Fonds consists of photographs, published booklets and film reels which belonged to William Royle. Content pertains to the Banff Boy Scouts: local events, including Banff Winter Carnival, Banff Indian Days and Banff's Centennial Parade in 1967; hiking, camping, skiing and other recreational activiti…
ca.348 photographs (204 b&w and col. prints, 144 col. transparencies) -- 0.5 cm of textual records -- 7 film reels
History / Biographical
William "Bill" Royle (1905-1980) moved to Banff from Lethbridge in 1952 with his mother (Mary Elizabeth) and two young sons (Bernard and Walter), following the death of his wife. William started the business Banff Plumbing and Heating Ltd., which he operated until his death. William and his brother, John J. Royle, were also involved with a laundromat business in Banff. From its inception in 1953, William also worked as director and president of the Banff Park Savings and Credit Union (now Bow Valley Credit Union). In his spare time, William volunteered with the Banff Boy Scouts, as well as St. Mary's Church in Banff, the Seniors' Society and the Alberta Council of the Aging.
William's son, Bernard, tragically passed away in a plane crash in 1969 while searching for new heliskiing routes in British Columbia with his friend, John Gow, who survived.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of photographs, published booklets and film reels which belonged to William Royle. Content pertains to the Banff Boy Scouts: local events, including Banff Winter Carnival, Banff Indian Days and Banff's Centennial Parade in 1967; hiking, camping, skiing and other recreational activities; Bernard Royle and friends; the Banff High School curling team; natural views and wildlife in Alberta and British Columbia; and other related subjects.
Includes three visual series: I - Prints ; II - Motion pictures ; III - Transparencies. Series I includes five sub-series: A - Boy Scouts [includes o.s. items] ; B - Banff Indian Days ; C - Banff Winter Carnival ; D - St. Mary's Baptist Church ; E - Misc.
Image of unidentified people standing on sheet of ice holding curling brooms - on the back is written "Old Log Building is still near Boathouse - before 1900" in pencil
Image of unidentified people standing on sheet of ice holding curling brooms - on the back is written "Old Log Building is still near Boathouse - before 1900" in pencil
In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
File consists of black and white glass negative photographs that pertain to George Paris family, friends, activities, recreation and sports; Banff people, places and events; Banff area and Canadian Rockies views. Photographs depict the Banff townsite, winter sports, views from mountain summits, and…
106 photographs : b&w negatives, glass ; 16.3 x 12 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of black and white glass negative photographs that pertain to George Paris family, friends, activities, recreation and sports; Banff people, places and events; Banff area and Canadian Rockies views. Photographs depict the Banff townsite, winter sports, views from mountain summits, and the Sanitarium Hotel.
