File consists of 47 b&w photographic prints, various sizes. Prints pertain to various topics, including images of wartime manufacturers, individuals working with model trains and ships, fighter planes, two photographs pertaining to a dog show, portraits of several individuals, and three images of S…
Three images within the file are of Sheila Morgan, a model who Nicholas Morant worked with at the Algonquin Resort Hotel in New Brunswick, likely some time in the 1940's. The Algonquin Resort was bought by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1903 and sold to private owners in 1970.
Scope & Content
File consists of 47 b&w photographic prints, various sizes. Prints pertain to various topics, including images of wartime manufacturers, individuals working with model trains and ships, fighter planes, two photographs pertaining to a dog show, portraits of several individuals, and three images of Sheila Morgan at the Algonquin Resort Hotel (New Brunswick) which were used in advertising.
Storage Range
In file box V500 / II / C / 5 / PA - 1 to V500 / II / C / 5 / PA - 325
Photographic prints in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
Reproduction Restrictions
Photographic prints in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
Language
English
Conservation
Prints with ink or other risky materials attached need to be stored in mylar to protect adjacent prints. File must be stored in appropriate conditions.
File consists of 20 lantern slide photographs depicting scenes in Victoria, Vancouver and vicinity in British Columbia; Edmonton, Calgary and vicinity in Alberta; Regina and other regions in Saskatchewan; Winnipeg in Manitoba; and shipping activity on the Great Lakes.
Most images in file issued by Department of the Interior Natural Resources Intelligence Branch
Date Range
[ca.1925]
Physical Description
20 photographs : lantern slides
Scope & Content
File consists of 20 lantern slide photographs depicting scenes in Victoria, Vancouver and vicinity in British Columbia; Edmonton, Calgary and vicinity in Alberta; Regina and other regions in Saskatchewan; Winnipeg in Manitoba; and shipping activity on the Great Lakes.
File consists of collected commercial postcards from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom [non-annotated]. File includes loose postcards, postcard sets and fold-out photo card booklets.
ca. 630 b&w and col. postcards ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of collected commercial postcards from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom [non-annotated]. File includes loose postcards, postcard sets and fold-out photo card booklets.
Notes
Items in this file have been organized by geographical location. See "Content Details" entry field for contents of individual folders.
File is organized into 8 folders, numbered LUX / III / D / PG - 1 to 8.
PG - 1 : Banff National Park
PG - 2 : Canadian Rockies and Selkirks
PG - 3 : Alberta and British Columbia [Other]
PG - 4 : Canada
PG - 5 : United States of America
PG - 6 : United States of America, cont.'d [postcard sets and 1933 Chicago World Fair]
PG - 7 : Foreign
PG - 8 : Other [location not specified]
File consists of 10 photographic prints, (9 mounted and 1 loose, 8 b&w and 2 colour). Content includes multiple Canadian scenic photographs, (ships, winter scenes, landscapes), a gag photo of Nicholas Morant and another unidentified man titled 'Onions', a view of a village, possibly in Peru, depict…
File consists of 10 photographic prints, (9 mounted and 1 loose, 8 b&w and 2 colour). Content includes multiple Canadian scenic photographs, (ships, winter scenes, landscapes), a gag photo of Nicholas Morant and another unidentified man titled 'Onions', a view of a village, possibly in Peru, depicting a person with a donkey travelling down a dirt road, and a gag photo of Morant wearing glasses and a hat (with caption "The Author (as a young man)" written on the back). Many of the prints in this file were taken early in Nicholas Morant's career (ca. 1936 - 1940), and most are dated and signed by Morant. One attributed to 'Associated Screen News', creator unknown.
Notes
Some of these photographs may have been published and used for professional purposes following their creation. However, the specific copies of the photographs contained within this file were used by Nicholas Morant for personal display, and therefore have been categorized as personal photography.
