File consists of one certificate created by Woodworth Campbell and given to Norman Luxton in 1938 to celebrate his arrival in Australia during his expedition aboard the Tilikum dugout canoe in 1901.
0.1 cm of textual records (1 certificate : 38 x 25 cm)
Scope & Content
File consists of one certificate created by Woodworth Campbell and given to Norman Luxton in 1938 to celebrate his arrival in Australia during his expedition aboard the Tilikum dugout canoe in 1901.
Material Details
Certificate has one blue ribbon and one red ribbon attached to bottom left and right corners, respectively
File consists of one b&w poster advertising Norman Luxton's taxidermy products sold at the Sign of the Goat curio store in Banff. Poster has small monthly 1906 calendar attached at bottom.
File consists of one b&w poster advertising Norman Luxton's taxidermy products sold at the Sign of the Goat curio store in Banff. Poster has small monthly 1906 calendar attached at bottom.
Material Details
Poster has metal [brass?] covers on top and bottom edges of poster, and metal ring attached to upper back of poster [for hanging on wall?]
File consists of one notebook with notes pertaining to a 1907 interview with Michel Pablo [owner of the herd involved in the buffalo round-up of 1907-1912]. Notebook also contains an envelope attached to the inside front cover with additional notes and small illustration of a bull[?] head, and two …
File consists of one notebook with notes pertaining to a 1907 interview with Michel Pablo [owner of the herd involved in the buffalo round-up of 1907-1912]. Notebook also contains an envelope attached to the inside front cover with additional notes and small illustration of a bull[?] head, and two diagrams at the back of the notebook depicting dimensions of a large cow .
Notes
Item is believed to be annotated by Norman Luxton.
File consists of one print photograph and two duplicate transparency slides depicting the headstone of Norman and Georgina Luxton (and later Eleanor Luxton), 1966.
1 photograph : col. print ; 12.5 x 9 cm -- 2 col. transparency slides, 35 mm
Scope & Content
File consists of one print photograph and two duplicate transparency slides depicting the headstone of Norman and Georgina Luxton (and later Eleanor Luxton), 1966.
Sub-series consists of business and personal letters, written mainly to Norman Luxton by family, friends, acquaintances and business contacts. First portion, 1900-1902, 12 cm, consists of letters written to Luxton by family, friends, acquaintances and business contacts before, during and after Til…
Sub-series consists of business and personal letters, written mainly to Norman Luxton by family, friends, acquaintances and business contacts. First portion, 1900-1902, 12 cm, consists of letters written to Luxton by family, friends, acquaintances and business contacts before, during and after Tilikum voyage. Includes letters of news and concern from Luxton's parents, siblings and family friends; letters from individuals met during preparations in British Columbia and post-voyage stay at Sydney and Port Manly, Australia; letter from Norman Luxton to George Perry in Vancouver, Canada, describing the voyage, November 1901; and a sample of envelopes, 1901-1902.