Notes
Duplicate positive glass slide of NG-101 depicting black bear
1 Interior of cave at Cave and Basin sulphur springs, Banff
2 Banff Springs Hotel from Tunnel Mountain, [ca.1904]
3 Cascade Mountain and Bow River bridge, 1904?
4 Mount Rundle and Bow River bridge, 1904
5 Group on snowshoes
6 Banff Springs Hotel and Mount Rundle, 1904?
7 Sanitarium Hotel after heavy snowfall, 1903
8 Brett House and Sanitarium Hotel, 1898
9 Brett House, 1903?
10 Brett House, 1903
11 Sulphur Mountain Observatory, 1903
12 Bow River Boat House at sunset
13 Grand View Villa at the Upper Hot Springs, 1905
14 Paris house-under construction on Banff Avenue, 1902
15 N.W.M.P. barracks at Banff?
16 Sanitarium Hotel and Bow River bridge, 1908
17 Ida and Cyril Paris behind buildings at Lake Minnewanka, 1904
18 [Casey Oliver?] and interior of Brett Drug Store
19 Brett Drug Store (first drug store in Banff)
20 Charlie Barbour and Miss Thomson in school room, [ca.1905]
21 Tunnel Mountain, east side, and Bow Valley looking east
22 Hoodoos on Tunnel Mountain, Banff
23 Mount Rundle from the Cave and Basin Road, 1900
24 Cascade Mountain and Bow River after rainstorm, 1902
25 North face of Mount Rundle from Loop Drive
26 Mount Edith and the Bow River
27 Mount Rundle and Forty Mile Creek
28 Middle hot springs before it caved in, 1898
29 Mount Rundle and Forty Mile Creek in winter
30 Vermilion Lake in winter
31 Taxidermist Bob Robertson with large sheep head
32 Curling at Banff Front to back: Arthur Saddington, Ralph Edwards, Bill Mather
33 Group on the porch of the Brett Sanitarium Hotel, 1893
34 Hartley going over Bow Falls in boat, 1902
35 George Paris skating on old curling rink, 1901
36 Ida Paris and Mrs. Hatfield boating on Echo Creek, [ca.1900]
37 Ida Paris in canoe on Echo Creek ca, 1900
38 Ida Paris in boat on Forty Mile Creek, 1899
39 Ida Paris fishing from boat on channel between First and Second Vermilion Lakes (Boulder Creek), 1899
40 George Paris fishing from boat on channel between First and Second Vermilion Lakes, 1899
41, 42 Group outside hospital. Front: Fern Brewster, Claude Frost, Vivian Galletly holding Adeline Fulcher, Jack Frost (Brewster), Syd Frost (later Mrs. Syd Graves). Back row: Ethel Fulcher Ronald, Ida Paris holding Cyril, Mrs. William Frost (later Mrs. Bill Brewster), Mrs. Celia (Lowther) Harrison, Mrs. Jim Brewster, 1904
43 George and Ida Paris, 1903
44 George Paris skating an Forty Mile Creek, 1905
45 George Paris snowshoeing on the Bow River, 1901
46 Bodyguard (Sikhs) of Duke of Cornwall and York (later King George V) during Banff visit, 1901
47 [Three nurses?] and Chinese man [at Brett Hospital?]
48 Dr. White, [Raymond Rooper?], Dr. R. G. Brett, Mrs. Brett's sister, Mrs. Brett, Harry Brett at the Brett home, [ca.1903]
49 George Paris skating on the Bow River, 1905
50 George Paris skating on Willow Creek, 1905
51 Ida Paris and others in the Basin, 1900
52 George Paris skating on the Bow River, [ca.1905]
53 George Paris snowshoeing on Bow Falls, 1902
54 Nurse McLauchlin and another nurse in Sanitarium Hospital
55 Sydney Frost (Brewster) (later Mrs. Syd Graves)
56 Dr. White, Marion Cardell, Mrs. Brett, Dr. R. G. Brett, Mrs. Brett's sister, [ca.1903]
57 Sid Baker on snowshoes
58 Group at Lake Minnewanka: Ida Paris with Cyril, Mrs. Fulcher with Ronald, Miss Thompson, Charley Barbour, and two girls, 1904
59 Ida Parts and Cyril, 1904
60 Hockey game on Banff's first skating rink on the Bow River, 1894
61 Chinese laundrymen [or cooks?] at the Sanitarium Hotel, [ca.1898]
62 Raymond Rooper with baby and dog, ca. 1903
63 Raymond Rooper and Mrs. Donna Rooper, ca. 1903
64 Ida Paris with Cyril and Nurse McLauchlin, 1904
65 Ida Paris, Guusie Atkinson, Harry Lang and Harry Symonds with Cyril Paris, 1904
66 Cyril Paris in baby carriage, 1904
67 Ida Paris and Kit Storry, 1903
68 Herb and Ted Parts with nurses, 1911
69 Ida Paris with kitten Murphy
70 [Cyril Paris?] in the backyard, 1905?
