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Mrs. Arthur Beattie interview
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- Date Range
- 1971
- Reference Code
- S1 / 4
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Series
- I. Interviews
- Reference Code
- S1 / 4
- Responsibility
- Interviewer: Elizabeth Rummel
- Date Range
- 1971
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording
- Subject Access
- Dave White and Sons Store
- Drummond-Davies, Nora
- Eau Claire Lumber Company
- Miss Hurcomb's Nursing Home
- Mrs. Thompson's Nursing Home
- Nursing Homes - Banff
- Finding Aid
- Recording summary and reference cassette available
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of recording
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Pertains to Whyte House garage and White Groceteria.
- Date Range
- 1965
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 5 / b / 1729
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.5. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 5 / b / 1729
- Date Range
- 1965
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records : oversize
- Scope & Content
- Pertains to Whyte House garage and White Groceteria.
- Subject Access
- Whyte House
- Dave White and Sons Ltd.
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- Date
- 1954
- Material
- glass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1003
- Description
- Glass pie pan with fluted edges. On bottom: "Complements of Whites of Banff 60th Anniversary 1894-1954"
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- Title
- Pie Pan
- Date
- 1954
- Material
- glass
- Description
- Glass pie pan with fluted edges. On bottom: "Complements of Whites of Banff 60th Anniversary 1894-1954"
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- Dave White and Co.
- Credit
- Gift of Clifford J. White, Victoria, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1003
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Letter to Mother [August - November 1932]
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 37 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1932 to November 1932. Topics include daily life in Banff, a trip to Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp to sketch and paint [with the Links], plans to get Skoki ready for the season, visiting Lake McArth…
- Date Range
- 1932
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 89
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
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1 Electronic Resource
- 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 / 89
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 1.3 cm of textual records (137 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 37 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1932 to November 1932. Topics include daily life in Banff, a trip to Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp to sketch and paint [with the Links], plans to get Skoki ready for the season, visiting Lake McArthur, Castle Mountain Camp and Lake Louise, helping painter Mr. Jack find good painting spots and learning painting techniques from he and Carl Rungius, the engagement of Catharine's brother Russ, daily life in Concord [including Uncle George's finances after Stock Market Crash and Olive possibly not attending college], the marriage of Elizabeth Bosley, Peter and Cliff creating a dark room above the store and enlarging negatives and photographs, packing things into Skoki, painting J.D. Curren, making plans to head east for the holidays, and visiting with locals and others [including Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Link, the Moore family, Carl Rungius, Mrs. Kerr, the Earl of Bessborough, Cyril Paris, Ted Paris, Norman Knight, Earl Spencer, Vic Kutschera, Jimmy Simpson and his cook, Jessie McClure, Margarite Orr [?], J.D. Curren, and Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Jennings].
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. 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. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- White, Clifford
- Curren, John Donaldson
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, Adeline
- Rungius, Carl
- Robb, Russell, Jr.
- Paris, Cyril
- Paris, Ted
- Knight, Norman
- Spencer, Earl
- Kutschera, Vic
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Jennings, P. J.
- Subject Access
- Art
- Artists
- Backcountry skiing
- Banff
- Camps
- Castle Mountain
- Community life
- Dave White and Sons Store
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara region
- Marriage
- Painting
- Photography
- Portrait
- Ski lodges and cabins
- Skoki Lodge
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Concord
- Yoho National Park
- Lake O'Hara
- Lake Louise
- Castle Mountain
- Skoki
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Date
- 1922
- Material
- metal; fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1021 a,b
- Description
- Silver coloured soccer medal in box. (a) Medal is oval, 4.7x3.0. 'ribbons' top and bottom etched "Hutchinson (top) and cup 1922 (bottom), Central part of medal is a man standing with his right leg on top of a soccer ball. To his right is a shield shape enameled design, green bottom tip. "Won b…
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- Title
- Athletic Medal
- Date
- 1922
- Material
- metal; fibre; paper
- Description
- Silver coloured soccer medal in box. (a) Medal is oval, 4.7x3.0. 'ribbons' top and bottom etched "Hutchinson (top) and cup 1922 (bottom), Central part of medal is a man standing with his right leg on top of a soccer ball. To his right is a shield shape enameled design, green bottom tip. "Won by" on back. (b) Red clam shell box, lined, top with cream coloured satin and bottom lined with dark blue velvet.
