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Alpine Scenes and Work Near Home

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1890
Author
J.R.
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Call Number
02.6 R11a PAM O.S
Author
J.R.
Responsibility
J.R. (author)
Frederic Remington (illustrator)
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Published Date
1890
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers, British
Mountaineers, Swiss
Sir Donald, Mount
Glacier House
Travel
Tourism
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Abstract
Pertains to Glacier House and the ascent of Sir Donald by Emil Huber and Carl Sulzer from Switzerland and Harry Cooper from England with illustration on page 725
Notes
In Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXIV No. 1760, September 13, 1890, pp. 723 - 725
Accession Number
7979
Call Number
02.6 R11a PAM O.S
Collection
Archives Library
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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1888
Publisher
The Illustrated London News
Call Number
02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.
Responsibility
Sketches by Melton Prior
Publisher
The Illustrated London News
Published Date
1888
Physical Description
125 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Banff
Glacier House
Abstract
Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway as per Melton Prior who travelled from Montreal to Vancouver on the train and provided a review of the journey which includes sketches of Sir Donald, Great Glacier, Glacier Hotel, Hermit Range, Mount Carroll, Stony Creek Bridge and the interior of a colonial sleeping car.
Notes
In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2591, Saturday December 15, 1888, pp. 720 - 722
Accession Number
7864
Call Number
02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadian Pacific Railway : Banff and British Columbia

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1888
Publisher
The Illustrated London News
Call Number
02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.
Responsibility
Sketches by Melton Prior
Publisher
The Illustrated London News
Published Date
1888
Physical Description
125 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Tourism
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Hot springs
Hotels
Sanitarium Hotel
Banff
Glacier House
Abstract
Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Banff and Mount Stephen including railway access and hotels, hotsprings, sanitarium with associated sketches.
Notes
In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2588, Saturday, November 24, 1888, pp. 613 - 614
Accession Number
7864
Call Number
02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies, Summer of 1932. Hinman Horseback and Camping Trip, July 1-17. With the Alpine Club Camp at Glacier, B.C., July 19-Aug 1. Climbing and Walking Trips Aug 1-Sept 13

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Lillian Gest fonds
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photograph album depicting three trips taken throughout the summer of 1932. Canadian Rockies Summer of 1932 depicts what is possibly an Alpine Club of Canada organized climb around the Mt. Sir Donald and Mt. Dawson area of British Columbia. Includes mountain views, portraits, peo…
Date Range
1932
Reference Code
V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 9
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Album
Photograph print
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Part Of
Lillian Gest fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M67 / S36 / V225
Series
II.C. Activities / photography
Sous-Fonds
V225
Sub-Series
ii.b. Photographic material / photograph album
Accession Number
5142
Reference Code
V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 9
GMD
Album
Photograph print
Date Range
1932
Physical Description
1 album (399 photographs : b&w ; 28 x 18 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photograph album depicting three trips taken throughout the summer of 1932. Canadian Rockies Summer of 1932 depicts what is possibly an Alpine Club of Canada organized climb around the Mt. Sir Donald and Mt. Dawson area of British Columbia. Includes mountain views, portraits, people climbing, glaciers, and an ACC Annual Camp. Hinman Horseback and Camping Trip - July 1-17 [1932] depicts the annual backcountry horse trip organized by Caroline Hinman around the Mt. Assiniboine and East Kootenay areas of British Columbia. Includes scenic views, horses, camps, portraits, and two pages dedicated to the Hinman Party in August - it is not clear if Lillian Gest participated in the whole of Caroline Hinman's summer 1932 trip. At the Alpine Club Camp depicts the ACC Annual Camp for 1932, based in Glacier, BC. Includes the ACC camp, mountains, glaciers, portraits, scenic views, climbing, swimming, Abbot Pass Hut, Glacier Circle Cabin, enlargements, and greeting cards. Following the annotated ACC trip photographs are a collection of greeting cards, newspaper clippings, and misc. photographs from Gest's various trips during the summer of 1932. Most of these photographs are not annotated. Also includes greeting cards from trip members and a memorial card for Conrad Kain fixed to the inside back cover. Inserts 1 and 3 pertain to the overview/advertisement for the Summer 1932 and 1933 trips that would have been sent out by Caroline Hinman in advance detailing routes, expectations, and prices. Insert 2 pertains to a clipped page from what is possibly an ACC or Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies periodical.
Notes
Blank pages not scanned
Name Access
Alpine Club of Canada
Gest, Lillian
Hinman, Caroline
Kain, Conrad
Wilson, Tom
Subject Access
Alpine Club of Canada
Abbot Pass Hut
Activities
Animals
Bighorn Sheep
Buildings
Castles
Camps
Climbing
Exploration
Fay Hut
Family and personal life
Glacier House
Glaciers
Huts
Horses
Horse packing
Moose
Mountains
Mountaineering
Mountain Goat
Off the Beaten Track
Scenery
Travel
Geographic Access
Mount Assiniboine
Lake O'Hara
Mt. Sir Donald
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
East Kootenay
Yoho National Park
British Columbia
Alberta
Canada
Access Restrictions
Microfilm copy available for reference use by appointment only.
Language
English
Conservation
Removed from plastic sleeve and rehoused in acid-free paper, tied with flat string.
Creator
Gest, Lillian
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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Vaux family fonds
Scope & Content
File pertains to print copies made from original negatives of Vaux family travels in the Canadian Rockies in the late 1800s. Includes views of mountains, scree slopes, glaciers, train scenes (including tracks and the interior of a dining car), Glacier House, and portrais of the family members.
Date Range
[ca. 1887 - 1900]
Reference Code
V653 / I / U / 2 / PA-7 to PA-59
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph print
Part Of
Vaux family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M107/V557
Series
I. Photography
Sous-Fonds
V557
Sub-Series
U. Prints
Accession Number
7792
Reference Code
V653 / I / U / 2 / PA-7 to PA-59
GMD
Photograph print
Date Range
[ca. 1887 - 1900]
Physical Description
52 prints : b&w ; 21.6 x 27.9 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File pertains to print copies made from original negatives of Vaux family travels in the Canadian Rockies in the late 1800s. Includes views of mountains, scree slopes, glaciers, train scenes (including tracks and the interior of a dining car), Glacier House, and portrais of the family members.
Name Access
Vaux, William
Vaux, George
Vaux, George, X
Walcott, Mary Vaux
Subject Access
Glaciers
Glacier House
Family and personal life
Mountains
Photography
Trains
Travel and Exploration
Geographic Access
British Columbia
Canada
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1982
Author
Putnam, William Lowell
Publisher
New York : American Alpine Club
Call Number
01.4 P98t reference
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Author
Putnam, William Lowell
Responsibility
Willaim Lowell Putnam
Publisher
New York : American Alpine Club
Published Date
1982
Physical Description
23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Glacier House
Illecillewaet Glacier
Selkirk Mountains
Railway routes
Railway stations
Railways
Tourism
Mountaineering
American Alpine Club
History
Abstract
he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
Contents
Introduction
The Railroad Track
The House
The Tourists
First Climbers
Men of Science
Alpina Americana
Britannic Majesty
Canadians at Last
Some of the Best
The Last Big Mountain
The Rest is Silence
Appendices
A: The Guides
B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
Bibliography
Index
Notes
Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
ISBN
0930410130
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
01.4 P98t reference
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Mary Warren Correspondence

