File pertains to 31 colour & b&w prints of production photos from the shoot of the Frank Mills Christmas Special filmed at Lake Louise and on Pigeon Mountain. Includes shots of setting up the piano, Mills playing it on Pigeon Mountain, and contact sheets.
31 photographs : b&w & col. ; 24.7 x 19.7 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File pertains to 31 colour & b&w prints of production photos from the shoot of the Frank Mills Christmas Special filmed at Lake Louise and on Pigeon Mountain. Includes shots of setting up the piano, Mills playing it on Pigeon Mountain, and contact sheets.
File pertains to 88 colour & b&w negavites on 16 strips of film depicting production photos from the shoot of the Frank Mills Christmas Special filmed at Lake Louise and on Pigeon Mountain. Includes shots of setting up the piano, Mills playing it on Pigeon Mountain, and contact sheets.
File pertains to 88 colour & b&w negavites on 16 strips of film depicting production photos from the shoot of the Frank Mills Christmas Special filmed at Lake Louise and on Pigeon Mountain. Includes shots of setting up the piano, Mills playing it on Pigeon Mountain, and contact sheets.
File pertains to 11 colour slides mounted in plastic frames depicting posed photos of Frank Mills and an unidentified woman in the Chateau Lake Louise from the production of the Frank Mills Christmas Special.
File pertains to 11 colour slides mounted in plastic frames depicting posed photos of Frank Mills and an unidentified woman in the Chateau Lake Louise from the production of the Frank Mills Christmas Special.
Sub-series pertains to approx. 109 black and white negatives and includes individual, group, family and baby portraits, school portraits, classes, sports, graduation, events, yearkbook, weddings, businesses and facilities, buildings and dwellings, construction projects and government projects, cour…
Sub-series pertains to approx. 184 black and white negatives and includes individual, group, family and baby portraits, school portraits, classes, sports, graduation, events, yearkbook, weddings, businesses and facilities, buildings and dwellings, construction projects and government projects, cour…
Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to a National Film Board production about Christmas in Canada, partially shot in Edmonton by Bruno Engler [to be compiled into a larger project later on]. Includes shots of the city, people skiing, sledding, and skating, picking out Christmas tre…
1 motion picture (1 film reel: ca. 250'): 16 mm, original, b&w, silent
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to a National Film Board production about Christmas in Canada, partially shot in Edmonton by Bruno Engler [to be compiled into a larger project later on]. Includes shots of the city, people skiing, sledding, and skating, picking out Christmas trees, Christmas decorations and lights along a residential street at night, and shots of of family dressing their Christmas tree and opening presents.
Also included in the film case is a National Film Board Release memo that includes an overview of the Christmas Special's content and a list of shots.
The original label on the case reads "Christmas in Canada (Edmonton) NFB, Date 1963."
File pertains to 68 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 3 to June 30, 1960. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, camping, construction projects around the house (mostly pertaining to the new …
1.1 cm of textual records (87 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 68 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 3 to June 30, 1960. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, camping, construction projects around the house (mostly pertaining to the new addition), events and people in Concord, weather, and returning from a trip to Concord in June. Letters are mostly hand-written, some typed. Also includes postcards and a notecard.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
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.
146 - 20 has a small newspaper clipping attached to the letter.
Good : all pages creased throughout from being folded prior to accession, minor rips and tears along the edges of most pages.
146 - 20 : staple removed from insert, replaced with plastic paper clip.
File pertains to 74 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 2 to December 30, 1960. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, camping, construction of the new kitchen & workroom (including the removal of …
1.7 cm of textual records (107 pages ; 21.9 x 27.8 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 74 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 2 to December 30, 1960. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, wildlife, travel, camping, construction of the new kitchen & workroom (including the removal of the original stone chimney in the kitchen), the Calgary Stampede, the death of George Paris, Walter Phillips going blind, the United Nations summit in September, weather, and a visit Catharine made to Concord in December. Letters are mostly hand-written, some typed. Also includes postcards, a telegram, and a notecard.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
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.
M36 / 147 - 28 appears to be missing page 2, but could be misnumbered.
File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 3 to December 14, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, seeing the m…
1 cm of textual records (58 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 41 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 3 to December 14, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, seeing the musical My Fair Lady at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary (Sept. 21), driving out to the Panther Valley with Warden Peter Tasker (Oct. 16), Carl Rungius' death (October), a trip to Concord in early November [just Catharine], construction on the back of the house, a second trip to Concord for Christmas and New Years followed immediately by a two-month trip to the West Indies [Catharine and Peter]. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Also includes two postcards making up one letter.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
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.
File pertains to 92 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to July 14, 1958. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [mo…
Date Range
1958
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 142
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Postcard
Private record
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This morning a lovely long letter from you telling about Christmas, it took a
whole week to COl'le ordinary
2.7 cm of textual records (135 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 92 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to July 14, 1958. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [mostly news and hockey games], various holidays [both Canadian and American], errand trips to Calgary [mostly by car], new glasses for Peter, construction of the new Trans-Canada Highway, construction projects pertaining to Buffalo Block [including the installation of a restaurant on the second floor], the Seymour Narrows, B.C., controlled explosion (April 5, 1958), the opening of the new Morley Community Centre in April, a trip to Edmonton, mention of starting a Foundation in order to manage the block they live on [including ideas for an art gallery, library, and museum] and the proposed name Wa-Che-Yo-Cha-Pa supplied by George McLean, and travel around Maine, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia between visits to Concord for the purpose of painting. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Also includes postcards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Many typed letters have hand-written notes added throughout; many post scripts are hand-written.
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.
142 - 21 is a Valentine's Day card missing the front cover, not addressed to anyone and signed by Mildred.
142 - 44 is a copy of a letter written to Catharine and Peter from Rusty.
142 - 60 is a letter written from Edmonton on Corona Hotel Edmonton letterhead.
142 - 74 is the beginning of letters written on the road between Banff and Yarmouth, N.S., on the way to and after leaving Concord.