Fonds consists of manuscript drafts and research notes for newspaper article on Flossie Currie. Includes notes from interview with Flossie Currie, Dorothy Cranstone, Helen Shandruk, Nick Morant and Phyllis Hart. Article appeared in the "Crag and Canyon", June 22, 1983. Refers to Chateau Lake Lou…
Mary Lenders was a summer archives employee at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, in 1983.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of manuscript drafts and research notes for newspaper article on Flossie Currie. Includes notes from interview with Flossie Currie, Dorothy Cranstone, Helen Shandruk, Nick Morant and Phyllis Hart. Article appeared in the "Crag and Canyon", June 22, 1983. Refers to Chateau Lake Louise.
File consists of newspaper, magazine clippings and other collected materials. Contents pertain to obituaries of Dorothy Cranstone and Pat Brewster, Also included are articles about exhibits at the Glenbow Museum, Heritage Park Society and reproductions of art.
File consists of newspaper, magazine clippings and other collected materials. Contents pertain to obituaries of Dorothy Cranstone and Pat Brewster, Also included are articles about exhibits at the Glenbow Museum, Heritage Park Society and reproductions of art.
File consists of correspondence between Dorothy Cranstone and her family friends (includeing Jon Whyte), also included is corrspondence regarding Pat Brewster's books, and the Moore home.
File consists of correspondence between Dorothy Cranstone and her family friends (includeing Jon Whyte), also included is corrspondence regarding Pat Brewster's books, and the Moore home.
Notes
Dorothy a close friend and companion of Pat Brewster managed Pat Brewster's estate after he passed.
The Dorothy Cranstone fonds consists of papers, clippings, photographs and ephemera. Textual records include cards and letters from Peter and Catharine Whyte, 1947-1966; visitors to the Moore House, 1975-1981; Moore House visitors book, 1974-1983; transcript of Philip Moore 1903 trip diary (hologra…
ca.400 photographs : prints, copy negatives. -- 3 photograph albums (430 prints). -- 15 cm textual records
History / Biographical
Dorothy Cranstone, 1904-1996, was a businesswoman and hotel worker at Banff, Alberta. Cranstone worked at the Banff Springs Hotel, 1929-1940, as Assistant Housekeeper, and later as Housekeeper at the Mount Royal Hotel. She went on to operate a gift shop in the Mount Royal Hotel. For many years, Cranstone was companion to Pearl (Brewster) Moore and later to Pat Brewster. She also worked for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies as custodian of the Moore Home and as museum hostess.
Scope & Content
The Dorothy Cranstone fonds consists of papers, clippings, photographs and ephemera.
Textual records include cards and letters from Peter and Catharine Whyte, 1947-1966; visitors to the Moore House, 1975-1981; Moore House visitors book, 1974-1983; transcript of Philip Moore 1903 trip diary (holograph and typescript) by Dorothy Cranstone; clippings, 1937-1983, re Pat Brewster, Dorothy Cranstone, Mount Royal Hotel fire and Jim Brewster home; ephemera regarding events attended by Cranstone, including Royal Visit to the Banff Springs Hotel, 1939, Gracie Fields Concert at the Banff Springs Hotel, 1940, and H. R. H. Princess Margaret Rose's visit, 1958. Textual records also include business/financial records for the gift shop operated by Cranstone, 1949-1974; records related to the publication and distribution of Pat Brewster's books, 1983-1987; correspondence records, 1962-1996; legal and business records concerning power of attorney as well as the dispersal of Cranstone's property and estate, 1980-1998. Miscellaneous items pertaining to Pat Brewster include clippings and interview transcripts.
Photographs pertain to Dorothy Cranstone, Pat Brewster, family, friends and associates, travels and activities, and to Banff Springs Hotel staff and guests. Includes photographs of Dorothy Cranstone and Pat Brewster, ca.1900-1985; travel in Europe and Asia, 1964; a trip to Hawaii; artworks by J. Crumine and Nicholas de Grandmaison, 1945, 1940s-1950s; Moore house, 1950s to 1970s; and photographs given to Cranstone by friends.
Albums pertain to Banff Springs Hotel staff and celebrity guests, including the 1939 royal visit, ca.1929-1940; family photographs and Cranstone's life in England ca. 1920-1940.