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Abstract: Pertains to Glacier House and the ascent of Sir Donald by Emil Huber and Carl Sulzer from Switzerland and Harry Cooper from England with illustration on page 725

Notes: In Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXIV No. 1760, September 13, 1890, pp. 723 - 725

Accession Number: 7979

Call Number: 02.6 R11a PAM O.S

Collection: Archives Library

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Banff and area businesses, townsite, scenic views

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs pertaining to businesses, tourist attractions and natural views in and around Banff. Includes images of backcountry camps in Banff National Park; the Bow River Boat House; Beaver Lodge and Bampton Cottage [both located on Beaver Street in Banff]; fires at Breton Hall Ho…

Date Range: [ca.1890-1900]; [1896-1898]; 1904-1905; [ca.1910-1920]; 1912; 1914; [ca.1930-1935]; 1933; 1941; [ca.1950-1960]

Reference Code: LUX / I / D6c / PA - 133 to 182

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

1 image

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Professional and Personal

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D6 : Other activities and interests

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D6c / PA - 133 to 182

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: PA-182 produced by Canadian Pacific

Date Range: [ca.1890-1900]; [1896-1898]; 1904-1905; [ca.1910-1920]; 1912; 1914; [ca.1930-1935]; 1933; 1941; [ca.1950-1960]

Physical Description: 50 photographs ; b&w prints ; 25 x 20.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs pertaining to businesses, tourist attractions and natural views in and around Banff. Includes images of backcountry camps in Banff National Park; the Bow River Boat House; Beaver Lodge and Bampton Cottage [both located on Beaver Street in Banff]; fires at Breton Hall Hotel and Banff Springs Hotel; the Park Museum and Information Bureau; early views of Banff Springs Hotel [1904]; Vermillion River Bungalow Camp and the Lake Louise Chalet; Paddy J. Nolan’s home [built by Norman Luxton]; a postcard print titled “Starved Bachelors Retreat Banff Alberta"; swimming at the Cave and Basin[?] and Banff Upper Hot Springs; the Crag and Canyon office [ca.1905]; Skoki Lodge; and the office of photographers Wilson and Fear [1896-1898].

Notes: Photographs LUX/I/D6c/PA-181 and 182 [depicting Wilson and Fear storefront] are copies of the same image but annotated with different dates [ca.1896 and ca.1898]. Based on context and dating of related images in Whyte Museum archives, actual image date may be closer to [ca.1894].

Material Details: LUX/I/D6c/PA-173 has three red sun-shaped stickers attached to back left corner, red ribbon attached to back right corner

Name Access: Wilson, John; Fear, George; Fear, William (Bill); Nolan, Paddy J.; Luxton, Norman; Smyth, S. A.

Subject Access: Bow River Boat House; Pack trips; Horses; Teepees; Boats; Property; Land use; Hotels; Fire; Banff Springs Hotel; Photography; Businesses; Tourism; Hot Springs; Leisure; Mountain; Newspaper; Organizations; Travel

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Vermilion Lakes; Lake Louise; Bow River; Sulphur Mountain; Cave and Basin

Language: English

Related Material: Items LUX/I/D6c/PA-163 to 168 have duplicate negative copies processed as LUX/I/D6c/NA-41 to 46

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Buildings and businesses, Banff area

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 34 photographs pertaining to businesses and other properties in and around Banff. Photographs depict individuals swimming at the Cave and Basin; a boathouse near the Bow River; several hotels, including Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise and the Mount Royal Hotel; Fairholme R…

Date Range: 1901; [1910-1950]

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PA - 1 to 34

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III / D : Other material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PA - 1 to 34

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: 1901; [1910-1950]

Physical Description: 34 photographs : b&w prints ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 34 photographs pertaining to businesses and other properties in and around Banff. Photographs depict individuals swimming at the Cave and Basin; a boathouse near the Bow River; several hotels, including Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise and the Mount Royal Hotel; Fairholme Ranch; and other related views.

Notes: Some photographs are annotated

Subject Access: Businesses; Hotels; Animals; Banff National Park; Banff Upper Hot Springs; Bow River Boat House; Boats; Buildings; Cave and Basin; Chateau Lake Louise; Fairholme Ranch; Mount Royal Hotel; Postcards; Ranches; Teahouses; Tourism; Travel; Upper Hot Springs

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Lake Louise

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Some items stored in mylar

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway as per Melton Prior who travelled from Montreal to Vancouver on the train and provided a review of the journey which includes sketches of Sir Donald, Great Glacier, Glacier Hotel, Hermit Range, Mount Carroll, Stony Creek Bridge and the interior of a colonial sleeping car.

