Fonds constitutes the principal resource for the study of the history of Canadian mountaineering. It provides a wealth of information on individual alpinists, expeditions, mountains, national parks, conservation, climbing, alpine organizations, publications, guiding, scientific study and the Alpin…
ca.42 m of textual records. -- ca.12,500 photographs: prints, stereographic prints, transparencies, slides, negatives, postcards. -- 85 photograph albums. -- 8 motion pictures: films, video recordings. -- 3 sound recordings
History / Biographical
The Alpine Club of Canada, the national mountaineering club, was co-founded in 1906 by A. O. Wheeler and Elizabeth Parker, and other like-minded climbers. The club espoused scientific study and exploration, cultivation of art, public education, acquisition of climbing skills, and preservation of natural areas within the mountainous regions of Canada. Through a national executive, local sections and volunteer committees, the club provided climbing camps, clubhouse, huts, and publications, including the Canadian Alpine Journal. ACC expeditions and projects resulted in pioneer exploration, first ascents, and included mountain warfare training during the Second World War. In recent years, the club's membership has increased dramatically with the popularity of climbing and its programs have evolved to serve the needs of unguided climbers using sophisticated technical aids.
Scope & Content
Fonds constitutes the principal resource for the study of the history of Canadian mountaineering. It provides a wealth of information on individual alpinists, expeditions, mountains, national parks, conservation, climbing, alpine organizations, publications, guiding, scientific study and the Alpine Club itself.
The fonds consists of four Sous-fonds: I. Alpine Club of Canada records; II. Mount Everest Expedition (1982) records; III. Personal papers and photographs; IV. Other material. Club administration records (series I.A.) pertain to executive positions; head office; finance; camps, climbing and treks; expeditions; huts and properties; clubhouses; library; publications; photography; other committees; other activities; and other. Other club records include section records (series I.B.), hut registers and summit records (series I.C.).
Fonds consists of films, video recording, sound recordings, textual records and photographs produced and collected by Hans Gmoser. Film series (I.) includes: A.1. Presentation films by Hans Gmoser Productions, 1956-1967, 10 items. Feature-length adventure/annual films, mainly silent for live narrat…
25 motion pictures: 41 film reels, also audio reels and magnetic track. -- 17 film reels, 7 film strips, 1 video recording. -- 25 sound recordings. -- 15.5 cm textual records. -- ca.640 photographs: negatives, copy negatives, prints. -- 2 photograph albums. -- 39 cartographic records: maps, some annotated.
History / Biographical
Hans Gmoser, 1932-2006 was born in Braunau, Austria in 1932. During his long career he worked as a mountain guide, mountaineer, ski instructor, skier, cinematographer, lecturer, and founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Canadian Mountain Holidays. Hans Gmoser was also an active cyclist and was based in Banff and Harvie Heights, Alberta.
Gmoser gained early skiing and mountaineering experience in post-war Austria before emigrating to Canada with his friend Leo Grillmair in 1951. Lizzie Rummel gave him his first job in the mountains at Mount Assiniboine. By 1953 he was working as a mountain guide and founded Rocky Mountain Guides Ltd. (Canadian Mountain Holidays CMH) in 1957. That year he began filming promotional films containing climbing and skiing adventure sequences. He first used fixed-wing aircraft and later helicopters, starting in 1963, to transport clients for spring skiing and summer climbing. Gmoser toured throughout North America promoting his skiing and climbing films, attracting large audiences with his inspiring lectures.
Gmoser built Bugaboo Lodge in 1968, the first of six lodges which also include Bobbie Burns, Galena, Gothics, Adamants and Cariboo lodges, to serve international heli-skiers and heli-hikers. Gmoser retired from Canadian Mountain Holidays in 1993. Hans Gmoser received honourary memberships in the Alpine Club of Canada and the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations. He was elected to the Honour Roll of Canadian Skiing and the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and received the Banff Mountain Film Festival Summit of Excellence Award. In 1987 Hans Gmoser was awarded the Order of Canada.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of films, video recording, sound recordings, textual records and photographs produced and collected by Hans Gmoser.
Film series (I.) includes: A.1. Presentation films by Hans Gmoser Productions, 1956-1967, 10 items. Feature-length adventure/annual films, mainly silent for live narration with background music. Some with sound tracks. A.2. Edited versions of presentation films, 1959-1968, 5 motion pictures. B. Other films by Hans Gmoser, 1962-[1969], 8 motion pictures. C. Out-takes, fragment and miscellaneous films, 1960-ca.1970, 17 film reels; Skifarri - Head Hunter film, 1924-1950s, 7 negative strips. D. Collected films, ca.1960, 1972, 2 motion pictures.
