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Diary No XX Leave to Canada 9.4.20 to 25.10.20

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 12, Apr.-Oct. 1920 Leave to Canada. Personal diary pertaining to packing and leaving from Dehra Dun, travel to Bombay with leisure and description of travel mates, travel on ship S. S. Dunera and description of pas…

Date Range: 1920

Reference Code: M169 / 12

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 12

Date Range: 1920

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 12, Apr.-Oct. 1920 Leave to Canada.; Personal diary pertaining to packing and leaving from Dehra Dun, travel to Bombay with leisure and description of travel mates, travel on ship S. S. Dunera and description of passengers. Daytrip in Columbo, travel through Singapore, Hong Kong, interaction with Prince and Princess of Barcleu [?]. Police and Doctors in Nagasaki performed extensive examinations.; Uneventful crossing to Victoria, drive to Sidney. Leisure, dances, lunches, theatre. Trip to Vancouver, Walhachin, stayed with friends in Shaughnessy Heights, visited Jerico Club. Trip to Jasper via Prince Rupert, hiking, camping, Fortress Lake, Snow Creek.; Travel from Jasper to Banff, through Edmonton and Calgary. Stayed at Alpine Club House in Banff, which was busy because of poor weather at Assiniboine. Climbed Mt. Edith, stayed at Sunshine Camp, Golden Valley, Assiniboine. Picture glued in of Lake Magog, annotated with mountain peaks. Banff, climbed Rundle, leisure, staying at clubhouse, picnic on Bow river, Sulphur Mountain climb.; Travel from Banff to Winnipeg to Toronto, to Ottawa, Montreal, New York, board ship S. S. Baltic to Liverpool. Trip into London, dealing with clothing, camera, surveying equipment, trips to India Office, leisure with Dolly. Boat trip to Venice, trip to Suez, to Bombay and return to Dehra Dun. "Altogether a most excellent leave, though somewhat expensive!"

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Leave; Vancouver; Banff; Bombay; Travel; New York; Mt. Edith; Mt. Assiniboine; Sulphur Mt.

Title Source: Title taken from source

Processing Status: Processed

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Diary No XXII Leave 1922-3 -4

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 13, Apr. 1922-Jan.1924 India & leave to Canada & U.S.A. Personal diary pertaining to travel from Dehra Dun to Calcutta, list of expenses, sailing postponed due to bad weather, trip though Singapore, Hong Kong, man …

Date Range: 1922-24

Reference Code: M169 / 13

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 13

Date Range: 1922-24

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 13, Apr. 1922-Jan.1924 India & leave to Canada & U.S.A.; Personal diary pertaining to travel from Dehra Dun to Calcutta, list of expenses, sailing postponed due to bad weather, trip though Singapore, Hong Kong, man on board jumped, was rescued and arrested, Nagasaki, Tokyo, arrival in Victoria. Leisure in Resthaven, Middle Springs Camp in Banff, honorary member of ACC, Assiniboine, ACC Club House.; Significant gap in text, beginning again three months later in Sidney, travelling to Vancouver. Winnipeg to Ottawa, to Kingston, to Toronto. Ten days of leisure in Toronto, four days in Cleveland, visit with friends in Washington, DC, trip to New York, Ottawa, boat trip on S. S. Montclare, trip to Birmingham with Dolly, travel around England, leisure, return to Canada with Dolly, docked in Montreal, travel to Ottawa, from Toronto to Banff.; Banff for ten days, visits mother's grave, chores. Karmax and K2. Trip to Vancouver, leisure, return to Sidney, auditing and balance sheets. Rough trip back with Dolly from Victoria to Yokohama. Recent earthquake in Yokohama, description of city's destruction. Travel back through Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, return to Calcutta.

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Leave; Vancouver; Banff; Resthaven; Middle Springs Camp; Travel; New York; Mt. Assiniboine

Title Source: Title taken from source

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Diary No XXIII A at intervals from 15.4.22 to 26.12.22 written by D. S. W.

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Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 14, Diary written by Sir Oliver's wife, 1922. Personal diary pertaining to Dehra Dun, description of daily activities, dining, weather. Trip to Calcutta on expensive train without dining car, visiting offices to wo…

Date Range: 1922

Reference Code: M169 / 14

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 14

Date Range: 1922

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 14, Diary written by Sir Oliver's wife, 1922.; Personal diary pertaining to Dehra Dun, description of daily activities, dining, weather. Trip to Calcutta on expensive train without dining car, visiting offices to work out passports, expenses. Choppy boat ride to Panary, travel through Singapore, to Hong Kong, description of passenger who jumped off boat, long police inspection in Nagasaki, attended Japanese play at Imperial Theatre, played Mahjong. Travel to Victoria, discussion of day to day activities, spent time at Resthaven due to appendix problems. Presented with pink carnations from the ACC. "O." had operation and convalesced at Resthaven, trip to Victoria, nice weather for Banff and Bow river. Husband buys car, 1914 Cadillac. Walk along spray river in Banff, Sunshine Camp, Middle Springs, driving lesson on highway.; Pressed four leaf clover in middle of book; Shopping lists for various rooms of the house; Upside down from back of book, shopping lists, lists of items mailed, different trunks contents lists