FILES #1-359 ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. See Scope Note 2B for file number matched to the date
LETTERS FROM: A-Al
A. and M. Hurtig Furs 1935
A. C. Baker Registered 1952-1956, 1958, 1959 a.k.a.: A. C. Baker Company Limited
A. J. Williamson 1942 a.k.a. "A. J. Williamson and Son"
Abbott, Clifton 1946, 1947
Abbott, Margaret L. 1953
Abercrombie, Mabel 1953
Abraham, (Mrs) Silas 1930
Abraham, Silas 1930, 1950
Acheson, Barclay 1952
Acheson, Thomas S. 1952
[Ackie?] 1941
Acme Glass Cement Company 1937
Acme Printing Company 1946, 1947
Acousticon Dictagraph Company of Canada
Limited 1948
Acousticon International 1946, 1947
[?], Ada 1955
Adam, Dinnit 1939
Adams, A. C. L. A. 1927
Adams, Cedric 1950
Adams, E. D. 1908
Adams, F. C. 1935
Adams, Fred 1905, 1908
Adams, H. J. 1907
Adams, (Mrs) C. R. 1951
Adams, Norman E. 1960
Adams Radio Parlors 1943
Adams, S. A. 1919
Adamson, J. G. 1912
Addison, William (Billy) 1939, 1940, 1942-1947
Administration and Trust Company 1935
Adolf Hujer Commercial and Export Company 1949
Adolph, Emily 1940
Aeulut, Bob 1922
Agnew, J. E. 1931
[?], Aida 1938
[---aig?], Guy 1949
Airth, Andy 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954
Airth, Elsie 1954-1958
Aitkens, Harry A. 1942, 1943 a.k.a. "Aitkens, Harry"
Aitkens, Jo Aitkens, Harry 1941
Aitkens, Jo 1946, 1949, 1955 a.k.a. "Aitkens, Joey"
Alaska Furriers 1932
Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Reunion 1932
Alaskan Yukon Club 1941
Albee, Fred H. 1915
Albert Britnell Book Shop 1942
Alberta. Board of Industrial Relations 1948
Alberta. Bureau of Statistics 1960
Alberta. Canadian Vocational Training 1946
Alberta Clay Products Company Limited 1939
Alberta. Department of Agriculture 1938-1941
Alberta. Department of Economic Affairs, Cultural Activities Branch 1957
Alberta. Department of Industries and Labour, Bureau of Statistics 1952, 1954-1956
Alberta. Department of Industries and Labour, Bureau of Statistics 1957
Alberta. Department of Lands and Forests 1951, 1953, 1954. 1957, 1958
Alberta. Department of Lands and Mines 1942,1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950
Alberta. Department of Provincial Secretary, Motor Vehicles Branch 1950
Alberta. Department of Public Health, Division of Cancer Services 1959
Alberta. Department of Public Works 1948
Alberta. Deputy Provincial Secretary, Theatres Branch 1937
Alberta Directory Enterprises Company Limited 1953
Alberta Field Trials Club 1936-1940, 1942
Alberta Fish and Game Association 1939, 1942
Alberta Furniture Company Limited 1940, 1941,1943
Alberta. Game Commissioner, Edmonton 1935, 1936
Alberta Government Telephones 1951, 1955, 1960
Alberta. Highway Traffic Board 1950
Alberta Historical Review 1962
Alberta Job Press Limited 1942
Alberta. Judicial Offices 1941
Alberta Linseed Oil Company Limited 1957
Alberta Live Stock Associations 1941
Alberta Locker Service 1949
Alberta Motor Association 1932-1943, 1948-1951, 1953, 1954
Alberta. National War Finance Committee 1943, 1945
Alberta. Office of the Lieutenant Governor 1955
Alberta. Provincial Mental Hospital, Ponoka 1939
Alberta Provincial Trapshooting Association 1938
Alberta. Public Administrator 1948
Alberta. Public Trustee 1956, 1960
Alberta Raw Fur Merchants Association 1944, 1945
Alberta. Southern Alberta Land Registration District 1945
Alberta Stock Yards Company Limited 1954
Alberta. Treasury Department 1938, 1944
Alberta Tuberculosis Association 1952, 1955
