Fonds consists mainly of diary excerpts and transcripts, 1912-1913, 1921-1954; also includes a guest book, 1924-1956, posters, ca.1942, publications relating the story of Belmore Browne Peak, 1992-1993, and photographs, ca.1930, ca.1955, 1991-1992. Diaries are mainly trip diaries pertaining to summ…
24 cm of textual records. -- 108 photographs : prints, copy negatives, transparencies
History / Biographical
Belmore Browne, d.1954, was a well-known artist who lived and worked at Banff and Seebe, Alberta, Canada and in the United States. Browne and Agnes Evelyn Sibley, 1882-1976, were married in 1913. In 1921, they bought property in Banff for a summer home and with their children, George, 1918-1958, and Evelyn, 1915-1994, travelled extensively throughout the 1920s and 1930s in pursuit of subjects for Belmore Browne's paintings. In 1946, the Brownes built a home near Seebe. Agnes Browne was a diarist for the family and much of her extensive writing centres around the career of Belmore Browne. Her daughter Evelyn consolidated the diaries in the 1980s. George Browne was also an artist.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists mainly of diary excerpts and transcripts, 1912-1913, 1921-1954; also includes a guest book, 1924-1956, posters, ca.1942, publications relating the story of Belmore Browne Peak, 1992-1993, and photographs, ca.1930, ca.1955, 1991-1992.
Diaries are mainly trip diaries pertaining to summer travels and family life in the Canadian Rockies, 1921-1933. Included are trips to Red Earth Creek, Skoki, Mystic Lake, Sawback Lake, Red Deer Valley, Hector Lake, Bow Lake, Kananaskis Valley, Cascade and Panther rivers, Elbow Pass, and other locations. Other diaries cover the years 1943 to 1954, years partly spent at Seebe until Belmore Browne's death. Diary copies and typescripts have been annotated by Evelyn Browne.
Posters on alpine and wilderness survival, ca.1942, were done by Belmore Browne for the American military's Arctic Training Program.
Photographs are mainly photographic copies of paintings by Belmore and George Browne produced by Peter A. Juley & Son, Photographers of Fine Arts, New York, ca.1955, 79 items. Other photographs pertain to Belmore Browne and the Browne family, their Banff home and painting activities, ca.1930; the site of Belmore Browne plaque on Browne Peak, rediscovered and photographed by Tony and Gillean Daffern in September 1991, and dedication of the Belmore Browne plaque, 1992.
Official correspondence pertaining to the naming of Belmore Browne Peak, 1989-1993, is available in document file.
Murray Hay is a self taught artist who left Regina at age 16 and began a career as a commercial artist.
Murray Hay was born in 1931 and passed away in 2015 at the age of 84 years. Murray Hay moved to Alberta in1963? In 1976 Sir Rodney Touche approached him and asked if he would paint a ski map. The first ski map Murray painted was one of Lake Louise, the second was of Ski Big Three and the third was Sunshine Mountain ski resort
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of four paintings on coreboard, posters, photographs, newspaper clippings and drawings
Sub-series of hut registers from Abbot Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1954 and 2017. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings…
Abbot Pass Hut was built in 1922 and sits at an elevation of 2,926 meters. It is one of the highest structures in Canada. The hut was named after Philip Stanley Abbot who had died from a fall during the first known attempt to reach the summit of Mount Lefroy. The hut was a national historic site, but the hut was closed to visitors in 2018 due to the erosion of the slope beneath the hut. On June 30, 2022 Parks Canada officially removed Abbot Pass Hut, due to those environmental factors.
Scope & Content
Sub-series of hut registers from Abbot Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1954 and 2017. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings, custodial issues and updates, and related topics.
