Sub-series pertains to 84 b&w and colour prints depicting assorted activities and events around Banff National Park. Includes pack trips, skiing, backcountry huts [Abbot Pass Hut and Bow Hut], community events, shops, a Canada Day Parade, the Canadian Centennial in 1967, a Royal visit in 1959, chur…
84 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25.1 x 20.1 cm or smaller
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Sub-series pertains to 84 b&w and colour prints depicting assorted activities and events around Banff National Park. Includes pack trips, skiing, backcountry huts [Abbot Pass Hut and Bow Hut], community events, shops, a Canada Day Parade, the Canadian Centennial in 1967, a Royal visit in 1959, churches, school programs, the 1967 Mount Royal Hotel fire, Banff Indian Days, high altitude mountaineering, conferences, boating on the Bow River, and rodeos.
Image of (left to right) Allan Mather, Fern Brewster, Peter Whyte, Bernie Hansen, Norman Knight, Jackie White, Cyril Paris, Victor Kutschera, Cameron Stockand, Catharine Whyte standing in front of Skoki Lodge
Image of (left to right) Allan Mather, Fern Brewster, Peter Whyte, Bernie Hansen, Norman Knight, Jackie White, Cyril Paris, Victor Kutschera, Cameron Stockand, Catharine Whyte standing in front of Skoki Lodge
Image of a group of people and Ike Mills' dog sled team outside Skoki Lodge in the winter - Peter Whyte at far right, Ike Mills beside him, Catharine Whyte at far left petting a dog
Image of a group of people and Ike Mills' dog sled team outside Skoki Lodge in the winter - Peter Whyte at far right, Ike Mills beside him, Catharine Whyte at far left petting a dog
Image of a man [possibly Ike Mills] in a checkered shirt leaning over outside a building with icicles hanging off the roof surrounded by dogs, chopped wood, and sleds - possibly at Skoki Lodge
Image of a man [possibly Ike Mills] in a checkered shirt leaning over outside a building with icicles hanging off the roof surrounded by dogs, chopped wood, and sleds - possibly at Skoki Lodge
File pertains to 27 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 1932 to May 1932. Topics include Catharine's travel back to Banff [from Concord?], Peter and Catharine going into the ski business with Skoki, setting up Skoki lodge for business [with a detail…
1.3 cm of textual records (151 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
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File pertains to 27 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 1932 to May 1932. Topics include Catharine's travel back to Banff [from Concord?], Peter and Catharine going into the ski business with Skoki, setting up Skoki lodge for business [with a detailed description of interior], the first ski party, the ski visit of Russel Robb Jr. and group, the death of Edwin Noble, daily life in Banff, people in Concord, and meeting and working with various locals and Skoki guests [including Tex Woods and his daughter Ruth Woods, Vic Kutschera, Norman Knight, Cyril Paris, Ike Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin, Rupe Edwards, Bill Niche, Waddy [Wattie?] Potts, Kingman ski party, Ulysses LaCasse, Bill Oliver, Russel Robb Jr., Charlie Pierson, and Faith Donaldson] and going to see Noel Odell speak about Everest.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. It appears that one letter is unfinished or has missing pages.
Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. 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. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
Image of the ski hut at Skoki Lodge in winter with an unidentifed figure out front and a pair of skis and ski poles stuck in the snow in the foreground - "Skoki, Lake Louise, Canada [/] 'Ski Hut'" written on the back in pencil by Peter Whyte
Image of the ski hut at Skoki Lodge in winter with an unidentifed figure out front and a pair of skis and ski poles stuck in the snow in the foreground - "Skoki, Lake Louise, Canada [/] 'Ski Hut'" written on the back in pencil by Peter Whyte