File pertains to 172 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Pertains to rodeo events; views from around Glacier National Park, U.S.A.; A.C.C. Goodsirs summer camp, 1939; Prince of Wales Hotel; friends and associates including Polly Prescott, Kay [Prescott], Lillian Gest, Eric…
File pertains to 172 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Pertains to rodeo events; views from around Glacier National Park, U.S.A.; A.C.C. Goodsirs summer camp, 1939; Prince of Wales Hotel; friends and associates including Polly Prescott, Kay [Prescott], Lillian Gest, Eric Brooks, Phyllis Munday, John Wheeler, the Kingmans, Walter and Paula Bloch-Hiller, Sig[?], B.H.G., Andrew Kramer, Ernest [Feuz], and Rudolph [Aemmer?].
Titles:
Reel 3 1939?
8 - Horses on road near [illegible]
9 - Road near St. Mary's w. clouds
16 - [Rodeo bucking]
17 - [Rodeo bucking]
18 - Rodeo people on fence
19 - [Rodeo] fence and chutes
20 - [Rodeo fence and chutes]
21 - [Rodeo fence and chutes]
Reel 4
2 - Calf-roping
3 - Two med. Lake fr. Mt. Henry
7 - Meadow of flowers
8 - Shooting star [flower]
9 - Rabbit
10 - Fishermen by bridge
11 - Lower Two Med. Lake
12 - Pompeely's [?] Pillar?
15 - [Beargrass] (best)
16 - Queen cup
17 - [Queen cup]
19 - BH.G. - Trick Falls trail
Reel 5 1939?
1 - Trick Falls best
2 - [Trick Falls] more to left
3 - BH.G. arm on stump
4 - BH.G. on bridge - Trick Falls trail
5 - Old tree above Two Med.
7 - Two med Lake fr. Astor Creek shoulder
8 - Mary [?] glacier Lake from our balcony - South [?]
9 - Looking across lake [from our balcony] west
10 - Lake Josephine and wharf w. boats
11 - Same without Mt. [illegible]
12 - Trail to Grinnell Gl.
13 - Grinnell Lake
14 - Grinnell Lake
15 - Ptarmigan Lake - Polly and Kay
16 - [Ptarmigan Lake] fr. trail to tunnel
17 - At [Ptarmigan Lake] tunnel - Polly, Kay, L.G. [Lillian Gest]
18 - [At Ptarmigan Lake tunnel] CCC and Polly
Reel 6
1. A[?] Pass and Lake Helen
2. Crossley Lake and tents
3. [Crossley Lake] no tents
4. Towards Indian Pass
6. Towards Ahew[?] Pass - Lake
7. Lake Elizabeth (?) Kay and Polly
8. Polly wading
9. [Polly wading]
10. [Polly wading]
11. Kay [wading]
12. [Kay wading]
