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- Date
- prior to 1960
- Material
- metal, iron
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.1017 a-c
- Description
- Long handled brandings irons are one piece rod with a shaped hand hold and welded on symbol at other end. (a) 104.5 long with quarter circle (b) 106.5 long with "C" (c) 100.7 long with an oval shape forked to main rod. Used together "C followed by circle with quarter circle under the circle" on…
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- Title
- Branding Iron
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Material
- metal, iron
- Dimensions
- 104.5 cm
- Description
- Long handled brandings irons are one piece rod with a shaped hand hold and welded on symbol at other end. (a) 104.5 long with quarter circle (b) 106.5 long with "C" (c) 100.7 long with an oval shape forked to main rod. Used together "C followed by circle with quarter circle under the circle" on left hip.
- Subject
- packers and guides
- Andy Russell
- Credit
- Gift of Andy Russell, Waterton Park, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.1017 a-c
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Copper negative printing plates
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of copper negatives depicting scenes and portraits from Caroline Hinman's 1926 Algeria and Northern Africa trip and various Canadian Rockies trips. All negatives are etched on rectangular copper plates and fixed to wooden blocks.
- Date Range
- 1913-1958
- Reference Code
- V282 / III / C / NC - 01 to NA - 16
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Negative
- Negative printing plate
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M236 / V282
- Series
- V282 / III: Photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Sub-Series
- V282 / III / C: negatives
- Accession Number
- 7202
- Reference Code
- V282 / III / C / NC - 01 to NA - 16
- Date Range
- 1913-1958
- Physical Description
- 16 photographs : half-tone plates ; 9.7 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of copper negatives depicting scenes and portraits from Caroline Hinman's 1926 Algeria and Northern Africa trip and various Canadian Rockies trips. All negatives are etched on rectangular copper plates and fixed to wooden blocks.
- Subject Access
- Desert
- Fishing
- Horses
- Horse packing
- International travel
- Mountains
- Outfitters
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Scenery
- Travel
- Travel and Exploration
- Geographic Access
- Algeria
- Banff National Park
- Africa
- Canada
- Language
- NA
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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- Date
- 1940 – 1965
- Material
- skin; rubber; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1046 a,b
- Description
- Pair of riding cowboy boots, calf high, light brown boots, single decorative stitching on toe medallion, 5 row stitching in decorative patterns on each quarter, 4 pull straps, typical riding heel, lift is rubber, soles repaired with leather.
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- Title
- Cowboy Boots
- Date
- 1940 – 1965
- Material
- skin; rubber; fibre
- Dimensions
- 34.0 x 11.0 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- Pair of riding cowboy boots, calf high, light brown boots, single decorative stitching on toe medallion, 5 row stitching in decorative patterns on each quarter, 4 pull straps, typical riding heel, lift is rubber, soles repaired with leather.
- Subject
- packers and guides
- sports
- trailriding
- Credit
- Gift of Phil Michaud, Banff, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1046 a,b
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- Date
- prior to 1960
- Material
- paper; metal, aluminum; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1061
- Description
- Nesting aluminum pots and pans inside a pressed paper cylinder with lid and reinforced bottom. Leather straps around bottom with buckle.
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- Title
- Pack Pail
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Material
- paper; metal, aluminum; wood
- Dimensions
- 38.0 cm
- Description
- Nesting aluminum pots and pans inside a pressed paper cylinder with lid and reinforced bottom. Leather straps around bottom with buckle.
- Subject
- packers and guides
- Andy Russell
- Credit
- Gift of Andy Russell, Waterton Park, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1061
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- Date
- prior to 1960
- Material
- wood; skin, leather; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1060
- Description
- Typical wooden pack saddle with felt underpads and attached straps. Long straps include crupper. "Susy Skip" burned into saddle.
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- Title
- Pack Saddle
- Date
- prior to 1960
- Material
- wood; skin, leather; metal
- Description
- Typical wooden pack saddle with felt underpads and attached straps. Long straps include crupper. "Susy Skip" burned into saddle.
- Subject
- packers and guides
- Andy Russell
- Credit
- Gift of Andy Russell, Waterton Park, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1060
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- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- fibre; skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1072 a,b
- Description
- Pair of canvas panniers or saddlebags with leather straps and metal buckles.
