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Canadian and global news [ca. 1930 - 1945]

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Scrapbook is divided into sections with tabs labelled: Canadian, Britain, American, and Foreign. Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings related to the Dionne Quints; political subjects; royalty and royal families in England, India, Denmark and Norway; celebrities and film stars; and sports: box…

Date Range: [1930 - 1940]; 1936; 1937; 1939; [1940 - 1945]

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 - 17

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook; Newspaper clipping

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: III.B.4. Georgina Luxton : Collected Material : Textual Records

Sous-Fonds: III. Luxton Family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 - 17

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook; Newspaper clipping

Date Range: [1930 - 1940]; 1936; 1937; 1939; [1940 - 1945]

Physical Description: 1.5 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: Scrapbook is divided into sections with tabs labelled: Canadian, Britain, American, and Foreign. Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings related to the Dionne Quints; political subjects; royalty and royal families in England, India, Denmark and Norway; celebrities and film stars; and sports: boxing, Joe Louis, football, billiards, tennis, baseball, horseracing, the Simpson sisters, and rodeo events.

Name Access: Dafoe, Allan Roy; Dionne Quintuplets; Meighen, Arthur; Bennett, Robert B.; Grenfell, Wilfred; Davison, Andrew; McBride, Robert; Buchan, John; MacDonald, Ramsay; Mussolini, Benito; Hitler, Adolf; Dubail, Yvon; Pasha, Enver; Ivanov, Nicholas; Von Emmich, Otto; Matsui, Iwane; Roosevelt, Eleanor; Dietrich, Marlene; Garson, Greer; Parker, Cecil; Lindo, Olga; Howard, Trevor; Hofmann, Josef; Bogart, Humphrey; Louis, Joe; Simpson, Mary (Hallock); Simpson, Margaret

Subject Access: Politics; Military; Public events; Royalty; Royal tours; Travel; War; Memorial; World War I; World War II; Education; Children; Sports and recreation; Skating; Films and film making; Music; Performance; Baseball; Tennis

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Calgary; Ontario; Ottawa; Callander; England; London; China; Shanghai; Czechoslovakia; Prague; United States of America; New York

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Handle scrapbook with caution due to loose contents; Item has been interleaved with acid-free tissue paper

Category: Commerce and industry; Education; Family and personal life; Government; Military; Politics; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of item

Processing Status: Processed

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Figure Skating Scrapbook Pages

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Part Of: Jimmy Simpson family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a collection of loose pages, most likely originally part of a scrapbook. The pages do not have a cover. Includes clippings about figure skaters, particularly Sonja Henie, and skating shows.

Date Range: 1931-1933

Reference Code: M78 / 285

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook; Textual records

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Part Of: Jimmy Simpson family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M78 / V16 / V577

Sous-Fonds: M78

Sub-Series: IV / A / 2 Simpson Sisters professional papers: Scrapbooks

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M78 / 285

GMD: Scrapbook; Textual records

Date Range: 1931-1933

Physical Description: 1.5 cm of textual records (36 pages ; 21 x 26 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a collection of loose pages, most likely originally part of a scrapbook. The pages do not have a cover. Includes clippings about figure skaters, particularly Sonja Henie, and skating shows.

Name Access: Henie, Sonja

Subject Access: Activities; Advertising; Alberta Winter Games; Awards; Banff Skating Club; Banff Winter Carnival; Community events; Newspaper; Performance; Public entertainment; Skating

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Calgary; Toronto; Edmonton; Ottawa; Chicago; Saskatoon; Alberta; Saskatchewan; Ontario; United States of America; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Fulton Dunsmore Photograph Album

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Part Of: Fulton Dunsmore fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photo album about Fulton Dunsmore, friends and family; mainly activities, including skiing, fishing, climbing, hiking, camping, picnicing, ski jumping, skating, hockey. Includes: Mount Norquay Ski Camp, 1928?; Dunsmore and friends, including Peter Whyte and possibly Paris brothe…

Date Range: [ca. 1928-1935]

Reference Code: V184 / I / PD - 3

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph

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Part Of: Fulton Dunsmore fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V184

Series: I. Photograph albums

Sous-Fonds: V184

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V184 / I / PD - 3

GMD: Album; Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1928-1935]

Physical Description: 1 photograph album (268 prints and 1 loose print).

