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Banff National Park management plan
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- Scope & Content
- File consists of a draft of "Banff National Park of Canada Management Plan" produced by Parks Canada and dated October 26, 2009. File also includes drafts of "Key Strategy" documents and an "Environmental Impact Assessment" for the regions of Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff, Yoho and Kootenay [Parks Can…
- Date Range
- 2009
- Reference Code
- M545 / V / 26
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Government record
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M545 / V635
- Series
- M545 / V : Administrative records
- Sous-Fonds
- M545
- Accession Number
- 8235
- Reference Code
- M545 / V / 26
- Date Range
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a draft of "Banff National Park of Canada Management Plan" produced by Parks Canada and dated October 26, 2009. File also includes drafts of "Key Strategy" documents and an "Environmental Impact Assessment" for the regions of Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff, Yoho and Kootenay [Parks Canada]. Contents pertain to natural resources, tourism, townsite development and other related issues within Canadian Rockies national parks.
- Subject Access
- Parks Canada
- National parks and reserves
- Natural resources
- Conservation
- Government
- Environment
- Townsite development
- Tourism
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Lake Louise
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Metal clip from Management Plan draft was removed
- Creator
- Parks Canada
- Category
- Environment
- Government
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents in file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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O.J. Schauerte fonds
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- Part Of
- O.J. Schauerte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of photographs from O. J. Schauerte's career as a National Park Warden, 1955-1956 and relate to Cuthead Training exercises and Mount Eisenhower Lookout. Identifications provided for many photographs. Postcard is a Byron Harmon, ca. 1915 of the Swiss Guides (Christian Hasler Jr. and …
- Date Range
- 1955-1956
- Reference Code
- V143
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Part Of
- O.J. Schauerte fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 143
- Sous-Fonds
- V 143
- Accession Number
- 7854; 8015
- Reference Code
- V143
- Date Range
- 1955-1956
- Physical Description
- 121 photographs: 96 prints; 35mm and 3x5, 24 transparencies; 35mm; 1 postcard
- History / Biographical
- O. J. Schauerte was born July 24, 1926 at Pincher Creek, Alberta. Education: Grade X and Advanced Forestry Courses (equivalent to 2 years of University at Athabasca College). He had started work with the Banff Warden Service in 1955-56 as Acting Warden with Beef Woodworth and Jim Deegan at Lake Louise and later with Ernie Young. Attended the first Warden Rescue Training School at Cuthead Camp - both summer and winter exercises. Part of his duties included packing and horse patrols. First packing job was to haul deadwood trees to the Beehive Lookout (pictured in 35mm slide of O. J. Schauerte with 'Frank' the packhorse. Acting Warden Wes Gilstorf and O. J. Schauerte were the first to assist in the rescue mission of the tragedy on Mount Temple where seven boys from Philadelphia were killed. On the same day of this tragedy, O. J. and Wes had been on foot patrol in the Wenkchemna Valley, it being a warm day, the two had heard numerous avalanches falling for most of the day. In the Fall of 1956, Chief Herb Ashley dismissed O. J. from his temporary employment and O. J. joined the Alberta Forest Service for his full career until he retired.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of photographs from O. J. Schauerte's career as a National Park Warden, 1955-1956 and relate to Cuthead Training exercises and Mount Eisenhower Lookout. Identifications provided for many photographs. Postcard is a Byron Harmon, ca. 1915 of the Swiss Guides (Christian Hasler Jr. and Ernest Feuz) near Asulkan Pass.
- Name Access
- Schauerte, O. J.
- Access Restrictions
- Copyright applies
- Language
- Language is English
- Related Material
- 3 Warden diaries mail sacks in Heritage Collection
- Creator
- Schauerte, O.J.
- Category
- Education
- Law and justice
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Parks Canada fonds
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- Part Of
- Parks Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of material pertaining to the mountain parks of western Canada. I.A. Banff National Park photograph collection, 1903-1965 (predominant 1920s-1950s), ca.1756 prints and negatives. Pertains mainly to Banff townsite and developments and facilities within the park. Included are private …
- Date Range
- [ca.1887-ca.1995]
- Reference Code
- M317 / S23 / V488
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Video
- Photograph
- Machine-readable data file
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Government record
- Map
- Plan
- Part Of
- Parks Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 317
- S 23
- V 488
- Sous-Fonds
- M 317
- S 23
- V 488
- Accession Number
- 97, 90, 1155, 1270, 1386, 1396, 1487, 1500, 1539, 1552, 1848, 1877, 1911, 1969, 2140, 2147, 2185, 2267, 2342, 2360, 2365, 2382, 2530, 2539, 2683, 2749, 2819, 2938, 2971, 2979, 2990, 2994, 2977, 3026, 3067, 3120, 3238, 3296, 3344, 3368, 3381, 3403, 3458, 3466, 3473, 3624, 3678, 3765, 3783, 3847, 3875, 4008, 5018, 5054, 5085, 5114, 5141, 5222, 5321, 6015, 6372, 6373, 6404, 6410, 6423, 6444, 6699, 6756, 6924, 7057, 7061, 7228, 7351, 8134 (unproc) 7770, 7511, 2015.8407
- Reference Code
- M317 / S23 / V488
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Video
- Photograph
- Machine-readable data file
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Government record
- Map
- Plan
- Other Title Info
- Also known as the Canadian Parks Service collection.
