File consists of advertisements, programs, itineraries, information booklets and brochures pertaining to Banff Winter Carnival events held between 1921 and 1958, and an affiliated "Grand Prix" dog racing event in 1923. File also includes an invitation to a Banff Winter Carnival Homecoming Reunion e…
File consists of advertisements, programs, itineraries, information booklets and brochures pertaining to Banff Winter Carnival events held between 1921 and 1958, and an affiliated "Grand Prix" dog racing event in 1923. File also includes an invitation to a Banff Winter Carnival Homecoming Reunion event [1980].
Notes
Items in file are arranged chronologically
File contains numerous duplicates, some of which have been temporarily removed from file
File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1981 into a show from slides depicting various summer to the Canadian Rockies throughout the late 1950s to 1970s as well as a trip to Glacier National Park, Montana and Yellowstone National Park. Topics include mountains and mountain views, wi…
File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1981 into a show from slides depicting various summer to the Canadian Rockies throughout the late 1950s to 1970s as well as a trip to Glacier National Park, Montana and Yellowstone National Park. Topics include mountains and mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada and Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies], Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fishing, hiking, and various other scenic views around Banff, Lake Louise, and Lake O'Hara.
Titles:
1. Reel R195-6 Horse at Hotel Many Glacier
2. R123 21 [Blank]
3. R200 3 Old Faithful
4. R200 5 [Old Faithful] good clouds
5. R195 15 Bear grass
6. R195 5 Boats ay Many [Glacier]
7. R203 30 Meadows - globe flowers
8. K8 12 Snow- grass - view down Valely
9. K8 14 2 girls coming down lake - SNow & Wiwaxy
10. B26 33 Sis on trail
11. R179 38 2 hikers on trail
12. B23 5 2 photo eagle nest
13. 0CH Columbine
14. 0CH Dryas going to seed
15. 0CH Western globe flower
16. K8 15 2 girls lake & snow - Cathedral & Wiwaxy
17. Twin wake - Snow Mt. Huber & Mt. Vic
18. K15 17 SNow & Mt. Avery
19. K15 15 "Batwing Beauty" [illegible] in b.g.
20. K15 16 Chow Line Mt. Coleman
21. K15 12 Our tent in snow
22. K15 13 Camp in snow
23. B64 4 Camp fire w. campers
24. B10-10 Indigenous
25. B67 26 Banff Indian Days carriages & tepees
26. B67 26 Rodeo audience
27. B36 26 Banff Indian Days & parade grounds
28. B10-6 Banff Indian Days
29. B11-1 Banff Indian Days & teepee
30. B10-2 Banff Indian Days
31. A8-17 Stream & flowers Sunshine 1968
32. A8-19 [Sunshine] flowers
33. A10-34 Chepron Lake
34. A10-35 [Chepron] tea
35. A11-1 Greens Hamilton Lake
36. A11-3 [Greens Hamilton Lake]
37. A11-7 [Greens Hamilton Lake]
38. A11-8 [Greens] View to Valley
39. A18-26 LG & car
40. A18 29 3 hills fr. road
41. A20-28 Fr. Mierville[?] meadows
42. A20-3 [Fr. Mierville[?] meadows]
43. A23-21 Eysa Falls
44. A24-1 Nymphs Pool[?]
45. B23-28 4 girls at Skoki 1959
46. B23-34 [4 girls at Skoki 1959]
47. B26-2 [4 girls at Skoki 1959]
48. B45-11 Above Sedan Lift
49. Reel B45-14 Above Sedan Lift
50. B51-29 Lilies & cabin in b.g.
51. B1-34 Doris on trail Miller L. 1963
52. B52 fr. Hunt 30A Mummy Lake 1963
53. B22-38 [Hunt] Fall on Creek fr. Talc Lake
54. B52-34 View of Mummy Lake
55. B55-20 Lake & tree
56. B68-19 ACC Camp 1964
57. B71-5 Lamb
58. B73-28 Mary by No see-um Lake 1965
59. B26 36 Sis on trail
60. B26-30 Over Allenby Pass
61. B65-28 Up Brewster Creek
62. R203-10 Horses heads
63. B65-34 Dana fixing stirrup
64. B26-32 Sis & Aubrey
65. CH. 51 Assin. east side
66. R181-25 G on log Assin
67. CH. 51 Assin & reflect.
68. B27-1 Party
69. B27-4 Horseman & horse
70. B27-6 Assin in b.g.
71. B27-7 Blank
72. B27-8 Blank
73. B27-9 Blank
74. B27-11 Blank
75. B27-13 Blank
76. B67-13 Watching climb of Assin
77. B67-3 Elk in glade - Assin
78. B66-36 Nub Trip
79. B66-31 From Nub
80. B55-16 Canyon Panther Falls
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 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.
File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, brochures, business cards, and advertisements for businesses around Banff and Lake Louise. Includes a mix of magazine and newspaper clippings in both black and white and in colour, postcards, advertising for hotels like the King Edward Hotel, Hom…
File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, brochures, business cards, and advertisements for businesses around Banff and Lake Louise. Includes a mix of magazine and newspaper clippings in both black and white and in colour, postcards, advertising for hotels like the King Edward Hotel, Homestead Inn, Mount Royal Hotel, Castle Mountain Lodge, and the Chateau Lake Louise, and a cover of the Sky Line Trail Hiker bulletin featuring members of the Royal Family.
