| Provenance: | Banff Winter Carnival
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| Title: | Banff Winter Carnival fonds
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| Repository: | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library |
| Dates: | 1945-1959
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| Physical desc.: | ca.350 photographs : prints. -- 18 textual records
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| Bio/Admin History: | Banff Winter Carnival, also known as Winter Sports of the Canadian Rockies, was the first post-war winter sports programme held in Banff, Alberta. The organization had Banff directors, Calgary directors and Directors-at-large from Alberta and outside the province. A wide variety of social and sports events took place under the organization's direction.
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| Scope/Content: | Banff Winter Carnival photographs, 1950s, are mainly publicity photographs and order proofs by British Photographic Laboratories (Bill Gibbons); some by Alpine Films. Content includes Carnival Queen contests, parades, activities, including masquerade ball, other.
Textual records of the Winter Sports of the Canadian Rockies organization, 1945-1946, include minutes, reports, letters, news reports, press clippings, pamphlets, programmes, posters and leaflets. These records are in the form of a scrapbook and loose items. Many items pertain to involvement of Ethel "Tillie" Knight.
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| Title source: | Title based on accession record
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| Physical desc. note: | Condition of textual material is fair to good; photographs are poor to good
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| Acq. source: | Acquired by donation, 1992
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| Language: | Language is English
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| Restrictions: | No restrictions on access
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Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
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| Finding aids: | Finding aids and reference tools: series and file description; electronic finding aid
On-line finding aid (click on link below)
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| Associated/related: | Related to material in Banff Winter Festival fonds. Negatives for many of the photographs can be found in the Bill Gibbons fonds.
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| Record No.: | M13 / V427
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| Online Finding Aids/Documents: | http://archivesalberta.org/findingaids/whyte/BanffWintCarn/BWC_main.htm
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| Names: | Banff Winter Carnival
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| Topic: | Sports, recreation and leisure
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