| Provenance: | Sibbald-Hunter (families)
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| Title: | Sibbald-Hunter families fonds
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| Repository: | Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Archives and Library |
| Dates: | [ca.1870], 1925-1948
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| Physical desc.: | 8.5 cm of textual records. -- ca.75 photographs : prints, tintypes
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| Bio/Admin History: | Andrew Sibbald came to Alberta in 1875 with Rev. George McDougall to become the province's first teacher, teaching at Morley until 1896. He retired to Banff in 1909, where he celebrated his one hundredth birthday in 1933. George Hunter, son-in-law of Howard Sibbald (Andrew's son), came to Banff in 1905, served as Park Superintendent (1908-1910) and town magistrate (1922-1942); Leanore Hunter was his daughter.
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| Custodial hist: | Most of the material was found in the George Hunter home in 1967
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| Scope/Content: | Fonds consists of Andrew Sibbald papers, including correspondence, 1925, 1932, mainly with William Pearce on early history of Alberta, 100th birthday celebration papers, 1933, and notes, essays and other writings, n.d.; miscellaneous papers of George Hunter re the Banff Rotary Club and of Leanore Hunter re the Banff Boating Club; prints pertaining to the Hunter family and other Stoney Indians. Includes a photograph of Tom Wilson and Chief George Hunter at Lake Louise, by W. D. Wilcox, 1929. Also includes tintype portraits, possibly of Sibbald family, ca.1870.
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| Title source: | Title based on accession records
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| Physical desc. note: | Condition of tintypes and some prints is fragile
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| Acq. source: | Acquired by donation, 1967, 1970
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| Language: | Language is English
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| Restrictions: | Some restrictions on access to originals
Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
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| Finding aids: | Finding aids and reference tools: modern reference prints for tintypes and fragile prints
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| Record No.: | M40 / V574
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| Names: | Sibbald family
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Hunter family
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| Topic: | Family and personal life
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First nations
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