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Canadian Rockies Scrapbook

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Part Of
Ford Family fonds
Scope & Content
Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for…
Date Range
1908-2003
Reference Code
M583 / 01
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Scrapbook
Private record
Part Of
Ford Family fonds
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M583 / V274
Sous-Fonds
M583
Accession Number
2021.16
Reference Code
M583 / 01
GMD
Scrapbook
Private record
Date Range
1908-2003
Physical Description
4 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 24.5 x 29.3 cm)
History / Biographical
Nancy (Ford) Dart, daughter of Minneapolis businessman Allyn K. Ford, became a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1953. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Scope & Content
Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for Jasper and the Jasper Park Lodge from ca. 1954. Tucked into a pouch inside the front cover are two letters addressed to Nancy Dart in 2003 regarding her 50th anniversary as a member of the ACC, four ACC annual newsletter booklets from 1922, 1923, and 1925, and an envelope addressed to Nancy Ford (Dart) containing paperwork pertaining to her admission to the ACC in 1953. Items throughout the scrapbook are either tucked into the plastic sleeves or dispersed throughout the pages. Contents include annual ACC camp brochures (one from 1908, others from the 1940s and 50s), letters (one addressed to Geoffrey Howard from Allyn K. Ford, in 1941 and another addressed to Mr. Ford, probably Allyn Ford, in 1953), photographs/postcards taped to a page divider, seven dinner lists from 1953 for the Jasper Park Lodge (all dated Friday, July 10 but each has a different header picture), a booklet from the third annual ACC membership dinner, a brochure for the 1941 annual American Alpine Club meeting and dinner, three tourism magazines for Jasper from the Canadian National Railway, one trail map of Jasper and one of Banff, an ACC newsletter and brochure for the Mountain Leadership Conference from 1989, a typed copy of a short story "A Journey with the Men of Alps" held together with a small pin (possibly a dramatic retelling of Allyn Ford's first trip to the Rockies), two ACC crossword puzzels (one partially completed), and a notice from the American Alpine Club pertaining to America's involvement in World War II from 1941. Tucked inside the back cover is a red paper envelope containing two photographs (possibly printed off the computer) of A.O. Wheeler from the 1923 ACC camp in Larch Valley.
Name Access
Ford, Allyn
Dart, Nancy
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Subject Access
Alpine Club of Canada
Advertising
Administration
Canadian National Railway
Correspondence
Family and personal life
Exploration, discovery and travel
Jasper Park Lodge
Sports, recreation and leisure
Trains
Geographic Access
Minneapolis
Minnesota
United States of America
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Alberta
Canada
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on item
Processing Status
Processed
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A wartime log : a remembrance from home through the Canadian Y.M.C.A.

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Part Of
Bill Waterworth fonds
Scope & Content
Bill Waterworth enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the age of 18. On September 19, 1942, Waterworth was shot down over the French coast just short of completing his 33rd mission. Waterworth avoided capture by German patrols for two weeks before being captured and taken prisoner by the G…
Date Range
[ca.1940]-1999
Reference Code
M215 / LC 1 / accn 8066
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Machine-readable data file
Photograph
Scrapbook
Textual record
  1 Electronic Resource  
Part Of
Bill Waterworth fonds
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M 215
S 54
V 176
Sous-Fonds
M 215
S 54
V 176
Accession Number
8066 - loan for copy
Reference Code
M215 / LC 1 / accn 8066
GMD
Machine-readable data file
Photograph
Scrapbook
Textual record
Date Range
[ca.1940]-1999
Physical Description
electronic record : 7.66 GB, 147 files
190 pages digitized from original
Scope & Content
Bill Waterworth enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the age of 18. On September 19, 1942, Waterworth was shot down over the French coast just short of completing his 33rd mission. Waterworth avoided capture by German patrols for two weeks before being captured and taken prisoner by the Gestapo. He was sent by boxcar to a Prisoner of War (POW) camp - Stalag VIIIB/344 - in Lamsdorf, Germany where he remained for three years. In 1943 the Red Cross issued each P.O.W. a blank 151 page logbook "A Wartime Log : A Remembrance from Home Through the Canadian Y.M.C.A." Waterworth treasured this log during his captivity and compiled it as a scrapbook collecting photographs, artwork by fellow prisoners, newsclippings, parcel lists and letters from home. In January 1945 the prisoners were forced to march from Poland to France, and he carried his log throughout the ordeal. His sense of history and purpose with the Wartime Log continued throughout his life, with follow-up stories of fellow POWs and of their reunions through to 1999.
Loan for copy in 2009 and digitized.
Name Access
Waterworth, Bill
Subject Access
War
WWII
Language
Language is English
Location (Original)
Returned to Waterworth family
Location (Copy)
O:\m_textual\m215_waterworth_archivalmaster
Location Copy Filename
m215_lc_1_accn8006
Related Material
S1 / 162 - Whyte Museum Oral History Prograamme : Bill Waterworth's Wartime Log interview with Bill Waterworth by Head Archivist E. J. (Ted) Hart, May 28, 2009
08 M22a - Almost a lifetime / John McMahon
Creator
Waterworth, Bill
Category
Family and personal life
Title Source
Original title page
Processing Status
Unprocessed
Electronic Resources

m215_lc_1_accn8066.pdf

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