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THE CAIRN News about Canadian Rockies’ art, history and culture and the activities and history of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.​ In the fall of 1976, the Whyte Museum published the first print version (click to view) of The Cairn newsletter to share what was going on at the Museum with the community. In that issue, Catharine Robb Whyte wrote in her greeting, “Pete and I always felt it was a way of telling our friends what is going on here and encouraging us all to work together.” In 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Whyte Museum, the print version of The Cairn ended and the monthly digital version began. All issues, print and digital, are below. Click on the covers to view. To receive the digital version of The Cairn by email subscribe to our E-newsletter, using the form at the bottom of this page . The Cairn — Digital Edition, from October 2018 The Cairn - Spring 2024 The Cairn - Winter 2024 The Cairn - Fall 2023 The Cairn - Summer 2023 The Cairn - Spring 2023 The Cairn - Winter 2023 The Cairn Fall 2022 The Cairn - Summer 2022 The Cairn - April 2022 The Cairn - January 2022 The Cairn - November 2021 The Cairn - September 2021 The Cairn - July 2021 The Cairn - May 2021 The Cairn - March 2021 The Cairn - January 2021 The Cairn - September/October 2020 The Cairn - August 2020 The Cairn - July 2020 The Cairn - June 2020 The Cairn - May 2020 The Cairn - March/April 2020 The Cairn - February 2020 The Cairn - January 2020 The Cairn_December_2019_Vol 2_Iss 12.jpg The Cairn — Print Edition, from Fall 1976 to Summer 2018 Click to view issues from the 1970s , 1980s , 1990s , 2000s and 2010s . 114_cairn_spring_summer_2018_front.jpg 113_cairn_fall_winter_2017_2018_front.jp 112_cairn_spring_summer_2017_front.jpg 111_cairn_fall_winter_2016_2017_front.jp 110_cairn_spring_summer_2016_front.jpg 109_cairn_fall_winter_2015_2016_front.jp 108_cairn_spring_summer_2015_front.jpg 107_cairn_fall_winter_2014_2015_front.jp 106_cairn_spring_summer_2014_front.jpg 105_cairn_fall_winter_2013_2014_front.jp 104_cairn_spring_summer_2013_front.jpg 103_cairn_fall_winter_2012_2013_front.jp 102_cairn_spring_summer_2012_front.jpg 101_cairn_fall_winter_2011_2012_front.jp 100_cairn_spring_summer_2011_front.jpg 099_cairn_fall_winter_2010_2011_front.jpg 098_cairn_spring_summer_2010_front.jpg 097_cairn_fall_winter_2009_2010_front.jpg 096_cairn_spring_summer_2009_front.jpg 095_cairn_fall_winter_2008_front.jpg 094_cairn_spring_summer_2008_front.jpg 093_cairn_fall_winter_2007_2008_front.jpg 092_cairn_spring_summer_2007_front.jpg 091_cairn_fall_winter_2006_2007_front.jpg 090_cairn_spring_summer_2006_front.jpg 2000s 2010s 1990s 1980s 1970s Footer

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Meet the Interns By Kylie Fineday and Kate Skelton Back to The Cairn Kylie Fineday In January, we welcomed Kylie Fineday as a student intern from the University of Lethbridge, where she majors in Art Studio. She will be working in our Curatorial Department until April, and is excited about the opportunity to learn about the history of the Whyte Museum and gain valuable skills and experience while working with us. During her time here, Kylie is cataloguing items into the heritage collection, assisting with exhibit installations, as well as taking on a curatorial project in our heritage gallery. Kate Skelton The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies welcomes Kate Skelton to her new role as Processing Archivist, starting April 1st. Kate Skelton was hired as an Archival Assistant Intern in September 2018, through the Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage Internship program. Before her placement, Kate graduated from the University of Leicester, UK with a master’s degree in Museum Studies. Kate’s current work focuses on processing and digitizing materials which have been donated to the Whyte Museum – this includes numbering and labelling archival items, adding information to the Whyte Museum’s archival database and creating digital copies of photographs and documents from the Museum’s collection. In February, Kate also completed a digital exhibit on Nicholas Morant, a photographer for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which has recently been added to the Whyte Museum’s website . Back to The Cairn

