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- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds 13
- Bruno Engler fonds 12
- Ron Duke fonds 11
- Luxton family fonds 8
- George Paris fonds 4
- Dorothy Wardle fonds 3
- Underwood and Underwood Publishers fonds 3
- Whyte Museum Oral History Programme collection 3
- Kidney family fonds 2
- Mary Willison fonds 1
- Maryalice Harvey Stewart fonds 1
- Morris Flewwelling fonds 1
Canadian Pacific Railway : Banff and British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24924
- 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
- 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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Picturesque California : The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24928
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1894
- Author
- Muir, John (editor)
- Ingersoll, Ernest (author)
- Publisher
- San Francisco, New York : J. Dewing Company, Publishers
- Call Number
- 02.6 In4p PAM O.S.
- Responsibility
- John Muir (editor)
- Ernest Ingersoll (author)
- Eminent American Artists (photos, photogravures, wood engravings derived from paintings)
- Publisher
- San Francisco, New York : J. Dewing Company, Publishers
- Published Date
- 1894
- Physical Description
- 16 pages
- Series
- California Series No. 32, April 23, 1894
- Subjects
- Travel
- Tourism
- Rocky Mountains
- Art
- Fraser, John Arthur
- Notman, William & Son
- Banff
- Canmore
- Kamloops
- Vancouver
- Victoria
- Sir Donald, Mount
- Bow River
- Hot springs
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Emerald Lake
- Selkirk Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains - Hermit Range
- Asulkan Glacier
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Canadian Rockies as authored by Ernest Ingersoll with introduction by John Muir including a variety of sketches of Sir Donald, Bow River, Canmore, the Great Glacier, hot springs, open pool, Mount Burgess and Emerald Lake, Bow Falls and Banff Springs Hotel, the Selkirks and Hermit Mountain, Cheops, Asulkan Glacier, Stanley Park, Victoria, Shushwap Mission at Kamloops, and the Canadian Pacific Docks at Vancouver.
- Notes
- Part XXVI - The Canadian Rockies by Ernest Ingersoll
- Accession Number
- 7901
- Call Number
- 02.6 In4p PAM O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Banff in the Canadian Rockies and the glaciers of the Selkirks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15311
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1900
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22c Pam
- Responsibility
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Published Date
- 1900
- Subjects
- Banff
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Bow Valley
- Field
- Fraser River
- Hot springs
- Lake Louise
- Minnewanka, Lake
- Revelstoke
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Vermilion Lakes
- Accession Number
- 2014.8385
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22c Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Coal fields of Jasper National Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5831
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Author
- Dowling, Donaldson Bogart
- Call Number
- 03.1 G29su 1910
- Author
- Dowling, Donaldson Bogart
- Published Date
- 1911
- Subjects
- Hot springs
- Call Number
- 03.1 G29su 1910
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Report of the Commissioner of Dominion Parks for the year ending March 31, 1913 : Part V Annual Report 1913
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25201
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1914
- Author
- Canada. Department of the Interior
- Call Number
- 02.4 C16i Part V 1913
- Published Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 96p : ill
- Series
- Sessional papers
- Subjects
- Banff (townsite)
- Businesses
- Government
- Hot springs
- Indigenous
- Mining
- National parks
- Roads
- Surveys
- Tourism
- Utilities
- Contents
- Includes extract from address delivered at Ottawa, March 12, 1913 by the Duke of Connaught
- Notes
- Issued as a separate publication, but is also included in full Department of Interior Report, Volume 1 - 02.4 C16i 1913 volume 1
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 02.4 C16i Part V 1913
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Glimpses of our national parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7650
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1916
- Author
- Yard, Robert Sterling
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : United States Government Printing Office
- Call Number
- 13.213 Ya2 Pam
- Author
- Yard, Robert Sterling
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : United States Government Printing Office
- Published Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- 48p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Arkansas
- Hot springs
- Accession Number
- 320
- Call Number
- 13.213 Ya2 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Pocket guide to Banff and District
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14744
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- Author
- Canada. Department of the Interior
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of the Interior
- King's Printer
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22c 1926 Pam
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Dept. of the Interior
- King's Printer
- Published Date
- 1926
- Physical Description
- 16p. : ill
- Subjects
- Banff (townsite)
- Hot springs
- Accession Number
- 7990
- Call Number
