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              Gondola Village Pamphlet
              WA_2018_021-04-036 · File · [1990-1993?]
              Part of Sonya McCarthy

              Pamphlet for Gondola Village showing photos, amenities, a map, and way-finding instructions.

              Prints 025-028
              WA_2016_024-04-10-07 · File · 1981
              Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds

              Photographs of flooding in Creekside: a large flooded construction site by the Old Gondola Barn, and a flooded street with a sign for Gondola Village.

              Slides
              GRI-01-56-032 · File · [c. 1978-1990]
              Part of Greg Griffith Fonds

              Photographs of a group of clowns at an event in Village Square, a rack full of skis on Blackcomb Mountain in front of Rendezvous Lodge, children playing in a large snow pile in Village Square with Fitzsimmons Lodge in the background, a [water skier?] on Alta Lake in mid-air with Whistler Mountain in the background, the Jazz Festival on Blackcomb Mountain with large crowds and views of Rendezvous Lodge and Solar Coaster Chair, people sun bathing on the beach at Alta Lake with windsurfers in the water, a ski race on Whistler or Blackcomb Mountain, windsurfers on Alta Lake, Gondola Village condominiums in Creekside, a car show in Village Square, and Whistler Village in winter near Clocktower Building, Crystal Lodge, and Blackcomb Lodge.

              Week of April 15, 1982
              WQ-2-250 · File · April 15, 1982
              Part of Whistler Question

              Photographs including but not limited to roads; cars; garbage; construction; meal at restaurant; firemen; awards; skiers; lift line-ups; Gondola Village mountain camping; party; Garibaldi relocation project; torched remains of Garibaldi Lodge; Whistler Cable TV; B.C. Tel; Easter Back Bowl Downhill; Cheakamus Canyon project
              Appears in April 15, 1982 issue:
              02-250-3. Pg. 1. Caption: [bottom] All that remains today is a charred pile of debris. The lodge was torched by the provincial government after no bids were received on the building. It is one of the victims of the Garibaldi relocation project implemented by the province because of the threat of the barrier.
              02-250-88. Pg. 3. Caption: [top left] Firemen had a smokey fight when they first arrived on the scene.
              02-250-130. Pg. 3. Caption: [top right] Jim Dawson of Whistler Cable T.V. takes a look over blueprints while B.C. Tel workmen hang new cable in the Gondola area.
              02-250-47. Pg. 8. Caption: [top left] Pat Kelly, Real Estate Agent, Whistler Cay Resident.
              02-250-152. Pg. 8. Caption: [top middle] Diane Robb, Waitress, Gondola Area Resident.
              02-250-53. Pg. 8. Caption: [top right] Denver Snider, Mons towing, Emerald Estates.
              02-250-56. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom left] Don Willoughby, Businessman, Alpine Meadows.
              02-250-50. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom middle] "Fast" Eddy, Union Construction Worker, Alta Vista.
              02-250-149. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom right] Susan Nielsen, Bookkeeper, Whistler Cay resident.
              02-250-78. Pg. 9. Caption: [top] A round of applause and a bouquet of flowers were Race Secretary Joan McCulloch's reward for a year of hard work. Owen Carney, Alpine Chairman, (Centre) made the presentation.
              02-250-110. Pg. 9. Caption: [bottom] Michell Brown and Doug Smith hold up the Price Waterhouse Trophy, which they won in junior skiing competition at Blackcomb Mountain on Sunday.
              02-250-7. Pg. 11. Caption: The latest development in the Cheakamus Canyon project is the diversion which carries vehicles through the rock cut (Centre) rather than around one of the most dangerous corners on Highway 99 (right).
              02-250-21. Pg. 16. Caption: [bottom] Some Whistler residents could do with a few lessons in tidiness and cooperation. This scene at the Mons garbage compactor tells a story.
              02-250-39. Pg. 17. Caption: [Building on a dream]
              02-250-134. Pg. 21. Caption: This prefab housing appeared Thursday, April 8 at the Gondola base area. No occupants were discovered.

