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Letters to Mother [April - November 1935]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 44 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1 to November 20, 1935. Topics include day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, weather, a trip to Lake O'Hara in early August following the annual Skyline Trail Hikers tri…

Date Range: 1935

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 98

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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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 / 98

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1935

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records (70 pages ; 21.2 x 26.3 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 44 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 1 to November 20, 1935. Topics include day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, weather, a trip to Lake O'Hara in early August following the annual Skyline Trail Hikers trip, photography and cameras, hiking/climbing, wildflowers, activities and people at camp, Pete's work on commission paintings/photography projects, events and people in Concord, trips to Bow Lake to paint, dinner and tea parties [both at home and around town], overnight camping trips to Lake Louise to paint, going to the movies and seeing friend's homemade films, going back to Lake O'Hara in early September to paint and hike, Russ and Kitty's travels and activities, day trips around the National Park [mostly to Lake Louise, Bow Lake and Moraine Lake] to paint/sketch, updates on what Pete and Catharine's friends are doing [mostly as it pertains to Skoki and Assiniboine Lodges], wildlife, an overnight trip to Calgary [and a visit to Morley on the way back] in early October, 3 young Doukhobor fugitives escaping police custody that resulted in a chase and shootout in Banff National Park [October 6 - 7] and the subsequent funerals, developing photos and print-making, politics [mostly pertaining to the provincial and federal elections], various holidays [both Canadian and American], skiing, matters pertaining to the Ski Club, and preparing to leave for a trip to Concord at the end of November.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. A few letters written on lodge letterhead. Most 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. Some letters have numbers written in pencil in the upper margin of the first pages from an unknown project.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Robb, Russell, Jr.; Robb, Kitty; Caird, Jean; White, Annie; White, David Mackintosh (Dave); White, Peter; White, Clifford; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Clifford J., Sr.; Whyte, Barbara; White, Bubby; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Vaux, Mary; Vaux, George, X; Moore, Edmee; Rungius, Carl; Carter, Wilf; Simpson, Billie; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Mather, Allan; Strom, Erling; Strom, Sigrid; Gest, Lillian; Noble, George; Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Link, Adeline; Beil, Charlie; McLean, George; Walking Buffalo (George McLean); Campbell, Gray; Watson, Sir Norman

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Banff Indian Days; Banff Ski Club; Banff Springs Hotel; Bears; Birthday; Businesses; Camps; Camping; Children; Climbing; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Crime; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Fishing; Flowers; Guides; Guiding; Home; Horses; Horseback riding; Hiking; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara Lodge; Leisure; Moose; Mountain; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Police; Post Office; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Scenery; Ski areas; Skiing; Skoki Lodge; Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Swiss Guides; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Moraine Lake; Bow Lake; Banff National Park; Lake O'Hara; Yoho National Park; Assiniboine; Calgary; Edmonton; Alberta; British Columbia; 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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Letters to Mother [April - October 1936]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 68 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from April 12 to October 19, 1936. Topics include returning from a trip out east by train, going to Skoki for a few days in April [including updates on the new camp buildings and access road], w…

Date Range: 1936

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 100

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Private record

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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 / 100

GMD: Postcard; Private record

Date Range: 1936

Physical Description: 2.8 cm of textual records (117 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 68 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from April 12 to October 19, 1936. Topics include returning from a trip out east by train, going to Skoki for a few days in April [including updates on the new camp buildings and access road], weather, skiing and ski conditions, film-making, visits from friends and visitors, matters pertaining to the house [opening and closing it as they come and go from various trips], errand trips to Calgary, watching hockey games, going to the movies, leaving for Hawaii via Vancouver in early May [sailing on the Empress of Canada], books Catharine and Edith are reading, arriving in Hawaii and eventually getting settled at the Grand Hotel in Wailuku, Maui, visiting with friends, descriptions of meals, photography and cameras, relocating to the Moana Hotel in Honolulu in mid-May, sightseening and day trips around the islands, sketching, descriptions of other ships coming and going from the harbour, details of the trip back to Banff in mid-June, radio programs [mostly news and operas], cleaning and household chores, events and people in Concord, camping trips, maintenance and upkeep of the house and property, painting/sketching, various holidays [both Canadian and American], the Calgary Stampede, Banff Indian days, the annual Skyline Trail Hikers trip [based out of Lake O'Hara] in early August, matters pertaining to the store, Edith purchasing a painting of two moose from Carl Rungius, developing photographs, a two-week trip to Lake O'Hara in late August/early September to paint and hike [also includes details of other people there, day to day activies, and the subjects painted/sketched], day trips around the national park to take photographs and hike [mostly in the Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, and Bow Lake areas], and preparing for a trip out to Concord at the end of October.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Some letters are written on hotel/lodge letterhead. 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. The first 10 or so letters have been numbered in pencil in the upper margin of the page as part of an unknown project.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; White, Annie; White, David Mackintosh (Dave); White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); Whyte, Barbara; White, Cliff Jr.; Robb, Edith Morse; Robb, Russell, Jr.; Robb, Kitty; Caird, Jean; Owen, Mildred; Campbell, Gray; Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Mather, Allan; Mather, Grace; Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver); Wheeler, Emmeline; Noble, George; Poucette, Mark; Adaskin, Murray; Link, George K. K. (Tommy); Link, Adeline; Rungius, Carl; Smith, Adelaide; Castle, Alfred; Castle, Donald; Phillips, Walter J.; Phillips, Gladys