- 13.113 B22c 1926 Pam
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The Banff cure : a cure by water
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8412
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Ashton, Bevan
- Call Number
- 02.7 As3 Pam
- Author
- Ashton, Bevan
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 14p. : ill
- Subjects
- Medicine
- Upper Hot Springs
- Accession Number
- 5943
- Call Number
- 02.7 As3 Pam
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What to do at Lake Louise in the Canadian Pacific Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14751
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Call Number
- 02.6 L93c 1931 Pam
- Responsibility
- issued by The Chateau Lake Louise, a Canadian Pacific Hotel
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 28 pages : illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Plain of Six Glaciers Tea House
- Radium Hot Springs
- Accession Number
- 2511
- Call Number
- 02.6 L93c 1931 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Letters to Mother [April - October 1936]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7447
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 68 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from April 12 to October 19, 1936. Topics include returning from a trip out east by train, going to Skoki for a few days in April [including updates on the new camp buildings and access road], w…
- Date Range
- 1936
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 100
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
1 image
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 / 100
- Date Range
- 1936
- Physical Description
- 2.8 cm of textual records (117 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 68 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from April 12 to October 19, 1936. Topics include returning from a trip out east by train, going to Skoki for a few days in April [including updates on the new camp buildings and access road], weather, skiing and ski conditions, film-making, visits from friends and visitors, matters pertaining to the house [opening and closing it as they come and go from various trips], errand trips to Calgary, watching hockey games, going to the movies, leaving for Hawaii via Vancouver in early May [sailing on the Empress of Canada], books Catharine and Edith are reading, arriving in Hawaii and eventually getting settled at the Grand Hotel in Wailuku, Maui, visiting with friends, descriptions of meals, photography and cameras, relocating to the Moana Hotel in Honolulu in mid-May, sightseening and day trips around the islands, sketching, descriptions of other ships coming and going from the harbour, details of the trip back to Banff in mid-June, radio programs [mostly news and operas], cleaning and household chores, events and people in Concord, camping trips, maintenance and upkeep of the house and property, painting/sketching, various holidays [both Canadian and American], the Calgary Stampede, Banff Indian days, the annual Skyline Trail Hikers trip [based out of Lake O'Hara] in early August, matters pertaining to the store, Edith purchasing a painting of two moose from Carl Rungius, developing photographs, a two-week trip to Lake O'Hara in late August/early September to paint and hike [also includes details of other people there, day to day activies, and the subjects painted/sketched], day trips around the national park to take photographs and hike [mostly in the Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, and Bow Lake areas], and preparing for a trip out to Concord at the end of October.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Some letters are written on hotel/lodge letterhead. 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. The first 10 or so letters have been numbered in pencil in the upper margin of the page as part of an unknown project.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- White, Annie
- White, David Mackintosh (Dave)
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- Whyte, Barbara
- White, Cliff Jr.
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Robb, Russell, Jr.
- Robb, Kitty
- Caird, Jean
- Owen, Mildred
- Campbell, Gray
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Mather, Allan
- Mather, Grace
- Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver)
- Wheeler, Emmeline
- Noble, George
- Poucette, Mark
- Adaskin, Murray
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, Adeline
- Rungius, Carl
- Smith, Adelaide
- Castle, Alfred
- Castle, Donald
- Phillips, Walter J.
- Phillips, Gladys
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Beach
- Birthday
- Boats
- Books
- Businesses
- Calgary Stampede
- Camps
- Camping
- Children
- Community events
- Community life
- Construction
- Correspondence
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Films and film making
- First Nations
- Home
- Hockey
- Hiking
- Holidays
- Hospital
- Hot Springs
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake O'Hara Lodge
- Leisure
- Literature
- Moose
- Mountain
- Painting
- Paris Tea Room
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Post Office
- Scenery
- Skoki Lodge
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- Upper Hot Springs
- Weather
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Bow Lake
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Little Yoho Valley
- Yoho National Park
- Victoria
- Vancouver
- British Columbia
- Maui
- Hawaii
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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