The sub-series is separated into individual hut registers, arranged by date:
M200 / IV / A / 1: Abbot Pass Hut register [1954 - 1960]
M200 / IV / A / 2: [Abbot Pass Hut Register 1954 - 1970]
M200 / IV / A / 3: [Abbot Pass Hut? loose register 1972 - 1974]
M200 / IV / A / 4: [Abbot] Pass Hut [register 1974 - 1978]
M200 / IV / A / 5: Abbot Hut [register 1979 - 1980]
M200 / IV / A / 6: [Abbot]'s Hut Registry [1980 - 1982]
M200 / IV / A / 7: [Abbot Pass Hut Register 1982 - 1983]
M200 / IV / A / 8: [Abbot Pass register 1983]
M200 / IV / A / 9: [Abbot Hut Register 1987]
M200 / IV / A / 10: Abbot's Hut Bible [register, 1988 - 1992]
M200 / IV / A / 11: Abbot Pass Hut 1992 - 93
M200 / IV / A / 12: "Abbot Pass Hut Log Book" Aug. 24, 1993 - July 20, 1995
M200 / IV / A / 13: Abbot Pass hut register Aug. 11, 1995 - July 30, 1996.
M200 / IV / A / 14: [Abbot Pass] hut register July 30, 1996 - May 4, 1997
M200 / IV / A / 15: "Abbot Pass Hut Register" June 26, 1997 - September 3, 1998
M200 / IV / A / 16: Abbot Pass Hut [1998- 2000]
M200 / IV / A / 17: Abbot Pass Sep 6, 2000 - July 26, 2002
M200 / IV / A / 18: Abbot Hut Register 2002 - 2003
M200 / IV / A / 19: Abbot Pass Aug 31, 2003 - Aug 20, 2005
M200 / IV / A / 20: Abbot Pass Register 2004 - 2007
M200 / IV / A / 21: Abbot Hut Register 2007 - 2009
M200 / IV / A / 22: [2011 Abbot Hut Register]
M200 / IV / A / 23: Abbot Hut Register [2012 - 2014]
M200 / IV / A / 24: Abbot Pass Hut Register [2014 - 2016]
M200 / IV / A / 25: Abbot Pass Hut Register, 2016 - 2017
M200 / IV / A / 26: [Abbot Pass Hut Register: 2017-2018]
The Alpine Club of Canada website:
https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/abbot-pass-hut/
The Government of Canada website:
https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoho/culture/abbot
An irregularly shaped vessel with various coloured clays juxtaposed to resemble land formations, sweeping upwards to approximately mid way. Lip is cut away to alter round shape. Also bottom edge is cut away in two places. Composed of 3 stoneware clays and porcelain - laminated, thrown and altere…
An irregularly shaped vessel with various coloured clays juxtaposed to resemble land formations, sweeping upwards to approximately mid way. Lip is cut away to alter round shape. Also bottom edge is cut away in two places. Composed of 3 stoneware clays and porcelain - laminated, thrown and altered, glazed with a traditional Celedone glaze, fired in reduction cone 9. Post firing sand blasting with silver amalgam added in lamination separations to conclude the work in keeping with historical ceramic traditions.
File pertains to 34 b&w prints of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides training courses and members. Includes shots of potential members participating in training courses [usually on Tunnel Mountain] as well as posed group shots of ACMG members.
34 photographs : col. & b&w ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to 34 b&w prints of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides training courses and members. Includes shots of potential members participating in training courses [usually on Tunnel Mountain] as well as posed group shots of ACMG members.
Notes
Identities of people in PA - 27 from left to right [back row]: Rüdi Geitsch, Tim Auger, Peter Schlunegger, Bernie Schiesser, Hans Gmoser, [unidentified], Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher ; [front row]: [unidentified], [unidentified], Scott Flavelle, Clair Israelson, Dave Cochrane?, [unidentified], Phil Heim, Dan Griffith.
Identities of people in PA - 29, from left to right [back row]: Frank Stark, Rüdi Geitsch, Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher ; [front row]: Leo Gullmair, [unidentified], Hans Gmoser, [unidentified], Pierre Lentire?, Sepp Renner.
