Parks Pares I+ Canada Canada Microfiche Report Series 43 BANFF NATIONAL PARK: AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL SOURCES TO 1965 by Great Plains Research Consultants 1982 The Microfiche Report Series is intended for internal use by Parks Canada and is printed in limited numbers. Copies of each issue are distributed to various public depositories in Canada for use by interested individuals. Documents are reproduced exactly as received and have not been edited. Many of these reports will appear in Parks Canada publications and may be altered by editing or by further research. Banff National Park: An Inventory of Historical Sources to 1965 by Great Plains Research Consultants 1982 ----- ii Banff National Park: An Inventory of Historical Sources to 1965 by Great Plains Research Consultants viii Pref ace 1 Part 1 Governmental Files 2 Administration 2 Accidents/Damage Claims 4 Boundaries 4 Complaints/Petitions 5 Engineering 6 Equipment 7 Financial Concerns 11 General Information 18 Geographical Names 20 Health Care 22 Historic Sites/Interpretation 23 Land Administration 28 Law Enforcement 38 Leaseholds 186 Meteorology 186 Personnel 197 Planning/Development 197 Public Relations 198 Regulations 207 Reports 208 Returned Soldiers iii 209 Surveys 210 Unemployment Relief 214 Warden Service 216 Work Camps (Conscientious Objectors) 217 Zoning 218 Built Environment/Landscape 218 Building Permits 218 Cemeteries 220 Educational Structures 224 Farming/Ranching Structures 225 Governmental Structures 242 Landscaping 244 Medical Structures 244 Mercantile/Commercial Structures 244 Plans/Specifications 247 Residential Structures 249 Signage 250 Social/Recreational Structures 252 Transportation 259 Natural Resource Development 259 Coal Mining 261 Copper Mining 262 Haying/Grazing 263 Hot Springs 266 Hydro-electricity 275 Limestone 276 Lumbering 278 Mineral Claims 279 Natural Gas/Petroleum iv 280 Pipelines 280 Quarrying 281 Quartz Mining 284 Silica Sand 284 Silver Mining 284 Talc Mining 284 Natural Resource Management 284 Birds 285 Fish/Fish Culture 287 Forestry 290 Game Management 300 Insects 300 Research 301 Water Resources 305 Transportation/Communications 305 Automobiles 305 Aviation 306 Boats 306 Highways 311 Livery 312 Radio/Television 312 Railways 314 Roads 321 Telephones 322 Trails 323 Tourism/Recreation 323 Bungalow Camps 328 Camping/Campsites v 333 Fishing 333 Golf 335 Guiding 336 Gun Clubs 336 Hiking 336 Hostels 336 Lawn Bowling 337 Mountaineering 337 Picnicking 337 Publicity 338 Recreation Grounds 338 Riding 339 Skiing 340 Tennis 341 Touring 341 Travel Surveys 341 Wilderness Areas 342 Townsites 342 Banff School of Fine Arts 343 Beautification 343 Community Associations 345 Education 345 General Files 348 Public Utilities 348 (i) Electricity 349 (ii) Fire Protection 350 (iii) Garbage Disposal 350 (iv) Natural Gas 350 (v) Telephone Service 351 (vi) Water/Sewage System vi 359 Streets/Sidewalks 360 Surveys/Planning 362 Part 2 Manuscript Collections 419 Part 3 Printed Sources 530 Part 4 Sound Recordings 549 Part 5 Maps and Survey Drawings 550 Archives of the Canadian Rockies 558 Canadian Pacific Railway Archives 559 Public Archives of Canada, National Map Collection 563 Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta 565 Part 6 Architectural Drawings/Plans 566 Archives of the Canadian Rockies 566 Commerical Structures 566 Governmental Structures 566 Residential Structures 568 Canadian Architectural Archives 568 Commercial Structures 571 Educational Structures 573 Governmental Structures 573 Medical Structures 573 Religious Structures 573 Residential Structures 575 Social/Recreational Structures 575 Lancaster, University of 575 Mawson Collection 576 Public Archives of Canada, National Map Collection 576 Governmental Structures 576 Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta 583 Western Regional Office, Parks Canada vii 584 Part 7 Photograph Collections 585 Archives of the Canadian Rockies 596 Canadian Pacific Railway Archives 598 Canadian Pacific, Photographic Services Division 598 Glenbow-Alberta Institute 599 McCord Museum 599 Provincial Archives of British Columbia 600 Public Archives of Canada,. National Photo- graph Collection 602 Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta 606 Smithsonian Institution 606 Vancouver City Archives 607 Vancouver Public Library 608 Western Region, Parks Canada, Engineering + Architecture 612 Part 8 Films 613 Archives of the Canadian Rockies 618 Canadian Pacific Railway Archives 619 Public Archives of Canada, National Film Archives 624 Western Region, Parks Canada, Archival Film Collection viii Pref ace This inventory of historical sources is the first component of a long-term project to document the human history of the Banff National Park area since the contact period. While the