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Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

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Part Of
Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60. M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Rider…
Date Range
ca.1908-ca.2011
Reference Code
M573 / V797 / S60
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Private record
Published record
Newspaper clipping
Transparency
Textual record
Sound recording
Lantern slide
Part Of
Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
M573 / V797 / S60
Sous-Fonds
M573
V797
S60
Accession Number
2019.111
Reference Code
M573 / V797 / S60
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Private record
Published record
Newspaper clipping
Transparency
Textual record
Sound recording
Lantern slide
Date Range
ca.1908-ca.2011
Physical Description
26 cm of textual records.-- 109 photographs (42 prints, 67 lantern slides). -- 2 sound recordings.
History / Biographical
Jean Alexandra Hembroff was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 5, 1908 to Walter B. Hembroff (d. 1945) and Sarah Jane Hembroff (d.1952). Jean was accepted to the MacPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art at the University of Minnesota, from which she graduated in 1927. She returned to Winnipeg to begin teaching courses in speech arts and drama. To establish herself, she first volunteered as the "story lady" at the Williams Avenue Public Library and quickly became known as an excellent speaker sought by many different organizations. She taught at St. Mary's Academy and the Evening Institute at the University of Manitoba, as well as offered private sessions. Many of her students used the skills they learned from Jean as they entered radio, television, politics, and business. Jean was also very active in organizing and adjucating Speech Arts festivals in Manitoba, often going to inaccessible places to give workshops. Her teaching, broadcasting, adjucating, coaching, and speaking career spanned more than 50 years. Jean was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway's promotions manager to give presentations and broadcast interviews across Canada and the United States. In 1937, Jean joined the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and participated in their summer trail ride in the same year. For that year's issue of the Trail Rider's Bulletin Jean wrote an article - and became the first woman to ever do so. In 1938, during her lecture titled "Trail Riding in the Rockies" on January 18, 1938 at the Royal Alexandra Hotel, Jean met John David (Jack) MacDonald. Jack and Jean were married on June 18, 1938, and the couple had one son, Bruce Walter James MacDonald (August 28, 1946-August 25, 2016). Jean participated in several trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Trail, and produced articles reflecting her experiences. Jean loved to travel and visited places all around Canada and the United States, Borneo, Tangier, Montevideo, Stockholm, New Delhi, and Tonga. At the age of 102, Jean passed away on February 2, 2011 and is buried in Winnipeg.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60.
M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, particularly 1937-1939). Series II: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 4 cm, 1924-2000 (including correspondence with John Murray Gibbon, former students, and attendees at various talks, as well as newspaper articles that Jean wrote about various subjects and articles of her achievements). Series III: Collected Materials and Ephemera, 3 cm, ca.1930-1950 (including a variety of collected poems and ephemera, as well as a copy of The Beaver Magazine from 1940, for which Jean wrote an article titled "On the Trail of Sir George").
V797 consists of two series, 24.5 cm of visual records, ca.1928-1939. Series I: Photograph Prints, 3 cm, ca.1928-1939 (includes personal photographs of Jean and her family and friends as well as photographs of Jean and Jack's visit to Lake Louise in 1939). Series II: Lantern Slides, 21.5 cm, ca.1937-1939 (Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1937 to Mt. Assiniboine; Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1939 to Ptarmigan Valley and Skoki; collection of trail ride songs).
S60 consists of two sound recordings, 1 cm, 2004 and 2007 (Winnipeg at Christmas, narrated by Jean, broadcasted on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
Notes
Lantern slides include wooden case.
