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Introduction #2
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Broad range of views used in Morant slide shows. Includes a number of Morant's signature views File consists of thirteen titled sections: * General intro: views of the Empress Hotel (Victoria BC), oil, trucking, air travel, railway, ferry, Chateau Frontenac, totem pole. 11 items * Bread winners: cl…
- Date Range
- [between 1940 and 1980]
- Reference Code
- V500 / B2 / 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Negative
1 image
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Series
- I.B. Photography : transparencies : 1.b. Presentations, thematic files
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- V500 / B2 / 2
- GMD
- Negative
- Date Range
- [between 1940 and 1980]
- Physical Description
- 99 photographs : transparencies; col, 35mm
- Scope & Content
- Broad range of views used in Morant slide shows. Includes a number of Morant's signature views File consists of thirteen titled sections:
- * General intro: views of the Empress Hotel (Victoria BC), oil, trucking, air travel, railway, ferry, Chateau Frontenac, totem pole. 11 items
- * Bread winners: classic Morant views: train at "Morant's curve" (Bow River in the Bow Valley); fishing scene with models and Mountie at Vermilion Lakes near Banff; Willie Morant, rider and packhorse in mountains; couple under beach umbrella at Canadian Pacific's Algonquin Hotel, New Brunswick. 4 items
- * People: artists Carl Rungius and Charlie Beil at work; Nick Morant with bird on this head and with cow; artists at work with stained glass, totem poles and pottery; people in Peru; other. 25 items
- * Ruination: downed trees, squirrel. 2 items
- * Pix uses: Nova Scotia, including Church Point. 7 items
- * Aid: wildlife, highway, hotel, flower and plant close-ups. 8 items
- * Abstracts I: 7 items
- * Abstracts II (empty)
- * Mexico, tourist: 11 items
- * Skiers: skiers and models at Sunshine ski area and Mount Assiniboine. Also: packtrain, men removing snow from roof, Mount Assiniboine in summer. 13 items
- * Skiing: empty
- * Winter, Louise: summer and winter views of Lake Louise and area. 6 items
- * Cuisine: displays of food at Chateau Frontenac, 5 items
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Quebec
- Mexico
- Peru
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Mexico - Peru Series A
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 166 negative photographs (b&w and colour) and 54 colour transparencies taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / A7 / 27
- Description Level
- 4.2 / Sub-sub-sub series
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4.2 / Sub-sub-sub series
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / I / A : Photography : Negatives and Transparencies
- Accession Number
- 7438
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / A7 / 27
- Responsibility
- Produced by Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 220 Photographs: negatives and transparencies; b&w and colour
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 166 negative photographs (b&w and colour) and 54 colour transparencies taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
- Notes
- Contains some duplicate photographs. Negatives and transparencies are stored in separate file boxes. See also V500 / I / A7 / 28
- Subject Access
- Travel
- tourism
- Scenery
- Architecture
- Geographic Access
- Mexico
- Peru
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Reference use only; no reproduction
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Nicholas Morant
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Mexico - Peru Series B
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 66 negative photographs (b&w) taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / A7 / 28
- Description Level
- 4.2 / Sub-sub-sub series
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4.2 / Sub-sub-sub series
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / I / A : Photographs : Negatives and Transparencies
- Accession Number
- 7438
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / A7 / 28
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Responsibility
- Produced by Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 66 Photographs: negatives; b&w
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 66 negative photographs (b&w) taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
- Notes
- Contains duplicates. Related to V500 / I / A7 / 27
- Subject Access
- Travel
- tourism
- Scenery
- Architecture
- Geographic Access
- Mexico
- Peru
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Reference use only; no reproduction
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Nicholas Morant
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Morant Family Photographs, Various Dates and Topics
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 111 negative photographs, b&w, various sizes. Contents pertain to personal and family events involving numerous members of the Morant family: Nicholas Morant, David Morant, Francis Morant (Sr. and Jr.), Mollie Morant, Ivy 'Willie' Morant, 'Shandy', 'Trixie' and 'Uncle Dick'. Topics…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1925 - ca. 1935]
- 1939
- ca. 1940 - 1944
- 1943
- 1946
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- 1963
- 1966
- 1972
- Reference Code
- V500 / III / D / 4 / NA - 1 to 111
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Sous-Fonds
- V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / III / D / 4 : Personal and Family Photography
- Accession Number
- 7784
- Reference Code
- V500 / III / D / 4 / NA - 1 to 111
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Responsibility
- Produced by Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- [ca. 1925 - ca. 1935]
- 1939
- ca. 1940 - 1944
- 1943
- 1946
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1960]
- 1963
- 1966
- 1972
- Physical Description
- 111 Photographs: negatives; b&w
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 111 negative photographs, b&w, various sizes. Contents pertain to personal and family events involving numerous members of the Morant family: Nicholas Morant, David Morant, Francis Morant (Sr. and Jr.), Mollie Morant, Ivy 'Willie' Morant, 'Shandy', 'Trixie' and 'Uncle Dick'. Topics include the Morant family crest; images of 'Willie' in the kitchen, at the dentist's and working (multiple dates); David Morant as a child; Morant family Christmas in 1946; 'Willie' and Mollie Morant on the family farm; personal travel ('Vacation 1943', Mexico and Peru); etc.