13. [Kay wading] w. foot up
14. [Kay wading] near shore
15. Lake Helen - reflections - down valley
16. Mt. and snow bank Ahew[?] Pass
17. At hell on Swift current pass - P. and K.
18. Polly on trail to marry[?] from pass
Reel 7 1939
1. People under eating fly
2. Ms. Munday and Kingmans
3. Boys pealing potatoes
4. N. Tower w. clouds
5. Aletta[?] at tent
6. Laundry at lady's quarters
7. Sauna
8. Sox and boots near tent
9. Tent and stream
10. Survey station peak - "Black and white"
11. Party leaving camp
12. Same - Ennis party before leaving
13. Head of valley fr. rocky flats
15. Hanbury fr. rocky flats
16. Chancellor in clouds
17. N. Tower and clouds
18. Mt. Hanbury[?]
19. N. Tower
20. Mt. Hanbury[?] fr. nearer camp
Reel 8 1939 Camp ACC
1. Goodsir N. Tower at sunset
2. Party on alplands[?] en route to Vaux
3. Chancellor from [alplands[?] en route to Vaux]
4. N. Tower and G. from same
5. Party on rocks - Roger getting out rope
6. Chancellor - twin peaks appear
7. Up the route to High Camp
9. Party standing on Vaux Glacier
10. High Camp - Roger in distance
12. Party on glacier
13. [Party on glacier] closer - diff background
14. [Party on glacier] on ice axes
15. Lunch on top
16. Chancellor fr. Vaux
17. Church Service
18. [Church Service] sun out
19. N. Tower at sunset
20. N. Tower [at sunset]
Reel 9
1. Aylards [?] and Miss Gullion
2. Mr. Laird and Miss Burns
3. Eric Brooks
4. Grahams and party
5. [Grahams and party]
6. [Grahams and party]
7. Peckham, Helen Yellmer [?] and John Wheeler
8. Packers and horse
9. Mrs. Forbes, Peckham, Kingman
10. Woodie Kingman
11. Walter Bloch-Hillen and Miss Gullion
12. Woodie Kingman - close up
13. Andrew Kiamer
14. Packer and horse
15. Group watching packing
16. ? , Ernest, Rudolph
17. Ernest and clincher on trail by tent
18. Major Tweedy - hand out
19. [Major Tweedy] close-up of same
20. Paula Bloch-Hillen
Reel 10
1. Head of Ice RIver valley
2. Party on trail to zinc Creek camp
3. Mt Chancellor
4. [Mt Chancellor] with cloud
5. [Mt Chancellor] and Kay on trail
6. S. Tower Goodsir fr. zinc Creek
7. N. [Tower Goodsir fr. sinc Creek]
8. Chancellor fr. zinc Creek trail w. Polly
9. Tent and figure - Zinc Creek camp
10. S. Tower fr. Zinc Col.
11. Chancellor [fr. Zinc Col.]
12. Zinc Mt.
13. Goodsirs from Martius Ridge
14. Rex's rope on [Martius Ridge]
15. Same and Martius Peak
16. View probably towards wash[illegible]
17. Andrew on summit
18. Goodsirs again
19. Rex;s rope
20. Eric on horseback
Reel 11
1. Hans Fuhrer
2. Taking down tent
4. Eating fly supports
5. Pile of duffle
6. Tweedy and one of men taking down fly
7. Rangers cabin and guides
8. Kay on bridge over Lodalite Creek
9. Car on road, Yoho in distance
10. Same further to right - less of car
11. Mt. Hector from road
12. Polly and Katie
13. Mt Chephron and road
14. Road working up Mistaya bel. Patterson[?]
15. Mt Weed from lower Mistaya valley
16. Polly Kay Phyl - up Mistaya valley to Chephron
18. Waterfowl lake and up Mistaya valley
19. Same - but more to left
20. Mt. [illegible] ?
Reel 12
1. Peyto Lookout - view to north
2. Katie w. movie camera; Peyto lookout
3. Up Peyto glacier to Mt. Rhonda (?)
4. Banff and Mt. Cascade
5. Gopher and lunch box gimmell[?] gl.
7. Jim Whilt
8. Jim and party at lunch place - gimmell gl.
9. Tickle grass at Sherbourne Lake
10. [Tickle grass at Sherbourne Lake]
11. Sherbourne Lake and view up valley
12. Flowers along road to many[?]
13. Annette, Sam and rig
14. [Annette, Sam and rig]
15. Chief Mt. and road
16. Brown eyed Susan
17. Close up [Brown eyed Susan]
19. Mother at Price of Wales
Reel 13
1. Prince of Wales Hotel
2. Waterton Lake, Mt. Cleveland in dist.
4. [Waterton Lake] village fr. Prince of Wales
5. [Waterton Lake village fr. Prince of Wales]
6. Fawn by tree
7. Fawn in bush
8. Chief Mt. and tiny lake
9. Appekunny Falls
10. [Appekunny Falls] lower part
11. Falls aobve Appenkunny
12. Flower decked falls ab. Appenkunny
13. Flowers by falls
14. Same - nearer
15. Fireweed by stream
16. Meadow of flowers by stream
17. Monkey flowers
19. Coffee pot, fire, cup and rucksask
Notes
Titles on box lid: Glacier before camp; Camp; Camp - trip back; Glacier after camp.
Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see notebook SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1).
File pertains to 173 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in carboard sleeves. Pertain to Waterton Lakes National Park region; Grandview Ranch; Frank Slide; Grand Coulee Dam; Mason City; Mount Rainer; Crater Lake; Mount Hood; fish hatchery; Columbia River area; [Bonneville?] Dam and salmon ladde…
File pertains to 173 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in carboard sleeves. Pertain to Waterton Lakes National Park region; Grandview Ranch; Frank Slide; Grand Coulee Dam; Mason City; Mount Rainer; Crater Lake; Mount Hood; fish hatchery; Columbia River area; [Bonneville?] Dam and salmon ladders; friends and associates, including B.H.G., Charlie Hunter and Caroline [Hinman?]. -- See notebook SL I for more information (M67/51).