Recognizing Relations in Big Horn By Jacinda Brisson, Archives Indigenous Research Intern Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage (Career Focus) Back to The Cairn The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is a place to make connections, learn, and share histories. Recognizing Relations has been a way to share these experiences with our neighbouring First Nations since the project was originally started in 2014 by Dagny Dubois, with the help of Corleigh Powderface. The goal of the project has been to bring Indigenous photos from the archives to the Elders of our surrounding nations and ask for their knowledge to identify people, families, or places depicted in these photos. The project has since continued and grown as a way for us to connect with the Indigenous nations that originally occupied these lands. During every meeting, we get a chance to show these communities what we have in our collections and we are grateful to the Elders who offer the context and knowledge behind them. Image 1 At the end of March, we were able to extend the project to Big Horn, a Stoney Nakoda reserve located 211km northwest of Banff. Recognizing Relations Project Facilitator Colleen Crawler and I sat down with a group of Elders and helpers from Big Horn for one of our longest meetings. We looked through numerous photographs and videos that we brought from the archives and made progress. Not only were we able to get dozens of identifications and stories from the materials we brought, but we were able to make meaningful connections and build on our relationship between the residents of Big Horn and the Whyte Museum. Image 2 At its core, the Recognizing Relations Project is about showing Indigenous nations what we have in our archives and bringing the knowledge they hold about their people and nations to the forefront. After all, they are the experts on their own nations, not us. I have had the opportunity to participate in several of these meetings, listening, taking notes, and helping with other general tasks to help make meetings go smoothly. I love to hear the groups telling stories and reminiscing about people or families, joking about something shown in a photo or video, or even just hearing the Elders speaking in their language. It’s a chance to share histories and reminisce. It’s how I know these meetings are doing something good. Image 3 With the help of Colleen, the Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections has been able to hold numerous meetings with Elders from our surrounding First Nation communities this year in addition to past meetings that Dagny and Corleigh had organized. Establishing these relationships has been an important task and also a stepping stone for work with other Indigenous-led projects within the museum, such as the Stoney AV Club’s film projects. We are grateful for the opportunity to have made these connections and thankful for the funding received from Banff Canmore Community Foundation, Museum Assistance Program grant funding. and donations made from the Whyte Museum’s Rocky Mountain Legends Online Auction. We look forward to the future where we plan to reach out to even more communities and continue to maintain the relationships we have so far established. Images: Image 1 : Recognizing Relations brochure. Image 2 : Group picture with Elders and helpers from Big Horn meeting. Front row (left to right): John Wesley, Lawrence Crawler, Charlie Abraham and unknown. Photo by Jacinda Brisson. Image 3 : Kootenay Plains, now an ecological reserve, was traditionally a camp and ceremonial grounds for the Stoney Nakoda, and the setting for many of the Stoney Nakoda photographs in our collections. Photo by Jacinda Brisson. Back to The Cairn

File name: fonds: Title: Date: D escription: m307_41_067 Moore family fonds ​ 1942 Spitfire Fund $7,000 on Way to Objective Draw for Pictures To Be Made Soon, Committee Reports The Banff-Jasper Spitfire Fund which has already made a contribution of $7,000 to Wings for Britain, will hold the draw for paintings by noted Canadian artists shortly, according to an announcement made this week by the committee in Banff. Objective of the Spitfire Fund committee is at least $23,000. A substantial portion of the money already sent in has been raised by the sale of tickets on six valuable paintings donated by the following well-known artists: Roland Gissing, Peter Whyte, Belmore Brown, Roland Jackson, Carl Rungius Nicolas de Grandmaison. ​ EXHIBITED IN CALGARY The paintings, which have already been exhibited in Banff and Calgary, where tickets have been sold since last summer, will be on display in Winnipeg for a fortnight starting April 27 and will then probably go to Edmonton and sometime in the late spring or early summer the draw will be made. The Banff committee, which is composed of Mrs. Harold Macdonald, Mrs. C. M. Walker, Miss Agnes Hammond and Mrs. P. A. Moore, to whom contributions may be sent, has raised money in various other ways also and will continue to do so until the objective is reached. Flower sales, a raffle for a sports coat and one for a bob sled as well as the "Mile of Pennies" held last year have all raised large sums for the fund.

File name: fonds: Title: Date: D escription: v439_pa_182 Moore family fonds Pearl Irvine Brewster. March 1892. Two years old. 1892

File name: fonds: Title: Date: D escription: v439_pa_435 Moore family fonds Pearl, Philip, and Edmée Moore [ca. 193?]

File name: fonds: Title: Date: D escription: v439_pa_228 Moore family fonds Pearl Moore on horseback [ca. 193?]

Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway Buffalo, Resilience, Breathe Artist Statement I am a multi-disciplinary artist and I created this mask from buffalo parfleche. My husband, Lorne and I work with buffalo hides to create parfleche and robes. I painted my version of crocuses and buffaloes. I stitched the two parfleche pieces together using red sinew and ribbon. The inside of the mask is lined with red buffalo leather. Maria Linklater shared a story about how when a baby buffalo is born a crocus sprouts up in the spot where the baby buffalo belly button drops. I love this story and incorporate crocuses with my buffalo whenever I can. I love using red because it reminds me of strong, resilient Indigenous women and it is associated with passion and fire. Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway, Nakota/Cree/Saulteaux from the White Bear First Nations in SK. Return

