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Janet Love Morrison Fonds Blackcomb Mountain Chairlifts
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Slides 021-024

Photographs of a man skiing, an aerial shot of Whistler Village and Blackcomb Mountain, a helicopter constructing a chairlift, and Whistler Village.

Prints 001-015

Photographs of Skier's Plaza in winter, Tony Biggen-Pund and Byron Gracie outside an alpine A-Frame that was used as a workshop and emergency shelter for the alpine T-bar on Whistler Mountain, a man skiing, a sign reading 'Garbage Estates - Choice Lots Available', Blackcomb Mountain in 1979, chairlift construction, and the Valley T-bar during a snowy day on May Long Weekend in Spring 1968, the Whistler Village site in 1978, construction of Whistler Village, Whistler Village in 1980, and early Blackcomb Mountain ski runs covered in snow.

Prints 051-058

Photographs of the cover of Skier's Magazine for September/October 1963 showing Willy Schaeffler and Franz Wilhelmsen at Whistler Mountain, the village during construction, Mayor Pat Carleton opening Blackcomb Mountain for business at 9am on Thursday, December 4, 1980 (He cut the ribbon attached to a chair on Lift #2 with a chainsaw), Pat Carleton giving the first chair of skiers on Blackcomb a push, Franz Wilhelmsen and Jim McConkey posing at Whistler Mountain with a few others, Late construction stages of Tyrol Lodge, and a kids ski camp on Whistler Mountain.

Negatives 090-126

Photographs of "SKI Whistler Mountain' brochures from Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., duty schedule, correspondence, beach volleyball on the mountain, Pat Carleton launching the first chair at the opening of Blackcomb Mountain, an excavator, portraits, village construction, Rob Boyd, Sid Young, and ski racing.

Negatives 567-573

Photographs of Whistler Mountain employees, and Pat Carleton launching the first chair on the opening day of Blackcomb.