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Date
1950
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.09.1233 a,b
Description
A commemorative silver band that can be nailed onto a walking stick. The rectangular silver is shaped into a circular form, each end has two holes (.03cm from each edge, 1.50cm apart) to put nails through and attach it to a walking stick. There is a piece of wire threaded through the holes to keep …
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Title
Commemorative Band
Date
1950
Material
metal
Dimensions
2.5 x 9.3 cm
Description
A commemorative silver band that can be nailed onto a walking stick. The rectangular silver is shaped into a circular form, each end has two holes (.03cm from each edge, 1.50cm apart) to put nails through and attach it to a walking stick. There is a piece of wire threaded through the holes to keep piece of metal in a circular shape. The middle of the band has the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies logo; a shield- shaped crest with the letters “SLTH” on top, a hiking boot crossed by a walking stick or alpenstock, and underneath it a “C”, the bottom of the walking stick passing between, and then the “R”. To the viewer’s right of the crest, inscribed on the bottom are the words “BIRKS STERLING”.Re: inventory 2014 s/b (a) and (b) because there is a box.
Subject
sports
hiking
commemorative
Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
Vaux family
Credit
Gift of Molly Vaux, New York, USA, 2007
Catalogue Number
103.09.1233 a,b
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Date
1982
Material
plastic; vinyl
Catalogue Number
105.01.0020 a,b
Description
Two white pennants with triangular vinyl patches reading “EVEREST 82” sewn on both sides. White cord sewn into the tops of the pennants and extends out from either side.
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Title
Commemorative Banner
Date
1982
Material
plastic; vinyl
Dimensions
40.2 x 39.2 cm
Description
Two white pennants with triangular vinyl patches reading “EVEREST 82” sewn on both sides. White cord sewn into the tops of the pennants and extends out from either side.
Subject
Lloyd Gallagher
Everest 82
commemorative
memorabilia
Credit
Gift of Peter Spear, 2017
Catalogue Number
105.01.0020 a,b
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Date
1953
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0153
Description
A bronze coin with the relief of a maple life with “E II R” and a crown within it and “GOD SAVE OUT GRACIOUS QUEEN” within a scroll below it/ “CORONATION 1953” at top edge. Obverse” Bust of Queen Elizabeth in relief, “ELIZABETH THE SECOND 1953” around edge. Small hole at top with ball-chain through…
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Title
Commemorative Coin
Date
1953
Material
metal
Dimensions
0.2 x 3.0 x 3.0 cm
Description
A bronze coin with the relief of a maple life with “E II R” and a crown within it and “GOD SAVE OUT GRACIOUS QUEEN” within a scroll below it/ “CORONATION 1953” at top edge. Obverse” Bust of Queen Elizabeth in relief, “ELIZABETH THE SECOND 1953” around edge. Small hole at top with ball-chain through it.
Subject
Whyte home
events
coronation
commemorative
souvenir
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0153
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Date
1937
Material
ceramic; porcelain
Catalogue Number
104.20.1307
Description
A white commemorative porcelain cup of the royal family, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. It is a tall cup with a handle that is triangle-shaped with some gold along it, and gilded on the lip. One side is an illustration of the Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabet…
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Title
Commemorative Cup
Date
1937
Material
ceramic; porcelain
Dimensions
9.8 x 9.8 x 7.4 cm
Description
A white commemorative porcelain cup of the royal family, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. It is a tall cup with a handle that is triangle-shaped with some gold along it, and gilded on the lip. One side is an illustration of the Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabeth and Margaret) inside a pair of golden laurel wreaths, a red crown over the middle, underneath the portrait are scrolls in gold that read “THE ROYAL FAMILY MAY 12th CORONATION 1937 SOUVENIR”. On the opposite side of the cup is a small badge with the crown, a lion and unicorn and scrolls around it. The badge reads “THE ROYAL FAMILY THEIR MAJESTIES, KING QUEEN GEORGE VI ELIZABETH THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE”, the scrolls reads “MAY 12th CORONATION SOUVENIR 1937”. On the bottom of the cup is a stamp that reads “MADE IN ENGLAND” and another stamp “PORTRAIT BY MARCUS ADAMS”.
Subject
commemorative
decorative
royal family
coronation
household
Credit
Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
Catalogue Number
104.20.1307
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Commemorative Cushion Cover

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Date
1935
Catalogue Number
102.04.1078
Description
A hand-embroidered and stitched, linen, commemorative cushion cover to honour King George V’s Jubilee. The top of the cushion has a banner stitched in a blue wool/cotton mix; it reads “KING GEORGE V”. There is a line of red stitches before and after the letters. The middle of the cushion has an emb…
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Title
Commemorative Cushion Cover
Date
1935
Dimensions
45.0 x 41.0 cm
Description
A hand-embroidered and stitched, linen, commemorative cushion cover to honour King George V’s Jubilee. The top of the cushion has a banner stitched in a blue wool/cotton mix; it reads “KING GEORGE V”. There is a line of red stitches before and after the letters. The middle of the cushion has an emblem of a shield, stitched in dark brown to denote the edge, the middle part is filled in with brown dye. There is an outline of a beaver embroidered in light brown silk thread; the body of the beaver is dyed light brown. He is on a light green, silk thread, embroidered log with a light brown-dyed background. The shield is dyed yellow. Under that, obscuring most of the shield, is the outline of a maple leaf, with veins and a stem stitched in different shades of green silk thread, and on either side of the maple leaf is a part of a flag; blue and white outline on the viewer’s left, and white, red and blue on the viewer’s right. Two brown, silk, embroidered flag staffs extend from either end. The bottom has a banner stitched in a blue wool/cotton mix; it reads “1910 JUBILEE 1935”. It has been mended with yellow thread in places. The years are stitched in red the rest in blue. On various parts of the cushion cover the blue-coloured pattern shows through the stitching. There is a red and white cord on the outside edges and red piping sewn on the inside edge.