- Storage Range
- In file box V500 / III / D / 4 / NA - 1 to V500 / III / D / 4 / NA - 111
- Name Access
- Morant, David
- Morant, Ivy
- Morant, Mollie
- Subject Access
- Family
- Farm
- Family crest
- Travel
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Banff
- Peru
- Mexico
- Access Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Negatives must be kept in protective acid-free envelopes and stored only with other similar negatives.
- Creator
- Nicholas Morant
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Nicholas Morant fonds
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- The Nicholas Morant fonds consists of Morant's freelance work from his early days with the Winnipeg Free Press to his retirement from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1981. It is national in scope and also includes some international material. The fonds is comprised of three series: I. Photograp…
- Date Range
- 1892-1995, predominant 1920-1981
- Reference Code
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Album
- Drawing
- Film
- Government record
- Map
- Blueprint
- Negative
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Poster
- Private record
- Recording disc
- Scrapbook
- Sound recording
- Textual record
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Sous-Fonds
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Accession Number
- 122, 182, 1273, 1460, 1612, 1685, 2175, 2265, 2631, 2703, 5117, 7438, 7784, 7672, 7914, 2023.01
- Reference Code
- M300 / S20 / V500
- GMD
- Album
- Drawing
- Film
- Government record
- Map
- Blueprint
- Negative
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Poster
- Private record
- Recording disc
- Scrapbook
- Sound recording
- Textual record
- Transparency
- Responsibility
- Nicholas Morant, Canadian Pacific, various
- Date Range
- 1892-1995, predominant 1920-1981
- Physical Description
- ca.50,775 photographs: ca.23,795 negatives, ca.18,456 transparencies, ca.8524 prints. -- 11 photograph albums. -- 125 sound recordings
- History / Biographical
- Nicholas Everard Morant, 1910-1999, was a professional photographer based at Banff, Alberta, Canada. He was a Canadian commercial photographer of international repute and Canada's premier railway photographer of the 20th century.
- Morant was born at Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of Francis and Mollie Morant. After attending the University School at Victoria, Morant served as Special Photographer to the CPR from 1929 to 1935 and again from 1944 to 1981. From 1935 to 1939, he was a cameraman for the Winnipeg Free Press, and from 1940 to 1944 worked with the Wartime Information Branch of the federal government (later to be known as the National Film Board Stills Division).
- Morant had a prolific career as a freelance commercial, portrait, magazine, landscape and documentary photographer. His work appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Time, Life, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post, (Toronto) Star Weekly, Northern Sportsman, Reader's Digest, Country Guide, The Standard, National Home Monthly, Canadian Photography, Outdoor Canada, National Geographic, the Globe & Mail, Winnipeg Tribune, New York Daily News, and the two Canadian Pacific Railway magazines, The Spanner and Rail News.
- Two wartime images were featured on postage stamps, while three landscape views appeared on Canadian $10, $50 and $100 bills. His images were also used for corporate annual reports, postcards, brochures, calendars and advertisements. From the 1950s to 1980s Morant gave public slide shows of his work, two of the most popular being "A Talk Without Words" and "The World At Your Feet".
- Morant married Ivy May "Willie" Young in 1936 when he was a photographer with the Winnipeg Free Press. Beginning in 1929, and until the end of her life, Morant's travelling and working companion was his wife, "Willie," 1910-1986.
- Scope & Content
- The Nicholas Morant fonds consists of Morant's freelance work from his early days with the Winnipeg Free Press to his retirement from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1981. It is national in scope and also includes some international material. The fonds is comprised of three series: I. Photography; II. Professional records; III. Personal and family records.
