M78 / 1 to 101
Chronological
files. -- 1903-1972. -- ca.65 cm of textual
records. -- Series consists mainly of Jimmy
Simpson Sr. business correspondence and
financial papers. Records pertain to:
guiding and outfitting; clients; hunting and
pack trip arrangements; supplies and
equipment; game availability; taxidermy;
animal and plant research and specimens;
government regulations and licensing;
importing and exporting; investments,
insurance, taxes, stamp collecting, art
work, hockey, figure skating, wartime
rationing; other.
Includes
correspondence from government officials and
agencies, game commissioners, taxidermists
and furriers, scientists and researchers,
trading companies, suppliers, Alpine Club of
Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, Calgary
Stampede, other businesses and
organizations, and from individual business
clients, colleagues and friends. List
of major individual correspondents follows.
-- Much of the material is fragile and torn.
MAJOR CORRESPONDENTS:
1903-1915: Philip R. Goodwin, C. Hart
Merriam (Smithsonian Institute), Mitchell V.
Mitchell, James F. Porter, Carl Rungius,
Robert P. Sharples; some papers pertain to
the Alpine Club of Canada and the
International Boundary Survey. (M78 / 1 to 8)
1916-1918: Dr. Henry Bugbee, Robert
Frothingham, W. C. Gotshall, John D. Hazen,
C. Hart Merriam, Bruce Paddock, Carl Rungius,
Frederick Vreeland; includes pencil sketch
(very faint). (M78 / 9 to 16)
1919-1920: William Beach, Brown
Caldwell, Henry A. Colgate, Robert
Frothingham, Philip R. Goodwin, J. B.
Harkin, George Harrison, John D. Hazen,
Caroline Hinman, Ulysses LaCasse, C. Hart
Merriam, Morley Trading Co., John C.
Phillip, Donald “Curly” Phillips, Walter
Phillips; includes a legal document of an
agreement between Jimmy Simpson Sr., Frank
Wellman and T.E. Wilson. (M78 / 17
to 24)
1921-1923: William Beach, Allan
Brooks, Dr. Henry Bugbee, F. M. Carryl,
James L. Clark, Louis A. Fuertes, Edward
Feuz, Conrad Kain, Morley Trading Co.,
Martin Nordegg, William S. Ladd, Joe
McAleenan, Bob Logan, Peterborough Canoe
Co., John C. Phillips, Donald “Curly”
Phillips, Carl Rungius, A. Thorburn, J. M.
Thorington; Also include outgoing Jimmy
Simpson letter. (M78 / 25 to 34)
1924-1925: Sydney Baker, William
Beach, Allan Brooks, Joseph Day, Louis A.
Fuertes, Val Fynn, J. M. Gibbon, James L.
Clark Studios, William S. Ladd, Julia
Delafield Longfellow, Col. Phil Moore, Henry
Munger, J. H. Munro, Carl Rungius, J. M.
Thorington, Henry Nelson Tuttle, Guy Weadick,
Walter Wilcox, William Wolfe; includes
outgoing Jimmy Simpson letter. (M78 / 35 to 42)
1926-1927: Sydney Baker, William
Beach, Allan Brooks, Canadian Pacific
Hotels, Alfred Castle, R.G. Collins, Joseph
Day, William F. Embleton, Edward Feuz,
Robert Frothingham, Mackay & Dippie
Furriers, James L. Clark Studios, William S.
Ladd, Henry Munger, Carl Rungius, A.
Thorburn, J. M. Thorington, Trail Riders of
the Canadian Rockies, Henry Nelson Tuttle,
Arlene Voorhies, Guy Weadick, Arthur O.
Wheeler, James T. Wilson. (M78 /
43 to 49)
1928-1929: L. S. Amery, William
Beach, Dyson Duncan, Robert Frothingham,
Henry Greenham, E. Richardson (Calgary
Exhibition and Stampede), Carl Rungius,
James T. Wilson; includes a hand-drawn
sketch map of Bush Mountain by Dyson Duncan. (M78 / 50 to 57)
1930-1931: L. S. Amery, William
Beach, Belmore Browne, Alfred Castle, Dyson
Duncan, John K. Howard, Carl Rungius, J. M.