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Part Of
Archives General File Collection
Scope & Content
File pertains to 4 type written letters written by Mary [Shaffer] Warren to Minnie Nickell regarding the former's first visit and subsequent survey of Maligne Lake in 1908, place names, botany, Jamaica, personal matters, and various individuals including Samuel Allen, J. Norman Collie, William "Bil…
Date Range
1936-1937
Reference Code
M8 / accn. 4005
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Private record
Textual record
was returning to Glacier House . He walked 1n and bad an AVIFUL HOlE IN THE HEEL OF HIS STOCKING! \Vnen l named
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Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M8 / S8 / V8
Sous-Fonds
M8
Accession Number
4005
Reference Code
M8 / accn. 4005
GMD
Private record
Textual record
Date Range
1936-1937
Physical Description
0.2 cm of textual records (8 pages ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Scope & Content
File pertains to 4 type written letters written by Mary [Shaffer] Warren to Minnie Nickell regarding the former's first visit and subsequent survey of Maligne Lake in 1908, place names, botany, Jamaica, personal matters, and various individuals including Samuel Allen, J. Norman Collie, William "Billy" Warren, Mary Jobe, and Nellie McClung. Also inlcudes a newspaper clipping of Mary's obituary from 1939. Minnie Nickell and Mary Warren became acquainted during the 1930s through a mutual friend, a Mrs. Armstrong of Owen Sound, Ontario.
Name Access
Schaffer, Mary
Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples
Warren, Billy
Warren, Mary Schaffer
Subject Access
Botany
Correspondence
Exploration
Family and personal life
Glacier House
Guides
Horses
Packing
Personal and Family Life
Scouting
Surveying
Travel
Travel and Exploration
Geographic Access
Maligne Lake
Jasper National Park
Alberta
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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Murray family fonds

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Part Of
Murray family fonds
Scope & Content
Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The artic…
Date Range
1887-1960
Reference Code
M142 / V453
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Textual record
Private record
Published record
Part Of
Murray family fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
M 142
V 453
Sous-Fonds
M 142
V 453
Accession Number
450, 941
Reference Code
M142 / V453
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Textual record
Private record
Published record
Date Range
1887-1960
Physical Description
33 photographs : prints. -- .5 cm of textual records
History / Biographical
George Murray, 1904-1968, and Gertrude Murray, 1891-1979, were residents of Banff, Alberta, Canada. George Murray was an employee of Rocky Mountain Tours and Transport Company from 1941 until 1957 and was later employed by Brewster Transport Company. The Murrays were friends of Major F. V. (Frederick Victor) Longstaff, 1879-1961, a mountaineer, architect and historian from Victoria, B.C.
Scope & Content
Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The article includes photographic illustrations of the Lake O'Hara region and the interior of Abbot Pass Hut.
Name Access
Murray, George
Murray, Gertrude
Subject Access
Family and personal life
Glacier House
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 for photographs.
Creator
Murray, George
Murray, Gertrude
Category
Family and personal life
Title Source
Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
Processing Status
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Summer 1921 and Summer 1923 Album

