Fonds consists of textual and visual records.
Visual records are made up of approximately 13,650 colour transparencies. transparencies pertain to personal life and career as an professional photographer, and naturalist.
Textual records pertain to background for assessing the status of the Banff / …
ca.13,650 col. slide photographs -- 51 prints -- 58 negatives -- textual records
History / Biographical
Douglas (Doug) Leighton was born in Banff, Alberta, August 7, 1953. His family moved to Penticton, British Columbia in 1963 where he began using a camera at the early age of ten years old.
At a young age, Doug was an enthusiastic birder, during his 20's Doug went on to become a Park Naturalist with British Columbia Parks for eight years until he returned to Banff in 1985 to pursue a professional photography career. In 1992 Doug moved from Banff to Golden, British Columbia and finally in 2005 Doug with his wife Myriam moved to Blaeberry, British Columbia. Doug died on March 28, 2018.
Doug was a photographer and writer. Doug's photographs have been published by National Geographic Society, Audubon Society Books, Time-Life Books, Canadian Geographic, Equinox, and Nature Canada Magazine among others. IN 1989 a portfolio of his work was selected for the National Museum of Natural Science "The Nature of Photography" exhibition which celebrated 150 years of photography in Canada. Doug is also known for his best selling photographic books "The Canadian Rockies" 1993, "Alberta" and "Greater Vancouver" 1995.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of textual and visual records.
Visual records are made up of approximately 13,650 colour transparencies. transparencies pertain to personal life and career as an professional photographer, and naturalist.
Textual records pertain to background for assessing the status of the Banff / Central Rockies grizzly bear population / Douglas Leighton : [report], January 15, 2001; and photographs by Douglas Leighton of Jon Whyte, Ted Hart, Leslie Taylor and the Cascades of Time gardens. Unprocessed sous-fonds consists of Douglas Leighton's Grizzly Research 1999-2018
Notes
Douglas Leighton fonds arrangement
Sous fonds M133
M133 / 1-2
Sous fonds V222
Series I: Personal
Subseries A: Photograph prints
Subseries B: Colour transparencies
Subseries C: NegativesXXX
Series II: AnimalsXXXSubseries A: UngulatesXXXSubseries B: Fish Reptiles and InsectsXXXSubseries C: BirdsXXXSubseries D: Mammals
Series III: Trips, Topics and EventsXXXSubseries A: Gang RanchXXXSubseries B: Forest FiresXXXSubseries C: FishingXXXSubseries D: SkiingXXX
Series IV: Scenic ViewsXXXSubseries A: AerialsXXXSubseries B: British ColumbiaXXXSubseries C: AlbertaXXX
Series V: Plants
Series VI: Published
Sous-fonds consists of Douglas Leighton's Grizzly Resaerch 1999 - 2018
List of files
1. 2005 ALBERTA - working texts for book project, early explorers (Henday-Thompson-Henry+)
2. 2009 NAME – working texts for book project following history of the grizzly bear’s name (see #8)
3. 2011 PLAINS GRIZZ…
Sous-fonds consists of Douglas Leighton's Grizzly Resaerch 1999 - 2018
List of files
1. 2005 ALBERTA - working texts for book project, early explorers (Henday-Thompson-Henry+)
2. 2009 NAME – working texts for book project following history of the grizzly bear’s name (see #8)
3. 2011 PLAINS GRIZZ - working texts for book project on the history of the ‘Plains Grizzly’
4. 2012 PLAINS GRIZ - reworking #3 texts; some additional research but some text still ‘messed up’
5. 2015 FUR TRADER RECS – grizzly bears records of Canadian fur traders, tables and lists
6. 2015 TABLES – historic recs, compilations, fur trade, others; best edited versions of many in #18.
7. ABORIGINAL HUNTING – mostly working notes, tables, texts on hunting methods, weapons, religion
8. BOOK NAME Sep 09 – working updated texts from #2
9. BUFFER ZONES – working tables, texts on historic inter-tribal and other buffer zones
10. CA 1850 (1841-60) – Canadian historic records other than fur traders
11. CA 1880 (1861-1900) – Canadian historic records other than fur traders
12. CALIFORNIA – working texts and historic records; note best Portola text in LGH 2018
13. CANADIAN ROCKIES – grizzly bear and other wildlife records and misc
14. CYPRESS HILLS 2010 - working texts for project which expanded into #3,4 project
15. ESGBP GRIZZ POPULATION ANALYSIS* - not included on most discs; analysis of research results
16. GRIZZLY – BIO – ECO – research notes, tables on grizzly biology, behavior, ecology, etc
17. LEIG GRIZ HIST – FUR TRADE MISC – misc. fur trade records, texts, include Fort Colville research
18. LEIGHTON GRIZZLY HISTORY 2018 – files edited, updated, organized and sent out in 2018; BEST
19. NORTH CASCADES – research files, texts on history of grizzly bear in North Cascades Ecosystem
20. SHORT STORY – ALL – various working reiterations of condensed ‘short story’ of grizzly bear history
21. SPANISH CA RECORDS – early Spanish historic records
22. THE MYTH – ALL – various working texts on The Myth, historic pop estimates and historic range maps
23. US NW GRIZZLY RECORDS 1825- US historic records except Spanish and LEWIS and CLARK (in #6,18)
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Includes locations such as Banff National Park and Yoho National Park with images of Glaciers, Lakes, Mountain ranges and tree lines.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Includes locations such as Banff National Park and Yoho National Park with images of Glaciers, Lakes, Mountain ranges and tree lines.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Including Banff National Park, Canmore, Kananaskis, Kootenay National Park and Jasper National Park. Images include glaciers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest, highways, and trails.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Including Banff National Park, Canmore, Kananaskis, Kootenay National Park and Jasper National Park. Images include glaciers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest, highways, and trails.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Includes photographs of Jasper National Park and Banff National Park. Images include glaciers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest, highways, and trails.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Includes photographs of Jasper National Park and Banff National Park. Images include glaciers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest, highways, and trails.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, Jasper National Park. Images include glaciers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest, highways, and trails.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in Banff National Park, Yoho National Park, Jasper National Park. Images include glaciers, lakes, mountain ranges, forest, highways, and trails.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Including photographs of Kananaskis, Canmore, Invermere, Yoho National Park.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Including photographs of Kananaskis, Canmore, Invermere, Yoho National Park.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Including photographs of Mt. Assiniboine Provincial Park, Bugaboos Mountains, Kootenay National Park, Banff National Park, and the Purcell Mountains.
File consists of aerial photographs of terrain in British Columbia and Alberta. Including photographs of Mt. Assiniboine Provincial Park, Bugaboos Mountains, Kootenay National Park, Banff National Park, and the Purcell Mountains.
File consists of photographs compiled by Douglas Leighton for publication. Includes photographs of landscapes, cityscapes, lakes, mountains, hotel, tourists, plants, flowers, waterfalls and glaciers.
File consists of photographs compiled by Douglas Leighton for publication. Includes photographs of landscapes, cityscapes, lakes, mountains, hotel, tourists, plants, flowers, waterfalls and glaciers.