Notes: In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2591, Saturday December 15, 1888, pp. 720 - 722

Accession Number: 7864

Call Number: 02.6 Il6t PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Pacific Railway : Banff and British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1888

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Sketches by Melton Prior

Publisher: The Illustrated London News

Published Date: 1888

Physical Description: 125 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Hot springs; Hotels; Sanitarium Hotel; Banff; Glacier House

Abstract: Pertains to the activities of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Banff and Mount Stephen including railway access and hotels, hotsprings, sanitarium with associated sketches.

Notes: In The Illustrated London News, Vol. XCIII, No. 2588, Saturday, November 24, 1888, pp. 613 - 614

Accession Number: 7864

Call Number: 02.6 Il6c PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1982

Author: Putnam, William Lowell

Publisher: New York : American Alpine Club

Call Number: 01.4 P98t reference

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Author: Putnam, William Lowell

Responsibility: Willaim Lowell Putnam

Publisher: New York : American Alpine Club

Published Date: 1982

Physical Description: 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Glacier House; Illecillewaet Glacier; Selkirk Mountains; Railway routes; Railway stations; Railways; Tourism; Mountaineering; American Alpine Club; History

Abstract: he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)

Contents: Introduction; The Railroad Track; The House; The Tourists; First Climbers; Men of Science; Alpina Americana; Britannic Majesty; Canadians at Last; Some of the Best; The Last Big Mountain; The Rest is Silence; Appendices; A: The Guides; B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks; Bibliography; Index

Notes: Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser

ISBN: 0930410130

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: 01.4 P98t reference

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Link to book review on American Alpine Club website

Websites

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This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Call Number: 08.3 Sk3t; Copy 2 Reference Room Browser's Shelf

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Responsibility: edited by Colleen Skidmore

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 295p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Subjects: Adams, Mollie; Glacier House; Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell; Henshaw, Julia W.; Poetry; Schaffer, Mary; Swift, Suzette Chalifoux; Sharples family; Tourism; Vaux family; Whyte, Catharine Robb; Young, Julia

Notes: Includes bibliography and index; Partial contents: Includes excerpts from writings by Victorian and Edwardian era women describing their travel to the Canadian Rockies, including Lady Agnes Macdonald, Mrs. Arthur Spragge, The Countess of Aberdeen, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Sara Jeanette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes), Mrs. George Cran, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Includes poetry by Rhoda W. Edwards, Moira O'Neill, Lynda R. Woods, and Elizabeth Ferguson; Includes Jasper's first lady [act two] / Elsie Park Gowan; Hunter of Peace [prologue and act one, scene one] / Sharon Stearns

ISBN: 13:978-0-88864-466-4

Accession Number: 7638 (2 copies)

Call Number: 08.3 Sk3t; Copy 2 Reference Room Browser's Shelf

Collection: Archives Library

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This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Call Number: G512 S55

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Responsibility: edited by Colleen Skidmore

Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 295p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Subjects: Adams, Mollie; Glacier House; Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell; Henshaw, Julia W.; Poetry; Schaffer, Mary; Swift, Suzette Chalifoux; Sharples family; Tourism; Vaux family; Whyte, Catharine Robb; Young, Julia

Notes: Includes bibliography and index; Partial contents: Includes excerpts from writings by Victorian and Edwardian era women describing their travel to the Canadian Rockies, including Lady Agnes Macdonald, Mrs. Arthur Spragge, The Countess of Aberdeen, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Sara Jeanette Duncan (Mrs. Everard Cotes), Mrs. George Cran, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Includes poetry by Rhoda W. Edwards, Moira O'Neill, Lynda R. Woods, and Elizabeth Ferguson; Includes Jasper's first lady [act two] / Elsie Park Gowan; Hunter of Peace [prologue and act one, scene one] / Sharon Stearns

ISBN: 13:978-0-88864-466-4

Accession Number: AC612

Call Number: G512 S55

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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With ice-axe and camera in the Rocky Mountains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1889

Publisher: The Graphic

Call Number: 02.6 G75w PAM O.S.

Responsibility: Rev. W. Spotswood Green (sketches); Rev. H. Swanzy (photographs)

Publisher: The Graphic

Published Date: 1889

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineering; Glacier House; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels; Lake Louise; Lake Louise District; Selkirk Mountains; Selkirk Range

Abstract: Pertains to Glacier House and a paper read at the Royal Geographical Society by Rev. W. Spotswood Green who traversed the Selkirks accompanied by Rev. H. Swanzy in 1889 with accompanying photographs/sketches of Beaver Creek, snow shed, Glacier House kitchen staff, aftermath of a snow slide, Mount Bonney, Lower Columbia Lake, goats, Mount Lefroy and Lake Louise, and an avalanche.

Notes: In The Graphic, October 19, 1889, pp. 484 - 486

Accession Number: 7830

Call Number: 02.6 G75w PAM O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

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