Each print within this file was originally framed, and recently removed due to storage and conservation reasons. Some of these frames were annotated as follows:
PA Oversize - 3: Label on back of frame reads "Hudson's Bay Company ART DEPARTMENT 13760 WINNIPEG" and "13760"
PA Oversize - 7: Label on back of frame reads "The T. EATON Co. Limited OF MONTREAL PICTURE DEPARTMENT 47998 - 6"
PA Oversize - 11: "NICHOLAS MORANT BOX 1288 BANFF ALBERTA" "Photo made at Kamloops B.C. 1936" "4827" (in large writing)
PA Oversize - 12: "4827" (in large writing)
File consists of 18 photograph prints given to Norman Luxton by family and friends [mostly annotated]. Includes signed portraits of Red Cathcart, Emory Staley, Norman Ferguson, Tommy Burns, Jack Fuller, Eugene LaPorte, Robert LaPorte, Ernie Kehr, E. E. Gammon, “Norma”, and Mark Poucette. File also…
18 photographs : b&w prints ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller -- 2 newspaper clippings
Scope & Content
File consists of 18 photograph prints given to Norman Luxton by family and friends [mostly annotated]. Includes signed portraits of Red Cathcart, Emory Staley, Norman Ferguson, Tommy Burns, Jack Fuller, Eugene LaPorte, Robert LaPorte, Ernie Kehr, E. E. Gammon, “Norma”, and Mark Poucette. File also contains two newspaper clippings pertaining to Eugene LaPorte and Ernie Kehr.
Notes
Newspaper clipping re: Ernie Kehr stored with related photograph [LUX/I/E4/PA-481].
File consists of 34 photograph and postcard prints pertaining to friends of Norman Luxton and the Luxton family which were sent to Norman Luxton. Most photographs are annotated on the back with contextual information [dates, locations, names, etc] for photographs, some items include personal messag…
34 photographs : b&w prints ; 12.5 x 15 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 34 photograph and postcard prints pertaining to friends of Norman Luxton and the Luxton family which were sent to Norman Luxton. Most photographs are annotated on the back with contextual information [dates, locations, names, etc] for photographs, some items include personal messages written to Norman Luxton. Photograph images pertain to a fishing trip in Grande Prairie; men in military uniforms during World War II, including some taken during active duty in England; personal and group portraits; a war monument in Verdun, France; historic ships and boats; scenic views of Mistaya Canyon and Minnewanka; wildlife, including birds and a marten; and family pets.
Notes
Annotations on some photographs partly illegible or difficult to discern
File consists of 3 large promotional posters. Pertains to one b&w image of the Banff Springs Hotel set in the forests of the Bow Valley (possibly produced by Nicholas Morant but unknown); one colour image of the Whitehorn Sedan Lift in Lake Louise showing a woman riding the lift, taken by Nicholas …
File consists of 3 large promotional posters. Pertains to one b&w image of the Banff Springs Hotel set in the forests of the Bow Valley (possibly produced by Nicholas Morant but unknown); one colour image of the Whitehorn Sedan Lift in Lake Louise showing a woman riding the lift, taken by Nicholas Morant; one colour poster promoting "Canadian Pacific Railway Company Steamship Lines Atlantic Service", annotated by Nicholas Morant on the back. All posters with small print captions at the bottom.
Notes
Items were originally stored separately.
Poster of Banff Springs Hotel was stored out of poster tube, secured with white string. Paper label wrapped around said: "OLD PHOTO BSH Bow View"
Poster image of sedan lift was originally in poster tube with Canadian Pacific label that read: "LAKE LOUISE SEDAN LIFT POSTERS 1960"
Poster of CP Steamship was in poster tube labelled "CPR LAKE BOAT ADVERTISING (FRAMED) PICTURE" , numbered "36" at top, with shipping address label:
"Canadian Pacific SUPPLIES
1 Upshover { Req. Contents
From Vancouver
For N. Morant c/o Agent, BANFF, Alta.
Q 51 - 93 - 34"
Item consists of 114 unbound pages from a photo album. Album contains views of people, places and activities from across Canada from Hudson Bay and Ontario to the Canadian Rockies. Views pertain to visitors and local personalities, sports and recreation, camping, facilities and buildings, trips, ev…
Item consists of 114 unbound pages from a photo album. Album contains views of people, places and activities from across Canada from Hudson Bay and Ontario to the Canadian Rockies. Views pertain to visitors and local personalities, sports and recreation, camping, facilities and buildings, trips, events, scenic views. Many views include people. Captions accompany many images
Includes:
1 38887 - Canada. Hudson Bay. The Nastapoka Falls.
2 38886 - Canada. Hudson Bay. Cape Dufferin. Esquimos trading their white foxes at a Revillon Freres Post.
3 38885 - Canada. Hudson Bay. Esquimo family building their igloo. The man and woman on the roof are filling in with snow the chinks between the blocks of ice. Below, the boy is closing the door.
