Series consists of scrapbooks, albums, photographs and textual records pertaining to Eleanor Luxton's domestic and international travels, and Eleanor's life in Banff. Includes records pertaining to Japan, Panama, Hawaii, and China; local events, including the Calgary Stampede, Banff Indian Days and…
27.5 cm of textual records (5 scrapbooks ; 0.5 cm newspaper clippings) -- 7 albums -- 1,345 photographs (1,083 b&w and col. prints ; 257 b&w and col. negatives ; 5 col. transparency slides)
Scope & Content
Series consists of scrapbooks, albums, photographs and textual records pertaining to Eleanor Luxton's domestic and international travels, and Eleanor's life in Banff. Includes records pertaining to Japan, Panama, Hawaii, and China; local events, including the Calgary Stampede, Banff Indian Days and a celebration marking the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; Canadian trips, including the Okanagan region, Seebe and Jasper National Park; and the Luxton family home in Banff.
Fonds consists of materials pertaining to Ben Gadd's personal life and career as an environmental researcher, educator, interpretive guide, publisher, public speaker and author, ca.1956-2018. Fonds includes maps, research materials, publication notes/drafts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, …
ca. 7.9 metres of textual records -- ca. 274 maps -- 29 VHS tapes -- ca.15 discs with digital files -- 21 cassettes -- photographs -- oversized materials -- USB stick with 15 sldeshows
History / Biographical
Ben Gadd (1946-) is a retired naturalist, guide, geologist, instructor, freelance writer and award-winning author based in the Canadian Rockies.
Ben was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1946. He met his wife, Cia (Langdon) Gadd at Colorado College in 1965, and the couple married four weeks later. Ben and Cia had two sons, Will and Toby. Ben and his family relocated to Jasper in the late 1960s. Ben later attended the University of Lethbridge and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Earth Science in 1972.
Between 1976 and 1980, Ben taught classes at Mount Royal College and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology; he later taught additional classes at Grant MacEwan College and Lakeland College. From 1981, Ben also worked as a seasonal naturalist/guide for Parks Canada. Ben left Parks Canada in 1985 to start an independent naturalist guiding business with Cia based in Jasper and other parts of the Canadian Rockies, which the couple continued to operate for over two decades.
Ben published his best-known work, "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies", through his publishing company Corax Press in 1986. The second edition of "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies" received multiple awards after its release in 1995. Ben's fiction book, "Raven's End" won the title of Best Canadian Rockies Book at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2001 and became a Canadian bestseller. Overall, Ben has authored or co-authored 11 books and received nearly one dozen awards for his achievements as a writer, researcher and guide.
Ben continued to lead guided hikes and school programs until his retirement in 2016.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of materials pertaining to Ben Gadd's personal life and career as an environmental researcher, educator, interpretive guide, publisher, public speaker and author, ca.1956-2018. Fonds includes maps, research materials, publication notes/drafts, correspondence, contracts, photographs, video and sound recordings, and other related material. Materials donated in 2024 include one USB stick containing
Notes
Ben Gadd fonds arrangement:
Series I : Personal records
- Subseries A : Travel guides and maps
- Subseries B : Education and early writings
- Subseries C : Personal interest files
- Subseries D : Other personal and collected
Series II : Research and publication records
- Subseries A : Handbook of the Canadian Rockies
- Subseries B : Other publications
Series III : Professional records
- Subseries A : Parks Canada Records
- Subseries B : Interpretive guiding
- Subseries C : Teaching records
- Subseries D : Other contracts and projects
Series IV : Legal and financial records
- Subseries A : Legal records
- Subseries B : Financial records
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Groups of the Mt. Logan expedition taken while on voyage ; From the deck of the Alaska, the abandoned "Gastino Gold" mine ; Operating Alaska Gold, a mine reducing ore at less than a dollar a ton, the values not being much a dollar, output 10,000 to 15,000 tons per day ; Group on boat looking over sea Juneau Warf. H.F.L. & Read. do Hall and Read ; Harry Boyden's dog team entering the streets of McCarthy Alaska, Lt. Col. Foster & A.H. MacCarthy ; Part Panorama of McCarthy Alaska from the high ground to the south ; Panorama of the town McCarthy Alaska ; Panorama of the town of McCarthy showing the Kinnicott Glacier and mountains beyond in which the Kennecott Copper mine is situated ; Of the foreground in front of the town, Hubricks Cabin and morains of the Kennecott Gl. beyond. Mules and in one store room of J.B. O'Neill's ; Taken of the group in front of the terminal morains of the Kennecott glacier. The complete picture of the expedition taken with my Ross camera by Hubrick ; The bridge, just finished, crossing the Nazina River from the south side. Left McCarthy 9.45 A.M. [at] Nazina Crossing, 9 8/10 miles, at 1.30 ; Launching on the open bars of the Chitina River on our walk from McCarthy to Hubricks Camp, 88 Mi. Read Sitting on the bars, about opposite the mouth of the Kiagma R. ; Crossing Canon creek above the point on the Chitina bars where it enters that river ; Poor one of group sitting resting on Chitina Bars.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 492 - 515