- Subject
- sports
- summer
- Jack White
- Dave White Jr.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1021 a,b
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- Date
- 1905
- Material
- paper
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.1008
- Description
- A paper bag, size 6, from the Dave White store. Printed is a picture of King Edward VII and "From Dave White Dry Goods, Groceries, Ready-Made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Hardware and Miners' Supplies, etc. Banff - Alta"
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- Title
- Paper Bag
- Date
- 1905
- Material
- paper
- Description
- A paper bag, size 6, from the Dave White store. Printed is a picture of King Edward VII and "From Dave White Dry Goods, Groceries, Ready-Made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Hardware and Miners' Supplies, etc. Banff - Alta"
- Subject
- business
- commercial
- Dave White & Co.
- Credit
- Gift of Cliff (Mrs.) White, Banff, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.1008
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White and Curren families papers and photographs
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of the following series: A. Dave White Sr. papers, 1887- 1942; B. Annie White papers, 1875-1955; C. Dave (Jack) White papers, 1911- 1955; D. Clifford White notebook, ca.1915; E. John D. Curren papers, 1886- 1940; F. White-Curren family photographs, 1885-1953. Papers consist of pers…
- Date Range
- 1869 - 1958
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683 / III
- Description Level
- 2 / Sous-fonds
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 2 / Sous-fonds
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- III. White and Curren families
- Sous-Fonds
- V683
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683 / III
- Date Range
- 1869 - 1958
- Physical Description
- ca. 2 m of textual records (and 36 oversize items). -- ca.3100 photographs (ca.1800 negatives, ca.1300 prints, 5 albums of ca.400 prints).
- History / Biographical
- The White and Curren families of Banff, Alberta were the maternal and fraternal relatives of Peter Whyte. Dave McIntosh White, 1864- 1940, Peter Whyte's father, came to the Canadian Rockies in 1885 with the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1894 he opened a general merchandise business, the Park Store, in Banff. The success of this business resulted in expansions in 1908-1909 and in 1912-1913. For a short time, Whyte operated a similiar business in Bankhead. White was a long-time friend of the Stoney Nakoda, Annie (Curren) White, 1879-1955, emigrated to Canada from Scotland with her father, John Donaldson Curren, and a brother in 1886. They settled in Anthracite, east of Banff, where J. D. Curren operated a small coal mining business. Annie Curren married Dave White in 1901. Their children, all born in Banff, were Clifford, 1902-1964, Lila, 1903-1961, Peter, 1905-1966, and Dave Jr. (Jackie), 1908-1961. Clifford and Jack worked for the family business, Dave White and Sons.
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of the following series: A. Dave White Sr. papers, 1887- 1942; B. Annie White papers, 1875-1955; C. Dave (Jack) White papers, 1911- 1955; D. Clifford White notebook, ca.1915; E. John D. Curren papers, 1886- 1940; F. White-Curren family photographs, 1885-1953. Papers consist of personal, legal and financial papers; and records of Dave White, General Merchant, Dave White and Sons and White and Bayne Store. Pertains to Stoney Nakoda First Nations, Banff Indian Days, Highland gatherings, buildings, churches, skiing, coal and coal mines and Lake Minnewanka. Photographs consist largely of negatives and prints produced by various members of the White family, including Dave, Annie, Clifford and Jack White, pertaining to the White family members, travels, activities; the Banff-Lake Louise area; Banff events, places and people; winter sports; social events and friends, 1910- 1953, and glass negatives by J. D. Curren pertaining to Curren and White families and activities, Mount Assiniboine pack trip and Bow Valley scenes; ca.1885-1905. Also includes collected prints of family and friends, family businesses and buildings and winter sports, and albums pertaining to White and Curren families, 1885-1919 and Clifford White photographs, 1917-1921.
- Subject Access
- Banff V
- Banff - Events V
- Banff National Park
- CURREN FAMILY
- Stoney Nakoda First Nations
- White, Annie M
- White, Clifford Sr.
- WHITE, DAVE SR.
- White, Jack (Dave White Jr.)
- WHITE FAMILY
- Access Restrictions
- Access to photographs requires permission in advance from the Head Archivist.
- Finding Aid
- Series-level outline available. Electronic database available. Photographs are described at the sub-series level only (printed inventory provides more detail than the computer inventory).