4 38884 - Canada. Hudson Bay. Esquimos eating in the interior of their igloo. Notice the soap stone kettle hanging over the soap stone dish full of burning blubber.
5 38883 - Canada. Hudson Bay. An Esquimo child with his bow and arrow.
6 Hudson Bay: A very old Esquimo / 38882
7 38881 - Canada. Hudson Bay. Cape Dufferin. The Revillon Freres trading station at Cape Dufferin. Notice the banks of snow against the walls of the house to keep the drifts away. In the foreground are two Esquimo igloos which the natives who came to trade furs built as their stay, may last several days.
8 38880 - Canada. Hudson Bay. An Esquimo drilling a large piece of soap stone to make a kettle.
9 38879 - Canada. Hudson Bay. Father and son. This Esquimo has taken his child out to sea in his kayak (canoe made of seal hides) to teach him how to jig for rock cod.
10 38878 - Canada. Hudson Bay. An Esquimo mother and child.
11 CN285 - Mt. Ishbel, Canadian Pacific Rockies.
12 CN83 - Canada. Lake Superior. Drying fishing nets.
13 CN110 - Canada. Ontario, Brampton. Main street of Brampton.
14 CN121 - Canada. Ontario, Port Arthur. Great Lakes Cruise, Thunder Cape.
15 CN106 - Canada. Ontario. Flowerpot Island off Tobermorry.
16 CN202 - Canada. Ontario. Georgian Bay. Beansoleil Park.
17 CN201 - Canada. Ontario. Lake of Bays. Yachting at Bigwin Inn.
18 CN108 - Canada. Ontario. Kirkland Lake district.
19 CN107 - Canada. Ontario. North Bay. Street scene.
20 CN253 - Canada. Ontario. The highway bridge over the Welland Canal opening to permit a steamer to pass.
21 CN250 - Canada. Ontario. A steamer passing through the Well and Canal.
22 CN252 - Canada. Ontario. A steamer in the Welland Canal passing a bridge which has been opened to permit its passage.
23 CN251 - Canada. Ontario. A set of locks on the Welland Canal.
24 CN192 - Canada. The Welland Ship Canal. General view of the lower entrance, Lock No. 1, looking south.
25 CN170 - Canada. Ontario. Welland Canal, shipping at Lock No. 3.
26 CN191 - Canada. Ontario. The "Naronic" at the Soo Locks.
27 Untitled : [unidentified building] / "1 X 46 R"
28 CN181 - Canada. Ontario. Ottawa. These little Ottawa people know their business already. Refusing to be harnessed for "mushing" along the hillside near Canada's capital and winter carnival city. Bozo nevertheless does not object to helping out with what is neither dog-back riding nor skiing
29 CN162 - Canada. Ontario. Ottawa. Rockcliffe Park.
30 CN175 1 x 46 R - Rideau Hall, Ottawa, the official residence of the Governor General of Canada.
31 CN179 - Canada. Ontario. Ottawa. Skating champion.
32 CN184 - Canada. Ontario. Ottawa. Skiing on Dome Hill.
33 [Print missing] / CN109 - Canada. Ontario. Ottawa Parliament Buildings.
34 CN104 - Canada. Ontario. Toronto. Big buildings of Toronto.
35 CN105 - Canada. Ontario. Toronto. Bay Street.
36 CN23 - Canada. Toronto. Bathing in the Humber River.
37 CN23 - Canada. Ontario.
38 [Page missing] / CN45 - Canada. Ontario. Niagara in bloom.
