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- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of hut registers produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between ca.1930-2020. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts, which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the huts; wildlife sightings; custodi…
- Date Range
- [ca.1930-2020]
- Reference Code
- M200 / IV
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- GMD
- Textual record
- Organization record
- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Fonds Number
- M200
- S6
- V14
- Series
- M200 / IV : Hut Registers
- Sous-Fonds
- M200
- Accession Number
- accn. 2023.19 accn. 8002 accn. 2023.20 accn. 2023.32 accn. 1299 accn. 1040 accn. 2141 accn. 3298 accn. 3757 accn. 6376 accn. 6465 accn. 6623 accn. 7779 accn. 2023.10 accn. 5538 accn. 2014.8293 accn. 2023.31 accn. 2023.15 accn. 2020.05 accn. 6766 accn. 2376 accn. 3296 accn. 3970 accn. 5215 accn. 3560 accn. 2014.8278 accn. 5462 accn. 3382 accn. 5330 accn. 6457 accn. 5635 accn. 5591 accn. 8120 accn. 2376 accn. 3560 accn. 2023.41 accn. 8119 accn. 2023.14 accn. 3160 accn. 3298 accn. 3970 accn. 5114 accn. 5200 accn. 5463 accn. 5631 accn. 6470
- Reference Code
- M200 / IV
- Responsibility
- Registers produced by Alpine Club of Canada
- Date Range
- [ca.1930-2020]
- Physical Description
- ca. 3.5 metres of textual records
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of hut registers produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between ca.1930-2020. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts, which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the huts; wildlife sightings; custodial issues and updates; and related topics. Series is separated at the sub-series level by individual huts: M200 / IV / A : Abbot Pass Hut M200 / IV / B : Elizabeth Parker Hut M200 / IV / C : Wates-Gibson Hut M200 / IV / D : A. O. Wheeler Hut M200 / IV / E : Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut M200 / IV / F : Bow Hut M200 / IV / G : Stanley Mitchell Hut M200 / IV / H : Fay Hut M200 / IV / I : Balfour Hut M200 / IV / J : Peyto Hut/ Peter and Catharine Whyte Hut M200 / IV / K : Elk Lakes Cabin M200 / IV / L : Bon Echo Hut M200 / IV / M : Bill Putnam / Fairy Meadows Hut M200 / IV / N : Scott Duncan Hut M200 / IV / O: Conrad Kain/Bugaboos Hut M200 / IV / P: Neil Colgan Hut M200 / IV / Q: Silver Spray Hut M200 / IV / R: Asulkan Hut M200 / IV / S: Mount Colin Hut M200 / IV / T: Great Cairn Hut M200 / IV / U: Other Huts [Registers]
- Notes
- See sub-series entries for chronological inventories of hut registers
- Name Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Subject Access
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Backcountry skiing
- Buildings and facilities
- Cabins
- Cabins and shelters
- Climbing
- Environment
- Exploration
- Helicopter skiing
- Huts
- Log structures
- Memorial
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- Parks Canada
- Peter Whyte Hut
- Porcupine
- Property
- Recreation
- Ski areas
- Sports
- Sports and recreation
- Wildlife
- Winter sports
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- M235
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Peter Whyte papers and photographs
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of the following sub-series: 1. Personal papers, 1905-1956; 2. Correspondence, 1909-1962; 3. Financial, legal and business papers, 1914-1964; 4. Professional activities and interests, 1920-1961; 5. Photographs, ca.1900-1930. Textual records pertain to Whyte's interests, influences a…
- Date Range
- 1905-1964
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683 / I / B
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.B. Peter Whyte papers and photographs series
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683 / I / B
- Date Range
- 1905-1964
- Physical Description
- 73 cm of textual records. -- ca.3400 photographs (ca.2000 prints, ca.1400 negatives, 3 albums of ca.300 prints).
