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Mabel Brinkley fonds

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Part Of
Mabel Brinkley fonds
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of personal, professional and literary papers and photographs. Personal papers date from 1954 to 1959. Professional papers include: National Blue Baby Association, 1951-1955; and David Thompson Memorial Foundation, 1957-1959. Literary papers include: general papers, 1956, 1959; an…
Date Range
1951-1959
Reference Code
M316 / V94
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Album
Photograph print
Textual record
Private record
Part Of
Mabel Brinkley fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
M 316
V 94
Sous-Fonds
M 316
V 94
Accession Number
1381
Reference Code
M316 / V94
GMD
Photograph
Album
Photograph print
Textual record
Private record
Date Range
1951-1959
Physical Description
39 cm of textual records. -- 29 photographs : prints. -- 1 photograph album (46 prints)
History / Biographical
Mabel Brinkley, d.1959, also known as Mrs. R. D. Brinkley and Ruth Brinkley, was a writer who lived in the United States and at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Brinkley claimed to have had a successful career as a writer before coming to Canada in 1955. She came to Banff to work on a local history to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of Alberta. A manuscript for one of several planned volumes was completed, but never published.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of personal, professional and literary papers and photographs. Personal papers date from 1954 to 1959. Professional papers include: National Blue Baby Association, 1951-1955; and David Thompson Memorial Foundation, 1957-1959. Literary papers include: general papers, 1956, 1959; and Banff Jubilee Books, 1955-1957.
Literary papers consists mainly of notes and drafts for "In The Shadow of the Peaks," a Banff local history based on extensive interviews and submissions by and about long-time Banff residents, including Charlie Beil, Jim Boyce, Nicholas de Grandmaison, Dan McCowan, Ike Mills, Casey Oliver, Dorothy Oxborough, Walter Painter, Carl Rungius, Andrew Sibbald, George Simpson, D. M. Soole and Tom Wilson.
Photographs collected by Mabel Brinkley, probably in the course of her research, pertain to Banff and area, people, places and scenic views; also Indians, unknown location.
Name Access
Beil, Charlie
Boyce, Jim
Brinkley, Mabel
de Grandmaison, Nicholas
McCowan, Dan
Mills, Ike
Oliver, Casey
Oxborough, Dorothy
Painter, Walter
Rungius, Carl
Sibbald, Andrew
Simpson, George
Soole, D. M.
Wilson, Tom
Subject Access
Arts
Family and personal life
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
Language
Language is English
Finding Aid
Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
Creator
Brinkley, Mabel
Category
Arts
Family and personal life
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
Processing Status
Processed
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Nicholas de Grandmaison fonds

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Part Of
Nicholas de Grandmaison fonds
Scope & Content
Series I: Photographs (V786) - one sub-series consisting of photographs of Nicholas de Grandmaison; one photograph of Order of Canada event Series II: Textual (M561) - three sub-series: A - Biographical information and personal documents B - Newspaper and magazine clippings and excerpts C - Invita…
Date Range
1919-1992
Reference Code
M561 / V786
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Textual record
Private record
Published record
Part Of
Nicholas de Grandmaison fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
M561
V786
Sous-Fonds
M561
V786
Accession Number
2018.8994
Reference Code
M561 / V786
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Textual record
Private record
Published record
Date Range
1919-1992
Physical Description
[2] cm of textual records. 19 photographs; b&w and col.
History / Biographical
Nicholas de Grandmaison was born in southern Russian in 1892. He attended military college in Moscow, graduating in 1911 and transfered to military school in 1913 to train as an officer. He was stationed in Warsaw, Poland in early 1914 when World War I began and was captured as a prisoner of war in Germany until 1918. Upon then end of the war, Nicholas de Grandmaison studied art in England, eventually arriving in Calgary, Alberta via some time spent in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He had specific interest in Indigenous peoples and travelled widely throughout North America painting portraits. Nicholas de Gradmaison moved to Banff in 1939 with his wife Sonia, where they raised five children. He is a member of the Order of Canada, and holds an honourary doctorate from the University of Alberta, and was made an honorary Peigan "Chief Little Plume". He died on March 23, 1978 and is buried at the Brocket on the Piikani Nation reserve, west of Fort McLeod.
Scope & Content
Series I: Photographs (V786) - one sub-series consisting of photographs of Nicholas de Grandmaison; one photograph of Order of Canada event
Series II: Textual (M561) - three sub-series: A - Biographical information and personal documents B - Newspaper and magazine clippings and excerpts C - Invitations and exhibit announcements
Name Access
de Grandmaison, Nicholas
de Grandmaison, Nicolas
de Grandmaison, Sonia
Subject Access
Arts
First Nations
Indigenous Peoples
Language
Language is English
Finding Aid
file description
Creator
Nicholas de Grandmaison
Biographical Source Notes
Biographical documents in fond
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
Processing Status
Processed
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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