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.

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.

Letter from Fran Cuthbert, Parent Advisor Representative, to Sonya McCarthy of the French Emmersion[sic] Committee at Myrtle Philip Elementary School dated October 30, 1989. The letter states support of increased French education at Myrtle Philip School.

Letter from Jenny Jardine to Echo-Marie Fawks (nee Betts) and her husband, Don, written on April 7, 1995. In the letter, Jenny recounts her and her family's life living in the Whistler Valley between the 1900s and the 1940s - at Rainbow Lodge, Mons, Alpha Lake, and finally at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. Stories she recounts include their relationship with the Philips and Harry Horstman, hikes on Sproatt Mountain and to Cheakamus Lake, mail delivery, schooling, scavenging berries along the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and Howard Gebhart and her brothers' serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. She finishes the letter talking about her recent trip to Northern BC, the Yukon, and Alaska. The letter was enclosed in an envelope with notes written by Louise Smith regarding the letter's custodial history. The letter was given to Louise by Echo-Marie (Louise's cousin), who lived with her husband, Don, in Whistler from c. 1990 to c. 2012.

Letter from Nancy Harris, Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of School Trustees for School District 48 (Howe Sound), to Sonya McCarthy of Whistler Parents for French, dated January 25, 1990. The letter discusses meetings.

"Myrtle Philip's What's New?" Newsletter No. 23 from Myrtle Philip Elementary School, dated June 24, 1986. This one-page newsletter was issued at the end of the 1985/86 school year and contains a thank-you to parents and friends, an overview of plans for the next year (including a projected number of students and class sizes), an announcement about upcoming French classes, a note about changes in staff, a date for the intermediate awards ceremony, a staff list, and a reminder of the school start date in September.

Folder 1 - 'A Recreation Master Plan for the Resort Municipality of Whistler.

Folder 2 - 'Whistler Advisory Parks and Recreation Commission' Referendum Records (Chairman's Copy).

Folder 3 - Education taxation and funding documents.

Folder 4 - Education taxation and funding documents.

Folder 5 - Highway's Lobby.

Folder 6 - (Envelope 1) Vanderzalm Cartoon Poster.

Folder 7 - Myrtle Philip Elementary School location land swap.

Folder 8 (Envelope 2) - Thank You card to Nancy Greene.

Folder 9 - Whistler Mountain summer ski camp.

Folder 10 - Miscellaneous correspondence regarding unfair school taxation.

Folder 11 - Miscellaneous information regarding KOA campground, Expo '88 (Australia), and the Canadian National Sportsmen Show.

Folder 12 - BC Hydro Whistler (Kelly Lake Study).

Folder 13 - Resort Municipality of Whistler newsletter 19th ed. February 1980 and March 21 1981.

Folder 14 - Vancouver/Garibaldi Olympic Development Association correspondence and committee information.

Folder 15 - Circle route (Duffy Lake Road) lobby information.

Folder 16 - Whistler Municipality parks and recreation plan information.

Folder 17 - Information regarding parks, wilderness, and Garibaldi lobby.

Folder 18 - Landline information between Howe Sound School Board (#28) and the Resort Municipality of Whistler.

Folder 19 - Olympic Lodge Sketches and Vancouver 1988 Olympic bid book.

Assignments completed by Sara Jennings during her education at Whistler Secondary School between 1990 and 1994.

Includes:

• "Changing Times", a journal entry for [Grade 11 or 12] English class on how Whistler was changing at the time, including the positive and negative effects of the development of the town.
• A Social Studies assignment where the student had to clip an article from the newspaper and write about their perspective on it. The article chosen is "Transit shelter agreement" from the Whistler Question. Sara writes about her support for an newer, more extensive public transit system in Whistler.

Materials gathered by Sara Jennings, including a Myrtle Philip Elementary School newsletter from 1986, assignments completed by Sara for classes at Pemberton Secondary School from 1990-1994, and two pamphlets and a poster representing the anti-2010 Olympic Games perspective.