Alberta Wood Products 1949
Alberta. Workmen's Compensation Board 1952, 1953
Alberta. Workmen's Compensation Board 1953
The Albertan 1949, 1951
Alcock Downing and Wright Limited 1946, 1947
Aldhelm-White, E. 1961
Aldrich, A. H. 1910
Alexander, Antasia 1958
Alexander, F. H. 1908, 1909
Alexander, Gaby G. 1907
Alexander, J. A. R. 1910
Alexander, (Mrs) James 1954, 1955, 1960
Alexander, R. 1915
Alexander, Virginia 1955
Alexander, W. 1928, 1937, 1941
Alexo Coal Company Limited 1933, 1935, 1937, 1940
Alfred Cloutier Limited 1952
[?], Alice 1946, 1947
Alkim, (Mrs) Michael 1956
All Canada Insurance Federation 1951
Allan, Edwin H. 1920
Allan, Edwin (Sandy) 1932
Allan, H. W. 1907, 1908
Allan, John A. (J. A.) 1929, 1930, 1933
Allan, Mabel 1920
Allan, Norman 1946
Allan, S. 1929
Allan, Thorburn 1914, 1915
Allard, Charles 1912
Allen, Annie 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1925
Allen, Bill 1946
Allen, F. B. 1952
Allen, George H. 1914
Allen, H. Hershall 1943
Allen, H. J. 1915
Allen, J. D. 1905, 1906
Allen, John A. 1926
Allen-Kirkpatrick, Mignon 1940, 1942
Allen, M. 1916
Allen, M. E. 1955
Allen, Newton (Shorty) 1907
Allen, Norman 1946
Allen, W. B. 1914
Allied Display Company 1953, 1954, 1955
Allin, Nellie 1957
Allison, Harry 1942, 1948, 1949
Allison, Tannis 1942
Allister, J. G. M. 1909
Alloway, Robert 1951, 1952
Allport, John 1944
Alpine, L. G. 1946
Alpine, Lucy 1949
Alpine, (Mrs) Noah 1949, 1950, 1951
Alpine, N. 1948
Alsco Limited 1957
Alton, H. Ed. 1925
Alton, T. 1929
Norman Luxton correspondence files:
LUX / 1 / A - 1 to 12 1900 – 1902
LUX / 1 / A - 13 to 24 1903 – May 1907
LUX / 1 / A - 25 to 38 June 1907 – January 1908
LUX / 1 / A - 39 to 51 February – September 1908
LUX / 1 / A - 52 to 62 October 1908 – August 1909
LUX / 1 / A - 63 to 77 September 1909 – 1910
LUX / 1 / A - 78 to 89 1911 – June 1912
LUX / 1 / A - 90 to 100 July 1912 – August 1913
LUX / 1 / A - 101 to 111 September 1913 - 1914
LUX / 1 / A - 112 to 125 1915 - 1916
LUX / 1 / A - 126 to 140 1917 – June 1922
LUX / 1 / A - 141 to 153 July 1922 – 1926
LUX / 1 / A - 154 to 161 1927 – May 1928
LUX / 1 / A - 162 to 169 June - December 1928
LUX / 1 / A - 170 to 177 1929
LUX / 1 / A - 178 to 184 January 1930 – June 1931
LUX / 1 / A - 185 to 191 July 1931 – August 1932
LUX / 1 / A - 192 to 199 September 1932 – December 1933
LUX / 1 / A - 200 to 208 January 1934 – May 1935
LUX / 1 / A - 209 to 216 June 1935 – August 1936
LUX / 1 / A - 217 to 224 September 1936 – December 1937
LUX / 1 / A - 225 to 232 January 1938 – April 1939
LUX / 1 / A - 233 to 240 May 1939 – August 1940
LUX / 1 / A - 241 to 248 September 1940 – December 1941
LUX / 1 / A - 249 to 255 January 1942 – June 1943
LUX / 1 / A - 256 to 261 July 1943 – September 1944
LUX / 1 / A - 262 to 268 October 1944 – February 1946
LUX / 1 / A - 269 to 275 March 1946 – April 1947
LUX / 1 / A - 276 to 283 May 1947 – June 1948
LUX / 1 / A - 284 to 290 July 1948 – August 1949
LUX / 1 / A - 291 to 297 September 1949 – August 1950
LUX / 1 / A - 298 to 304 September 1950 – December 1951
LUX / 1 / A - 305 to 310 1952
LUX / 1 / A - 311 to 316 1953
LUX / 1 / A - 317 to 322 1954
LUX / 1 / A - 323 to 328 1955
LUX / 1 / A - 329 to 334 1956
LUX / 1 / A - 335 to 340 1957
LUX / 1 / A - 341 to 349 1958 – June 1959
LUX / 1 / A - 350 to 361 July 1959 - 1962
File consists of black and white photograph negatives depicting coastal British Columbia, May - July 1901, and the Tilikum voyage, July - November 1901.