initial component was originally envisioned as a literature review or digest, designed to assist historians and all others employing basic historical research methods in their study of specific aspects of the park's past, it mutated quickly under the influence of the staggering, yet previously unrecorded, weight of primary documentation about the Banff area. The need for this shift in emphasis was clear early in our investigation of sources. As is apparent from pioneering bibliographical studies of Banff National Park, notably those of R.C. Scace and Associates, most published primary and secondary sources about Banf f are narrow in scope and weak in detail. Many are of dubious accuracy. Few are synthetic. Their true value in any particular research undertaking is measurable only against the broad backdrop of information provided by prosaic governmental files and revelatory manuscript collections. These are the sort of materials that must form the bedrock of any national park study, however large or small, and they claimed most of our attention during this project phase. The purpose of this inventory, then, became the ix location and identification of all sources of his­ torical material, in all media, that pertain to the Banff National Park area in the contact period. The inclusion of scientific materials has been limited to those considered to be of historical interest and of a non-technical character. We recommend that research­ ers who are interest in topics of a scientific nature refer to An Annotated Bibliography of the Banff National Park Area (1970), by Robert c. Scace, which covers the scientific literature in more depth than we do in this inventory. Since our main objective was the identification of extant primary documentation, it is not surprising that governmental files and manuscript collections dom­ inate the inventory. Yet it also includes printed sources, sound recordings, maps and survey drawings, architectural drawings, photograph collections, and film. We have set 1965 as the terminal date for in­ clusion of governmental files since those generated after that date reflect entirely new policies whose implementation is on-going and are, therefore, not of a strictly historical character. All other materials are without temporal limitations. And, while the inven­ tory makes no pretense to comprehensiveness, we hope that its users will consider it something more than a mere sampling of available sources. The organization of material within the inventory requires elucidation. Ideally, an historical inventory would reflect the historian's abiding concern with theme x chronology; that is, it would subsume all sources in all media under topical categories, each posssessing a chronological internal structure. The historian would then be able to tell, at a glance, the form, content, and scope of all materials pertinent to his topic. Such a detailed organizational structure was not possible within the time available for preparation of this inventory, and thus only the critical govern­ mental files section has been organized in this manner. The other seven parts of the inventory, each encompassing a specific form of source material, retain their own peculiarities of presentation. In order to assist users of the inventory in dealing with these idiosyncrasies, we present the following guides to each section. Part 1 Governmental Files This part of the inventory comprises all files generated by governmental agencies. They are arranged according to theme, subtheme, repository code, call number (or accession number), file title, and inclusive file dates. We have derived the themes and subthemes used in this inventory from former Parks Canada departmental filing systems, although in many instances we have con­ solidated poorly represented subthemes under a more per­ tinent heading. For example, the subthemes of "Epidemics" and "Analysis of Sulphur Water" have been subsumed under the more <;reneral category of "Health Care." Since no cross-references are provided, researchers must exercise xi some imagination in ferreting out sources of infor­ mation. We hope that the retention of much of the original filing system will facilitate searches. Each entry is further identified by a repository code, which corresponds to the list of repository abbreviations provided at the start of the inventory proper. Since each entry is coded, researchers do not have to flip continually through the inventory to iden­ tify the location of a particular file. The call number or accession number of each file follows the repository code. The general format is Record Group number, then Volume number, and then File number. Researchers should note that all call numbers are current to Spring, 1982. The file titles provided in the inventory are those available at the identified