Name Access
Hembroff MacDonald, Jean
Subject Access
Banff
Banff National Park
Camps
Canadian Pacific Railway
Discovery and travel
Discovery and exploration
Empress Hotel
European travel
Family and personal life
Guides
Hiking
Horse packing
Horses
Horseback riding
Kananaskis Ranch
Lake Louise
Lantern slide
Mount Assiniboine
Mountain
Organizations
Personal and Professional Life
Photography
Poetry
Scenery
Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
Sports and recreation
Sunshine area
Trails
Trail guides
Tourism
Travel
Travel and Exploration
Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
Women
Geographic Access
Assiniboine
Alberta
Banff
Banff National Park
British Columbia
Canada
Canadian Rocky Mountains
Ireland
Kananaskis Country
Lake Louise
Lake O'Hara
Manitoba
Mount Assiniboine
Rocky Mountains
Victoria
West Indies
Winnipeg
Reproduction Restrictions
Some restriction/s on access
Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
Language
English
Creator
Hembroff MacDonald, Jean
Category
Arts
Education
Exploration, discovery and travel
Sports, recreation and leisure
Biographical Source Notes
Contents of the fonds
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122854759/jean-alexandra-macdonald
https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-174851/MACDONALD_JEAN
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/winnipeg-mb/bruce-macdonald-7064958
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Less detail
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P. R. Lockie Collection

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Part Of
Percival R Lockie fonds
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of photographic greeting cards featuring mountain views of the Rockies, Selkirks and Coast Range taken and inscribed by Lockie; and 9 photographs of Lockie at Powell River and Willingdon Beach, Lockie with friends, and views of Lockie's Table in British Columbia.
Date Range
1941-1964
Reference Code
V111
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Part Of
Percival R Lockie fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
V111
Sous-Fonds
V111
Accession Number
7740
2021.30
Reference Code
V111
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Date Range
1941-1964
Physical Description
35 photographs : b&w and col. ; 28 x 21.5 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
Percival Robert Lockie (known as P. R. or just Lockie), 14 August, 1900 - 8 March, 1976, was born in St. Helens, England and moved to B.C. with his family in 1909. His father, Robert, was already in Canada when Percy (as he’s listed on the Immigration form) came with his mother Ethel and sisters Elizabeth, Kathleen, and Janet on the Empress of Ireland. The ship departed from Liverpool and arrived in Quebec on 25 June with a final destination listed as Vancouver. He worked in Vancouver as a draftsperson for Dominion Engineering until at least 1921 before moving to Powell River. Upon arrival to Powell River he worked a wide variety of labour jobs, as well as various odd jobs like lifeguarding and as a tap dance teacher. His main occupation in town was as a draftsperson for the Powell River Company's pulp and paper mill until 1965. His work for the mill included measuring the snow pack at the head of Powell Lake, north of the town site, each May and September, which he did for over 30 years. Measurements were taken from half-way up a mountain at the north-east of Powell Lake, which Lockie and B. Stenberg are accredited with summiting first in 1952. Over the course of his life he climbed the mountain at least 75 times. While locally known as Lockie’s Table for most of his life, the mountain was officially unnamed. In the mid-1990s Powell River community members requested the B.C. Geographical Naming Office officially recognize the name Lockie’s Table, which they did in April 1997. According to the Naming Office, the name Lockie’s Table is affixed to the flat table-like plateau on the peak of the mountain, while the rest of the mass remains unnamed. He joined the B.C. Mountaineering Association in the 1920s and travelled, climbed, and photographed throughout the interior and northern B.C. area, mainly the Selkirk and Coastal Mountain ranges. He also spent time hiking in and around Banff National Park and both the B.C. and Alberta sides of the Rocky Mountains; Lake O'Hara was one of his favorite places and features prominently in his photographs.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of photographic greeting cards featuring mountain views of the Rockies, Selkirks and Coast Range taken and inscribed by Lockie; and 9 photographs of Lockie at Powell River and Willingdon Beach, Lockie with friends, and views of Lockie's Table in British Columbia.
Name Access
Lockie, Percival R,
Subject Access
Exploration, discovery and travel
Environment
Sports, recreation and leisure
Geographic Access
Canada
Alberta
British Columbia
Banff National Park
Selkirks
Assiniboine
Lake O'Hara
Powell River
Language
Language is English
Related Material
Accession record, The Powell River Peak (community newspaper) May 29, 1997 pp.13. Paper copy in accession binder.
Printed documents included with photographs
Creator
Lockie, P. R.
