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- Date
- 1901
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1031 a,b
- Description
- Thin aluminum round box with lid. Top is decorated with a repousse open floral pattern.
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- Title
- Summit Canister
- Date
- 1901
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 3.5 cm
- Description
- Thin aluminum round box with lid. Top is decorated with a repousse open floral pattern.
- Subject
- sports
- climbing
- Jean Habel
- Chaba Valley
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1972
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1031 a,b
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Printing Plate
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.43.1009
- Date
- 1914
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.43.1009
- Description
- A printing plate for the "Alpine Club of Canada Yoho Camp 1914". Various shapes of pictures of mountains and people with the Club's logo bottom corner.
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- Title
- Printing Plate
- Date
- 1914
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- A printing plate for the "Alpine Club of Canada Yoho Camp 1914". Various shapes of pictures of mountains and people with the Club's logo bottom corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 104.43.1009
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- Date
- 1918
- Material
- metal; wood; silver; rubber; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1134
- Description
- A straight walking stick with 46 lettered, riveted, metal bands (7/8 cm. wide) commemorating various hiking trips indicating date on flat side and location on the rounded front. The varnished hardwood body has a large ivory handle (seems to be part of a tusk) with a black rubber band underneath for…
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- Title
- Walking Stick
- Date
- 1918
- Material
- metal; wood; silver; rubber; ivory
- Dimensions
- 97 x 5 cm
- Description
- A straight walking stick with 46 lettered, riveted, metal bands (7/8 cm. wide) commemorating various hiking trips indicating date on flat side and location on the rounded front. The varnished hardwood body has a large ivory handle (seems to be part of a tusk) with a black rubber band underneath for gripping. The tip of the metal shaft is pointed, second metal piece is where wood and shaft are inserted into head for strength. Above this is a coiled thick wire wrapped around the stick, glued, then a thick ring of brass, and again another coil of wire glued into place. The first metal band from the handle has “1918 Alpine Club” stamped on it. The second and largest metal band 3.2 cm. has the words “A.O. Brigden” written in script and the word “WINNIPEG” printed underneath. Each subsequent band commemorates a yearly hiking trip as follows: 1939 Floe And Scarab Lakes; 1940 Emerald & Lake O’Hara; 1941 Glacier = Floe Lake; 1942 Marvel Pass; 1943 Slocan = Okanagan; 1944 Marron Valley; 1945 Temple Chalet; 1946 Skoki Lodge; 1947 Merlin Ridge; 1948 Lake Louise; 1949 AGS - Scotland; 1950 Lake Louise; 1951 AGS - England; 1952 Lake Louise, 1953 Lake Louise, 1954 Lake Louise, 1955 Lake Louise; 1956 England; 1957 Tonquin Pass; 1958 Mummery; 1959 England; 1960 Fryatt Camp BIRKS STERLING; 1961 Ice River Camp BIRKS STERLING; 1962 Maligne Camp, Shovel Pass BIRKS STERLING; 1963 Merlin BIRKS STERLING; 1964 Merlin BIRKS STERLING; 1965 St. Ermine’s; 1966 Wonder Pass BIRKS STERLING; 1967 France - Glasgow, 1968 (blank); 1969 Cartmell; 1970 (blank); 1971 AGS Harrogate. A corded metal chain is wrapped around the wooden shaft twice followed by: 1926 Alpine Club; 1926 Lake O’Hara; 1927 England; 1928 Schreiber - Nipigon House; 1929 Nipigon, 1930 Nipigon-2, 1931 Nipigon-3; 1932 Nipigon-4-England; 1933 Paradise Valley ACC; 1934 Pack Trip; 1935 Pack Trip; 1936 England; 1937 Pack Trip; 1938 England.
- Subject
- sports
- walking
- hiking
- climbing
- A.O. Brigden
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Gmoser, Harvie Heights, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1134
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- Date
- 1925
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1103 a,b
- Description
- (a) Long silk climbing rope, looped and coiled. (b) Original cardboard box with ACC note regarding useMade in Japan.
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- Title
- Climbing Rope
- Date
- 1925
- Material
- fibre
- Description
- (a) Long silk climbing rope, looped and coiled. (b) Original cardboard box with ACC note regarding useMade in Japan.
- Credit
- Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1103 a,b
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- Date
- 1926
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1150
- Description
- Typical ice axe, well used, pointed pick, curved adze and pointed slightly curved spike with serated (4) blade and two long metal strips extending 11 cm. from head (blade) riveted to the wooden shaft, two rivets to each side. There is a round hole in the bottom of the axe head where it fits onto th…
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- Title
- Ice Ax
- Date
- 1926
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 22 x 79 cm
- Description
- Typical ice axe, well used, pointed pick, curved adze and pointed slightly curved spike with serated (4) blade and two long metal strips extending 11 cm. from head (blade) riveted to the wooden shaft, two rivets to each side. There is a round hole in the bottom of the axe head where it fits onto the wooden shaft. Neatly carved into the wooden shaft 1.50 cm from the head are the words “MT. COOK” and underneath 12349 and at 2.5 cm. there is an “EM” scored in the wooden shaft. Engraved on pick blade: "J. Charlet a Chamonix” and to the left of this is an ibex logo. On the metal tube that extends from the wooden shaft there is a copper-coloured vertical line (might be a solder line).
