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Alta Lake Echo

  • CA-BC-ALT-004
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1920s-1950s

The Alta Lake Echo was one of the earliest community newspapers in Alta Lake, BC, which later became Whistler.

Alta Lake Hotel

  • CA-BC-ALT-005
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1920s-1930s

There is little documented about the Alta Lake Hotel, save for a recollection from Jack Jardine. Jack Jardine recalled "And apparently, when the Jordan’s went up there, to the Alta Lake Hotel, it was just the one building. It didn’t have the wings on it. It had, I understood, been a boarding house, run by a couple of women because Alta Lake was laid out as a division point from the railroad."

Alta Lake Sailing Club

  • CA-BC-ALT-007
  • Entidade coletiva
  • May 1, 1966-

On May 1, 1966 the Alta Lake Sailing Club was formed. They held races and events each summer on Alta Lake, located beside Cypress Lodge, which was later incarnated as the Whistler Hostel and then The Point Artist-Run Centre. The ALSC later changed its name to the Whistler Sailing Association.

Alta Lake School

  • CA-BC-ALT-008
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1933-{1962?]

In 1931, a school assessment appeared on the tax notice even though there was no school. Mrs. Lizzie Jardine Neiland who lived at Mile 34½ (railway measurement from Squamish) in today’s Function Junction area had three sons and one daughter of school age. Her son, Bob said: “When she got the tax notice of $7.50 she got real worked up as money in those days was tight. She started a movement to look into the possibility of building a school.” Mrs. Neiland, along with Mrs. Dorothy Tapley, Mr. and Mrs. Gebhart, Mrs. Law, Mr. and Mrs. Woods, enlisted Myrtle Philip’s assistance in contacting the provincial government with regards to hiring a teacher and to obtain furniture - a job which Myrtle continued with commitment for over thirty years’ service as a School Trustee.

Fundraising began and donations of lumber and building supplies were collected. Elizabeth Woods and her husband Fred, who worked on the PGE Railway, had three school-age children and enthusiastically assisted in raising money. Alex Philip donated $5 and Fred gave $3 himself.

Chris Spencer, owner of a big grocery-department store in Vancouver and a director of the PGE along with Ernie Carson, the local MLA and Blake Wilson, another director of the PGE each contributed $20. When all the money added up the total was between three and four hundred dollars.

It was decided that a community hall that could be used as a school should be built. Bill Bailiff drew up the plans, and the Excelsior Lumber Company in Vancouver sent the lumber at cost. A shingle company followed suit and the PGE cancelled the freight expenses.

Bob Williamson quotes: “The building was built entirely by volunteer labour. Everyone pitched in. Some of the more knowledgeable were responsible for the safe construction…among those were Bill Bailiff, Bill ‘Mac’ MacDermott, Fred Woods, Phil Tapley, Ed Droll, Charlie Lundstrom and Jack Jardine.”

Margaret Partridge, an ex-Rainbow Lodge waitress, was the first teacher at the Alta Lake School, teaching for three years and greatly impressing the community. She was devoted to her small class of pupils, encouraging them with their studies so that some completed seven years of schooling in only four. Ten students had to be enrolled at the end of September to allow a teacher to be hired by the Department of Education in the BC Government. The pupils were: Helen, Jack and Pat Woods, Doreen Tapley, Dorothy Thompson, Wilfred Law, Howard Gebhart, Tom Neiland and Bob Jardine. Jack Jardine attended one half-day a week to make the quota. Ed Droll's janitorial work included cutting wood for the potbellied wood-burning heater, sweeping the floors, filling the gas lamps and keeping the outdoor ‘biffies’ spiffy. The second teacher was Betty Woollard, the daughter of Grace Woollard, who had preempted land in 1912 on the east side of Alta Lake. Betty boarded with the Harrops along the Lake, as Margaret Partridge had before her. She also taught for 3 years and contributed much to the community.

The Alta Lake committee maintained their own school house, financed by the Board of Education in Victoria, for 11 years. Then the areas from Britannia Beach to D’Arcy amalgamated to form the Howe Sound School District. The school carried on with various teachers until, in 1942, due to an insufficient number of pupils, the school closed. During the next nine years children either did their lessons at home by correspondence, or lived elsewhere with family or friends in order to attend a school. In 1951, the school re-opened and classes resumed there for five years until the second Alta Lake School was ready.

In October 1956, Dick Wagner, the teacher, walked his class south along the trail to the new Alta Lake School, still located in the townsite area. Located above the Alta Lake Railway Station, its construction was similar to the cottages of that time - under-insulated and plain. But it was bright, had a covered play area, an oil furnace, and, to the delight of the pupils, the luxury of indoor plumbing. The small, uneven playing field, monkey bars, swings, tetherball, hockey sticks and nets allowed the children to have more fun outdoors. A teacherage was also built which provided convenient living quarters nearby. Mel Carrico taught from 1958-1961. He jokingly assumed he was hired because he had three school-aged children who were vitally needed to keep the school open. This family of seven, plus a dog, lived in the two-room teacherage. Only the school building still exists today as a cabinet maker’s shop.

Once skiing began on Whistler Mountain and settlements developed on the east side of the valley, a bigger school was built where today’s Cascade Lodge exists. It opened in 1976, and the name was changed to Myrtle Philip Elementary School in honour of this early pioneer.

Alta Lake Sports Club

  • CA-BC-ALT-009
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1960s-1980s

The Alta Lake Sports Club was a community organization that worked to host events, activities, and sports for the community of Whistler. The club proposed and built the Lost Lake cross country ski trails in 1980, under Al Fisher's presidency.

Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department

  • CA-BC-ALT-010
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1962-?

The Alta Lake Fire Department was created in 1962, and its first Fire Chief was Dick Fairhurst. In 1979/80 the Public Safety Building was built in the future Whistler Village. This building acted as the Fire Hall for Whistler from then on, and the Fire department later became a paid employer.

Amako Construction Ltd.

  • CA-BC-AMA-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1980s-

Amako Construction Ltd. is a construction company based in North Vancouver.

Antediluvian Order of Froth Blowers

  • GB-ANT-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1924-

The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers was a humorous British charitable organisation "to foster the noble Art and gentle and healthy Pastime of froth blowing amongst Gentlemen of-leisure and ex-Soldiers". Though the organization peaked in the 1920s and 1930s, it has been briefly revived intermittently since then.

Anthill Films

  • CA-BC-ANT-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 2000s-2010s

Anthill Films is a film production company based in Squamish, BC known for producing films in adrenaline sports and for brands related to adrenaline sports. It is comprised of a specialized group of filmmakers who work to gather stories and capture video from the furthest reaches of the planet. Staff include Darcy Wittenberg, Darren McCullough, Colin Jones, Ian Dunn, Scott Jewett, Fraser Newton, Matt Butterworth, Courtney Cairns, Vince Shuley, Sterling Lorence, Haruki Noguchi, Paul Harrison, Jo Osborne, Adam Foley, and Monique Joyce. Some of their most popular films are the mountain biking films 'UnReal', 'Not Bad', 'Not2Bad', and the Collective Anthology.

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