File consists of an original travel journal/diary annotated by Aileen Harmon pertaining to a 1933 ski trip to Skoki Lodge. File also includes two complete, typed copies of text from original 1933 account [one accompanied by typed letter to "Kathryn", likely Catharine Robb Whyte], and one incomplete…
File consists of an original travel journal/diary annotated by Aileen Harmon pertaining to a 1933 ski trip to Skoki Lodge. File also includes two complete, typed copies of text from original 1933 account [one accompanied by typed letter to "Kathryn", likely Catharine Robb Whyte], and one incomplete typed copy.
Image of Catharine Whyte and Dennis Mighall on skis at Mt. Norquay - "Mt Norquay - 1931 [/] 1. Catharine Whyte [/] 2. Dennis Mighall" written on the back in pencil
Image of Catharine Whyte and Dennis Mighall on skis at Mt. Norquay - "Mt Norquay - 1931 [/] 1. Catharine Whyte [/] 2. Dennis Mighall" written on the back in pencil
Image of Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Peter Whyte having a picnic at Opabin Lake - "Opabin Lunch 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Peter Whyte having a picnic at Opabin Lake - "Opabin Lunch 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Rudolf Aemmer, Neil Begg [an employee at Lake O'Hara Lodge], Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte holding walking sticks and with rope tied around their waists in Abbot Pass - 20 September 1930 [photo taken by George K.K. Link]
Image of Rudolf Aemmer, Neil Begg [an employee at Lake O'Hara Lodge], Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte holding walking sticks and with rope tied around their waists in Abbot Pass - 20 September 1930 [photo taken by George K.K. Link]
Image of J.E.H. MacDonald, Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, and Peter Whyte leaning against a rocky shelf with a large boulder and mountain peak in the background - "The Cache of the [illegible]" written on the back in pencil
Image of J.E.H. MacDonald, Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, and Peter Whyte leaning against a rocky shelf with a large boulder and mountain peak in the background - "The Cache of the [illegible]" written on the back in pencil
Image of Pearl Moore, Col. Phil Moore, Catharine Whyte, Carl Rungius, Peter Whyte, and John Murray Gibbon posed in a line in front of a hitching post with mountains in the background - their names and "at Ptarmigan Valley Sky Line Trail Hikers camp, 1939 [/] Photo: J.M. Wardle" written on the back …
Image of Pearl Moore, Col. Phil Moore, Catharine Whyte, Carl Rungius, Peter Whyte, and John Murray Gibbon posed in a line in front of a hitching post with mountains in the background - their names and "at Ptarmigan Valley Sky Line Trail Hikers camp, 1939 [/] Photo: J.M. Wardle" written on the back in pencil
File pertains to 120 b&w prints of various historical topics, some photos taken by Bruno Engler, others collected [presumably] by him. Includes various Canadian Pacific Railway events, community events and celebrations, Skoki Lodge's 60th anniversary, the Norquay Ski Hill rope-tow, the 1968 Winter …
File pertains to 120 b&w prints of various historical topics, some photos taken by Bruno Engler, others collected [presumably] by him. Includes various Canadian Pacific Railway events, community events and celebrations, Skoki Lodge's 60th anniversary, the Norquay Ski Hill rope-tow, the 1968 Winter Olympics bid, Princess Margarite's [sic] visit in 1958, the Cosmic Ray Observatory operations, a Kiwanis Club event, ranching and ranch lands, portraits, and more.
File pertains to 26 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to March 13, 1934. Topics include New Yea's Eve celebrations, going to the movies, spending time on the beach, painting/sketching [including experimenting with watercolour paints …
1.2 cm of textual records (88 pages ; 17 x 26.2 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 26 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to March 13, 1934. Topics include New Yea's Eve celebrations, going to the movies, spending time on the beach, painting/sketching [including experimenting with watercolour paints and different kinds of paper], people and events in Concord and in Banff, descriptions of Honolulu and the local people [including dress, food, and boats], weather, watching US Navy ships and planes come in and out of Pearl Harbor, listening to the radio [mostly news and operas], sketching people on the beach, the other guests at their hotel, going out for meals, celebrating Pete's birthday, descriptions of meals, planning their trip to Japan, painting portraits of locals, making canvases and easels, developing films [photographs], the Moores and the Rungiuses arriving in early February, shopping, watching various military Reviews and parades [usually as part of ceremonies for visiting dignitaries], descriptions of various ships in port, flowers and trees, birds, showing some of their work at the Art Academy at the invitation of the Honolulu Art Association in early March, going to cocktail parties and dances with the Moores and Rungiuses, booking their passage to Japan with Canadian Pacific, and leaving Hawaii in mid-March.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Few letters written on hotel/ship letterhead. Some letters contain small sketches of hotel/motel layouts, road layouts, and room/ship cabin details.
Most letters are numbered in red pencil crayon in the upper margin of the first page as part of an unknown project.
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.
93 - 05 page 5 contains a sketch of the Moana Hotel's placement and general laylout in relation to the beach.