1 album (ca. 32 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photo album depicting the July 1939 ACC Camp at the Ice River Valley
Notes
Albums with black pages were likely originally bound together as a single album, however gaps in page numbers imply that pages are missing from the complete work.
File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1981 into a show from slides depicting various summer and winter trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Topics include mountains and mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fish…
I : [transparencies]. -- [before 1981]
V225 / NS 26
Date Range
[ca.1960-1981]
Physical Description
80 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1981 into a show from slides depicting various summer and winter trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Topics include mountains and mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fishing, hiking, and various other scenic views around Banff, Lake Louise, and Lake O'Hara.
Titles:
R159-2 Administration Bldg, pool, Rundle
R163-3 View from [Administration Bldg]
R160-28 A pool & summer house
R161-7 B.S.H. Terrace
B50-29 Minnewanka docks
B75-3 Mary & Can flga
B30-19 Indigenous
B30-18 [Indigenous]
B9-19 [Indigenous]
A11-16 Hoodoos
A11-18 [Hoodoos] & youth 1966
A11-19 [Hoodoos] stones on top
K11-10 Tree w. bear [illegible]
A21-38 Camp in Alpine meadow 1969
K23-1 Games at Lake Louise
K23-6 [Games at Lake Louise] Pitcher Race
K23-5 [Game at Lake Louise] Hand race
K23-9 Coupel with dog
K23-12 Outlet stream & mt. Cathedral
K23-13 Woodpile at O'Hara
K23-17 Mt Cath. reflections
K23-18 Polly & Eileen
Tim W 2 View across lake to Lefroy (winter)
[Tim W] 3 Skier on lake
[Tim W] 4 [Skier] cabin & Odaray
[Tim W] 5 [Skier] & tracks
[Tim W] 6 View towards Odaray?
[Tim W] 7 [blank]
B66-29 Mt Assin. & 2 horsemen
B27-12 [Mt. Assin.] & 4 hikers
B26-31 Winstons & Assin.
B67-16 Erling & porkie
B67-17 [Erling & porkie] Chos H.
A10-11 Mt. Eisenhower
R159-14 Lake Louise - people on shore
R169-14 Lake Louise & poppies
B49-33 Chateau
R178-22 Trail to Mirror Lake (?)
R163 23 Lake Agnes fr. trail to Goat V.
R168-22 At Tea House Lake Agnes
R164-35 Squirrel & mits
B74-37 Mt. Rundle
B71-2 Boats at Minnewanka
B22-9 Aileen in field of paint brush
B22-10 Ten peaks from road
B2-29 L. Coveney at Moraine Lake
B22-16 Dot & Elsa
R141-7 3 girls on trail to Sentinel Pass
R198-30 Giant steps
R144-7 [blank]
R144-8 Same - people nearer
B49-36 Bag Piper Band
B27-17 Sedan left & Mt. Vic
B27-19 Phyl admiring the view
CH.'51 Fall colors
CH fall colors Bow Valley
CH [fall colors] Horse show at Mile 8
CH [fall colors] Near 8 Mile
CH.49 Rundle & Banff fr. Norquay
R178-6 Crowfoot glacier
B2-6 Laurence at Bowl
R176-4 Chephron & Murray Graty
CH. Water [illegible] herb on shore of river
B55-25 Mt Athabaska & flowers in Chalet
R202-29 Deer - horns in velvet
R146-6 Fawn lying down
R207-15 Ed Feuz & H. Green on trail
R164-11 Needles & Lake Agnes
R207-17 Edw. & H.G. on Vic Ridge
R207-21 Crack bet. Needles
R207-16 Tea House thru crack
R204-25 L.G. Sunbruned PR
B68-19 1st Lake of [illegible]
B54-9 Party on Lake shore
R207-33 Abbot Pass Hut
Notes
Please note: Language pertaining to First Nations people is outdated and offensive.
Please note: Behavior towards wildlife, primarily human proximity and feeding, is outdated and no longer tolerated throughout all National Parks - do not feed or approach wildlife.
Slides originally in Kodak Carousel 80 slide tray.
File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1981 into a show from slides depicting various summer and winter trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Topics include mountains and mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fish…
I : [transparencies]. -- [before 1981]
V225 / NS 27
Date Range
[ca. 1960-1981]
Physical Description
80 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1981 into a show from slides depicting various summer and winter trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Topics include mountains and mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fishing, hiking, and various other scenic views around Banff, Lake Louise, and Lake O'Hara.