Other series are: II. Video recording, 1979; III. Sound recordings (not related to films) include 23 reel to reel tapes of classical and traditional folk songs, 1961 and 1979; IV. Textual records, ca.1955-ca.1995, in the form of film documentation, script to "Ski's over McKinley," certificates, Order of Canada correspondence and information, personal papers and correspondence, maps and other records; V. Photographs, 1950-1986. Photographs pertain to ski trips, climbing expeditions to Mt. Logan, Mt. Robson, Wapta Glacier, Columbia Icefields, Canoe Glacier, Rodgers pass trip, mountaineering clubs, Trudeau/Bugaboo trip, Assiniboine Lodge, portraits of Lizzie Rummel, Erling Strom, and Jim Davies. Albums consist of photographs taken during ski trips in Austria.
Films depict a mixture of skiing and climbing including spring skiing, powder skiing, glacier skiing on Columbia Icefield, heli-skiing in the Rockies and Selkirks and ascents of Mount Logan, Yukon, and Mounts Blackburn and McKinley, Alaska, also rock and ice climbing. Feature length films consist of, or are accompanied by, all or some of the following elements: 16mm originals (A and B rolls); work prints, out takes, 16mm mag track (sound); 1/4" audio tape (background music to accompany narration, 7 items); teasers (TV film clips) and the following items included in the textual records: narration scripts, teaser text, descriptive flyers, press releases, annual pamphlets and ad solicitation for same, censor certificates, related correspondence, maps, oversize promotional posters for Gmoser's films "With Ski and Rope" 1957, and a handmade poster by Banff Ski Runners for "Adventure Bound" and related ephemera.
Fonds consists of materials personally collected by Margaret Gmoser. Fonds includes photographs and textual records pertaining to Hans Gmoser, Robson Gmoser, and traverse trip with Chic Scott. Fonds also includes an original letter from Orville Wright regarding early helicopters.
4 cm textual records -- ca. 42 photographs -- 1 oversized poster
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of materials personally collected by Margaret Gmoser. Fonds includes photographs and textual records pertaining to Hans Gmoser, Robson Gmoser, and traverse trip with Chic Scott. Fonds also includes an original letter from Orville Wright regarding early helicopters.
File consists of summit notes from Mount Fay produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1998 and 1999. Summit record includes 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, wildl…
Summit Registers and Notes produced by Alpine Club of Canada
Date Range
1998-1999
Physical Description
0.5 cm of textual records
History / Biographical
Mount Fay is located along the Continental/Great Divide, along the Alberta and British Columbia border. Mount Fay is part of the Canadian Rockies.
Scope & Content
File consists of summit notes from Mount Fay produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1998 and 1999. Summit record includes 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.
File:
M200 / V / A / 156: [100 YR SWISS CENTENNIAL CLIMB 1999: Faye Summit notes. Bow Hut OCT - DEC 1998]
File consists of photographs pertaining to Hans Gmoser skiing with friends. Most photographs are from a 1964 ski trip between Toby Creek and the Bugaboos mountain range in British Columbia.
24 photographs : b&w and col. prints; 25 x 20 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of photographs pertaining to Hans Gmoser skiing with friends. Most photographs are from a 1964 ski trip between Toby Creek and the Bugaboos mountain range in British Columbia.
Notes
Photographs in file are accompanied by one page of handwritten notes pertaining to details of images from 1964 ski trip [PA - 1 to 21] and one copy of an Eaton's newspaper ad featuring an illustration of a ski jumper
File contains the Treasurer's Reports, Financial reports, Financial Information Packages for Board meetings, and Audited Financial statements and reports from 1985 to 2007. Includes a report on Financial Statements Revamping Proposal from 1992, a report on the Analysis of Canadian Alpine Journal Co…
File contains the Treasurer's Reports, Financial reports, Financial Information Packages for Board meetings, and Audited Financial statements and reports from 1985 to 2007. Includes a report on Financial Statements Revamping Proposal from 1992, a report on the Analysis of Canadian Alpine Journal Costs from 1985, and the Second Quarter Financial Report from May 1986.
File contains correspondence, tax records, and acknowledgements of donations to the Alpine Club of Canada. Also includes records of Certificate of Interest, Certificate of Limited Partnership Assignee Units, and other records that relate to the 1989-1990 bequest to the Alpine Club of Canada.
File contains correspondence, tax records, and acknowledgements of donations to the Alpine Club of Canada. Also includes records of Certificate of Interest, Certificate of Limited Partnership Assignee Units, and other records that relate to the 1989-1990 bequest to the Alpine Club of Canada.
File includes the meeting minutes of the Annual General Meeting on November 12, 1988, as well as the President's Report, the Treasurer's Report, Membership Report and various committee annual reports for the AGM. Some reports are from the Mountain Management Committee, the Summer Camps Committee, t…
File includes the meeting minutes of the Annual General Meeting on November 12, 1988, as well as the President's Report, the Treasurer's Report, Membership Report and various committee annual reports for the AGM. Some reports are from the Mountain Management Committee, the Summer Camps Committee, the Ski Mountaineering Committee and the Expeditions Committee.
