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Archives General File collection

  • WHYTE whyte-979
  • Collection
  • [after 1890]

The Archives General File is an artificial collection of accessions which do not constitute separate fonds or collections or cannot be placed within existing fonds or collections. Included in the collection are textual records of many types, such as manuscripts, reports, letters, diaries, speeches, poetry, plans and others; photographs in the form of prints, negatives, transparencies, albums, postcards, etc. sound recorded interviews and programmes; and motion pictures. Material pertains broadly to the Banff area and many other areas within the Archives collecting mandate. Notable items include: Walter Wilcox letter; George Kinney report; interviews with Bill Round and Edward Feuz; original copy of Treaty Number Seven; Mary Schaffer material, including letters, notes, photograph and report; reports on the Nakimu Caves; film pertaining to Banff Winter Carnival; Georgia Engelhard letters and photos; plans for buildings and structures; George Noble photograph; W. S. Park photograph.

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library, collector

Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-958
  • Fonds
  • 1924-2011

Fonds consists of organizational records including photographs, brochures, correspondence and other documents which are divided into five series [see General Notes]. Content pertains to the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, including the organization's history, members and staff, trail rides and other events, publications and advertising, finances, and administration.

Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies

Yuk Soy Goon fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-1083
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1911]-1965

Fonds consists of menus for the Mount Royal Hotel, 1958-1965; a menu for a Gray Line dinner party at Hawaii in 1952, signed by Fern and Henry Dooley; and photographs pertaining to Yuk Soy Goon, the Goon family and members of Brewster family. Also included are coloured photocopies of Yuk Soy Goon's passport, ship's ticket, Canadian registration cards, head tax certificate, and Canadian citizenship certificate.

Goon, Yuk Soy

Wright family fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-972
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1890]-1967

Fonds consists of Andrew "Scotty" Wright papers and photographs, Mary Wright papers and photographs and some Wright family photographs. Textual records include Scotty Wright journals and notebooks, 1922-1942, correspondence, 1932-1937, and other papers, 1932-1967 re employment and personal matters; also miscellaneous personal papers of Mary Wright Burles, 1927-1967. Photographs are mainly prints and albums pertaining to Andrew "Scotty" Wright and family, friends and associates, activities, hunting trips, mountain travels and skiing, ca.1890-1959. Includes two albums and some prints pertaining mainly to Mary Wright and her friends and activities at Banff and Skoki, ca.1925-1940, as well as photographs by Nick Morant and six panorama and large-format views by Charles D. Walcott.

Wright (family)

Woodworth family fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-812
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1890]-1973

Fonds consists of four series:;I. Percy Woodworth series, ca.1908-1966, 3 cm of textual records, 212 photographs (prints, negatives). Consists of warden diaries, 1924-1927, and photographs pertaining to family, friends, warden activities, hunting, and camping. II. Joe Woodworth series, ca.1890-1973, 94 photographs, 1 cm of textual records. Consists of photographs, trip accounts, autobiographies and other textual items. III. Annie Woodworth (LaCasse) series, 1912-1971, 5 cm of textual records. Consists of autograph book and scrapbooks of Annie Woodworth. IV. Woodworth family series, ca.1890-1930, 49 photographs. .5 cm of textual records. Consists of family photographs of Ben, Ethel, Mary, Maude, Adelia, Fred A. and John Woodworth and of Howard Deegan; Fred Woodworth papers; and other material.

Woodworth (family)

Williams family fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-969
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1870-ca.1955]

Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the Williams family, activities, friends and homes, ca.1870-ca.1955; also a tender from Percy A. Williams to Rev. T. Montgomery re the painting of St. George's in the Pines Anglican Church, 1929.

Williams (family)

William Whyte family fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-822
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1895-ca.1945]

Fonds pertains to William Whyte family; Banff people, places and events, including Banff Zoo, Banff Station and staff, Banff Avenue and Cave and Basin; skiing, including Mount Norquay and Sunshine ski areas. Mainly ca.1920-1945. Also includes a few photographs of Banff personalities, including Tom Wilson, ca.1895-1905.

Whyte, William (family)

William Larsen fonds : [ca.1953]

  • WHYTE whyte-419
  • Fonds
  • Copies made 1989

Fonds pertains to events, activities and places at Banff; includes Marilyn Monroe, also filming of motion picture "Saskatchewan.

Larsen, William

William James Craig fonds : [1908-1911]

  • WHYTE whyte-367
  • Fonds
  • Copy negatives made in 1987

Fonds pertains to Banff, Alberta scenes, W. J. Craig, family and friends.

Craig, William James

William Hugh Napier fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-673
  • Fonds
  • 1858, 1901-1909

Fonds consists of discharge certificates, 1901-1909; and photographs pertaining to W. H. Napier as a North-West Mount Police volunteer for South Africa, 1900. Also includes hand-coloured photograph of W. Napier (father of W. H. Napier) and W. Armstrong in buckskins; possibly Notman Studio photograph, 1858.

Napier, William Hugh

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