Content includes photographs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia including unidentified sailors, Indigenous people, buildings, lighthouses [Cape…
Date Range
1900-1901
Reference Code
LUX / I / B1 / 12 / a / NG-1 to NG-127
LUX / I / B1 / 12/ b / NG-1 to NG-17 and NG-20 to NG-49
LUX / I / B1 / 12/ b / NA-18 to NA-19
176 photographs : 172 gelatin dry plate negatives ; 10.2 x 12.7 cm : 2 cellulose nitrate negatives ; 10 x 7 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of black and white photograph negatives depicting coastal British Columbia, May - July 1901, and the Tilikum voyage, July - November 1901.
Content includes photographs of Vancouver Island, British Columbia including unidentified sailors, Indigenous people, buildings, lighthouses [Cape Beale], canoes, sealing schooner, ships, boats, landscapes, and shorelines. Associated prints identify individuals as being Nootka [Nuu-chah-nulth], some taken in Port Alberni. File contains photographs of human skulls, cave burial, and potentially residential schools - access is restricted to select photographs.
Content includes Tilikum voyage to Pacific Islands, with possible locations depicted including Cook Islands, Manihiki and Penhryn, Somoa, Fiji, and Tahiti. Photographs depict exterior and interior views of the Tilikum, unidentified Indigenous people, missionaries, sailors [in associated prints identified as Captain Winchester, Captain Dexter, Captain P'au on "Children of Tahiti" boat, and H.M.S. Torch officers], pearl boats, and scuba. Some photographs depict Norman Luxton and John Voss.
Notes
Description of negatives and contents found in binder of photocopied photographs, labelled on spine II.B.1.A / 7, but labelled on first page LUX / I / B1 / 7
Access to negatives is by application due to fragile condition. (a) NG-4,5,6 depict human skulls, NG-13,14,15 possibly depict Port Alberni's residential school, NG-32 depicts a burial. These have been digitized but are not available online.
Language
English
Conservation
Most glass negatives have silver mirroring, accretions, flaking, and loss of the glass support. Some show signs of previous mould exposure. Prior poor quality storage and processing has degraded the quality, these are also apparent in the associated prints. Several glass negatives were broken. Two nitrate film show yellowing of the support.
Related Material
LUX / I / B1 / 12 contains prints from some negatives
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Content Details
Negatives are arranged in two groups: a. Negatives for prints in "10,000 Miles in the Canoe Tilikum, 127 items, includes images identical or very similar to those in the printed account; b. Other negatives, 49 items
File consists of portraits and candid photographs of Norman Luxton, alone or with family members, friends, acquaintances or dogs. Includes comic portraits, ca.1905, and joint x-ray negatives, ca.1916. File also includes Norman Luxton attestation paper military service exemption, 1917
ca.130 photographs (ca.112 prints, 18 negatives). -- 1 textual record
Scope & Content
File consists of portraits and candid photographs of Norman Luxton, alone or with family members, friends, acquaintances or dogs. Includes comic portraits, ca.1905, and joint x-ray negatives, ca.1916. File also includes Norman Luxton attestation paper military service exemption, 1917
File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 2, 1961 to February 15, 1962; Edith passed away February 18, 1962. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, hockey and football games, the C…
2.6 cm of textual records (ca. 185 pages ; 21.9 x 27.8 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 2, 1961 to February 15, 1962; Edith passed away February 18, 1962. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, hockey and football games, the Calgary Stampede, weather, and the 1962 space launch. Letters are mostly hand-written, some typed. Also includes postcards and notecards.
M36 / 148 - 114 to 120 are not fully dated - unsure of order within other 1961 letters. All are postcards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
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.
M36 / 148 - 29 is missing its second half, indicated by Catharine to be a picture of Bow Lake.
