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Bow Lake and Glacier

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.009

Description: At the bottom of the print is the brown and tan shore of Bow Lake. Four brownish trees are at the centre of this shore area. Bow lake is turquoise green and takes up the centre portion of the print. It appears as if the shore is at a slightly higher elevation than the lake. At the centre right …

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake and Glacier

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on paper

Description: At the bottom of the print is the brown and tan shore of Bow Lake. Four brownish trees are at the centre of this shore area. Bow lake is turquoise green and takes up the centre portion of the print. It appears as if the shore is at a slightly higher elevation than the lake. At the centre right of the print, Bow Glacier is visible. Brown and white mountains extend upwards from the lake across the centre of the print. The sky is pale blue and clear with two narrow streaky clouds, one above the other, extending across the print.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake, Bow Glacier

Credit: Gift of George Weber, 1973

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.009

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Bow Lake, Looking North, 1969

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.62

Description: Bow Lake is seen in foreground of image, mountains can be seen in the distance in the upper left corner and are reflected in the lake. Trees form a line along the lake’s shore from the centre of the image out to the far right centre. They are also reflected in the lake. The sky is quite yellow o…

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Looking North, 1969

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Bow Lake is seen in foreground of image, mountains can be seen in the distance in the upper left corner and are reflected in the lake. Trees form a line along the lake’s shore from the centre of the image out to the far right centre. They are also reflected in the lake. The sky is quite yellow on the right but changes to blue on the left of the sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.62

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Bow Lake, 1962

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.59

Description: Blue sky with large cloud at left, mountains in background across image with Bow Lake below them. Green grassy area with trees in foreground of image. Title and “Canadian Rockies” written on mat.

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, 1962

Date: 1962

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Blue sky with large cloud at left, mountains in background across image with Bow Lake below them. Green grassy area with trees in foreground of image. Title and “Canadian Rockies” written on mat.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.59

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Autumn Evening, 1958

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1958

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.60

Description: Cloudy, moonlit scene, mountains in background stretch across image, Bow Lake at the foot of the mountains in the foreground. In the immediate foreground at the bottom of the image is the shore of the lake, a few trees on it. At the centre left of the image, a line of trees on the bank extends i…

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Autumn Evening, 1958

Date: 1958

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Cloudy, moonlit scene, mountains in background stretch across image, Bow Lake at the foot of the mountains in the foreground. In the immediate foreground at the bottom of the image is the shore of the lake, a few trees on it. At the centre left of the image, a line of trees on the bank extends in towards the middle of the image.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.60

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Untitled [Bow Lake]

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1954 – 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.51

Description: A small lake or stream is in the foreground at the centre right. Bushes surround it in both of the lower corners. A line of trees stretches across the centre of the image. They appear to form an arc. The trees appear to be closer on either side of the image and further away in the middle. A mo…

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Bow Lake]

Date: 1954 – 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: A small lake or stream is in the foreground at the centre right. Bushes surround it in both of the lower corners. A line of trees stretches across the centre of the image. They appear to form an arc. The trees appear to be closer on either side of the image and further away in the middle. A mountain capped in snow is in the background. The sky is blue and has clouds in it.

Subject: Landscape; Mountains; Canadian Rockies; Lake; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of Harry I. Van Rensselaer, 1997

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.51

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.199

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1954

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake, Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.199

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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…

Date Range: 1942

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Private record

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs

Sous-Fonds: M36

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114

GMD: Postcard; Private record

Date Range: 1942

Physical Description: 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Phil; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.; White, Annie; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; Whyte, Dorothy; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Ward, Sam; Ward, Louise (Cis); Brewster, Fern; Brewster, Jack Walker; Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Link, Adeline; Campbell, Gray; Campbell, Eleanor; Watson, Sir Norman; Rummel, Elizabeth; Rummel, Lizzie; Rungius, Carl; Noble, George

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Birds; Bird watching; Birthday; Books; Bow Lake; Businesses; Canadian Pacific Railway; Children; Christmas; Columbia Icefield; Columbia Icefield Chalet; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Home; Hospital; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Mountain; Mount Royal Hotel; Mount Temple Chalet; Norquay Ski Hill; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Red Cross; Royal Canadian Airforce; RCAF; Scenery; Skiing; Ski areas; Trains; Transportation; Travel; War; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Bow Lake; Icefield Parkway; Banff National Park; Calgary; Alberta; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Potterton Prod. . -- 1970

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: Potterton Productions at Bow Lake shows cast and crew at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge. An actor dressed as a Mountie skiing and snowmobiling.

Reference Code: V190 / I.F. - 4

Description Level: 5 / File

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Series: I.F. Old file: Films and film making

Reference Code: V190 / I.F. - 4

Physical Description: ca.84 negatives: 6 x 6 cm.

Scope & Content: Potterton Productions at Bow Lake shows cast and crew at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge. An actor dressed as a Mountie skiing and snowmobiling.

Subject Access: Bow Lake; Films and film making; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge

Access Restrictions: Access by appointment only

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Location Photos [3/4]

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 86 colour prints of various locations. Includes scenic views, Johnson Lake with views of Rundle Mountain and the hoodoos [BM-2], wildlife, waterfalls and hot springs [Roll 18 &19], rivers & streams [Roll 20], portraits of undientified men on a mountain overlooking the foothills [Ro…

Date Range: [ca.1980-1985]

Reference Code: V190 / VI / L / iv / PA - 205 to PA - 291

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

19 images

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, L : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: iv : Location Photos: High Country, First Hello, Death Hunt

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / L / iv / PA - 205 to PA - 291

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: [ca.1980-1985]

Physical Description: 86 photographs : col. ; 12.4 x 8.8 cm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 86 colour prints of various locations. Includes scenic views, Johnson Lake with views of Rundle Mountain and the hoodoos [BM-2], wildlife, waterfalls and hot springs [Roll 18 &19], rivers & streams [Roll 20], portraits of undientified men on a mountain overlooking the foothills [Roll 21], the Bow River area near Banff in winter, and production shots for an unknown film project [possibly called "First Hello"].

Subject Access: Automobiles; Big Horn Sheep; Bow Lake; Buildings; Helicopters; Hoodoos; Hot Springs; Filmaking; Films and film making; Mountains; Rundle Mountain; Scenery; Winter

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Canmore; Seebe; Alberta; British Columbia

Language: English

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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Location Photos [4/4]

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 91 colour prints of various locations. Includes production shots from an unidentified project, buildings and cabins, portraits of hikers [Roll 27], waterfalls & natural hot springs [Roll 23], scenic views, rivers & streams, an unidentified person hanggliding, frozen waterfalls, Yam…

Date Range: [ca.1980-1985]

Reference Code: V190 / VI / L / iv / PA - 292 to PA - 383

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

21 images

Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, L : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: iv : Location Photos: High Country, First Hello, Death Hunt

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / L / iv / PA - 292 to PA - 383

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: [ca.1980-1985]

Physical Description: 91 photographs : col. ; 14.9 x 10.1 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 91 colour prints of various locations. Includes production shots from an unidentified project, buildings and cabins, portraits of hikers [Roll 27], waterfalls & natural hot springs [Roll 23], scenic views, rivers & streams, an unidentified person hanggliding, frozen waterfalls, Yamnuska, forests [BM-11], a crashed plane, and avalanche control.