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Leave; Vancouver; Banff; Resthaven; Middle Springs Camp; Travel; Mt. Assiniboine

Title Source: Title taken from source

Processing Status: Processed

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Education, Military, & Club Scrapbook

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of academic, sports, and military newsclippings, certificates, and letters. Includes documents from Trinity College School, Ontario Militia, Alpine Club of Canada, and Royal Military College of Canada. Contains newspaper clippings, hand-written letters, certificates, pr…

Date Range: 1910-1933

Reference Code: M169 / II / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M169

Series: II Scrapbooks

Sous-Fonds: M169

Accession Number: 22000

Reference Code: M169 / II / 1

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: 1910-1933

Physical Description: 5 cm of textual records (103 pages ; 24.5 x 30 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of academic, sports, and military newsclippings, certificates, and letters. Includes documents from Trinity College School, Ontario Militia, Alpine Club of Canada, and Royal Military College of Canada. Contains newspaper clippings, hand-written letters, certificates, programmes, ledger pages, cartoons and sketches, telegrams, invitations, and steamliner tickets.

Name Access: Wheeler, E. O. (Edward Oliver); Wheeler, Edward Oliver

Subject Access: Academics; Accidents; Alpine Club of Canada; Art; Awards; Biographical; Cadet camp; Competition; Education; Hockey; Membership; Military; School; School athletics; Sports; University; War

Geographic Access: Calgary; Ottawa; Alberta; Ontario; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Black pages not scanned

Creator: Wheeler, Edward O.

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

GMD: Photograph; Album; Map; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

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

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

Biographical Source Notes: Accession record; Donor

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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I. Textual Materials

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Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Scope & Content: Series consists of newspaper clippings and photocopied newspapers pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers, and a photocopy of a guide to the Tonquin area created by Kathleen Chapman.

Date Range: July 21 1938- July 22 1940

Reference Code: M237 / V281 / I

Description Level: 3 / Series

GMD: Textual record

Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Description Level: 3 / Series

Fonds Number: M237; V281

Series: I

Sous-Fonds: M237

Accession Number: 7694

Reference Code: M237 / V281 / I

GMD: Textual record

Date Range: July 21 1938- July 22 1940

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: Series consists of newspaper clippings and photocopied newspapers pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers, and a photocopy of a guide to the Tonquin area created by Kathleen Chapman.

Name Access: Chapman, Kathleen; McDonald, Jean; Petrie, Jean; Gibson, Rex; Feuz, Edward; Gest, Illian

Subject Access: Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Banff Jasper Highway; Alpine Club of Canada; Camps; Glaciers

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Finding Aid: In case file

Creator: Jean Petrie Knox

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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II. Photo Albums

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Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Scope & Content: Series consists of photo albums pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers and various Alpine Club of Canada trips in Banff, Jasper, and Yoho national parks.

Date Range: July 12, 1938-Sept 3, 1940

Reference Code: M237 / V281 / II

Description Level: 3 / Series

GMD: Album

Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Description Level: 3 / Series

Fonds Number: M237; V281

Series: II

Sous-Fonds: M237/V281

Accession Number: 7694

Reference Code: M237 / V281 / II

GMD: Album

Date Range: July 12, 1938-Sept 3, 1940

Physical Description: 8 albums (257 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller)

Scope & Content: Series consists of photo albums pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers and various Alpine Club of Canada trips in Banff, Jasper, and Yoho national parks.

Notes: Albums with black pages were likely originally bound together as a single album, however gaps in page numbers imply that pages are missing from the complete work.

Name Access: Chapman, Kathleen; McDonald, Jean; Petrie, Jean; Gibson, Rex; Feuz, Edward; Gest, Illian

Subject Access: Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Banff Jasper Highway; Alpine Club of Canada; Camps; Glaciers

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Banff; Yoho National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Finding Aid: In case file

Creator: Jean Petrie Knox

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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III. Photographic Prints

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Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Scope & Content: Series consists of 4 black and white photographic prints

Date Range: December 1938 to July 1940

Reference Code: M273 / V281 / III

Description Level: 3 / Series

GMD: Photograph print

Part Of: Jean Knox Petrie fonds

Description Level: 3 / Series

Fonds Number: M273/V281

Series: III

Sous-Fonds: V281

Accession Number: 7694

Reference Code: M273 / V281 / III

GMD: Photograph print

Date Range: December 1938 to July 1940

Physical Description: 4 photographs : b&w silver gelatin prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Series consists of 4 black and white photographic prints

Notes: Prints were enclosed in photographic albums from series II. but were seperated due to their lack of any geographic/subject relation to the albums.