File consists of 82 negative photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton's trip across the Pacific Ocean aboard the Tilikum in 1901. Photographs were collected by Eleanor Luxton for use in her book, Luxton's Pacific Crossing. Includes one portrait of Norman Luxton in Australia, and views of Samoa.
82 photographs : b&w negatives ; 14 x 10 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 82 negative photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton's trip across the Pacific Ocean aboard the Tilikum in 1901. Photographs were collected by Eleanor Luxton for use in her book, Luxton's Pacific Crossing. Includes one portrait of Norman Luxton in Australia, and views of Samoa.
File consists of professional portraits and photographs of Eleanor Luxton as a baby and child. Includes photographs of Eleanor being held by her parents, Norman and Georgina Luxton.
Photographs attributed to Byron Harmon and G. & W. Fear
Date Range
[1909-1915]
Physical Description
22 photographs : b&w prints ; 13.5 x 22.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of professional portraits and photographs of Eleanor Luxton as a baby and child. Includes photographs of Eleanor being held by her parents, Norman and Georgina Luxton.
Notes
Some photographs in file are duplicates of photographs in album LUX / II / C / PD - 3
File consists of 12 portrait photographs depicting Norman Luxton's mother, his siblings and their immediate family. Includes portraits of George Luxton (Norman's brother), George's wife, Ada (Livingston) Luxton, and their daughter, Patricia Luxton; Harold Malloch Luxton (Norman's youngest brother);…
Some photographs produced by: Rembrandt Bros. (Minneapolis), Golliug Hesse (Minneapolis), and Hubner (Minneapolis)
Date Range
[1900-1920]
1901
Physical Description
12 photographs : b&w prints ; 19.5 x 26.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 12 portrait photographs depicting Norman Luxton's mother, his siblings and their immediate family. Includes portraits of George Luxton (Norman's brother), George's wife, Ada (Livingston) Luxton, and their daughter, Patricia Luxton; Harold Malloch Luxton (Norman's youngest brother); and Sarah Jane (Edwards) Luxton (Norman's mother).
File consists of portraits and other photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton, his extended relatives and friends. Name individuals include: Eleanor and Georgina Luxton; George, Ada and Patricia Luxton (Norman's brother, sister-in-law and niece); Louis Luxton, Harry Addison Luxton and Harold Malloch…
Some photographs produced by: Algot Anderson (St Paul), Byron Harmon (Banff), Nelson Photo Studios (St Paul), Ambassador Atelier (St Paul), Zintsmaster (Minneapolis), Frank Cooper (London, Ontario), Steele and Co [Coy?] (Winnipeg), A.H. Opsahl (Minneapolis), Rembrandt Grand (St Paul), Geo. E. Luxton (Minneaplos Times), Reynolds Studio (Minneapolis), Perkins, J. Douglas Eckhert (St Paul), Calgary Photo Supply Co, Pringle & Booth (Toronto), Glenbow Foundation, J [Rosrit?] Calgary Herald Photographer, Robert Lefroy
Date Range
1886
[1890-1900]
1894
1899
[ca.1900]
1904
1906-1907
1920-1921
[1920-1930]
1930
1937
1939-1940
1950
[1950-1960]
1962
Physical Description
63 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 25 x 20.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of portraits and other photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton, his extended relatives and friends. Name individuals include: Eleanor and Georgina Luxton; George, Ada and Patricia Luxton (Norman's brother, sister-in-law and niece); Louis Luxton, Harry Addison Luxton and Harold Malloch Luxton (Norman's brothers); Mary Hosking Groeber (Norman's niece); Olive Luxton Hosking (Norman's sister), her husband Edgar and her daughter Dorothy; and Eleanor "Nellie" Luxton Foster (Norman's sister).
Notes
Some photographs are annotated.
