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Climbing and Ice Climbing Columbia Icefield. -- 1970
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- Wardens training in ice climbing on the Columbia Icefield. Award presentations with individual and group photographs.
- Reference Code
- V190 / IV.A.ii. - 11
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- IV.A. Warden collection: Warden schools and training
- Reference Code
- V190 / IV.A.ii. - 11
- Physical Description
- ca.40 negatives: 6 x 8 cm. or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Wardens training in ice climbing on the Columbia Icefield. Award presentations with individual and group photographs.
- Subject Access
- Columbia Icefield
- Ice climbing
- National parks and reserves - Wardens
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
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Columbia Icefield
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 10 b&w & colour prints of various views of the Columbia Icefield and Athabasca Glacier.
- Date Range
- 1960-1980
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / C / v / PA - 01 to PA - 10
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
11 images
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, C : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- v : Columbia Icefield
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / C / v / PA - 01 to PA - 10
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1960-1980
- Physical Description
- 10 photographs : b&w & col. ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 10 b&w & colour prints of various views of the Columbia Icefield and Athabasca Glacier.
- Subject Access
- Aerial photography
- Columbia Icefield
- Glaciers
- Geographic Access
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Columbia Icefield. -- 1960-1980
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- II.A. Main file: Alphabetical files
- Reference Code
- V190 / II.A.iii. - 17
- Physical Description
- ca.42 negatives: 9.5 x 12 cm. or smaller
- Subject Access
- Banff-Jasper Highway
- Columbia Icefield
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
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- Part Of
- Wing Family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 1 album with 226 b&w photographs and 9 colour photographs depicting everyday scenes of the Wing family around Banff. Includes photographs of the two eldest Wing children (Carole and Paul) as babies and young children. Album has 1 colour print of the Bow valley on front and is bound…
- Date Range
- 1949 - 1953
- Reference Code
- V781 / A / PD – 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
3 images
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Wing Family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M558 / V781
- Series
- V781 / A: Wing Family: Photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- V781
- Accession Number
- 2015.8408
- Reference Code
- V781 / A / PD – 1
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1949 - 1953
- Physical Description
- Photograph Album : 1 photograph album (235 photographs; b&w and col.).
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 1 album with 226 b&w photographs and 9 colour photographs depicting everyday scenes of the Wing family around Banff. Includes photographs of the two eldest Wing children (Carole and Paul) as babies and young children. Album has 1 colour print of the Bow valley on front and is bound with black cord. Plastic lacing around edges of album is broken in some parts. Images mostly adhered with photo corners.
- Name Access
- Wing, Edith
- Wing, Carole
- Wing, Paul
- Wing, Fred
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Asian
- Banff townsite
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Banff Winter Festival
- Bow Falls
- Bow River
- Bow Valley
- Buildings
- Businesses
- Cascades of Time Garden
- Castle Mountain
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Children
- Christmas
- Clothing and dress
- Columbia Icefield
- Dogs
- Dominion Cafe
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Glaciers
- Holidays
- Home
- Horses
- Horseback riding
- Lake Louise
- Marriage
- Personal and Family Life
- Personal and Professional Life
- Photography
- Picnics and picnicking
- Portrait
- Swimming
- Takakkaw Falls
- Winter Carnival
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- Vancouver
- Yoho National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Freshfield Ice Field. -- 1956, August
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- II.A. Main file: Alphabetical files
- Reference Code
- V190 / II.A.vi. - 5
- Physical Description
- ca.27 negatives: 6 x 6 cm.
- Subject Access
- Freshfield Icefield
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
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Lake Louise and Exshaw photographs
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- Part Of
- Placido Monachello fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 22 black and white photographs of buildings and activities around Lake Louise and Exshaw including the Chateau Lake Louise, Deer Lodge, hiking to Mirror Lake, visiting the Columbia Icefield, and the Exshaw train station. Photos were taken by Placido Monachello, annotated, and sent …
- Date Range
- 1941-1943
- Reference Code
- V803 / IV / PA - 1 to PA - 22
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
40 images
- Part Of
- Placido Monachello fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V803
- Series
- IV : Lake Louise and Exshaw
- Sous-Fonds
- M582 / V803
- Accession Number
- 2020.25
- Reference Code
- V803 / IV / PA - 1 to PA - 22
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1941-1943
- Physical Description
- 22 photographs : b&w ; 11.6 x 8.2 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 22 black and white photographs of buildings and activities around Lake Louise and Exshaw including the Chateau Lake Louise, Deer Lodge, hiking to Mirror Lake, visiting the Columbia Icefield, and the Exshaw train station. Photos were taken by Placido Monachello, annotated, and sent to his [then] fiance Leona in Hamilton, Ontario.
- Name Access
- Monachello, Placido
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Bears
- Buildings
- Businesses
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Columbia Icefield
- Deer Lodge
- Hiking
- Mountains
- Trains
- Geographic Access
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- Exshaw
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Placido Monachello
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…
- Date Range
- 1942
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
WITH " THE ICEFIELD CHALET:" COLUMBIA ICEFIELO, ALBERTA.
8anff'..Jaepe,. Se.riff No. S8
�This b a Rral Phv1ogrnph
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1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114
- Date Range
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Phil
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.