- Related Material
- Consitutes Sous-fonds III of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- Forms part of Sous-fonds III of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds. Photographs in this section begin with the early family portraits of David McIntosh White taken in New Brunswick and those of Annie Curren White taken in Scotland. The earliest negatives attributable to David and Annie White date ca.1908, or approximately the time they moved to their new home between Lynx Street and Bow Avenue. Most of the negatives from the first two decades of family photography are sized 8.3 x 11 cms., with the exception of what appears to be occasional experimentation with other formats, such as vest pocket and 4 x 5 Graflex, and images generated by other family members, such as J.D. Curren and the White children. This body of photography was undoubtedly initiated through the acquisition of a roll film camera on or about 1908. Judging from subject arrangement and other evidence, including shadow images of the photographer, most White family photography is attributable to Annie Curren White. There are several photographs from the collection showing her holding a camera or photographing family members, while no such photographs exist of Dave White. There can be little doubt, however, that Dave White participated in the photographic process, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1917, when there are numerous photographs of Annie and the children. On family motor trips, which began around 1917 and lasted until ca.1923, Dave and Annie's son Clifford appears to have shared photographic responsibilities. From this period on, Clifford and Annie, either one or the other, are the only family members who do not appear in group photographs. From this it is assumed that Dave White played a very minor roll as family photographer after 1918. Photographs attributable to Peter Whyte begin to appear around 1920, but most of his photography appears to be more personal than of a family record variety. None of the photographs in the early part of the collection have been attributed to Lila or Jack (Dave Jr.) White. After 1923, the point when the White children were grown and beginning to move away from home, Annie White becomes the primary family photographer. In the late 1920s she appears to have experimented with a Graflex camera for a time, but by 1930 had returned to a smaller format roll film camera. She continued to take numerous family photographs, usually group poses of her children and grandchildren, after Dave White's death in 1940 until shortly before her own passing in 1955. Also included in this section of the collection are a number of personal photographs generated by Clifford and Jackie (Dave Jr.) White. Around 1918, Clifford appears to have acquired his own camera which produced a 3 x 5 inch negative, and from that period until ca.1923, he produced many images of activities shared with friends and brothers, including a number of photographs of early ski tours and ski jumping in the Banff area. One album bears Clifford's initials on nearly all photographs, and these images match with many of the 3 x 5 inch negatives found elsewhere in the collection. Photographs attributed to Jackie (Dave Jr.) date from the late 1940s and early 1950s and may have entered the collection prior to the death of Annie White. Much of the dating of this collection from 1908 to 1920 was done by estimating the ages of various White children. Beyond that, the usual techniques were utilized, i.e. identification and dates noted on prints by family members, the depiction of specific historical events, changes in physical and cultural features, model dating of automobiles, reading of license plates, etc.
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- Processed
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Dave White, General Merchant: daily cash and credit statement books.
- Date Range
- 1914-1918
- Reference Code
- M36 / III / A / 4 / a / i / 2078 - 2081
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- III.A. Dave White Sr. papers
- Reference Code
- M36 / III / A / 4 / a / i / 2078 - 2081
- Date Range
- 1914-1918
- Physical Description
- 4 vol of textual records : oversize
- Scope & Content
- Dave White, General Merchant: daily cash and credit statement books.
- Subject Access
- Dave White and Sons Ltd.
- Content Details
- Held in oversize "D"
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Dave White, General Merchant; and Dave White and Sons Ltd: account books.
- Date Range
- 1900-1911, 1933-1942
- Reference Code
- M36 / III / A / 4 / a / ii / 2083 - 2089
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- III.A. Dave White Sr. papers
- Reference Code
- M36 / III / A / 4 / a / ii / 2083 - 2089
- Date Range
- 1900-1911, 1933-1942
- Physical Description
- 7 vol of textual records : oversize
- Scope & Content
- Dave White, General Merchant; and Dave White and Sons Ltd: account books.
- Subject Access
- Dave White and Sons Ltd.
- Content Details
- Held in oversize "D"
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Dave White, General Merchant: stock books.
- Date Range
- 1909-1912
- Reference Code
- M36 / III / A / 4 / a / iii / 2090 - 2093
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- III.A. Dave White Sr. papers
- Reference Code
- M36 / III / A / 4 / a / iii / 2090 - 2093
- Date Range
- 1909-1912
- Physical Description
- 4 vol of textual records : oversize
- Scope & Content
- Dave White, General Merchant: stock books.
- Subject Access
- Dave White and Sons Ltd.
- Content Details
- Held in oversize "D"
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