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Moxie Whitney fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1900]-[199-?], [predominant ca. 1940-1989].

Reference:

R13987-0-X-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings, Architectural and technical drawings, Art, Photographs, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4203890

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Moxie Whitney fonds
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Fonds includes:

9 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1900]-[199-?], [predominant ca. 1940-1989].

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

9.07 m of textual records.
449 photographs : 388 b&w, 61 col.
1 montage.
1 reproduction : photomechanical print.
2 architectural drawings.
88 audio reels (ca. 69 hrs 3 min.).
23 audio cassettes (17 hrs 50 min.).

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Hawaiian

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Moxie Whitney fonds [multiple media]

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Fonds consists of records illustrating the life and career of Moxie Whitney as a band leader, guitarist, and businessperson in Toronto, Banff, Honolulu, the Cayman Islands, and Ottawa. Included are such documents as: personal and professional correspondence, contracts and other business records, promotional material, union booklets, appointment books, press clippings, and other print matter; musical scores, parts, lead sheets, and other sheet music; photographs depicting Whitney, his orchestra, and others; sound recordings of musical performances by Whitney's orchestra and other groups; other sound recordings, such as radio interviews and appearances.

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Whitney, George Eugene (Moxie), 1919-1989

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Whitney, George Eugene (Moxie), 1919-1989 : Born in Brockville, Ontario, in 1919, George Eugene Whitney began his musical studies on the piano, switching to guitar after injuring a hand in a farm accident. Whitney (whose nickname Moxie was derived from his mother's maiden name, Moxam), embarked on a musical career in Toronto in the late 1930s. He led his own Hawaiian-styled group, the Pacific Swingsters, and played guitar in other Toronto dance bands. Following wartime service as a trumpeter in a Royal Canadian Air Force band, Whitney resumed his career as a dance band leader. The Moxie Whitney Orchestra had a longstanding engagement at Canadian Pacific's Royal York Hotel in Toronto (1948-1960, 1962-1971), with a seasonal summer engagement at its Banff Springs Hotel (1947-1960, 1962). In 1961, an industrial dispute at the Royal York Hotel led to a one-year re-location of the Whitney orchestra to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America. The Moxie Whitney Orchestra was regularly featured on local, national, and occasionally international radio broadcasts from the Royal York, and it also made a number of commercial recordings. In addition to performing Whitney's own dance band repertoire, the orchestra regularly accompanied prominent singers and entertainers who were featured at the Royal York and Banff Springs hotels. With the opening of his own booking agency in 1962, Whitney's role in the Canadian Pacific hotel chain grew to encompass serving as its music director. Following a change in the Royal York's entertainment policy in 1971, Whitney temporarily retired from music and embarked instead on a career as a businessperson and hotelier in the Cayman Islands. Returning to Canada in 1975, Whitney became the band leader and music and entertainment director at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, where he also continued his activities as a booking agent. He remained active in those capacities until his death in Brockville in 1989.

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Textual records, photographs, graphic art, architectural drawings (Electronic) Textual records, photographs, graphic art, and architectural drawings in the Moxie Whitney fonds were arranged and described by David Fraser. File- and item-level descriptions for those media are linked to the relevant series or sub-series descriptions, which are linked to or accessible through this fonds description. Also included are file-level descriptions of a small number of sound recordings that are accompanied by textual records; more detailed item-level descriptions of these sound recordings are available in Library and Archives Canada's descriptive database for audio-visual media. (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002488.pdf

Sound recordings (Electronic) Sound recordings in the Moxie Whitney fonds were arranged and described by David Fraser. Item-level descriptions are available in Library and Archives Canada's database of archival descriptions of audio-visual media. (90: Open)

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General note:

Acquired from the Estate of Moxie Whitney in 2007.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2011-00316-4
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Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R13987]

[Consultation 90 Open]

11308AV--11381AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

11388AV--11423AV;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation18 Restricted]
Architectural drawings form part of a larger file to which access is restricted.

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]
Most textual records are open. Access restrictions apply to a small number of files in the "Business files" series.

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