); B. Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings (pertaining to Father McGuinness and St. Mary's Parish), 1950-1978.
- II. McGuinness Family, 1953-1977, 1 cm (private records, including handwritten notes, a memoir, and a postcard).
- Notes
- . IYounger brother Oswald was a surveyor who built the road from Invermere to Calgary
- There is some indication that Robert had a role in the construction of the Bow River Bridge or the collection of the stones used for the bridge, but this is unconfirmed
- Name Access
- McGuinness, Robert J.
- Subject Access
- Architecture
- Art
- Banff
- Buildings
- Churches
- Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
- Family and personal life
- Professional and Personal Life
- Religions
- St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Canada
- Ontario
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Related Material
- 08.3 / Si 3m / Pam
- 08.3 / B22 stm / Pam
- 08.3 / Sa 2 / Pam
- Creator
- McGuinness, Robert J.
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Religions
- Biographical Source Notes
- Based on contents of the fonds
- https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/o/g/Laurie-Goggin/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0444.html
- "St. Mary's of the Assumption" pamphlet printed by the Crag and Canyon in Banff (08.3/Sa 2/Pam)
- http://www.stmarysparishbanff.ca/history/
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Hill-top tales
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1948
- Author
- McCowan, Dan
- Publisher
- Toronto : Macmillan of Canada
- Call Number
- 08.3 M13 c.1
- 08.3 M13 c.2
- 08.3 M13 c.3
- Author
- McCowan, Dan
- Publisher
- Toronto : Macmillan of Canada
- Published Date
- 1948
- Physical Description
- xi, 266p. : ill., port
- Subjects
- Biography
- Notes
- Bibliography. -- Partial contents: Howard Sibbald (p.124-137), Silver City (p.138-145), A. P. Coleman (p.146-155), Henry Irwin "Father Pat" (p.156-161), Crime and murder (p.172-183), renaming of Big Hill station Mars to Partridge, Yee Chow, Yee Li and Li How from Bankhead (p. 227-232), 1939 royal tour and Jim Brewster (p.247-257)
- Copgy 2 is signed by the author
- Accession Number
- 868
- 18500
- 6892
- 2014.8385
- Call Number
- 08.3 M13 c.1
- 08.3 M13 c.2
- 08.3 M13 c.3
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- Archives Library
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British Columbia presents the Big Bend Highway
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1940
- Publisher
- Victoria : King's Printer
- Call Number
- 08.3 B48b Pam
- Publisher
- Victoria : King's Printer
- Published Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 20p. : ill., maps
- Accession Number
- 1161
- Call Number
- 08.3 B48b Pam
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- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1946
- Author
- Link, George K.K
- Call Number
- 08.3 Oh1li Pam
- Author
- Link, George K.K
- Published Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 29p
- Subjects
- Ghosts
- Link, Adeline DeSale
- O'Hara, Lake
- Notes
- Volume 1 of a trilogy
- Accession Number
- 2308
- Call Number
- 08.3 Oh1li Pam
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- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1947
- Author
- Link, George K.K
- Call Number
- 08.3 Oh1lid Pam
- Author
- Link, George K.K
- Published Date
- 1947
- Physical Description
- 19p
- Subjects
- Ghosts
- Link, Adeline DeSale
- O'Hara, Lake
- Notes
- Volume 2 of a trilogy
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- 08.3 Oh1lid Pam
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- Archives Library
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Indian summer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5003
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1949
- Author
- Leechman, Douglas
- Call Number
- 07.2 L51i
- Author
- Leechman, Douglas
- Published Date
- c1949
- Call Number
- 07.2 L51i
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- Archives Library
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Deliverance and union
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8188
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1949
- Author
- Link, George K.K
- Call Number
- 08.3 Oh1lidu Pam
- Author
- Link, George K.K
- Published Date
- 1949
- Physical Description
- 70p
- Notes
- Volume 3 of a trilogy
- Accession Number
- 2308
- Call Number
- 08.3 Oh1lidu Pam
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- Archives Library
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Sinners and saints : a true story of early days in the farthest West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6137
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1947?]
- Author
- Moir, George T
- Publisher
- Victoria : G.L. Wooding
- Call Number
- 08.3 K83m
- Author
- Moir, George T
- Publisher
- Victoria : G.L. Wooding
- Published Date
- [1947?]
