File consists of notes, contracts, correspondence and other documents pertaining to travel and hiking brochure projects which Ben Gadd produced for Parks Canada.
File consists of notes, contracts, correspondence and other documents pertaining to travel and hiking brochure projects which Ben Gadd produced for Parks Canada.
File consists of notes and reports pertaining to vandalism and other damage to trail signs. Materials in file were produced by Parks Canada and the Friends of Jasper National Park as part of the Jasper Trails Project.
File consists of notes and reports pertaining to vandalism and other damage to trail signs. Materials in file were produced by Parks Canada and the Friends of Jasper National Park as part of the Jasper Trails Project.
File consists of printed materials retrieved from online resources pertaining to Canadian Rockies excursion companies Radke Outfitting and Horseback Adventures Ltd. Includes schedules, itineraries, price lists and booking information.
File consists of printed materials retrieved from online resources pertaining to Canadian Rockies excursion companies Radke Outfitting and Horseback Adventures Ltd. Includes schedules, itineraries, price lists and booking information.
Sub-series of hut registers from the Wates-Gibson Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1983 and 2018. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlif…
The Wates-Gibson Memorial Hut is located in the Emerite/Tonquin Valley of Jasper National Park in Alberta.
According to the Alpine Club of Canada Backcountry Huts: Wates-Gibson Info Sheet:
"The present Wates-Gibson Memorial Hut is the third ACC structure on the third different plot of land to serve skiers and climbers in the Emerite-Tonquin Valley. The original Memorial Hut was on Penstock Creek some 500 metre north of the present hut site. It was built in 1930 and lasted 17 years before the foundation gave way and a better location was sought. The Wates-Memorial Hut remained for the next 12 years on the north shore of Outpost Lake. Unfortunately the location was too close to the shore of the lake for expansion, and in 1959 when the ACC applied to Jasper National Park for a permit to enlarge the hut, it was turned down. The completely new Wates Gibson Memorial Hut was built on the present site in 1959 after the idea of moving the existing hut and then renovating it was rejected.
The Edmonton section of the ACC initiated the idea for a climbing and skiing hut in the Jasper area in 1927, but found they could not finance it alone. They approached the National Club to assist with the financing, specifically from two funds: the Soldier’s Memorial Fund, set up in remembrance of Canadians who gave their lives in the Great War, and the Slark-Rutishauser Fund, established in the memory of the first ascentionists of Dedoubt Peak in the Ramparts. Redoubt, named in concurrence to a protected place of refuge; ironically, Slark and Rutishauser apparently had an accident while descending and they were never seen again. The first hut, built on the north shore of Penstock Creek in 1930 with money from these funds, was simply named the Memorial Hut.
Cyril G. Wates was a well-known climber and Club member to the time of his death in 1946. Among other climbing accomplishments, Wates participated in the first ascent of Mt. Geikie, the highest mountain in the Ramparts. Wates was active in the administration of the Club and a driving force behind the construction of the original Memorial Hut, and served as Club President from 1938 to 1940. The second hut in the area, the Wates-Memorial Hut, was a fitting tribute to a true lover of the Rampart area and a man for whom “the mountains weaved a thread of worship…a thread of peace.”
Upon the building of the third hut in the area, the name of Rex Gibson was added to its title. Gibson was the president of the Club from 1955 to 1957, when he died in a climbing accident after being elected to a second term. Gibson also had a strong affinity for the Tonquin Valley and the Ramparts in particular, where he did much of his earlier climbing with Cyril Wates."
Scope & Content
Sub-series of hut registers from the Wates-Gibson Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1983 and 2018. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings, custodial issues and updates, and related topics.
The sub-series is separated into individual hut registers, arranged by date:
M200 / IV / C / 1: "Wates Gibson Hut A.C.C. Register" Feb. 19, 1983 - Mar. 18, 1988 + loose pages added Mar. 11, 1989 - Dec. 28, 1990
M200 / IV / C / 2: Wates-Gibson Hut Register March 9, 88 - Oct. 23/88 [should be July 22, 1990]
M200 / IV / C / 3: Wates-Gibson Hut register Feb. 23, 1991 - Aug. 24, 1994
M200 / IV / C / 4: Wates-Gibson hut register Mar 8, 1994 - July 31, 1996
M200 / IV / C / 5: Wates Gibson Hut Register [1996 - 1999]
M200 / IV / C / 6: Wates-Gibson Hut Register 1999-2001
M200 / IV / C / 7: Unidentified Hut [Maybe Wates-Gibson Hut Register] 2001 -2004
M200 / IV / C / 8: Wates-Gibson Hut Register 2003 - 2004
M200 / IV / C / 9: Unidentified Hut Maybe Wates-Gibson Hut Register 2003 - 2007
M200 / IV/ C / 10: Wates-Gibson Hut Register 2005 - 2007
M200 / IV / C / 11: Wates-Gibson Hut register (2007 - 11)
M200 / IV / C / 12: Wates-Gibson Hut Register [2012 - 2016]
M200 / IV / C / 13: Wates-Gibson Hut Register, 2016 - 2018
M200 / IV / C / 14: Wates-Gibson Hut Register [2018-2022]
Alpine Club of Canada website: https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/wates-gibson-hut/
Alpine Club of Canada Wates-Gibson Info Sheet PDF: https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/WatesGibson2018.pdf
Sub-series of hut registers from the Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1985 and 2020. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the …
The Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut is located in Fryatt Valley of Jasper National Park.
