Alta Lake School

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Photographs of Chaplinville, the old Alta Lake School (3/2/51/1), the Pacific Great Eastern Company housing, [Clark Phillips], Bob Smith 3/2/51/2), Alta Lake, Asher, Zonker, and Digger the dog, Budd Car and the Pacific Great Eastern passenger train, a cat in a bird feeder, a summer T-Bar often used by Nancy Greene Summer Camps (3/2/51/11), Mount Currie, and the T-Bar.

5593 Alta Lake Road

A form and extra sheet of notes from Sheila Sherkat and Mark Beaven about 5593 Alta Lake Road, Lot "B". Details who the previous owners of the property were and how the two of them came to the Whistler area.

Alta Lake Community Club Minutebook 1951-1983

Minutebook for meetings of the Alta Lake Community Club from 1951-1985. Subjects discussed include holiday parties and dances, the purchasing of a projector, hosting films, Girl Guides and Cubs, memorial benches, the purchasing of a snowplow, logging, moving the Alta Lake School flagpole, fire safety, postal service, roads, Robbie Burns Night, fishing derbies, art lessons, theatre, Myrtle Philip's birthday, the Squamish Youth Choral, Blackcomb Ski Club, Rainbow Mountain ski hill, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, TV's coming to the Whistler valley, building the Whistler Mountain Ski Club building, the formation of a ski club, the Mountain Rescue Group, Mount Whistler Lodge, Alta Lake Ratepayers Association, building a new school, physical education classes on the mountain, Cypress Lodge, donation to the Garibaldi Olympic Development Association, Highland Lodge, the Logger's Sports Day Parade, seasons passes for children, square-dancing, and badminton.

Alta Lake School Log Book

A log book detailing the progress of the construction of Alta Lake School. It contains some sketches of the building, measurements, and some photographs of the construction site.

History of Alta Lake

Documents describing the history of Alta Lake. The file includes a letter written by J. Bailiff on June 1, 1956, and dedicated to Alta Lake School, as well as a transcription of that letter.

Jenny Bett's Writings - Memoirs

Memoirs written by Jenny Betts (nee Jardine) recounting her life, starting from her birth in 1912 and finishing with entries written in 1982 celebrating Lizzie Neiland's 100th birthday. Jenny recounts her family's many moves, the death of her father, her mother's remarriage to Thomas Neiland, the logging operation and daily life in the Whistler Valley (at Mons, Alpha Lake, 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area], and Nita Lake), the birth of her brothers Robert and Thomas, her Uncle Jim Laidlaw's time in the valley, meeting and marrying Wallace Betts, logging work at the Alaric operation at Parkhurst, tobogganing, raising her children, flooding in the early 1940s, her brothers' service in World War II, the family's time at Port McNeill on Vancouver Island living at a work camp Wallace was working at, her appendicitis operation and hemorrhages which required a blood transfusion from Wallace, Thomas Neiland's passing and the selling of the 34 1/2 Mile property in the 1950s.

After many blank pages, there is an entry from December 19-28, 1981 recounting a large holiday get-together with the extended Jardine family in the Lower Mainland (each couple travelling from several places in BC to join). The following page is an entry written by Jenny on February 22, 1982 describing another large family get-together with the Jardine clan at a nursing home to celebrate Lizzie Neiland's 100th birthday with some champagne.

Judith MacKenzie Fonds

  • WA_2023_040
  • Fonds
  • 1975

This fonds contains textual materials donated by Judith MacKenzie, including a notebook detailing the progress of the construction of Alta Lake School. It contains some sketches of the building, measurements, as well as some photographs of the construction site.

Resort Municipality of Whistler Heritage Plan

Resort Municipality of Whistler Heritage Plan Interim Draft Report prepared by the Planning & Development Department and the Parks & Recreation Department. First Draft: July 29, 1992. "Betty Clark" is written in blue pen on the top right. The report lists an inventory of heritage sites.

Textual Records

Textual material donated by Judith MacKenzie, including a log book for the construction of the Alta Lake School.