Subject Access: Activities; Alpine Club of Canada; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Banff Indian Days; Banff Springs Hotel; Beach; Birthday; Boats; Books; Businesses; Calgary Stampede; Camps; Camping; Children; Community events; Community life; Construction; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Home; Hockey; Hiking; Holidays; Hospital; Hot Springs; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara Lodge; Leisure; Literature; Moose; Mountain; Painting; Paris Tea Room; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Scenery; Skoki Lodge; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Upper Hot Springs; Weather; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Bow Lake; Banff National Park; Alberta; Little Yoho Valley; Yoho National Park; Victoria; Vancouver; British Columbia; Maui; Hawaii; 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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Letters to Mother [December 1936 - June 1937]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 69 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from December 26, 1936, to June 9, 1937. Topics include Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations and activities, gifts given and received, day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, Ame…

Date Range: 1936-1937

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 101

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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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 / 101

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1936-1937

Physical Description: 2.5 cm of textual records (98 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 69 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from December 26, 1936, to June 9, 1937. Topics include Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations and activities, gifts given and received, day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, American newspapers Catharine is interested in, radio programs [mostly news and operas], weather, cleaning and household chores, maintenance and upkeep of the house and property [including the construction of a screened-in porch at the back of the house, remodelling the stairs, building a darkroom on the second floor, and building a new garage], events and people in Concord, the opening of the new Administration building on the south side of the river [the Post Office is relocated here], painting/sketching, watching hockey games, skiing, descriptions of meals, the Winter Carnival, going to the movies [and Edith going to various plays], the Dominion Ski Championship being held at Norquay in March, photography and cameras, responsibilities and activities pertaining to the Ski Club, Edith's trip to Florida in March, books Catharine and Edith are reading, various holidays [both Canadian and American], trips to Skoki Lodge to ski and paint [also includes details of people who were also there, meals, and conversations], the coronation of King George VI and Queen Mary in May, the death of Catharine's Aunt Jane [Edith's sister?], day trips around the National Park to paint/sketch and have picnics with family, dinner and tea parties, print-making, frame making, and various other community events.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Some letters are written on hotel/lodge letterhead. 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. 101 - 31 contains a sketch of the newly remodelled stairs in the Whyte home. 101 - 43 insert may or may not belong to this specific letter - no identifying marks can be found on it. 101 - 59 is a brochure advertising Lake Minnewaska Mountain Houses, New York, and does not appear to be associated to a specific letter and so has been scanned as it's own entry.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Robb, Russell, Jr.; Robb, Kitty; Caird, Jean; Owen, Mildred; White, Clifford; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; White, Clifford J., Sr.; Whyte, Barbara; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Knight, Norman; Beil, Charlie; Hammond, Agnes; Harmon, Lloyd; Paris, Ted; Paris, Cyril; Spencer, Earl; Ward, Sam; Rungius, Carl; Rungius, Louise

Subject Access: Activities; Administration Building; Animals; Art; Artists; Backcountry skiing; Banff; Banff Winter Carnival; Bears; Birthday; Books; Businesses; Camps; Camping; Children; Christmas; Community events; Community life; Construction; Correspondence; Dominion Ski Championship; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Home; Holidays; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Moose; Mountain; Norquay Ski Hill; Royalty; Painting; Parks Canada; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Scenery; Skiing; Ski areas; Ski Club of the Canadian Rockies; Ski jumping; Ski racing; Skoki Lodge; Swiss Guides; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Banff National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: 5 letters dated June 1937 were found amongst letters dated in April and moved to the end of the folder.