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Going into our first camp on the bars of the Chitina River being a half days run from "Rush Pound," where we stopped and had lunch on the way in ; Packing up at Brysons, being the old camp ground of the Surveys (Barny Bryson) and from which point a trail leads out of the valley of the Chitina (rising 3000 ft) and leading to the head of the Young Creek. MacCarthy took this trail coming in coming out last summer after the reconnaissance. This is the 4th. camp out from McCarthy the next 16 miles to Short River ; Short river Camp, 5th camp out from McCarthy and only 7 miles out from Hubricks. Mountain in back on other side of Chitina Valley. Crossed Clear Water, Canon and Short river before reaching this camp ; Eastward up the valley of the Chitina Valley Tree islands and the morain covered toe of the Chitina Glacier showing. Hubricks Camp near point shown on left, just showing ; The Chitina Valley below Hubrick's Camp distant horizon being the toe of the Chitina Glacier. Mt. Logan would be, if visible, direct centre looking up Chitina Gl. ; Panorama taken from a point on the Chitina just off the N.W. corner of the Chitina Glacier toe, at an old Trig Sta. which seemed to be part of old base line. Shows the range on the south side of the Chitina Valley and the last straight down the valley of the Chitina ; All a little blurred as focus in error set at 15 yrd. Panorama of the range on the south side of the Chitina River Valley, from a point 1/3 mile east of Hubrick's Camp. Logan in distant centre in 433 & 434 [452 & 453] ; Laing in front of his dungeon (Pup Tent). The afternoon's careful inspection of Logan equipment ; Survey tripod on the bars below toe of Chitina Glacier to N.W. line of bace line poasts leading away to W. No end of base mark showing ; From the summit point of the Terminal morains of the Chitina Glacier looking straight west down the valley and showing the trench between the glacier and the N. wall of the valley up which the trail lead to the last point of horse transport, "Trail End" ; The group on the ice in front of "Trail end Camp" ; Ice of the Chitina completely covered with debris, from the shore line on the N. side looking forward to Chitina Point ; Walsh camp at the end of the Chitina Point, the side of an old survey camp of 1913, facing a stretch of water directly off the point, the junctions of the Chitina and Walsh Glaciers ; Group, as per preceding negative showing drift and exposed dry wood on beech, old shore of long since sunken lake. Further description of Walsh Camp of Chitina Point see preceding negative.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 492 - 515
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Rocky cove, resting for lunch an hour before reaching the "Fraser - Baldwin Cache" ; See description preceeding negative ; "Baldwin Fraser Cache" an old survey base camp of 1913 used in conjunction of the trip up the Baldwin on the attack of the shoulder of St. Elias that year and base camp for operations up the Logan Glacier by Dennis Mussell and others. Much old material strewn about. The last timber. Camp left on the morning of the 22nd, of May ; "B. & F Cache" ; "B & F Cache" ; Party starting out to the clear ice straight out in front May 21 to mark trail and to help matters on the morrow when camp is struck ; Striking Camp May 22 ; Sledding on the Logan glacier from the crossing of the boundary line on the Logan Glacier to Turn Camp at the junction of the Ogilvie and Logan Glaciers. Mt. Logan in centre distance very dim ; Resting on the snow covered surface of the Logan Glacier just below the end of the Ogilvie Glacier, showing the point Turn & the western end of Logan in the far distance ; With the sleds on the Logan Glacier, a rest for lunch near the junction of the Logan and Ogilvie Glacier ; Camp on the morains of the Ogilvie Glacier "Turn Cache" Cache left here 7 days for 8 men. Back ground, looking up the Ogilive Glacier, mountains the "Turn" side of the Glacier, left side ; Photographs of the tents and Camp on the morains of the Ogilvie Glacier ; At "Turn Cache." Foster Carpe Rear Hall Morgan Taylor MacCarthy ; Panorama of two, the mountains along the east side of the Ogilvie Gl. from Turn station to the head of the Glacier ; Advance Base Cache on the morains of the Ogilvie Glacier 6 miles above its juncture with the Logan Gl. Here last Feb and Mch. 4700 lbs of freight left here ; Two negatives showing the arrival of the party for the first time at the site of the Cascades Camp with two sleds from the "A.B.C." Cache, 8 mi. distant ; Lunching at Cascade camp site looking down the Ogilvie Glacier ; An avalanche hear the end of the ice fall of the upper Ogilvie Glacier ; Ice fields and tributary glaciers at the head of the Ogilvie Glacier.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 492 - 515
