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- Alpine Club of Canada fonds 52
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- Placido Monachello fonds
Camp photographs
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- Part Of
- Placido Monachello fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 29 black and white photographs of the Alternative Service Corps work camp located near the Sunshine Road/Brewster Creek area (ASW Camp No. 1) from 1941-1943. Photos were taken by Placido Monachello, annotated, and sent to his [then] fiance Leona in Hamilton, Ontario. Photographs in…
- Date Range
- 1941-1943
- Reference Code
- V803 / I / PA - 1 to PA - 28
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
57 images
- Part Of
- Placido Monachello fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V803
- Series
- I : camp
- Sous-Fonds
- M582 / V803
- Accession Number
- 2020.25
- Reference Code
- V803 / I / PA - 1 to PA - 28
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1941-1943
- Physical Description
- 29 photographs : b&w ; 14.7 x 8.7 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 29 black and white photographs of the Alternative Service Corps work camp located near the Sunshine Road/Brewster Creek area (ASW Camp No. 1) from 1941-1943. Photos were taken by Placido Monachello, annotated, and sent to his [then] fiance Leona in Hamilton, Ontario. Photographs include scenes of the camp itself, consisting mostly of tents, and day-to-day tasks undertaken by Monachello and his fello campmates - mostly during the winter.
- Name Access
- Monachello, Placido
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Automobiles
- Brewster Creek
- Buildings
- Cabins and shelters
- Camps
- Mountains
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff National Park
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Fellow Campmates photographs
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- Part Of
- Placido Monachello fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 59 black and white photographs of the Monachello and his fellow campmates at the Alternative Service Corps work camp located near the Sunshine Road/Brewster Creek area (ASW Camp No. 1) from 1941-1943. Photos were taken by Placido Monachello, annotated, and sent to his [then] fiance…
- Date Range
- 1941-1943
- Reference Code
- V803 / II / PA - 1 to PA - 59
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
103 images
- Part Of
- Placido Monachello fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V803
- Series
- II : campmates & work
- Sous-Fonds
- M582 / V803
- Accession Number
- 2020.25
- Reference Code
- V803 / II / PA - 1 to PA - 59
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1941-1943
- Physical Description
- 59 photographs : b&w ; 14.7 x 8.7 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 59 black and white photographs of the Monachello and his fellow campmates at the Alternative Service Corps work camp located near the Sunshine Road/Brewster Creek area (ASW Camp No. 1) from 1941-1943. Photos were taken by Placido Monachello, annotated, and sent to his [then] fiance Leona in Hamilton, Ontario. Photographs include group portraits [mostly outdoors], the cook tent and its staff, cutting lumber, Sunday activities, and interacting with wildlife.
- Notes
- Please note: approaching and feeding wildlife in Banff National Park is illegal, do not attempt.
- Name Access
- Monachello, Placido
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Brewster Creek
- Buildings
- Cabins and shelters
- Camps
- Forestry
- Logging
- Mountains
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff National Park
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Jean Knox Petrie fonds
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- Part Of
- Jean Knox Petrie fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds relate to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Canada. The fond consists of three series: I. Textual records consist of 8 newsclippings from July 1938 pertaining to the first ascent of Mount Columbia by women: Lillian Gest, Kathleen Chapman, Christine Reid, Jean McDonald, and Jean Petrie as…
- Date Range
- 1938-1940
- Reference Code
- M237 / V281
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Map
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Jean Knox Petrie fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 237
- V 281
- Sous-Fonds
- M 237
- V 281
- Accession Number
- 7694
- Reference Code
- M237 / V281
- Date Range
- 1938-1940
- Physical Description
- 1 cm textual records. -- 8 albums (257 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller). -- 4 photographs : b&w silver gelatin prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller.
- History / Biographical
- Dr. Jean Knox (McDonald) Petrie, born 1913, was an active member of the Alpine Club of Canada, Edmonton Section during the 1930s and 1940s, attending the Alpine Club of Canada summer camps from 1937-1940, 1942 and 1946 as well as making many weekend climbs in the Jasper area with Captain E. R. Gibson. In 1938 she was one of the four women to make a first ascent of Mount Columbia by women, as well as Mount Forbes in 1940. Married in 1960 to Robert Petrie (died 1966), Dr. Jean Petrie worked in Ottawa, Ontario (1940-1945) in munitions gauge testing for the National Research Council. Following the war, she worked as an astrophysicist for the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia (1945-1966) and taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1966-1971).
- Scope & Content
- Fonds relate to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Canada. The fond consists of three series: I. Textual records consist of 8 newsclippings from July 1938 pertaining to the first ascent of Mount Columbia by women: Lillian Gest, Kathleen Chapman, Christine Reid, Jean McDonald, and Jean Petrie as well as a photocopied "Guide to the Tonquin" signed by K. G. Chapman ca.1935. II. Photographic records include an unbound album of 44 pages: 111 prints divided by the donor into 3 sections: 1. To the Tonquin Valley, July 1938; 2. Alpine Club Camp, Columbia Icefields, July 12-31, 1938; 3. Alpine Club Camp Tonquin Valley, April 1939. The album also includes artwork and map. A second unbound photograph album of 28p: 170 prints are divided into 5 sections: 1. ACC camp in the Ice River Valley, July 1939; 2. ACC ski camp in Little Yoho Valley, March 23-31, 1940; 3. Our climb of Roche Miette, May 24, 1940; 4. Our summertime journey into the Little Yoho Valley, July 1940; 5. Our climb of Mts. Fitzwilliam & Bucephelas, September 3, 1940. III. Photographic Prints consist of 4 loose prints unrelated to other contents of the fond.
- Notes
- Unbound books are numbered in pencil by the creator, pages appear to be missing due to absent page numbers.
- Name Access
- Petrie, Jean K.
- McDonald, Jean
- Gale, Ethne
- Taylor, Morris
- Cooper, Art
- Rault, Reg
- Brewster, Norman
- Cassils, Mary
- Hind, Rob
- Chapman, Kathleen
- Gibson, Rex
- Feuz, Edward
- Gest, Illian
- Walker, Hazel
- Carscallan, Alan
- McLean, Hector
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Ski lodges and cabins
- Ski touring
- Skiing
- Backcountry skiing
- Banff Jasper Highway
- Cabins and shelters
- Camps
- Glaciers
- Huts
- Mountaineering
- Sunshine Lodge
- Trail guides
- Trail making
- Trails
- Winter sports
- Geographic Access
- Jasper National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Alberta
- Canada
- Banff National Park
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- No finding aid
- Creator
- Petrie, Jean Knox
- Biographical Source Notes
- Accession record
- Donor
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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