Series consists of: A. Albums, 1880s-1949, 46 vol., pertaining to Norman Sanson's life and work; document Banff Park Museum, Sulphur Mountain and Sulphur Mountain Observatory; natural history, including mountain flora, collecting trips, weather surveys and snow surveys; Banff events, including Banf…
46 photograph albums (ca.7500 prints). -- 1 postcard set (37 prints)
Scope & Content
Series consists of: A. Albums, 1880s-1949, 46 vol., pertaining to Norman Sanson's life and work; document Banff Park Museum, Sulphur Mountain and Sulphur Mountain Observatory; natural history, including mountain flora, collecting trips, weather surveys and snow surveys; Banff events, including Banff Winter Carnival, Banff Indian Days, Highland Gatherings and Banff Regatta; mountain travels and travels throughout Canada, United States, England and Europe; friends, associates and Banff personalities. Detailed identifications provided by Norman Sanson. B. Postcard set, ca.1930.
Finding Aid
Printed inventory available. Microfilm copy of albums available for reference use
Related Material
Constitutes Series II of the Norman B. Sanson fonds
Published articles are by A. P. Coleman, James McEnvoy, Jean Habel, A. O. Wheeler and Joseph Keele; also Department of the Interior and other reports. Articles pertain to Mount Brown; Athabasca, Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers; Yellowhead Pass, Mackenzie Mountains; national parks. The Mountains of the…
III.B. Other papers: manuscripts, reports by others.
Reference Code
M79 / 14 - 15
Date Range
1895-1928
Physical Description
10 textual records
Scope & Content
Published articles are by A. P. Coleman, James McEnvoy, Jean Habel, A. O. Wheeler and Joseph Keele; also Department of the Interior and other reports. Articles pertain to Mount Brown; Athabasca, Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers; Yellowhead Pass, Mackenzie Mountains; national parks. The Mountains of the Yellowhead Pass / A. O. Wheeler, 1913 is annotated with critical margin notes by Mary Schaffer
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 the following series: A. Dave White Sr. papers, 1887- 1942; B. Annie White papers, 1875-1955; C. Dave (Jack) White papers, 1911- 1955; D. Clifford White notebook, ca.1915; E. John D. Curren papers, 1886- 1940; F. White-Curren family photographs, 1885-1953. Papers consist of pers…
ca. 2 m of textual records (and 36 oversize items). -- ca.3100 photographs (ca.1800 negatives, ca.1300 prints, 5 albums of ca.400 prints).
History / Biographical
The White and Curren families of Banff, Alberta were the maternal and fraternal relatives of Peter Whyte. Dave McIntosh White, 1864- 1940, Peter Whyte's father, came to the Canadian Rockies in 1885 with the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1894 he opened a general merchandise business, the Park Store, in Banff. The success of this business resulted in expansions in 1908-1909 and in 1912-1913. For a short time, Whyte operated a similiar business in Bankhead. White was a long-time friend of the Stoney Nakoda, Annie (Curren) White, 1879-1955, emigrated to Canada from Scotland with her father, John Donaldson Curren, and a brother in 1886. They settled in Anthracite, east of Banff, where J. D. Curren operated a small coal mining business. Annie Curren married Dave White in 1901. Their children, all born in Banff, were Clifford, 1902-1964, Lila, 1903-1961, Peter, 1905-1966, and Dave Jr. (Jackie), 1908-1961. Clifford and Jack worked for the family business, Dave White and Sons.
Scope & Content
Series consists of the following series: A. Dave White Sr. papers, 1887- 1942; B. Annie White papers, 1875-1955; C. Dave (Jack) White papers, 1911- 1955; D. Clifford White notebook, ca.1915; E. John D. Curren papers, 1886- 1940; F. White-Curren family photographs, 1885-1953. Papers consist of personal, legal and financial papers; and records of Dave White, General Merchant, Dave White and Sons and White and Bayne Store. Pertains to Stoney Nakoda First Nations, Banff Indian Days, Highland gatherings, buildings, churches, skiing, coal and coal mines and Lake Minnewanka. Photographs consist largely of negatives and prints produced by various members of the White family, including Dave, Annie, Clifford and Jack White, pertaining to the White family members, travels, activities; the Banff-Lake Louise area; Banff events, places and people; winter sports; social events and friends, 1910- 1953, and glass negatives by J. D. Curren pertaining to Curren and White families and activities, Mount Assiniboine pack trip and Bow Valley scenes; ca.1885-1905. Also includes collected prints of family and friends, family businesses and buildings and winter sports, and albums pertaining to White and Curren families, 1885-1919 and Clifford White photographs, 1917-1921.
