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McLaurin family fonds

  • GLEN glen-1622
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1981

The fonds consists of holiday films of the Rocky Mountains and across Canada (1930s-1950s) and films of Baptist meetings and Bible camps at Gull Lake (1930s-1940s); photographs and slides of Rev. McLaurin's missions, travels and summer school at Gull Lake (1910s-1920s); photographs of the McLeod and McLaurin families (1880s-1960s); and slides of Calgary (1966). Also consists of Campbell's records: Bow River Beautification Association correspondence, briefs, accounts and reference files (1968-1981); travel diaries (1952-1979); diary (January 1929); correspondence with William Lyon Mackenzie King (1933-1945), scrapbooks and newsclippings; and Campbell and Jessie's marriage certificate. Includes Jessie's school notebooks (1911-1912), postcards and correspondence (1915-1916, 1926-1927) and travel diaries (1963-1964). Also includes film "Wings Over the North" (1940s) produced by Canadian Pacific and Alberta Travel Bureau about the role of pilots in opening up the north.

McLaurin, C.C. McLaurin, Jessie

Thomas Melling fonds

  • GLEN glen-1648
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1939

The fonds consists of a personal account of his 1937 trip to Chesterfield Inlet, official medical reports while stationed at Chesterfield (1936-1939), and photographs of Inuit and the Chesterfield area.

Melling, Thomas

Thomas B. Moffat fonds

  • GLEN glen-1679
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1937, predominant 1921-1937

The fonds consists of lantern slides (1921-1937) of the Canadian Rockies, Alpine Club members, and mountain flora and fauna. Also consists of diary of trip to Yellowstone and western USA (ca. 1892).

Moffat, Thomas B.

Northern Rivers Photographs collection

  • GLEN glen-1767
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910-1920]

The collection consists of photographs of boats, individuals and posts on northern rivers. Includes views of the Cariboo and Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Mirror Landing and Grouard, Alberta.

Northern Rivers

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

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