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Goldsmid, Lillian
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- Goldsmid, Lil
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[1923]-2013
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Lillian "Lil" Goldsmid was a Canadian alpine ski racer and long-time Whistler resident. She met her husband, Howard Goldsmid, while rollerskating, he being on the way home from his time stationed in the Aleutian Islands as part of the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After the war, the couple married and ran seven butcher shops in Vancouver. Lil was BC downhill champion in 1946. Howard and Lil juggled work with weekend warrioring in Whistler. They had two children: Leslee and Bruce. An active skier and outdoors enthusiast, she volunteered for over 20 years at the annual Vancouver Ski Swap, which raised funds to support youth programs. She also became a volunteer hostess on Whistler and Blackcomb providing a welcome and assistance for resort visitors. The couple built their second home in Whistler in 1969/1970, and were early investors in the Clock Tower building in Whistler Village as it was being built in the 1980s. Howard and Lil moved to Whistler full-time in 1987. When resort weddings became popular, she became a frequent witness at ceremonies conducted by her good friend, marriage commissioner Florence Peterson. She visited classrooms at Myrtle Philip Elementary School weekly and read with the students for over two decades. When Re-Use-It recycling opened at Function Junction, Lil became involved in helping to re-purpose community donations and to support Community Services. She also spent many years volunteering for the food bank and the Whistler Public Library. For their 65th wedding anniversary, Howard and Lil held a town party at Dusty’s to raise over $12,000 for the food bank. In 2002, Lil was chosen as Citizen of the Year in Whistler, and, in 2012, received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award for her contributions to the community.
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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Catalogued July 2022.