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Alice Harding fonds

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Part Of: Alice Harding fonds

Scope & Content: Photographs pertain to Glacier House hotel, staff, guests, activities; also Illecillewaet Glacier, Canadian Pacific Railway, Glacier area landscape and scenic views, including Nakimu Caves. Includes some views from across Canada. Other items are a poem titled "Lines written at Laggan" by G. E. Si…

Date Range: 1913-1917

Reference Code: M109 / V260

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Photograph print

Part Of: Alice Harding fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 109; V 260

Sous-Fonds: M109 / V260

Accession Number: 782, 1085

Reference Code: M109 / V260

GMD: Photograph; Album; Photograph print

Date Range: 1913-1917

Physical Description: 2 photograph albums (ca.200 prints). -- 53 photographs : prints. -- 4 textual records

History / Biographical: Alice Harding, b.ca.1892, was a chambermaid at the Lake Louise Chalet in Alberta, Canada in 1913, and at Glacier House at Glacier, British Columbia from 1914 to ca.1917.

Scope & Content: Photographs pertain to Glacier House hotel, staff, guests, activities; also Illecillewaet Glacier, Canadian Pacific Railway, Glacier area landscape and scenic views, including Nakimu Caves. Includes some views from across Canada. Other items are a poem titled "Lines written at Laggan" by G. E. Sinclair, 1913; and menu and envelope from Glacier House, 1915 and n.d.

Name Access: Harding, Alice

Subject Access: Buildings and facilities; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: basic description; microfilm copies of albums

Creator: Harding, Alice

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Associated Screen News fonds

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Part Of: Associated Screen News fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of records pertaining to the career of George William Rance who worked with the photography division of the Associated Screen News (ASN) travelling the world aboard the Empress ships. Rance also worked in the camera shop in the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta and ASN's Head Offi…

Date Range: [1925-1938]

Reference Code: V98

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Associated Screen News fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: V 98

Sous-Fonds: V98

Accession Number: 7751 (unproc)

Reference Code: V98

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [1925-1938]

Physical Description: ca.158 photographs: prints

History / Biographical: The Associated Screen News (ASN), established in Montreal in 1920 as a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, produced photographs, newsreels, shorts, travelogues, motion pictures, and industrial films featuring the CPR's extensive transportation services. In developing its international travel business, the CPR established a steamship company, the Empress Line. ASN photographers travelled aboard the CPR and Empress Line ships photographing the various travel and cruise destinations to which they were assigned, promoting the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Empress ships. In 1935 ASN purchased the famous Notman & Sons photographic studio in Montreal.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of records pertaining to the career of George William Rance who worked with the photography division of the Associated Screen News (ASN) travelling the world aboard the Empress ships. Rance also worked in the camera shop in the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta and ASN's Head Office in Montreal, Quebec. Fonds consists of Associated Screen News photographs of Cochrane to Banff motor road, Banff townsite and environs, Banff-Lake Louise road, Mount Assiniboine, Waterton Lakes National Park, ca.1925. Also included in the fonds are photographs of various cruise destinations of the CPR Empress Line including Grenada, Rio de Janeiro, Martinique, Barbados, and the Empress of Australia, ca.1938 and 1 William Notman & Sons photograph of the Bow River Bridge and Cascade Mountain, ca.1905.

Name Access: Associated Screen News; Rance, George William

Subject Access: Buildings and facilities; Sports, recreation and leisure; Transportation; Commerce and industry; Exploration, discovery and travel

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: No finding aid

Creator: Associated Screen News

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Transportation; Sports, recreation and leisure

Biographical Source Notes: Tom Rance (info supplied with accession record); E.J.Hart, The Selling of Canada; Jonathan Hanna, Robert C. Kennell, and Carol Lacourte, Portraits of Canada: Photographic Treasures of the CPR.

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Unprocessed

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Edward Cavell fonds

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Part Of: Edward Cavell fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consist mainly of photographs by Edward Cavell, 1973-1975. Consists of 6 x 6 cm. negatives with corresponding contact sheets and some identification lists for four projects: I. Copy and on-site shots for Banff Springs: The Story of a Hotel, 1973, ca.209 negatives plus contact sheets and enlar…

Date Range: [ca.1870]-1975, predominant 1973-1975

Reference Code: V129

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Postcard; Transparency

Part Of: Edward Cavell fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: V 129

Sous-Fonds: V 129

Accession Number: 1834, 3907, 5032, 5851, 5946

Reference Code: V129

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Postcard; Transparency

Date Range: [ca.1870]-1975, predominant 1973-1975

Physical Description: ca.1300 photographs : negatives, prints, postcards, transparencies

History / Biographical: Edward Cavell, b.1947, writer, researcher, photographer and museum curator at Banff, Alberta, Canada, is currently a business owner at Banff and Calgary, Alberta.

Scope & Content: Fonds consist mainly of photographs by Edward Cavell, 1973-1975. Consists of 6 x 6 cm. negatives with corresponding contact sheets and some identification lists for four projects: I. Copy and on-site shots for Banff Springs: The Story of a Hotel, 1973, ca.209 negatives plus contact sheets and enlargements; II. Landscape photographs for Rocky Mountains highway guide book, Waterton to Jasper, with Jon Whyte (incomplete), 1974, ca.700 negatives with contact sheets and identifications; III. Stage shots of Phil Nimmons Quartet at the Banff Centre, 1974, 84 negatives and contact sheets; IV. Ground and aerial survey of Cascade Fire Road for Banff Warden Service, 1975, ca.257 negatives and contact sheet. ; Also includes photographs collected by Cavell for personal and research purposes, including Tepee at Bow Lake, hand-coloured print by Byron Harmon; "Dedicatory services at Mount Eisenhower 1958" by Bruno Engler, Alpine Films, Banff; Rocky Mountain scenic postcards by several publishers, including Byron Harmon and Bill Gibbons; slide copies of photographs by Charles Horetzky, Walter D. Wilcox, William Notman, Byron Harmon and [Ernest Brown].

Name Access: Cavell, Edward

Subject Access: Arts; Buildings and facilities; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Creator: Cavell, Edward

Category: Arts; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel

Title Source: Title based on accession records

Processing Status: Processed / Unprocessed

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Homestead Hotel fonds

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Part Of: Homestead Hotel fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of guest registers for 1911 to 1932; also, lists and photographs. The lists include arrivals, guests and addresses for 1947 to 1952. The photographs are thought to be from the Homestead Hotel and include scenic views of the Rocky Mountains; also, Homestead Hotel, Banff facilities a…

Date Range: 1911-[before 1970]

Reference Code: M138 / V219

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Framed print; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Homestead Hotel fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 138; V 219

Sous-Fonds: M 138; V 219

Accession Number: 917, 2772

Reference Code: M138 / V219

GMD: Photograph; Framed print; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1911-[before 1970]

Physical Description: 12 v. and 1 textual record. -- 34 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: The Homestead Hotel at Banff, Alberta, Canada opened in 1910 as a temperance house. A cafe, the Ye Olde Homestead Tavern, was added in 1930. In 1945, D. M. Soole sold the hotel to Earl E. Gammon and James I. McLeod. Gammon assumed sole ownership in 1948

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of guest registers for 1911 to 1932; also, lists and photographs. The lists include arrivals, guests and addresses for 1947 to 1952. The photographs are thought to be from the Homestead Hotel and include scenic views of the Rocky Mountains; also, Homestead Hotel, Banff facilities and activities; n.d. Some are framed; others may have been removed from an album. Also includes a notice to guests for Gammon's Hotel, n.d.