File contains records acknowledging donations to the Alpine Club of Canada between 1989 and 1990. Also includes a Daily Membership Deposit Report from February 1990.
File contains records acknowledging donations to the Alpine Club of Canada between 1989 and 1990. Also includes a Daily Membership Deposit Report from February 1990.
File includes a report on Fundraising Overview for the Alpine Club of Canada from 1990, a Report (Unfinished) on Planned Giving from May 1996, and Fundraising Reports for 1990/91 and 1992. Also includes Membership Statistics reports from 1992, a chart showing Sponsorship Opportunities, and the 1994…
File includes a report on Fundraising Overview for the Alpine Club of Canada from 1990, a Report (Unfinished) on Planned Giving from May 1996, and Fundraising Reports for 1990/91 and 1992. Also includes Membership Statistics reports from 1992, a chart showing Sponsorship Opportunities, and the 1994 Endowment Applications. Also includes reports on Corporate Fundraising Summary from May 1996 and Spring 1997.
File consists of correspondence/memos about the Board Meeting Agenda, a report to the Board on strategic planning and development of a marketing plan. Also includes the proposed plan for the Executive Committee meeting, meeting minutes of the Board of Directors, the Annual General Meeting agenda an…
File consists of correspondence/memos about the Board Meeting Agenda, a report to the Board on strategic planning and development of a marketing plan. Also includes the proposed plan for the Executive Committee meeting, meeting minutes of the Board of Directors, the Annual General Meeting agenda and meeting minutes, and various Committee reports to the Board. Finance Committee reports, Publications Committee reports, Services report, Treasurer's report, and various sections reports to the Board.
File consists of the proposal for a Central Alberta Section to become a full-fledged section of the Alpine Club of Canada, a proposal for the Le club d' escalade to become a full-fledged section of the Alpine Club of Canada, and the summary of the Conference Implementing Total Quality in Your Volun…
File consists of the proposal for a Central Alberta Section to become a full-fledged section of the Alpine Club of Canada, a proposal for the Le club d' escalade to become a full-fledged section of the Alpine Club of Canada, and the summary of the Conference Implementing Total Quality in Your Volunteer System.
File contains a record Re: Deposit payment for The Environment Schools, the 1992 ACC Endowment Fund Report to the Board May 1992, and a chart for the 1992 Budget and Forecast for 1993's budget.
File contains a record Re: Deposit payment for The Environment Schools, the 1992 ACC Endowment Fund Report to the Board May 1992, and a chart for the 1992 Budget and Forecast for 1993's budget.
File contains the Financial Manager's Second Quarter Report, Sponsorship Opportunities with the ACC, Expanded Fundraising and Fundraising Reports, and the 1992 Summer Camp Budgets.
File contains the Financial Manager's Second Quarter Report, Sponsorship Opportunities with the ACC, Expanded Fundraising and Fundraising Reports, and the 1992 Summer Camp Budgets.
File contains correspondence and reports on The Alpine Club of Canada Planned Giving Program; including the Program Outline ad the steps involved in the Giving Program.
File contains correspondence and reports on The Alpine Club of Canada Planned Giving Program; including the Program Outline ad the steps involved in the Giving Program.
File includes the Board meeting minutes from May 15-16, 1993 that took place in Canmore, Past President's reports to the Board on Hut Custodian quarters in the Club house and other ACC huts, New Sections Committee Report to the Board of Directors. Also includes meeting minutes of the Wheeler House …
File includes the Board meeting minutes from May 15-16, 1993 that took place in Canmore, Past President's reports to the Board on Hut Custodian quarters in the Club house and other ACC huts, New Sections Committee Report to the Board of Directors. Also includes meeting minutes of the Wheeler House Society Formation from September 7, 1993, Office Update Report from September 1993, report on the Planned Giving Program, and Meeting Minutes of the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors that took place in Lake Louise October 23-24, 1993.
File contains a 1993 report Re: Membership Administration System, a list of the New Structure Membership Fees, the VP Activities Report, and the Treasurer's Report to the Board of Directors May 1993. Also includes 1994 Budget Notes, the Budget Report 1995-1996, the 1993 Capital Budget report and a …
File contains a 1993 report Re: Membership Administration System, a list of the New Structure Membership Fees, the VP Activities Report, and the Treasurer's Report to the Board of Directors May 1993. Also includes 1994 Budget Notes, the Budget Report 1995-1996, the 1993 Capital Budget report and a report on the Lake Louise Phase 2. File includes the Treasurer's Report from October 1993, the Audited Financial Report for year ending October 1992, and the Audited Financial Statements for year ending October 1995.