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The passing of KAH-KEE-SEE-KOO-CHIN: The last of Canada's cannibals / by Fred A. Bagley. -- [before 1945]. -- 1 textual record (10 p.). -- Fred A. Bagley, 1858-1945, was a North West Mounted Police officer before retiring to Banff, Alberta. -- Manuscript is a dramatized account of a 1879 case invol…
Date Range
1945
Reference Code
M8 / accn. 534
Description Level
6 / Item
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Archives General File Collection
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Sous-Fonds
M8
Accession Number
534
Reference Code
M8 / accn. 534
Date Range
1945
Physical Description
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Scope & Content
The passing of KAH-KEE-SEE-KOO-CHIN: The last of Canada's cannibals / by Fred A. Bagley. -- [before 1945]. -- 1 textual record (10 p.). -- Fred A. Bagley, 1858-1945, was a North West Mounted Police officer before retiring to Banff, Alberta. -- Manuscript is a dramatized account of a 1879 case involving a Cree First Nation man hanged for murder and cannibalization of his family at Fort Saskat- chewan in the North West Territories. Bagley guarded the prisoner. Manuscript was written many years after the crime. -- Gift of Muriel Gratz, 1969.
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Samuel E. S. Allen papers : 1945. -- Copy made ca.1985. -- 1 textual record. -- Samuel E. S. Allen, 1874-1945, was a mountaineer from Philadelphia, U.S.A. who first visited the Rockies and Selkirks in 1891. He returned in 1893 to climb in the Lake Louise area with Walter D. Wilcox, a fellow Yale s…
Date Range
1945
Reference Code
M8 / accn. 4082
Description Level
6 / Item
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Archives General File Collection
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Sous-Fonds
M8
Accession Number
4082
Reference Code
M8 / accn. 4082
Date Range
1945
Physical Description
Textual Record
Scope & Content
Samuel E. S. Allen papers : 1945. -- Copy made ca.1985. -- 1 textual record. -- Samuel E. S. Allen, 1874-1945, was a mountaineer from Philadelphia, U.S.A. who first visited the Rockies and Selkirks in 1891. He returned in 1893 to climb in the Lake Louise area with Walter D. Wilcox, a fellow Yale student. Allen explored Paradise Valley and in subsequent years explored the Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks and Lake O'Hara regions, making numerous ascents and assigning many Stoney Nakoda names to geographic features. Soon after, his career was cut short by mental illness. -- Papers are last will and testament and probate proceedings. -- Gift of Mary Ann Kae, 1985.
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Photographs of Banff

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Archives General File Collection
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File consists of photographs of Banff views, particularly streets, buildings and roads
Date Range
1916
Reference Code
V8 / accn 5550 / PA - 1 to PA - 6
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Negative
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Archives General File Collection
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Series
V8 / accn 5550
Sous-Fonds
M8
Accession Number
5550
Reference Code
V8 / accn 5550 / PA - 1 to PA - 6
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Photograph
Negative
Date Range
1916
Physical Description
6 photographs : negatives
History / Biographical
Tom and Netta Merrills visited Banff, Alberta, Canada on a honeymoon trip in 1916
Scope & Content
File consists of photographs of Banff views, particularly streets, buildings and roads
Name Access
Merrills, Netta
Merrills, Tom
Subject Access
Family and personal life
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
Language
Language is English
Creator
Merrills, Netta
Merrills, Tom
Category
Family and personal life
Title Source
Title based on accession record
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Photographs of Banff

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Archives General File Collection
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File consists of photographs of Banff views, particularly streets, buildings and roads
Date Range
1916
Reference Code
V8 / accn 5550 / PA - 1 to PA - 6
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Series
V8 / accn 5550
Sous-Fonds
M8
Accession Number
5550
Reference Code
V8 / accn 5550 / PA - 1 to PA - 6
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Date Range
1916
Physical Description
6 photographs : negatives
History / Biographical
Tom and Netta Merrills visited Banff, Alberta, Canada on a honeymoon trip in 1916
Scope & Content
File consists of photographs of Banff views, particularly streets, buildings and roads
Name Access
Merrills, Netta
Merrills, Tom
Subject Access
Family and personal life
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
Language
Language is English
Creator
Merrills, Netta
Merrills, Tom
Category
Family and personal life
Title Source
Title based on accession record
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File consists of 2 back and white photographs of Cave and Basin
Date Range
1912
Reference Code
V8 / 2020.14
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Series
2020.14
Sous-Fonds
V8
Accession Number
2020.14
Reference Code
V8 / 2020.14
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Date Range
1912
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w ; 11.5 x 7.5 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of 2 back and white photographs of Cave and Basin
Geographic Access
Alberta
Banff National Park
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on contents
Processing Status
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Fonds consists of a photograph album pertaining to unidentified pack trip to the Red Deer Valley, Big Horn Creek, Molar, Ptarmigan Pass and Deception Pass and Ya-Ha-Tinda areas of Alberta with guides "Tex Vernon Wood, and Bert "Red" Johnson - the two other people on the trip may be A.O. Wheeler and…
Date Range
[ca.1915]
Reference Code
V8 / accn 2190 / PD
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Album
Photograph print
Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
V8
Sous-Fonds
V8
Accession Number
2190
Reference Code
V8 / accn 2190 / PD
GMD
Photograph
Album
Photograph print
Date Range
[ca.1915]
Physical Description
1 photograph album (62 prints)
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of a photograph album pertaining to unidentified pack trip to the Red Deer Valley, Big Horn Creek, Molar, Ptarmigan Pass and Deception Pass and Ya-Ha-Tinda areas of Alberta with guides "Tex Vernon Wood, and Bert "Red" Johnson - the two other people on the trip may be A.O. Wheeler and his second wife and former hostess and secretary of the Alpine Club of Canada Banff chapter, Emmaline Savatard.
Name Access
Pack trip album
Subject Access
Exploration, discovery and travel
Pack trips
Ya-Ha-Tinda Ranch
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
Language
Language is English
Finding Aid
Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
Creator
Possibly A.O. Wheeler and Emmeline Savatard
Category
Exploration, discovery and travel
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
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Movie Theatre Lantern Slides

