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A.B. Rogers fonds
CA ACU GBA F2614 · Fonds · Microfilmed 1982 (originally created 1857-1889)

The fonds consists of Rogers’s diaries (1857-1887) including detailed notes on his railway exploration activities; and his letterbooks containing outward correspondence (1878-1889).

Rogers, Albert Bowman
Albert Boyd fonds
CA ACU GBA F0243 · Fonds · [ca. 1940]

The fonds consists of Albert's letter describing his trip.

Boyd, Albert
Alexander Bryden fonds
CA ACU GBA F0303 · Fonds · Photocopied 1983 (originally created 1910)

The fonds consists of travel diary.

Bryden, Alexander
Basil G. Hamilton fonds
CA ACU GBA F0878 · Fonds · 1893-1942

The fonds consists of personal diaries and journals (1893-1918). Includes photographs, correspondence, reference material, and articles written by Hamilton related to David Thompson and the Windermere area (1912-1942).

Hamilton, Basil G.
Bedaux Expedition fonds
CA ACU GBA F0173 · Fonds · Copied 1964 (originally created 1934)

The fonds consists of photographs of the expedition.

Bedaux Expedition
Bud Dawson fonds
CA ACU GBA F0653 · Fonds · 1912-1951, predominant 1912-1922
  • The fonds consists of diaries (1913-1918); letters to his family (1912-1922); fur inventory and account books (1913-1926); newspaper clippings about the north; and photographs of the north, Fort Smith, and First Nations (ca. 1913-1917).
Dawson, Clair W. "Bud"
C.C. Lumley fonds
CA ACU GBA F1186 · Fonds · 1961

The fonds consists of his memoirs, "A Greenhorn in the Rockies", about his summer visits to the Rockies. Includes his reminiscences about Banff National Park, Robert E. Campbell, Emerald Lakes, Field, Fort Steele, Laggan, Sam McCann, W.G. Peckham, Stephen House, Takakkaw Falls, Edward Whymper, Yoho Valley, and other topics.

Lumley, Charles C. "C.C"
CA ACU GBA C0215 · Collection · 1854-1888

The collection consists of magazine illustrations documenting the 1870 and 1885 Riel Rebellions, Manitoba, the Red River Expedition, Lake Neepigon (Nipigon), First Nations, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), The North-West Territories (later Alberta and Saskatchewan), British Columbia, the Marquis of Lorne's and Princess Louise's visit to the West, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

de Volpi, Charles
Charles F. Johnson fonds
CA ACU GBA F1048 · Fonds · 1896-[ca. 1920]

The fonds consists of photographs of St. Peter's mission school, Hay River and Slaveys; diary of his journey to the Arctic coast with Bishop Stringer (July 8-October 19, 1909); letters from missionaries Margaret Tims and Bertie March (1897, 1905); and a Slavey grammar and dictionary apparently compiled by Margaret Tims.

Johnson, Charles F.
Charles Harris fonds
CA ACU GBA F2038 · Fonds · 1886-1892

The fonds consists of Charles account of the 1882 trip from Halifax to Fort Macleod, written in 1892; and a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harris at the hot springs in Banff (1886).

Harris, Charles Edward
Charles Planinshek fonds
CA ACU GBA F1486 · Fonds · Copied 1986 (originally created 1929-1932)

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

Planinshek, Charles
Cumberland Salter fonds
CA ACU GBA F2717 · Fonds · 1918

The fonds consists of an album of photographs of western Canada and Montana, including images of Regina, Qu’appelle Valley, and Balcarres, Saskatchewan; Edmonton, Jasper, Peace River, Lady Mackworth (steamer), Waterhole, Dunvegan, Spirit River, Clairmont, Coutts, Lethbridge, and Calgary in Alberta; Prince George, Kitwanga, Kitselas Canyon, Bulkley River, Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert (ship), Anyox, Ocean Falls, Swanson Bay, Vancouver, and Victoria in British Columbia; Kalispell, Polson, Glacier National Park, Great Falls, and Sweet Grass in Montana. Includes images of Charlie Williams of Kitwanga, Captain Mackenzie of the Prince Rupert, and F. C. Salter.

Salter, Cumberland
David Thompson fonds
CA ACU GBA F1787 · Fonds · Microfilmed 1958 (originally created 1790-1825)

The fonds consists of diaries of travel and observations in western Canada.

Thompson, David
Eckersley family fonds
CA ACU GBA F0708 · Fonds · 1887-1920

The fonds consists of Joseph's diary (1887) of his trip from England to Calgary. He subsequently used the same notebook to record details of his quarrying and building contractor business in Calgary (1889-1897). The fonds also consists of Albert's diaries (1900-1907), Joseph Jr.'s First World War letters (1916) [photocopies only], miscellaneous programs, and photographs of Red Deer Lake School (1920).

Eckersley family
Edward H. Carrothers fonds
CA ACU GBA F0483 · Fonds · 1910-1913

The fonds consists of Edward H. Carrothers reminiscences and photographs of his trips.

Carrothers, Edward H.
Edward Lloyd fonds
CA ACU GBA F1163 · Fonds · Microfilmed 1984 (originally created 1871-1921)

The fonds consists of Edward's correspondence and travel diaries, and miscellaneous other family letters.

Lloyd, Edward
Edward Lyon fonds
CA ACU GBA F1193 · Fonds · 1884-1887

The fonds consists of diaries of trips to Canada (1884, 1887), and miscellaneous passenger lists and programs.

Lyon, Edward
Edward Whymper fonds
CA ACU GBA F1918 · Fonds · Microfilmed 1982 (originally created 1899-1909)

The fonds consists of his journals and general notes about the Canadian Rockies.

Whymper, Edward
E.J. Lawrence fonds
CA ACU GBA F1121 · Fonds · Photocopied 1981 (originally created 1879)

The fonds consists of E.J.'s diary describing the trip west, as transcribed by his daughter, Susan Lawrence Skinner.

Lawrence, Erastus John
Emma Stevenson fonds
CA ACU GBA F2110 · Fonds · 1878-1965

The fonds consists of school notebooks, certificates, programs, and greeting cards; photographs of road or railway construction in the Lloydminster area (ca. 1914); and photographs of Wesley United Church Choir (1965). Includes a scrapbook of Phyllis Taylor's 1938 and 1939 articles written for a British newspaper, entitled "A Nottingham Teacher in Canada", in which she describes the Atlantic crossing, Montreal, railway travel, Calgary, Banff, the Rocky Mountains, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Halloween, Remembrance Day, Christmas, and native peoples.

Stevenson, Emma
Ethel Hunt fonds
CA ACU GBA F2833 · Fonds · 1906-1906

The fonds consists of a travel diairy and photographs of her trip.

Hunt, Ethel
CA ACU GBA C0033 · Collection · 1758-1967

The collection consists of diaries, letters, memoirs, reports and other records created by these individuals involved in searches for the missing Franklin Expedition, as well as other explorers who were contemporaries of Franklin

Franklin Expedition
George Brodie fonds
CA ACU GBA F0271 · Fonds · 1910

The fonds consists of George's journal of his trip.

Brodie, George
George Hope Johnston fonds
CA ACU GBA F2109 · Fonds · [ca. 1935]

The fonds consists of a speech of reminiscences about his experiences in the Kootenays.

Johnston, George Hope