              Week of February 14, 1985
              WQ-2-378 · File · February 14, 1985
              Part of Whistler Question

              Photographs including but not limited to firefighting; skiing; hot air balloons; eating at a restaurant; ski racing; portraits; band playing; Volunteer Fire Dept.; drinking; Celebrity Invitational; Keg Challenge; High School Cross-Country Championships; Alta Lake Sports Club
              Appears in February 14, 1985 issue:
              02-378-17. Pg. 1. Caption: [top] For five and a half hours Saturday, volunteer firemen battled a condominium blaze that swept between walls. Six units were lost. Then Monday, fire broke out again nearby at the Baxter project. See story page 3.
              02-378-23. Pg. 2. Caption: Firemen and residents were able to rescue some possessions from burning condos at Alpine Village Saturday, but losses were heavy and by the next day insurance investigators were already on the scene.
              02-378-57. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] Whistler Mountain created a new sport Saturday: Gondola stuffing. The kids' team stuffed the most bodies into the gondola with 27, while the counterweights (a minimum of 200 lbs. each) could only manage nine.
              02-378-84. Pg. 12. Caption: Whistler cross-country skier Jodi Rusted poles around a sharp corner during a fun relay race held to cap off the B.C. High School Cross-Country Championships held Saturday.
              02-378-87. Pg. 13. Caption: Mike Davidson of the Alta Lake Sports Club will even spend time in the brig if it means hanging onto his hobby cannons. The one-pounder above was made by Great West Cannon Co. of Granville Island and is authentic in size and workmanship to the original. Davidson says. It was often hoisted into a ship's rigging and used to fire nails and other shrapnel at the enemy. Davidson uses the cannon to proclaim the open various sporting events but two years ago found himself in RCMP lock-up for four hours when a policeman arrested him for discharging a firearm in the municipality. But it's all in good fund, and the only thing fired is paper.
              02-378-80. Pg. 20. Caption: [top left] Seppo Making, Logger (logged first ski runs), Nesters.

              Week of February 28, 1985
              WQ-2-376 · File · February 28, 1985
              Part of Whistler Question

              Photographs including but not limited to band playing; skiing on Whistler Mountain; ski racing; Molson World Downhill; Rob Boyd; podiums; dinner; portraits; drinking; Girl Guides of Canada anniversary; Delta Mountain Inn's Waiter's Race; Export "A" Cup race; Doug and the Slugs
              Appears in February 25, 1985 issue:
              02-376-54. Pg. 1. Caption: [top] Jack Demidoff points to the spot where he and his hoe smashed through the ice on Nita Lake.
              02-376-101. Pg. 2. Caption: [bottom] (Below) Blasting and clearing is underway on a new trail connecting Alpha Lake and Wayside Park on Alta Lake, close to the spot where Demidoff and his 25-tonne hoe fell through the ice.
              02-376-37. Pg. 5. Caption: Skateboarder Harry Hovatha of Victoria does a 360 aboard his Austrian-made Swingbo, a skateboard on skis that sells for about $400 and was recently introduced to the Canadian market. Hovatha was with a group of skateboarders who visited Whistler last week on a promotional tour. But they couldn't use Whistler Mountain lifts because of provincial lift regulations.
              02-376-95. Pg. 6. Caption: [top] The Girl Guides of Canada celebrated its 75th anniversary Friday, Feb. 22. Called Thinking Day, it represents one of the most important days in the years for guides as it commemorates the birth of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, the founder of Girl Guides, and her husband Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts. Whistler's 18 sides, led by Debbie O'Mara, celebrated Friday with a brief service in the Skiers' Chapel followed by a Pot Luck Dinner.
              02-376-39 Pg. 9. Caption: Export "A" Cup racers mulled around the time board Wednesday to find out how they placed in the downhill. Almost everyone was surprised when unheralded Steven Lee from Australia emerged as the victor. See story page 10.
              02-376-54. Pg. 10. Caption: Rob Boyd.
              02-376-82. Pg. 11. Caption: The Baxter Group's Gondola Village has sprouted up like mushrooms at the gondola base during the past four months. Cranes continue to put the finishing touches to 245 units included in the project.

