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Photographs

Personal photos belonging to Franz Wilhelmsen, comprising:

Photos from Philip Wilhelmsen’s family album:

  • Franz with Annette and various other people, [1980s-1990s]
  • Franz and Stefan Ples. Caption on verso: “Dad/Stephan[sic] Ples”
  • Franz and another man standing next to a helicopter
  • Black and white photograph. Caption on verso: “Dad & Crown Princess Martha, 1942”

Skiing photographs:

  • Franz skiing with Pierre Trudeau and Jim McConkey [1970s]. Caption on verso: “McConkey/Trudeau/Dad”
  • Four people in skis sitting on a bench, March 1977

Ship photograph:

  • Nitinat. Caption: “Dad’s First Coastal Water Enterprise” [1950s]. The Nitinat was a ship, part of Franz’s first business venture after the war.

Captioned photographs:

  • Four people in skis sitting on a bench. Caption: “ ‘One of the [Lawman] Annie Benches’ – The plank would be raised as the snow deapth [sic] increased. Invented by Annette Wilhelmsen, to the right in her canary suit.”
  • Douglas McKay Brown, Franz Wilhelmsen, Eric Beardmore and Annette Wilhelmsen boarding a train. Caption: “Spring 1961, early morning boarding on P.G.E. Railway for exploring around Alta Lake: Douglas McKay Brown, Vancouver Solicitor, Franz, Eric Beardmore who built the first hotel at Whistler, the Cheakamus Inn, and Annette Wilhelmsen.”
  • The old Stud Sawmill. Caption: “This is what was left of the old stud sawmill in the Valley by 1960.”

Holiday card photographs

Negatives:

  • Early Whistler, 1961-1962
  • Franz Wilhelmsen
  • Boarding the train
  • Standing by a helicopter

Slides

Photographs of a crowd of people watching Rob Boyd on the podium for the 1989 Molson World Cup Downhill, Whistler Village with Delta Mountain Inn/Hilton Whistler Resort and Clocktower Building in winter with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, crowds of people in front of Carleton Lodge with a Canadian flag, Whistler Village seen from Whistler Mountain with wildflowers in the foreground, skiers near a tent for a Molson-sponsored ski race, skiers near Harmony Bowl with Harmony Express Chair, Rob Boyd signing an autograph, a dog dressed in clothing, an interior view of the Meadow Park Sports Centre swimming pool, a scarecrow with a sign pointing to a farmer's market in Whistler, skiers loading onto the Fitzsimmons Chair (up to Blackcomb) where the Excalibur Gondola is today, a train heading through the Cheakamus Canyon with the Cheakamus River below, the Boot Pub with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, skiers on Whistler or Blackcomb Mountain, an aerial view of Whistler Village in winter, early construction of Whistler Village with Whistler Mountain in the background, a helicopter installing a chairlift tower, someone riding a horse in a rodeo [Mt. Currie rodeo?], and Whistler Village in winter including Clocktower Building, Sundial Hotel, and a man talking on an early cell phone.

Captions:
001: "Rob Boyd on podium Whistler World Cup 1989"
007: "ROB BOYD"
009: "Meadow Park Aquatic Centre Whistler, B.C."
010: "Farmers Market, Whistler, BC"
015: "Winter/Whistler Whistler Village Whistler, B.C."

Note that there is a different copyright on item 005 labelled as: 'BRIAN SPROUT © '.

Resort Municipality of Whistler Newsletters

Two Resort Municipality of Whistler newsletters from February 1979 and March 1981 sent to the Alpine Club of Canada Vancouver Section. The issues were read and used by the Section executive of the Club and were previously part of the Section archive.

The newsletters broach subjects including regarding a Garibaldi Lift Company announcement to develop the North Face of Whistler Mountain, the rights to develop Blackcomb Mountain by Fortress Mountain Resorts Ltd, the sod turning ceremony of the Town Core [Whistler Village], announcement for a contract for underground parking, the announcement that Arnold Palmer Enterprises set to design an 18 hole golf course [Whistler Golf Course], the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department, private water systems, the Information Center, thank-yous to council members, welcomes to newly elected council members, highway improvements to the north, subdivision paving, overnight camping, Health Center and ambulance service, efforts to establish an R.C.M.P detachment, establishment of a ski train, television and radio reception, bylaws to control dogs and noise, taxes, establishing a municipal works yard, employee housing, schools, road maintenance, garbage service, zoning, recreational facilities, legal costs, budgets, flooding, gas utilities, Municipal Hall, bus transportation, Sunday shopping, construction, the cemetery, and the Cheakamus River.

