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Vivian Kohar Fonds

  • CA JAS jas-2586
  • Fonds
  • 1956 -1960

The fonds consists of documents relating to the musical drama "The Jasper Story". Including: a script of the Jasper Story, advertising boards with photographs, and a scrapbook filled with programs and newspaper articles about the play.This fonds also consists of travel brochures from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways.

Kohar, Vivian

Summer Playhouse Jasper fonds

  • CA JAS jas-2640
  • Fonds
  • 1967

The fonds consists of photographs from Jasper's Summer playhouse performances. Also included are clippings from various scripts and musical scores presented during the summer. The players in the photographs are from various locations in Alberta and are not identified

Summer Playhouse (Jasper)

Robson family fonds

  • CA JAS jas-1405
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1850], 1900-1990 , predominant 1910-[ca. 1950]

Fonds is organized into three series: Family Papers (1910-1930), including financial receipts, account books,correspondence (1930-1970), newspaper clippings, Joan's diary of the 1927 Glacier Trail trip and souvenir booklets of the Brewster tours and Jasper from the early 1900's; Photographs of Robson family members and friends, the family house on Geikie Street, the Jasper CNR station and trains, Jasper townsite, the Jasper Rodeos of 1926 and 1931, Jasper Winter Carnival of 1928 and albums of photographs from Joan's 1927 Glacier Trip and Jack Robson's 1902 expedition with Collie, Stutfield and Woolley; Joan Robson's watercolors of wildflowers, mountain landscapes and scenes from Vancouver and Santa Barbara (1930-1950's).

Robson, Joan

Robert Dowling fonds

  • CA JAS jas-2615
  • Fonds
  • 1960 - 1968, predominantly 1960

The fonds consists of textual records pertaining to the musical production, The Jasper Story; The Jasper Chamber of Commerce; The Canadian Chamber of Commerce; tourist information on Jasper National Park and the Yellowhead Highway; the Canadian Junior Ski Championships; and Jasper the Bear creator and cartoonist, James Simpkins. Arrangement outline:;I. The Jasper Story series. -- [1960?]. -- textual records (8 p.) (002.35.01);II. Chamber of Commerce series. -- 1960. -- 0.5 cm textual records (002.35.02);III. Tourism Publication series. -- 1960 - 1968. -- textual records. (002.35.03);IV. The Crawford Report series. -- 1960. -- textual records (7 p.) (002.35.04)

Dowling, Robert

Ray O'Neill fonds

  • CA JAS jas-2592
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1980

The fonds consists of photographs of Fred Brewster (1968) and the theatrical production of "The Jasper Story" (1980).

O'Neill, Ray

Pyska family fonds

  • CA JAS jas-1799
  • Fonds
  • 1942

The fonds consists of music books belonging to Jacqueline Driver for dance reviews and music students.

Pyska family

Parks and People fonds

  • CA JAS jas-1762
  • Fonds
  • 1987-1992

Fonds consists of the manuscript for the book written by Merna Forester titled Jasper - A Walk in the Past. The book was a project by Parks and People (Friends of Jasper National Park), Environment Canada and Jasper-Yellowhead Historical Society. Also includes the book A Backward Glance by Nora Findlay. The book is a collection of anecdotes, stories and personal recollections of people, events, and customs from the past.

Parks and People

Joseph A. Weiss fonds

  • CA JAS jas-2590
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1993; predominant 1926 - 1960

The fonds consists of photographs, documents, artifacts, slides and negatives. Artifacts consists mostly of camera equipement. Photographs are related to the time Joe Weiss lived in Jasper. Includes views of various expeditions such as Bedaux, Speckles, Bennett, Kingman and others. Views of skiing, fishing and hunting. Also includes buildings in the town site as well as Jasper Park Lodgeand other outlaying areas. The construction of the Astoria River dam and pipeline and the Pyramid Mountain microvave tower are also represented. Joe Weiss photographed the Lovat Scouts and the Para Rescue unit which trained in Jasper. Included in the photgraphs series is a group of portraits too numerous to list. Documents pertain to Joe Weiss and include Swiss correspondence, newspaper clippping, artistic information about his photographs, government documents and general information about his life.

Weiss, Joe

Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society fonds

  • CA JAS jas-1398
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1994

Consists of blueprints and display sheets for proposed museum (1982); architect's proposal for museum (1980s); minutes and correspondence (1962-1988); historian's reports and correspondence (1967-1977); President's reports and correspondence (1963-1986); museum project files (1977-1985); financial records (1963-1994); audio-cassettes of speakers at meetings (1994); correspondence on the Fred Brewster Trust Fund (1970-1985); and membership lists (1970-1980).

Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society

Jasper Story fonds

  • CA JAS jas-1764
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1981

Fonds consists of the documents and financial records of the Jasper Story an outdoor musical production held in mid July 1978-1980 at the Crater Theatre across the road from the Whistler campground. The production told the story of the Overlanders seeking their way to the Caribou gold fields. The first production of this musical was performed in 1956 for about four years at the Palisades, formerly the Swift Place.

Jasper Story

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