              Week of October 25, 1984
              WQ-2-411 · File · October 25, 1984
              Part of Whistler Question

              Photographs including but not limited to portraits; Paul Burrows; David Murray; Felix Belychek; Gary Athans; Glen Wurtel; Lorne Borgal; Gondola Village Construction; helicopter; mountain views; fire; firefighters; waterfall and river rapids; small airplane crash; Rotary Club; Susan Musgrave poetry reading
              Appears in October 25, 1984 issue:
              02-411-B-2. Pg. 1. Caption: Burning debris coming out of a chimney at this Drifter Way house started a fire that caused an estimated $50,000 damage according to Whistler's fire chief Lindsay Wilson. The blaze was reported at 9 p.m. Monday and was brought under full control within 45 minutes. At the time, no one was in the house, which belongs to Kelly Fairhurst.
              02-411-A-32. Pg. 5. Caption: The Canadian National Ski Team added $2,500 towards training more World Cup Winners through funds raised at Whistler Mountain's Mouton Cadet Spring Festival this year. Dave Murray, director of skiing for Whistler Mountain, presents the cheque to (l-r) national team members Felix Belzyck, Chris Kent and Gary Athans. New men's coach Glenn Wuertele was also on hand at the Vancouver Ski Show where the cheque was presented. National team members such as Todd Brooker, Dee Dee Haight, Rob Boyd, Mike Carney, Wade Chritie, as well as Belzyck and Athans will also be at the Oct. 31 ski team benefit at Dusty's in Whistler.
              02-411-C-14. Pg. 6. Caption: The water looks frozen but that's still a few weeks away. It's a long exposure that fools the eye in the photo taken Saturday on the Cheakamus River just north of the Cheakamus Canyon. But winter is coming, and on the top of nearby mountains over a metre of snow has fallen and shows no signs of melting.
              02-411-B-25. Pg. 7. Caption: The Baxter Group's condole development in the gondola area is just the beginning, and planners are now deciding how work in the rest of the area will proceed.
              02-411-C-11. Pg. 8. Caption: Members of the Whistler Rotary Club are raising money for their programs this fall by selling firewood. Working Saturday to fill remaining orders are, left to right: Bill Wallace, Don MacLaurin, Bob Brown, Paul Burrows, Richard Heine, Brian Brown, Sid Young and a visiting Rotarian from New Zealand.
              02-411-B-19. Pg. 11. Caption: Lorne Borgal, president of Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation, introduced a slide presentation celebrating the 20th year of incorporation for the firm at the Granville Island Hotel Thursday. A reception preceded and followed the catchy slide show attended primarily by members of the ski industry in Vancouver.
              02-411-C-32. Pg. 15. Caption: [right] At right, Whistler Volunteer firemen prepare to enter a burning house in Alpine Meadows Monday night. It was also a test for the fire department's new command procedure, which chief Lindsay Wilson says worked well under pressure.

              Week of September 15, 1983
              WQ-2-356 · File · September 15, 1983
              Part of Whistler Question