Titles:
1. K14-15 Clouds from plane
2. K17-26 3 Sisters & clouds
3. K11-8 From Poet's Pool
4. K207-34 Oesa from Abbots Pass
5. B30-27 Babg sandpiper
6. CH 4 fish from Baker Cr.
7. CH. Wilson's Ranch
8. CH. Douglas Lake at sunrise
9. CH. '55 ACC Camp Robson
10. CH. '55 N.E. from Ptarmigan Pk.
11. CH. '55 Banff fr. shoulder Cascade
12. CH. '55 Scarab L. & Whistler Pass
13. CH. 55 Lake & Healy Ck. Plateau
14. CH. 55 Egypt, Scarab, & Mummy Lake
15. CH. 55 NE across Scarab & Egypt L.
16. CH. 55 Monarch Mt. unnamed Lake
17. CH. 55 Mummy Lake
18. CH. 55 Healy Cr. summit & Talc mine L. beyond
19. CH. 55 Ptarmigan, Baker, Redonlet Lakes
20. CH 55 Fr. Ptarmigan Peak
21. CH 55 North fr. Ptarmigan Pk
22. CH 55 Merlin Lake
23. CH 55 Fossil Mt & Baker Lake fr. Ptarm. Pk
24. CH 55 Egypt Lake
25. B50-5 Garden & fowers
26. B32-6 MacArthur Lake
27. Duplicate Cathedral Basin
28. B27-24 Phyl waiting for train
29. K22-21 Spiral Tunnel
30. K22-18 [Spiral Tunnel]
31. K111-18 Photographer Hiker
32. K17-13 Crystal Cave
33. K17-23 Big Rock on trail
34. K16-12 Main Camp & Mt Coleman
35. K16-2 Around stream & dogs
36. K16-13 Campers & Mt Coleman
37. K16. 22 Conne & my horse
38. K16-23 [Conne] & her horse
39. K16-6 Hay fr. the horses
40. K10-14 Canoe on Lake O'Hara
41. -- 10 Walyek & party on porch
42. K5-34 Party by cairn
43. R146-36 Fool hen
44. CH. Baby ptarmigan
45. 191-15 Ptarmigan
46. R144-27 [Ptarmigan] on rocks
47. Vallance 60 Hummingbird male
48. [Vallance] 60 [Hummingbird] female
49. B55-11 Fool hen (nearest)
50. B13-37 Close up of moose
51. B13-35 Moose on club porch
52. B67-4 Charlie feeding moose
53. B11-26 4 buffalo feeding
54. B11-24 Buffalo herd
55. B30-4 Pika
56. B1-24 Beaver in pond
57. R173-34 Bear & cub at one pot
58. R173-33 Bear & 2 cubs one standing
59. R173-35 Bear
60. R185-16B1 Mt goat (bouglet)
61. R177-28 Coyote
62. B27-34 2 Sheep & tourists
63. B8-21 Sheep on the road
64. B27-31 3 ewes
65. B71-36 SHeep & marg fo[?]
66. R173-9 Ewe
67. B65-22 Deer at Club house
68. K36-3 2 plaques at old [Club house]
69. K36-1 Club house plaque
70. K36-2 [Club house plaque]
71. R206-28 Camp at Robson
72. R189-6 Phyl's rope on glacier
73. R187-21 Crowd on decsent
74. B46-4 Above Sunshine Lodge
75. B68-5 Camp fire w- flame
76. R179-17 Al gates plane in meadow
77. R204-32 Mashed plane
78. K15-6 Cars cars cars
79. K15-5 Cars at the Chateau
80. K15-4 View from #658 window
Notes
Please note: Language pertaining to First Nations people is outdated and offensive.
Please note: Behavior towards wildlife, primarily human proximity and feeding, is outdated and no longer tolerated throughout all National Parks - do not feed or approach wildlife.
Slides originally in Kodak Carousel 80 slide tray.
Series consists of newspaper clippings and photocopied newspapers pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers, and a photocopy of a guide to the Tonquin area created by Kathleen Chapman.
Series consists of newspaper clippings and photocopied newspapers pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers, and a photocopy of a guide to the Tonquin area created by Kathleen Chapman.
Series consists of photo albums pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers and various Alpine Club of Canada trips in Banff, Jasper, and Yoho national parks.
8 albums (257 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
Series consists of photo albums pertaining to the first summit of Mount Columbia by female mountaineers and various Alpine Club of Canada trips in Banff, Jasper, and Yoho national parks.
