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Back to The Cairn One person’s discard may be seen by another as a treasure. With this in mind, the curatorial team has pulled together...
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Jul 16, 20201 min read
The Wandering Whytes: Hawaii
By Kayla Cazes, Marketing and Communications Manager Back to The Cairn 1933 – 1934 This new blog series,The Wandering Whytes will take us...
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Jul 16, 20205 min read
Dispatches from the Moore Home: The Attic
By Amie Lalonde, Collections Cataloguer Back to The Cairn The final room! This was the most challenging room that I tackled in the entire...
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Jul 16, 20203 min read
The Case for Thomson in the Rockies
By Anne Ewen, Chief Curator of Art and Heritage Back to The Cairn Tom Thomson (1877 – 1917, Canadian) Canadian modernist painter Tom...
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Jul 16, 20203 min read
Reopening July 1!
Back to The Cairn Catharine Robb Whyte, O.C. (1906–1979, Canadian), Snow Dome, Columbia Icefield, 1940–1950, oil on canvas, WMCR,...
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Jun 18, 20202 min read
Booze and Bars in the Bow Valley
By Stephanie Laine Hamilton Back to The Cairn [Two R.C.M.P. officers on horseback on Banff Avenue, with King Edward Hotel in the...
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Jun 18, 20206 min read
The Canadian Mosaic, Archival Silences, and an Indigenous Presence in Banff
Daniel R. Meister, PhD Lillian Agnes Jones Fellow (2019-20) Back to The Cairn In 1907, a Scottish employee of the Canadian Pacific...
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Jun 18, 202010 min read
Dispatch from the Moore Home: The Living Room
By Amie Lalonde, Collections Cataloguer Back to The Cairn Welcome back to the Moore home! The living room is the most quintessential...
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Jun 18, 20203 min read
Artists in Isolation: A Whyte Museum Series
Back to The Cairn During this current pandemic the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies acknowledges the many challenges facing the Bow...
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Jun 18, 20201 min read
Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship
Back to The Cairn In 2001, the Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation/Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies received a bequest from the...
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Jun 18, 20202 min read
Cooking With Catharine
Episode 2 – Rhubarb Upside-down Cake Back to The Cairn Join staff from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies with a new episode of...
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Jun 18, 20201 min read
Artists in Isolation: A Whyte Museum Series
Back to The Cairn During this current pandemic the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies acknowledges the many challenges facing the Bow...
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May 19, 20201 min read
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