              Photographs including but not limited to portraits; trampolining in Whistler Village; Opening of Alpha Lake Park; Willie Whistler; inside a bar; town planning; scooter; Fall Festival; guitarist playing; setting up for outdoor concert; dancing; clowns; Gondola Village; construction; gambling; midway rides; Rotary Club; darts; traffic lights; art; sculptures; band playing in Whistler Village
              Appears in September 22, 1983 issue:
              02-356-41. Pg. 8. Caption: Ross Smith, manager of Stoney's Restaurant, does his Hamlet imitation while teaching would-be bartenders the finer points of slinging gin. The three-week course takes place in Mountain House Cabaret.
              Appears in September 15, 1983 issue:
              02-356-109. Pg. 1. Caption: The Rangerettes Baton Corps of North Vancouver goes through its clown routine at Sunday's Fall Festival. Other entertainers at the weekend event included folk and can-can dancers a la classical, and live music in Village Square. Despite the wet conditions about 1,500 people were attracted to the end-of-summer extravaganza.
              02-356-144. Pg. 3. Caption: [top] Parks employee Ted Pryce-Jones completes the new suspension bridge on Callaghan River near the Cheakamus River junction. Parks Planner Tom Barratt says the $12,000 bridge should be ready to cross this week.
              02-356-136. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] Workmen from B & O Blacktop put the finishing touches on the Valley Drive bridge that was washed out in 1981.
              02-356-140. Pg. 5. Caption: The five-bedroom condominium pictured in the left-hand corner is one of the first new building starts in the Whistler area since 1982. Pete Arturo and four friends are building the Gondola Village condominium for weekend use and expects to move in by early December.
              02-356-10. Pg. 6. Caption: [left] Josee Milord, Unemployed, Emerald Estates
              02-356-13. Pg. 6. Caption: [middle] Gerald Kilby, B.C. Hydro Employee, North Vancouver.
              02-356-24. Pg. 6. Caption: [right] Ron Douglas, Manager, Araxi's Restaurant, Alpine Meadows.
              02-356-130. Pg. 7. Caption: Hugh Hancock joins Blackcomb Skiing Enterprises as Marketing Manager. His position includes marketing Fortress Mountain near Banff. Other internal changes in Fortress Mountain Resorts Ltd. see Bill Williams appointed as Fortress general manager. Hancock, 36, is a long-time skier who discovered Whistler in 1973. His experience includes positions as assistant advertising manager at Labatt's Breweries and director of marketing for the Vancouver Whitecaps.
              02-356-200. Pg. 8. Caption: Instant curbs ooze out of Alpine Paving's machine along Mountain Lane by Delta Mountain Inn. Paving is expected to be finished next week.
              02-356-89. Pg. 11. Caption: [top left] Visitors and participants braved the elements Saturday and Sunday to make the most of Whistler's adieu to summer. (Upper Left) Tim Cleave from the New Westminster-based Shasta Trampoline levitates over Whistler Mountain.
              02-356-237. Pg. 11. Caption: [top right] Kids had their bit of fun riding the giant merry-go-round set up in the VIP parking lot.
              02-356-93. Pg. 11. Caption: [middle] A Rangerette baton team member looks skyward during a spritely Polynesian dance routine.
              02-356-103. Pg. 11. Caption: [bottom left] One little tyke doesn't quite know what to make of the entertainment in Village Square. A few moments later he too joined the dancers.
              02-356-86. PG. 11. Caption: [bottom right] Whistler's new Arabesque tent protects dancers and drinkers from the rain.
              02-356-022. [From left to right, Trevor Roote, Bill Barrett, Karen Barrett, and Tom Barrett]
              02-356-152. [Greg Athans]

              WA_2015_026-01-04 · File · 1985
              Part of Mike Hurst Fonds

              Whistler-themed magazine, published by Paul Burrows, containing the following articles:
              "A Letter From the Editor"
              "Whistling Jack"
              "A Town in the Making"
              "Whistler Village - It's all by Design"
              "Whistler Accommodation Guide"
              "Reflections on Whistler"
              "The Year in Revue"
              "Shop Talk"
              "Top of the Table"

              WA_2015_026-01-05 · File · 1987
              Part of Mike Hurst Fonds

              Whistler-themed magazine, published by Paul Burrows, containing the following articles:
              "Shopping Around the Valley: A potpourri of gifts, treats, and activities available from the merchants of Whistler"
              "A Skier's Guide to the Dual Mountains: For the uninitiated, an introduction to skiing opportunities on Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain"
              "A Collection of Whistler Snowbirds: Artist Isobel MacLaurin prepared these works in watercolour and ink of the winged wildlife of winter"
              "A Taste of Whistler: Six of Whistler's finest chefs and a selection of their dishes make us a composite Coast Mountain meal"
              "For the Love of Nordic Skiing: The Lost Lake cross-country trail system will be longer and better groomed than ever this year"
              "The Whistler Resort Guide: Twenty-four pages of everything you ever wanted to know about Whistler"
              "Ecosign: Whistler's mountain design company: Sophisticated, comprehensive planning in a highly specialized field has established Ecosign as a world leader in ski area design."
              "Backcountry Skiing: Heaven or Hell?: Peter Chrzanowski has had a few close calls while ski mountaineering. He has some wise advice for those with a desire to venture off the beaten track."
              "Behind the Scenes: A few candid shots of some of the people who make Whistler work"
              "101 Things To Do, or how I spent my Summer in Whistler: There's a lot more to this resort than just skiing, as this overview of summer activities reveals"
              "A Summer Side of Life: A collection of photographs to warm the insides on a winter's evening"

              Duplicate copy in same folder.