Slides

Photographs of aerial shots of a train going through Whistler Valley, aerials of Brandywine Falls, windsurfers in Howe Sound in Squamish, Alta Lake with Whistler Mountain in the background, windsurfers on Alta Lake with Whistler Mountain in the background, Garibaldi Provincial Park with Black Tusk, a music festival in Whistler Village in summer, crowds gathered for Symphony on the Mountain music festival on Blackcomb Mountain near Rendezvous Lodge and Solar Coaster, and Whistler Village in summer near Blackcomb Lodge, St. Andrews House, Fitzsimmons Lodge, and Crystal Lodge.

Captions:
011: "Windsurfing Windsurfing in Squamish,B.C."
013: "WINDSURFING: ALTA LAKE WHISTLER MTN BEHIND"
014: "Summer- British Columbia Alpine Lake"
016: "Music Festival Whistler Village Whistler B.C. JACK DANIELS"
017-019: "Summer Symphony on the Mtn Whistler B.C."
020: "Summer Whistler Village Whistler B.C."

Slides

Photographs of a golfer on Nicklaus North Golf Course with Whistler Mountain in the background, a group of people whitewater rafting, and aerials of a train travelling through Whistler Valley.

Week of February 9, 1984

Photographs including but not limited to portraits; balloons in Whistler Village; Lorne Borgal; snowcat; giant tent; man singing with ski poles in performance; dancing; drinking; homemade plane; windsurfing on frozen lake; Winterfest; Molson World Cup of Downhill; skating; Canadian Pacific Railway; finish hut at World Cup of Downhill; ladder
Appears in February 9, 1984 issue:
02-369-1. Pg. 1. Caption: The craziest new business in town is Cat Balloon, a service that delivers bouquets of balloons to parties, friends and just about anywhere. Debbi Jensen (above right) and Al Fischer started the unique service last week, and on Sunday passed out free balloons to kids in the village. Their balloons are guaranteed to stay aloft 14 hours.
02-369-165. Pg. 3. Caption: [top] Brett Connolly was hard at work last Thursday on Popeye's, a new disco-restaurant planned for the Village Square entrance of Crystal Lodge. Herbert Neimann, principle of the Black Forest, says that Popeye's will have an A liquor licence and have seating for 100 people on three levels. He expects it to be open for World Cup.
02-369-61. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] Winterfest General Manager Brian Moran, left, puts in the first Rotary Club lottery ticket into one of the five kiosks set-up around Whistler as Lindsay Wilson, Rotary Club member, looks on. Along with several bonus draws, luck winner of the lottery will have a dual mountain pass for life. The specially built kiosks have been erected in Village Entrance, Carlton Lodge, Backcomb's Daylodge and on Whistler's Gondola and Roundhouse.
02-369-113. Pg. 5. Caption: Kalman Horvath just can't get enough wind-surfing in during the summer. So the 15-year-old Pemberton High student took there old skates, a piece of plywood and fashioned himself an ice-board.
02-369-115. Pg. 6. Caption: The buzzing noise you may have heard Saturday and Sunday was this ultralight, piloted by its designer Larry Corme of Surrey. The 250 lb. Beaver is powered by a 28 hp motor and was able to take off and land safely on Alta Lake.
02-369-8. Pg. 8. Caption: [left] Gabe Bandel, Computer Technician, Vancouver.
02-369-9. Pg. 8. Caption: [middle] Lexi Spacek, Art Student, Santa Barbara, California.
02-369-12. Pg. 14. Caption: [bottom] Freestyle bump skiers Terri Schlingloff and Brenda Desnoyers moguled their way to medals at an amateur competition at Hemlock Valley Saturday.
02-369-71. Pg. 15. Caption: Stumps was a hoppin' last Tuesday night with its first ever air band contest. Groups of boisterous Whistlerites banded together and play their favourite tunes -- sans instruments and sans vocal chords. The winner, by a country shout, was Billy Idol (aka Jeff Tuttle) who, along with band members Dave Budka, J.D., and Jean Haghi, performed White Wedding. The crowd love's. Runner up was the Superbs, a group organized at the last minute, composed of Val Lang, Shelley Phalanx and Janet (Brillo) Brough. It was a great show but afterward everyone was asking: when's the next one?
02-369-39. Pg. 16. Caption: That funny looking vehicle zipping around Whistler Village last Thursday wasn't your usual all-terrain carrier. IT was a Hagglunds all-terrain carrier developed for the Swedish Army. Now exported throughout the world, the $140,000 vehicle can ford streams, drive at 35 mph on the highway, slog through snow, and generally go anywhere. Driver Dave Brand forded Fitzsimmons Creek last Thursday and the Hagglunds crossed as if it were going over the Prairies.
02-369-182. Pg. 17. Caption: Workmen put the finishing touches on the World Cup Timing shed at the gondola base.