File pertains to 67 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from August 5 to December 30, 1958. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs …
Date Range
1958
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 143
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Postcard
Private record
fire smoke this year due to the hot
dry weather and no snow on the mountains from last winter , just
1.8 cm of textual records (104 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 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 August 5 to December 30, 1958. 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], a road trip from north-eastern United States through Canada back to Banff in early August [written mostly on postcards], a trip to Lethbridge in late August, various construction projects [the new Sulphur Mountain gondola, the chimney and basement furnace of their house, and the Trans-Canada Highway], a trip to Concord in late November, and preparation of Chirstmas cards. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Also includes postcards and a Christmas card.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Many typed letters have hand-written notes added throughout; many post scripts are hand-written.
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.
143 - 39 includes a sketch of a shelving unit Catharine hoped to have installed in their bedroom.
143 - 64 is the 1958 Christmas card made by Catharine and Peter
File pertains to 55 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from December 13, 1953 to June 27, 1954. Topics include a trip to Hawaii from December to March [includes mainland travel between Banff and California by train and travel to and from Hawaii by boat], Christm…
Date Range
1953-1954
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 134
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Postcard
Private record
etc that bad piled up dur-
ing the winter and mail and spent the evening telling us bow the
little
1.7 cm of textual records (114 pages ; 21 x 27 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 55 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from December 13, 1953 to June 27, 1954. Topics include a trip to Hawaii from December to March [includes mainland travel between Banff and California by train and travel to and from Hawaii by boat], Christmas and New Years Eve activities, travelling around to different parts of the island, meeting with other vacationers from Banff, going straight to Edmonton [from California by train] to see Peter's doctor about new glasses, day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, photography, weather, events and people in Concord, Peter's mother Annie being in the hospital, the deaths of Jean Caird in April and Belmore Browne in May, a second trip to Edmonton for Peter's eyes [during this trip he is admitted to the hospital for depression, possibly brought on by stress], Annie moving from Banff to Vancouver, and Peter receiving psychiatric treatment in Calgary. Also includes postcards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Most letters hand-written, some typed. 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.
Many letters written during the Hawaii trip, as well as during stays in Calgary and Edmonton, are written on hotel letterheads.
134 - 04 includes sketches of the location of the apartment they stay in in Honolulu and of the layout of their apartment.
File pertains to 100 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 20 to December 29, 1951. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, hockey games, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, Catharin…
Date Range
1951
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 129
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Postcard
Private record
) to pull the
heavy snow off the eaves. There is little work this winter for a
laborer and he was glad
1.7 cm of textual records (136 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fond level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 100 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 20 to December 29, 1951. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, hockey games, photography, painting, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs, Catharine's uncle John passing away, installing a suite in Annie White's house, the deaths of Jack W. Brewster and Allan Mather on the same day [June 12], camping/sketching trips [mostly to Lake Louise, Bow Lake and Yoho National Park], Banff Indian Days, installing a new bridge over the Spray River, a roadtrip to Lethbridge in August for a ceremony to make Governor General Ciscount Alexander an honourary chief [ceremony held in Standoff], Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillips' tour of Canada, the deaths and funerals of Colonel Phillip Moore and Hal Waterhouse in November, making up the annual Christmas card, and various Christmas activities and parties. Also includes postcards and note cards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. 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.
File pertains to 110 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to August 29, 1959. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs …
Date Range
1959
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 144
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Postcard
Private record
be t o you. Hope it
wi•l be a very Happy Year for you. our nice mild winter went out with the
old year
2.5 cm of textual records (145 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 110 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 1 to August 29, 1959. 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], the 50th anniversary of the first flight in the Brittish Commonwealth in February, the 1959 Winter Carnival, construction on the back of the house, a trip to Concord in June for a friend's wedding, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip's visit in June, trips to Bow Lake during the summer, and the widening of the Icefield Parkway as far as the Saskatchewan River Crossing. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Also includes postcards.
Notes
Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples used throughout is outdated and may be offensive.
Many typed letters have hand-written notes added throughout; many post scripts are hand-written.
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.
144 - 02 is a letter to Rusty
144 - 07 is a carbon copy of 144 - 06
144 - 31 is a carbon copy of 144 - 30
144 - 56 is a carbon copy of 144 - 55
144 - 62 mostly consists of a story titled "The Story of Penny Warren"
144 - 86 is a carbon copy of the first page of 144 - 85
File pertains to 71 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to July 30, 1957. Topics include day to day life, Banff events, visits from friends, painting, photography, wildlife, travel, camping, weather, events and people in Concord, radio programs [mo…
Date Range
1957
Reference Code
M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 140
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Postcard
Private record
a large and very
attfiactive building where they have Ar t Exhibitions and segve meals
summer and winter
1.6 cm of textual records (97 pages ; 22.3 x 27.4 cm or smaller)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 71 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from January 3 to July 30, 1957. 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, travelling back from a visit to Concord in early January, the Winter Carnival, the death of Walter Painter [February], trips to Concord in late April-early May and mid-June, and road trips to Cowley and Fort Macleod in July. Some letters are typed and some hand-written. Also includes one notecard.
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.