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Canadian Rockies, lords of a beckoning land
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15343
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Phillips, Alan
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol. 130, No.3, September 1966
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Phillips, Alan
- Responsibility
- Alan Phillips
- Photographs by James L. Stanfield
- Publisher
- In National Geographic Vol. 130, No.3, September 1966
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- p.353-393, illustrations (colour)
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Bears, Grizzly
- British Columbia
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Conservation
- Jasper National Park
- Lake Louise
- Prince of Wales Hotel
- Tourism
- Waterton
- Wildlife
- Yoho National Park
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Letters to Mother [January 1961 - February 1962]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7494
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 2, 1961 to February 15, 1962; Edith passed away February 18, 1962. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, hockey and football games, the C…
- Date Range
- 1961-1962
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 148
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- 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 / 148
- Date Range
- 1961-1962
- Physical Description
- 2.6 cm of textual records (ca. 185 pages ; 21.9 x 27.8 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 2, 1961 to February 15, 1962; Edith passed away February 18, 1962. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, hockey and football games, the Calgary Stampede, weather, and the 1962 space launch. Letters are mostly hand-written, some typed. Also includes postcards and notecards. M36 / 148 - 114 to 120 are not fully dated - unsure of order within other 1961 letters. All are postcards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. 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. M36 / 148 - 29 is missing its second half, indicated by Catharine to be a picture of Bow Lake.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Harvie, Eric
- Brewster, Fred
- Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
- Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Twoyoungmen, Jacob
- Beil, Charlie
- Morant, Willie
- Madsen, Ken
- Currie, Flossie
- Vallance, Doris
- Fulmer, Alice
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, George K.K.
- Vallance, Sydney
- Whyte, Jon
- Luxton, Norman
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Pearl
- Ward, Sam
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Banff Centre
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Public Library
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Bird watching
- Birds
- Birthday
- Businesses
- Calgary Stampede
- Camping
- Children
- Christmas
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- David Thompson Highway
- Deer
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Flowers
- Glenbow Foundation
- Glenbow-Alberta Institute
- Home
- Hot Springs
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Louise
- Library
- Leisure
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Post Office
- Prince of Wales Hotel
- Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel Moore Branch No.26
- Scenery
- Skating
- Ski areas
- Skiing
- Stoney Nakoda
- Weather
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Banff National Park
- Columbia Icefield
- Bow Lake
- Jasper
- Jasper National Park
- Rocky Mountain House
- Yoho National Park
- Waterton National Park
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Transparencies
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to colour transparencies of various backcountry trips throughout the Rocky Mountains.
- Date Range
- 1951-1954
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / NS 6 - 1 to 843
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Lantern slide
- Transparency
2 images
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- II.C. Activities / photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V225
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / NS 6 - 1 to 843
- Date Range
- 1951-1954
- Physical Description
- 843 transparencies : colour.
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to colour transparencies of various backcountry trips throughout the Rocky Mountains.
- Notes
- Titles in box: Lake Louise; Kellogg trip; O'Hara Camp; Skyline Hike. Pertain to Merion, Pennsylvania; Banff Springs Hotel; Vermilion Lakes; Lake Louise; Chateau Lake Louise; Kicking Horse Tea Room; wildflowers; Lake O'Hara region, including Opabin Pass and Mount Schaffer; Skyline Trail Hikers hikes and camps ((Aylmer Pass 1951 and Simpson Pass 1952); wildlife; Bow Lake; Mount Assiniboine area; Wonder Pass; Columbia Icefield; Moraine Lake; Mount Stephen; Jasper National Park, including Maligne Lake and Mount Edith Cavell; ACC camp, Hooker Icefield; ice caves and ice falls; pack trains; Waterton Lakes National Park, including Prince of Wales Hotel; Jasper Park Lodge; Calgary Stampede; Banff Indian Days; Yellowstone National Park; Dinosaur National Park, U.S.; Lillian Gest, friends and associates, including B.H.G., Sig[?], Elizabeth and John Brett, Walter Perren, Polly Prescott, Kay Prescott, Eric Brooks, Helen Bolles, Hal Kellog, Charlie Hunter and Harry Green. -- Some slides missing; most explained in notebook SL II (M67/51).
- Name Access
- Gest, Lillian
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Banff Indian Days
- Calgary Stampede
- Camps
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horses
- Horse packing
- Jasper Park Lodge
- Leisure
- Mountains
- Prince of Wales Hotel
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Geographic Access
- Lake Louise
- Vermilion Lakes
- Lake O'Hara
- Mount Assiniboine
- Moraine Lake
- Maligne Lake
- Banff National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Waterton National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Language
- NA
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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