Access to photographs requires permission in advance from the Head Archivist.
Finding Aid
Series-level outline available. Electronic database available. Photographs are described at the sub-series level only (printed inventory provides more detail than the computer inventory).
Related Material
Consitutes Sous-fonds III of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds.
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Content Details
Forms part of Sous-fonds III of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds.
Photographs in this section begin with the early family portraits of David McIntosh White taken in New Brunswick and those of Annie Curren White taken in Scotland. The earliest negatives attributable to David and Annie White date ca.1908, or approximately the time they moved to their new home between Lynx Street and Bow Avenue. Most of the negatives from the first two decades of family photography are sized 8.3 x 11 cms., with the exception of what appears to be occasional experimentation with other formats, such as vest pocket and 4 x 5 Graflex, and images generated by other family members, such as J.D. Curren and the White children. This body of photography was undoubtedly initiated through the acquisition of a roll film camera on or about 1908.
Judging from subject arrangement and other evidence, including shadow images of the photographer, most White family photography is attributable to Annie Curren White. There are several photographs from the collection showing her holding a camera or photographing family members, while no such photographs exist of Dave White. There can be little doubt, however, that Dave White participated in the photographic process, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1917, when there are numerous photographs of Annie and the children.
On family motor trips, which began around 1917 and lasted until ca.1923, Dave and Annie's son Clifford appears to have shared photographic responsibilities. From this period on, Clifford and Annie, either one or the other, are the only family members who do not appear in group photographs. From this it is assumed that Dave White played a very minor roll as family photographer after 1918.
Photographs attributable to Peter Whyte begin to appear around 1920, but most of his photography appears to be more personal than of a family record variety. None of the photographs in the early part of the collection have been attributed to Lila or Jack (Dave Jr.) White.
After 1923, the point when the White children were grown and beginning to move away from home, Annie White becomes the primary family photographer. In the late 1920s she appears to have experimented with a Graflex camera for a time, but by 1930 had returned to a smaller format roll film camera. She continued to take numerous family photographs, usually group poses of her children and grandchildren, after Dave White's death in 1940 until shortly before her own passing in 1955.
Also included in this section of the collection are a number of personal photographs generated by Clifford and Jackie (Dave Jr.) White. Around 1918, Clifford appears to have acquired his own camera which produced a 3 x 5 inch negative, and from that period until ca.1923, he produced many images of activities shared with friends and brothers, including a number of photographs of early ski tours and ski jumping in the Banff area. One album bears Clifford's initials on nearly all photographs, and these images match with many of the 3 x 5 inch negatives found elsewhere in the collection. Photographs attributed to Jackie (Dave Jr.) date from the late 1940s and early 1950s and may have entered the collection prior to the death of Annie White.
Much of the dating of this collection from 1908 to 1920 was done by estimating the ages of various White children. Beyond that, the usual techniques were utilized, i.e. identification and dates noted on prints by family members, the depiction of specific historical events, changes in physical and cultural features, model dating of automobiles, reading of license plates, etc.
Misc. notes and business cards. Includes list of Robb home domestic staff, list of apple blossom dates in Concord, Mass. and notes on Edward Sylvester Morse as a young boy.
Misc. notes and business cards. Includes list of Robb home domestic staff, list of apple blossom dates in Concord, Mass. and notes on Edward Sylvester Morse as a young boy.
Letters to Russell Robb from various people including his mother Kate Robb, his sister Marian Robb, his father-in-law Edward Sylvester Morse and his son Russell Robb Jr.
Letters to Russell Robb from various people including his mother Kate Robb, his sister Marian Robb, his father-in-law Edward Sylvester Morse and his son Russell Robb Jr.
Notes regarding history of Robb, Newbury and related families, kept by Russell Robb Sr. Includes obituary certificate for John F. Bagley who is the husband of Kate Robb's sister Frances. John F. Bagley is the uncle of Russell Robb Sr.
1 file of textual records : includes 1 oversize item
Scope & Content
Notes regarding history of Robb, Newbury and related families, kept by Russell Robb Sr. Includes obituary certificate for John F. Bagley who is the husband of Kate Robb's sister Frances. John F. Bagley is the uncle of Russell Robb Sr.
Letters and contract from the Macmillan Co. Publishers regarding book written by Russell Robb: Electrical Wiring - for the use of Architects, Underwriters, and the Owners of Buildings.
Letters and contract from the Macmillan Co. Publishers regarding book written by Russell Robb: Electrical Wiring - for the use of Architects, Underwriters, and the Owners of Buildings.