According to the Alpine Club of Canada's website and their Fryatt Hut Info Sheet:
"The idea for this hut was born in 1968 when the Vallance family made [a] donation to the Alpine Club of Canada for a backcountry hut. Fryatt Valley was quickly chosen, the location of the Club’s General Mountaineering Camp eight years earlier, and a site with excellent mountaineering but a very long approach. The hut was constructed in 1970 and turned over to Jasper National Park for operation. The hut was initially abused, to the extent that Parks eventually removed the interior facilities. In 1991 this hut, along with Mt. Colin and the Mt. Alberta (Lloyd MacKay) Huts, was turned over to the ACC to operate. The Club has upgraded the outhouse from pit to fly-out barrel system and installed an efficient coal-burning stove to replace one which was removed in 1991. The hut is named for Sydney R. Vallance, Q.C., ACC president from 1947 to 1950, who died in 1979."
Scope & Content
Sub-series of hut registers from the Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1985 and 2020. Registers include entries from visitors to the huts which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while staying at the hut, wildlife sightings, custodial issues and updates, and related topics.
The sub-series is separated into individual hut registers, arranged by date:
M200 / IV / E / 1: [Fryatt Hut 1985 - 1986]
M200 / IV / E / 2: [Fryatt Hut 1986 -87]
M200 / IV / E / 3: [Fryatt Hut 1987 - 88]
M200 / IV / E / 4: Vallance Hut [1989 -1990]
M200 / IV / E / 5: Fryatt [Hut] 1990 - 1991
M200 / IV / E / 6: Fryatt [Hut] 1991
M200 / IV / E / 7: Fryatt Hut [1991 - 1992]
M200 / IV / E / 8: "Sydney Vallance Hut" October 1992 - Aug. 12, 1995
M200 / IV / E / 9: "Sydney Vallance Hut Register" Aug. 18, 1996 - October 9, 1998
M200 / IV / E / 10: Fryatt Hut Register [1998 - 2001]
M200 / IV / E / 11: Fryatt Hut Register 2001 - 2003
M200 / IV / E / 12: Sydney Vallance Hut Register 2003 - 2006
M200 / IV / E / 13: [Fryatt Hut 2006 - 2009]
M200 / IV / E / 14: Fryatt Hut Register 2010 - 2013
M200 / IV / E / 15: Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut [2014 - 2016]
M200 / IV / E / 16: 2016 -2018 Fryatt Hut Register
Alpine Club of Canada website: https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/sydney-vallance-fryatt-hut/
Alpine Club of Canada Backcountry Huts Sydney Vallance (Fryatt) Hut Info Sheet:
https://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FryattHut-InfoSheet.pdf
Series of summit records from various summits produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1916 and 2020.
Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wil…
Series of summit records from various summits produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1916 and 2020.
Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wildlife sightings, trail updates, and related topics.
Notes
See file-level entries for inventories of summit registers and notes.
Files consist of summit notes and summit registers from Mt. Wilcox (Wilcox Peak) produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1976 and 2000. Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which…
Summit Registers and Notes produced by Alpine Club of Canada
Date Range
1976-1983
1988-1992
1997-1998
2000
Physical Description
5 cm of textual records
5 volumes
History / Biographical
Mount Wilcox (also known as Wilcox Peak) is located in Jasper National Park near the Columbia Icelfield, in the Sunwapta River Valley. The nearest peak is Nigel Peak. Mt. Wilcox was named after Walter D. Wilcox who made the first ascent of the mountain in 1896.
Scope & Content
Files consist of summit notes and summit registers from Mt. Wilcox (Wilcox Peak) produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1976 and 2000. Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wildlife sightings, trail updates, and related topics.
Files include:
M200 / V / A / 43: [loose Mt. Wilcox summit notes, 1976-1983]
M200 / V / A / 44: [Mt. Wilcox register 1988-92 & St. Nicholas Peak 1988-92]
M200 / V / A / 45: [Mt. Wilcox Summit register June 28, 1997 - July 19, 1998]
M200 / V / A / 46: [Mt. Wilcox, 2000]