Thorington. (M78 / 58 to 66)
1932-1933: L. S. Amery, William
Beach, Dyson Duncan, John K. Howard, R. B.
Bennett, Henry S. Kingman, John Kellog, Carl
Rungius, J. M. Thorington, Katharine L.
Wedgwood. (M78 / 67 to 72)
1934-1935: L. S. Amery, William
Beach, Alfred Castle, Dyson Duncan, John K.
Howard, John Kellogg, Henry S. Kingman, F.V.
Longstaff, Alfred Ostheimer, J. M.
Thorington, Katharine L. Wedgwood. (M78 / 73 to 77)
1936-1937: Fred Armbrister, Donald
Bain, William Beach, Alfred Castle, Marshall
Diverty, Lillian Gest, J.M. Thorington. (M78 / 78 to 82)
1938-1939: Rudolf Aemmer, Donald
Bain, Alfred Castle, J. M. Thorington, James
T. Wilson; some material pertains to Simpson
Sisters. (M78 / 83 to 88)
1940-1941: Abbott Junior Hockey
Club, Alberta Fish and Game Association,
Alfred Castle, Marshall Diverty, Caroline
Hinman, A. Morsbach, Carl Rungius, James T.
Wilson. (M78 / 89 to 91)
1942-1943: Donald Bain, William
Beach, Allan Brooks, Donald Hopkins, Raymond
Patterson; some material pertains to Jimmy
Simpson Jr. (in the army) and Num-Ti-Jah
Lodge. (M78 / 92 to 95)
1944-1947: Allan Brooks, Belmore
Browne, Donald Hopkins, W. Mainwaring, Jimmy
Simpson Jr.(M78 / 96-100)
1948-1972: L. S. Amery, Alfred L.
Castle, J. M. Thorington. (M78 /
101) |
V577 / PD 1 to
23
Photograph albums. -- [ca.1901-ca.1920, n.d.].
-- 23 photograph albums (ca.2875 prints)
S-s-s-series consists of the following
albums:
Jimmy Simpson hunting trips, ca.1901, 179
prints (V577 / PD 1)
Hunting trips, 1903-1914, 583 prints
(V577 / PD 2)
Carl Rungius trips, 1910-1912, 183 prints
(V577 / PD 3)
Dr. H. Brooks hunting trip, 1911, 52 prints
(V577 / PD 4)
Hunting trip, 1911, 45 prints
(V577 / PD 5)
Hunting trip, 1912, photographed by B.F.
Knause, 50 prints (V577 /
PD 6)
Hunting trip, 1912, photographed by R.B.
Thompson, 90 prints (V577 /
PD 7)
Carl Rungius? hunting trip, 1914, 47 prints
(V577 / PD 8)
Hunting trip, 1914, 20 prints
(V577 / PD 9)
Hunting trips, 1914-1916, 97 prints: Dr.
Morton trip, 1914; Carl Rungius trip, 1915; W.C. Gotshael trip, 1916; also ranch, 1916
(V577 / PD 10)
McAleenan family hunting trip, 1915, 115
prints (V577 / PD 11)
McAleenan family hunting trip, 1915, 118
prints (V577 / PD 12)
Carl Rungius and Caroline Hinman hunting
trips, 1917, 98 prints (V577 / PD 13)
Brazeau, Ptarmigan, Assiniboine areas,
1917-1918, 101 prints (V577
/ PD 14)
Caroline Hinman trip, 1918, 143 prints
(V577 / PD 15)
Miss Kahn trip, 1918, 92 prints
(V577 / PD 16)
Scenes around Banff and a pack trip, ca.
1918, 59 prints (V577 / PD
17)
Unidentified hunting trips and camps, n.d.,
270 prints (V577 / PD 18)
Unidentified hunting trips and camps, n.d.,
31 prints (V577 / PD 19)
Unidentified hunting trips and camps, n.d.,
45 prints (V577 / PD 20)
Unidentified hunting trips and camps, n.d.,
345 prints (V577 / PD 21)
Local scenes and various hunting trips, n.d.,
101 prints (V577 / PD 22)
Animal trophies, etc., miscellaneous, after
1906, 10 prints (V577 / PD
23) |