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The fonds consists of photographs from November 17, 1927 of mountains and the Lake Louise and Banff train stations.

The collection is made up of items donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta from the Society’s holdings. The collection is made up of postcards and postcard-format photographs depicting places in Alberta, including views of Banff, Mount Stephen and Cathedral Peak, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Lacombe, a train on the Lacombe Branch of the C.P.R., Lacombe High School, an early view of Calgary, and the Lacombe hockey team, winners of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association championship. Addressees of the postcards are: Miss Ruth McKenzie (Ft. Pierre, SD), Mr. L.M. Fortune (Andover, SD), Miss Sarah Summerside (Pierre, SD), Mrs. Emma Fortune (Coude, SD), Mrs. T. Jones (Andover, SD), Mr. And Mrs. R.W. Fortune (Coude, SD), and H.D. Parhauw (Woonsocket, SD).

The fonds consists of photographs of Alberta towns (1920s), Buffalo National Park at Wainwright and Banff National Park (1920s) and Edmonton photos (1921-1946) taken by Wilbur W. Powe. Also included are photographs of Athabasca River Boat scenes (1924-1925) taken by Russ Denholm (cousin of Lillian). Also included are a photograph and booklet of the Edmonton Commercial Grads Basketball team (1940).

Fonds consists of photographs depicting various buildings and views in the Banff, Alberta area including a sanitarium, a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Hotel, a view of the town of Banff, and a bridge over Devil's Canyon in Banff National Park, souvenir postcards of Edmonton depicting the Court House, the Hudson's Bay Company Post, a high school, the General Hospital, the Legislature Buildings, the Strathcona Bridge, Jasper Avenue, a dog team and Lake Wabamum. The fonds also includes two mechanically reproduced photographic reproductions of train track in the mountains.

Fonds consists of photographs and photographic postcards depicting various people, buildings, bridges and views in Alberta and British Columbia, including many scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railway line, and includes Columbia River and highway, Tooth Rock, Connaught Tunnel, Yoho Valley, Kicking Horse Canyon, Morraine Lake, Lake Louise, Cascade Mountain, Castle Mountain, Mount (Mt.) Rundle, Mt. Temple, Bow Valley, and Douglas Street in Victoria, British Columbia, and Banff Hot Springs Hotel. Fonds also includes images of canoes, automobiles, buffalo, mountain goats, log cabins, trains, and William S. Gavitt with a moose.

Fonds consists of records relating the George T. Elliott's career as a pilot in the RCAF and includes four annotated photograph albums containing approximately 550 photographs which depict RCAF camps, including Camp Borden, Ontario and Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, pilots and other RCAF employees, planes, cockpits, machinery shops, hangars, parachuters, cars, buildings, a winter ambulance, pontoon planes and various plane crashes. Fonds also contains some farming scenes and aerial photographs of various places across Canada, including Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, the Rocky Mountains, Ottawa, Niagra Falls, Toronto and Barrie, Ontario, and British Columbia, as well as aerial views of forest fires.

The fonds consists of images, dating 1949 to 1962, featuring various locations in Alberta including Banff, Beaver Lodge, Brazeau, Calgary, Caroline, Champion, Crowsnest Pass, Cypress Hills, Dorothy, Drumheller, Duvernay, East Coulee, Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Frank, Frog Lake, Grisham, High Prairie, High River, Kananaskis, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Longiven, Manning, Manville, Manyberries, Medicine Hat, Midland, Nordegg, Orion, the Red Deer River, Ricinus, Rocky Mountain House, Rosebud, Rosedale, Sundre, Vulcan, Wabamun, Whiskey Gap, and the Yellowhead Pass. The photographs include street scenes, schools, fire halls, churches and mosques, stores, restaurants, diners and bakeries, beer parlours, post offices, greenhouses, telephone lines, workers and operators, grain elevators, ferries, swimming pools, airports, Jaycopters, airplanes and cargo, mills and mines (flour, steel, coal, nickel), plants, camps, pipeline construction, saddleries, apiaries, bridges, dams, roads, signs, hoodoos, mountains, ice fields, cattle, horses and sheep, stampedes and parades, cattle branding and dehorning, lariat making, artists and sculptors, and laundry and ironing.

The fonds also includes images of rancher and juniper root carver Wilf Hodgson (Wilfred Garstang-Hodgson), of Dorothy, Alberta.

