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Henry O'Brien fonds

  • GLEN glen-1775
  • Fonds
  • 1882

The fonds consists of diary of Rocky Mountains trip.

O'Brien, Henry

Charles Planinshek fonds

  • GLEN glen-1871
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1986 (originally created 1929-1932)

The fonds consists of notebooks, autograph books, scrapbook and photographs of the canoe trip.

Planinshek, Charles

Henry Roger Pocock fonds

  • GLEN glen-1876
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1945

The fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of books and short stories (Searchlights, Van Ymuiden Millions, The Salvation Pirate, Yokohama Pirates, A Tonic in the North); manuscript of poem, "The Broken Men"; newspaper articles largely pertaining to adventures in western Canada and Alaska (British Columbia First Nations, Rocky Mountain Club, Kootenay district of British Columbia, Muir Glacier, Skeena murder trials and stories, Behring Sea fur seals, NWMP tales, Klondike gold rush, trip across Canada, etc.); and a compilation of information on the history of the Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonweath. Also includes photographs of NWMP posts visited by Pocock.

Pocock, Henry Roger

Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Preston fonds

  • GLEN glen-1884
  • Fonds
  • Photocopied 1968 (originally created 1913)

The fonds consists of diaries of cross-Canada trip.

Preston, A.E.

Renn S. Robertson fonds

  • GLEN glen-1972
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1954

The fonds consists of diaries kept while in eastern Arctic.

Robertson, Renn S.

Robert Terrill Rundle fonds

  • GLEN glen-2013
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1916, predominant 1840-1848

The fonds consists of Robert's journal which includes his diary, notes, and baptism and marriage registers (1840-1848); a small amount of correspondence (1841-1892); extracts of the journal, possibly transcribed by daughter (nd); obituary; missionary publications (1911, 1916); and photographs of Banff (1911). Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Bow River, Fort Pitt, William Flett, J. E. Harriott, Oxford House, Red Deer River, and Stoneys.

Rundle, Robert Terrill

Carl Rungius fonds

  • GLEN glen-2014
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1973

The fonds consists of personal correspondence, greeting cards, manuscripts of stories, genealogy of the Rungius family, newsclippings, copyright records for paintings, diary of trip to the "Wild West", and extensive photographs of animals, pack trains, mountain scenery and the Rungius family. Includes autobiography of sister, Elisabeth Rungius Fulda, and her biography of Rungius.

Rungius, Carl

William Dudley Ryder fonds

  • GLEN glen-2021
  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1965 (originally created 1860-1861)

The fonds consists of a diary of the hunting trip.

Ryder, William Dudley

Henry Scott fonds

  • GLEN glen-2070
  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1968 (originally created 1886-1889)

The fonds consists of a diary of his Canadian travels, in the form of various anecdotes under subject headings such as "Rocky Mountains", "Prisons", etc. Included are discussions of Glacier, British Columbia, Walter Butler Cheadle, and other travellers.

Scott, Henry

Henry Smith fonds

  • GLEN glen-2125
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1904

The fonds consists of copy and transcript of diary kept by Mrs. Jane Mead of her journey back from Pincher Creek to England, via Vancouver (June-August 1888) and a journey from Liverpool to New York and back to England via Niagara, Toronto and Quebec (September-November, 1890); Henry Havelock Smith's sermons (1901-1904); and photographs relating to the Smith family and other Pincher Creek personalities.Creek to Vancouver and overseas (1888, 1890).

Smith, Henry

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