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Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Scope & Content
File consists of lantern slides used in Banff movie theatre. Includes announcements and advertisements.
Date Range
[ca.1915]
Reference Code
V8 / 2860 / PS - 1 to PS - 42
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Lantern slide
Transparency
  43 images  
Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M8 / V8 / S8
Series
Accession Number: 2860
Sous-Fonds
V8
Accession Number
2860
Reference Code
V8 / 2860 / PS - 1 to PS - 42
GMD
Lantern slide
Transparency
Date Range
[ca.1915]
Physical Description
42 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10 x 8.2 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
Lantern slides were regularly used in movie theatres into the 1930's to advertise upcoming films, mark intermissions, encourage viewers to visit the conession stand, and provide general announcements. Slides could be provided by the studio with official film images or promotions - more often they were handmade title slides featuring simple images and text.
Scope & Content
File consists of lantern slides used in Banff movie theatre. Includes announcements and advertisements.
Notes
PS-37 contains typed text on clear celullose between two panes of glass bound with clear tape. The celullose insert is badly discoloured and warped, the text is badly faded. The text reads "BANKHEAD VETERANS CLUB A GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS WILL BE HELD IN THE CLUB ROOMS RIGHT AFTER THIS SHOW."
Name Access
Lux Cinema
Movie theatre
Subject Access
Cinema
Arts
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
Language
English
Conservation
All slides cleaned prior to scanning. Single-pane handwritten slides require delicate cleaning around the text.
Finding Aid
Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
Creator
Lux Cinema
Category
Arts
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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First picinic in Banff, ca. 1913 ; Masquerade Ball, March 14, 1911 ; Daughter of the Peaks, Lake Minnewanka ; Maligne Lake, Jasper by W. J. Oliver ; also handwritten note by Bob Edwards re: Banff. -- Gift of Agnes McMillen, Calgary via Robert (Bob) Edwards.
Date Range
ca. 1911-1913
Reference Code
V8 / accn. 7844
Description Level
6 / Item
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Archives General File Collection
Description Level
6 / Item
Accession Number
7844
Reference Code
V8 / accn. 7844
Date Range
ca. 1911-1913
Physical Description
4 prints, b/w, oversize ;
1 handwritten note by Robert (Bob) Edwards
Scope & Content
First picinic in Banff, ca. 1913 ; Masquerade Ball, March 14, 1911 ; Daughter of the Peaks, Lake Minnewanka ; Maligne Lake, Jasper by W. J. Oliver ; also handwritten note by Bob Edwards re: Banff. -- Gift of Agnes McMillen, Calgary via Robert (Bob) Edwards.
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Internment camp at Banff East Gate, ca. 1915-1920, F. Whiskin Collection ; 11 prints by Byron Harmon ; 1 C.P.R. photogravure facsmile. -- ca. 1915-1920, n.d. -- Transfer from Penticton Museum & Archives.
Date Range
ca. 1915- ca. 1920, n.d.
Reference Code
V8 / accn. 7845
Description Level
6 / Item
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Archives General File Collection
Description Level
6 / Item
Accession Number
7845
Reference Code
V8 / accn. 7845
Date Range
ca. 1915- ca. 1920, n.d.
Physical Description
16 prints, b/w (includes 6 mounted and 5 panoramas)
Scope & Content
Internment camp at Banff East Gate, ca. 1915-1920, F. Whiskin Collection ; 11 prints by Byron Harmon ; 1 C.P.R. photogravure facsmile. -- ca. 1915-1920, n.d. -- Transfer from Penticton Museum & Archives.
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Photograph of Banff Winter Carnival taken by Lewis Taylor.

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Archives General File Collection
Date Range
ca. 1940-1944
Reference Code
V8 / accn. 7917
Description Level
6 / Item
Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Description Level
6 / Item
Accession Number
7917
Reference Code
V8 / accn. 7917
Date Range
ca. 1940-1944
Physical Description
1 b/w copy print.
History / Biographical
Lewis Taylor was a member of the RAF, stationed in Alberta during World War II.
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