Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. 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.
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Update: Recognizing Relations phase 5 consensus determines photograph is of John Abraham.
Image of a group of children on snowshoes with Norman Sanson at the back - "Sulphur Mtn Feb 19. 1918 [/] Pete Whyte, April Paris, Mrs Moore, [illegible] Young, N.B.S. upper trail [/] photo by George Paris" written on the back
Image of a group of children on snowshoes with Norman Sanson at the back - "Sulphur Mtn Feb 19. 1918 [/] Pete Whyte, April Paris, Mrs Moore, [illegible] Young, N.B.S. upper trail [/] photo by George Paris" written on the back
Image of a group of people on snowshoes on Sulphur Mountain - "901 near top of trail. Sulphur Mtn. movie snowshoe tramp [/] Feby 19th 1918. Pete white. Les[?] Paris. Paris boy [Cyril]. Mrs Moore" written on the back in black ink
Image of a group of people on snowshoes on Sulphur Mountain - "901 near top of trail. Sulphur Mtn. movie snowshoe tramp [/] Feby 19th 1918. Pete white. Les[?] Paris. Paris boy [Cyril]. Mrs Moore" written on the back in black ink
Image of Norman Sanson wearing large fur gloves and snowshoes with a group of people also on snowshoes on the trail behind him - "904 Sulphur Mtn Feb 19 1918 [/] Sulphur Mt movie 1918 N.B.S, Pete Whyte, Cyril Paris, Mis Broad Young" written on the back
Image of Norman Sanson wearing large fur gloves and snowshoes with a group of people also on snowshoes on the trail behind him - "904 Sulphur Mtn Feb 19 1918 [/] Sulphur Mt movie 1918 N.B.S, Pete Whyte, Cyril Paris, Mis Broad Young" written on the back
Image of three boys on the peak of Sulphur Mountain with the town of Banff, Bow River, and Cascade Mountain in the background in winter - "912 Sulphyr Mtn Feby 19th 1918 [/] Sulphur Mt top movie Young George, Cyril Parish, Pete Whyte" written on the back
Image of three boys on the peak of Sulphur Mountain with the town of Banff, Bow River, and Cascade Mountain in the background in winter - "912 Sulphyr Mtn Feby 19th 1918 [/] Sulphur Mt top movie Young George, Cyril Parish, Pete Whyte" written on the back
Image of Peter Whyte wearing snowshoes beside 40 Mile Creek with Mt. Louise in the background - "Feb-1919- Mt. Louise & Forty-Mile Creek Pete White in foreground" written on the back
Image of Peter Whyte wearing snowshoes beside 40 Mile Creek with Mt. Louise in the background - "Feb-1919- Mt. Louise & Forty-Mile Creek Pete White in foreground" written on the back
Album consists of 94 pages of b&w photographs; 1 carte des visites and postcard. Photographs feature locations such as Banff, Bankhead, Lake Louise, Marble Canyon, Vermilion Lakes, and other Rocky Mountain areas. The album has some pictures of the Stanford house in Banff as well as family, friends…
Edith Berenice Dunsworth (nee Stenton) was born in Banff on May 20, 1927. Berenice is the daughter of Joseph Alexander Stenton and Elizabeth Florence Stenton (nee Williams). Berenice had one sister, Marguerite Flora Lineker (nee Stenton). Berenice was married to Dr. Brian Dunsworth (19??-2014).
Berenice's grandparents were George and Flora McKenzie and George was likely a son of the Stanford family. Berenice remembers her grandparent's house was next door to the Stanford house.
Berenice's other grandparents were Percy and Elizabeth Williams who settled in Bankhead, near Banff, when they arrived from England ca.1910.
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Album consists of 94 pages of b&w photographs; 1 carte des visites and postcard. Photographs feature locations such as Banff, Bankhead, Lake Louise, Marble Canyon, Vermilion Lakes, and other Rocky Mountain areas. The album has some pictures of the Stanford house in Banff as well as family, friends, and events. Of note are photographs of "Peter White" and "The Artists' Cottage Mrs. Drummond." Photographs are mostly annotated and tipped into album pages with photo corners. The inside cover of first page is inscribed: "To Beth from Rose Aug 20/21. Some photographs are missing from some pages and a few loose photographs are tucked in behind others.
Image of three people sitting on a log over a small strem with trees and a campfire visible in the background - "Our mid-day camp on return trip from Windermere. Doc, Ruth, & Pete White July 9th 1924" written on the back in pencil
Image of three people sitting on a log over a small strem with trees and a campfire visible in the background - "Our mid-day camp on return trip from Windermere. Doc, Ruth, & Pete White July 9th 1924" written on the back in pencil
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The old Hudson - Peter Whyte driving, George McLean (Tatâga Mânî) (Walking Buffalo) with Buffalo horns, Jonas Benjamin, Dan Wildman (Thuda Gado) (Bangs on Steal) (right) on Bow Avenue
Image of (left to right) unidentified, George McLean (Tatâga Mânî) (Walking Buffalo), Jonas Benjamin, unidentified, Dan Wildman (Thuda Gado) (Bangs on Steal) - Peter Whyte driving car with "Brewster Transport" on windshield on Bow Avenue in front of Crosby's.
Image of (left to right) unidentified, George McLean (Tatâga Mânî) (Walking Buffalo), Jonas Benjamin, unidentified, Dan Wildman (Thuda Gado) (Bangs on Steal) - Peter Whyte driving car with "Brewster Transport" on windshield on Bow Avenue in front of Crosby's.