- Date Range
- [ca.1887-ca.1995]
- Physical Description
- ca.13,557 photographs: prints, negatives, transparencies: col.; 35mm, 1 CD-ROM (556 digital scans). -- ca.55 sound recordings: audio tape cassettes, audio tape reel. -- ca.2.5 m textual records. -- 9 motion pictures: si., b&w; 16mm
- History / Biographical
- Parks Canada administers national parks in Canada. The agency has been administered by several government departments and undergone numerous name changes over the years. Most recently it was known as the Canadian Parks Service. Parks Canada is responsible for the administration of mountain parks and, in some cases, townsites within these parks. Until 1990, it administered the town of Banff in Banff National Park. Parks Canada provides a variety of services to visitors and residents pertaining to interpretive and visitor information; trail, resource and wildlife management; fire protection, mountaineering search and rescue and avalanche control; facilities and utilities; townsite services etc.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of material pertaining to the mountain parks of western Canada.
- I.A. Banff National Park photograph collection, 1903-1965 (predominant 1920s-1950s), ca.1756 prints and negatives. Pertains mainly to Banff townsite and developments and facilities within the park. Included are private and government buildings, dwellings, roads and utilities; resource and wildlife development and management; visitor facilities; lodges, hotels and bungalow camps; warden and fire protection activities; Banff events; Norman Sanson trips and expeditions.
- I.B. Banff National Park warden service photographs, motion pictures and documentation pertaining to wardens, warden activities and cabins, wildlife management; ca.11,000 items. Series includes 2 National Parks Service motion pictures "Hunting without a gun",1930 and Stalking big game", 1930.
- I.C. Lantern slides, 2 sets (accn.3783); includes CPR lecture set, ca.1915, 145 items, and Canadian Rockies lecture set, ca.1920, 54 items, accompanied by lecture notes (stored with textual material M317).
- I.D. Cave and Basin project; copies of mainly snapshot prints acquired by the Cave and Basin restoration and re-development project, 1981-1985, from various individuals, 204 items.
- I.E. Yoho National Park collected photographs, ca.90 photographs : prints, pertain to Yoho National Park landscape, scenery, railway, places and facilities, including Field. Accompanied by 3 letters. Collected from numerous donors, including Kevin Hargadon, T. Lees, Ernie Plant, F. W. Yeats and Millie Adamson.
- I.F. Other, ca.90 items?; prints, transparencies, copy negatives, video recording. Includes: colour transparencies by Jack Holroyd and Bruce Gordon, 1966-1974, re Banff buildings and Protection Mountain mine; photographs of Bankhead, its people and activities used for project Bankhead: The Twenty Year Town by Ben Gadd, 1989; video recording, "Saskatchewan Glacier Clean-up 1994"; VHS cassette copy of National Parks of Canada films produced in the 1930s, including Winter Wonderland, Skiing at Lake Louise, Skiing in Cloudland, Sunshine and Powder Snow, When Winter Comes and "She Climbs to Conquer" by William J. Oliver featuring Georgia Engelhard and Swiss Guide, Ernest Feuz, 1932. CD-ROM includes scanned images from a photograph album "Public Works Projects 1930s Banff National Park" ; Tom Boon's photographs of Mount Royal Hotel fire, 1967, and photograph of C.A. (Alfred) Boon, Union Oil representative at Field and Banff, 1935.
- II. Sound recordings series, 1977-1985, ca.55 sound recordings : audio tape cassettes, audio tape reel. Series consists of: A. Yoho National Park human history study, 1977, 20 cassettes. B. Memoirs of the Warden Service oral history project, 1984, 15 interviews (29 cassettes). Project was conducted by Maryalice Harvey Stewart. Accompanied by report. C. Other, 1980-1985, 3 items, includes rededication ceremonies for Kootenay National Park and for the Park Museum, Banff, also recording pertaining to the Castleguard Caves.