Subject
households
crafts
commemorative
Credit
Gift of Katie Byers, 2009
Catalogue Number
102.04.1078
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Commemorative Envelope

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.1193
Date
2011
Material
paper; metal; wood; glass
Catalogue Number
105.02.1193
Description
pink sunset, yellow canoe, tent and two people on envelope with postage stamp centered in ornate gold frame with blue, green and yellow “100” beaver pin beneath envelope. ink stamped with black moose “DAY OF ISSUE BANFF AB 2011.05.19”
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Title
Commemorative Envelope
Date
2011
Material
paper; metal; wood; glass
Dimensions
24.13 x 30.48 cm
Description
pink sunset, yellow canoe, tent and two people on envelope with postage stamp centered in ornate gold frame with blue, green and yellow “100” beaver pin beneath envelope. ink stamped with black moose “DAY OF ISSUE BANFF AB 2011.05.19”
Subject
Canada Post
Centennial
Parks Canada
Day of Issue
Tim Nokes
commemorative
Credit
Gift of Grit McCreath, Canmore, 2017
Catalogue Number
105.02.1193
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Date
n.d.
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.09.1291
Description
Small metal pin of two triangles one set inside the other. In side the interior triangle is an elongated “50”. Small 4 cm chain is attached to back but has nothing attached to the other end.
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Title
Commemorative Pin
Date
n.d.
Material
metal
Dimensions
1 x 1 x 4 cm
Description
Small metal pin of two triangles one set inside the other. In side the interior triangle is an elongated “50”. Small 4 cm chain is attached to back but has nothing attached to the other end.
Credit
Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2017
Catalogue Number
103.09.1291
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Date
1912 – 1912
Material
plaster;
Catalogue Number
103.09.3055
Description
Round plaster-cast plaque featuring a man’s face in profile, like a coin, painted bronze. Written on the back in pencil is “E.K., Ernest Kennedy N.M.D.S., ‘12, Chicago, Ills., May 5 - 1912, This plaque presented to me by the sculptor R.W. Bock. EK.”
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Title
Commemorative Plaque
Date
1912 – 1912
Material
plaster;
Description
Round plaster-cast plaque featuring a man’s face in profile, like a coin, painted bronze. Written on the back in pencil is “E.K., Ernest Kennedy N.M.D.S., ‘12, Chicago, Ills., May 5 - 1912, This plaque presented to me by the sculptor R.W. Bock. EK.”
Subject
commemorative
awards;
Credit
Gift of Ernest Kennedy, 1968
Catalogue Number
103.09.3055
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Date
1946 – 1979
Material
china;
Catalogue Number
104.20.1283
Description
Decorative commemorative plate depicting an image of Mt. Eisenhower [Castle Mountain] with trees and the Bow River in the foreground in the depressed center of the plate - pink, purple, yellow, and green flower clusters decorate the rest of the plate and the edge of the plate is lined with gold.Cas…
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Title
Commemorative Plate
Date
1946 – 1979
Material
china;
Dimensions
2.4 cm
Description
Decorative commemorative plate depicting an image of Mt. Eisenhower [Castle Mountain] with trees and the Bow River in the foreground in the depressed center of the plate - pink, purple, yellow, and green flower clusters decorate the rest of the plate and the edge of the plate is lined with gold.Castle Mountain [Miistukskoowa] was renamed Mt. Eisenhower in 1946 by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in honour of General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s involvement in World War II. Some local residents resented the name change and in 1979 it was reverted back to Castle Mountain, with the southeast end kept “Eisenhower Tower.”
Subject
Crosby family
Abegweit
decorations
household items
commemorative items
Mt. Eisenhower
Castle Mountain
Credit
Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
Catalogue Number
104.20.1283
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Date
1937 – 1937
Material
china;
Catalogue Number
104.20.1285
Description
Commemorative plate with molded decoration around the rim. In the middle is a printed portrait of King Edward VIII set in the middle of a Royal coat of arms with “LONG MAY HE REIGN” on ribbons along the bottom and “May 12th 1937” at the very bottom. The manufacturer’s stamp is on the bottom.
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Title
Commemorative Plate
Date
1937 – 1937
Material
china;
Dimensions
1.5 x 21.4 x 21.4 cm
Description
Commemorative plate with molded decoration around the rim. In the middle is a printed portrait of King Edward VIII set in the middle of a Royal coat of arms with “LONG MAY HE REIGN” on ribbons along the bottom and “May 12th 1937” at the very bottom. The manufacturer’s stamp is on the bottom.
Subject
Crosby family
Abegweit
Royal Family
King George VIII
commemorative items
royal coronation;
Credit
Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
Catalogue Number
104.20.1285
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