Narrow Results By
- Luxton family fonds 58
- Byron Harmon fonds 22
- Kidney family fonds 7
- Allan E. Crawford fonds 4
- Archives General File Collection
- Brewster Transport Company Ltd. fonds 2
- Elmer and Grace Charlton fonds 2
- George Noble fonds 2
- Underwood and Underwood Publishers fonds 2
- Associated Screen News fonds 1
- Banff Community Society fonds 1
- Banff Indian Days Committee fonds 1
Banff Cafe staff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54881
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 8 photographs of Banff Cafe staff and building
- Date Range
- ca. 1920 - 1930
- Reference Code
- V8 / 2014.8283
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M8 / V8 / S8
- Series
- 2014.8283
- Sous-Fonds
- V8
- Accession Number
- 2014.8283
- Reference Code
- V8 / 2014.8283
- Date Range
- ca. 1920 - 1930
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs : b&w ; 12.5 x 8 cm
- History / Biographical
- Lester Gus Zarkos, b.1921 Brandon, MB. His parents and younger sister arrived Banff 1926. Lester's parents had the cafe on Banff Avenue (old location - Grizzly House) and lived upstairs. Parents separated. Lester's father Samuel Zarkos, d. 1933 (buried in old Banff Cemetary). Lester moved with his mother Alice to Chicago and lived between Chicago and St. Paul's MN until his mother died, ca. 1935. Lester joined RCAF as a rear gunner. Never saw action and returned to Banff following the war. Lester worked at Banff Cafe as waiter. Lester and his uncle Paul Zarkos of Calgary opened a deli on Banff Ave and operated it for a number of years. Lester relocated to Calgary in 1956 and worked as waiter, maitre d', and returned to Banff in 1966 where he operated Banff Delicatessen on Banff Ave. He married H.G. in 1951. H.G. was from Nanton, Alberta and she worked at the Banff Post Office. Following Mount Royal Hotel fire, the family left and returned to the space - Welch's Chocolate Shop. 3 children: Paulette Jean, b.1952; Leslie David, b.1953, d. 1974; Carolyn Anne, b. 1955.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 8 photographs of Banff Cafe staff and building
- Name Access
- Zarkos, Lester
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Banff National Park
- Language
- English
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Biographical Source Notes
- Accession record
- Title Source
- Title based on contents
- Processing Status
- Processed
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Your Herald Scrapbook - Airplanes and Air Travel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54612
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- M8 / 2019.83 / 1 consists of one item, 1 cm, ca. 1934 - 1943. Scrapbook provided by The Herald containing compiled news and magazine clippings pertaining to airplanes and air travel before, during and after World War II
- Date Range
- 1934 - 1943
- Reference Code
- M8 / 2019.83 / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Scrapbook
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M8 / V8 / S8
- Series
- 2019.83 : Accession number
- Sous-Fonds
- M8
- Accession Number
- 2019.83
- Reference Code
- M8 / 2019.83 / 1
- GMD
- Scrapbook
- Responsibility
- Compiled by unknown
- Date Range
- 1934 - 1943
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records (64 pages ; 29 x 41 cm)
- History / Biographical
- Provenance unknown
- Scope & Content
- M8 / 2019.83 / 1 consists of one item, 1 cm, ca. 1934 - 1943. Scrapbook provided by The Herald containing compiled news and magazine clippings pertaining to airplanes and air travel before, during and after World War II
- Notes
- At centre of scrapbook there are advertisements pertaining to The Herald newspaper outlining the Canadian press room, news room, composing room, stereo room, press room, delivery, and education.
- Storage Range
- M8 / accn. 375 to accn. 2019.83 OS
- Subject Access
- Airplane
- Airplanes
- War
- World War II
- Newspaper
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Europe
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Category
- Commerce and industry
- Government
- Health services
- Labour
- Military
- Politics
- Science and technology
- Transportation
- Title Source
- Title based on contents
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.