71 Nurse Natress and three guests at the Sanitarium Hotel
72 Mrs. Brett, Dr. White, Marion Cardell, Dr. Brett, and woman, [ca.1903]
73 Ida Paris and three ladies on horses on top of Sulphur Mountain, 1901
74 Frank, Cyril (baby), Ida and George Paris, 1905
75 Ida and Cyril Paris, 1904
76 Ida and Georgie Paris, 1909
77 George and Ida Paris with baby Cyril, 1905
78 Phillip Ashton with Cyril, Ida and Georgie Paris, 1909
79 Ida and Cyril Paris, 1905
80 Ida Winberg (Paris), Charlie Barbour, Ruby Bryant during picnic on the river, 1902
81 Ida Paris with Cyril and Nurse McLauchlin, 1904
82 Echo Creek, 1899
83 Camp near Mount Assiniboine during pack trip led by Bill Peyto, 1900
84 Bow River and boathouse at Banff
85 Cerulean Lake
86 The Three Sisters
87 View of the summit of Mount Rundle showing Sulphur Mountain and the Bow Valley
88 Devil's Canyon
89 Basin end bathhouse with D. D. Galletly
90 View looking west from Banff? after snowstorm, 1906
91 Old Banff bridge, Banff town site and Cascade Mountain, 1898
92 View from summit of Mount Rundle, 1898
93 View from summit of Mount Rundle showing Mount Assiniboine and Sulphur Range, 1899
94 Falls at Upper Hot Springs, 1898
95 Mount Rundle reflected in the Bow River
96 Lime kiln on Tunnel Mountain above Deer Street, 1897
97 View from Sulphur Mountain showing Banff town site, Cascade Mountain, Tunnel Mountain, and the Bow Valley, 1898
98 Town of Banff from Tunnel Mountain, [ca.1900]
99 Cascade Mountain, Bow River bridge and town of Banff, {ca.1900]
100 View of Banff town site and fire at Bankhead from the Sanitarium Hotel, 1905
101 Fred Ballard's bear
102 Dr. Brett's greyhounds
103 Goats in animal paddocks
104 Mountain sheep head
105 Buffalo herd with Mount Rundle in the background, 1901
File consists of 49 newspaper clippings, H32 x W22.5 cm or smaller. Content pertains primarily to sporting events and Charlie Reid's athletic accomplishments, however there are marriage announcements and obituaries (for athletes), as well as other miscellaneous subject matter. Locations include Ban…
1 cm of textual records (49 pages ; 22.5 x 32 cm or smaller)
Scope & Content
File consists of 49 newspaper clippings, H32 x W22.5 cm or smaller. Content pertains primarily to sporting events and Charlie Reid's athletic accomplishments, however there are marriage announcements and obituaries (for athletes), as well as other miscellaneous subject matter. Locations include Banff, Medicine Hat, Calgary, and Lethbridge. The only identifiable newspapers are the Calgary Herald and the Vancouver Sun. Sports include canoeing, golf, snow shoe races, and track.
Notes
Most of the clippings are not dated, however three are:
File pertains to 67 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 6 to July 30, 1935. Topics include travelling back to Banff from Montreal on the train, cleaning and household chores, the Winter Carnival, day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, wa…
1.7 cm of textual records (89 pages ; 21.5 x 27.8 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 67 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 6 to July 30, 1935. Topics include travelling back to Banff from Montreal on the train, cleaning and household chores, the Winter Carnival, day to day life, visits from friends and visitors, watching hockey games and curling matches, weather, photography and cameras, events and people in Concord, going to Skoki to ski, going to the movies and seeing friend's homemade films, the birth of Russ and Kitty's first child Gale in late February [Edith's first grandchild], watching ski races at Norquay, converting an outbuilding from a garage/one bedroom into a garage/darkroom, dinner and tea parties [both at home and around town], sketching/painting, discussions of operas Edith has seen, Pete going to Vancouver for a few days in mid-April to help his parents [Dave was advised to go to sea level by doctors to help with ailments he'd been having], wildlife, developing photos and print-making, various holidays [both Canadian and American], descriptions of meals and various recipes, yardwork and redoing the driveway, Catharine going to Concord for a month [mid-May to mid-June], construction of a new road to Norquay ski camp, Pete constructing a cover for the back of their truck to be used for camping, going to Calgary for the Stampede, Banff Indian Days, and camping trips around Lake Louise and Yoho National Park.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Letters are mostly hand-written, some typed - typed letters often have hand-written post scripts.
A few letters written on lodge/hotel letterhead.
Most 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 have numbers written in pencil or red pencil crayon in the upper margin of the first pages from an unknown project.
97 - 16 contains a sketch of the garage outbuilding and the plans to convert half of it into a darkroom.
