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Letters to Mother [July 1930 - October 1930]

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Part Of
Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
Scope & Content
File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brews…
Date Range
1930
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 84
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
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
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Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 84
GMD
Private record
Date Range
1930
Physical Description
1.3 cm of textual records (82 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brewster, Jim Brewster, Guy Davenport, Sid Graves, Sid Brewster, Mary Vaux Walcott, Jimmy Simpson, Byron Harmon, Fern Brewster, Wayne Palmer, Fred McCauley, Mrs. Brett, Julia Raymond, Pearl Moore, Edmee Moore, Philip Moore, J.E.H. MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Link, Mr. and Mrs. Painter, George Brewster, Jessie McLean, Buddy van Dyke, Dorothy Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, Fred Arbrister, Neil Begg, Rudolph Aemner,] painting outdoors, people in Concord, meeting Noel Odell of the 1924 Everest Expedition, a fire at a tea house in town, plans for building their home [including a sketch of the lots along Bow River], visiting Castle Mountain Camp and Kicking Horse Tea House, description of Skoki Lodge building plans [with Cliff White, Cyril Paris, and Ike Mills], and builders Earl Spencer and Spud White, and painting in Morley [Mrs. Twoyoungmen, John Simian or Black Buffalo, Jonas Richson [?], Dan Wildman and other illegible names], the climb to Abbot Pass, Lake Oesa, and Lake O'Hara Camp.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. 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. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
Name Access
Brewster, Bill
Brewster, Fern
Brewster, Jim
Brewster, George
Davenport, Guy
Gibbon, John Murray
Harmon, Byron
Graves, Syd Brewster
Paris, Cyril
Mills, Ike
Rungius, Carl
Spencer, Earl
Link, Adeline
Link, George K.K.
MacDonald, J. E. H.
Browne, Belmore
Mather, Allan
Wildman, Dan, Sr.
Curren, John Donaldson
Whyte, Catharine
Whyte, Peter
White, Clifford
Aemmer, Rudolf
Alpine Club of Canada
Armbrister, Fred
Subject Access
Activities
Animals
Art
Artists
Banff
Bow River
Camps
Castle Mountain
Climbing
Community events
Community life
Family
Family and personal life
First Nations
Hiking
Home
Indigenous Peoples
Japanese
Lake Louise
Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
Lake O'Hara region
Log structures
Moore House
Mountains
Pack trips
Painting
Paris Tea Room
Personal and Family Life
Property
Skoki Lodge
Stoney
Stoney Nakoda
Summit
Yoho Valley Bungalow Camp
Geographic Access
Abbot Pass
Alberta
Banff
Canadian Rocky Mountains
Castle Mountain
Concord
Lake Louise
Yoho National Park
Field
Lake O'Hara
Skoki
Morley
Language
English
Creator
Robb Whyte, Catharine
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources

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Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Scope & Content
Item consists of a bound green record book, H20 x W13 cm. The record book, with "Records" printed on the cover, is comprised of numbered lined pages and contains meeting minutes and membership lists for the Rocky Mountain Park Liberal Association from March 13th, 1924 to circa 1930. Minutes pertain…
Date Range
1924-c.1930
Reference Code
M8 / 7829 / 1
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Organization record
Textual record
Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Series
7829 : Accession Number
Sous-Fonds
M8
Accession Number
7829
Reference Code
M8 / 7829 / 1
GMD
Organization record
Textual record
Date Range
1924-c.1930
Physical Description
1.5 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 13 x 20 cm)
History / Biographical
In the 1920's, Banff experienced a steady increase in tourism. This was based on a number of factors, including the introduction of the automobile in the park, the completion of the Banff-Windermere Highway and other roadways, additional accommodation (e.g. campgrounds), and the Canadian Pacific Railway's "Canadian Pacific Rockies" tourist campaign. Local prominent townspeople began to seek more say in the way their town was governed, and thus created organizations like the Banff Advisory Council and the Rocky Mountain Park Liberal Association. Issues around park boundaries, campgrounds, and park services employees' priorities were particularly important to Banff locals during this decade.
Scope & Content
Item consists of a bound green record book, H20 x W13 cm. The record book, with "Records" printed on the cover, is comprised of numbered lined pages and contains meeting minutes and membership lists for the Rocky Mountain Park Liberal Association from March 13th, 1924 to circa 1930. Minutes pertain to different types of meetings: general and executive. Contents pertain to various topics, including the creation of the Association and membership, provincial Liberal candidates, electing members for the Association's executive committee, concerns about who was being appointed to park services, employment in the park, advocating for the dismissal of Jack Warren (a park warden), and park boundary issues.
Notes
Created by the Rocky Mountain Park Liberal Association.
Dave White originally had the lease for 222 Otter Street and transferred the lease to Sam Armstrong in 1915, who had it until 1927. Sam Armstrong was a member of the Rocky Mountain Liberal Association.
Membership included representatives from Banff, Canmore, Exshaw, and East End. Meetings were generally held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Banff and the Canmore Hotel.
Most of the minutes were taken by W. Alexander and James Smith, who both acted as secretary at some point in the Association's history.
Name Access
Brewster, Jim
Armstrong, Sam
Atkin, Gilbert M.
Crosby, Lou
Alexander, William A. (Bill)
Warren, Jack
Subject Access
Banff
National parks and reserves
Organizations
Park policy
Politics and government
Records
Wardens
Geographic Access
Banff
Alberta
Banff National Park
Calgary
Canadian Rocky Mountains
Canmore
Exshaw
Language
English
Category
Politics
Government
Biographical Source Notes
Based on the contents of the item
Hart, E.J. Banff: a History of the Park and Town. Banff: Summerthought Publishing, 2015.
M317
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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