File consists of 33 colour photograph transparencies (lantern slides). File documents the official trail ride of the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, which Jean Hembroff MacDonald participated in. File pertains to the Ptarmigan Valley Camp, with landscape scenery and photographs of the…
File consists of 33 colour photograph transparencies (lantern slides). File documents the official trail ride of the Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, which Jean Hembroff MacDonald participated in. File pertains to the Ptarmigan Valley Camp, with landscape scenery and photographs of the hikers (singing, eating, etc). Places that are documented in this file are the Redoubt Lake trail, Hidden Lake, Ptarmigan Lake, Boulder Pass, and Skoki. Notable people include Jean Hembroff MacDonald, her husband, Jack MacDonald, and sister-in-law, Anna Cran; Dan McCowan; James M. Wardle; George Fisher; Norman Sanson; Betsy Struthers; and Emmeline Savatard and John Wheeler (A.O. Wheeler's wife and grandson).
Notes
Each slide is labelled.
Jean wrote an article about her experience [see related material], and used this experience for future lectures
Slides were stored with a note stating: "Slides taken by the C.P.R. of Trail Ride, 1936-1937."
File consists of 27 colour photograph transparencies (lantern slides). File pertains to the Official Trail Ride of 1937 organized by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, which Jean Hembroff MacDonald participated in. File documents the trail ride to Mount Assiniboine and the camp at Mount Assi…
File consists of 27 colour photograph transparencies (lantern slides). File pertains to the Official Trail Ride of 1937 organized by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, which Jean Hembroff MacDonald participated in. File documents the trail ride to Mount Assiniboine and the camp at Mount Assiniboine, with several landscape photographs but mostly of the hikers.
Notes
Jean wrote an article about her experience in the form of an article and a poem [see related material], and used this experience for future lectures.
Slides are numbered on the back. Some are missing, the new number and order was imposed by Archive and Library Assistant for clarity.
Slides were stored with a note stating: "Slides taken by the C.P.R. of Trail Ride, 1936-1937."
Fonds consists of 83 lantern slides and accompanying lecture notes. Topics include pack trains, camps, activities and scenic views, Banff and Jasper National Parks and areas. Documents include a handwritten script made by Maud Grice-Hutchinson to accompany the slides and a photocopied copy of the B…
Maud Grice-Hutchinson, of Cheltenham, England, and her husband, Reverend Canon Rowan E. Grice-Hutchinson, lived in Sorrento, BC, from 1913-1916 and again from 1919-1923. During World War I the couple returned to England where Maud served as Commandant for the veteran's hospital on her father's estate, Boddington Manor (Gloucester, UK), and Rowan as a Military Chaplain. Maud and Rowan moved back to Boddington permanently in 1962 when she inherited the estate. A mountain at the north-west end of Shuswap Lake (between the Anstey and Seymour Arms) was named Mount Grice-Hutchinson in 1978 after the Reverend.
On July 9, 1936, Maud, her sister Violet Seeley, and Mary Diana Buckle arrived in Canada after having taken a ship over from Liverpool. They stayed at the Kananaskis Ranch from 4-7 August before starting on their trip. They had four guides and twelve pack horses to make the 300 mile (483 kilometer) trip to Jasper.
Notes about the trip written by Maud later mention locations like the Red Deer River and White Rabbit Pass before arriving at the Saskatechewan River. After that, she names the Snow Dome Glacier, the Columbia Icefield, and Nigel Pass before arriving in Jasper. The four guides in her notes are named Edie Rowe, Edie Fraser, Smoky, and Chet [possibly Chet Ogan, a guide who worked for the Brewster family out of the Kananaskis Ranch in the 1930's].
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of 83 lantern slides and accompanying lecture notes. Topics include pack trains, camps, activities and scenic views, Banff and Jasper National Parks and areas. Documents include a handwritten script made by Maud Grice-Hutchinson to accompany the slides and a photocopied copy of the Brewster family's Kananaskis Ranch guestbook page 63, dated August 1936.
Notes
Not all images were taken by Grice-Hutchinson - some bear manufacturers' labels and were most likely purchased after the pack trip.
File consists of a wide-ranging selection of lantern slide views from across western Canada; industry, settlement, first nations, recreation, scenic views. Set was probably a travel and/or settlement promotion lecture series.
88 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10.2 x 8.5 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of a wide-ranging selection of lantern slide views from across western Canada; industry, settlement, first nations, recreation, scenic views. Set was probably a travel and/or settlement promotion lecture series.
Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian…
69 b&w lantern slides, 5 cm of textual records, ca. 309 prints : b&w ; 27.9 x 20.3 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of visual and texual material pertaining to the Canadian Pacific Railway and its holdings. Visual material conists of two series. Series I: lantern slides, Series II: prints. Textual material consists of two series. Series I: organizational records, Series II: the 1942 film "Canadian Pacific" screenplay and associated documents.