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- Title
- Pannier
- Date
- 1940 – 1960
- Material
- fibre; skin; metal
- Dimensions
- 34.0 x 62.0 cm
- Description
- Pair of canvas panniers or saddlebags with leather straps and metal buckles.
- Subject
- packers and guides
- George Harrison
- Credit
- Gift of Tom Boon, Sidney, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1072 a,b
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Personal Trip Diaries
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to six diaries kept by Lillian Gest from 1940-1947 from travels throughout the Canadian Rockies, Europe, and the western United States. Includes: M67 / 2 - 1 : black leather diary, dated 40 in red paint (possibly ink) on the front cover. Pertains to trips taken to Jasper Park Lodge, G…
- Date Range
- 1940-1947
- Reference Code
- M67 / I / A / i / 2 - 1 to 2 - 6
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Diary
6 images
7 Electronic Resources
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- I.A. Personal papers / diaries and trip notes
- Sous-Fonds
- M67
- Sub-Series
- i. Diaries
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- M67 / I / A / i / 2 - 1 to 2 - 6
- GMD
- Diary
- Date Range
- 1940-1947
- Physical Description
- 8 cm of textual records (6 volumes ; 11.5 x 18 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to six diaries kept by Lillian Gest from 1940-1947 from travels throughout the Canadian Rockies, Europe, and the western United States. Includes: M67 / 2 - 1 : black leather diary, dated 40 in red paint (possibly ink) on the front cover. Pertains to trips taken to Jasper Park Lodge, Glacier Lake Camp, the Icefields Chalet, and Emerald Lake during the summer of 1940. Includes details of movies and photographs taken at the back of the diary. M67 / 2 - 2 : black leather diary, dated 41 in red paint (possibly ink) on the front cover. Pertains to trips to the Chateau Lake Louise. Twin Falls, and Emerald Lake taken during the summer of 1941. At least part of the summer was spent attending a motor car tour organized by Caroline Hinman. Also includes lists of names and addresses of other people who attended Hinman's tour, as well as details on milage and on films and photographs taken. M67 / 2 - 3 : black plastic 6-ring diary. Pertains to a collection of trip notes, mostly trips throughout the Canadian Rockies, from summer 1942 to summer 1945. Mostly consists of place names, people, and trip highlights - not much detail. M67 / 2 - 4 : black leather diary, dated 42 43 in red paint (possibly ink) on the front cover. Pertains to Alpine Club of Canada Camp at Consolation Lakes (July 19-24) and a stay at Deer Lodge at Lake Louise (Aug 16-22) in 1942, an informal ACC Camp at Lake O'Hara and a stay at Deer Lodge (Aug 16-18). For both summers she notes "In Browne House, Banff" which possibly could have been a home available for rent. Also includes details pertaining to the various costs of the trips (years not specified), the fish hatchery, a list of home movies from 1942, a list of stills (no date), and a list of equipment used at the ACC Camp in 1943. M67 / 2 - 5 : black leather diary, dated 44 45 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to trips taken by Lillian Gest during the summers of 1944 and 1945. 1944 includes travelling from Toronto to Banff, staying at the Browne House (presumably a guest house or other such rental property), annual Alpine Club of Canada Camp in Paradise Valley, Trial Riders of the Canadian Rockies trip to Fatique Pass and Eohippus Lake. 1945 inlcudes travelling from Toronto to Banff, staying at the Browne House, annual ACC Camp in Larch Valley, Sky Line Trail Hikers trip in Lake O'Hara (Aug 3-6), and a trip with A. Harmon [?] to graveyard cabin and Summet Pass. Also includes a list of people met during these trips, a list of equipment left in the Browne House (1944), trees local to the Canadian Rockies, and a small sketch of downtown Banff focussed around the Bow River Bridge. M67 / 2 - 6 : black leather diary, dated 46 47 in red paint on the front cover. Trips taken during the summer of 1946 include staying at the Chateau Lake Louise (June 29-July 12), Emerald Lake [Lodge?] (July 12-Aug 2), annual Alpine Club of Canada Camp in the Bugaboos (July 13-24), Mitchell Hut, Yoho (July 26-30), Banff (Aug 2-Sept 3), and Bow Lake (Aug 3-9). Trips in 1947 included time spent in Calgary during the Stampede, annual ACC Camp, pack trip organized by Caroline Hinman, and time spent around the town of Banff. Also includes list of people met during trips, and milage and details about trip from Banff to Merion (September 1947). Also includes loose items consisting of letters (mostly addressed to Lillian Gest), brochures for the Sky Line Trail Hikers, Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, and the Calgary Stampede, postcard, tellegram, trip itineraries and cost listings, and newspaper clippings.