Identifications provided by Chic Scott
File consists of personal photographs of Aileen Harmon and numerous friends and family members. Photographs pertain to friends Ron and Evelyn Matthews; Aileen's 95th birthday party celebration; a party in 1994; Aileen with Charlie Lockwood; a group of Guatemalan school children from a school Aileen…
23 photographs : col. prints ; 21.5 x 28 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of personal photographs of Aileen Harmon and numerous friends and family members. Photographs pertain to friends Ron and Evelyn Matthews; Aileen's 95th birthday party celebration; a party in 1994; Aileen with Charlie Lockwood; a group of Guatemalan school children from a school Aileen donated to; Aileen with river guide Tom Moody; Bea Wilkinson and David Lestock [?]; Jim Fulton; Aileen's friend Georgia Engelhart; Fran Losie [?], Joyce Hendrickson and Aileen together; and other miscellaneous images.
Notes
Numerous photographs annotated on the back with names and/or dates.
A thin green stem extends upwards from the bottom centre. Three red sketchy blooms extend from the bloom at the top. At the bottom there are three red stamps.
A thin green stem extends upwards from the bottom centre. Three red sketchy blooms extend from the bloom at the top. At the bottom there are three red stamps.
A thin green stem extends upwards from the bottom centre. Three red sketchy blooms extend from the bloom at the top. At the bottom there are three red stamps.
A thin green stem extends upwards from the bottom centre. Three red sketchy blooms extend from the bloom at the top. At the bottom there are three red stamps.
A large mountain rises up at left, a glacier spills down its face into the centre of the painting. Thin conifer trees are in the foreground. The sky is dark blue.
A large mountain rises up at left, a glacier spills down its face into the centre of the painting. Thin conifer trees are in the foreground. The sky is dark blue.
An ice floe fans out from top right, across centre, to left foreground. The mountain is in various colours with yellow dominant. Cloudy sky tlc and top.
An ice floe fans out from top right, across centre, to left foreground. The mountain is in various colours with yellow dominant. Cloudy sky tlc and top.
At the bl a male elk is challenging another male elk. The second elk is higher up on the side of a mountain in a grass area. Further off in the distance six female elk watch. The grass that the elk are standing on is a yellow green color and the rock in the background behind the elk is a red brown…
At the bl a male elk is challenging another male elk. The second elk is higher up on the side of a mountain in a grass area. Further off in the distance six female elk watch. The grass that the elk are standing on is a yellow green color and the rock in the background behind the elk is a red brown hue. The two male elk are facing each other and both have a full set of horns. The mountains in the far distance are a grey blue color.
Embroidered black silk, gathered at the top onto band, folded under, made of three panels of silk, centre panel 42.0 wideand side panels 20.0 with 6.0 of that turned to back, embroidery done with single thread in shades of green, brown and pale yellow, blue and melon, flowers and leaves in two pan…
Embroidered black silk, gathered at the top onto band, folded under, made of three panels of silk, centre panel 42.0 wideand side panels 20.0 with 6.0 of that turned to back, embroidery done with single thread in shades of green, brown and pale yellow, blue and melon, flowers and leaves in two panels downand wider panel across
Three unidentified individuals walking in a field holding aprons over their heads in the wind. Photograph was taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern, Alberta.
Three unidentified individuals walking in a field holding aprons over their heads in the wind. Photograph was taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern, Alberta.
The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.
The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.
File pertains to 58 b&w prints of various avalanche areas and slides around Banff National Park, mostly focussed along stretches of highways and in and around ski areas, including backcountry ski areas like Assiniboine.
File pertains to 58 b&w prints of various avalanche areas and slides around Banff National Park, mostly focussed along stretches of highways and in and around ski areas, including backcountry ski areas like Assiniboine.
Small cream coloured baby dress with puff sleeves. Lace around neckline, sleeves, and at bodice. Two ties are in bows at the neckline and just below. Circle of lace approx. 9 cm above hem of dress. Waist of dress is 20 cm, width at bottom 77.5 cm.
