Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60.
M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Rider…
26 cm of textual records.-- 109 photographs (42 prints, 67 lantern slides). -- 2 sound recordings.
History / Biographical
Jean Alexandra Hembroff was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 5, 1908 to Walter B. Hembroff (d. 1945) and Sarah Jane Hembroff (d.1952). Jean was accepted to the MacPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art at the University of Minnesota, from which she graduated in 1927. She returned to Winnipeg to begin teaching courses in speech arts and drama. To establish herself, she first volunteered as the "story lady" at the Williams Avenue Public Library and quickly became known as an excellent speaker sought by many different organizations. She taught at St. Mary's Academy and the Evening Institute at the University of Manitoba, as well as offered private sessions. Many of her students used the skills they learned from Jean as they entered radio, television, politics, and business. Jean was also very active in organizing and adjucating Speech Arts festivals in Manitoba, often going to inaccessible places to give workshops. Her teaching, broadcasting, adjucating, coaching, and speaking career spanned more than 50 years.
Jean was hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway's promotions manager to give presentations and broadcast interviews across Canada and the United States. In 1937, Jean joined the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and participated in their summer trail ride in the same year. For that year's issue of the Trail Rider's Bulletin Jean wrote an article - and became the first woman to ever do so. In 1938, during her lecture titled "Trail Riding in the Rockies" on January 18, 1938 at the Royal Alexandra Hotel, Jean met John David (Jack) MacDonald. Jack and Jean were married on June 18, 1938, and the couple had one son, Bruce Walter James MacDonald (August 28, 1946-August 25, 2016).
Jean participated in several trail rides with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Trail, and produced articles reflecting her experiences. Jean loved to travel and visited places all around Canada and the United States, Borneo, Tangier, Montevideo, Stockholm, New Delhi, and Tonga. At the age of 102, Jean passed away on February 2, 2011 and is buried in Winnipeg.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of three sous-fonds: M573 / V797 / S60.
M573 consists of three series, 26 cm of textual records, 1924-2005. Series I: Personal Papers, 19 cm, ca.1930-2005 (including notebooks and drafts of various talks that Jean delivered and records related to her participation in the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, particularly 1937-1939). Series II: Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 4 cm, 1924-2000 (including correspondence with John Murray Gibbon, former students, and attendees at various talks, as well as newspaper articles that Jean wrote about various subjects and articles of her achievements). Series III: Collected Materials and Ephemera, 3 cm, ca.1930-1950 (including a variety of collected poems and ephemera, as well as a copy of The Beaver Magazine from 1940, for which Jean wrote an article titled "On the Trail of Sir George").
V797 consists of two series, 24.5 cm of visual records, ca.1928-1939. Series I: Photograph Prints, 3 cm, ca.1928-1939 (includes personal photographs of Jean and her family and friends as well as photographs of Jean and Jack's visit to Lake Louise in 1939). Series II: Lantern Slides, 21.5 cm, ca.1937-1939 (Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1937 to Mt. Assiniboine; Sky Line Hikers of the Canadian Rockies official ride of 1939 to Ptarmigan Valley and Skoki; collection of trail ride songs).
S60 consists of two sound recordings, 1 cm, 2004 and 2007 (Winnipeg at Christmas, narrated by Jean, broadcasted on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
Item consists of group in regalia on horseback in the courtyard of th Banff Springs Hotel, on left is Hector Crawler (Wachegiye) (Prayer Giver) and Peter Wesley (Ta Otha) (Moose Hunter) next to him.
Item consists of group in regalia on horseback in the courtyard of th Banff Springs Hotel, on left is Hector Crawler (Wachegiye) (Prayer Giver) and Peter Wesley (Ta Otha) (Moose Hunter) next to him.
File consists of 237 lantern slides from the Mount Logan expedition of 1925; some are survey maps with the route plotted out in typed text. Photos taken by H. F. Lambert, and some by A. H. MacCarthy.