- Notes
- Blank pages not scanned.
- Name Access
- Gest, Lillian
- Hinman, Caroline
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Cabins and shelters
- Camping
- Camps
- Environment and Nature
- European travel
- Family and personal life
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horse packing
- Horseback riding
- Lake O'Hara region
- Membership
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- Outfitting
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Off the Beaten Track
- Pack trips
- Record keeping
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Sports and leisure
- Tourism
- Trails
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Travel
- Travel and Exploration
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Pipestone Pass
- Saskatchewan River
- Assiniboine
- Mount Assiniboine
- Jasper
- Banff National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Personal Trip Diaries
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- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to six diaries kept by Lillian Gest from 1948-1957 from travels throughout the Canadian Rockies, Europe, and the western United States. Includes: M67 / 3 - 1 : black leather diary, dated 48 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to motor car, hiking, and horseback trips throughout …
- Date Range
- 1948-1957
- Reference Code
- M67 / I / A / i / 3 - 1 to 3 - 6
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Diary
6 images
7 Electronic Resources
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- I.A. Personal papers / diaries and trip notes
- Sous-Fonds
- M67
- Sub-Series
- i. Diaries
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- M67 / I / A / i / 3 - 1 to 3 - 6
- GMD
- Diary
- Date Range
- 1948-1957
- Physical Description
- 7.3 cm of textual records (6 volumes ; 11 x 17.8 cm)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to six diaries kept by Lillian Gest from 1948-1957 from travels throughout the Canadian Rockies, Europe, and the western United States. Includes: M67 / 3 - 1 : black leather diary, dated 48 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to motor car, hiking, and horseback trips throughout Banff National Park during the summer of 1948. Includes milage list and list/details of people met around Banff, including bankers, hotel staff, cleaning ladies, and the boy hired to cut the grass. Also notes the passing of Soapy Smith that winter. M67 / 3 - 2 : black leather diary, date 49 50 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to various motor car, hiking, horseback (orgranized by Caroline Hinman), and leisure trips taken around Banff, Jasper, and Yoho National Parks during the summer of 1949. Trips taken during the summer of 1950 mostly consist of Alpine Club of Canada activities and Camps and with the Sky Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. Also includes details on milages for different motor car trips and people met over both summers. M67 / 3 - 3 : black leather diary, dated 51 52 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to various trips taken during the summers of 1951 and 1952. 1951 includes travel from the Paoli, Pennsylvania to Banff, stays at the Banff Springs Hotel and Chateau Lake Louise, a camp based in Lake O'Hara (possibly as part of the Alpine Club of Canada), a night spent at the residence of Aileen Harmons [?], a trip with the Sky Line Trail Hikers, and another stay at the Banff Springs Hotel. 1952 includes many trips involving stays at the Banff Springs Hotel and other luxury hotels in Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper, as well as trips with the ACC, the Sky Line Trail Hikers, and Caroline Hinman. Also includes lists of people met during both summers at various locations, highlights of Banff news (including the deaths of Hal Waterhouse and Col. Phillip Moore, marriages, construction work, and illnesses), lists of equipment, and telephone numbers. M67 / 3 - 4 : black leather diary, dated 53 54 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to a 1953 trip that started in Banff (with stay at Banff Springs Hotel) before going to Jasper where Lillian Gest participated in an Alpine Club of Canada Camp, then a few days in Lake O'Hara (staying in the lodge) before returning to Banff and then heading home to Pennsylvania. The summer of 1954 consisted of a motor car trip originating in Pennsylvania that worked west through Michigan, North Dakota, and Montana before reatching Banff. Also includes lists of mileages, people met during both summers, telephone numbers, information about flying with Air Canada (most likely in 1953), and the deaths of the Mexican tourists on Mt. Victoria, July 30, 1954. M67 / 3 - 5 : black leather diary, dated 54 55 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to the last few days of Lillian Gest's 1954 motor car trip, detailing the second half from Banff back to Pennsylvania and the 1955 trips to Banff, Mount Robson, the annual Alpine Club of Canada Camp, Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara, and Vancouver. Also includes lists of people Gest met in