- Subject
- sports
- climbing
- mountaineering
- Edwin Mills
- Credit
- Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1150
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- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.766
- Description
- Drawing completed in ink to depict three people (two men and one woman) scrambling up an unknown mountain. The man on a ledge at the top that has a mustache and a pack on his back is lifting the woman up by her hair as she grasps towards him, the woman is using the second man’s head as a brace, and…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 25.1 cm
- Description
- Drawing completed in ink to depict three people (two men and one woman) scrambling up an unknown mountain. The man on a ledge at the top that has a mustache and a pack on his back is lifting the woman up by her hair as she grasps towards him, the woman is using the second man’s head as a brace, and the third man as a disgusted look on his face and is carrying a pickaxe. In the background you can see an outline for a mountain.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.766
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Commemorative Plaque
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.1033
- Date
- 1929
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1033
- Description
- Carved, wooden plaque commemorating the Mt. Kitchie party, 1929. On one side are three carved fish, intertwined,above them a carved squiggly line and dots form a geometric pattern, on the reverse side written in pencil is "Mt. Kitchie Party July 8- Aug 16, 1929”, a list of 4 staff members and 6 cl…
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- Title
- Commemorative Plaque
- Date
- 1929
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- Carved, wooden plaque commemorating the Mt. Kitchie party, 1929. On one side are three carved fish, intertwined,above them a carved squiggly line and dots form a geometric pattern, on the reverse side written in pencil is "Mt. Kitchie Party July 8- Aug 16, 1929”, a list of 4 staff members and 6 climbers, (writing is fading and hard to read) “Staff Jack MaLMillo, ART ALLEN, KeNNETH ALLEN, David W. Moberly. Dudes Mary GodHerd Potter, Mortimer Bishop, Frann N. Waterman, B.S. Cornstock, Newman D Waff, Andrew J. Gilmour.” in pencil at the bottom “This Carving Found at Providence Pass, B. C.
- Subject
- Packers and Guides
- climbing
- Mt. Kitchie
- Providence Pass
- Mount Sir Alexander
- J. Monroe Thorington
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1033
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- Date
- 1930
- Material
- skin; metal; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1118
- Description
- A well-worn, steel-toed, dark brown, unlined leather climbing boot with hobnailed soles. The upper part of the boot has nine grommetted eyelets for tightening; a soft leather tongue, folded and stitched to either side; eylelets cut in the leather across the toepiece and a tab, for pulling on the bo…
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- Title
- Climbing Boot
- Date
- 1930
- Material
- skin; metal; fibre
- Dimensions
- 20 x 11 x 30 cm
- Description
- A well-worn, steel-toed, dark brown, unlined leather climbing boot with hobnailed soles. The upper part of the boot has nine grommetted eyelets for tightening; a soft leather tongue, folded and stitched to either side; eylelets cut in the leather across the toepiece and a tab, for pulling on the boot, sewn to the back. The sole has single clinkers around the forepart and around the heel; muggers in the centre and a single mugger in the centre of the heel; Tricouni nails (5 on the instep) and 4 on the outside opposite. There is a number “75360” written on the inside left ankle part of the boot.
- Subject
- sports
- climbing
- mountaineering
- Edwin W. Mills
- Credit
- Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1118
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- Date
- 1933
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1130 a,b
- Description
- Baking powder can with lid. Embossed on lid "Magic Baking Powder Pure Wholesome", almost completely covered with rust.
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- Title
- Summit Canister
- Date
- 1933
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 12.0 cm
- Description
- Baking powder can with lid. Embossed on lid "Magic Baking Powder Pure Wholesome", almost completely covered with rust.
- Credit
- Gift of Colin Jones, Lake Louise, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1130 a,b
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- Date
- 1937
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1103
- Description
- Overgrown tree blaze, Freshfield Glacier 1937. Block cut from tree, a space had been shaved level to write inscription, tree had grown back to cover the edges of the inscription so that only the central letters are legible. Writing in classic style, date at top, smallflower, 3 names, space and 4 na…
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- Title
- Tree Blaze
- Date
- 1937
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 32.3 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- Overgrown tree blaze, Freshfield Glacier 1937. Block cut from tree, a space had been shaved level to write inscription, tree had grown back to cover the edges of the inscription so that only the central letters are legible. Writing in classic style, date at top, smallflower, 3 names, space and 4 names.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1103
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