- WMAS_06-011
- File
- 2001
Photographs of museum staff giving a group of children a tour of the Whistler Museum's interior and exterior, and a staff member experiencing a birthday in the office with cake.
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Photographs of museum staff giving a group of children a tour of the Whistler Museum's interior and exterior, and a staff member experiencing a birthday in the office with cake.
Alta Lake Community Club Minutebook 1951-1983
Part of Heather Gamache Fonds
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.
Part of George Benjamin Fonds
Slide film of Roger Moxly (2/3/1/2), skiing the shale slope, a birthday cake [at The Keg?], Al Davis, and George Benjamin (2/3/1/13).
Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds
Photographs of birthday parties, real estate developments for Whistler Real Estate, dining at La Rua, mountain scenery, the Great Snow Earth Water Race, and Kananaskis Village in Alberta.
Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds
Photographs of a man named 'Errol's 50th birthday party. It appears to be held in a large ballroom, with many tables of people and a dance floor for ballroom dancing. There are also some photographs of men dressed as servers mooning the crowd with letters painted on, likely a 50th birthday prank.
Jenny Bett's Writings - Memoirs
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
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.
Letter, Ann to Aunt Lizzie Neiland
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Letter (with envelope) to Lizzie Neiland from her niece Ann [Hereron?] in New Westminster. She asks for her aunt to give Jenny her kind regards. She has been to Lake Cowichan to see her sister, Mary, and her children, and is now staying with an aunt in New Westminster, although she is considering going back to Kelowna. Letter contains a birthday poem for Lizzie Neiland with multiple puns involving the letter 'C.' The envelope has a 2 cent Canada stamp and two postmarks: February 20, 1931 in Stillbridge, B.C., and February 25, 1931, in Alta Lake.
Photograph of Florence and Andy Petersen cutting the Whistler Museum's birthday cake under the gazebo in the Whistler Village.
Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds
Photographs taken by Arv Pellegrin while he worked for Whistler Real Estate Co., mostly of construction in Whistler Village, but also including other events and locations around Whistler.
Whistler Real Estate - Roger's Birthday
Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds
Photographs of a man named 'Roger's birthday at a restaurant. There are several people dining with him, and Roger is wearing a voyageur costume in many of the pictures while carving the cake.