Women mountaineers

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23 Archival description results for Women mountaineers

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Amy Dalgleish interview

CALL NUMBER: T0204:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Dalgleish : individualism and commitment PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1960 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: Amy Dalgleish was born in 1905 and she discusses her childhood in Scotland. Immigration to Canada and life in Ontario. Attitudes towards religion and being a girl. Farming in Alberta. Commercial education course and working in a bank. Mountain climbing. Sex education and marriage. Keeping maiden name after marriage. C.C.F./N.D.P. in Saskatchewan. Court hearing regarding her right to keep her maiden name. Involvement with the N.D.P. Running for election, municipally and provincially.

CALL NUMBER: T0204:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Dalgleish : individualism and commitment RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: Amy Dalgleish discusses campaigns; city politics; N.D.P. policy; women's ministry; opportunities for women; women in the N.D.P.; daycare; present capacity of N.D.P. for self-criticism; childbirth and birth control; Vancouver Council of Women; United Nations; Unitarian Service Committee; working in a debt collection agency and in accounting; Automobile Association; teaching children who don't want to learn; food co-op.

Eileen Desbrisay interview

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-03-12 SUMMARY: Eileen Desbrisay was born in 1891 and she attended several early Alpine Club summer camps. Her interview describes these camps. She didn't make any climbs of great note, so the interview deals mostly with equipment, general social ambience, etc. at camps. Equipment for A.C.C. camps: ice axes. Buying equipment in Switzerland. Learning to rappel. Climbing with the CPR Swiss guides. Use of hemp ropes. Climbing techniques.

Emmie and Eric Brooks interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-04-25 SUMMARY: Eric Brooks and his wife Emmie Brooks are retired schoolteachers who discuss mountaineering in B.C. Interview begins abruptly without biographical information. They discuss a 1933 attempt on Mt. Waddington and the death of Alec Dalgleish. Emmie Brooks reads an article from the 1934 A.C.C. Journal. Discussion of early maps, climb of Border Peaks. Difficulties of bushwhacking. Early climbing on the North Shore mountains. Ladies' climbing clothing. Climbing in Switzerland with Scottish Ladies' Alpine Club. Swiss guides at Alpine Club camps. Discussion of why they climb. Bit of personal history. Running A.C.C. summer camps during WWII. "Iron rations". Ascent of The Camel and The Table. B.C. mountains compared to other climbing areas. First ascent of Mt. Cayley. Early ascent of The Lions, Mt. Baker. First ski trip to Whistler area, 1932. Climbing East Lion via Mt. Strachan. Clothing. Ski trip to Glacier (Rogers Pass). Early ski equipment. A.C.C. cabin on Mt. Seymour. Artificial [?] versus free climbing.

Kate McQueen interview : [Leslie, 1979]

CALL NUMBER: T0156:0009 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-05 SUMMARY: Kate McQueen was born in 1884 and gives a witty introduction. She attended the first Alpine Club of Canada (A.C.C.) in 1914 in Little Yoho Valley. She describes camp; climb up Mount President; news of WWI reaching the A.C.C. camp; enjoyable campfires. The next camp she attended was in 1916(?). Discussion of purchase of life membership. Camp at Healey Creek. Next camp she attended was at Assiniboine in 1920. Joined the British Columbia Mountaineering Club (B.C.M.C.) and climbed the North Shore mountains. Women's dress for climbing. Reverend Sovereign and meetings of the B.C.M.C. executives during the First World War. 1920 A.C.C. camp at Assiniboine. Description of Sydney Mitchell, early secretary of the A.C.C. Supply problems at Assiniboine camp. CALL NUMBER: T0156:0010 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-05 SUMMARY: Kate McQueen tells a story about a forest fire in Assiniboine; getting lost on the trails; anecdote about campfire talks; Col. Foster's strategem to shut up a loquacious speaker; women's dress in camp; the "tea tent" at camp. Camp at Tonquin Valley, 1926; days hike in Tonquin Valley; Swiss guide gets lost in the forest. Taking a rail trip in trousers -- seemed very daring. Protocol at camps. A romance at the 1914 camp. Conrad Kain. "Parting shot" a summary. Discussion of photography (in the midst of tea) cameras and film. Unrelated discussion of Fripp paintings in McQueen household. Subjects for mountain photographs. Anecdote about climbing Garibaldi. Anecdote about hike in Rockies -- modesty in the mountains.

Munday family fonds

  • PR-0511
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1983

The fonds consists of manuscripts of articles, stories and poems of W.A.D. (Don) Munday, the diaries, notes and correspondence of Phyllis Munday, and photographs, maps (Coast Range and Rocky Mountains) and films.

Munday (family)

Munday family photographs

The series consists of photographs primarily documenting the alpine and mountaineering activities of the Mundays, their friends, and associated clubs (especially the Alpine Club of Canada). The photographs consist of loose prints, mounted prints for exhibition purposes, albums, and negatives. The majority of the photographs were taken by either Don or Phyllis Munday, however some photographs were taken by other individuals and/or acquaintances, or, in some cases, the Government of British Columbia.

Muriel Aylard interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-03-26 SUMMARY: Muriel Aylard was born in 1900 and attended several early Alpine Club summer camps. She discusses equipment needed for A.C.C. camps: edge nails, alpenstocks. Guided climbing at camps. Atmosphere at camps. Misadventures in camp. People from many countries at camps. Episode in a thunderstorm. Raingear. Church services on Sundays in camp. Women at camps. Food served.;