Category
Environment
Exploration, discovery and travel
Sports, recreation and leisure
Biographical Source Notes
Accession record, The Powell River Peak (community newspaper) May 29, 1997 pp.13
British Columbia Mountaineering Club volunteer correspondence
B.C. Geographical Names website, Lockie's Table
Ancestry.ca, 1921 Census of Canada
Ancestry.ca, Canadian Passenger Lists 1865-1935
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
Processing Status
Processed
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P. R. Lockie Photographs

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Part Of
Percival R Lockie fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of 26 b&w and colour prints, some captioned, some mounted. The file contains P. R. Lockie's photographic greeting cards Mountain views in the Rockies, Selkirks and Coast Range taken and inscribed by Lockie. Subjects include the Siwash Valley, Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Moun…
Date Range
1941 - 1964
Reference Code
V111 / PA - (1 to 26)
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph print
  38 images  
Part Of
Percival R Lockie fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
V 111
Sous-Fonds
V111
Accession Number
7740
Reference Code
V111 / PA - (1 to 26)
GMD
Photograph print
Date Range
1941 - 1964
Physical Description
26 photographs : b&w and col. ; 18 x 13 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
See fonds level of description for biographical information.
Scope & Content
File consists of 26 b&w and colour prints, some captioned, some mounted. The file contains P. R. Lockie's photographic greeting cards Mountain views in the Rockies, Selkirks and Coast Range taken and inscribed by Lockie. Subjects include the Siwash Valley, Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Mount Assiniboine, Seymour Ski Cabin, Castor - Pollux and Leda Glaciers, Opabim Pass, Coromet Mountain, Mount Odary, Mount Garibaldi, Rogers Pass, Mount Sir Sanford, Tonquin Valley in Jasper National Park, Mount Athabasca, Bow Lake, Moraine Lake. Documents consist of printed copies of Lockie's immigration form and 1921 census form.
Notes
Printed documents added to file by Archival Assistant.
Name Access
Lockie, Percival R,
Subject Access
Exploration, discovery and travel
Environment
Sports, recreation and leisure
Geographic Access
Lake O'Hara
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Access Restrictions
Copyright applies
Language
Language is English
Conservation
PA-18 is held together with a strip of tape - may need to be reinforced in the future.
Creator
Lockie, Percival R.
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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Part Of
Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of 27 black and white photograph prints and 1 colour tinted photograph print, 25 x 20.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the trail rides that Jean participated in, particularly in 1937 and 1939. File documents every day life on the trail ride at the camp (entertainment, setting up camp…
Date Range
ca.1935-1939
1937
1939
Reference Code
V797 / I / PA - 14 to 42
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Private record
Photograph print
Photograph
Part Of
Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M573 / V797 / S60
Series
V797 / I : Photograph Prints
Sous-Fonds
V797
Accession Number
2019.111
Reference Code
V797 / I / PA - 14 to 42
GMD
Private record
Photograph print
Photograph
Date Range
ca.1935-1939
1937
1939
Physical Description
28 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25 x 20.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 27 black and white photograph prints and 1 colour tinted photograph print, 25 x 20.5 cm or smaller. File pertains to the trail rides that Jean participated in, particularly in 1937 and 1939. File documents every day life on the trail ride at the camp (entertainment, setting up camp); various trail riders, including Nicholas Morant and John Murray Gibbon; several of Jean with her horse and her husband Jack and Anna Cran (sister-in-law); and mountain scenery.
Notes
Several photograph prints are annotated on the back.
One of the photographs of Jean with her horse is colour tinted.
Name Access
Hembroff MacDonald, Jean
Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
Gibbon, John Murray
Subject Access
Hiking
Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
Horseback riding
Scenery
Artists
Discovery and travel
Empress Hotel
Horses
Mount Assiniboine
Lake O'Hara region
Lake Louise
Skoki Lodge
Geographic Access
Banff National Park
Lake Louise
Lake O'Hara
Assiniboine
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Canadian Rocky Mountains
Language
English
Category
Exploration, discovery and travel
Sports, recreation and leisure
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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