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Textual materials donated by Louise Smith on August 13, 2020 regarding the history of the Jardine-Neiland and Betts families, including memoirs by her mother, Jenny Betts (nee Jardine), a Christmas card from Grace Archibald to Jenny Jardine dated 1937, and a Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company track tie order for November 22, 1937 addressed to Wallace Betts.

Series consists of letters, bankruptcy papers, receipts, cheque stubs, postcards, a booklet, and a letter bill relating to the life of the Jardine-Neiland family at Alta Lake, as well as travels abroad. The postcards have been designated as a separate file.

• File 001 - 16 postcards to members of the Jardine-Neiland family from friends and relatives in Europe, the USA and Canada, c. early 1900s-1946.
• 002: letter from Pat O'Neil (in Winnipeg, Manitoba) to Jack Jardine, March 10 1940.
• 003: Function Junction Mill bankruptcy papers.
• 004: receipt from Alex Philip general store, W.O. Betts, February 10 1938.
• 005: receipt from Alex Philip general store, W.O. Betts, March 2 1938.
• 006: letter to Lizzie Neiland from niece Ann (in New Westminster), postmarked February 1931.
• 007: cheque stub, September 27 1938 to mid-1939.
• 008: cheque stub, July 25 to October 26 1939.
• 009: booklet, "Picture Taking with the No. 1A Kodak Junior," owned by Grace Archibald, 1914.
• 010: letter bill, to W.O. Betts from Buckerfield's Ltd., December 24 1937.

Materials donated by the Smith family (predominantly Louise Smith (nee Betts)) relating to the Jardine-Neiland and Betts families regarding their time living at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area] between the 1900s and the 1940s. There are also several memoirs detailing the families' lives after their time in the Whistler valley.

A short biography of the family of Jenny Jardine and Wallace Betts and their relation to the Alta Lake Area. It describes how they were presented with a pair of Hudson Bay blankets when they left, as well as their children.

Receipt for $12.05 worth of sugar, milk, and beef from the Alexander Philip general store (at Rainbow Lodge), sold to W.O. Betts on March 2, 1938.

Receipt for $10.95 worth of items from the Alexander Philip general store, sold to W.O. Betts on February 10, 1938. Betts' purchases included flour, sugar, oil, eggs, bacon, beef, butter, yeast, mustard, and an axe handle.