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Snow fields of the Ogilvie Glacier in foreground distant view of the ice fall coming down from the King Glacier above ; Showing the cascade at the head of the Ogilvie Gl. and camp ; Leaving Cascade for the first reconnaisance party up to the Observation Pt. Plateau. Read Carpe Foster MacCarthy ; Looking up the cascades, camp in the foreground ; The right hand side of the Cascades showing part of route taken up. Camp in foreground ; Looking up the cascades from the Cascades Camp ; Ice fileds, sled in distance, distant view of the ice cataract from the King Ice fields 2000 feet above ; About the best I have of this camp at the head of the Logan Glacier at the foot of the King Cascade, this latter showing in the background ; Pictures of the Cascades camp which has an elevation of 7800 feet and from which camp the real climbing operations commenced, on June 1st. 1925 ; Group of (close up) MacCarthy Carpe Foster and MacCarthy Lambart Foster ; A group "sledders of the Ogilvie" ; Snow dome at about 9700 half way between "Observation" and the top of the "Quartz Ridge" looking back over the tributary glaciers of the head of the Ogilvie 2500 feet below ; Lunching on the Dome, after arrival with first load and the drag of the sled up the steep slopes ; The snow dome at about 9700 with the group and looking out on to the Ogilvie Glacier showing the junction with the Logan Glaicer middle distance ; Looking into the hollow of the head of the Ogilvie Gl. showing mountains only at its head to eastward from a point a short distance N. of the Observation Camp Site ; From "Observation Camp" northward, distance as far as it can be seen ; North distant mountains of the Walsh and Mt. Lucania.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Up King Col. "Observation Camp" foreground. Elevation of Camera 10,300 elevation on top of col over 4000 ft. above Camera ; Looking up the King Glacier to the summit of the Col of the same name from Observation Camp. The Camp in the foreground ; The King Glacier looking straight up to the Col Intense light under a blue sky ; The Camp actively engeged in getting away with the sleds up the King Glacier as fas as the ice fall, about 4 miles ; Observation Camp. King Mt. showing the north face, First sled on its way up the King Gl. off to right a few hundred yds. The Col tot he left hidden in fog ; Looking down the King Glacier, distance being the mountains around the head of the Vittorio Sella glacier. The direction is nearly due west ; A panorama of 8 from the King Col around past King mountain itself over 180 degrees to the ice wall on the N. side of the King Glacier trench. Taken from the site of King Col Camp ; Three of the party making camp digging out places for tents on the slopes of the Col. Direction westward down the King Glacier showing the distant ranges of the Quintino Sella Glacier and to the right the immense ice falls on the north side of the Col ; Preparing tent room on the summit of the King Col. behind the walls of ice and snow leading to the upper plateaus, the trail later marked out leading straight back then swinging to the right on the snow bench ; King Mountain from the Col ; Close up of party at work preparing camp ground. Morgan lying down. Taylor extreme left. Hall [extreme] right. centre L to R Carpe, MacCarthy Foster ; These pictures taken towards the south over a sea of clouds obscuring the Seward and Malaspina glaciers and all the surrounding peaks leaving the top of St. Elias alone sticking up. The peak of King Mt. not more than 5 miles distant all showing, the sea of clouds showing beyond. Note the South butress of King and long ridge leading from teh peak to the right being the south wall of the King Glacier. King Col, is just below the ridge facing the picture and decending from the summit in a jagged arete ; This the only photograph I have of "Windy Camp" (16800) taken looking northward up the ice slopes followed on the ascent. Left the S.W. spur of the Logan massif ; Plateau Camp at an elevation of 17500 ft approximately, is the camp from which Mt. Logan was climbed on the 23 of June. These pictures were taken on a clear morning and it is hard to explain the failure in the results obtained. The panorama shows the upper glacier plateau below the high summits of the massif. The photograph sweeps the northern horizon through about a half circle. Distant rangers shown are those of the walsh Glacier and west end of the glacier and mountain system between the base of Logan and Kluane Lake, 60 miles eastward.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 492 - 515
