topic:"Pacific" found 8 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Scope & Content: File consists of Canadian Pacific Railway negative photographs pertaining to trail riders, camp staff, guides and outfitters, trail rides, fishing, camps, ceremonies, scenic views of Yoho, Jasper, and Banff National Parks, Canmore and surrounding area, and Banff's townsite. Trail riders in photogr…

Date Range: [1943 - ca. 1946]

Reference Code: V635 / III / NA - 1 to 124 & LC - 1 to 5

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M545 / V635

Series: V635 / III : Published records

Sous-Fonds: V635

Accession Number: 5757

Reference Code: V635 / III / NA - 1 to 124 & LC - 1 to 5

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: [1943 - ca. 1946]

Physical Description: 129 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 9.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of Canadian Pacific Railway negative photographs pertaining to trail riders, camp staff, guides and outfitters, trail rides, fishing, camps, ceremonies, scenic views of Yoho, Jasper, and Banff National Parks, Canmore and surrounding area, and Banff's townsite. Trail riders in photographs include John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius and Charlie Beil.

Notes: Original order retained, appears to be chronological.; Most negative envelopes individually titled and dated, majority from 1943 and 1944. Mostly nitrate photographs.; Original CPR negative envelopes retained in document file.

Material Details: Includes 5 loan for copy negatives

Name Access: Beil, Charlie; Gibbon, John Murray; Rungius, Carl; McCowan, Dan

Subject Access: National parks; Trails; Hiking; Camping; Fishing; Guiding; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff National Park; Jasper National Park; Yoho National Park; Canmore

Access Restrictions: Access restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Correspondence

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Part Of: John Murray Gibbon fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of John Murray Gibbon's correspondence. Included is a letter regarding the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and Skyline Hikers from Phillip Gibbon

Date Range: 1932; 1951; 1952; 1967

Reference Code: M454 / I / B / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record

Part Of: John Murray Gibbon fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M454; V226; S62

Series: M454 / I : Personal Records

Sous-Fonds: M454

Sub-Series: M454 / I / A : Correspondance

Reference Code: M454 / I / B / 1

GMD: Textual record

Date Range: 1932; 1951; 1952; 1967

Physical Description: .5 cm Textual Records

Scope & Content: File consists of John Murray Gibbon's correspondence. Included is a letter regarding the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and Skyline Hikers from Phillip Gibbon

Name Access: Gibbon, John Murray

Subject Access: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Hikers; Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Creator: Gibbon, John Murray

Title Source: Title based on records

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [July - November 1952]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 34 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 3 to November 3, 1952. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visitis from friends, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, installing electrical outlet…

Date Range: 1952

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 131

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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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 / 131

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1952

Physical Description: 1.2 cm of textual records (63 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fond level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 34 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 3 to November 3, 1952. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visitis from friends, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, installing electrical outlets in the living room, trips to Bow Lake, Banff Indian Days [including having David and Peggy (Rider) Bearspaw stay the night with Peter and Catharine during a bad storm], the Jasper Park Lodge burning down [July 15], the funeral for John Murray Gibbon, camping/sketching trips to Yoho National Park, several visits by Rockwell and Betty Kent, and leaving for a road trip to Concord for Christmas [Peter and Catharine left in late October and drove to Massachusetts]. Also includes an airmail card.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are typed and hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. 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. 131 - 07 [dated July 24, 1952] describes making a sound recording with Jacob Twoyoungmen and family. See S37 / 73 for actual recording 131 - 08 appears to have been cut 3/4 up the page prior to accession.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Ward, Sam; Moore, Pearl; Campbell, Gray; Campbell, Eleanor; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; White, Annie; Morant, Nicholas (Nick); Morant, Willie; Philpott, Cecil; Whyte, Jon; Bearspaw, David; Bearspaw, Peggy; Gibbon, John Murray; Kent, Rockwell; Kent, Betty

