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Description: Brown and blue slate rock in the foreground with one lone stilted tree to the left; rocks are higher on the left almost meeting the walkway on the top of the dam. Lower mid-centre of the painting is the mass of swirling green, blue and white water rushing from the gates of the falls. The grey gates…

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Title: Dam Falls

Date: 1947 – 1947

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 51.0 cm

Description: Brown and blue slate rock in the foreground with one lone stilted tree to the left; rocks are higher on the left almost meeting the walkway on the top of the dam. Lower mid-centre of the painting is the mass of swirling green, blue and white water rushing from the gates of the falls. The grey gates with water rushing down are mid-centre to the right. The walkway on the top of the dam extends throughout top-half of the painting. An outline of a rider and two horses are off to centre right, top of a mauve mountain behind and cloudy blue sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain; dam; water; figure, man; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: PeG.02.03

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Murray Gammon interview

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Part Of: Whyte Museum Oral History Programme collection

Date Range: 1983

Reference Code: S1 / 143

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Whyte Museum Oral History Programme collection

Description Level: 6 / Item

Series: I. Interviews

Reference Code: S1 / 143

Responsibility: Interviewer: E. J. (Ted) Hart

Date Range: 1983

Physical Description: 1 sound recording

Subject Access: Bankhead; Brewster Transport Company; Dams; Gammon, Earl; Gammon family; Ghost Dam; Glenmore Dam; Homestead Hotel; Moore, Philip; Mount Royal Hotel; Mount Stephen House

Finding Aid: Recording summary and reference cassette available

Title Source: Title based on contents of recording

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Newsworthy Articles Scrapbook

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing 1925 newspaper clippings from The Bulletin pertaining to the Locarno Security Pact ; January, 1959 Herald Magazine news-clippings relating to Bow River Lodge Anniversary ; Article written by David G. Ross "A Strategy of Mountains" ; Newspaper articles on a va…

Date Range: 1925-1963

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 / 34

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: III.B.4. Georgina Luxton : Collected Material : Textual Records

Sous-Fonds: III. Luxton Family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / B4 / 34

GMD: Textual record; Scrapbook

Date Range: 1925-1963

Physical Description: 5.5 cm of textual records (19 pages ; 25.5 x 31 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing 1925 newspaper clippings from The Bulletin pertaining to the Locarno Security Pact ; January, 1959 Herald Magazine news-clippings relating to Bow River Lodge Anniversary ; Article written by David G. Ross "A Strategy of Mountains" ; Newspaper articles on a variety of subjects ; July 1963 The Calgary Herald articles pertaining to Camp Hector ; 1962 articles from The Calgary Herald ; February 1958 article on Chief Crowfoot ; March 1959 article re birthday celebrations for Walking Buffalo ; March 1960 articles from The South Side Mirror - The Weekly Star relating to Mrs. Dowler, a Glenmore resident ; A variety of newspaper clippings unsorted and placed in between the pages of the scrapbook ; December 1928 copy of The Alberta Sentinel ; Clippings of b&w published photographs of mountains, lamas at a monastery, and various ethnographic photographs.

Subject Access: Activities; Administration; Anniversary; Glenmore Dam; Military; Missionaries; Mountains; Newspaper; Oldtimers; Organizations; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda

Geographic Access: Banff National Park; Canmore; Morley; Calgary; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Power Dam near Calgary

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Date: 1933

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: CmD.03.02

Description: A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a …

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Title: Power Dam near Calgary

Date: 1933

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 38.5 cm

Description: A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a large brown rock with yellow and orange highlites. In the foreground is blue water with white highlites. The artist signature is written in the bottom right corner in pencil. Au verso, written in very faint pencil in the top right corner is, “Doris Cormie 23 Aug 1933”.