The fonds consists of hand-coloured lantern slides of flowers, the movement of floral parts, fertilization and seed production, fruits, flower gardening, ornamental planting, vegetable gardening, farm scenes, potatoes, the microscopic structure of plants, landscapes (Pacific Coast, mountains, park country, plains), farms, mammals, birds, the erosion of rocks, sunsets and clouds, clouds, deposits of sand and gravel, stratification of rocks and soil, plants as soil makers, erosion of rocks, logging and lumber, and trees; glass plate negatives of the Banff area including hotels, golf courses, mountains; farm machinery; negatives of the family's farm, family members, farming, harvesting, picnics, the Drumheller area including hoodoos; and a photograph of William Copeland McCalla.

Fonds also includes three ledgers of farm notes, seed records, accounts of receipts and expenditures, manure records, etc. for William Copeland McCalla and Margaret McCalla's farms at St. Catherines, Ontario and Bremner, Alberta. Part of the third ledger is farm notes, accounts of receipts and expenditures, etc. for Frederick and Gladys McCalla, who took over the Bremner farm from parents William and Margaret. Includes some loose notes, correspondence, receipts, Alberta Wheat Pool grading slips, etc.

Fonds also includes a CD made in 2008 by Alex McCalla that contains scans of all the pages in the ledgers.

Fonds also includes McCalla's lantern slide projector and a wooden lantern slide case in a canvas carrying bag.

Fonds consists of copied and original articles written by E.T. Love about highway building in Alberta, the Trans Canada Highway, Icefields Parkway, and Yellowhead Route, as well as his experiences with the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Road Committee.

The fonds consists of photographs of views of Edmonton and Calgary, predominantly of buildings including university buildings, schools, churches, hotels, hospitals, libraries, court houses, grain elevators, train stations, city halls, armouries as well as bridges, monuments, rivers and parks; views of the Rocky Mountains, especially around Kootenay Park and Radium, British Columbia, including mountains, hot springs, canyons, rivers, trees, and highways; various views of Stanley Park and Capilano Canyon and River in Vancouver, British Columbia; postcards of the Alberta-British Columbia border, Bow Lake, Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise, Sicamous Hotel, Central School (Calgary), views of Banff buildings, water falls and mountains; and a booklet of scenes along the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The fonds consists of photographs from a general round-up near High Prairie, Alberta, one of Aquilla Smith Maxwell on horseback, and the other of all the men involved, including John Ware, in the round-up; photographic postcards of the 1907 fire of a post office in Edmonton and the Cave and Basin in Banff; and a postcard of the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) gardens in Calgary.

The fonds consists of images, originally dating 1920 to circa (ca.) 1955, of the Banff Springs Hotel and the Banff townsite and buildings, Angel Glacier near Jasper, Chateau Lake Louise, Central Park, the library, Burns’ house in Calgary, views of the University of Alberta and the river valley in Edmonton, the interior of different homes in Edmonton including kitchens and living room with fireplaces and radios, and the interior of a cabin and St. Mark’s Church, both at South Cooking Lake.

The fonds consists of images, originally taken in 1916, from the Castle Mountain internment camp near Banff, Alberta and includes images of soldiers, mountains, tents, trains, and internees.

The fonds consists of a booklet of images of Banff and Lake Louise, and postcards of black bears, the Alberta-British Columbia border, Chateau Lake Louise and First Presbyterian Church in Edmonton, Alberta.

The fonds consists of images taken on a trip the Somers took to Alberta to visit a Calgary woman whom Claire had met through her work as “conductorette;” images include Claire, Everett and their traveling companions, the Banff Springs Hotel, the Chateau Lake Louise, cabins, mountains, glaciers, lakes, roads, bears and deer.

The fonds consists of photographs of mountains, of Peace River (by McDermid Studios Limited), and of the Chateau Lake Louise (by Fred Armbrister).

The fonds consists of records relating to the Sears family and includes a booklet entitled "My Price Ceiling Record" which was used as an address book and a diary likely by a member of the Sears family, images of a log barn on the Sears homestead, a farmer, a Bennett buggy, soldiers including Captain Bidwell of the 49th Battalion, possibly a colliery in the Rocky Mountain area, 1950s holiday shots from a trip to the Rocky Mountains including the Banff and Jasper administration buildings, Banff's Cave and Basin, automobiles, and a Brewster's bus, and a tintype of a baby.

