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Bert Davies fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-237
  • Fonds
  • 1913, [ca.1940-ca.1955]

Fonds consist of warden service photographs, including Bert Davies on horse, horse patrol and backcountry activities, warden cabins in Banff National Park; photographs by British Photographic Laboratories of Banff Winter Carnival beard-growing contest; view of Loder Mine at Exshaw, Alberta; and portrait of Bert Davies with parents, 1913.

Davies, Bert

Bert Riggall fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-1106
  • 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

Bo Holroyd fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1920-1927, 1929-1947

Fonds consists of Bo Holroyd warden journals for 1920 to 1947 (1928 journal missing). Journals present a personal record of work activities as Park Warden and Supervising Warden of Waterton Lakes National Park. Details pertain to patrols, horses, fire control, trail building and maintenance, search and rescue, fish and wildlife duties, law enforcement, supervision, administration, etc. They contain particularly valuable observations on ungulate populations, wildlife management, game, warden service duties and programs and human activity in the park.

Holroyd, J. C. (Bo)

Bob Holscher collection

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  • Collection
  • [ca.1895-ca.1935]

Collection consists mainly of postcard views of Banff, Lake Louise and areas by various photographers, including Byron Harmon, J. Howard A. Chapman, S. J. Thompson and R. H. Trueman. Also, includes hand-coloured prints of Lake Louise, one by Alfred Blyth.

Holscher, Bob (collector)

Boon family fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca.1930]-1972

Fonds consists of textual records and photographs. Textual records include: certificate of appreciation, University of Calgary, 1972; newsclippings pertaining to Ann Boon, 1962-1972; annotated copy of Salute to the Past by Gladys Cynthia Rebecca Shope Diesel, n.d. information pamphlet re the Mountain School, Banff, ca.1930. Photographs pertain to royal visit, 1939; Ann Boon, people, places and activities in Banff, 1941-1966. Royal visit photographs are by Charles Boon.

Boon, Ann

Boorne and May fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca.1887-1888]

Fonds consists primarily of presentation album titled "Landscapes," containing one hundred views along the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains. The album contains many popular views of the period and is inscribed to "W. Whyte Esq., General Superintendent, Western Division C.P.R., Winnipeg. With Boorne & May's Compliments. Calgary. January 1889." Also includes individual prints of similar views to those in the album and include views as far west as Yale, B.C. Twenty-two prints, attributable to Boorne and May through photographer numbers and titles on the fronts, are stamped "From J. Nicholson, Photo Artist, Boissevain, Man." on the reverse. Nicholson was a professional photographer at Boissevain, Manitoba between 1888 and 1893. His business was sold to Jas. E. Miers in 1893.

Boorne and May

Boy Scouts of Canada fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1981

Fonds pertains to the Boy Scout Jamboree at Kananaskis, Alberta in 1981

Boy Scouts of Canada

Bruce Patterson fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1982

Audio tapes recorded to assist with preparation of newspaper reports and eventually used to prepare "Canadians on Everest." Transmissions included those communications exchanged between climbers and base camp and broadcasts monitored on another radio from Kathmandu transmissions, August to October 1982. Recordings were made on a small Hitachi recorder. Accompanied by notes.

Patterson, Bruce

Bill Craig fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca.1920]-1973

Fonds consists of notes on Bankhead, Alberta, Canada made in conversation with Bill Craig; notes transcribed by Bill Craig re Banff High School students and teachers, 1913 to 1944; Anne Craig time sheet, 1945; photographic views of the town of Bankhead taken by John Craig; views of Banff and area; one photograph of Craig with Jim Boyce and W. LaCasse, 1940s?

Craig, Bill

Bill Goodrich fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1950-1962

Fonds consists of 35mm colour transparencies taken by Bill Goodrich, 1950-1962 at Alpine Club of Canada annual camps. Camps include: Maligne, 1950; O'Hara, 1951; Assiniboine, 1952; Mt. Hooker and Edith Cavell, 1953; Goodsirs, 1954; Mt. Robson, 1955; Ramparts, 1957; Bugaboos, 1959; Maligne, part 1, 1962. Transparencies are housed in 3 carousels, each with a note on its content.

Goodrich, Bill

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