Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. . No identification was possible.
The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.
File pertains to 100 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 20 to December 29, 1951. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, hockey games, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, Catharin…
1.7 cm of textual records (136 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 100 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 20 to December 29, 1951. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, hockey games, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, Catharine's uncle John passing away, installing a suite in Annie White's house, the deaths of Jack W. Brewster and Allan Mather on the same day [June 12], camping/sketching trips [mostly to Lake Louise, Bow Lake and Yoho National Park], Banff Indian Days, installing a new bridge over the Spray River, a roadtrip to Lethbridge in August for a ceremony to make Governor General Ciscount Alexander an honourary chief [ceremony held in Standoff], Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillips' tour of Canada, the deaths and funerals of Colonel Phillip Moore and Hal Waterhouse in November, making up the annual Christmas card, and various Christmas activities and parties. Also includes postcards and note cards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout.
Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981.
Image of two unidentified First Nations girls dressed in long skirts, several strings of beaded necklaces, with blankets over their left arms, and red dots painted on their cheeks posed in Byron Harmon's studio - the image is mounted on a dark grey cardboard frame - "Mrs John Simeon's sisters They …
Image of two unidentified First Nations girls dressed in long skirts, several strings of beaded necklaces, with blankets over their left arms, and red dots painted on their cheeks posed in Byron Harmon's studio - the image is mounted on a dark grey cardboard frame - "Mrs John Simeon's sisters They died" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte
Image of unidentified First Nations women dressed in regalia on horseback during the Banff Indian Days parade - "Mrs. Hector [Mary Jean] Crawler head of group Banff Indian Days about 1909 or '10" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte
Image of unidentified First Nations women dressed in regalia on horseback during the Banff Indian Days parade - "Mrs. Hector [Mary Jean] Crawler head of group Banff Indian Days about 1909 or '10" written on the back in pencil by Catharine Whyte
Image of two unidentified Indigenous men on horseback riding down a dirt street with a white church in the background - written on the back in pencil is "Stoney Indians on Parade just wore breech clouts[?] - Methodist Church Banff Ave now United Church about 1910"
Image of two unidentified Indigenous men on horseback riding down a dirt street with a white church in the background - written on the back in pencil is "Stoney Indians on Parade just wore breech clouts[?] - Methodist Church Banff Ave now United Church about 1910"
Image of horse-drawn open wagons driven by unidentified Indigenous people on a dirt road with a white church in the background - written in pencil on the back is "Banff Indian Days about 1910 Methodist Church Banff Ave, now 100F Hall on Beaver"
Image of horse-drawn open wagons driven by unidentified Indigenous people on a dirt road with a white church in the background - written in pencil on the back is "Banff Indian Days about 1910 Methodist Church Banff Ave, now 100F Hall on Beaver"
Image of two unidentified First Nations children sitting on a travois being pulled by a horse - a crowd of people and the Banff Springs Hotel visible in the background
Image of two unidentified First Nations children sitting on a travois being pulled by a horse - a crowd of people and the Banff Springs Hotel visible in the background
Image of two unidentified First Nations children sitting on a travois pulled by a horse at the Banff Springs Hotel - an unidentified Frist Nations person dressed in regalia stands beside the kids
Image of two unidentified First Nations children sitting on a travois pulled by a horse at the Banff Springs Hotel - an unidentified Frist Nations person dressed in regalia stands beside the kids