The fonds consists of images of early Edmonton and includes photographs of Edmonton and Strathcona, Edmonton hospitals, schools, brewery, train stations, streets (including Whyte Avenue), houses, buildings, ferry, bridges, a train derailment, Heimthal church (east of Ellerslie), the Stettler creamery, the Innisfail Hotel, the dining room of Royal Hotel, children swimming, canoeing, shaving, and a bear, and postcards of the Royal Hotel, Diamond Hall (Ash Brothers (Bros.)), Edmonton bridges, an incline railway, buildings, views, streets, street cars, the Legislature, the University, views along the Athabasca River, hotels, buildings and banks in Wetaskiwin, Sylvan Lake, scouts, buffalo, bridge at Rocky Mountain House, First Nations peoples, North Battleford (Saskatchewan), buildings, trolleys, bridges, and rivers in Calgary, mountains, glaciers, near Banff and Jasper, buildings, bridges in Banff, branding, and harvesting.

The fonds also includes an Edmonton Orpheus Society banquet program, toast lists and menus for the Old Timers’ Association of Edmonton, a business card for the Royal Hotel, a Salvation Army Diamond Jubilee dinner ticket, a Christmas card, a Jasper House Christmas Day menu, Royal Hotel Christmas menus, and sheet music for song “The Emblem of Alberta” (words by Jeannette Forsyth and music by Gilbert Stirling).

The fonds consists of selected images copied from three photographs albums, one album titled "Holiday Pictures," the other two untitled, and includes images, originally dating from about 1908 to 1912, of the Hudson's Bay Store at Athabasca Landing, a land sale a Athabasca Landing, Robert Baden-Powell and boy scouts, women on horseback, Fort Chipewyan, people in the hot springs at Banff, automobiles, the Duke of Connaught with Gilbert E. Sanders, and people skating.

The three lantern slides and four stereoviews are as follows: “A Treacherous Crevasse in Victoria Glacier;” Centre Street Bridge – Calgary (colour); “Midnight Sun [river boat] – G. Rubie – 1896;” “Mt. Edith Cavell from Jasper Park Lodge…;”Beautiful Crystal Garden and Cascade Mountain Range, Banff, Alberta, Canada;” “One of the Three Sisters Overlooking the Snow River Valley, Banff, Alberta, Canada; ”Ancient Monarch of the Herd, Buffalo at Banff, Alberta, Canada.”

The fonds consists of one photo album including views of Grouard, Banff, and Edmonton dating from 1913-1914 taken by an unknown photographer.

The fonds consists of nine cine films of Jasper and Banff National Parks depicting wildlife and winter events dating from [1940 – 1969].

The fonds consists of photographs and photographic and mechanically produced postcards which depict various people and views in Banff, Hardisty, Bow River, Edmonton, and Sylvan Lake, Alberta including rivers, a locomotive, buffalo, agricultural machinery, a First Nations chief, a church and church booth, log cabins, floods, bridges, street views, carriages, and hotels. Fonds also includes an image of Emmanuel College in Saskatchewan, and the R.M. Empress of Ireland.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Mary Rundle during her service as Private Secretary to Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow for the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry in Alberta dating from 1935.

The scrapbook contains diary entries, postcards, and photographs of Alberta including photographs of the Tofield Coal Mine, Rabbit Hill, MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton, Red Deer Ferry, Henderson’s Mine, Drumheller, Lethbridge, Blairmore, Crow’s Nest Mountain and Lake, Old Man River, Forest Reserve near Thunder Creek, Banff, Kicking Horse Pass, Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake, Kicking Horse Canyon, Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, Caste Mountain (Saskatchewan), Luscar, Cadomin, Crazeau, Mountain Park, Leyard Junction, Luscar, Edson, Coalspar, the Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton, as well as photographs of Sir Montague-Barlow, Lady Montague-Barlow, and coal miners in Alberta.

The fonds consists of 34 views of the Royal Visit of the Prince of Wales dating from 1919; 5 views of the Royal Visit of King George in 1939; 79 views of Edmonton dating from 1920 - [1923]; 9 views of Banff and Lake Louise dating from the 1920's; 31 views of Nova Scotia, British Columbia, and Mexico dating from the 1920's and 1930's; and 36 views of buildings, airplanes, and lumber camps from Alberta dating from the 1920's to the 1930's.