39 CN52 - Canada. Ontario. Niagara.
40 CN51 - Canada. A Niagara fruit orchard in blossom time.
41 CN58 - Canada. Ontario Province. Schumacher Canaurum Mine. 700 foot level.
42 CN88 - Canada. A railroad engineer at his post.
43 CN139 - Canada. Beaver felling a tree.
44 CN21 - Canada. Ontario. Fishing at Devil's Hole, Algonquin Park.
45 CN50 - Canada. Ontario. Washagami Section. Bass fishing.
46 CN137 - Canada. Beavers at work
47 [Print missing] / CN49
48 CN28 - Canada. Harvest time.
49 CN25 - Canada. Harvesting in western Canada.
50 CN29 - Canada. Harvesting.
51 CN27 - Canada. Harvesting in western Canada.
52 CN102 - Canada. Alberta, Leduc. Raccoon on the Grathside Farm.
53 CN126 - Canada. Alberta, Jasper National Park. Squirrel at Jasper Park Lodge.
54 CN127 - Canada. Alberta. "A cat and dog existence" has its pleasures. according to Bowser, the faithful household canine of Caretaker Andrews at Jasper Park Lodge, who looks after this famous hostelry in the heart of the Canadian Rockies during the months when its grounds are no longer thronged with tourists, and to prove it, Bowser has adopted a homeless kitten which he found on the streets of Jasper town and took home with him. Here he is rocking his chum to sleep in front of the Andrew's home
55 CN26 - Canada. Alberta, Rockford. Gathering stooks.
56 CN180 - Canada. Alberta. Bear in Jasper National Park.
57 CN182 - Canada. Alberta. Buffalo and elk in Wainwright (Buffalo) National Park.
58 CN178 - Canada. Alberta. Bear up a tree in Jasper National Park.
59 CN138 - Canada. Alberta. Beaver house near Jasper.
60 [Print missing] / CN148 - Canada. The Rockies. Lakes in the Clouds seen from Little Beehive.
61 CN145 - Canada. The Rockies. View of Chalet Lake Louise from the top of Little Beehive.
62 CN147 - Canada. The Rockies. Scene at Lake Louise.
63 CN144 - Canada. The Rockies. Early morn at Lake Louise.
64 Canada. the Rockies. Lake Louise. The Lake Louise Hotel seen from the air
65 CN157 - Canada. Alberta. Banff. (The Rockies) A view showing the Springs Hotel and a Grayline Bus. Banff Springs Hotel.
66 CN156 - Canada. Alberta, Banff. (the Rockies) Indian Days. The Springs Hotel. Banff Springs Hotel.
67 CN146 - Canada. The Rockies. Lake Louise. Chalet Lake Louise, the Canadian Pacific Railway Hotel.
68 CN87 - Canada. Br. Columbia. Victoria. Feeding the swans in the park.
69 CN84 - Canada. Br. Columbia. Victoria. A dove cot in the garden of a Victorian home, a real English touch.
70 56860 - Canada. Br. Columbia. Victoria. Trimmed shrubbery on an estate. It has been the hobby of the owner for over 30 years to trim these trees (yew, barberry, white thorn, and golden holly.) into the shape of animals, birds, and figures. -- Owner: W. J. Pendray.
71 [Print missing] / CN82
72 48470 - Canada. British Columbia near Westminster. Salmon fishing fleet on the Fraser River near Westminster.
73 CN81 - Canada. British Columbia. Spence's Bridge. Indian graveyard.
74 CN48 - Canada. British Columbia. Kelowna. Apple orchard in bloom.
75 CN141 - Canada. British Columbia. Inside passage.
76 CN221 - Canada. British Columbia. Kitwanga. A dog totem.
77 CN120 - Canada. Western Canada. Old shepherd watching flock of sheep.
78 CN128 - Canada. Sheep grazing.
79 CN287 - Lake Louise, Mount Saddleback.
80 CN291 - Lake Louise, The Chalet of the Swiss Guides, in midwinter.
81 CN285 - Mt. Ishbel, Canadian Pacific Rockies.
82 CN151 - Canada. The Rockies. Lake 0' Hara, Victoria Glacier and the Seven Sisters Falls in the background. Date: 1927
83 56861 - Canada. Drive by stage from Field to Emerald Lake. Scene in pine forest, mountains with glacier ahead.
84 CN149 - Canada. The Rockies. Emerald Lake Chalet.
85 CN150 - Canada. The Rockies. Emerald Lake seen from the Chalet veranda.
86 CN153 - Canada. The Rockies. Morraine Lake in the Valley of Ten Peak. [Correction: Moraine Lake]
87 [Print missing] / CN154 - Canada. The Rockies. Lake Morraine and the Tower of Babel.
88 CN152 - Canada. The Rockies. Sinclair Canyon.
89 48871 - Canada. Royal Mounted Policeman.
90 CN85 - Canada. The Rockies. "Bad man" of the Kananaskis.
91 CN86 - Canada. The Rockies. A Cowboy and his steed.
92 CN78 - Canada. Lake Louise at sunset.
93 CN12 - Canada. British Columbia (Canadian Rockies) Mt. Robson.
94 CN10 - Canada. British Columbia (Canadian Rockies) Mt. Robson showing the glaciers and Berg Lake.
95 [Print missing] / CN7 - Canada. British Columbia (Canadian Rockies). Mt. Robson showing the two glaciers and Berg Lake.
