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Anton Vogee fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-894
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1982, predominant 1897-1903

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Anton Vogee from 1897 to 1903 in his travels to various areas of the Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska. The images include buildings and street scenes in Atlin, Dawson City, Dyea, Skagway, Bennett, Pine City, and Whitehorse, mining activity in Atlin and at Pine and Spruce Creeks, scenes of the Dyea Trail and Chilkoot Pass including an avalanche of 1898, White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR), sternwheelers, and exterior views of Vogee's shops and galleries (82/271). The fonds also contains photocopies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, display captions and three photographs relating to the 1973 Yukon House exhibit in Vancouver featuring Anton Vogee's photographs and memorabilia, photocopies of his citizenship papers, his son Arthur's birth certificate, stock certificates, personal correspondence, and a biographical sketch with revision notes made by Arthur Vogee in 1982 (82/523).

Vogee, Anton, 1867-1950

Archdeacon Cecil Swanson fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-828
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1978 (originally created 1913-1916, 1981)

The fonds consists of photographs collected, and perhaps taken by Swanson, of buildings, residents and his family's activities in Little Salmon, Carmacks, and Fort Selkirk areas. The photographs also show Anglican Church ministers and First Nations people. There are four pages of Swanson's reminiscences of his stay in the Yukon, three pages written in 1978 and one letter written to the Yukon Archives in 1981.

Swanson, Cecil, 1889-1984

Archie Linklater fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-531
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1995 (originally created 1903-1941)

The fonds consists of a copy of a typed transcript of the diaries of Archie Linklater, a trapper and hunter in northern Yukon. The entries include a brief note on the weather, daily hunting and trapping activities, work at home, and visitors. Births, deaths, marriages, illnesses, dances and church services in the communities are mentioned. The transcript includes a typed synopsis of the span of entries and of missing entries. After Archie's death in 1941 entries were made by his son, Charles.

Linklater, Archie, 1853-1941

Archie Smith fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-788
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1980 (originally created 1902-1908)

The fonds consists of copies of transcripts made of Archie Smith's diary which he kept during his school years in Seattle, 1902-1908. The diaries describe his daily life going to school, and returning home to Whitehorse each summer. The transcripts were made by the Yukon Historical and Museums Association's Yukon Lifestyle's Project.

Smith, Archie

Arctic Brotherhood (Whitehorse Camp No. 12) fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-72
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1903

The fonds consists of the records of the Whitehorse Camp of the Arctic Brotherhood, 1901-1903 and includes Minute books, 1901-1903; a cash book, 1901-1902; membership applications, 1901-1902; incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1901-1902; financial records, 1901-1903; constitution and by-laws, 1902; membership application forms and a blank membership card. The minute book begins with the installation of the Camp, its charter members, first officers etc. and covers the application, nomination and subsequent election of new members; financial matters, dues bills etc; correspondence received and answered and other internal business. The cash book and assorted financial records provide a relatively accurate picture of the Camp's financial situation.

Arctic Brotherhood. Whitehorse Camp No. 12

Arctic Winter Games Corporation fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-74
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1990

The fonds consists of the corporate records of the Arctic Winter Games Corporation, from 1967-1990 and includes: films of the 1974 Arctic Winter Games held in Anchorage, Alaska, entitled "New Gold for Alaska" part 1 and part 2, distributed by the National Film Board and commissioned by the Arctic Winter Games Corporation; records of the Corporation and the Yellowknife Arctic Winter Games Society for the period leading up to and including the first staging of the Arctic Winter Games, 1967-1971, including incoming and outgoing correspondence, information about various events, lists of participants, clippings, AGW committee reports, rules and regulations and by-laws, 3 colour photographs of individuals modeling "arctic fashions". Files are arranged by subject; an album containing 106 photographs of AWG staff and volunteers, 1971-1972, clippings 1969-1972, minutes, 1973 terms of reference, promotional material; internal records of the corporation including minutes, financial records, reports, legal and incorporation documents, printed material, records of associated organizations, technical packages and correspondence, 1968-1986; Arctic Winter Games material collected from all AWG units, in the Sports, Arts and Recreation Branch of the Yukon Department of Community and Transportation Services, consisting of minutes, financial documents, correspondence, reports, published material and promotional material, 1972-1990. The records were acquired in 5 separate accessions. There has been no attempt to integrate the records, which originated from different sources.

Arctic Winter Games Corporation

Arctic Winter Games Host Society fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-75
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1986

The fonds consists of records generated by the Arctic Winter Games Host Society in the course of planning and organizing the Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse in 1972, 1980, and 1986. Includes letter patent, Arctic Winter Game by-laws, rule books and financial records, reports, correspondence and minutes of the Host society and its various sub-committees, correspondence and reports relating to donations, sporting events, the Arctic Winter Games Corporation, and the administration of the Games. The fonds also contains photographs of athletes and officials involved in the Games, newspaper clippings and a scrapbook illustrating the 1980 Winter Games, drawings depicting the AWG sports characters and logo for the 1986 Games, and sound recordings of the 1980 AWG theme songs.

Arctic Winter Games Host Society

Ardrie (Harbottle) Fraser fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-1006
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1984 (originally created [ca. 1914-1925])

The fonds consists of copy negs and prints (20x25 cm) with views of Ardrie Harbottle (Fraser), her parents, Frank and Lillian Harbottle, George and Martha Black, and other friends of the family.

Fraser, Ardrie (Harbottle), 1912-1992

Art and Margaret Strong fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-811
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1907-1925]

The fonds consists of a copy of a 30 page typed manuscript, "Dawson Days", written by Margaret H. Strong. Mrs. Strong reminisces about going to Dawson City, Yukon as a newlywed with her husband Art and the years they spent there. She writes about people they met and socialized with, outdoor sporting activities, travelling to and from the Yukon and Oregon, and about the Twelve Mile Ditch. The fonds includes original photographs taken by Mr. and Mrs. Strong, which illustrate many of the people and places talked about in her manuscript. Images include Dawson City, roadhouses, the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) stage and a shot of Juneau from a steamer going up the inside passage. Captions accompany the photographs (82/524). The remaining original photographs in the fonds are prints and postcards of Dawson City, Fort Yukon in Alaska, sternwheelers, mining activity, Yukon Gold Company's 60 Mile Camp, and construction of the Yukon Ditch. Alfred K. Schellinger, an engineer for the Yukon Gold Company, took many of the photographs and Art Strong may have taken the remaining (78/50).

Strong, Art

Art Fry fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-328
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1989

The fonds consists of photographs and films taken by Art Fry. The black and white photographs were taken 1929-1936 of mining in the Klondike gold fields, dredges, Bear Creek, Guggieville, Dawson City, Lousetown, North Fork, Jensen, Carcross and the steamer Nora. The colour photographs, taken 1962-1985, depict Fry's placer mining operation and two Dawson City old-timers, Aubrey Kendell Kelly and Harry Leaman. The video is a copy of home movies taken by Fry of the Yukon Invitational Boxing Championships, Whitehorse, February 13, 1982.

Fry, Art, 1913-1994

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