Image of Peter Whyte [Banff], Eddie Wallace [Honolulu], and Doug Gordon [Winnipeg] posed at the Banff Springs Hotel during the Highland Games - their names, hometowns, and the location written on the back
Image of Peter Whyte [Banff], Eddie Wallace [Honolulu], and Doug Gordon [Winnipeg] posed at the Banff Springs Hotel during the Highland Games - their names, hometowns, and the location written on the back
Image of J.E.H. MacDonald, [unknown], Peter Whyte, Adeline Link at Opabin - Peter seated at easel behind group - "Opabin 1929" written on back in pencil
Image of J.E.H. MacDonald, [unknown], Peter Whyte, Adeline Link at Opabin - Peter seated at easel behind group - "Opabin 1929" written on back in pencil
Image of Lake McArthur with someone [probably Peter Whyte] sitting on the shore and Mt. Biddle in the background - McAruthur 1929 with Pete" written on the back in pencil
Image of Lake McArthur with someone [probably Peter Whyte] sitting on the shore and Mt. Biddle in the background - McAruthur 1929 with Pete" written on the back in pencil
File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brews…
1.3 cm of textual records (82 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 47 letters and postcards written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 1930 to October 1930. Topics include the trip back to Banff after marriage, day to day life, meeting and visiting Pete's friends, the Banff community and artists [including Bill Brewster, Jim Brewster, Guy Davenport, Sid Graves, Sid Brewster, Mary Vaux Walcott, Jimmy Simpson, Byron Harmon, Fern Brewster, Wayne Palmer, Fred McCauley, Mrs. Brett, Julia Raymond, Pearl Moore, Edmee Moore, Philip Moore, J.E.H. MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Link, Mr. and Mrs. Painter, George Brewster, Jessie McLean, Buddy van Dyke, Dorothy Whyte, John Murray Gibbon, Carl Rungius, Fred Arbrister, Neil Begg, Rudolph Aemner,] painting outdoors, people in Concord, meeting Noel Odell of the 1924 Everest Expedition, a fire at a tea house in town, plans for building their home [including a sketch of the lots along Bow River], visiting Castle Mountain Camp and Kicking Horse Tea House, description of Skoki Lodge building plans [with Cliff White, Cyril Paris, and Ike Mills], and builders Earl Spencer and Spud White, and painting in Morley [Mrs. Twoyoungmen, John Simian or Black Buffalo, Jonas Richson [?], Dan Wildman and other illegible names], the climb to Abbot Pass, Lake Oesa, and Lake O'Hara Camp.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document.
Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. 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. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
Image of Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Peter Whyte having a picnic at Opabin Lake - "Opabin Lunch 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Catharine Whyte, Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Peter Whyte having a picnic at Opabin Lake - "Opabin Lunch 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Rudolf Aemmer, Neil Begg [an employee at Lake O'Hara Lodge], Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte holding walking sticks and with rope tied around their waists in Abbot Pass - 20 September 1930 [photo taken by George K.K. Link]
Image of Rudolf Aemmer, Neil Begg [an employee at Lake O'Hara Lodge], Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte holding walking sticks and with rope tied around their waists in Abbot Pass - 20 September 1930 [photo taken by George K.K. Link]
Image of Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte sitting on a grazzy slope - Peter has his head down looking at something in his lap, possibly a sketch - "Lunch at Opabin Pete [illegible] 1930" written on the back in pencil
Image of Adeline Link, J.E.H. MacDonald, Catharine Whyte, and Peter Whyte sitting on a grazzy slope - Peter has his head down looking at something in his lap, possibly a sketch - "Lunch at Opabin Pete [illegible] 1930" written on the back in pencil
File pertains to 56 letters and envelopes written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 1931 to October 1931. Topics include visiting J.E.H. MacDonald in Toronto and meeting Lawren Harris, day to day life in Banff, skiing at Skoki, bringing materials out to Skoki in …
1.3 cm of textual records (310 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to 56 letters and envelopes written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 1931 to October 1931. Topics include visiting J.E.H. MacDonald in Toronto and meeting Lawren Harris, day to day life in Banff, skiing at Skoki, bringing materials out to Skoki in packs and by dogsled, Bill Oliver filming at Skoki, the description and construction details of Peter and Catharine's house and yard and moving in [including furniture details], shopping in Calgary for house items,a rock slide near Field, travel to Montana, people in Concord, installation of Peter and Catharine's paintings in the ballroom at the Banff Springs Hotel, the fire at Grand View Villa, attending the Calgary Stampede with Edmee Moore and Georgia Engelhard, painting portraits of Indigenous friends and Tom Wilson, Edith's visit to Banff, painting at Castle Mountain [including details about Joe Smith], Peter making picture frames, the visit of the King and Queen of Siam, and meeting new people, community members and house callers [including Cyril Paris, Victor Kutschera, Norman Knight, Bernie Hanson, Ike Mills, Erling Strom, Allan Mather, Betty Painter, Rick Smith, Mrs. Bill Brewster, Bill Carson, Mr. Coach, Spud White, Cliff White, Dr. Robinson, Cameron and Lila White Stockand, Mildred Jackson White, Annie White, Mr. and Mrs. Rungius, Charlie Beil, J.D. Curren, Sam Ward and Earl Spencer and others working on the Whyte Home, Mrs. Carr, Jackie White, Pearl and Philip Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Harmon, Casper McCullah, Dorothy White, Mrs. Childe, Mrs. Robertson, Bobby Hunter, William Twin, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Poucette, Hank Cheever, Mr. and Mrs. Leuning [Otto?], Barbara and Ruth Carpenter, Sid Graves, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Fred Armbrister, Mr. Gillet, Belmore Browne, Margaret Simpson, Betty Painter, and Jim and Dell Brewster.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document.
Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel, business, and camp letterheads. 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. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.