- History / Biographical
- Peter Whyte, 1905-1966, was an artist, photographer, outdoor enthusiast, traveller and philanthropist at Banff, Alberta. Born in Banff, Alberta to pioneer Banff merchant Dave White and Annie (Curren) White, Peter Whyte took advantage of the many opportunities for winter sports afforded by the mountains, becoming an accomplished skier and ski jumper. He was one of the region's first native-born painters with an intimate knowledge of the mountains. Whyte studied cartooning by correspondence and was encouraged by resident and visiting artists to pursue an art career, first at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1923-1924, and in 1925 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where he met Catharine Robb.
- Peter Whyte's varied activities included driving Hollywood stars to mountain motion picture locations, escorting groups of Chinese workers for the Canadian Pacific Railway, painting with Belmore Browne and J. E. H. MacDonald and travelling around the world by steamer. Following his marriage to Catharine, their painting flourished and their involvement in early ski development at Skoki occupied their winters. The accidental death of one of their ski guests had a profound effect on Pete and they left the ski business to travel.
- During the war, Whyte seved in the reserve army, Banff Company of the Calgary Highlanders and later with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a photographer. He served briefly as an official war artist. In civilian life he resumed his art career, explored new photographic technologies and sculpted. Cataracts interupted his work during the 1950's. Declining health plagued Whyte and after a protracted illness he died in 1966. The Peter Whyte Foundation (later the Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation) was named in his honor.
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of the following sub-series: 1. Personal papers, 1905-1956; 2. Correspondence, 1909-1962; 3. Financial, legal and business papers, 1914-1964; 4. Professional activities and interests, 1920-1961; 5. Photographs, ca.1900-1930.
- Textual records pertain to Whyte's interests, influences and friendships prior to his marriage; also to Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte's travels, artwork, photography and skiing. Includes material arising from Whyte's Army and Air Force career and his involvement in the Sky Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies and Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Correspondents include Belmore Browne, John Murray Gibbon, Lawren Harris, J. E. H. McDonald, Aldro Hibbard, Carl Rungius.
- Photographs consist of 1390 negatives and ca.500 corresponding prints by Peter Whyte dating from the time he began photography, ca.1920, until his marriage to Catharine Robb in 1930. Negative formats include vest pocket (4 x 6 cm) and Ica roll film (8.3 x 11 cm). Material pre-dating 1920 may have been taken by another family member. Photographs pertain to scenic views in the Banff-Lake Louise area, Banff and area events, friends and activities, mountain trips and world travels. Also includes prints of friends, relatives and promotional views of national parks collected by Peter Whyte and photograph albums assembled by Whyte pertaining to family and friends, winter sports, Banff Winter Carnival and motor trips.
- Subject Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Films and film making M
- Photography M
- Royal Canadian Air Force M
- Skiing
- Whyte, Catharine Robb M
- World War II, 1939-1945 M
- Access Restrictions
- Access to photographs requires permission in advance from the Head Archivist.
- Finding Aid
- Sub-series-level outline available. Inventory available in printed form and through this database. Photographs are described at the sub-series level only. Printed inventory provides more detail than the database for photographs.
- Related Material
- Constitutes Sous-fonds I, Series B of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds. Other photographs by Peter Whyte are found in Sous-fonds I, Series C.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of series
- Content Details
- Forms part of Sous-fonds I, Series B of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds. With the acquisition of a vest pocket camera around 1920, at approximately 15 years of age, Peter Whyte's very prolific photographic career began. (While vest pocket images -- 4 x 6 cm. negatives -- appear in the White family collection as early as 1917, none of these can be positively identified as being taken by Peter; it seems more likely that the camera was utilized by Annie, Clifford, or even Lila, and then handed down to Peter.) The earliest photograph of Peter handling a camera was taken on a family trip to the western U.S. in 1921. Indeed, many of his early photographs were taken on these family motor camping trips. In late 1922 or early 1923, Peter acquired an Ica roll film camera (3 x 4 inch negative) which he used throughout his marriage to Catharine Robb and into the early 1930s. A large number of photographs were made with this camera, particularly in the 1923-1924 period. During his trip around the world in 1929, he returned briefly to the vest pocket format, probably for the sake of convenience.
- Processing Status
- Processed.
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