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Lillian Gest fonds
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photo album depicting a trip Lillian Gest and her mother took in summer 1921 and in summer 1923. Western Trip, Summer of 1921 (PD - 2 / 1 to 76) follow their travels from the Great Lakes, through Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, and Glacier National Park to Sicamous, Van…
Date Range
1921-1923
Reference Code
V225 / II / C / II / b / PD - 2
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Album
Photograph print
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Part Of
Lillian Gest fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M67 / S36 / V225
Series
II.C. Activities / photography
Sous-Fonds
V225
Sub-Series
ii.b. Photographic material / photograph albums
Accession Number
5142
Reference Code
V225 / II / C / II / b / PD - 2
GMD
Album
Photograph print
Date Range
1921-1923
Physical Description
1 album (531 photographs : b&w ; 14.6 x 9 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photo album depicting a trip Lillian Gest and her mother took in summer 1921 and in summer 1923. Western Trip, Summer of 1921 (PD - 2 / 1 to 76) follow their travels from the Great Lakes, through Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, and Glacier National Park to Sicamous, Vancouver and Victoria before heading down the coast to California and finally to the Grand Canyon. Page headings as follows: Great Lakes on board "Octorara"; Mackimac Island; Banff [Banff Springs Hotel, pools, Lake Minnewanka, Johnston Canyon etc.]; Banff Indian Days; Lake Louise [lake, Lake Agnes, Moraine Lake]; Paradise Valley; Wapta Camp, Hector B.C. [includes Lake O'Hara]; Emerald Lake, Field, B.C.; trip from field to Glacier [train, tunnels]; Glacier [Glacier House, Nakimu Caves]; Illecillewaet Glacier [includes ice caves and Marion Lake]; Asulkan Glacier; Sicamous; Vancouver - Stanley Park; Vancouver; Victoria; San Francisco - Chinatown; Del Monte; Historic Monterey; Santa Barbara; Los Angeles; Grand Canyon. Trip to Selkirk and Canadian Rocky Mountains, Summer of 1923 (PD - 2 / 77 to 89) depicts scenes mostly from the Glacier House region of Glacier National Park and Lake Louise of Banff National Park. Also includes scenes from Lake O'Hara. Page headings as follows: at Mackimac Island; Glacier, B.C.; trip to Nakimu Caves from Glacier; at the Great Illecillewaet Glacier; horseback trip up Mt. Abbott [includes Lake Louise], Camp Wapta; horseback trip to Lake O'Hara; [Glacier House]; [Mrs. Gest on horseback at Lake O'Hara]; [Lake O'Hara Lodge].
Notes
Please note: language used pertaining to First Nations during the Banff Indian Days included herein is outdated and offensive. Blank pages not scanned. Inserts free floating with album, are not specific to album contents.
Name Access
Gest, Lillian
Hinman, Caroline
Subject Access
Activities
Boats
Banff Indian Days
Banff Springs Hotel
Canadian Pacific Railway
Chateau Lake Louise
Exploration
Family and personal life
First Nations
Glacier House
Indigenous Peoples
Horses
Mountains
Off the Beaten Track
Scenery
Travel
Geographic Access
Banff
Lake Louise
Paradise Valley
Lake O'Hara
Emerald Lake
Glacier House
Vancouver
Victoria
San Francisco
Del Monte
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles
Grand Canyon
Banff National Park
Yoho National Park
Glacier National Park
Alberta
British Columbia
California
Canada
United States of America
Access Restrictions
Microfilm copy available for reference use by appointment only.
Language
English
Conservation
Removed from plastic sleeve and rehoused in acid-free paper, tied with flat string.
Creator
Gest, Lillian
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
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This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Edmonton : University of Alberta
Call Number
08.3 Sk3t
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Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Responsibility
edited by Colleen Skidmore
Publisher
Edmonton : University of Alberta
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
295p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Subjects
Adams, Mollie
Glacier House
Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell
Henshaw, Julia W.
Poetry
Schaffer, Mary
Swift, Suzette Chalifoux
Sharples family
Tourism
Vaux family
Whyte, Catharine Robb
Young, Julia
Notes
Includes bibliography and index
Partial contents: Includes excerpts from writings by Victorian and Edwardian era women describing their travel to the Canadian Rockies, including Lady Agnes Macdonald, Mrs. Arthur Spragge, The Countess of Aberdeen, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Sara Jeanette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes), Mrs. George Cran, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Includes poetry by Rhoda W. Edwards, Moira O'Neill, Lynda R. Woods, and Elizabeth Ferguson
Includes Jasper's first lady [act two] / Elsie Park Gowan; Hunter of Peace [prologue and act one, scene one] / Sharon Stearns
ISBN
13:978-0-88864-466-4
Accession Number
7638 (2 copies)
Call Number
08.3 Sk3t
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