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Plateua Camp the last camp on the massif of Logan, from which the climb was made, taken from the east side ; Foster dressing frozen fingers after the past weeks ordeal on the summit and the fight to get off the mountain in store. MacCarthy eyes and fingers. Foster wrist toe and finger. Carpe toes and fingers. Lambart toes fingers wrist. Taylor scot free ; Photograph during the day of rest and perfect bliss and Heaven to us all after the weeks of snow & ice. First running water and signs of life, a raven's early morning visit to inspect the "idiots." Three of camp and two looking up the Ogilvie Glacier ; Group on the morains near the camp. A.H. MacCarthy Wilmer B.C. A.M. Taylor McCarthy Alaska. Col. W.W. Foster Vancouver B.C. Allen Carpe New York. H.F.L. N.H. Read ; Close up group on morains near Turn Cache camp. Foster MacCarthy Lambart Carpe. Sitting (always was) N.H. Read ; Standing group in parkas ; After an all night's travel on the Logan Glacier July 2-3 resting out on one of the central morains near the International Boundary Crossing of the Logan Glacier. Here the ice became so bad that the two sleds were left behind, cached a further amount of equipment, including stove and robe etc. & shouldered our loads for the remaining 30 miles into Hubricks Camp ; Portraits of all but Carpe, how he came to be missed unknown. Taken the day after we got into Hubricks before the grand shave & clean up. 1 MacCarthy 2 Foster 1 Andy Taylor 3 H.F.L 1 Read 1 H.M. Laing ; The making of two boats on arrival at Hubrick's camp on the 6th of July having originally been decided upon, now abandoned on acount of the condition of the party and the length of time to build (10 days) rafts in lieu of the boats finally decided upon. Two of these commenced July 8 and completed the 10th. and the journey started down the Chitina River at 1.30 P.M. July 11th. with desastrous results to one (MacCarthur, Foster, Carpe) and reaching Rush Pond with the other (Taylor, Lambart, Read) 12.30 midnight July 12, 60 miles by stream.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 492 - 515
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 582 - 599
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the …
190 photographs (123 prints : b&w ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 66 negatives : b&w nitrate negatives ; 12 x 7.5 cm - 1 slides : b&w slides ; large format)
Scope & Content
File pertains to photographs - mostly prints, also negatives and one glass slide - of the Mount Logan Expedition of 1925. Photographs of the Mount Logan Expedition were mainly produced by H. F. Lambart; also some by A. H. MacCarthy. All images are housed in the original brown envelopes used by the ACC and contain typed notes on the exteriors.
Topics include: Breakfast being prepaired by Andy Taylor in front of the tent at Rush Pond and before starting out on that hectic 32 mile trudge into McCarthy, being the closing act of the field activities of the Mt. Logan Expedition. Rush Pond left with all gear left behind (protem) on July 12 at 10.10 A.M. arriving McCarthy 1.30 A.M. July 13 ; The first negative of close up in camp by H.F.L. other by Taylor of first relays to the top of the Quartz Ridge, 1000 feet above the Cascade camp site ; The process by which, with a 700 foot alpine line we were able to get one of the hand sleds to the summit of the quartz ridge from the Cascades camp below ; Cache and group at the top of the quartz ridge. This point being about 1000 feet above Cascades ; This is a photograph looking straight down the Ogilvie glacier from a point 1000 feet above its head. Its confluence with the Logan is distinctly seen ; A mere spot in a world of ice, cascades camp as viewed from above from the summit of the Quartz Ridge. This photograph shows well the base of the cascades and the character of the glaciers entering the head of the Ogilvie Gl. ; From a rock ridge where Morgan hand enticed me one afternoon we got this of the top of St. Elias appearing through the clouds. Below the surface of the King Glacier, end of the south wall of King Trench on left ; Large scale map of coast showing Cordova, McCarthy and Logan ; H.F.L. Enlargement of photograph taken on the Robson Glacier during the Alpine Club Meet at the Robson Pass July 1924.
Notes
Physical description and extent applicable for entire V14 / AC0P / 410 - 599 collection.
Most prints also have their original negatives with them - those negatives were not scanned.
A detailed list is available for a portion of the material.
Related Material
Material is closely related to expedition material in Sous-fonds III. Personal papers and photographs (H. F. Lambart papers and photographs; W. W. Foster photographs). Related oversize display prints can be found in Series I.A.1.j. (AC 00P / 137-147 and AC 00P / 275-280).
V14 / AC 0P / 410 - 435
V14 / AC 0P / 436 - 463
V14 / AC 0P / 464 - 491
V14 / AC 0P / 492 - 515
V14 / AC 0P / 516 - 548
V14 / AC 0P / 549 - 581
File pertains to 103 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1947 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, variou…
File pertains to 103 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1947 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, wildlife, the opening dedication of the A.O. Wheeler Hut, and the drive back home. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook.
