Sub-series pertains to 84 b&w and colour prints depicting assorted activities and events around Banff National Park. Includes pack trips, skiing, backcountry huts [Abbot Pass Hut and Bow Hut], community events, shops, a Canada Day Parade, the Canadian Centennial in 1967, a Royal visit in 1959, chur…
84 photographs : b&w and col. ; 25.1 x 20.1 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
Sub-series pertains to 84 b&w and colour prints depicting assorted activities and events around Banff National Park. Includes pack trips, skiing, backcountry huts [Abbot Pass Hut and Bow Hut], community events, shops, a Canada Day Parade, the Canadian Centennial in 1967, a Royal visit in 1959, churches, school programs, the 1967 Mount Royal Hotel fire, Banff Indian Days, high altitude mountaineering, conferences, boating on the Bow River, and rodeos.
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
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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.
File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.
O. Kathleen Wilson was employed at the Chateau Lake Louise at Lake Louise, Alberta in the 1920s.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.
Image of Queen Elizabeth waving to a crowd from the back of an open-top car - two men in hats in the front seat [driver is possibly Jim Brewster] - King George VI cannot be seen behind the driver
Image of Queen Elizabeth waving to a crowd from the back of an open-top car - two men in hats in the front seat [driver is possibly Jim Brewster] - King George VI cannot be seen behind the driver
Image of Queen Elizabeth waving to a crowd from the back of an open-top car - two men in hats in the front seat [driver is possibly Jim Brewster] - King George VI cannot be seen behind the driver
Image of Queen Elizabeth waving to a crowd from the back of an open-top car - two men in hats in the front seat [driver is possibly Jim Brewster] - King George VI cannot be seen behind the driver
Image of King George VI and Queen Victoria sitting in the back of an open-top car - two RCMP officers on motorcycles flank the car - people waving to the car on both sides of the road - image taken from above
Image of King George VI and Queen Victoria sitting in the back of an open-top car - two RCMP officers on motorcycles flank the car - people waving to the car on both sides of the road - image taken from above
Image of the open-top car King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are in with an RCMP officer on a motorcycle partially blocking the car driving down Banff Avenue - Rundle United Church and other businesses visible in the background
Image of the open-top car King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are in with an RCMP officer on a motorcycle partially blocking the car driving down Banff Avenue - Rundle United Church and other businesses visible in the background
Image of the open-top car King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are in with an RCMP officer on a motorcycle partially blocking the car driving down Banff Avenue - Rundle United Church and other businesses visible in the background
Image of the open-top car King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are in with an RCMP officer on a motorcycle partially blocking the car driving down Banff Avenue - Rundle United Church and other businesses visible in the background