1939 Alpine Club of Canada Ski Camp in the Eremite Valley

This trip to the Eremite Valley in Jasper Park’s Tonquin area, was possibly Harry’s first ski mountaineering venture to the Canadian Rockies, and likely instilled in him a love of the mountains. He made several more trips to the Rockies over the next few years, some of it photographing troop training during WWII. In 1946, with his wife Gen and young daughter, Daphne, left the security of their careers in Ottawa and moved to Jasper.

CR1001 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939

CR1008 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939 photographer

CR1009 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939

CR1007 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939

CR1006 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939 cooks

CR1005 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939

CR1004 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939

CR1003 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939 Norm Brewster

CR1002 ACC Ski Camp Eremite 1939 Norm Brewster

Ski trip to the Tonquin Valley

This ski trip, about 1947, may have been to make a ski movie about skiing in the Rockies, especially considering the fashionable clothing the women were wearing. It was based at a cabin close to Amethyst Lake, Jasper National Park. The women, Gen Rowed (Harry’s wife), Doris Kensit and Katie Baxter were Jasper residents, and the clothing suggests this took place in the spring, probably April.

CR1101 Gen Rowed with Ramparts early morning

CR1102 Doris Kensit, Gen Rowed, Katie Baxter

CR1105 Doris Kensit calling home

CR1103 Cabin with Ramparts behind

CR1104 Doris Kensit keeping food cool