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Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library Fonds
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Tex Vernon-Wood fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-598
  • Fonds
  • 1874-1972

Fonds consists of manuscripts and published articles on hunting and fishing, wildlife, life on the trail, etc. for various American outdoors magazines, 1929-1938; correspondence pertaining to guiding and publication of Vernon-Wood's articles, 1928-1940; other textual material, 1972; and photographs of Vernon-Wood with RCMP and firefighters, ca.1915. Includes a letter dated June 20,1874 from Owen Morris, Lieutenant Governor of the North West Territories, to Rev. John McDougall of Morleyville, Bow River, instructing McDougall to advise Indians of arrival and intentions of the North West Mounted Police, boundary commission and aims of the Queen

Vernon-Wood, Tex

Temple View Camp fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-1059
  • Fonds
  • 1941, 1947-1949

Fonds consists of 2 volumes of Temple View Camp guest registers for the years 1941 and 1947-1949. The registers record the names of some important individuals in Alberta and Banff Park history.

Temple View Camp

Sylvia Brewster family fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-13
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1945

Fonds includes manuscript titled "Happy memories of the Kananaskis Dude Ranch" by G. E. Turner, n.d. guest register for Two Medicine Ranch, 1919-1921, O'Hara Camp, 1922, and Kananaskis Ranch, 1923-1945; two annotated maps, one with text of contract between Claude Brewster and Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies on reverse; family bible and ephemera.

Brewster, Sylvia (family)

Sydney Vallance fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-962
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1972

Fonds consists of personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Sydney Vallance pertaining mainly to the Canadian Rockies and Vallance's mountaineering career. Textual records include manuscripts pertaining to personalities of the Canadian Rockies and to slide presentations on the Banff, Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara and Jasper regions; correspondence files arising from Vallance's positions as Vice President and Hut Committee Chairman of the Alpine Club of Canada, 1945-1946, and as member and President of the Lake O'Hara Trails Club, 1958-1962; miscellaneous correspondence on mountaineering, glacier study, expeditions, packers and outfitters, naming of five peaks in the Mt. Lyell massive after Swiss guides, 1920-1972. Correspondents include Sydney Baker, Eric Brooks, F. V. Longstaff, J. Monroe Thorington and Don Munday. Includes holograph map of the Great Divide region. Photographs are mainly landscape views of the Rocky Mountains by Sydney Vallance. Some views include climbing companions; also Banff scenes, Sunshine ski area, and some prints collected by Vallance. Sound recording contains commentaries for slide shows titled Banff, Lake Louise, Moraine and O'Hara; Banff and Vicinity; and Jasper Highway

Vallance, Sydney

Syd Brewster Graves fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-252
  • Fonds
  • [after 1903]

Photographs pertain to Syd Brewster Graves, winter sports activities, trail rides and camps, including Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies; also, family and friends, Lake O'Hara and Kananaskis Dude Ranch. Album prints are unidentified.

Graves, Syd Brewster

Susan Hammond Mellen fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-537
  • Fonds
  • 1983

Back country cabins of Banff National Park, a summary report / by Susan Hammond Mellen, 1983, includes textual report, master map and inventory site forms with photographs where applicable.

Mellen, Susan Hammond

Sunshine Village Corporation fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-682
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1981

Fonds includes miscellaneous records of present company and predecessors, including guest register, 1936-1965; building maintenance manuals, 1958; plans for new Sunshine Village Lodge, 1965; miscellaneous letters from visitors, 1963-1976; ski patrol volunteer registers, 1974-1977; and plans for leaseholds, buildings, lifts, runs, tows, etc., 1939-1981.

Sunshine Village Corporation

Summit News fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-78
  • Fonds
  • 1967

Fonds consists of newspaper copy, printing components, first sheet of the press, promotional material, etc. for issue number one, Oct. 5, 1967 and early printing work

Summit News

Stuart Armour fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-123
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1883]-1978, predominant 1973-1978

Fonds consists of selected reminiscences of Stuart Armour, particularly regarding Kate and Hayter Reed, Gordon Reed, friends Pat Brewster and Hamilton Jukes and various pack trips; letters to Pat Brewster; and photographs of Banff's first hotel, ca.1883, and Stuart Armour and Brewster boy in camp and packing a horse, ca.1920.

Armour, Stuart

Storm Mountain Lodge fonds

  • CA WHYTE whyte-953
  • Fonds
  • [after 1920]

Fonds consists of photographic views from around the world by Calgary photographer Harry Pollard. Pollard, 1880-1968, became a CPR photographer in 1924 and spent many summers in the Banff area during the 1920s and 1930s. The prints formerly hung in Storm Mountain Lodge.

Storm Mountain Lodge

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