File consists of 42 b&w. prints. The prints pertain to a trail ride to Mount Assiniboine and other travel images. Images include the ACC hut, Bryant Creek Cabin, snowshoeing, and dogsledding. People include Peter Whyte, George Noble, Ike Mills, Cliff White, Chess Edwards, Bernie Hansen, Cyril Pa…
File consists of 42 b&w. prints. The prints pertain to a trail ride to Mount Assiniboine and other travel images. Images include the ACC hut, Bryant Creek Cabin, snowshoeing, and dogsledding. People include Peter Whyte, George Noble, Ike Mills, Cliff White, Chess Edwards, Bernie Hansen, Cyril Paris, Fulton Dunsmore, Ted Garrett, Edwin Noble, and Olaf Odegaarde. Other images include painting en plein air with Bob Brown, Guy Thomas, Carl Hickey, Gardener Cox (?), and Walter Payne.
File pertains to 73 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to June 29, 1945. Topics include New Years Eve activities and parties, Pete being officially released from the Air Force [January 5], day to day life, photography and slide-making, weather, Ca…
1.3 cm of textual records (82 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 73 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to June 29, 1945. Topics include New Years Eve activities and parties, Pete being officially released from the Air Force [January 5], day to day life, photography and slide-making, weather, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross, going to the movies, watching hockey games, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, digging a cellar beneath the kitchen and moving the furnace underneath it, cleaning and household chores, Cam and Lila moving to Vancouver, errand trips to Calgary, wildlife, Banff events, painting, extending the second floor to create a new master bedroom above the living room, events and people in Concord, news pertaining to the war, birthdays, various holidays [both Canadian and American], deaths and funerals [Hermann Gadnew, President Roosevelt], the end of the war in Europe [also includes special radio broadcasts and community celebrations], gardening and yardwork, and short drives [usually to Lake Louise and the Lake Minnewanka area].
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters written on RCAF letterhead.
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.