Fonds consists of unpublished report titled "Mount Norquay Memories, 1948- 1956" by Ray Wardell. Report is a chronological history of development at Mount Norquay ski area by George Encil's Banff Chairlift Corporation Ltd. It discusses the Banff Chairlift, rope tows, electrification, passenger an…
Ray Wardell, 1922-1994, was an engineer at Banff, Alberta, Canada from 1948 until 1958, and lived at Oakville, Ontario until his death. Wardell worked on early construction at Mount Norquay ski area and rose to the position of Superintendent of Construction and Maintenance for the Banff Chairlift Corporation.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of unpublished report titled "Mount Norquay Memories, 1948- 1956" by Ray Wardell. Report is a chronological history of development at Mount Norquay ski area by George Encil's Banff Chairlift Corporation Ltd. It discusses the Banff Chairlift, rope tows, electrification, passenger and safety services, Upper Terminal Tea Room and improvements to Mount Norquay Lodge. Contents include technical details, construction photographs and articles from trade journals
Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history and Anthropology, during the year of 1948. Published in 1949, the British Columbia Department of Education published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could then be shared with the public. Each issue features a report from the director, biologist, and/or botanist, and/or anthropologist in which they would share their subsequent findings from the previous year. Topics discussed in each report include, but are not limited to the following; exhibitions, new accessions, staff changes, research, botany, entomology and relevant articles.
Contents
Report of the Director (pg. 7)
Exhibitions and Preparation (pg. 7)
Special Exhibitions (pg. 7)
Field-work (pg. 7)
Publications (pg. 8)
Motion Pictures (pg. 8)
Education (pg. 9)
Museum Lectures (pg. 9)
Other Lectures (pg. 9)
School Loan Material (pg. 10)
Research (pg. 10)
Attendance (pg. 10)
Staff Changes (pg. 11)
Office Equipment (pg. 11)
Obituary (pg. 11)
Report of the Assistant in Biology (pg. 12)
Report of the General Assistant (pg. 12)
Botany (pg. 12)
Entomology (pg. 15)
Accessions (pg. 15)
Article: "A Report on a Study of Jordan Meadows," by G.A. Hardy (pg. 20)
Article: "Some Lepidoptera from the Forbidden Plateau District of British Columbia," by J.R.J. Llewellyn Jones (pg. 47)