Visual material includes black and white lantern slides and black and white prints depicting various scenes pertaining to travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway and depict dining rooms, scnes involving trains and mountains, farming scenes and fields, people in train cars, various cities and towns, figures in natural landscapes, horses and horseback riding, mountains, waterfalls, skiing, ships, CP hotels, and other grand buildings [across Canada] such as Notre Dame Cathedral in Montreal.
Textual material includes paper reports [some compiled by Canadian Pacific Hotels Architectural Engineer Ed Steel] detailing various construction and/or renovation projects for hotels, lodges, tea houses, bugalow camps, huts, and backcountry lodges throughout the Canadian Rockies as well as records pertaining to CP hotels in the Canadian Rockies, and the screenplay for "Canadian Pacific."
Notes
Slides were stored in rectangular wood box with leather handle on top, and metal handle at one end. White label that says “Lyon & Turnbull 432 04 February 2009” on lid of the box. Old, peeling, and stained label on top under handle, illegible. Faded, peeling labels on front, some words legible: “from the Canadian Pacific…” 2 stained and water damaged labels detached from box appear to be English shipping labels.“10” stamped in black on both ends of box. Stamped in black on rear of box: “Canadian Pacific Rly Co. 62 to 65 Charing Cross, London, S.W. 1. “3” engraved on upper rim of box. Box is divided into 3 sections with removable wood separators, small pieces of felt line 2 sections of the box.
Prints and some textual records absorbed from old records V121 and M48.
Lantern slides donated to the Whyte Museum by Dr. William and Mrs. Wynn Bensen. The slides were purchased by the Bensens from Lyon and Turnbull in Scotland.
Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides by Mary Schaffer, mainly resulting from her exploratory wilderness trips between 1907 and 1911 to Maligne Lake and the Yellowhead area. The regions involved are primarily Jasper National Park and northern Banff National Park. The t…
Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides by Mary Schaffer, mainly resulting from her exploratory wilderness trips between 1907 and 1911 to Maligne Lake and the Yellowhead area. The regions involved are primarily Jasper National Park and northern Banff National Park. The transparencies depict mountain travel and activities, landscape views and Stoney Nakoda.
Also includes transparencies of mountain flora and fauna, close-up botanical photographs, and views from Glacier, B.C. and vicinity
Finding Aid
Copy prints are available for reference use
Location (Copy)
Reference prints are available
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Content Details
LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V527 / PS 1 :
#1 - She who colored slides [Mary Schaffer] / [Mollie Adams?]
Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides, mostly copied from prints from a lecture on the early history of Banff town development and Canadian Pacific Railway hotels, including the Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise Chalet and Glacier House
Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slides, mostly copied from prints from a lecture on the early history of Banff town development and Canadian Pacific Railway hotels, including the Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Louise Chalet and Glacier House
Finding Aid
Copy prints are available for reference use
Location (Copy)
Reference prints are available
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Content Details
LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V527 / PS 1 :
#229 - [George Stewart's log building at Siding 29]
#230 - [McCardell with the first "hotel" at the Cave and Basin, 1883]
#231 - [General store at Siding 29 / Bingham]
#232 - [Man with cow on Banff Avenue, 1886]
#233 - [Man with cow on Banff Avenue, 1886] - hand-coloured
#234 - [NWMP at police barracks in Banff]
#235 - [Group of people in front of Moulton Park Theatre]
#236 - [Bathhouse at Upper Hot Springs]
#237 - [Log bath house at Upper Hot Springs]
#238 - [Early bathers in basin pool at Cave and Basin]
#239 - [Early Banff from Beaver Street]
#240 - Banff Hotel and the mountain drive from Summit Mt. [view from Tunnel Mountain by Mary Schaffer]
#241 - [Jim Brewster with tally-ho in Banff Springs Hotel courtyard]
#242 - Hotel & Hermit fr. Glacier Trail. Snow. 9/20/95
#243 - [Early chalet at Lake Louise / Trueman & Caple]
#244 - Lady Aberdeen at Chalet sketching Lake Louise, Rockies, CPR, Oct 18/94
#245 - [Banff Springs Hotel, construction of center tower, ca.1912]
#246 - [Swimmers at Cave and Basin]
#247 - Winter bathing at the hot srings
#248 - [Early Banff Ave.]
#249 - [Group in front of unidentified Banff building]
#250 - [D.C. Baynes; Banff school class, ]
#251 - [View of Banff in winter from rooftop, looking towards Mt. Norquay]
#252 - [View of Banff in winter from rooftop, looking towards Mount Rundle]
#253 - [Banff Livery with sleighs in front]
#254 - [Banff Springs Hotel]
#255 - [Banff Springs Hotel and Bow Valley]
#256 - [Unidentified Indigenous man on Banff Ave.]