Slides

Photographs of Lost Lake, a sign on Whistler Mountain for 'Whistler Mountain Park' with Black Tusk in the background, a train heading through Cheakamus Canyon, Whistler Village in winter that includes Blackcomb Lodge, Clocktower Building, Sundial Hotel, and Excalibur Gondola; Blackcomb Mountain at night with Whistler Village below, Olivier Roy snowboarding Whistler Peak, Richie Schley skiing Ziggy's Bowl, John Kindree skiing Symphony Bowl, a skier on Whistler Peak making the first tracks with Peak Chair in the background, various skiers on Whistler Peak, John Kindree skiing Harmony Bowl, crowds at the top of Whistler Express Gondola with Whistler Peak in the background, and an aerial view of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains with Whistler Valley, Whistler Village, Alta, Nita, Alpha and Lost Lakes below.

Captions:
001: "Lost Lake Whistler B.C. Canada"
003: "The Whistler Mountaineer Train in Cheakamus Canyon Skier: Duncan McKenzie"
004: "Whistler Village - Winter B.C. Canada"
006: "The Peak Whistler Mtn, BC Canada Snowboarder: Oliver Roy"
007: "Ziggy's Bowl Blackcomb Mountain B.C. Canada Skier:Ritchie Schley"
008-010: "Fresh Snow in Whistler Village Whistler Mtn, BC Canada"
011: "Symphony Bowl Skier: John Kindree Whistler Mtn, BC Canada"
012: "The Peak First tracks Whistler Mtn BC Canada"
014: "Whistler Village at base of Whistler @ Blackcomb Mts"
015, 016: "The Peak Skiers on Ski Run Whistler Mtn BC Canada"
018: "Harmony Bowl Skier; john Kindree Whistler Mtn, BC Canada"
019: "Top of Whistler Gondola & Peak Whistler Mtn, BC Canada"
020: "Winter Aerial Whistler/Blackcomb Feb 27 2007"

Slides

Photographs of Whistler Peak and the West Bowl, aerial photograph of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains and the Whistler Valley, skiers on the 7th Heaven area of Blackcomb, the Inukshuk on Whistler Peak, Olivier Roy snowboarding Flute Bowl with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, the train heading through Cheakamus Canyon, Bryce Phillips skiing the alpine bowls on Whistler Mountain, Richie Schley skiing Whistler Peak, Dan Treadway skiing Whistler backcountry, people heli-skiing on Spearhead Range, John Kindree skiing Harmony Bowl, Harmony Express with skiers on Harmony Bowl underneath, people heli-skiing Whistler Mountain, and Duncan McKenzie skiing Whistler Peak.

Captions:
001: "West Bowl & The Peak Whistler Mountain, BC Canada"
006: "7th Heaven Blackcomb B.C."
007: "Winter Aerial Whistler / Blackcomb Feb 27 2007"
008: "Inukshuk Whistler Peak Whistler Mtn BC Canada"
009: "Flute Peak with Blackcomb Ski [Ru...] Snowboarder: Oliver Roy Whistler Mtn BC Canada"
010: "The Whistler Mountaineer Train in Cheakamus Canyon"
011: "Alpine Bowls Whistler Mtn Skier:Bryce Phillips"
012, 013: "The Peak Whistler Mtn, BC Canada Skier: Ritchie Schley"
014: "The Back Country Whistler Mountain B.C. Canada Skier: Dan Treadway"
015: "Heli-skiing Spearhead Range Whistler B.C."
016: "Harmony Bowl Skier; john Kindree Whistler Mtn, BC Canada"
017: "Harmony Bowl Skiers under Harmony Quad Whistler Mtn, BC Canada"
018: "Heliskiing Whistler"
019: "The Peak Whistler Mountain, BC Canada Skier- Duncan McKenzie"
020: "Inukshuk Whistler Peak Whistler Mtn BC Canada"

Winter and Summer Travel Planners - Whistler Resort Association Promotional Booklets

Four travel planners created by the Whistler Resort Association to promote both Winter and Summer seasons between 1997 and 2000. Three of the planners are from the 1997-2000 Winter seasons, and one is from 1999 promoting the Summer season.

The planners cover topics regarding tourism including, accommodation, shopping, activities, transportation, events and festivals, Whistler Blackcomb, recreation, family services, dining, tours and sightseeing, mountain and valley maps, ski school, après, the Conference Centre, directory listings, packages, reservations, advertiser listings, day trips, golf, fishing, water sports, snow sports, lift tickets, ski area comparisons, ski and snowboard races/competitions, rentals, transportation, and booking services.