Titles:
Ansco film
Reel 111 July 1-1947
1. China - merion
2. [China - merion]
3. [China - merion]
4. [China - merion]
5. [China - merion]
6. Cherry tree
7. Eva in cherry tree
8. Same
9. BH. G under cherry tree
10. [BH. G] looks at cherries
11. [BH. G] picking cherries
12. [BH. G] and cherries
13. BH. G and Eva
14. Eva eating cherries
17. Iron Deer in shade
18. [Iron Deer] house in b.g.
19. Tulip poplar
20. BHG. under fringe tree
21. BHG. [under] twin pine
22. [BHG.] and her basket
23. [BHG.] close up
Canadian Rockies 1947
Reel 112 Aug 4-47
1. Buck on edge of bank - Underexp.
2. [Buck] and BHG on back porch not bad
3. 2 bucks [and BHG on back porch] 0 of 7
7. Tree, Mt Cascade, buck in willows
8. Buck in shadow - morning
12. ---
14. 2 bucks morning down [illegible]
15. 2 bucks below Jand[?] pit poor
16. 2 bucks near pit poor
25. Fly spotted oulies[?] by Hatchery
26. BH. G in Suring Light Stuck
27. [BH. G in Suring] Best
28. [BH. G in Suring]
29. Ah hahina and rose bough
30. Ah hahina fr. road below
31. Ah hahina fr. road below better
32. Ah ha hina from road in front
33. Whiteman House - Cascade
34. Our driveway St. Julien Rd. and Meadow
35. Norquay fr. Ahhahina
36. Telegraph Pole Lane to town
Reel 113 Aug 4-1947
2. St. Julien Rd. and Mt. Brewster
4. [Banff Springs Hotel fr. Tunnell]
7. Flowers on Tunnell - Bow R. below
8. Precipice on Tunnell fr. trail
9. Deer on bank Cascade in b.g
10. Rundle slopes of Astley
12. Eric and Meus[illegible] - slopes of Astley
13. Party on slopes of Astley - Eugene Eric Jean Vallances
16. [Party] 4 figures not posed
17. [Party] 5 figures [not posed]
20. Peter and Jean
21. Party on shoulder of Mt. Astley
23. Fawns on lawn
28. Fawn by roadside
32. Fawn - doe and fawn back of tree
33. Fawn on lawn deep shadow
35. Fawn in grass - tree trunks in b.g
38. Doe and 2 fawns overexp.
39. 2 fawns 2 children Side and doe in b.g.
Reel 114 Aug 1947
1. BH.G. in reclining chair
3. [Fawn in Harmon's garden]
4. [Fawn] nearer
5. Doe eating Mrs. H's flowers
6. Fawn moving - doe in b.g. poor
7. Deer at Harmon's gate
8. Fawn in woods
9. Little Bear and girl
10. Little bear and boy
11. [Little bear] on road
17. [Beaver] and one under water
Reel 115 Aug 22. 47
1. Moose moving in woods - not mounted
2. Moose in stream
3. [Moose] running
6. [Moose] fair
9. BHG. at stream at Picnic Place
10. BHG and Sig [at Picnic Place]
12. Sawback Pinnacle
13. [Sawback Pinnacle]
16. P.O and Cars - Mt. Cascade
17. Mt. Astley
18A. Hermit Range
18B. Hermit Range
20. Line going up snow on Abbot
Reel 116 Aug 31 - 1947
1. Mt Cheops
3. On [Glacier Creek] 2 climbers
4. Ascent on snow. gl. crest.
5. Crowd ascending snow
6. Lunch glacier Crest.
8. Avalanche and Eagle fr. gl. Crest.
9. Lunch on gl. Crest.
10. Mt. Burney
11. Castor and Pollux
12. Descent fr. gl. Crest.
13. Snow descent fr. Perley Rock
13A. Sir Donald
14. Party on Perley Rock
15. On Perley Rock
16. Mr. Dowler and Polly
17. Mr. [Dowler] and his saw
18. Packing to High Camp
19. [Packing to High Camp]
20. [Packing to High Camp]
21. [blank]
22. [blank]
23. Camp fr. Aval. Lookout
26. B.C. trail
27. Sunday Service McRuer up
28. [Sunday Service McRuer]
29. [Sunder Service] hymns
30. Washing dishes
32. Richardson and Horst
33. Edward and the Wheelers
34. Bob and Jim
35. Bob and Jim close up
36. Wheeler Hut
Notes
Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1).
Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists.