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Mary Schaffer fonds
Date Range
[1908]
Reference Code
V527 / PS 1 - 104
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Lantern slide
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Mary Schaffer fonds
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6 / Item
Series
II. Photography series
Sub-Series
A. Lantern slides 1. Travels to Maligne Lake and Yellowhead area
Reference Code
V527 / PS 1 - 104
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Lantern slide
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Date Range
[1908]
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1 transparency : lantern slide
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Travels to Maligne Lake and Yellowhead area

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Part Of
Mary Schaffer fonds
Scope & Content
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…
Date Range
1891-1911, predominant 1907-1911
Reference Code
V527 / PS 1 - 1 to 228
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Photograph
Lantern slide
Transparency
Part Of
Mary Schaffer fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M79 / V527
Series
II.A. Photographs: lantern slides
Sous-Fonds
V527
Reference Code
V527 / PS 1 - 1 to 228
GMD
Photograph
Lantern slide
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Date Range
1891-1911, predominant 1907-1911
Physical Description
228 photographs : transparencies; glass
Scope & Content
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
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Content Details
LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V527 / PS 1 :
#1 - She who colored slides [Mary Schaffer] / [Mollie Adams?]
#2 - [Mary Schaffer on horseback, Kootenay Plains (1906?)] / [Mollie Adams?]
#3 - [Mary Schaffer? with horse] / [Mollie Adams?]
#4 - Frances Louise Beaver '06
#5 - Sampson Beaver's family '06 (p.181)
#6 - Pinto Lake from summit of [Sunset] pass '06
#7 - Crowfoot Glacier [1907?]
#8 - On Bow Lake .07
#9 - On Bow Summit [1907?]
#10 - Howse Peak & Pyramid [Chephren] - Bear Creek [Mistaya River, (1907?)]
#11 - Pyramid [Chephren] on Bear Creek [Mistaya River (1907?)]
#12 - Mt. Forbes [1907?]
#13 - At the mouth of the north fork [North Saskatchewan River (1907?)]
#14 - North Fork Saskatchewan [1907?]
#15 - [Panther Falls 1907?]
#16 - Snowing on Wilcox Pass [1907?]
#17 - A hard bit in the bush [1907?]
#18 - [Endless chain (1907?)]
#19 - Athabasca Gorge [Falls] [1907?]
#20 - Mt. Quincy [1907]
#21 - Fortress Lake [1907]
#22 - [Fortress Lake (1907)] (unmounted)
#23 - Fortress Mt. [1907]
#24 - Fortress Lake at Head of Athabasca R[iver] [1907]
#25 - Forest fire on the Athabasca [1907]
#26 - [Sid Unwin with burnt tent 1907]
#27 - [Mary Schaffer cooking over campfire (1907?)] / [Mollie Adams?]
#28 - Athabasca, Columbia in distance [camp scene 1907?]
#29 - Columbia from the North [1907]
#30 - [Packtrain near north side of Mt. Columbia 1907]
#31 - [Mt. Columbia from the north 1907?]
#32 - [Alexandra River and Glacier 1907
#33 - Gable Peak, Alexandra Glacier, Nahan-esen [Alexandra] Valley [1907]
#34 - [Watchman's Lake, 1907?]
#35 - On Thompson Pass Nashan-esen [Watchman's] Peak & Lake [1907]
#36 - Nashan-esen [Watchman's] Peak fr. Thompson Pass '07
#37 - [Horses at Watchman's Lake, 1907]
#38 - Bush Valley [from Thompson Pass, 1907]
#39 - [Packtrain] On the Brazeau [1907]
#40 - [Snowscene] On the Brazeau [1907]
#41 - [Tepee poles (on the Brazeau River?) 1907]
#42 - On Jonas Pass [1907]
#43, 44 - [Packtrain on Jonas Pass, 1907?]
#45 - [Packtrain on unidentified pass, 1907?]
#46 - Mt. Coleman [1907?]
#47 - Cataract Creek at junction with Saskatchewan [1907?]
#48 - A smudge where our horses were soon at peace in the choking smoke (p.167) [Packhorses in smudge on Kootenay Plains, 1907]
#49 - Kadoona Mountain [Elliott Peak] at the western limitation of the Kootenai Plains (p.172), 1907
#50 - [Stoney Indigenouss at Kootenay Plains, 1907]
#51 - The Indigenous Madonna (p.177) 1907
#52 - Mr. [Elliott] Barnes crossing Sask. River in canvas canoe [1907?]
#53 - Sampson's Map '08 [1907] (p.183)
#54 - Climbing salt lick banks at Glacier Lake [1907?]
#55 - Outfit of 1908 (p.203)
#56 - Mr. Muggins [1908] (p.210)
#57 - On the High Hill below Wilcox Pass [1908] (p.221)
#58 - Mt. Athabasca [1908] (p.223)
#59 - Fourth of July on Poboktan 1908
#60 - Poboktan Pass [1908]
#61 - Lake Maligne fr. summit of Unwin 1908 (p.241) / [Sid Unwin]
#62 - Beaver cuttings on Maligne L. [1908]
#63 - Beaver cuttings on Maligne L. [uncoloured]
#64 - Maligne [Lake, 1908]
#65 - Above the Narrows in Maligne [Lake, 1908]
#66 - Looking back at the "Narrows" of Lake Maligne [1908]
#67 - Mt. Charlton at Head of Maligne [Lake, 1908] (p.255)
#68 - Mt. Unwin from Camp [Maligne Lake, 1908]
#69, 70 - [Camp at Maligne Lake, 1908]
#71 - Maligne [Lake] Evening Reflections [1908]
#72 - Looking for goat while baking bread. Camp at lower end of Maligne Lake [1908]
#73 - Swimming the horses at the mouth of Maligne [Lake, 1908]
#74 - [Building a raft at mouth of Maligne Lake, 1908]
#75 - [Rafting equipment at mouth of Maligne Lake, 1908]
#76 - Maligne Valley - East 1908
#77 - Poboktan Pass [1908]
#78 - Looking down the Athabaska near Mt. Hardisty [1908]
#79 - Mt. Hardisty and Athabaska River [1908]
#80 - Mt. Hardisty [1908] (p.291)
#81 - Mt. Hooker (p.292)
#82 - Committee's Punchbowl (p.295)
#83 - [Packtrain on the (Athabasca?) (1908?)]
#84 - Over a 20 ft. Bluff [on the Athabasca, 1908]
#85 - Over a 20 ft. Bluff [on the Athabasca [uncoloured]
#86 - [Horse going over bluff on the Athabasca] 1908
#87, 88 - [Horse going over bluff on the Athabasca 1908]
#89 - [Crossing the Athabaska (in a canoe) 1908] (p.321)
#90 - Horses swim Atha[basca] 1908
#91 - Swimming the Athabaska [1908]
#92 - [(Lewis Swift)? 1908]
#93 - The Swift Family [Mrs. Lewis Swift and four children 1908]
#94 - [Mrs. Lewis Swift and four children in front of their home, 1908]
#95 - [One of the Swift children, 1908]
#96 - [Mrs. Lewis Swift and four children, 1908]
#97 - Swift's mill for flour [1911] / [Byron Harmon]
#98 - Cows at Swifts' [1908]
#99 - Looking toward Yellowhead Pass Athabaska River - Miette Valley 1908] (p.302)
#100 - A bad bit of trail on Miette [1908]
#101 - Miette R[iver] Looking West [1908]
#102 - Moose Lake [1908]
#103 - A bit of trail on the Fraser [1908]
#104 - [Mount Robson, 1908] (p.337)
#105 - [Mount Robson, 1908]
#106 - Mt. Robson from Mt. near Tete Jaun Cache 1909
#107 - Near the head waters of the Fraser [1908] (p.339)
#108 - Sunset on Fraser near [Tete Jaune] Cache [1908]
#109 - The Fraser at Tete Jaune Cache [1908]
#110 - - 111 Tete Jaun Cache [1908]
#112 - At the Fraser in 1908 [Indigenous in dugout canoe] (cover & p.346)
#113 - At the Fraser in 1908 [Indigenous in dugout canoe] [uncoloured]
#114 - [Worn out boots, 1908] (p.360)
#115 - [Worn out boots, 1908] [uncoloured]
#116 - Outline map of section of Canadian Rocky Mountains visited during 1907 and 1908
#117 - Section map of Canadian Rocky Mountains by J. Norman Collie, FRGS
#118 - [Map of] Headwaters Of The Athabaska
#119 - Athabaska near Hinton looking towards Smoky R. [1911]
#120 - In the foothills of the Athabaska [1911]
#121 - The "Rocky Road" in the Yellowhead, 1911
#122 - Crossing Athabaska Ferry. 1911
#123 - Teamsters on G.T.P. highway at Jasper House 1911
#124 - On the line of the G.T.P. 1911
#125 - Colliery House at Fiddle Creek 1911
#126 - Jasper House ruins Roche Miette 1911
#127 - [Graveyard at Jasper House, 1911]
#128 - On Shovel Pass [1911]
#129 - [Shovels on Shovel Pass, 1911] [unmounted]
#130 - Making a trail in spring [on Shovel Pass] 1911
#131 - Jonas & the boat on Shovel Pass 1911
#132 - Crossing Shovel Pass 1911
#133 - Trouble on Shovel Pass 1911
#134 - Maligne Gorge 1911
#135 - [Paul Sharpless with dead goat at Maligne Lake, 1911] [unmounted]
#136 - [Three people in boat on Maligne Lake, 1911] [unmounted]
#137 - [Man rowing boat on Maligne Lake, 1911] [unmounted]
#138 - [Boat on Maligne Lake, 1911] [unmounted]
#139 - The Opal Hill. [Mrs. Carrie Sharpless and Paul Sharpless with boat on the shore of Maligne Lake, 1911]
#140 - Outlet of Maligne, 1911
#141 - [Mt.] Unwin in mist [1911]
#142 - Mts. Unwin & Charlton from lower end of lake, 1911
#143 - Mount Unwin [with boat on Maligne Lake], 1911
#144 - In Pixie Valley, 1911
#145 - [Paul Sharpless and Sid Unwin?] Looking up Pixie Valley [1911]
#146 - A glimpse of Mt. Charlton at the head of Pixie Valley, Maligne [1911]
#147 - The "Statue" at Maligne Lake, 1911
#148 - Summit of "Statue" [1911]
#149 - [Paul Sharpless, Carrie Sharpless & tepee at Maligne Lake, 1911] [unmounted]
#150 - - 151 [Mary Schaffer with horse, n.d.] / [ ? ]
#152 - [Mary Schaffer crossing makeshift bridge, n.d.] / [ ? ]
#153 - "Joe" and his big trout, n.d.
#154 - [1 person and dog fording stream on horseback, n.d.] [b & w]
#155 - [Camp in burnt timber, 1907 or '08]
#156 - [Camp in downed timber, 1907 or '08]
#157 - Real trail life Jumping a high trunk [1907 or '08]
#158 - [Packtrain on the trail, 1907 or '08]
#159 - [Person on top of unidentified mountain, n.d.]
#160 - - 161 [Unidentified mountain panorama, n.d.]
#162 - [Unidentified mountain scene, n.d.]
#163 - [Person beside unidentified mountain lake, n.d.]
#164 - [Unidentified river, n.d.]
#165 - [Unidentified mountain pass, n.d.]
#166 - [View from unidentified glacier, n.d.]
#167 - [Mountain reflections in unidentified lake, n.d.]
#168 - [Unidentified canyon, n.d.]
#169 - [Unidentified mountain and valley, n.d.]
#170 - Peyto Glacier [n.d.]
#171 - [Unidentified river, n.d.]
#172 - [Unidentified mountain scene, n.d.] [unmounted]
#173 - [Forest fire, n.d.] [unmounted]
#174 - [Unidentified mountain snow scene, n.d.] [unmounted]
#175 - [Unidentified mountain & lake, n.d.] [unmounted]
#176 - [Large rock in unidentified lake, n.d.] [unmounted]
#177 - Forest fire [n.d.]
#178 - [Forest fire, n.d.]
#179 - [Tepee, n.d.]
#180 - [Tepee in darkness, n.d.]
#181 - [Packer unloading drowned horse, n.d.]
#182 - [Packer unloading drowned horse, n.d.]
#183 - [Packtrain in large boulders beside river, n.d.]
#184 - - 185 [Packtrain silhouetted on ridge at dusk, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#186 - [Packtrain in snow, n.d.]
#187 - Feeding in a snowstorm [n.d.]
#188 - [Saddlehorse on ridge, n.d.]
#189 - [Packtrain fording river, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#190 - [Packtrain in snow, n.d.]
#191 - [Trail camp, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#192 - [Jim Simpson & unidentified man packing a horse, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#193 - [Horses at Kootenay Plains, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#194 - [Man herding horses, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#195 - [Packtrain on road through forest, n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#196 - [Group of trail riders in (Yoho Valley?), n.d.] / [Mary Schaffer?]
#197 - [Man on horseback beside falls, n.d.] / [Canadian Pacific Railway]
#198 - Dead mountain sheep. [n.d.]
#199 - Collection of sheep heads [n.d.]
#200 - Jims [Simpson's] shack on Bear Creek [Mistaya River] [n.d.]
#201 - Jim's [Simpson's] outfit - sables [n.d.]
#202 - Birch leaved spiraea
#203 - Primula McCallian MacCalla's Primula
#204 - Saxifraga oppositifolio
#205 - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
#206 - Pink Heather Phyllodoce intermedia
#207 - Eleagnus argentea
#208 - Androsace
#209 - Lutkea pectinata
#210 - Romanzoffia Sitchensis / [William H. Rau]
#211 - Phacelia
#212 - Alene aeoulis Yoho 7.21.05
#213 - Coming storm on Lake Louise - C.P.R. 7/29/95 / M.T.S.
#214 - Lake Louise photog. party mounting / 99 / M.T.S.
#215 - Fem & Rubus pedatus / 98 Glacier
#216 - Sir Donald & Illecillewaet Glacier fr. Mt. Abbott 9/5/98
#217 - Mount Stephen & Cathedral Peak from Kicking - Horse Flats, [n.d.]
#218 - Sunlight beyond Cougar; fr. 30 S.S. 9/11/95
#219 - Ross Peak Glacier [n.d.]
#220 - Fern Glacier 9/14/96
#221 - Glacier Mountain and Hotel, from 19 snowshed / William H. Notman
#222 - Ross Peak [n.d.] / [ ? ]
#223 - Panoram of Sir Donald etc. fr. Glacier Crest 9/8/98
#224 - Cheops & Hermit range fr. W. end of 2nd bridge Mai's position Glacier 9/15/92
#225 - Trout. Glacier, B.C. Canada. [n.d.] / [Dr. Chas. Schaffer]
#226 - Cheops: Glacier: CPR 9.13.91
#227 - "Trail" Glacier; Foot Illecillewaet Glacier, 1898
#228 - Along the Blaeberry [n.d.]
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