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [February - July 1935]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 67 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 6 to July 30, 1935. Topics include travelling back to Banff from Montreal on the train, cleaning and household chores, the Winter Carnival, day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, wa…

Date Range: 1935

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 97

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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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 / 97

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1935

Physical Description: 1.7 cm of textual records (89 pages ; 21.5 x 27.8 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 67 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 6 to July 30, 1935. Topics include travelling back to Banff from Montreal on the train, cleaning and household chores, the Winter Carnival, day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, watching hockey games and curling matches, weather, photography and cameras, events and people in Concord, going to Skoki to ski, going to the movies and seeing friend's homemade films, the birth of Russ and Kitty's first child Gale in late February [Edith's first grandchild], watching ski races at Norquay, converting an outbuilding from a garage/one bedroom into a garage/darkroom, dinner and tea parties [both at home and around town], sketching/painting, discussions of operas Edith has seen, Pete going to Vancouver for a few days in mid-April to help his parents [Dave was advised to go to sea level by doctors to help with ailments he'd been having], wildlife, developing photos and print-making, various holidays [both Canadian and American], descriptions of meals and various recipes, yardwork and redoing the driveway, Catharine going to Concord for a month [mid-May to mid-June], construction of a new road to Norquay ski camp, Pete constructing a cover for the back of their truck to be used for camping, going to Calgary for the Stampede, Banff Indian Days, and camping trips around Lake Louise and Yoho National Park.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly hand-written, some typed - typed letters often have hand-written post scripts. A few letters written on lodge/hotel letterhead. Most 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. Some letters have numbers written in pencil or red pencil crayon in the upper margin of the first pages from an unknown project. 97 - 16 contains a sketch of the garage outbuilding and the plans to convert half of it into a darkroom.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Robb, Russell, Jr.; Robb, Kitty; Robb, Gale (Guild); Caird, Jean; Owen, Mildred; White, Annie; White, David Mackintosh (Dave); White, Peter; White, Clifford; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Clifford J., Sr.; Whyte, Barbara; White, Bubby; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Whyte, Dorothy; Paris, Cyril; Mather, Allan; Strom, Erling; Moore, Phil; Moore, Pearl; Carson, Bill; Adaskin, Frances; Adaskin, Murray; Vaux, Mary; Vaux, George, X; Vaux, Henry, Jr.

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Banff Indian Days; Banff Ski Club; Banff Springs Hotel; Banff Winter Carnival; Bears; Birthday; Books; Businesses; Calgary Stampede; Camps; Camping; Children; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Curling; Family; Family and personal life; Films and film making; First Nations; Fishing; Flowers; Guides; Home; Hockey; Hiking; Indigenous Peoples; Leisure; Literature; Moose; Mountain; Mount Royal Hotel; Norquay Ski Hill; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Scenery; Ski areas; Ski jumping; Skiing; Skoki Lodge; Swiss Guides; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Weather; Wildlife; Winter; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Moraine Lake; Bow Lake; Banff National Park; Emerald Lake; Yoho National Park; Assiniboine; Alberta; Vancouver; British Columbia; 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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Letters to Mother [June - October 1937]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 45 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from June 11 to October 3, 1937. Topics include day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, world news [often pertaining to politics and the British Royal family], maintenance and upkeep …

Date Range: 1937

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 102

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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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 / 102

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1937

Physical Description: 1.7 cm of textual records (108 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 45 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from June 11 to October 3, 1937. Topics include day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, world news [often pertaining to politics and the British Royal family], maintenance and upkeep of the house and property [mostly landscaping], cleaning and household chores, weather, gifting a stove to the Simpsons for use at Bow Lake [currently a camp], events and people in Concord, various holidays [both Canadian and American], day trips around the National Park [mostly to Lake Louise, Bow Lake and Moraine Lake], making frames and prepping canvas for painting, books Catharine and Edit are reading, dinner parties, rearranging the kitchen [including getting a new refrigerator and a new table with two bench seats], trips to Bow Lake to paint throughout the summer, hiking, wildlife [often in the yard], updates on the new trail being built from Moraine Lake to Taylor Lake, Banff Indian Days, photography and cameras, print-making, descriptions of meals, the birth of Russ and Kitty's first son in July [Russle Jr. aka Rusty], the annual Sky Line Trail Hikers trip in early August [Pete' s last year as President], trips to Lake O'Hara and Assiniboine to paint and hike throughout August and September [the trip to and from Assiniboine was carried out on horseback], painting/sketching, activities and people at various camps, descriptions of the weather and conditions riding in and out of Assiniboine, developing and colouring photographs, working on a portrait of Mark Poucette, and news of Margaret and Mary Simpson going to Boston to skate.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Some letters are written on hotel/lodge letterhead. 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. 102 - 07 contains a sketch of the main floor of the Whyte home illustrating the placement of the new dining table.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; Robb, Edith Morse; Robb, Russell, Jr.; Robb, Kitty; Robb, Russell III (Rusty); Caird, Jean; Owen, Mildred; White, Annie; White, David Mackintosh (Dave); White, Peter; White, Clifford; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); White, Bubby; White, Clifford J., Sr.; Whyte, Barbara; Stockand, Cameron; Stockand, Lila (White); Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.; Simpson, Billie; Simpson, Margaret; Simpson, Mary (Hallock); Moore, Phil; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Edmee; Shepler, Dwight; Ward, Sam; Kaquitts, Tom; Brewster, Pat; McLean, George; Walking Buffalo (George McLean); Strom, Erling; Feuz, Edward; Baker-Carr, d'Arcy; Poucette, Mark

