Photographs of an industrial fire at Wrights Canadian Ropes Ltd. in Vancouver. The photographs depict the fire from many angles and also show firefighters attempting to put out the fire. Captions read: "Fire - Wrights Ropes - Sept[ember] [19]53 - Supreme Norm[adol]". [Normadol refers to Ansco Normadol fine grain developer, used to develop the photos.]

Report by the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department regarding fire hazards in the area. The report notes that the current Volunteer Fire Department is not large or well-equipped enough to protect the entire area and urges all residents to be conscious of preventative fire safety measures. It contains a list of firefighting equipment (and lack thereof) in each of five zones of the Alta Lake area as of July 1970.

Photographs of firefighters putting out fires, and photos of fires

Fonds consists of material related to the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department in the early 1970s; newspaper articles about the ski bum Dag Aabye; maps of the Alta Lake, Emerald Estates, and Alpine Meadows neighbourhoods; and other records relating to Whistler's 20th/21st-century history.

Contents include:

• DOUG_001: Photocopy of map of Alta Lake, 1960.
• DOUG_002: Newspaper article: “Dag Aabye: The Last Ski Bum,” Vancouver Sun, Tuesday April 22 2003.
• DOUG_003: Newspaper article: “Whistler Mountain through the years,” including timeline from 1914 to 2015, Vancouver Sun, Saturday November 21 2015.
• DOUG_004: Newspaper article: “Youngsters can’t hold a ski to Dag Aabye,” Vancouver Sun, Wednesday April 30 2003.
• DOUG_005: Photocopy of company registration document for Jackass Plumbing, Mr. J. P. Douglass, July 2 1969.
• DOUG_006: Photocopy of list of names and telephone numbers of the Alta Lake District Fire Department.
• DOUG_007: Photocopy of ‘birth announcement’ for 9-hole golf course in Whistler Cay Estates.
• DOUG_008: Fire Protection Report for Alta Lake, August 12 1970.
• DOUG_009: Notice of Annual General Meeting of the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 1971.
• DOUG_010: Constitution and By-Laws of the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• DOUG_011: Map of Alpine Meadows.
• DOUG_012: Map of Emerald Estates.

Photographs of group portraits of the fire department with fire trucks in the background.

File Caption:
"FIRE DEPT."

Photographs of a group portrait of the firefighters in front of the fire hall.

Note: duplicate print corresponds to 002.

Photographs of the Fireman's Ball in 1986 with people dressed up in group portraits.

Photographs of the Fireman's Ball in 1986 with people dressed up in group portraits.

Photographs of a cabin on fire [Munster Cabin?], the Volunteer Fire Department putting out the fire, and groups of people watching the fire and seated outside of another cabin.

Photographs of the Fireman's Ball with couples and group portraits.