PA-15 is annotated at Emerald Lake, this is now known as Lake Louise
File consists of 3 glass negative photographs collected by George Luxton, ca.1905-1915. Photographs pertain to taxidermy animal displays owned by Norman Luxton, possibly from the Sign of the Goat curio store in Banff.
File consists of 3 glass negative photographs collected by George Luxton, ca.1905-1915. Photographs pertain to taxidermy animal displays owned by Norman Luxton, possibly from the Sign of the Goat curio store in Banff.
Notes
Photographs are individually titled:
LUX/III/C1/C/NG-1 : "NKL - Small Animals"
LUX/III/C1/C/NG-2 : "NKL - Antelope + Deer"
LUX/III/C1/C/NG-3 : "Eagle"
NG-3 includes housing, that is not original to the glass negative
File consists of 34 photographs pertaining to extended relatives of the McDougall and Ross families which were taken post-1940. Includes individual portraits of a man [possibly George Ross, 1941] and an unidentified young girl (1945). FIle also includes group photographs depicting Eleanor, Georgina…
34 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 18.5 x 20 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 34 photographs pertaining to extended relatives of the McDougall and Ross families which were taken post-1940. Includes individual portraits of a man [possibly George Ross, 1941] and an unidentified young girl (1945). FIle also includes group photographs depicting Eleanor, Georgina (McDougall) and Norman Luxton; Annie (McKenzie Hall) McDougall; Norah Fortune (granddaughter of Annie McDougall's cousin, Alexander Begg), with her husband Arthur and son Art; David Arthur McDougall; and several members of the May family.
Notes
Some individuals in photographs are not identified
File consists of 37 photographs depicting friends and extended members of the Luxton family. Includes professional portraits, postcard prints and candid photographs. Individuals include members of the Nolan and Boswell families, Mary Watson, Will Kidner, John and Ada Wilson, Sam Kellock, W.W. Kemp,…
37 photographs : b&w prints ; 15 x 21 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 37 photographs depicting friends and extended members of the Luxton family. Includes professional portraits, postcard prints and candid photographs. Individuals include members of the Nolan and Boswell families, Mary Watson, Will Kidner, John and Ada Wilson, Sam Kellock, W.W. Kemp, Arnold and Charles Douglas, Sam Howe, and George and Bob Findlay. Items LUX/III/C3/PA-192 to 204 pertain to trips to Marble Canyon and Sibbald Ranch with Norman Luxton and members of the Sibbald and Fisher families [ca.1904].
File consists of one glass negative photograph hunting trophy displays owned by Norman Luxton, possibly from the Sign of the Goat curio store in Banff.
Photograph produced by Norman Luxton or George Luxton
Date Range
[ca.1905-1915]
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w glass negative
Scope & Content
File consists of one glass negative photograph hunting trophy displays owned by Norman Luxton, possibly from the Sign of the Goat curio store in Banff.
Notes
Physical dimensions of glass negative could not be measured, as item is broken into several pieces
File consists of 2 photograph prints pertaining to David Hardisty McDougall and his wife Annie's 50th wedding anniversary party in 1958, which was held at their ranch near Cochrane, Alberta; and the wedding of Virginia and George Dutchik.
File consists of 2 photograph prints pertaining to David Hardisty McDougall and his wife Annie's 50th wedding anniversary party in 1958, which was held at their ranch near Cochrane, Alberta; and the wedding of Virginia and George Dutchik.
File consists of 35 photographs sent to Eleanor Luxton by various friends and family between 1957 and 1990. Includes family photographs, child portraits, interior views of the Luxton family home, and a photograph of Norman Luxton posing with his brothers Louis and George Luxton and two of Norman's …
35 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 25.5 x 17.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 35 photographs sent to Eleanor Luxton by various friends and family between 1957 and 1990. Includes family photographs, child portraits, interior views of the Luxton family home, and a photograph of Norman Luxton posing with his brothers Louis and George Luxton and two of Norman's dogs.
Notes
Some photographs in file are accompanied by scanned copies of original letters sent to Eleanor Luxton with photographs.