96 Canada. British Columbia (Canadian Rockies) One of the glaciers of Mt. Robson.
97 CN6 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies.
98 CN79 - Canada. A beautiful scene in the Canadian Rockies.
99 CN79 - Canada. Stoney Indians of the Canadian Rockies
100 [Print missing] / CN6 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies - Modern ways are slow in creeping upon this small settlement of Stoney Indians
101 CN18 - Canada. Reindeer of the Canadian Rockies. [Correction: bull elk]
102 CN3 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies. Pack-train on the Badge Pass at twilight
103 CN5 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies. Mountain sheep "posing" for the camera.
104 CN13 - Canada. A scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Twin Falls, Yoho National Park]
105 CN11 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Three Sisters, Canmore]
106 CN18 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Lake Louise with Mt. Lefroy]
107 CN19 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Maligne Lake, Samson Peak on left]
108 CN17 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Bow River and Mount Rundle, Alberta]
109 CN16 - Canada. A scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Suspension bridge over Eraser River Canyon, B.C. Hell's Gate]
110 CN15 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies : [Bow River looking east from Banff Springs Hotel area]
111 CN14 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies : [view from Mount Victoria, above Lake Oesa, looking north toward Ringrose Mountain]
112 CN4 - Canada. Scene in the Canadian Rockies. The mirror-like surface of Lake Louise serves to reflect the riot of nature's splendor prevailing on all sides.
113 24419 - Canada. Sheep grazing.
114 PD65 - [Man seeding a field, possibly Ontario].
Notes
This material is presented as originally created, it contains outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content.
Materials in historical collections reflect the attitudes, ideas, and norms of the era and culture in which they were created or collected.
Offensive or harmful terms are retained for historical accuracy or to document the issues and social context of a specific time and the attitudes and opinions of the people who created the material.
Page 32 not scanned, photograph missing; Page 38 missing ; Page 47 missing; Page 60 not scanned, photograph missing; Page 71 not scanned, photograph missing; Page 87 not scanned, photograph missing; Page 95 not scanned, photograph missing; Page 100 not scanned, photograph missing.
File consists of 9 colour transparency slides pertaining to Forest "Pop" Kidney and other unidentified members of the Banff Shrine Club travelling aboard a Canadian Pacific ship and participating in a parade [location and specific dates unknown].
File consists of 9 colour transparency slides pertaining to Forest "Pop" Kidney and other unidentified members of the Banff Shrine Club travelling aboard a Canadian Pacific ship and participating in a parade [location and specific dates unknown].
Notes
Dates are estimated by Processing Archivist based on information from photograph prints in same fonds with similar theme/content
Transparencies originally stored in white negative/transparency envelopes labelled "Pop" and "Pop Kidney" in pen [see "Conservation"]
Transparencies individually labelled "Pop" or "Kidney"
File consists of 7 mounted photographic prints, b&w, each signed by Nicholas Morant. Content pertains to some of Nicholas Morant's earlier work, including some pre-WWII era natural scenes, an image of a lone horseman climbing a rocky hill, one image of a woman herding ducks or geese, one dark image…
File consists of 7 mounted photographic prints, b&w, each signed by Nicholas Morant. Content pertains to some of Nicholas Morant's earlier work, including some pre-WWII era natural scenes, an image of a lone horseman climbing a rocky hill, one image of a woman herding ducks or geese, one dark image of steam trains, and a blurred/faded image titled "Shipmates", taken in Vancouver.
Notes
Some photographs in this file may be subject to copyright ownership by the Canadian Pacific company, and some were likely used for professional purposes at some point. However, these specific copies have been categorized as 'personal' rather than professional as they were kept by Nicholas Morant for personal use.
All prints in this file were originally in frames, and were removed for storage and conservation reasons. Frames for items PA - 20, PA - 22 and PA - 23 were each labelled with the number '4827' on the back. The frame from PA - 23 also had an attached label which read as follows:
"Hudson's Bay Company ART DEPARTMENT 4827 Winnipeg"
Storage Range
In file box V500 / III / D / 4 / PA - 19 to V500 / III / D / 4 / PA - 25
Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
Reproduction Restrictions
Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
Language
English
Conservation
items must be stored with similar materials in appropriate conditions, and print surfaces must be covered with a protective barrier, i.e. acid-free paper, to prevent further damage.