File consists of poetry drafts, receipts and invoices, loose notes, and correspondence. Content pertains to the history of Western Canada, ranching, and the purchase of farm and ranching equipment by Laura and Roderick Riddle MacLeay in High River.
File consists of poetry drafts, receipts and invoices, loose notes, and correspondence. Content pertains to the history of Western Canada, ranching, and the purchase of farm and ranching equipment by Laura and Roderick Riddle MacLeay in High River.
Notes
Documents were possibly used as research material in the creation of the book Leaves from the Medicine Tree, published in 1960 by the High River Pioneer's and Old Timers' Association
File pertains to 43 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 2 to December 27, 1955. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [m…
1 cm of textual records (71 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 43 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from July 2 to December 27, 1955. 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, Catharine's nephew Rusty arriving [he worked at Bow Lake helping with hunting parties in July], trips to Bow Lake, Banff Indian Days, a climbing tragedy on Mt. Temple in July wherein several young boys died, visits to the Campbell's ranch in Cowley, attending a Sun Dance ceremony near Fort Macleod, camping and sketching trips around Banff National Park, the Alberta Jubilee celebrations, a trip to Concord in October [they took the train down and drove back in a newly purchased Jeep], construction of the new Trans-Canada Highway through Banff, working on the annual Christmas card, and various Christmas parties. Also includes postcards and notecards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout.
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 written on Num-Ti-Jaw Lodge letterhead, one written on Banff Shell Station letterhead.
File consists of photographs depicting groups of workers, canoeing, pack trips, landscape views and geological features in Maligne Valley. File includes a reference note by Ben Gadd listing several sound recordings from an archival collection belonging to Parks Canada.
19 photographs : b&w prints ; 21.5 x 28 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of photographs depicting groups of workers, canoeing, pack trips, landscape views and geological features in Maligne Valley. File includes a reference note by Ben Gadd listing several sound recordings from an archival collection belonging to Parks Canada.
Notes
Materials in file may have been used as research material By Ben Gadd during his employment as a Park Naturalist with Parks Canada between 1982 and 1984.
File consists of 2 photograph prints pertaining to David Hardisty McDougall and his wife Annie's 50th wedding anniversary party in 1958, which was held at their ranch near Cochrane, Alberta; and the wedding of Virginia and George Dutchik.
File consists of 2 photograph prints pertaining to David Hardisty McDougall and his wife Annie's 50th wedding anniversary party in 1958, which was held at their ranch near Cochrane, Alberta; and the wedding of Virginia and George Dutchik.
File pertains to 8 b&w prints of a cattle roundup and branding at Usher's Ranch OVT in Scollard, Alberta. Also includes scenic shots of the surrounding area and an Indigenous gravesite.
File pertains to 8 b&w prints of a cattle roundup and branding at Usher's Ranch OVT in Scollard, Alberta. Also includes scenic shots of the surrounding area and an Indigenous gravesite.
PA - 04 and PA - 08 depict an Indigenous grave site [identified by accompanying text included by Bruno Engler] and have not been digitized. Possible restricted access?