The fonds consists of 19 photographs of buildings and street scenes of Rosebud, Alberta and 17 photographs of buildings and street scenes in Rockyford, Alberta photographed in 1989-1990 by Marlena Wyman. There are also 20 photographs and negatives of the Num-ti-jah Lodge in Banff National Park.

The fonds consists of five reels of 16mm colour silent film shot by Katherine Baier featuring scenes of cars, weddings horseback riding, Chateau Lake Louise, Bonnyville School dating from 1954; scenes of the Columbia Ice Fields, Banff, Frank Slide, and Turtle Mountain dating from ca. 1957; equestrian scenes in Bawlf, Alberta dating from ca. 1955; scenes of Radium, BC, the Banff town site, a restored Model-T Ford dating from ca. 1959; scenes of harvesting, the Banff Highway, waterfalls, the Banff town site, animals, campsite, cars, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and a Viking Parade dating from ca. 1949 to 1953.

The collection consists of 15 photographs of the Banff area including views of "Beehive Mountain", a waterfall at "Johnson's Creek", a canoe, and the Banff Springs Hotel; a photograph of Vancouver; a photograph of Santa Monica featuring electric street lights; a photograph of New York Woolworth Building; two photographs of unidentified women; and two photographs of an unidentified harbor. The photographs date from ca. 1918 and were taken by an unknown photographer.

The fonds consists of twenty photographs and twelve postcards featuring scenes of Calgary, Banff, and Blackie, Alberta dating from ca. 1923.

The fonds consists of records created by the Engineering and Construction Service Section, National Parks Branch, for its work in national parks located in the Rocky Mountains, including those in Alberta and British Columbia. The records include photographs and negatives that depict section projects such as bridges and roads as well as specifications, drawings, and inspectors' reports.

The fonds consists of photographs taken in Banff at the Highland Games in 1927 including images featuring Bison, Kainai [Kainai First Nation] dwellings, Kainai drummers, a ring and arrow game behind the Banff Springs Hotel, a parade of Kainai warriors, and a hand guessing game. The fonds also includes a photograph of Mr. R.N. Wilson, an Indian agent in the early part of the 20th century in Alberta, and a photograph of Mrs. R.N. Wilson.

The fonds consists of fifty black and white nitrate negatives taken by Paul Coze during his visits to Western Canada during 1928, 1930 and 1931. The photographs were a part of his ethnographic interests as an artist and document Métis, Cree and Nakoda Nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. About a quarter of the negatives document Alberta, while the majority was taken in Saskatchewan.

The fonds consists of 8 photographs featuring scenes of Jasper and Banff National Park dating from circa 1907 - 1909.

The fonds consists of a photograph of an unidentified woman circa 1890 and a photograph taken in Banff featuring Mr. Rabone's son, Mr. Rabone, and Mr. Percy circa 1910. The photographer is unknown.

The fonds consists of photographs of Alberta including the sites of Edmonton, Gull Lake, Lake Louise, and Banff taken by Agnes Mary Whitney and Helen Gertrude Whitney in the 1920s. The fonds also contains some photographs of family members taken by Agnes Mary Whitney and Helen Gertrude Whitney in the 1920s.

The fonds consists of an album of photographs taken by Anne Wight in 1913 during a vacation through the Rocky Mountains from July 19 to September 17. The album features the scenery of Banff, Alberta, and Glacier, BC. H.S. Foster, a Lawrence, Kansas, railway clerk developed the prints.

The fonds consists of photographs and negatives taken in or near Coal Branch, Jasper, Banff, Luscar, Mountain Park, Lovett, and Yellowhead County with some photos taken in Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia.

The photos have a wide breadth of subject material including mining (including mine fires, rescue horses, miners, specific mines, equipment, and infrastructure), sports (including baseball, curling, tennis, soccer, and track), leisure activities (including music, parties, and performances), women, outdoor activities (including picnics, hunting, camping, ice skating, horseback riding, and snow-shoeing), landscapes, and people in a wide age range.

The fonds consists of records of the LaPerle family including photographs, correspondence, diaries and other personal papers, cookbooks and recipes, gardening, how-to and decorating magazines, books and booklets, biographical and genealogical papers, press clippings, school handbooks and other materials used or accumulated by Annie LaPerle as a teacher.