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Banff Indian Days; Birthday; Businesses; Camping; Canadian Pacific Railway; Children; Christmas; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Deer; Family; Family and personal life; First Nations; Funeral; Home; Hospital; Indigenous Peoples; Lake Louise; Leisure; Mountain; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Post Office; Scenery; Stoney Nakoda; Trains; Trans-Canada Highway; Travel; Winter; Weather

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Moraine Lake; Bow Lake; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Calgary; Edmonton; Alberta; British Columbia; 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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Our old Montreal

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1947

Author: Gibbon, John Murray

Call Number: 08.1 G35o

Author: Gibbon, John Murray

Published Date: 1947

Physical Description: 266p. : ill.,

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Notes: Endpapers are music and lyrics to song "Our old Montreal - tune "Joan's ale is new" / words by John Murray Gibbon, arrangement by Ernest MacMillan

Accession Number: 7504

Call Number: 08.1 G35o

Collection: Archives Library

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Scots in Canada : a history of the settlement of the Dominion from the earliest days to the present time

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1911

Author: Gibbon, John Murray

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner

Call Number: 08.1 G35s

Author: Gibbon, John Murray

Responsibility: illustrated by Cyrus C. Cuneo and C.M. Sheldon

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner

Published Date: 1911

Physical Description: 162p. : ill., map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Exploration; Fur trade; Northwest Company

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 08.1 G35s

Collection: Archives Library

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Scrapbook

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Part Of: John Murray Gibbon fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook created by John Murray Gibbon. Includes photographs of Skyline Hikers and Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Also included are photographs of Algeria, Italy, Russia, Canadian landmarks, and Sri Lanka.

Date Range: ca. 1980 - ca. 1952

Reference Code: M454 / I / C / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record

Part Of: John Murray Gibbon fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M454; V226; S62

Series: M454 / I : Personal Records

Sous-Fonds: M454

Sub-Series: M454 / I / C : Scrapbooks

Reference Code: M454 / I / C / 1

GMD: Textual record

Date Range: ca. 1980 - ca. 1952

Physical Description: 2 cm Textual Records

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook created by John Murray Gibbon. Includes photographs of Skyline Hikers and Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Also included are photographs of Algeria, Italy, Russia, Canadian landmarks, and Sri Lanka.

Name Access: Gibbon, John Murray

Subject Access: Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Creator: Gibbon, John Murray

Title Source: Title based on records

Processing Status: Processed

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Trail Rides

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Part Of: Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 1 cm of textual records, 21.5 x 35 or smaller. File pertains to Jean's participation in and accounts of trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. File includes a magazine or newspaper clipping accounting Jean's talk that s…

Date Range: 1937-1945; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1945

Reference Code: M573 / I / 18

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Newspaper clipping; Private record; Published record; Textual record

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Part Of: Jean A. Hembroff MacDonald fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M573 / V797 / S60

Series: M573 / I : Personal Papers

Sous-Fonds: M573

Accession Number: 2019.111

Reference Code: M573 / I / 18

GMD: Newspaper clipping; Private record; Published record; Textual record

Date Range: 1937-1945; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1945

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records (21.5 x 35 cm or smaller)

Scope & Content: File consists of 1 cm of textual records, 21.5 x 35 or smaller. File pertains to Jean's participation in and accounts of trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. File includes a magazine or newspaper clipping accounting Jean's talk that she gave at the Royal Alexandra Hotel on January 18, 1938 and two copies of the invitation sent to attendees for the talk (one of them has a handwritten message on the back written by Jean); two copies of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies Bulletin No. 48 (1937), which Jean is featured in and wrote an article for (the first woman to do so); related correspondence between John Murray Gibbon and Jean (1937-1939) regarding writing the article and participating in the trail rides; related correspondence with the Canadian Pacific Association responding to the talk Jean gave; typed notes of Jean's trail rides talk (two drafts, similar with slight changes); a typed poem entitled "The 1937 Trail Ride" written by Jean; and an essay entitled "Boots and Saddles" by Jean.

Notes: John Murray Gibbon was the Secretary-Treasurer for the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies during this time.; Jean also wrote an article for the Sky Line Trail - see related material.