#257 - [Two Unidentified Indigenous people on horseback at Banff Indian Days camp near Cascade Mountain]
Series consists of 4 lantern slides. Slides are views of the Banff Hot Springs, Banff Avenue with Cascade Mountain, Devil's Lake, and the city of Calgary.
Series consists of 4 lantern slides. Slides are views of the Banff Hot Springs, Banff Avenue with Cascade Mountain, Devil's Lake, and the city of Calgary.
Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to mountain landscapes; roadways and roadside structures; wildlife and flowers; mountain recreation; Banff townsite, events and structures camps. Also includes CPR lantern slides, 50 items, pertaining to mounta…
Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to mountain landscapes; roadways and roadside structures; wildlife and flowers; mountain recreation; Banff townsite, events and structures camps. Also includes CPR lantern slides, 50 items, pertaining to mountain landscape; mountaineering; trains; hotels and camps; flowers and wildlife; CPR hotels across Canada; ships
File consists of lantern slides depicting Rocky Mountain scenic views, mountains, wildlife, horse rides. Includes Banff, Yoho, Lake O'Hara, Banff-Jasper Highway and surrounding areas.
Slides are a mix of colour and black & white photographs; some images are printed directly onto one pane of glass …
41 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10.2 x 8.2 cm
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File consists of lantern slides depicting Rocky Mountain scenic views, mountains, wildlife, horse rides. Includes Banff, Yoho, Lake O'Hara, Banff-Jasper Highway and surrounding areas.
Slides are a mix of colour and black & white photographs; some images are printed directly onto one pane of glass while others are transparencies on celullose film mounted between 2 glass panes. There is no order to the different mediums.
Slides were accompanied with 7 typed text papers listing the slide numbers and details of the images. See Notes for list.
Notes
[1] Sahdow Lake
[2] Summer scene in Banff
[3] Eifell Lake (some of the Ten Peaks)
[4] Pinnacle Mt. from Mt. Temple
[5] Consolation Mts. Biden and Quadra
[6] Un-named lake between Consolation Valley and Boom Lake
[7] Clouds on Mt. Cathedral
[8] Mt. Cathedral
[9] Glacier on east sloped of Mt. Narao, near Wapta
[10] Descending Mt. Narao
[11] Mt. Cathedral Lake O'Hara
[12] Mt. Cathedral near Lake O'Hara
[13] Alpine Club House in Lake O'Hara meadows
[14] Lake O'Hara
[15] On shores of Lake Margaret
[16] Waterfall in Opabin Pass, Mt. Biddle
[17] Chateau Lake Louise
[18] Twin Falls Yoho Park
[19] Below Twin Falls
[19a] Below Twin Falls
[20] Below Twin Falls
[21] On Burgess Pass Trail
[22] President group from Burgess Pass trail
[23] Hoodoos up Hoodoo Creek
[24] Shadow Lake
[25] Road up to Mt. Norquay
[26] On the trail in winter
[27] Winter in Banff
[28] Cloud of ridge
[29] On shore of Shadow Lake
[30] A short rest
[31] Shadow Lake
[32] Bow River near Banff -- Mt. Borgeau
[33] Mt. Rundle by moonlight -- Banff
[34] A promise of spring -- Forty Mile Creek
[35] Winter
[36] Sheep country in the foothills
[37] The Golden West
[38] Banff Springs Hotel
[39] Amid the glaciers -- Mt. Balfour
[40] Mt. Temple
Series consists of 38 lantern slides. Most are credited to either the Department of the Interior or the Department of Extension, University of Alberta.
38 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10.2 x 8.2 cm
History / Biographical
Lantern slides were used by government agencies to illustrate holdings and acquisitions during meetings. This could take the form of text-based or photographic images. This collection contains photographic images of mainly Jasper National Park that were taken by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Extension, University of Alberta.
The Department of the Interior was founded in 1873 and was responsible for settlement and development of western Canada until 1936. This included surveying what is now Alberta and then promoting and settling the area through a massive immigration campaign. Coloured lantern slides would have been utilized in this capacity to realistically showcase the Rocky Mountain region to officials in Ottawa.
The Department of Extension at the University of Alberta was founded in 1912 with the aim of sharing the University's collections and knowledge with rural communities throughout Alberta. Based out of Edmonton, the Department of Extension used travelling libraries, magic lantern shows, and public lectures to accomplish this goal. It is still an active department at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Scope & Content
Series consists of 38 lantern slides. Most are credited to either the Department of the Interior or the Department of Extension, University of Alberta.