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Banff Recreational Centre fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1958-1967, predominant 1960-1962

Fonds contains correspondence, minutes, plans, reports, legal and financial records of committees and officers involved in planning, building, financing and operation of the Banff Recreational Centre. Included is material from the Calgary Olympic Development Association, building plans and construction specifications, and agreements with concessionaires and the Banff Curling Club.

Banff Recreational Centre

Banff Ski Runners of the Canadian Rockies fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-1071
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1974, 1980

Fonds includes: I. Administrative files, 1949-1974, 8 cm; including minutes, correspondence and general files. II. Ski meets, 1962, 1967-1973, 12.5 cm; pertaining mainly to the International Intercollegiate Ski Meet. III. Financial records, 1963-1973, 6.5 cm. IV. Other, 1953-1973, 1980, 16 items.

Banff Ski Runners of the Canadian Rockies

Banff Springs Golf Club. Ladies section fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-125
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1973

Fonds consists of minutes of annual meetings and executive meetings from the organization's establishment by Banff sportswomen in 1931. Meetings pertain primarily to events, competitions and policy.

Banff Springs Golf Club. Ladies Section

Banff Tennis Club fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-126
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1963

Fonds consists of minutes, 1926-1961, membership lists, 1950-1961 correspondence, 1933-1961, and financial records, 1933-1963.

Banff Tennis Club

Banff Winter Carnival fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1945-1959

Banff Winter Carnival photographs, 1950s, are mainly publicity photographs and order proofs by British Photographic Laboratories (Bill Gibbons); some by Alpine Films. Content includes Carnival Queen contests, parades, activities, including masquerade ball, other. Textual records of the Winter Sports of the Canadian Rockies organization, 1945-1946, include minutes, reports, letters, news reports, press clippings, pamphlets, programmes, posters and leaflets. These records are in the form of a scrapbook and loose items. Many items pertain to involvement of Ethel "Tillie" Knight.

Banff Winter Carnival

Banff Winter Festival fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-1072
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1960]-1997

Fonds consists of three series: I. Textual records, 1973-1997; II. Photographs, ca.1960-1989; III. Moving Images, 1991-1992. Textual material consists of administrative and operational records in the form of files of reports, transcripts, letters, minutes of meetings, legal papers, lists, registrations, advertising, poster entries, handbills and print material. Photographs pertain mainly to festival events, activities, including the Festival Queen contest. Videos pertain to 1991 and 1992 Banff Winter Festivals.

Banff Winter Festival

Benjamin D. Watchler fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-815
  • Fonds
  • 1924

Fonds pertains to the 1924 Alpine Club of Canada camp at Mount Robson and consists of views taken or collected by Watchler of the camp, climbing companions and the Mount Robson climb. Includes views by W. S. Park, clippings from the "Regina Daily Post" re Sharpe and Watchler's ascent of Mount Robson, and note written by Conrad Kain certifying the climb.

Watchler, Benjamin D.

Bert Knight fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca.1936], 1938

Fonds consists of 16 b&w photographs relating to mines, Lake Louise area, Yoho camp, and Walter Feuz.

Knight, Bert

Bert Riggall fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca.1865]-1959, predominant [ca.1890]-1959

Fonds includes seven series: I. Personal and professional, 1884-1959; II. Business and financial, ca.1910-1959; III. Professional photography, 1900-1955; IV. Writing, 1906-1957; V. Natural history, 1904-1954; VI. Other interests, 1913-1956; VII. Riggall family, ca.1865-1959. Personal and professional series consists of diaries and notes, correspondence and personal papers. Business and financial series consists of guiding and ranching records, gunsmithing, shooting and loading records; and legal and financial records. Professional photography series consists of standard photographs, panoramas, transparencies and textual records;Writing series contains manuscripts, published magazines, book outlines, newspaper articles and letters to the editor;Natural history series contains bird and plant records, and other natural history papers;Other interests series consist of clippings, annotated books and collected material;Riggall family series contains Bert and Dora Riggall family papers and photographs, Williams family photographs, Frederick W. and Fanny Riggall papers and photographs, and Allan Riggall papers and photographs. Negatives and transparencies pertain to Andy Russell as a young man with Bert Riggall.

Riggall, Bert

Bert Sammons fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1932

Fonds consists of photographs of skiing at Lake Louise, Banff and Mount Norquay; skating; swimming at the Cave and Basin; Banff Avenue and Banff Winter Carnival. All views are unidentified but are thought to pertain to Bert Sammons, friends and acquaintances.

Sammons, Bert

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