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photo album about Fulton Dunsmore, friends and family; mainly activities, including skiing, fishing, climbing, hiking, camping, picnicing, ski jumping, skating, hockey. Includes: Mount Norquay Ski Camp, 1928?; Dunsmore and friends, including Peter Whyte and possibly Paris brothers, on Banff Ski Club trips to Whitmans' Lodge warden cabin #11 and Spray Lakes Lodge warden cabin #1; ski trip to Skoki? area; Dunsmore and friends growing beards; Dunsmore (in Calgary? with fellow students?), 1930; trip to Sherbrooke Lake.

Name Access: Dunsmore, Fulton; Whyte, Peter

Subject Access: Activities; Backcountry skiing; Banff Ski Club; Boats; Camping; Camps; Climbing; Family; Family and personal life; Fishing; Hiking; Hockey; Landscapes; Leisure; Mountains; Norquay Ski Camp; Skating; Skiing; Ski jumping; Ski areas; Winter

Geographic Access: Mount Norquay; Spray Lakes; Skoki; Sherbrooke Lake; Calgary; Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: No photocopying

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [January - July 1939]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 65 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to July 31, 1939. Topics include New Year's Eve celebrations and activities, Christmas presents, radio programs [mostly operas and the news, but also plays], books Catharine and Edith are read…

Date Range: 1939

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 106

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

dog races with sleds in the morning and some ski Joring, in the afternoon skating races for children

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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 / 106

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1939

Physical Description: 2.3 cm of textual records (138 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 65 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to July 31, 1939. Topics include New Year's Eve celebrations and activities, Christmas presents, radio programs [mostly operas and the news, but also plays], books Catharine and Edith are reading, day to day life, weather, slide-making, skiing at Norquay, visits from friends and visitors, descriptions of meals, wildlife [often in the yard], print-making, photography and cameras, events and people in Concord, day trips to Lake Louise, the Winter Carnival, construction of the Mount Temple Chalet finishing and subsequent trips to Temple to ski, cleaning and household chores, trips to Skoki to ski, painting/sketching, photography, updates on Dave White's health, errand trips to Calgary, various holidays [both Canadian and American], planning a new additon to the back of the house, going to Victoria and back in April-May [they stayed in Lethbridge, Nelson, Grand Forks, Kamloops, and Vancouver before arriving in Victoria by car and then took the train back to Banff from Prince George through Revelstoke and Golden], preparing the house for renovations [includes deep cleaning and having the floors sanded], the King and Queen visiting in late May, the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, Russ' health concerns, short trips around the mountains to paint/sketch [mostly up to Bow Lake/Saskatchewan River Crossing and into Yoho National Park], the Calgary Stampede, Banff Indian Days, progress on the construction of Num-Ti-Jah Lodge at Bow Lake, and preparing for the annual Skyline Trail Hikers trip.

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 are written on hotel/lodge letterhead. Most typed letters are written on a single side of paper, hand-written letters are mostly double-sided. 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. 106 - 47 contains details of the 1939 Royal Visit.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Robb, Russell, Jr.; White, Annie; White, David Mackintosh (Dave); White, Peter; White, Clifford; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; White, Clifford J., Sr.; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Ward, Sam; Ward, Louise (Cis); Mackenzie, Kate; Paris, Cyril; Rummel, Elizabeth; Rummel, Lizzie; Feuz, Edward; Mather, Allan; Castle, Donald; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; Service, Robert; McGee, Sam; King George VI; Brewster, Jim; Bearspaw, David; Moore, Phil; Moore, Pearl; Rungius, Carl; Vaux, George, X