- Physical Description
- 165p. : ill., port., facsim
- Subjects
- Crowsnest Pass
- Kootenay region
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.3 K83m
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Indian beadwork
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1946
- Author
- Wissler, Clark
- Publisher
- New York : American Museum of Natural History
- Call Number
- 07.2 W76 Pam
- Author
- Wissler, Clark
- Publisher
- New York : American Museum of Natural History
- Published Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 32p. : ill
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 223
- Call Number
- 07.2 W76 Pam
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- Archives Library
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Race, language and culture
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1940
- Author
- Boas, Franz
- Publisher
- New York : Macmillan
- Call Number
- 07.2 B63n
- Author
- Boas, Franz
- Publisher
- New York : Macmillan
- Published Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- xx, 647p. : ill
- Subjects
- Folklore
- Notes
- Bibliographical footnotes
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 B63n
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- Archives Library
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The stone age on the prairies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5041
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1942
- Author
- Orchard, W. J
- Publisher
- Regina : School Aids and Text Book
- Call Number
- 07.2 Or1
- Author
- Orchard, W. J
- Publisher
- Regina : School Aids and Text Book
- Published Date
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 173p. : ill
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 224
- Call Number
- 07.2 Or1
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- Archives Library
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The story of the Blackfeet
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1944
- Author
- Ewers, John C
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Call Number
- 07.2 Ew3s
- Author
- Ewers, John C
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Published Date
- 1944
- Physical Description
- 66p. : ill., ports., maps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 Ew3s
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- Archives Library
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Historical notes on Glacier House
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8167
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1948
- Author
- Longstaff, Frederick Victor
- Call Number
- 08.3 G45lo Pam
- Author
- Longstaff, Frederick Victor
- Published Date
- 1948
- Physical Description
- p.195-200
- Notes
- From Canadian Alpine Journal, vol.XXXI
- Accession Number
- 625
- Call Number
- 08.3 G45lo Pam
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- Archives Library
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Blackfeet crafts
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1945
- Author
- Ewers, John C
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Call Number
- 07.2 Ew3b
- Author
- Ewers, John C
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Published Date
- 1945
- Physical Description
- 66p. : ill., map., port
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 Ew3b
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- Archives Library
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Father De Smet, pioneer priest of the Rockies
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1940
- Author
- Magaret, Helene
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar & Rinehart
- Call Number
- 07.2 D46m
- Author
- Magaret, Helene
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar & Rinehart
- Published Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 371p. : port., map
- Subjects
- Folklore
- Missionaries
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 D46m
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Indians of Canada and prairie pioneers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5057
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1943
- c1936
- Author
- Scarrow, C. A
- Publisher
- Regina : School Aids and Text Book
- Edition
- Rev.ed
- Call Number
- 07.2 Sca7
- Author
- Scarrow, C. A
- Responsibility
- by C.A. Scarrow and Jean Gibson
- Edition
- Rev.ed
- Publisher
- Regina : School Aids and Text Book
- Published Date
- 1943
- c1936
- Physical Description
- 155p. : ill., port., maps
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 Sca7
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Quill and beadwork of the western Sioux
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5008
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1940
- Author
- Lyford, Carrie A
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Call Number
- 07.2 L98
- Author
- Lyford, Carrie A
- Responsibility
- edited by Willard W. Beatty
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Published Date
- 1940
- Physical Description
- 116p. : ill., port
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 L98
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Indians before Columbus : twenty thousand years of North America history revealed by archaeology
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5026
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [c1947]
- Author
- Martin, Paul S
- Call Number
- 07.2 M36
- Author
- Martin, Paul S
- Responsibility
- Paul S. Martin [and others]
- Published Date
- [c1947]
- Call Number
- 07.2 M36
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Ethnography of the Kutenai
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5081
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1941
- Author
- Turney-High, Harry Holbert
- Call Number
- 07.2 T85
- Author
- Turney-High, Harry Holbert
- Published Date
- 1941
- Physical Description
- 202p. : ill
- Series
- Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association no.56
- Subjects
- Kootenay Indians
- Notes
- Supplement to American Anthropologist, vol.56, no.2, pt.2
- Accession Number
- 4000
- Call Number
- 07.2 T85
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Changing configurations in the social organization of a Blackfoot tribe during the reserve period (the Blood of Alberta, Canada)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4956
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1945
- Author
- Goldfrank, Esther (Schiff)
- Call Number
- 07.2 G56
- Author
- Goldfrank, Esther (Schiff)
- Published Date
- 1945
- Notes
- Monographs of the American Ethnological Society 8
- Call Number
- 07.2 G56
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