Original listing of the lantern slides numbers them at 231 total, 15 are missing and some were labl…
327 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10.2 x 8.2 cm
History / Biographical
The Mount Logan expedition was a joint mission between the Alpine Club of Canada and the American Alpine Club that took place in 1925. The expedition was led by A. H. MacCarthy, who had participated in the first accent of Mount Robson in 1913, and officially began in February, 1925 when the team, using horses and dogs to pull sleighs, cached supplies along the route. The ascent started on 12 May when they left the town of McCarthy, Yukon and the summit was reached on 22 June. The Mount Logan expedition was noted as being extremely difficult due to cold temperatures and violent storms. No members of the team were lost.
Scope & Content
File consists of 237 lantern slides from the Mount Logan expedition of 1925; some are survey maps with the route plotted out in typed text. Photos taken by H. F. Lambert, and some by A. H. MacCarthy.
Original listing of the lantern slides numbers them at 231 total, 15 are missing and some were labled as "duplicates" (see Notes).
Notes
PS-58, 59, 60, 61, 84, 112, 145, 160, 184, 185, 187, 196, 197, 206, 218 missing from order.
PS-208 initially listed as missing, now replaced by "duplicate."
Box 6/6 contained slides labled as "duplicates," upon comparison they were determined to be originals and added to the order; they now make up PS-232 to PS-254.
This listing was originally part of a larger entry (containing textual records and photographs) for the Mount Logan expedition.
15 slides missing; locate if possible. All slides were cleaned prior to scanning.
Related Material
M200 / AC 0M / 017 ; M200 / AC 00M / 152-168 ; V14 / AC 0P / 003-009 ; V14 / AC 0P / 410-599 ; V14 / AC 0P / 600-629 ; V14 / AC 0P / 708-716 ; V14 / AC 0P / 808 (1-127)
Papers are Director's papers, financial records, publicity and public relations records, reports, newsclippings; also telegrams to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Lambart. Includes material produced by J. W. A. Hickson, H. F. Lambart, A. H. MacCarthy and A. O. Wheeler. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. Includes air and ground survey photographs, Mount Logan to Mounts Bess and Alexander, including Mount Robson and area, 1924. Includes a lantern slide set of 231 items, accompanied by an inventory (AC 0M-146). Some prints are panoramas.
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Snow fields of the Ogilvie Glacier in foreground distant view of the ice fall coming down from the King Glacier above ; Showing the cascade at the head of the Ogilvie Gl. and camp ; Leaving Cascade for the first reconnaisance party up to the Observation Pt. Plateau. Read Carpe Foster MacCarthy ; Looking up the cascades, camp in the foreground ; The right hand side of the Cascades showing part of route taken up. Camp in foreground ; Looking up the cascades from the Cascades Camp ; Ice fileds, sled in distance, distant view of the ice cataract from the King Ice fields 2000 feet above ; About the best I have of this camp at the head of the Logan Glacier at the foot of the King Cascade, this latter showing in the background ; Pictures of the Cascades camp which has an elevation of 7800 feet and from which camp the real climbing operations commenced, on June 1st. 1925 ; Group of (close up) MacCarthy Carpe Foster and MacCarthy Lambart Foster ; A group "sledders of the Ogilvie" ; Snow dome at about 9700 half way between "Observation" and the top of the "Quartz Ridge" looking back over the tributary glaciers of the head of the Ogilvie 2500 feet below ; Lunching on the Dome, after arrival with first load and the drag of the sled up the steep slopes ; The snow dome at about 9700 with the group and looking out on to the Ogilvie Glacier showing the junction with the Logan Glaicer middle distance ; Looking into the hollow of the head of the Ogilvie Gl. showing mountains only at its head to eastward from a point a short distance N. of the Observation Camp Site ; From "Observation Camp" northward, distance as far as it can be seen ; North distant mountains of the Walsh and Mt. Lucania.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599