- White, Annie
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- White, Bubby
- Whyte, Dorothy
- Stockand, Cameron
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Ward, Sam
- Ward, Louise (Cis)
- Brewster, Fern
- Brewster, Jack Walker
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, Adeline
- Campbell, Gray
- Campbell, Eleanor
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Rummel, Elizabeth
- Rummel, Lizzie
- Rungius, Carl
- Noble, George
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Birds
- Bird watching
- Birthday
- Books
- Bow Lake
- Businesses
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Children
- Christmas
- Columbia Icefield
- Columbia Icefield Chalet
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Films and film making
- First Nations
- Home
- Hospital
- Indigenous Peoples
- Leisure
- Literature
- Mountain
- Mount Royal Hotel
- Mount Temple Chalet
- Norquay Ski Hill
- Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Post Office
- Red Cross
- Royal Canadian Airforce
- RCAF
- Scenery
- Skiing
- Ski areas
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- War
- Weather
- Wildlife
- Winter
- Winter sports
- World War II
- WWII
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Bow Lake
- Icefield Parkway
- Banff National Park
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Movie Stars - o.s.
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 25 b&w oversize prints of movie stars. Consisting of mostly head-shot-style portraits, some may have been enlarged from film stills. Not all are identified, one print is mounted on foamcore.
- Date Range
- 1953-1988
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / x / b / PA - 01 to PA - 25 o.s.
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
11 images
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, M : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- x : Movies, b : Movie Stars
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / x / b / PA - 01 to PA - 25 o.s.
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1953-1988
- Physical Description
- 25 photographs : b&w ; 27.8 x 35.5 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 25 b&w oversize prints of movie stars. Consisting of mostly head-shot-style portraits, some may have been enlarged from film stills. Not all are identified, one print is mounted on foamcore.
- Subject Access
- Banff townsite
- Columbia Icefield
- Films and film making
- Horses
- Movie Stars
- Sulphur Mountain
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Mt. Wilcox Summit Registers
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- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- Files consist of summit notes and summit registers from Mt. Wilcox (Wilcox Peak) produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1976 and 2000. Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which…
- Date Range
- 1976-1983
- 1988-1992
- 1997-1998
- 2000
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 43 to 46
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Organization record
- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M200
- V14
- S6
- Series
- M200 / V: Summit Records
- Sous-Fonds
- M200
- Sub-Series
- M200 / V / A: Identified Summit Records
- Accession Number
- accn. 6062 accn. 6623 accn. 7779 accn. 2023.10
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 43 to 46
- Responsibility
- Summit Registers and Notes produced by Alpine Club of Canada
- Date Range
- 1976-1983
- 1988-1992
- 1997-1998
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 5 cm of textual records 5 volumes
- History / Biographical
- Mount Wilcox (also known as Wilcox Peak) is located in Jasper National Park near the Columbia Icelfield, in the Sunwapta River Valley. The nearest peak is Nigel Peak. Mt. Wilcox was named after Walter D. Wilcox who made the first ascent of the mountain in 1896.
- Scope & Content
- Files consist of summit notes and summit registers from Mt. Wilcox (Wilcox Peak) produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1976 and 2000. Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wildlife sightings, trail updates, and related topics. Files include: M200 / V / A / 43: [loose Mt. Wilcox summit notes, 1976-1983] M200 / V / A / 44: [Mt. Wilcox register 1988-92 & St. Nicholas Peak 1988-92] M200 / V / A / 45: [Mt. Wilcox Summit register June 28, 1997 - July 19, 1998] M200 / V / A / 46: [Mt. Wilcox, 2000]
- Name Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Backcountry skiing
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Columbia Icefield
- Environment and Nature
- Environment
- Hiking
- Mountain
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- National parks and reserves
- Record keeping
- Ski mountaineering
- Skiing
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Summit
- Trails
- Winter sports
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Columbia Icefield
- Columbia Icefields
- Sunwapta River Valley
- Jasper National Park
- Mount Wilcox
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- French
- Conservation
- Some registers have water damage.
- Related Material
- M235
- Biographical Source Notes
- Summit Posts.org Wilcox Peak (Mount Wilcox): https://www.summitpost.org/wilcox-peak-mount-wilcox/153841
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 40 b&w prints of various scenic views from throught the Canadian Rockies. Includes several mountains [including Rundle, Cascade, Mount Lougheed, Ha Ling, Sulphur ], lakes [including Two Jack, Vermillion, Bow, Peyto, and Waterton], and various other views like highways, rivers, hood…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950-1988]
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / S / i / PA - 01 to PA - 40
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
10 images
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, S : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- i : Scenic Park
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / S / i / PA - 01 to PA - 40
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950-1988]
- Physical Description
- 40 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 40 b&w prints of various scenic views from throught the Canadian Rockies. Includes several mountains [including Rundle, Cascade, Mount Lougheed, Ha Ling, Sulphur ], lakes [including Two Jack, Vermillion, Bow, Peyto, and Waterton], and various other views like highways, rivers, hoodoos, tunnels, and valleys.
- Subject Access
- Automobiles
- Banff townsite
- Banff-Jasper Highway
- Bow River
- Bow Valley
- Cascade Mountain
- Cascades of Time Garden
- Fishing
- Glaciers
- Hoodoos
- Icefield Parkway
- Mountains
- North Saskatchewan River
- Rivers
- Roads
- Rundle Mountain
- scenic
- Sulphur Mountain
- Sulphur Mountain Gondola
- Trans-Canada Highway
- Two Jack Lake
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Bow Lake
- Peyto Lake
- Banff National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Waterton
- Alberta
- Bugaboos
- British Columbia
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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