Great Divide [continental divide], Banff National Park, Alberta.

Hand tinted (colour) lantern slide collected and used by Tex Vernon-Wood, hunting guide and outfitter in the Canadian Rockies. Memorial erected to Sir James Hector. Marker built in 1880s and trains often stopped so tourists could visit. Torn down in 1920s or 1930s. Small trenches diverting water to Atlantic and Pacific still in existence, overgrown by brush (2013).

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Date [ca. 1920s]

Creator Unknown

Genre Photographs

Place Alberta

Subject Monuments, Rocky Mountains

Archival Information

Repository Glenbow Archives

Fonds/Collection Tex Vernon-Wood's lantern slide collection

Reference code CA ACU GBA C0213

Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/tex-vernon-woods-lantern-slide-collection

Unique identifier CU1299636

Legacy Identifier s-233-84

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Attribution "Great Divide [continental divide], Banff National Park, Alberta.", [ca. 1920s], (CU1299636) by Unknown. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.