From Lake O'Hara to Lake Louise: A Special Sneak Peek at Summer Exhibitions Celebrating Local Landscapes Back to the Cairn Coming this summer to the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies are exhibitions celebrating three prominent artists at the turn of the century and early 1900s. These painters offer a glimpse into past perspectives of our beloved local landscapes with their depictions of Lake O'Hara and Lake Louise before 1930. Now world-renowned destinations frequented by thousands of visitors, Lake O'Hara and Lake Louise existed in a different cultural world before the time of tourism, yet their natural beauty remains unwavered as we look back through years passed. Learn more about Group of Seven artist J.E.H. MacDonald, Frederick Marlett Bell-Smith, and Albert Bierstadt in our upcoming summer exhibitions, and discover the impact of their work which continues to resonate a century later. J.E.H. MacDonald: The O'Hara Era This summer, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies offers a rare opportunity to view over 100 works by Group of Seven artist J.E.H. MacDonald from public and private collections. The exhibition highlights new research, original paintings, and modern photographs of the art of J.E.H. MacDonald during his annual summer painting trips to the Lake O’Hara region of Yoho National Park between 1924 and 1932. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of his first trip to Lake O'Hara, the exhibition promises to be an exceptional and unique experience, with the Whyte Museum as the sole venue. The exhibition will show paintings from The Whyte Museum collection as well as from the National Gallery, the McMichael Collection, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery Hamilton, University of Toronto Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the Art Gallery of Alberta. Numerous individuals and corporations have also generously lent their pieces. ​ The show is strengthened by original research conducted by geologists Patricia Cucman and the late Stanley Munn, who meticulously identified the exact locations of MacDonald's works, along with photographs, over the past 18 years. Their findings, documented in a major illustrated book entitled "To See What He Saw: J.E.H. MacDonald and the O'Hara Years 1924-1932", offer a fresh perspective on MacDonald and his work. Additionally, intriguing discoveries such as paint scrapings and teacup shards have been found in these exact locations, providing further insight into MacDonald's creative process and daily life during his time at Lake O'Hara. Specimens were analyzed by the Canadian Conservation Institute to support the provenance. As well, the Whyte Museum has confirmed loan from Parks Canada of two Billy cans, stashed in rocks at painting sites by Macdonald. The combination of MacDonald’s paintings, artifacts, letters, and diary entries, as well as Stanley Munn’s contemporary photograph of the area will no doubt result in a compelling narrative of MacDonald’s O’Hara years providing a lens through which he has never been fully explored in exhibition. ​ Partnering with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and sponsored by Masters Gallery Calgary, we invite you to join us for this breathtaking exhibition featuring mountain landscapes inspired by MacDonald. The Whyte Museum will be the sole venue for this incredible exhibition, bringing MacDonald’s paintings to regional and international visitors alike. Bierstadt and Bell-Smith: The Influence of Lake Louise Between 1886 and 1914, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) encouraged artists to produce works for the promotion of western Canada as an idyllic tourist destination and desirable settlement locale. It was also a strategy to sell tickets as a means of diminishing the huge debt incurred by the construction of the rail line. Some of the best painters and photographers of the day were sought after and encouraged to construct a pictorial vision of the West, resulting in one of the most significant art collections ever amassed in Canadian history. Instead of paying the artists for their participation, perks were provided in the form of free rail passage, temporary railcar studios, accommodation at mountain lodges, and the promotion of their works at international exhibits. Sir William Cornelius Van Horne in his capacity as builder and later President of the CPR, rightly understood that a successful marketing campaign needed to target American and European sensibilities. Van Horne also knew of German born American painter Albert Bierstadt’s reputation as a leading landscape painter of the Hudson River School and its luminist movement. Having approached the artist on other occasions, Bierstadt finally accepted Van Horne’s generous incentives and departed from Windsor Station, Montreal on July 30, 1889. It was while resting at Glacier House, B.C. that he met Canadian painter Frederick Marlett Bell-Smith, who had painted in the Rockies during the summer since 1887. The two artists set out together, spending September camping and sketching at Lake Louise and throughout Bow River Valley. The area was remote and rugged yet provided spectacular vistas. Bell-Smith later wrote of their experience together citing Bierstadt’s compositional guidance and influence as having a profound inspirational effect. Bell-Smith’s oils and watercolours will be exhibited with Bierstadt’s Lake Louise canvas featured as the centrepiece of the exhibition. Sourced from historical material, the artist’s experience at Lake Louise will also be described. The opportunity to exhibit these works together will provide a profound opportunity for the Whyte Museum’s national and international audiences to learn more about these artists and their influence on tourism in this region then and now. Back to the Cairn

File name: fonds: Title: Date: D escription: v439_pa_279 Moore family fonds Studio portrait of women's hockey team. Pearl Brewster Moore in centre. [ca. 191?]

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