File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brews…
1.3 cm of textual records (82 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brewster, Jim Brewster, Guy Davenport, Sid Graves, Sid Brewster, Mary Vaux Walcott, Jimmy Simpson, Byron Harmon, Fern Brewster, Wayne Palmer, Fred McCauley, Mrs. Brett, Julia Raymond, Pearl Moore, Edmee Moore, Philip Moore, J.E.H. MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Link, Mr. and Mrs. Painter, George Brewster, Jessie McLean, Buddy van Dyke, Dorothy Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, Fred Arbrister, Neil Begg, Rudolph Aemner,] painting outdoors, people in Concord, meeting Noel Odell of the 1924 Everest Expedition, a fire at a tea house in town, plans for building their home [including a sketch of the lots along Bow River], visiting Castle Mountain Camp and Kicking Horse Tea House, description of Skoki Lodge building plans [with Cliff White, Cyril Paris, and Ike Mills], and builders Earl Spencer and Spud White, and painting in Morley [Mrs. Twoyoungmen, John Simian or Black Buffalo, Jonas Richson [?], Dan Wildman and other illegible names], the climb to Abbot Pass, Lake Oesa, and Lake O'Hara Camp.
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note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive.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.
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 Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Peter Whyte having a picnic at Opabin Lake - "Opabin Lunch 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Peter Whyte having a picnic at Opabin Lake - "Opabin Lunch 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of J.E.H. MacDonald sitting on some rocks under a small black umbrella painting with mountains in the background - "MacDonald 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of J.E.H. MacDonald sitting on some rocks under a small black umbrella painting with mountains in the background - "MacDonald 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Rudolf Aemmer, Neil Begg [an employee at Lake O'Hara Lodge], Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte holding walking sticks and with rope tied around their waists in Abbot Pass - 20 September 1930 [photo taken by George K.K. Link]
Image of Rudolf Aemmer, Neil Begg [an employee at Lake O'Hara Lodge], Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte holding walking sticks and with rope tied around their waists in Abbot Pass - 20 September 1930 [photo taken by George K.K. Link]
Image of Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte sitting on a grazzy slope - Peter has his head down looking at something in his lap, possibly a sketch - "Lunch at Opabin Pete [illegible] 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte sitting on a grazzy slope - Peter has his head down looking at something in his lap, possibly a sketch - "Lunch at Opabin Pete [illegible] 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of the Lake O'Hara valley also with Mary Lake at bottom and mountain range in distance - "from [illegible] between Shafer & Opabin bench 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of the Lake O'Hara valley also with Mary Lake at bottom and mountain range in distance - "from [illegible] between Shafer & Opabin bench 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Adeline Link[?] wearing a hat, jacket, and tie leaning agains a rock with a backpack at her feet - "Yoho Valley [illegible] 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Adeline Link[?] wearing a hat, jacket, and tie leaning agains a rock with a backpack at her feet - "Yoho Valley [illegible] 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of four people [most likely: Peter Whyte, Catharine Whyte, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Adeline Link] sitting in or standing by rowboats on the shore of a lake with mountains in the distance - "[illegible] from Opabin 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of four people [most likely: Peter Whyte, Catharine Whyte, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Adeline Link] sitting in or standing by rowboats on the shore of a lake with mountains in the distance - "[illegible] from Opabin 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Nancy Ear [wife of Peter Ear] wearing a headdress and beaded chest piece over a checkered dress - "Mrs Peter Ear 1930" written in blue ink along the top
Image of Nancy Ear [wife of Peter Ear] wearing a headdress and beaded chest piece over a checkered dress - "Mrs Peter Ear 1930" written in blue ink along the top
Image of Catharine Whyte wearing ski clothes stands on the step of a large home in Concord Massachusetts. Ski outfit is by Oscar Hambro, a Norwegian ski clothing designer, Boston, Mass.
Image of Catharine Whyte wearing ski clothes stands on the step of a large home in Concord Massachusetts. Ski outfit is by Oscar Hambro, a Norwegian ski clothing designer, Boston, Mass.