Fonds pertains to the Lake O'Hara region, particularly its history, geology, botany, trail systems and visitation. I. Writing, research and translation, ca.1887-ca.1975, ca.45 cm, including some photographs. Consists of manuscript drafts, notes, correspondence, maps and print material pertaining t…
ca.50 cm of textual records. -- ca.1000 photographs : mainly transparencies
History / Biographical
George K. K. (Tommy) Link, 1887-1979, was professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Chicago, Illinois. Link spent many summers between 1928 and 1977 studying the Lake O'Hara region and building trails there, accompanied by his wife, Adeline Link, d.1943. The Links were frequently guided by Jim Boyce.
Scope & Content
Fonds pertains to the Lake O'Hara region, particularly its history, geology, botany, trail systems and visitation.
I. Writing, research and translation, ca.1887-ca.1975, ca.45 cm, including some photographs. Consists of manuscript drafts, notes, correspondence, maps and print material pertaining to writing, editing and translation projects, including "The Ways of Lake O'Hara," and the "Map of Lake O'Hara Region South Area."
II. Personal papers, 1960-ca.1976, ca.7 cm, including some photographs. Includes correspondence, financial papers and other material.
III. Lake O'Hara Trails Club papers, 1949-1973, .5 cm.
IV. Photographs, 1937-ca.1960, ca.1000 colour transparencies and ca.25 prints. Transparencies pertain mainly to the Lake O'Hara / Lake McArthur regions; also Lake Louise, Skoki and Icefield Parkway areas and Grand Canyon, U.S.A. Includes views of landscapes, hiking, some horse travel, flora and fauna views. Some views are attributed to Adeline Link.
"History of Lake O'Hara Region, copy III" [draft], by Lillian Gest, annotated by G.K.K. Link. File also includes material by Link pertaining to Indians, early explorers, roads into area, horse trails and footpaths, Wapta Lodge, Brewster family, early guides, CPR influences in O'Hara, and the Link …
I.A. Writing, research and translation : The Ways of Lake O'Hara
Reference Code
M60 / 24
Physical Description
1 file of textual records (1 cm)
Scope & Content
"History of Lake O'Hara Region, copy III" [draft], by Lillian Gest, annotated by G.K.K. Link. File also includes material by Link pertaining to Indians, early explorers, roads into area, horse trails and footpaths, Wapta Lodge, Brewster family, early guides, CPR influences in O'Hara, and the Link family visits to Lake O'Hara.
Correspondence between Link and Austin H. Ford re operating Lake O'Hara Lodge, transportation to the Lake and Lake O'Hara warden cabin. Letters from Link to the National Geographic Magazine re footpath construction, annual visits to Lake O'Hara, total mileage of ways, photograph description in maga…
Correspondence between Link and Austin H. Ford re operating Lake O'Hara Lodge, transportation to the Lake and Lake O'Hara warden cabin. Letters from Link to the National Geographic Magazine re footpath construction, annual visits to Lake O'Hara, total mileage of ways, photograph description in magazine, Wiwaxy Trail Crew, preparation of map and treatise, O'Hara Trails Club, lodge construction, horse trails. Correspondence between Link and Tim Auger re history of Yoho National Park trail crews, Wapta Lake warden cabin, path changes, trail naming, injuries, equipment environmental issues, skiing in winter. Correspondence between Link and Glen L. Brook re Park personnel at Lake O'Hara, wardens stationed at Wapta Lake, Yoho National Park Superintendents, autobiography of Brook, duties of Lawrence Grassi at O'Hara, changes in routes, horse trails, Trans- Canada Highway and Charlotte Tuerck. Letters to Link from Tom Westervelt re types of rock in O'Hara area. Notes on Don Quixote Loop.
Legend and hand-drawn maps of Duchesnay Basin and Odaray Lakes; corrections on maps to be sent to Bruno Struck, the draftsman. Photograph copy of map of Lake Louise region by Walter Wilcox. -- Oversize stored in oversize "F".