various locations throughout 1955 and a brief list of changes in Banff, including tree cutting for the new Trans Canada Highway, the opening of the new Timberline Hotel, and expansions of the Mount Royal Hotel and the Upper Hot Springs. M67 / 3 - 6 : black leather diary, dated 56 57 in red paint on the front cover. Pertains to various hiking, motor car, and scenic trips taken by Lillian Gest throughout the Canadian Rockies during the summers of 1956 and 1957. Also includes lists of people met both summers, phone numbers for people both in Banff and in Pennsylvania, details pertaining to an Alpine Club of Canada 1956 photo competition that Gest entered, and a brief list of mostly construction-related updates from Banff and Lake Louise. One small newspaper clipping insert dated Aug 24, 1956 notes the funeral details for Mary Thorpe Gest. Also includes loose items consisting of letters (mostly addressed to Lillian Gest), brochures for the Sky Line Trail Hikers and the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, tellegrams, trip itineraries and cost listings, and newspaper clippings.
- Notes
- Blank pages not scanned.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Cabins and shelters
- Camping
- Camps
- Community
- Environment and Nature
- European travel
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Guides
- Hiking
- Horse packing
- Horseback riding
- Hotels
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake O'Hara region
- Membership
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- Outfitting
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Off the Beaten Track
- Pack trips
- Parks Canada
- Record keeping
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Sports and leisure
- Stoney Nakoda
- Tourism
- Trails
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Travel
- Travel and Exploration
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Pipestone Pass
- Saskatchewan River
- Assiniboine
- Mount Assiniboine
- Jasper
- Banff National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Vancouver
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Pennsylvania
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
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- Part Of
- John Williams fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 41 b&w prints pertaining to various trail rides and backcountry horseriding trips with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies.
- Date Range
- 1910 - ca.1944
- Reference Code
- V208 / PA - 01 to PA - 41
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
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- Part Of
- John Williams fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V208
- Sous-Fonds
- V208
- Accession Number
- 6591
- 5653
- Reference Code
- V208 / PA - 01 to PA - 41
- Date Range
- 1910 - ca.1944
- Physical Description
- 41 photographs : b&w ; 21.4 x 16.2 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 41 b&w prints pertaining to various trail rides and backcountry horseriding trips with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies.
- Name Access
- Williams, John
- Gibbon, John Murray
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Camps
- First Nations
- Horse packing
- Horseback riding
- Horses
- Indigenous Peoples
- Landscapes
- Mountains
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Pack trips
- Stoney Nakoda
- Teepees
- Tipi
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Williams, John
- Category
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Rocky Mountain Trips Lantern Slides
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have be…
- Date Range
- 1913 - 1958
- Reference Code
- V282 / III / B / PS - 53 to PS - 86
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Transparency
- Lantern slide
34 images
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M236 / V282
- Series
- V282 / III: Photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Sub-Series
- V282 / III / B: Photography: lantern slides
- Accession Number
- 1316, 1933
- Reference Code
- V282 / III / B / PS - 53 to PS - 86
- Date Range
- 1913 - 1958
- Physical Description
- 34 photographs : b&w and col. slides : 10.2 x 8.2 cm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of lantern slides depicting various pack trips organized and led by Caroline Hinman during the summers between 1913 and 1958. The slides appear to be celluloid transparencies fixed between the panes of glass; lack of maker's marks on the transparencies indicates the images may have been developed onto a sheet and then individually cut out to form the slides.
- Name Access
- Hinman, Caroline
- Subject Access
- Photography
- Outfitters
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Horse packing
- Horses
- Mount Assiniboine
- Travel
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Jasper
- Mount Assiniboine
- Mount Assiniboine Park
- Banff National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- All slides cleaned prior to scanning
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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