Notes
Titles on box lid: Glacier Park; After camp; Auto trip; Auto trip.
Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see notebook SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1).
Titles:
Reel 14
1. Appekunny Lake and goldenrod
2. Boots, glasses, ice ax
3. Many gl. Hotel from Mt. Altyn
4. [Many gl. Hotel from Mt. Altyn]
5. Charley's - house and chicken houses
6. The pigs - five little ones and mother
7. Charley's house - front view
8. Barn - grandview Ranch
9. Charley's house - front view
11. Wheat fields and Charley on horseback
12. Farm houses and cow
13. Charley riding in
14. Caroline weeding garden
15. St. Mary's Lake fron Sun Chalet
16. BH.G. and "Sig" - porch at Sun Chalet
17. Going-to-the-Sun Mt.
18. Hills point and cottage fr. Sun Chalet
19. Chipmunk at Caroline's feet
20. [Chipmunk at Caroline's feet]
Reel 15
1. Logan Pass Highway w. of summit
2. Same - further view to left
3. Porch and flower boxes, Mac P. Hotel
4. St. Mary's lake
6. Same view fr. nearer edge of road
7. Cracker[?] Lake first view
8. [Cracker[?] Lake] fr. near end
9. Cracker Lake fr. side of Red Rock
10. Cracker Lake reflections
11. Caroline at lunch place - Cracker Lake
12. My foot
13. Cracker mine mines
14. Caroline is swimming
15. Red Rock fr. across lake
16. Down the stream fr. lake
18. Auto Road and Chief Mt.
19. Cameron Falls
Reel 16
1. Down valley to [blank] Lake
2. Charley and fire in bushes
3. Upper lakes and fishermen in dist.
4. Charley on upper trail
5. Waterton and lake from trail thru trees
6. Same without mt.
7. From Spray glacier
8. Party on Spray glacier
9. Party at lunch place - Spray gl.
10. Deer on lawn
12. Deer and tourists
13. Launch at wharf - Mac D. Lake
14. Mac D. Hotel - BH.G. on balcony
15. Close-up of deer
16. Town of Frank and rockslide
17. Train at site of Frank
18. Road through boulders of slide
19. Grand Coulee Dam - first view Same as 1714
Reel 17
1. Dam at night
2. Dam fr. below - Mason City side (E)
3. Dam fr. bridge below
4. Part of Coulee Dam and dam from bridge
5. Part of east side and dam [from bridge]
6. Gov't village and children on lawn
7. Dam fr. below [?] east side fr. [illegible]
8. Dam fr. below same as 7 - [illegible]
9. Dam [fr. below] sae as 7, less foreground
10. Dam fr. above taken at w. side viewpoint
11. Same from avobe the dam, on west side
12. Same - shows full dam and east side above dam
13. From w. side viewpoint - shows east side
14. Dam and villages from hill (same as first view)
15. Villages fr. hills on west side
16. From west side looking up Col. R.
17. Road down hill into grand Coulee
18. Coulee Dam villages fr. hill
19. Road into Grand Coulee
Reel 18
1. Lakes at foot of Dry Falls
2. Looking down Lower Coulee - lake[?]
3. Road - looking down lake in Lower Coulee
4. Looking up same lake of Lower Coulee
5. Mt. Rainier fr. our camp site
6. Outlying peaks - Mt Adams ?
7. [Outlying peaks] further to right
8. Slopes of Rainier - Gibralter[?] Rock
9. C.H. on glacier
10. L.S. [on glacier]
11. Mt Rainier with cloud
12. Clouds in valley - Mt. Hood ?
13. Outliers[?] and clouds in valley - further to left
14. Similar Mt. better than 12
15. Mt. Rainier fr. road around to west
16. C.H. on stone seat - fr. same place
17. Surf on rocks
18. Surf on rocks below Furistone[?]
19. [Surf on rocks below Furistone[?]]
