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Indian Village Of Koksilah

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlac.03.04

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1935

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.04

Description: General colour: brown ink on white. A pencil grid of three quarter inch squares has been laid over a birds eye view of an indian village. Left of center is a church. A road goes up and right from it. There are buildings here and there. Tree branches in the lower left corner and trees spaced across …

Title: Indian Village Of Koksilah

Date: 1935

Dimensions: 26.6 x 28.5 cm

Description: General colour: brown ink on white. A pencil grid of three quarter inch squares has been laid over a birds eye view of an indian village. Left of center is a church. A road goes up and right from it. There are buildings here and there. Tree branches in the lower left corner and trees spaced across the upper area.

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.04

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Log House

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact101.01.0005

Date: 1894 – 1896

Material: wood; glass; stone

Catalogue Number: 101.01.0005

Description: Log cabin with round log construction. Bottom S.W. log has been replaced by stonework and concrete. One stone step leads to the only door which faces N.W. Door constructed from horizontal 1 x 4 wooden slats has a metal handle and pad lock. Chinking is mostly of oakum faced with concrete. The concre…

Title: Log House

Date: 1894 – 1896

Material: wood; glass; stone

Dimensions: 398.78 x 523.24 cm

Description: Log cabin with round log construction. Bottom S.W. log has been replaced by stonework and concrete. One stone step leads to the only door which faces N.W. Door constructed from horizontal 1 x 4 wooden slats has a metal handle and pad lock. Chinking is mostly of oakum faced with concrete. The concrete is very sandy and is deteriorating. Two windows, one is on S.E. side (88.3 x 88.9), has white casements, one pane is broken. The other window, on N.E. side (91.4 x 45.75 cm.) has green painted sills and white casements. Very mossy roof with wooden shingles over wooden slats. Tar paper lies between shingles and roof. Thin metal sheets take the place of shingles for about the width of 2 feet the length of the N.W. side. Electrical socket on S.E. exterior probably dates from the 1930's. Interior logs are white-washed. Gables are shingled . Ridge pole and one horizontal supporting beam of two extends about a meter from the edge of roof on S.E. side.Cabin originally belonged to Bill Peyto and was probably used as storage shed for saddles, packboxes etc. In 1935 it was used by Peter and Catharine Whyte as a temporary residence for models they were painting, the David Bearspaw family were among the inhabitants. Cabin has been moved twice, first in 1932 was moved slightly N.E. and again in 1968.

Subject: Bill Peyto; architecture; packers and guides

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 101.01.0005

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Log House

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Date: 1890 – 1896

Material: wood; glass; stone; metal

Catalogue Number: 101.01.0006

Description: Log cabin with two doors, one facing east and one west. The west door was probably installed after 1939 when cabin was converted into a garage by Dave (Jack) Whyte Jr. Door painted green with small window in upper quarter. Two windows on east wall (71.2 x 114.3), one on either side of door. Window…

Title: Log House

Date: 1890 – 1896

Material: wood; glass; stone; metal

Dimensions: 429.26 x 612.14 cm

Description: Log cabin with two doors, one facing east and one west. The west door was probably installed after 1939 when cabin was converted into a garage by Dave (Jack) Whyte Jr. Door painted green with small window in upper quarter. Two windows on east wall (71.2 x 114.3), one on either side of door. Window sills painted green and casements are white. Cabin sits on stonework plinth with a stonework step leading to east door. Logs on south wall logs have been hewn flat while logs on all other sides have been left rounded. Inside, all but south wall have insulation in a thin blue and white dry-wall which is disintegrating in places. Ceiling of thin wooden sheets. Metal encased chimney on north end. Six old rusty nails protrude from the fourth log from top on north side, probably for outdoor storage.

Subject: Jack Sinclair; architecture

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 101.01.0006

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Log House

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Date: 1895

Material: wood; glass; stone; fibre; concrete; metal

Catalogue Number: 101.01.0007

Description: Log cabin with peaked red shingled roof, whitewashed, with green trim on eavestroughs, window sills and porch roof supports. Small green ship's wheel conceals the bathroom vent, bathroom is late addition, c. 1930 constructed from wooden planks of varying widths. Roof possibly reshingled at time of …

Title: Log House

Date: 1895

Material: wood; glass; stone; fibre; concrete; metal

Dimensions: 445.7 x 622.5 cm

Description: Log cabin with peaked red shingled roof, whitewashed, with green trim on eavestroughs, window sills and porch roof supports. Small green ship's wheel conceals the bathroom vent, bathroom is late addition, c. 1930 constructed from wooden planks of varying widths. Roof possibly reshingled at time of addition. False roof S.E. side was likely added at time of bathroom construction. Corners of log portion are dovetailed. Cabin faces S.W. two windows on N.W. side (85.0 x 65.0 & 85.0 x 70.). Bathroom window on south side (60 x 32.5 cm). Chinking between logs is oakum faced with concrete. Electrical conduit on back, N.W. side and gas conduit on N.E. side added in 1970s for John Morse when he used cabin as a woodworking shop. Both lines are connected to the Whyte house. Two chimneys, one encased in brick at N.E. end, the other in metal on N.W. side. Cabin/sits on concrete plinth probably dating from 1972. All base logs have been replaced by stonework c.1975.