File consists of 19 b&w prints, some captioned, in yellow paper "Album Prints" flipbooks. The file contains the travel photographs of Nellie Harris and her family that pertain to the Harris' vacation taken with her husband, Glyn Harris. Includes views from around the Banff townsite, Lake Louise, La…
File consists of 19 b&w prints, some captioned, in yellow paper "Album Prints" flipbooks. The file contains the travel photographs of Nellie Harris and her family that pertain to the Harris' vacation taken with her husband, Glyn Harris. Includes views from around the Banff townsite, Lake Louise, Lake Minnewanka, and the Cave & Basin.
File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.
O. Kathleen Wilson was employed at the Chateau Lake Louise at Lake Louise, Alberta in the 1920s.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.
File pertains to a photograph album depicting snapshots of prisoners of war and surroundings taken by Seargent William D. Buck of the Banff, Castle Mountain, and Kapuskasing, ON, internment camps during World War I.
Photograph album includes Banff and Kapuskasing River views; Castle and Banff inter…
William D. Buck, 1859-1922, was born in England and is thought to have served during the First World War with the 103 Calgary Rifles. Buck was a Sergeant at the Banff and Castle Mountain internment camps, ca.1915-1917, and appears to have accompanied prisoners to a camp at Kapuskasing, Ontario after closure of the Castle Mountain camp in 1917.
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photograph album depicting snapshots of prisoners of war and surroundings taken by Seargent William D. Buck of the Banff, Castle Mountain, and Kapuskasing, ON, internment camps during World War I.
Photograph album includes Banff and Kapuskasing River views; Castle and Banff internment camps views of prisoners, guards, facilities, activities, incidents and visit of Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia; gathering of prisoners at Winnipeg and life at Kapuskasing internment camp; prisoners and Cave and Basin bathing, more Banff camp views and funeral photographs; family portraits, Banff and possible Calgary; and Sergeant Buck.
Consists of 199 numbered and captioned images, one un-numbered portrait on first page, as follows : Banff and area and Kapuskasing River views, 1 - 16 ; Castle and Banff Internment Camp views of prisoners, guards, activities, incidents and facilities, visit of Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia, 17-88 ; gathering . . . in prisoners at Winnipeg and life at Kapuskasing, Ontario Internment Camp, 89-100 ; prisoners and Cave and Basin bathing, more Banff Camp views and funeral photographs, 101-118 ; family portraits, Banff and possibly Calgary, 119-148 ; published postcards of : Calgary Stampede, Banff and Calgary views, [Indigenous] portraits, 148-195 ; Sergeant Buck with dogs, 1919, 196-197. Span dates : ca.1915-1920 (actual date). Note: Two images are labelled #148.
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Album also contains 47 published postcards of the Calgary Stampede, Banff and Calgary views, and Indigenous portraits that were not copied.
Attached individual images pertain solely to the Cave & Basin internment camp.
File pertains to views along the Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver, B.C. to Canmore, Alberta. Also includes Banff views, including Banff Springs Hotel, Cave and Basin, Bow Valley, Banff townsite and Brett Hospital operating room.
File pertains to views along the Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver, B.C. to Canmore, Alberta. Also includes Banff views, including Banff Springs Hotel, Cave and Basin, Bow Valley, Banff townsite and Brett Hospital operating room.
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IMAGES :
1. Looking up the Fraser near Salmon River [ca.1892]
2. Hell’s Gate, Fraser Canyon [ca.1892]
3. Looking down the Thompson near Kamloops [ca.1892]
4. Junction of the North and South Thompson near Kamloops, BC [ca.1892]
5. Albert Canyon [ca.1892]
6. Natural Bridge on the Kicking Horse River, near Field [ca.1892]
7. Mt. Stephen showing Silver Mine [ca.1892]
8. CPR showing four Tunnels [ca.1892]
9. Stoney Creek Bridge, Selkirks, CPR [ca.1892]
10. The Great Divide, Summit Rockies, CPR [ca.1892]
11. Emerald Lake, near Field, BC [ca.1892]
12. From Great Glacier, showing Glacier House [ca.1892]
13. A round-up on the cattle ranges near Kamloops, BC [ca.1892]
14. Winter scene at the Glacier House, Selkirks [ca.1892]
15. Fishing fleet at the mouth of the Fraser [ca.1892]
16. Brunette Bridge, New Westminster [ca.1892]
17. Lake Louise, near Laggan, CPR [ca.1892]
18. Three Sisters, Canmore [ca.1892]
19. Cannery fish house [ca.1892]
20. [Unidentified men posing below a Red Wood tree] [ca.1892]
21. Operating Room, Dr. Brett’s Private Hospital, Banff Alta [ca.1892]
22. Sundance Canyon, Banff [ca.1892]
23. Looking up the Thompson, Spences Bridge [ca.1892]
24. [View of the Bow River Bridge and Cascade Mountain] [ca.1900]
25. The “Basin,” Banff [ca.1900]
26. [CPR Hotel, Banff] [ca.1900]
27. [Bow River Bridge and Cascade Mountain] [ca.1900]
28. [View from Tunnel Mt. Dr. Brett’s Private Hospital and Sanitarium, Banff, Alberta] [ca.1900]
29. [View of CPR Hotel from Tunnel Mt.] [ca.1900]
30. Devils Head Canyon, Banff [ca.1900]
31. [Rundle Mountain, Banff] [ca.1900]
32. The “Basin,” Banff [ca.1900]
33. [Unidentified river and dirt road] [ca.1900]
34. [View of Bow River from CPR Hotel, Banff] [ca.1900]
35. [Looking down on The "Basin," Banff] [ca.1900]
36. [Dr. Brett's Private Hospital and Sanitarium, Banff] [ca.1900]
37. [Lake Minnewanka] [ca.1900]
38. [View of the town of Banff from Tunnel Mt.] [ca.1900]
39. [Eastbound road to Banff and Cascade Mt.] [ca.1900]
40. View from Upper Hot Springs, Banff [ca.1900]
41. View from Tunnel Mt. Dr. Brett’s Private Hospital and Sanitarium, Banff, Alberta [ca.1892]
42. CPR Hotel, Banff [ca.1892]
43. The Basin, Banff [ca.1900]
44. On the Kootenay Lake, BC [ca.1892]
45. Bow River Falls, Banff [ca.1892]