20. Furistone[?] Cottage - C.H.
Reel 19
1. Rocks and surf at Sporting rocks
2. View further to right
3. [View further to right] again
4. Seal rocks
5. Bay above seal rock and parth to cave
6. Seal cave (best)
7. Seal cave
8. Double exposure - cave
9. Chipmunks at oregon caves w. children
11. Crater Lake from Summit Memorial
12. Crater lake and Wizard Is. [from Summit Memorial]
13. Same further to left [from Summit Memorial]
14. Lake, and still further to the left [from Summit Memorial]
15. Lake fr. terrace below hotel
16. Caroline on trail by tree
17. Lodge fr. across valley on trail up Mt.
18. Lake and Wizard Island thru trees
19. Trail up Mt.
20. Trail and lodge beyond
Reel 20
1. Crater Lake and phantom ship
2. Crater Lake and Wizard Is. thru trees
3. [Crater Lake and Wizard Is.] no trees
4. Caroline on seat
5. L.S. [on seat]
6. View over pummice (?) flats
7. Rim trail and lake
8. Bears at feeding grounds
9. Same nearer
10. Lake through trees - from trail detours to lake
11. [Lake through trees] C.H. on trail [detours to lake]
12. Lake [through trees] dark
13. Shore of Crater Lake - boats
15. Trees and figure walking around crate[?]
16. C.H. on crater [illegible] of Is. - trees and lake
17. Dead trees against sky
18. Trail in deep woods on Wizard Is.
19. Lake and shore of Wizard Island
20. C.H. in boat
Reel 21
1. Crater Lake through dark trees
3. Road around lake, and bluff beyond
4. Lake and reflection - morning we left
5. Wheat fields and Mt. Jefferson in dist.
6. Mt. Hood and Mount Winter
7. CH. at parapet of TImberline Lodge Mt Jeff. in dist.
8. Mt. Hood from Timberline Lodge
9. Timberline Lodge
10. Mt. Hood fr. Cloud Cap Inn
11. Distant view from same towards Adams and Rainier
12. Bonneville Dam - spillways
13. Part of dam - looking straight down
14. Bonneville Dam from above
15. [Bonneville Dam from] below
16. Power plant - building in process
17. Salmon ladders
18. Salmon
19. Salmon (better)
20. Lock - highest lift in world ?
Reel 22
1. View above lock - Bonneville Dam
2. Gov't town and baby Salmon waterway
5. Pool in fish hatchery and fish
6. Sturgeon in pool
9. Horsetail falls - dark
10. Down Columbia R. fr. Vista Point
11. Up [Columbia R. fr. Vista Point]
12. Falls where we lunched
13. Upper part Col. R. Highway
14. Down river at same point
15. Falls in river
16. Forest fire [illegible] at St. Mary's
17. [Forest fire [illegible] at St. Mary's]
18. Cape Myrtle at Merion
19. Merion - B.H. G. and cape Myrtle
20. Merion - B.H. G. that oh don't look
Image of Pearl Moore, Col. Phil Moore, Catharine Whyte, Carl Rungius, Peter Whyte, and John Murray Gibbon posed in a line in front of a hitching post with mountains in the background - their names and "at Ptarmigan Valley Sky Line Trail Hikers camp, 1939 [/] Photo: J.M. Wardle" written on the back …
Image of Pearl Moore, Col. Phil Moore, Catharine Whyte, Carl Rungius, Peter Whyte, and John Murray Gibbon posed in a line in front of a hitching post with mountains in the background - their names and "at Ptarmigan Valley Sky Line Trail Hikers camp, 1939 [/] Photo: J.M. Wardle" written on the back in pencil
Image of Peter Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, and Col. Phil Moore sitting and standing around a campire - their names and "at Ptarmigan Valley Sky Line Trail Hikers camp, 1939 [/] Photo: J.M. Wardle" written on the back in pencil
Image of Peter Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, and Col. Phil Moore sitting and standing around a campire - their names and "at Ptarmigan Valley Sky Line Trail Hikers camp, 1939 [/] Photo: J.M. Wardle" written on the back in pencil
File pertains to a photo album depicting the backcountry hiking trip of Jean MacDonald, Hazel Walker, Kath [Kathleen] Chapman, and Jean Knox Petrie to the Tonquin Valley, Jasper in early July, 1938.
1 album (ca. 32 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photo album depicting the backcountry hiking trip of Jean MacDonald, Hazel Walker, Kath [Kathleen] Chapman, and Jean Knox Petrie to the Tonquin Valley, Jasper in early July, 1938.
