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Yukon Field Force fonds

  • GLEN glen-2497
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1981 (originally created 1898-1900)

The fonds consists of photographs of Yukon Field Force on the trip up the west coast, and Fort Selkirk.

Yukon Field Force

W.S. Caine fonds

  • GLEN glen-398
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1888

The fonds consists of scrapbook of published letters regarding Caine's trip. Includes other newsclippings from English newspapers about emigration, various colonization schemes, and conditions in the Canadian West.

Caine, W.S.

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)

Wize family fonds

  • PAA paa-7225
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1972, predominant 1910-1927

Fonds consists of the records of the Wize family and includes correspondence, business cards, certificates from the Automobile Association and Motor Union, Calgary Electric Railway tickets, copied newspaper clippings, a promissory note, postcards, a telegram, and a letter of recommendation from Emily Murphy. Fonds also includes photographs and negatives depicting various buildings, street views, and parades in Alberta, including the Corona Hotel, Wize Block, Hudson's Bay Company trading posts, Queen Alexandra School, the parliament building, airplanes, and the 49th Battalion. A large number of photographs and negatives depict people, buildings, and views in other countries, such as Egypt, Russia, Finland, Germany, England, Holland, Burma, Italy, Japan, Macao, Manila, Norway, and Sweden. Fonds also includes a register from the Corona Hotel.

Wize, James Edward

Willy Pfisterer fonds

  • JAS jas-2600
  • Fonds
  • 1925 -1984

The fonds consists of Log Books from Whistlers Mountain Ski Patrol (1954-1966), Mt. Morro (1971- 1981), Colin Peak (1930-1979), Watchtower Hut (1969- 1971), and Maligne Lookout (1960- 1967). Included also are Skiing and touring registers from Maligne Lake (1956- 1976) and records from Mt. Edith Cavell (1966- 1977). Fonds include details of mountaineers and climbers from Para Rescue courses led by Jasper Alpine guides Willy Pfisterer, Hans Schwarz and many Edith Cavell trips guided by Henry J. Fuhrer.

Pfsiterer, Willy

Willmore Wilderness Park fonds

  • HINT hint-4
  • Fonds
  • 1993-2003

The fonds consists of journal records of visitors to the Eagle's Nest and Summit Lake backcountry cabins. The journals contain entries by hikers,backcountry skiiers, Conservation Officers, Wardens and horse riders. The entries include thoughts, diary entries, housekeeping notes, weather reports and animal sightings.

Willmore Wilderness Park

William Tait fonds

  • PINC pinc-2619
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1988.

The fonds consists of William Tait's diaries and correspondence written while living at Fishburn; the typescript draft of his book-length biography of Kootenai Brown; news clippings; and correspondence from his heirs.

Tait, William

William O. Field fonds

  • WHYTE whyte-666
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1989, predominant 1902-1989

Fonds consists of records created and collected by William O. Field during to glacier study, research and travels in the Canadian Rockies and area. I. CR files : [Canadian Rockies series], 1919-1989, 110 files and 13 volumes of textual records and ca.275 files of photographs. Textual records include diaries, notebooks and files for 1948, 1949 and 1953. Photographs include ca.5800 prints, ca.325 negatives and 4 photograph albums in annual files for years 1919 to 1927 and 1948, 1949 and 1953. II. Reports, before 1980. III. Resources, 1902-1985, consists of photographs, maps and textual volume collected by Field for research use. IV. Display photographs, 1885-1953.

Field, William O.

William Notman and Son fonds

  • GLEN glen-3539
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1870-1904]

The fonds consists of a presentation album of views along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) line between Winnipeg and Vancouver (1887-1889); and various other views of western Canada and portraits relevant to western Canadian history.

William Notman and Son

William McLellan fonds

  • CA GPR 0282
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1915

The fonds consists of 22 photographs William took in the summers of 1913 and 1915 while he was working on a survey crew in the Peace River country, and copies of 5 letters he wrote to his mother during the summer of 1915. An accrual consists of a biography of William written by daughter, Jean McLellan Pardo and a story witten by Jean based on family memories.

McLellan, William John

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