Subject Access: Activities; Animals; Art; Artists; Banff; Banff Indian Days; Banff Springs Hotel; Bears; Birthday; Books; Businesses; Camps; Camping; Children; Community events; Community life; Correspondence; Family; Family and personal life; First Nations; Guides; Guiding; Home; Horses; Horseback riding; Hiking; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara Lodge; Leisure; Literature; Moose; Mountain; Painting; Personal and Family Life; Photography; Post Office; Scenery; Ski areas; Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies; Swiss Guides; Trains; Transportation; Travel; Weather; Wildlife; Winter

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Moraine Lake; Bow Lake; Banff National Park; Lake O'Hara; Yoho National Park; Assiniboine; Calgary; Alberta; British Columbia; Concord; Massachusetts; Canada; United States of America

Language: English

Creator: Robb Whyte, Catharine

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

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[Photographs and Christmas Cards Album]

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing photographs from various trips taken by Lillian Gest, some of which include Alpine Club of Canada Annual Trips, and Christmas cards sent to Gest by various friends and club members. Greeting cards are dated from 1938-1948. Contents include: 1938: [Alpi…

Date Range: 1938-1948

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 11

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.b. Photographic material / photograph album

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 11

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1938-1948

Physical Description: 1 album (306 photographs : b&w ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing photographs from various trips taken by Lillian Gest, some of which include Alpine Club of Canada Annual Trips, and Christmas cards sent to Gest by various friends and club members. Greeting cards are dated from 1938-1948. Contents include: 1938: [Alpine Club camp, Columbia Icefields; Maligne Lake and canyon, Caroline Hinman trip; Banff; Lake Louise; Christian Hasler]. 1939: [Ptarmigan Lake; Crosby Lake; Mount Vaux, Mount Ennis and Hanbury Peak; Ice River Valley; Goodsirs; Kate Gardiner; Phyllis Munday; Eric Brooks; Charles Hunter ranch, Pincher Creek; postcards of Washington and Oregon]. 1940: [Mount Athabasca; Lyell Glacier; Wapta River; Christian Hasler; Mount Waddington, Phyllis and Don Munday]. 1941: [Banff Indian Days; climbing Mount Odaray]. 1942: [Three Sisters; White Man's Pass area; Grassi Lakes; Bow River; Banff Indian Days; Lake Louise area; Mounts Temple, Fay and Pinnacle; Mount Quadra; Mount Neptuak from Tower of Babel]. 1943: [Lake O'Hara, Alpine Club camp; Browne home, Banff; Mount Edith]. 1946: [Bow Lake; Jimmy and Billie Simpson; St. Nicholas Peak]. 1948?: [Lake Minnewanka; Bow Lake; Mount Chephren; Peyto Glacier; Mount Rhonda; Dolomite Peak; Mummery Group; Freshfields; Mount Baker; Sherbrooke Lake; Mount Daly; Mount Balfour]. Inserts pertain to two typed text letters from Caroline Hinman to Lillian Gest and discuss various Off the Beaten Track information.

Notes: Blank pages not scanned. Inserts are photocopies of the originals that were included with the album.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Gest, Lillian; Hinman, Caroline; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Activities; Animals; Bighorn Sheep; Buildings; Camps; Christmas; Climbing; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; First Nations; Glaciers; Huts; Horses; Horse packing; Indigenous Peoples; Moose; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountain Goat; Off the Beaten Track; Postcards; Portrait; Scenery; Travel

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Mount Assiniboine; British Columbia; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: Microfilm copy available for reference use by appointment only.

Language: English

Conservation: Removed from plastic sleeve and rehoused in acid-free paper, tied with flat string. Locate original copies of inserts and return them to PD - 11 Documents file - notes on the backs of the inserts note that the originals were moved to M67 but the documents could not be found.