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- 1860-1974, predominant 1952-1969 (Creation)
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1 m of textual records
ca. 900 photographs
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Name of creator
Biographical history
John George "Red" Cathcart, 1904-1973, was born in Gladstone, Manitoba. After service in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry he worked as a cowboy in Saskatchewan and at the Clem Gardner and Jack Morton ranches in Alberta. Cathcart moved to Banff, Alberta in 1922 and became a packer for Pat Brewster and Jimmy Simpson. For a brief period he was a park warden. He then moved to Zeballos, British Columbia before serving in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in the Second World War.
He became curator of the Luxton Museum in 1953, and in 1959 came to Calgary to work as a supervisor and fieldworker for the Glenbow Foundation. He retired in 1969 but continued to work for Riveredge Foundation, another Harvie foundation, until 1973. Cathcart was married three times, first to Thelma Nadine Shilling, 1928-1983, second to Eunice Harding, and thirdly to Margaret Kelly Lewis, ?-2005. Margaret had one daughter, Eva May, from a previous marriage.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred from Riveredge Foundation and Heritage Park, 1971-1978; and purchased from Aquila Books, 2003.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence regarding Luxton and Glenbow acquisitions and displays (1947-1969), and inventories of artifacts (1957-1966); and photographs, invoices, licences, calendars, articles and miscellany collected for Glenbow by Cathcart (1860-1969). Includes Cathcart's personal correspondence and notes (1931-1974), recorded interview about his life (including transcript), postcards, greeting cards, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, a film and miscellany.
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Conditions governing access
No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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Digital content is available
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Note
Title based on provenance and contents of records.
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File 50 has been described separately as the T.Flett and Son fonds.
Note
Includes material from the Riveredge Collection:
01.10 (00012171980)
Includes Vol. 32-39 from PD-132 Riveredge collection
Includes tapes RCT-911-43, RCT-911-44, RCT-911-45 Riveredge collection (Barcodes 00012236331, 00012236332, 00012236333)
Includes film F-178-1 (Barcode 00012181020) from Riveredge collection
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- Glenbow Foundation (Subject)
- Brewster, Fern (Subject)
- Bull, Sam (Subject)
- Calgary Associate Clinic (Subject)
- Calgary Exhibition and Stampede (Subject)
- Harcourt, Ellen Matilda (Subject)
- Harcourt, Mike (Subject)
- Heritage Park (Subject)
- Hougham, Robert Henry (Subject)
- Indian Association of Alberta (Subject)
- Kehoe, Thomas F. (Subject)
- Laurie, John Lee (Subject)
- Luxton, Eleanor (Subject)
- Riley, Daniel Edward (Subject)
- Rungius, Carl (Subject)
- Russell, Charles Marion (Subject)
- Wilson, Thomas Edmunds (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Tuesday, August 07, 2018