Notes
Albums with black pages were likely originally bound together as a single album, however gaps in page numbers imply that pages are missing from the complete work.
Fonds relate to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Canada. The fond consists of three series: I. Textual records consist of 8 newsclippings from July 1938 pertaining to the first ascent of Mount Columbia by women: Lillian Gest, Kathleen Chapman, Christine Reid, Jean McDonald, and Jean Petrie as…
1 cm textual records. -- 8 albums (257 photographs : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller). -- 4 photographs : b&w silver gelatin prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller.
History / Biographical
Dr. Jean Knox (McDonald) Petrie, born 1913, was an active member of the Alpine Club of Canada, Edmonton Section during the 1930s and 1940s, attending the Alpine Club of Canada summer camps from 1937-1940, 1942 and 1946 as well as making many weekend climbs in the Jasper area with Captain E. R. Gibson. In 1938 she was one of the four women to make a first ascent of Mount Columbia by women, as well as Mount Forbes in 1940. Married in 1960 to Robert Petrie (died 1966), Dr. Jean Petrie worked in Ottawa, Ontario (1940-1945) in munitions gauge testing for the National Research Council. Following the war, she worked as an astrophysicist for the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia (1945-1966) and taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1966-1971).
Scope & Content
Fonds relate to mountaineering with the Alpine Club of Canada. The fond consists of three series: I. Textual records consist of 8 newsclippings from July 1938 pertaining to the first ascent of Mount Columbia by women: Lillian Gest, Kathleen Chapman, Christine Reid, Jean McDonald, and Jean Petrie as well as a photocopied "Guide to the Tonquin" signed by K. G. Chapman ca.1935. II. Photographic records include an unbound album of 44 pages: 111 prints divided by the donor into 3 sections: 1. To the Tonquin Valley, July 1938; 2. Alpine Club Camp, Columbia Icefields, July 12-31, 1938; 3. Alpine Club Camp Tonquin Valley, April 1939. The album also includes artwork and map. A second unbound photograph album of 28p: 170 prints are divided into 5 sections: 1. ACC camp in the Ice River Valley, July 1939; 2. ACC ski camp in Little Yoho Valley, March 23-31, 1940; 3. Our climb of Roche Miette, May 24, 1940; 4. Our summertime journey into the Little Yoho Valley, July 1940; 5. Our climb of Mts. Fitzwilliam & Bucephelas, September 3, 1940. III. Photographic Prints consist of 4 loose prints unrelated to other contents of the fond.
Notes
Unbound books are numbered in pencil by the creator, pages appear to be missing due to absent page numbers.
File pertains to 65 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to July 31, 1939. Topics include New Year's Eve celebrations and activities, Christmas presents, radio programs [mostly operas and the news, but also plays], books Catharine and Edith are read…
2.3 cm of textual records (138 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 65 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to July 31, 1939. Topics include New Year's Eve celebrations and activities, Christmas presents, radio programs [mostly operas and the news, but also plays], books Catharine and Edith are reading, day to day life, weather, slide-making, skiing at Norquay, visits from friends and visitors, descriptions of meals, wildlife [often in the yard], print-making, photography and cameras, events and people in Concord, day trips to Lake Louise, the Winter Carnival, construction of the Mount Temple Chalet finishing and subsequent trips to Temple to ski, cleaning and household chores, trips to Skoki to ski, painting/sketching, photography, updates on Dave White's health, errand trips to Calgary, various holidays [both Canadian and American], planning a new additon to the back of the house, going to Victoria and back in April-May [they stayed in Lethbridge, Nelson, Grand Forks, Kamloops, and Vancouver before arriving in Victoria by car and then took the train back to Banff from Prince George through Revelstoke and Golden], preparing the house for renovations [includes deep cleaning and having the floors sanded], the King and Queen visiting in late May, the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, Russ' health concerns, short trips around the mountains to paint/sketch [mostly up to Bow Lake/Saskatchewan River Crossing and into Yoho National Park], the Calgary Stampede, Banff Indian Days, progress on the construction of Num-Ti-Jah Lodge at Bow Lake, and preparing for the annual Skyline Trail Hikers trip.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Letters are typed and hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some are written on hotel/lodge letterhead. Most typed letters are written on a single side of paper, hand-written letters are mostly double-sided.
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.
106 - 47 contains details of the 1939 Royal Visit.