Edgar Dewdney photographic album "Rocky Mountain Scenery : Artistic and Geological." Photographer: Topley Studios (Ottawa). Includes early Banff townsite and surrounding area: Pilot Mountain, Lake Minnewanka, Mount Peechee, Sawback Range, also Ghost River Canyon region, Hoodoos, Crowsnest Mounta…
Edgar Dewdney was born in Devonshire, England and came to Canada in 1859. He was a surveyor and civil engineer. Became a member of the British Columbia Assembly, 1869-1872, sat in the House of Commons as a Conservative member, 1872-1879 and 1888-1892. Dewdney also served as an Indian Affairs Commissioner for Manitoba and the Northwest Territories from 1879 to 1888, was Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories,1881 to1892 and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1892 to 1897.
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Edgar Dewdney photographic album "Rocky Mountain Scenery : Artistic and Geological." Photographer: Topley Studios (Ottawa). Includes early Banff townsite and surrounding area: Pilot Mountain, Lake Minnewanka, Mount Peechee, Sawback Range, also Ghost River Canyon region, Hoodoos, Crowsnest Mountain and Crowsnest Pass region. -- Gift of Yantara Loretta Walker, 2000.
Views include Oregon Cave? by George M. Weister ; group ascending Mt. Hood, signed on back by Harley H. Prouty ; album contains some by Byron Harmon views including Alpine Club of Canada camp at Robson, Cathderal Mountain, 1913, Frank Freeborn's home ; also handwritten notes made by Kevin Kramer fr…
album contains ca. 215 b/w prints ; 7 b/w prints (loose)
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Views include Oregon Cave? by George M. Weister ; group ascending Mt. Hood, signed on back by Harley H. Prouty ; album contains some by Byron Harmon views including Alpine Club of Canada camp at Robson, Cathderal Mountain, 1913, Frank Freeborn's home ; also handwritten notes made by Kevin Kramer from faded captions on album pages. -- Purchased 2003 from Kevin A. Kramer, Sherman Oaks, California.
File consists of a class scrapbook produced by Mrs. McCallum and her Grade VI class about the 1922 Banff Indian Days and Banff environs. These pages are a combination of photographs and written text.
File also contains pages of photographs depicting scenes of downtown Vancouver, Victoria, and other…
File consists of a class scrapbook produced by Mrs. McCallum and her Grade VI class about the 1922 Banff Indian Days and Banff environs. These pages are a combination of photographs and written text.
File also contains pages of photographs depicting scenes of downtown Vancouver, Victoria, and other scenic views along the west coast of Canada.
2 photograph albums (139 prints). 1 photograph album (96 photographs): b&w. Album pertains to Roy McLeod Sparkes on leave from a Calgary military base, 1942-1943 and include images of Banff townsite, Cave and Basin and Lake Louise. 1 photograph album (43 photographs): b&w. Album pertains to the September 1946 wedding and honeymoon of Roy McLeod Sparkes and Ella J. Sparkes (nee Moffatt) in Banff and Lake Louise.
The photograph album contains the following Wm. Notman & Son "on the Canadian Pacific Railway" prints: Fraser Canon, North Bend; The Great and Asulkan Glaciers; Mount Sir Donald; Albert Canon; Stony Creek; Mount Stephen House, Field; Mount Stephen; Emerald Lake; Mount Macdonald (signed G.Morat Russ…
1 photograph album (39 prints): b&w. 24 prints by Wm Notman & Son, Montreal, 3 prints by R.H. Trueman & Co., Vancouver and 12 snapshots.
History / Biographical
Edith Dabney was born in 1880 at Pomeroy, Ohio. She moved with her parents and brother to Seattle in 1900. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1903 and lived the rest of her life in Seattle. Edith Dabney and a friend were the first women to ski the eastern slope of Mt. Rainier and the first people to make a trip on skis to an altitude of 7,000 feet on Rainier. Edith Dabney married Sherwood D. Ford, a Seattle architect, in 1928. They had no children. Dabney was headmistress of St. Nicholas School c.1930s and she died in Seattle in late 1960s.
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The photograph album contains the following Wm. Notman & Son "on the Canadian Pacific Railway" prints: Fraser Canon, North Bend; The Great and Asulkan Glaciers; Mount Sir Donald; Albert Canon; Stony Creek; Mount Stephen House, Field; Mount Stephen; Emerald Lake; Mount Macdonald (signed G.Morat Russell '92); Mount Burgess, Emerald Lake; Jaws of Death, Thompson Canon; Louise Lake; Castle Crags, Lefroy, Hazel & Lake Mirror; Mirror Lake & the Beehive; Castle Crags, Lefroy, Hazel & Lake Agnes; Sawback Louise; Banff, from Tunnel Mt.; Bow River Falls, Banff; Bow Lake & Mount Hector; Sulphur & Goat Mts., from Tunnel Mt. Banff; [Devil's Lake]; Sundance Canyon, Banff; Interior Cave, Banff; Cascade Canon & Mountain. R. H. Trueman & Co. prints: Lake Agnes, Near Laggan, Rocky Mountains; Devil's Creek Canyon near Banff; Lake Louise and Chalet, Rocky Mountains, C.P.R. 12 snapshots taken by the family are also included in album.
Album documents the trip taken by Keith Everts and Don Mickle to Castleguard Meadows to scatter Deegan's ashes August 22, 1996. Album created by Keith Everts and Don Mickle.
Album documents the trip taken by Keith Everts and Don Mickle to Castleguard Meadows to scatter Deegan's ashes August 22, 1996. Album created by Keith Everts and Don Mickle.
Correspondence: 1 letter from Vera Hansen of Stettler, Alberta to Rita Rothenberg of Brooklyn, NY, dated 1954 pertaining to photographs of their 1954 trip with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and 1 letter from Rita Rothenberg to the Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, 1982.
Correspondence: 1 letter from Vera Hansen of Stettler, Alberta to Rita Rothenberg of Brooklyn, NY, dated 1954 pertaining to photographs of their 1954 trip with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and 1 letter from Rita Rothenberg to the Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, 1982.
Photographs pertain to trip taken by Vera Hansen of Stettler, Alberta and Rita Rothenberg of Brooklyn, NY with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies in 1954. Images include Bryant Creek Meadows, Alberta, Mt. Assiniboine, Owl Lake as well as Bud and Jim Brewster and Rita Rothenberg.
Photographs pertain to trip taken by Vera Hansen of Stettler, Alberta and Rita Rothenberg of Brooklyn, NY with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies in 1954. Images include Bryant Creek Meadows, Alberta, Mt. Assiniboine, Owl Lake as well as Bud and Jim Brewster and Rita Rothenberg.