Image of three people on horseback in a snowy landscape with a mountain in the back ground - the lead person has two additional pack horses - written on the back is "The summit of Brewster Pass. Very bad weather, visibilty poor"
Image of three people on horseback in a snowy landscape with a mountain in the back ground - the lead person has two additional pack horses - written on the back is "The summit of Brewster Pass. Very bad weather, visibilty poor"
Image of Mount Assiniboine with snow-covered trees in foreground - written on the back is "Mt. Assiniboine showing the plume blowing along the East face. Altitude 11,870 ft. A similar effect happens on Mount Everest"
Image of Mount Assiniboine with snow-covered trees in foreground - written on the back is "Mt. Assiniboine showing the plume blowing along the East face. Altitude 11,870 ft. A similar effect happens on Mount Everest"
Image of Mount Assiniboine with a snow-covered tree in foreground - written on the back is "Mount Assiniboine Sept. 25th 1937 Taken early morning with a red filter"
Image of Mount Assiniboine with a snow-covered tree in foreground - written on the back is "Mount Assiniboine Sept. 25th 1937 Taken early morning with a red filter"
Image of Mount Assiniboine with a log cabin covered in snow in the foreground - written on the back is "Our cabin at Mt. Assiniboine. The camp is at an altitude of 7200 ft. Taken about 7.30 in the morning"
Image of Mount Assiniboine with a log cabin covered in snow in the foreground - written on the back is "Our cabin at Mt. Assiniboine. The camp is at an altitude of 7200 ft. Taken about 7.30 in the morning"
Album contains 50 b&w photographs (prints) with some photographs missing from their holders. Content pertains to trail ride through Kananaskis Ranch and Brewster Ranch between July and August 1936. Includes images of riders on horses, lunch stops, scenic views and camping areas from trips. Some por…
Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Nelson family (?)
Date Range
1936
Physical Description
1 photograph album : 50 prints; b&w
Scope & Content
Album contains 50 b&w photographs (prints) with some photographs missing from their holders. Content pertains to trail ride through Kananaskis Ranch and Brewster Ranch between July and August 1936. Includes images of riders on horses, lunch stops, scenic views and camping areas from trips. Some portraits and group shots of people from trip include George Vaux, John Murray Gibbon, Jeanne and George Hisler (?), also Carl Rungius (photo missing). Album also has 4 newspaper clippings attached inside pertaining to 1936 packing trip depicted in album, booklet on July 31-August 4, 1936 trip with annotated list of travellers and 2 tickets for the same trip signed by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson.
File pertains to 26 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to March 13, 1934. Topics include New Yea's Eve celebrations, going to the movies, spending time on the beach, painting/sketching [including experimenting with watercolour paints …
1.2 cm of textual records (88 pages ; 17 x 26.2 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 26 hand-written letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to March 13, 1934. Topics include New Yea's Eve celebrations, going to the movies, spending time on the beach, painting/sketching [including experimenting with watercolour paints and different kinds of paper], people and events in Concord and in Banff, descriptions of Honolulu and the local people [including dress, food, and boats], weather, watching US Navy ships and planes come in and out of Pearl Harbor, listening to the radio [mostly news and operas], sketching people on the beach, the other guests at their hotel, going out for meals, celebrating Pete's birthday, descriptions of meals, planning their trip to Japan, painting portraits of locals, making canvases and easels, developing films [photographs], the Moores and the Rungiuses arriving in early February, shopping, watching various military Reviews and parades [usually as part of ceremonies for visiting dignitaries], descriptions of various ships in port, flowers and trees, birds, showing some of their work at the Art Academy at the invitation of the Honolulu Art Association in early March, going to cocktail parties and dances with the Moores and Rungiuses, booking their passage to Japan with Canadian Pacific, and leaving Hawaii in mid-March.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Few letters written on hotel/ship letterhead. Some letters contain small sketches of hotel/motel layouts, road layouts, and room/ship cabin details.
Most letters are numbered in red pencil crayon in the upper margin of the first page as part of an unknown project.
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.
93 - 05 page 5 contains a sketch of the Moana Hotel's placement and general laylout in relation to the beach.
Image of a group of skiers standing in an open area with a mountain peak in the distance - possibly members of Catharine's Boston Group during their visit to Skoki
Image of a group of skiers standing in an open area with a mountain peak in the distance - possibly members of Catharine's Boston Group during their visit to Skoki