- III. Textual records series, [ca.1887]-1994, ca.250 cm of textual records. Series consists of unpublished reports and management plans; visitor registers, summit registers, cabin and fire lookout registers (some with photographs); register of pack parties, Banff National Park, 1922-1933; maps and plans, including annotated warden service maps; warden records; surveyor notebooks; and transcripts and ephemera pertaining to ceremonies and events. Reports pertain to archaeological sites and research, national parks history, warden service, coal mining in the Bankhead area, predator studies, Cave and Basin, Radium Hot Springs, Ya Ha Tinda Ranch and other sites.
- Notes
- Original photograph album of the scanned images on CD-ROM is located in the Warden's office, Banff National Park Archival Room, cabinet 4, entitled "Public Works Projects 1930s Banff National Park"
- Name Access
- Parks Canada
- Subject Access
- Banff National Park - Wardens
- Bankhead
- Buildings and facilities
- Commerce and industry
- Environment
- Government
- Natural resources
- Science and technology
- Surveying
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction/s on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Separate finding aid database Parks Canada M317 S23 V488: file level description, includes processed and unprocessed
- Finding aids and reference tools: electronic series description
- basic description for processed material
- basic description for Series I.A. Banff National Park photograph collection (accn.3783)
- accession record copies for unprocessed material
- sound recording summaries and reference copy recordings
- modern reference prints for Cave and Basin photographs
- Related Material
- Related records can be found in Rocky Mountains Park fonds (M410)
- Alpine hut registers for ACC huts managed for a time by Parks Canada are in M200 / I.C.1. Alpine Club of Canada, Hut and clubhouse registers
- Creator
- Parks Canada
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
- Processing Status
- Processed / Unprocessed
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Warden Training Photographs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54127
- Part Of
- O.J. Schauerte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 96 b&w prints, some captioned. File pertains to photographs from O.J. Schauerte's career as a National Park Warden, 1955-1956 and relate to Cuthead Training exercises and Mount Eisenhower Lookout. Identifications provided for many photographs.
- Date Range
- ca.1955 - ca.1956
- Reference Code
- V143 / PA - (1 to 96)
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph, print
- Part Of
- O.J. Schauerte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V 143
- Sous-Fonds
- V 143
- Accession Number
- 7854
- Reference Code
- V143 / PA - (1 to 96)
- Date Range
- ca.1955 - ca.1956
- Physical Description
- Photographs: 96 prints, b&w
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 96 b&w prints, some captioned. File pertains to photographs from O.J. Schauerte's career as a National Park Warden, 1955-1956 and relate to Cuthead Training exercises and Mount Eisenhower Lookout. Identifications provided for many photographs.
- Notes
- Prints are housed on loose album pages
- Name Access
- O.J. Schauerte
- Subject Access
- Education
- Law and justice
- Natural resources
- Access Restrictions
- Copyright applies
- Language
- Language is English
- Conservation
- Digital scans of album pages needed - and photos removed from album for preservation
- Related Material
- 3 Warden diaries mail sacks in Heritage Collection
- Creator
- Schauerte, O.J.
- Category
- Education
- Law and justice
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
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Warden Training Photographs
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- Part Of
- O.J. Schauerte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 26 35mm colour slides. File pertains to photographs from O.J. Schauerte's career as a National Park Warden, 1955-1956 and relate to Cuthead Training exercises and Mount Eisenhower Lookout. Identifications provided for many photographs in accompanying document file.
- Date Range
- ca.1955 - ca.1956
- Reference Code
- V143 / NS - 1 to 26
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Transparency
- Part Of
- O.J. Schauerte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V 143
- Sous-Fonds
- V 143
- Accession Number
- 7854
- Reference Code
- V143 / NS - 1 to 26
- Date Range
- ca.1955 - ca.1956
- Physical Description
- Transparencies: 26 slides, colour, 35mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 26 35mm colour slides. File pertains to photographs from O.J. Schauerte's career as a National Park Warden, 1955-1956 and relate to Cuthead Training exercises and Mount Eisenhower Lookout. Identifications provided for many photographs in accompanying document file.
- Notes
- Document file consists of 26 envelopes that previously housed the 35mm colour slides. Captions for the associated slides are written on the envelopes. Envelopes are numbered to correspond with slides.
- Name Access
- O.J. Schauerte
- Subject Access
- Education
- Law and justice
- Natural resources
- Access Restrictions
- Copyright applies
- Language
- Language is English
- Related Material
- 3 Warden diaries mail sacks in Heritage Collection
- Creator
- Schauerte, O.J.
- Category
- Education
- Law and justice
- Natural resources
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
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