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[Alta Lake skiing]

Amateur film. Roughly edited film showing Don and Phyllis Munday skiing in mountains in the Alta Lake area.

Bishop A.H. Sovereign interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Reverend A.H. Sovereign, Bishop of Athabasca, talks about coming to BC as a young deacon in 1906; he recalls his first impressions of Vancouver, streetcars and the city centre. He describes; his first position at Christ Church Cathedral under Reverend C.C. Owen; his work with the Boy's Brigade; first boys' summer camps on Bowen Island 1906; St. Mark's summer camps at Lions Beach in the 1;920s; St. Mark's Church in Kitsilano; early Kitsilano; life in the community; Mr. J.Z. Hall and family; growth of the area and the Sam Greer land dispute. TRACK 2: Reverend Sovereign continues with ;recollections about the J.Z. Hall home in Kitsilano and Mrs. J.Z. Hall; Sam Greer and family; Fred and George Burroughs; Kits Beach; and Captain Dawe. He talks about his interest in mountain climbing; search and rescue work on Grouse Mountain; Don and Phyllis Munday; the BC Mountaineering Club and Mount Garibaldi Park. He continues with recollections of his time spent in Dawson City, Yukon in 193;2, and the Peace River area.

Days afar

Amateur film. Shows Don and Phyllis Munday on a backpacking expedition into the Bella Coola Valley, then climbing Mount Saugstad.

[Defiance]

Amateur film. Shows Don and Phyllis Munday on an expedition into the Bella Coola Valley, and their ascent of Mount Defiance. Expedition was on foot, as well as by pack horse and boat.

Explorations of the Munday family

Compilation. Video transfer of films made by Don and Phyllis Munday, showing travel to the Coast Range and mountain climbing trips. The films included are MOUNT SILVER THRONE, KLINI KLINI, MOUNT QUEEN BESS, A BECKONING PEAK and MOUNT RELIANCE.

James family photographs

Series includes 324 photographs depicting Phyllis James and members of the James family. Images depict activities including, but not limited to, travel to inspection of the HMS New Zealand, HMCS Rainbow and other vessels that visited Vancouver as well as activities such as early tennis in Vancouver, picnicking, camping and the visit by the Duke of Connaught to Vancouver, September 1912.

[Klini Klini]

Amateur film. Film record of expedition in the Klinaklini Valley by way of Knight Inlet.

Lure of far horizons : [part 1]

Amateur film. Shows Don and Phylllis Munday family travelling by boat from Vancouver to Bella Coola, then by pack train into Tweedsmuir Park, and visiting various natural sites.

Lure of far horizons : part 2

Amateur film. Film showing Don and Phyllis Munday family visiting various sites in Tweedsmuir Park; a continuation of LURE OF FAR HORIZONS : [PART 1].

[Mount Queen Bess]

Amateur film. Shows exploration and climbing in the Homathko Valley and Mount Queen Bess area.

Mount Reliance

Amateur film. Shows expedition from Tatlayoko Lake and climb up Mt. Reliance.

[Mount Silver Throne]

Amateur film. Shows expedition to explore glaciers at Mount Silver Throne, via Knight Inlet and the Klinaklini Valley.

Mount Waddington

Amateur film. Shows Don and Phyllis Munday on an expedition to climb Mount Waddington, via Franklin Valley, Franklin Glacier, Dais Glacier, etc.

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's mountaineering in British Columbia]

Unedited footage. Roll A: Long shot of two hikers walking at edge of lake; shots of mountain peaks; two hikers sliding down snowy slope; little girl in tree or tall foliage. Roll B: hiker with large pack [Phyllis Munday]; camp scene; lone hiker; cooking over a campfire; small glacier with river underneath, and hiker climbing on glacier; Phyllis Munday chipping at rocks; shots of glacier(s) and mountain peaks. Roll C: glacier, waterfall, person building a rock cairn on peak; pan of mountain peaks; girl or young woman standing in foliage and pressing flowers [?] in a book; figure at foot of glacier with ropes; woman [Phyllis Munday?] in mountaineering gear -- pack, ropes, ice axe, sun goggles -- at peak; more views of mountain peaks, glacier, valley; woman arranging evergreen boughs; figure on mountainside; figure in camp (with tent and smoky fire) near waterfall from glacier. Roll D1: small child [Edith Munday?] in snowsuit, snow-shoeing in the forest. Roll D2: Young girl [probably Edith Munday] posing for the camera and climbing on rock.

Shining sky lines

Amateur film. Shows Don and Phyllis Munday family travelling from Vancouver to Prince Rupert on the S.S. "Cardena", including a long stop at Bella Coola, and climb up Mount Saugstad.