Small cream coloured baby dress with puff sleeves. Lace around neckline, sleeves, and at bodice. Two ties are in bows at the neckline and just below. Circle of lace approx. 9 cm above hem of dress. Waist of dress is 20 cm, width at bottom 77.5 cm.
File pertains to climbing, skiing, ski touring, camps, facilities and landscape views in Banff and Yoho National Parks. Includes the construction of Bow Hut.
Alternate title: Banff, Yoho etc from 1950, Gl lake
Date Range
1944-1990
Physical Description
493 photographs : transparencies, 35mm, col
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to climbing, skiing, ski touring, camps, facilities and landscape views in Banff and Yoho National Parks. Includes the construction of Bow Hut.
* Banff climbing, landscape views, Lake Louise area, camps, Skoki area, Mount Whyte - 1954
* Climbing, Skoki Lodge, landscape views - 1955
* Ski touring, Sunshine area, Mount Temple and Skoki areas, landscape views, Skoki Lodge. Includes label: Class III, Marj Bugler - 1956
* Mount Cory, climbing and landscape views - 1957
* Mountain rescue - 1957
* Banff area, climbing and landscape views - 1958
* Mount Ishbel, Pilot Mountain, climbing - 1959
* Ice school, snow school, Banff townsite, Yoho area, climbing Mount Cory, Mount Edith, Mount Ishbel, St. Nic - 1960
* Skoki : includes Skoki Lodge, ski touring - [1960?]
* Banff : Vermilion Lakes, Bow Falls, wildlife, Mount Norquay - [1960?]
* Banff : Banff area, Mount Norquay, chairlift - [ca.1960]
* Yoho : group at Stanley Mitchell Hut - [ca.1960]
* Lake Louise - [ca.1960]
* Emerald : Mount Burgess, Kicking Horse River, ski touring at Sunshine
and Mount Temple areas, Mount Norquay ski area, landscape views and people, Peyto Lake, Emerald Lake, Banff-Jasper Highway - [ca.1960]
* Yoho area, Stanley Mitchell Hut, climber, snowman, climbing Mount Cory, Banff views - 1961
* Bow Lake - 1962
* Mount Temple, Banff area - 1963
* GL recce : Glacier Lake area reconnaissance views, horses and ski touring - 1964
* Glacier Lake, Alpine Club of Canada camp, botany, glacier climbing - 1965
* Larch Valley, Moraine Lake, Mount Inglismaldie, Dolomite Peak - 1966
The painting is divided into three sections. Each section features a different house from the Banff area. Two wide blue stripes divide the three sections from each other. The first home on the left side is seen through small groups of trees. This log home with a wrap around verandah was built in 19…
The painting is divided into three sections. Each section features a different house from the Banff area. Two wide blue stripes divide the three sections from each other. The first home on the left side is seen through small groups of trees. This log home with a wrap around verandah was built in 1920 by Norman Luxton for Dr. Brett of the Brett Sanitarium. The current owner is John Peck and official address is 514 Buffalo Street. The second home is white in colour and was built in 1913 by Joseph Bannerman and it’s location in Banff is 602 Buffalo Street. The third home featured on this painting is currently owned by Mr. Blake O’Brian and is located at 214 Muskrat Street, Banff.
An untanned, buckskin jacket with floral beadwork design on the back across the shoulders in flowers with colours red, blue, black, yellow and leaves of green. The area below the beadwork is pinked and fringed. There is mirror image, identical beadwork on each side of the front of the jacket. There…
An untanned, buckskin jacket with floral beadwork design on the back across the shoulders in flowers with colours red, blue, black, yellow and leaves of green. The area below the beadwork is pinked and fringed. There is mirror image, identical beadwork on each side of the front of the jacket. There is a zippered front closure and a pinked and beaded portion on each side of the zipper. The beadwork is alternating blue, yellow and red flowers with blue and yellow leaves and stems and then below flowers with colours of red, blue, black, yellow and leaves in green. There are four flowers on each side. On the flat front pockets the borders are pinked and the beadwork is a flower with red petals rimmed with black and a yellow centre. The leaves and stem are green.