Subject Access: Activities; Alpine Club of Canada; Animals; Art; Artists; Automobiles; Backcountry skiing; Banff; Banff Indian Days; Banff Winter Carnival; Birds; Birthday; Books; Businesses; Calgary Stampede; Cave and Basin; Children; Community events; Community life; Construction; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; First Nations; Home; Hospital; Hiking; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Mountain; Mount Royal Hotel; Mount Temple Chalet; Norquay Ski Hill; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Royal tours; Royal Visit; Royalty; Scenery; Skating; Skiing; Ski areas; Ski jumping; Skoki Lodge; Ski Club of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Swiss Guides; Trains; Transportation; Travel; War; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Lake Minnewanka; Bow Lake; Little Yoho Valley; Yoho National Park; Banff National Park; Calgary; Alberta; Kamloops; Nelson; Prince George; Vancouver; Victoria; Revelstoke; Golden; 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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News clippings scrapbook

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one scrapbook [contents possibly compiled by Maud Kdney] containing ca. 80 news clippings [roughly half loose in scrapbook] mostly from the Calgary Herald and Crag and Canyon newspapers, and one blue pamphlet for a local awards night for the Bow Valley Minor Hockey League in 1972. …

Date Range: 1927; 1938; [ca. 1940 - ca. 1950]; 1956; [ca. 1960]; 1962 - 1966; 1969; [ca. 1970]; 1972

Reference Code: M74 / I / C / 2

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook; Textual record; Newspaper clipping

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M74 / V324

Series: M74 / I : Maud (Woodworth) Kidney records

Sous-Fonds: M74

Sub-Series: M74 / I / C : 1951 - 1977

Accession Number: 2016.8581

Reference Code: M74 / I / C / 2

GMD: Scrapbook; Textual record; Newspaper clipping

Date Range: 1927; 1938; [ca. 1940 - ca. 1950]; 1956; [ca. 1960]; 1962 - 1966; 1969; [ca. 1970]; 1972

Physical Description: 3 cm of textual records (1 scrapbook : 38 pages ; 30 x 36.5 cm)

Scope & Content: File consists of one scrapbook [contents possibly compiled by Maud Kdney] containing ca. 80 news clippings [roughly half loose in scrapbook] mostly from the Calgary Herald and Crag and Canyon newspapers, and one blue pamphlet for a local awards night for the Bow Valley Minor Hockey League in 1972. Clippings pertain to numerous topics of local interest including a visit to Banff by governor General Georges Vanier in 1960 and an article on the Simpson Sisters from 1938, as well as obituaries and other personal news announcements.

Notes: Some dates are estimates provided by the Processing Archivist; Item has been placed in sub-series M74 / I / C : 1951 - 1977 due to large volume of contents falling within or near this date range. Loose items within scrapbook have been kept in original order to maintain context

Name Access: Kidney, Maude; Simpson, Margaret; Simpson, Mary (Hallock); Vanier, Georges; Crosby, Lou

Subject Access: Skating; Obituary; Sports; Hockey; Newspaper

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Calgary

Access Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Use caution when handling as there are many loose materials

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Publicity Scrapbook

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Part Of: Jimmy Simpson family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of mainly newsclippings, programs, and advertisements of Mary and Margaret Simpson's skating career. Also includes letters to various Simpson family members, also concerning the Simpson sisters' skating career.

Date Range: 1929-1943

Reference Code: M78 / 283

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook; Textual record

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Part Of: Jimmy Simpson family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M78 / S16 / V577

Sous-Fonds: M78

Sub-Series: IV / A / 2 Simpson Sisters professional papers: Scrapbooks

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M78 / 283

GMD: Scrapbook; Textual record

Date Range: 1929-1943

Physical Description: 3 cm of textual records (66 pages ; 26 x 29.5 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook of mainly newsclippings, programs, and advertisements of Mary and Margaret Simpson's skating career. Also includes letters to various Simpson family members, also concerning the Simpson sisters' skating career.