I.B. Writing, research and translation : Map of Lake O'Hara region south area
Reference Code
M60 / 46
Physical Description
1 file of textual records (1 cm) : includes 2 oversize items. -- 2 photographs : prints
Scope & Content
Legend and hand-drawn maps of Duchesnay Basin and Odaray Lakes; corrections on maps to be sent to Bruno Struck, the draftsman. Photograph copy of map of Lake Louise region by Walter Wilcox. -- Oversize stored in oversize "F".
Photographs are photographic copies of Drewry and McArthur's map gives the first presentation of the Lake O'Hara area; Dawson's Bow Range shows the peripheral ridges of the region; Dr. Hector's map shows periphery of the Lake O'Hara region but nothing within it; David Thompson's copy of a portion o…
I.A. Writing, research and translation : The Ways of Lake O'Hara
Reference Code
M60 / 34
Physical Description
9 photographs : prints. -- 1 textual record : oversize
Scope & Content
Photographs are photographic copies of Drewry and McArthur's map gives the first presentation of the Lake O'Hara area; Dawson's Bow Range shows the peripheral ridges of the region; Dr. Hector's map shows periphery of the Lake O'Hara region but nothing within it; David Thompson's copy of a portion of the North West Territory. -- Paper copy of Drewry and McArthur map is stored in oversize "F".
"Yoho and Kootenay National Parks and Passes Historical Notes and Chronology" by F.V. Longstaff, compiled from 1925 to 1954, copy B. Excerpts from alpine journals re biographies of S.E.S. Allen, Dr. James Hector and the Palliser Expedition, Tom E. Wilson, Walter Moberly. Letter from Jimmy Simpson…
I.A. Writing, research and translation : The Ways of Lake O'Hara
Reference Code
M60 / 26
Physical Description
1 file of textual records (1 cm).
Scope & Content
"Yoho and Kootenay National Parks and Passes Historical Notes and Chronology" by F.V. Longstaff, compiled from 1925 to 1954, copy B. Excerpts from alpine journals re biographies of S.E.S. Allen, Dr. James Hector and the Palliser Expedition, Tom E. Wilson, Walter Moberly. Letter from Jimmy Simpson Sr. to Fred Longstaff re Colonel O'Hara being outfitted by Tom Wilson and guided by Jim Tabuteau. Notes on drainage area of Cataract Brook, the northern boundary of Lake O'Hara and J.J. McArthur. Letter to the editor from William Odaray re being in Lake O'Hara area with Thomas Jefferson Wiwaxy and Odaray's naming of Lake O'Hara.
House repair bills, utility bills, bank statements with cancelled cheques, Lake O'Hara Lodge bill, and letter re the financial status of Dr. George Link and Margaret Schevill-Link.
House repair bills, utility bills, bank statements with cancelled cheques, Lake O'Hara Lodge bill, and letter re the financial status of Dr. George Link and Margaret Schevill-Link.
"A Cambrian Facies Change and Its Effect On Structure Mount Stephen- Mount Dennis Area" by Donald Cook; "Control of Lower Paleozoic Sedimentary Facies By The Kicking Horse Rim, Southern Rocky Mountains" by J.D. Aitken; "Structure, Seismic Data and Orogenic Evolution of Southern Canadian Rocky Mount…
I.A. Writing, research and translation : The Ways of Lake O'Hara
Reference Code
M60 / 19
Physical Description
1 file of textual records (2 cm) of printed matter
Scope & Content
"A Cambrian Facies Change and Its Effect On Structure Mount Stephen- Mount Dennis Area" by Donald Cook; "Control of Lower Paleozoic Sedimentary Facies By The Kicking Horse Rim, Southern Rocky Mountains" by J.D. Aitken; "Structure, Seismic Data and Orogenic Evolution of Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains" by A. W. Balley et al; "Devonian of Western Canada" by H. G. Bassett and J. G. Stout.