The fonds also includes records from the Winterburn Golden Agers and Winterburn Women's Institute, store and farm cash books and statements of accounts and other records documenting daily activities, as well as greeting and sympathy cards, maps, slides and 8 mm film reels.

The photographs, slides and films depict the LaPerle family and friends, the Winterburn Store, post office, house and other buildings, farming, farm machinery and crews, weddings and anniversaries, burials, churches and other buildings, cars, picnics, parties and leisure activities, students and schools, soldiers, First Nations people, Banff and Jasper, Edmonton and other places in Alberta, and the Edmonton Ski Club.

The fonds consists of photographs that depict images from downtown Calgary and locations in Banff, including Lake Lousie, Mount Eisenhower, and Johnston Canyon. The images of downtown Calgary depict street scenes and styles of the period as well as elements of the downtown transit system. Regina Municipal Railway employees are also depicted and some are identified.

The fonds consists of photographs, negatives, and slides depicting sites throughout Alberta, including the Provincial Legislature, Elk Island National Park, Banff, Edmonton, and Calgary. Prints of Sheraton's art photography are also included, as are images of drag racing in the 1960s and 1970s.

Item is one 16mm colour silent film of home movie footage filmed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 8 minutes 20 seconds in length. Footage includes lakes, mountains and glaciers in the Lake Louise area, Chateau Lake Louise, Moraine Lake Lodge, Canadian Pacific Railroad Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass with train (three steam engines), Takakkaw Falls and Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (RCMP) and woman outside RCMP building in [Banff] , and black bears beside cars. People from an unknown family, principally a woman, appear from a distance in various scenes. Good footage of glaciers showing size and locations in 1948.

This silent, colour film is a short travelogue produced by Walt Studios featuring Banff, Jasper, the Columbia Icefield, and Lake Louise.

The collection consists of 12 prints of paintings by Charles Russell and 121 postcards of sites around Alberta with a focus on the Banff area.

The collection consists of photographs of Banff National Park, Royal Canadian Air Force #2 Wireless School, and Royal Canadian Air Force Service Flying Training School #3 in Calgary.

The collection consists of photographs of Edmonton and Banff, ca. 1900. Images include a flood at Walter's Mill in Edmonton and the Banff Hot Springs.

The collection consists of photographs of a Siksika medicine lodge, ranching, the laying of the cornerstone of the Alberta Legislature, the hospital of Grande Prairie, bison in Banff National Park, Vegreville school, and other sites in Alberta.

The fonds consists of photographs of Banff, Edmonton, St. Albert, and Mrs. John W. Morris.

The collection consists of photographic postcards of Lake Louise, Calgary, Edmonton, and Alby, Alberta.

The fonds consists of the bulk of the Cunningham Photographers photographic holdings and include wedding portraiture, commercial photographs, scenic photographs, 1959 Royal Tour photographs, personal photographs, and event photographs.

The wedding and family portraiture, including formal portraits and candid images, represent the largest portion of the images. The subjects and dates are all identified and span several decades. Commercial photographs for such businesses and Hudson’s Bay Company and many Alberta-based companies including manufacturers, retailers, energy companies, and others are also present and include images intended for advertising, personnel, sites, and interiors. Many events such as parades, banquets, and festivals are also represented in the fonds.

Scenic photographs of locations around Alberta such as Banff and Jasper National Parks are sampled, as are personal and family photographs.

The textual records consist of indexes to the photographs and negatives, arranged by portraits, weddings, commercial, and events.

The collection consists of a photograph of Billy Day of Athabasca Landing driving a team of moose at the Edmonton Exhibition in 1911 and a Christmas card dating from 1912. The collection also includes 12 photographic postcards dating from the 1920s featuring elk in Wainwright Park, men and a dog team, Mt. Robson in Mt. Robson Park, Mt. Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park, buffalo in Wainwright Park, Maligne Canyon in Jasper National Park, Chateau Lake Louise in Lake Louise, and Jasper Park Lodge.

The fonds consists of films from the 1930s and 1940s of H.R. MacLean's trips to the Rocky Mountains including footage of Tonquin, Sunshine Lodge, Mount Athabasca, the Columbia Icefields, Mount Fitzwilliam, Little Yoho, Banff and Lake O'Hara. The fonds also includes maps of Jasper Park, Banff Park, Waterton Lakes Park, North West Alberta, northern and southern Alberta and the County of Strathcona.