- I. Photography series consists of: A. Negatives and transparencies, B. Transparencies, C. Prints, D. Other photographs. II. Professional records series consists of: A. Working records, B. Career records, C. Topical files. III. Personal and family records series consists of: A. Nick and Willie Morant, B. Nick Morant funeral and memorial, C. Francis and Mollie Morant, D. Collected material
- Notes
- Full summary of sub-sub-series levels: I / A : 1) Darkroom Files [ a) Negative Albums b) Black/White Series I and II c) Colour Series I and II d) Leica Negs ] 2) GD Files I / B : 1) Presentations [ a) Topical Files b) Thematic Files ] 2) General Files 3) Other I / C : 1) Print Files I / D : 1) Exhibition and Display Prints 2) Photographs used by John Garden 3) Other Photographs II / A : 1) Log Books 2) Notebooks II / B : 1) Career Binders [ a) Postcards b) Brochures and Advertising c) clippings and articles d) Calendar Photographs ] 2) Scrapbooks [ a) Content 1933 - 1946 b) Content 1940 - 1980 ] II / C : 1) Numbered / Titled Files [ a) Group A b) Group B c) Group C d) Group D e) Group H f) Group P g) Group R ] 2) Other Topical Files [ a) Railway; i) Timetables ii) Publications iii) Other b) Photography; i) Textual Records ii) Print Material c) Travel d) Exhibitions and Galleries e)Personal f) Other ] 3) Postcards, Greeting Cards and Ephemera Collection 4) Published Images and Text 5) Professional Photography 6) Promotional Items, Awards and Correspondence 7) Presentation and Interview Materials III / A : 1) Correspondence 2) Personal Papers [ a) Personal Records b) Notes and Notebooks c) Lists and Card Files d) Awards and Retirement ] 3) Personal Photographs 4) House Records [ a) Construction b) Household Records ] 5) Business, Financial and Legal Papers 6) Interviews, Reminiscences Personal Recordings 7) Other Records (Signs, Cartoons, Drawings, etc.) 8) Personal Correspondence and Notes 9) Travel Documents and Maps III / B : 1) Nick Morant Funeral, Memorial and Estate III / C : 1) Mollie Morant Papers 2) Other Family Papers III / D : 1) Sound Recordings 2) Biographical Material 3) Other Papers and Photographs [ a) Burton Wheatley Family b) Other ] 4) Personal and Family Photography 5) Personal Interest and Gifts
- Name Access
- Morant, Nicholas
- Subject Access
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Transportation
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Banff
- British Columbia
- Peru
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Canada
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction/s on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline
- series and file description
- electronic and online finding aids
- Creator
- Morant, Nicholas
- Biographical Source Notes
- Brock Silversides; We Live in a Postcard: Banff Family Histories (Banff: Banff History Book Committee, 2005)
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed / Unprocessed
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Photographs used by John Garden
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of ca. 405 photographs used in books "Nicholas Morant's Canada" and "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" by John Garden, and 23 textual items. Photographs include ca.123 prints (13 oversize), ca.125 transparencies, and ca.156 negatives. Content pertains to Rocky Mountain scenics, vari…
- Date Range
- [ca.1940 - ca.1980]
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / D2 and M300 / I / D2
- Description Level
- 4.1 / Sub-sub-series
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Negative
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 4.1 / Sub-sub-series
- Fonds Number
- M300 / V500 / S20
- Sous-Fonds
- M300 & V500
- Sub-Series
- V500 / I / D : Photography : other photographs
- Accession Number
- 7784
- Reference Code
- V500 / I / D2 and M300 / I / D2
- Responsibility
- Produced by Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- [ca.1940 - ca.1980]
- Physical Description
- ca. 405 Photographs: prints, transparencies, negatives; b&w and colour
- Scope & Content
- File consists of ca. 405 photographs used in books "Nicholas Morant's Canada" and "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" by John Garden, and 23 textual items. Photographs include ca.123 prints (13 oversize), ca.125 transparencies, and ca.156 negatives. Content pertains to Rocky Mountain scenics, various hotel interior and exterior views, scenes from Peru, and other miscellaneous content relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway company. Textual materials include personal correspondence collected by Willie Morant, handwritten notes by Nicholas Morant, and one newspaper clipping (annotated).
- Notes
- Contains some duplicates. Negative photos to be re-housed in negative envelopes before moving to downstairs vault
- Subject Access
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Banff National Park
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Hotels
- Rocky Mountains
- Travel
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Banff
- Peru
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Access Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Nicholas Morant
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
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