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George Benjamin Fonds Alta Lake
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16mm Film

Various films shot by George Benjamin from Whistler in the 1970s, which include but are not limited to footage of avalanche control, skiing, ski events/races, Whistler scenery, wildlife, people from the 1970s, logging, snow removal, and various places such as Toad Hall, Tokums Corner, Alta Lake, Soo Valley, Roundhouse, Tapleys, and Whistler Mountain.

1970s

Slide film of Armchair glacier, repairing a tread on a Snowcat, the top of the T-Bar gun platform, John Hetherington in Ski Patrol uniform, Tokum Corners, Kayaking on Alta Lake, a Halloween Party, sailing on Alta Lake, Wayside Park, the River of Golden Dreams, a marijuana plant, Highway 99, and more.

30 (1)

Photographs of Chaplinville, the old Alta Lake School (3/2/51/1), the Pacific Great Eastern Company housing, [Clark Phillips], Bob Smith 3/2/51/2), Alta Lake, Asher, Zonker, and Digger the dog, Budd Car and the Pacific Great Eastern passenger train, a cat in a bird feeder, a summer T-Bar often used by Nancy Greene Summer Camps (3/2/51/11), Mount Currie, and the T-Bar.

35mm Negatives and Prints

Photographs and negatives including but not limited to skiing on Whistler Mountain, hang-gliding, Gelandesprung ski jump contest, competitive downhill ski races, recreational skiing, Tokum Corners, Toad Hall, windsurfing on Alta Lake, canoeing and kayaking on the River of Golden Dreams and Alta Lake, Ski Patrol, the avalauncher gun, avalanche control, the Pacific Great Eastern train, tracks, maintenance, and during a snowstorm, fishing on Alta Lake, the Gondola Barn in Creekside, chairlifts on Whistler Mountain, Roundhouse, Nancy Greene Summer Ski School, Molson World Cup Downhill 1984, landscapes of Whistler, Pemberton, Mount Currie Rodeo, salmon-smoking, and parties at Jordan's Lodge on Nita Lake.

(4) Judy Keeler Proof Prints From Alta Lake/Whistler

Photographs of Duncan Bell-Irving (3/2/70/1), Gordie Allen (3/2/70/3), Drew Tait (3/2/70/2), interior of Tokum Corners, Pat Carleton (Whistler's first mayor), Zube's Mushroom House, the base of Creekside, Drew Tait fly-fishing at Tokum Corners dock (3/2/70/18), George Benjamin (3/2/70/19), the Great Snow Earth Water Race (3/2/70/21), the Tokum Corners sign, an avalauncher gun, Wedge Mountain, Dusty’s (3/2/70/30), Franz Wilhelmsen, and Roundhouse.

Aerials

Aerial photographs including but not limited to Whistler Creekside, the Pacific Great Eastern railway, Green Lake, the River of Golden Dreams, Nesters, the Boot Motel (2/4/8/2), Tokum Corners (2/4/8/3), Alta Lake, Adventures West Lodge, Blueberry Hill, Whistler Village, the original Myrtle Philip school (2/4/8/13), the road to Base II (11), Rainbow Mountain, Roundhouse, and Alpha Lake.

Alta LK. Fall

Photographs of the RCMP building in Pemberton, a police car, the first front door of Tokum Corners, and Alta Lake with a view of Alta Vista and Wedge Mountain in background.

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