Bill Waterworth enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the age of 18. On September 19, 1942, Waterworth was shot down over the French coast just short of completing his 33rd mission. Waterworth avoided capture by German patrols for two weeks before being captured and taken prisoner by the G…
Bill Waterworth enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at the age of 18. On September 19, 1942, Waterworth was shot down over the French coast just short of completing his 33rd mission. Waterworth avoided capture by German patrols for two weeks before being captured and taken prisoner by the Gestapo. He was sent by boxcar to a Prisoner of War (POW) camp - Stalag VIIIB/344 - in Lamsdorf, Germany where he remained for three years. In 1943 the Red Cross issued each P.O.W. a blank 151 page logbook "A Wartime Log : A Remembrance from Home Through the Canadian Y.M.C.A." Waterworth treasured this log during his captivity and compiled it as a scrapbook collecting photographs, artwork by fellow prisoners, newsclippings, parcel lists and letters from home. In January 1945 the prisoners were forced to march from Poland to France, and he carried his log throughout the ordeal. His sense of history and purpose with the Wartime Log continued throughout his life, with follow-up stories of fellow POWs and of their reunions through to 1999.
S1 / 162 - Whyte Museum Oral History Prograamme : Bill Waterworth's Wartime Log interview with Bill Waterworth by Head Archivist E. J. (Ted) Hart, May 28, 2009
Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for…
4 cm of textual records (1 volumes ; 24.5 x 29.3 cm)
History / Biographical
Nancy (Ford) Dart, daughter of Minneapolis businessman Allyn K. Ford, became a member of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1953. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Scope & Content
Item pertains to one black soft cover scrapbook with alternating paper dividers and plastic sleeves. Book contains newsletters, brochures, and letters pertaining to the Alpine Club of Canada dated 1922-2003, newsletters from the American Alpine Club 1941, and various travel and dining brochures for Jasper and the Jasper Park Lodge from ca. 1954.
Tucked into a pouch inside the front cover are two letters addressed to Nancy Dart in 2003 regarding her 50th anniversary as a member of the ACC, four ACC annual newsletter booklets from 1922, 1923, and 1925, and an envelope addressed to Nancy Ford (Dart) containing paperwork pertaining to her admission to the ACC in 1953.
Items throughout the scrapbook are either tucked into the plastic sleeves or dispersed throughout the pages. Contents include annual ACC camp brochures (one from 1908, others from the 1940s and 50s), letters (one addressed to Geoffrey Howard from Allyn K. Ford, in 1941 and another addressed to Mr. Ford, probably Allyn Ford, in 1953), photographs/postcards taped to a page divider, seven dinner lists from 1953 for the Jasper Park Lodge (all dated Friday, July 10 but each has a different header picture), a booklet from the third annual ACC membership dinner, a brochure for the 1941 annual American Alpine Club meeting and dinner, three tourism magazines for Jasper from the Canadian National Railway, one trail map of Jasper and one of Banff, an ACC newsletter and brochure for the Mountain Leadership Conference from 1989, a typed copy of a short story "A Journey with the Men of Alps" held together with a small pin (possibly a dramatic retelling of Allyn Ford's first trip to the Rockies), two ACC crossword puzzels (one partially completed), and a notice from the American Alpine Club pertaining to America's involvement in World War II from 1941. Tucked inside the back cover is a red paper envelope containing two photographs (possibly printed off the computer) of A.O. Wheeler from the 1923 ACC camp in Larch Valley.
Reel #1 pertains to: stage, pottery, music; some elk in snow; Banff Indian Days; climbing O'Hara #2: powder Noldie #3: Lake Louise winter and Temple Lodge (good long shot) close-up Schwartz #4: bike fall colours Johnson Canyon area . (Description from film maker's notes)
Pertains to: summer Banff museum Banff Avenue, Luxton trading post, Johnson's Lake, Bankhead, backside of Sulphur (road), melting snow on trees, larch in colour, hot pool (one shot), buffalo, reservation, teepees and hobbled horses, [Vermilion]?] lakes and Mount Rundle through clouds (some good), L…
1 motion picture (1 film reel) : 16 mm, original, acetate, col, silent
Scope & Content
Pertains to: summer Banff museum Banff Avenue, Luxton trading post, Johnson's Lake, Bankhead, backside of Sulphur (road), melting snow on trees, larch in colour, hot pool (one shot), buffalo, reservation, teepees and hobbled horses, [Vermilion]?] lakes and Mount Rundle through clouds (some good), Lake Minnewanka, town from top of Norquay, Hole in Wall, windsurfing, Archives, moose (two) Moraine Lake, moose in water, grizzly, musical ride (mounties) old gondola, Banff Springs Hotel ad, Banff Centre from top of Sulphur Mountain
Reel #1 pertains to: Banff Indian Days wagon and lady on horse, freestyle shot, Bankhead, woodpecker, flowers, Two Jack, heritage truck, train, Disney 9 cams. Reel #2: Sulphur clouds sun (235), Johnson's Lake, climber work print trim. Reel #3: Norquay winter, sleigh ride, Canada Cup on gold course,…
I.B. Motion pictures: work prints / release prints (blue series)
Sous-Fonds
V293
Reference Code
V293 / NF - 231
Date Range
1970
1995
Physical Description
1 motion picture (7 film reels) : 16 mm, work print, col, silent
Scope & Content
Reel #1 pertains to: Banff Indian Days wagon and lady on horse, freestyle shot, Bankhead, woodpecker, flowers, Two Jack, heritage truck, train, Disney 9 cams.
Reel #2: Sulphur clouds sun (235), Johnson's Lake, climber work print trim.
Reel #3: Norquay winter, sleigh ride, Canada Cup on gold course, Norquay moguls Labatts lift ride.
Reel #4: Ten Peaks, skating, Banff Avenue heavy snow, skiing Norquay, musical ride, Two Jack travelling, Lake Louise boat and Lake, icefields, Mountain madness [race?] trims, wildflowers and raspberries, trees gold larch, Banff Avenue Auditorium, Bow Valley from top, unicorn, smiling winter faces.
Reel #5: Sulphur Gondolas new, zoom to summit, Banff Springs Hotel
Reel #6: empty (content noted as: two runs Kendall gates in France, pushed in French cars; further note: Kendall removed for family show, also cars).
Reel #7: windsurfing 2nd [Vermilion] Lake, zoom to summit from backside, Norquay Lodge winter, leaves green and gold, gold shot on skis, gal and guy, falling on t-bar (or off t-bar), bear on [train] tracks, bear in grass crosses road and into water
Item is a write-up by Roy Andersen, 10 pages ; 21.5 x 28 cm. Contents pertains to a headdress gifted to Major General George G. Brown in 1991 after his involvement with the Canadian Military National Ski Competition at Mount Norquay in 1974. Roy Andersen and Don Wallace gifted the headdress after i…
02 cm of textual records (10 pages ; 21.5 x 28 cm)
Scope & Content
Item is a write-up by Roy Andersen, 10 pages ; 21.5 x 28 cm. Contents pertains to a headdress gifted to Major General George G. Brown in 1991 after his involvement with the Canadian Military National Ski Competition at Mount Norquay in 1974. Roy Andersen and Don Wallace gifted the headdress after its purchase from A. MacLennan. Includes photocopies of images of ski team, Major General George G. Brown and the headdress.