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Baker family fonds
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- Part Of
- Baker family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds pertains to Baker family, Glacier House and area, ca.1902-1916; also pack trip, Laggan to Jasper and Kootenay Plains, Alberta, 1926. Many views are unidentified. Album was assembled by Sydney Baker.
- Date Range
- Copies made in 1984
- Reference Code
- V770
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Part Of
- Baker family fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 770
- Sous-Fonds
- V770
- Accession Number
- 3848
- Reference Code
- V770
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Date Range
- Copies made in 1984
- Physical Description
- 75 photographs : copy negatives
- History / Biographical
- Sydney Baker, 1880-1948, was an outfitter and photographer at Banff, Alberta and Glacier, British Columbia, Canada. Baker married Elizabeth "Bessie" Simpson Walker in Banff, ca.1902. Syd Baker operated the Canadian Pacific Railway concession at Glacier House from 1905 until 1915, while Bessie had a curio tent there. Children, Muriel (1907-1976), Jack (1911-ca.1992) and Hiram (b.1914) accompanied the Bakers on a 1926 trip through Syd Baker's 1902 trapping / guiding territory. After 1915, Baker lived in Vancouver, where he operated a photography business and bookstore.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds pertains to Baker family, Glacier House and area, ca.1902-1916; also pack trip, Laggan to Jasper and Kootenay Plains, Alberta, 1926. Many views are unidentified. Album was assembled by Sydney Baker.
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: modern reference prints
- Creator
- Baker, Sydney
- Title Source
- Title based on accession record
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Sydney Vallance fonds
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- Part Of
- Sydney Vallance fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Sydney Vallance pertaining mainly to the Canadian Rockies and Vallance's mountaineering career. Textual records include manuscripts pertaining to personalities of the Canadian Rockies and to slide presentations on the Banff, Lak…
- Date Range
- 1920-1972
- Reference Code
- M73 / S5 / V647
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Photograph print
- Sound recording
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Map
- Private record
- Part Of
- Sydney Vallance fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 73
- S 5
- V 647
- Sous-Fonds
- M 73
- S 5
- V647
- Accession Number
- 229, 453, 467, 646, 762, 1031, 1543, 1657
- Reference Code
- M73 / S5 / V647
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Photograph print
- Sound recording
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Map
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1920-1972
- Physical Description
- 12 cm of textual records. -- 223 photographs : prints. -- 1 photograph album (ca.40 prints). -- 1 sound recording : 2 audio tape reels
- History / Biographical
- Sydney R. Vallance, 1891-1979, was a lawyer and mountaineer at Calgary and Banff, Alberta, Canada. Vallance began his law career in 1920, establishing a private practice in 1929. He joined the Alpine Club of Canada in 1932 and held executive positions at both the section and national levels, including a term as President from 1947 to 1950. He made over one hundred ascents during his climbing career. Vallance was also a member of the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies and was an avid amateur photographer
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Sydney Vallance pertaining mainly to the Canadian Rockies and Vallance's mountaineering career.
- Textual records include manuscripts pertaining to personalities of the Canadian Rockies and to slide presentations on the Banff, Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara and Jasper regions; correspondence files arising from Vallance's positions as Vice President and Hut Committee Chairman of the Alpine Club of Canada, 1945-1946, and as member and President of the Lake O'Hara Trails Club, 1958-1962; miscellaneous correspondence on mountaineering, glacier study, expeditions, packers and outfitters, naming of five peaks in the Mt. Lyell massive after Swiss guides, 1920-1972. Correspondents include Sydney Baker, Eric Brooks, F. V. Longstaff, J. Monroe Thorington and Don Munday. Includes holograph map of the Great Divide region.
- Photographs are mainly landscape views of the Rocky Mountains by Sydney Vallance. Some views include climbing companions; also Banff scenes including hermit at Johnson Lake, Sunshine ski area, and some prints collected by Vallance.
- Sound recording contains commentaries for slide shows titled Banff, Lake Louise, Moraine and O'Hara; Banff and Vicinity; and Jasper Highway
- Name Access
- Baker, Sydney
- Brooks, Eric
- Munday, Don
- Longstaff, F. V. (Frederick)
- Thorington, J. Monroe
- Vallance, Sydney
- Subject Access
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
- sound recording summaries and copy recordings
- Creator
- Vallance, Sydney
- Category
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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