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Kreg Sky fonds
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- Part Of
- Kreg Sky fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists primarily of sound recordings and photographs from Kreg Sky's oral history project "Guides and outfitters of the Canadian Rockies." Recordings are forty-four interviews pertaining to guides and outfitters who worked in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia between 1911 …
- Date Range
- [ca.1975]-1984
- Reference Code
- M362 / S29 / V582
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Textual record
- Private record
- Part Of
- Kreg Sky fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 362
- S 29
- V 582
- Sous-Fonds
- M 362
- S 29
- V 582
- Accession Number
- 2480, 2523, 3825, 4033, 6164
- Reference Code
- M362 / S29 / V582
- Date Range
- [ca.1975]-1984
- Physical Description
- 51 sound recordings : audio tape cassettes. -- 224 photographs : prints, negatives. -- 1 textual record (8 p.)
- History / Biographical
- Kreg O. Sky, b.194-, previously known as Brian Kregosky, is a geographer and recreational consultant in British Columbia, Canada. Sky's MA thesis, 1975, was titled "Recreational and scenic analysis of a Rocky Mountain wilderness." In 1983-1984, he conducted a comprehensive oral history project titled "Guides and outfitters of the Canadian Rockies."
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists primarily of sound recordings and photographs from Kreg Sky's oral history project "Guides and outfitters of the Canadian Rockies." Recordings are forty-four interviews pertaining to guides and outfitters who worked in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia between 1911 and 1972, with a focus on personalities who worked outside of the national parks between 1910 and the Second World War.
- Interviews with guides, outfitters and surviving family members include: Arthur J. Allen; Ken W. Allen; Bill Bagley; A. Jim Bagley; Mary Baher re Martin Baher; Mathias (Mike) Baher; Pete Bifano re Pete and Joe Bifano; John Boychuk; Frank Burstrom; George E. Camp; Agnes and Ray Campbell re Bert Osborne and Carl Brooks; Ishbel and Murray Cochrane and Buster and Margie Duncan re Hargreaves family; M. F.(Red) Creighton, Jud Groat and Tom Vinson; Cliff Duke; Max Ebert; Oliver Goodell; William O. Harrison; Max Hoover; Norman F. King; George E. Korsvik; Alpha Legace re Ray Legace; Rex Logan re Bob Logan; Freeman (Friday) Lonsdale; Pete Lum; Larry A. McGuire; Eugene Merrill; Cora B. Mustard re Bill Mustard; C. Vern Mustard; Hersh Neighbor; David C. Nixon re Nixon family; Owen Philipps re Frank Philipps; Felix Plante; C. Doyle Reay; James A. Riviere; Andy Russell; Leo Rutledge; Chester Sands re Clarence Sands; Floyd D. Smith; Jim Tegart re Arthur Tegart; Ken M. Thomson; Oliver Travers; Mark and Agnes Truxler; Madeline Turnor; Thomas Wilde.
- Photographs, 1914-1984, were produced and collected by Sky during the project. Included are copy negatives of photographs retained by persons interviewed during the project, some prints which duplicate the negatives, and other prints which are portraits taken by Kreg Sky.
- Fonds also includes notes (8 p.) describing the human history of the Cline and Brazeau Rivers and watersheds, formerly a portion of the White Goat Wilderness area. An edited version of these notes forms part of Sky's MA thesis, 1975.
- Name Access
- Sky, Kreg O.
- Subject Access
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- Reference use only
- Other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: sound recording summaries
- photograph list
- project documentation
- Creator
- Sky, Kreg O.
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
- Processing Status
- Processed
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