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Playing Cards

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Date: 1988

Material: plastic; paper; cellophane

Catalogue Number: 108.01.1009 a,b

Description: Two plastic boxes containing playing cards, new, still in cellophane wrappers. One scene is of the Sulphur Mountain Gondola and one scene is of the Banff Springs Hotel.

Title: Playing Cards

Date: 1988

Material: plastic; paper; cellophane

Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.5 cm

Description: Two plastic boxes containing playing cards, new, still in cellophane wrappers. One scene is of the Sulphur Mountain Gondola and one scene is of the Banff Springs Hotel.

Subject: entertainment; game; landscape; mountain; building; Banff

Credit: Purchased from Jon Whyte, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: 108.01.1009 a,b

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The Whyte Home

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Artist: Percy Roy Wilson (1900 – , Canadian)

Date: 1974

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WiR.05.01

Description: Peter and Catharine Whyte home in winter. The foreground is snow, blue and white, and five trees, three in the centre and one at either end. The log home is behind with a stand of evergreens to the left. The top of Cascade Mountain is painted mauve, it appears behind the roof against a blue sky.

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Artist: Percy Roy Wilson (1900 – , Canadian)

Title: The Whyte Home

Date: 1974

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.4 x 22.2 cm

Description: Peter and Catharine Whyte home in winter. The foreground is snow, blue and white, and five trees, three in the centre and one at either end. The log home is behind with a stand of evergreens to the left. The top of Cascade Mountain is painted mauve, it appears behind the roof against a blue sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain; building,house; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WiR.05.01

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City by Night, Edmonton

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1972

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.013

Description: A nightscape scene of Edmonton. The vantage point seems to be from the opposite bank of the North Saskatchewan river. The downtown area of Edmonton is an array of skyscraper and buildings lit up and stretching across the print. The legislative buildings are visible at the left of the print. Tal…

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: City by Night, Edmonton

Date: 1972

Medium: ink on paper

Description: A nightscape scene of Edmonton. The vantage point seems to be from the opposite bank of the North Saskatchewan river. The downtown area of Edmonton is an array of skyscraper and buildings lit up and stretching across the print. The legislative buildings are visible at the left of the print. Tall, silhouetted evergreen trees are positioned in both lower corners of the prints. Smaller trees extend across the print at its bottom. The entire print is quite dark with the exception of the lighted buildings.

Subject: city; Edmonton; architecture; urban; skyscrapers; legislative building; river; North Saskatchewan

Credit: Gift of George Weber, 1973

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.013

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St. Barnaby, Quebec

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Artist: Ernest Heavens

Date: 1972

Medium: ektacolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HeE.18.01

Description: Old, sway back barn, grayish in colour, dark green trees in background, predominantly yellow foreground, entire photograph slightly out of focus.

Artist: Ernest Heavens

Title: St. Barnaby, Quebec

Date: 1972

Medium: ektacolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.7 x 32 cm

Description: Old, sway back barn, grayish in colour, dark green trees in background, predominantly yellow foreground, entire photograph slightly out of focus.

Subject: landscape, building; summer

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

Catalogue Number: HeE.18.01

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Wheeler House, Alder Avenue, Banff

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Part Of: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Survey fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of the Wheeler House.

Date Range: 1970

Reference Code: V218 / II / PA - 1 to 4

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Government record; Photograph

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Part Of: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Survey fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M187 / V218

Series: II. Photographic records

Sous-Fonds: V218

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V218 / II / PA - 1 to 4

GMD: Government record; Photograph

Date Range: 1970

Physical Description: 1 file of photographs (4 prints)

History / Biographical: The Wheeler House was the personal residence of Arthur O. Wheeler, co-founder and first president of the Alpine Club of Canada. The house stood adjacent to the first ACC clubhouse on Sulphur Mountain, located approximately halfway between the Bow River and the Upper Hot Springs. Wheeler constructed the house in 1920, it recieved official heritage recognition in 1994, and was demolished in 2011.

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of the Wheeler House.

Name Access: Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver); Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Canadian inventory of historic building survey

Subject Access: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Survey; Buildings; Government; Heritage; Surveys

Geographic Access: Sulphur Mountain; Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: NA

Creator: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Survey

Biographical Source Notes: https://www.rmotoday.com/local-news/end-of-an-era-for-historic-wheeler-house-in-banff-1560584

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Spray Avenue, Banff

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Part Of: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Survey fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of historic buildings located along Spray Avenue in Banff, AB.

Date Range: 1970

Reference Code: V218 / II / PA - 350 to 386

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Government record; Photograph

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Part Of: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building Survey fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M187 / V200

Series: II. Photographic records

Sous-Fonds: V200

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V218 / II / PA - 350 to 386

GMD: Government record; Photograph

Date Range: 1970

Physical Description: 7 files of photographs (37 prints)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of historic buildings located along Spray Avenue in Banff, AB.

Notes: List of files:; 114 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 350-355); 118 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 356-360); 119 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 361-365); 125 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 366-369); 127 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 370-374); 131 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 375-381); 137 Spray Avenue, Banff (V218 / II / PA - 382-386)