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Capturing the resort's original dreamers and schemers

Item is a Pique Newsmagazine article about the creation of the film "Whistler: From Wilderness to World Class" by the Mature Action Community Society, the Whistler Museum and Archives, and the Whistler Arts Council. The film features interviews with 17 longtime Whistler residents and captures the stories of those who settled in the region in the 1960s and 70s. The article includes a large photograph of Andy Petersen.

Atkinson, Cathryn

Don MacLaurin Personal Documents

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-002
  • Series
  • 1929 - 2010
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Series includes personal records relating to Don MacLaurin and his family. Series includes photographs, correspondence, resumes, wills, legal documents, business cards, membership cards, a map, university course notes, obituaries.

Nature and Whistler Pamphlets Collected by Don MacLaurin

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-042-001
  • File
  • 1960 - 2010
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Pamphlets collected by Don MacLaurin during his lifetime. File includes pamphlets concerning nature, as well as pamphlets specific to Whistler.

Details of each item:
001: Pamphlet titled "Vancouver/Garibaldi" involving the site proposed for the 1976 Olympic Winter Games bid. The text in the pamphlet is written in multiple languages.
002: Map titled "Village & Valley Map & Service Directory" for Whistler from August 2001.
003: Pamphlet titled "Our Whistler: Honouring Our History 25 years" by the Whistler Arts Council from October, 2007.
004: Pamphlet titled "Wild Flowers of British Columbia" presented by Home Oil Distributors Ltd.
005: Pamphlet titled "Whistler Birds 2005" published by Whistler Naturalists Society.
006: Pamphlet titled "Garibaldi's Whistler Mountain British Columbia, Canada". Pamphlet includes an insert with rates for the 1966/1967 ski season.
007: Pamphlet titled "Nature Tours Whistler Eco-Tours" with rates for various tours offered.

Community Input

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-008-031
  • File
  • 1999 - 2004
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Documents concerning community input in the RMOW. The file includes correspondence; survey questions; comment forms; activity charts and data tables. One item of correspondence includes a list of nominations for Legends of Whistler.

Whistler Area Forestry and Tree Nutrition

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-008-020
  • File
  • 1994 - 2002
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Documents concerning forestry in Whistler involving the RMOW. File includes correspondence; notes; draft of a Squamish Forest District Landscape Unit Boundary map and planning information; Interpretive Forest information; active seedlots list; Forest Service recreation sites and trails management information; Forest Development Plan information; timber license information; map of Whistler Cay Heights; document titled "Tree Risk Management and Hazard Assessment: A General Overview"; meeting notes; document titled "Land Title Act: Form 35 (Section 216(1)) Declaration of Building Scheme"; Forestry Information Evening announcement; progressive report titled "Effects of secondary sewage sludge fertilization on soil nutrient status, tree nutrition and growth in Douglas-fir plantations at Whistler, B.C.".

Arbour Day 1991 - 1997

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-005-008
  • File
  • 1991 - 2002
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Documents concerning Arbour Day from August 1991 to 1997. File includes an Arbour Day Tree Deaths chart; an "Arbour Day Sat. May 9th" hand-drawn poster with details on Arbour Day activities; lists of volunteers for Arbour Day between 1991 to 1997; contact information for volunteers; planting group information; diagrams for tree planting; drafts for display panel layouts; correspondence regarding display panels; Don MacLaurin's notes regarding Arbour Day planning and events; Arbour Day management meeting agendas; correspondence regarding Arbour Day plant and site distribution; "thank you" lists; Arbour Day Committee reminders; lists of Arbour Day locations; Arbour Day planting plans; correspondence regarding a carbon off-set program.

Note:
The last page of Item MACLAURIN_2017_011_005_008_003_007 (labelled) had a post-it note reading "Craig Smith Linda [Smith] Meadow Park. Tree Planting James Gord[e]n ph 932 9660".

Thank-You Letters to Don MacLaurin

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-002-010
  • File
  • 1984 - 1999
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

File includes a letter dated June 1997 from J. Mike O'Neill to Don MacLaurin thanking Don for his participation in an International Forestry Tour; a letter dated October 1997 from J. Mike O'Neill to Don MacLaurin regarding monetary compensation and thanking Don for his participation in a Whistler tour; a letter dated August 1998 from J. Mike O'Neill to Don MacLaurin regarding monetary compensation for Don's involvement in an Austrian tour; a letter dated June 1988 from Drew Meredith to Don MacLaurin thanking Don for his efforts as a member of the Forestry Committee; a card dated June 1993 from Myrtle Philip Community School to Don MacLaurin thanking Don for his participation as a tour guide in the Whistler Interpretive Forest for a class, with a photograph of Don talking to the students; a letter dated April 1999 from Dave Waldron at Simon Fraser University to Don MacLaurin thanking Don for his contribution to the Environmental Working Group Workshops; a letter dated June 1991 from Bob Dufour, general manager of Mountain Operations at Whistler Mountain, thanking Don for conducting an introductory training session for summer hosts and awarding Don and Isobel passes for the summer season; a letter dated October 1984 from Trev Roote, Chairman of the Advisory Parks and Recreation Commission, to Don MacLaurin thanking Don for his yeoman service to the Commission.

RMOW Responses to Soo TSA Options Reports

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-015-004
  • File
  • 1990 - 1999
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

File includes correspondence regarding the Soo Timber Supply Area (TSA); notes on the Soo TSA Review; an agenda for an RMOW meeting; 1988 Soo TSA Timber Supply Analysis Information Report.

Note: This file consists of two folders.

Village North: The Vision Becomes the Reality Promotional Flyer

Promotional flyer titled "Village North: The vision becomes the reality!" is a leaflet constructed in a mock-newspaper format that shares concept drawings and construction photos and information about the 'new' Whistler Village north of Village Gate Boulevard. The back page shares perspectives from three of Whistler's past mayors on the project.

Move to new post office

File includes photographs from the 1993 move to the new post office. It includes people presenting, coffee and cake, and group shots of staff.

Captions and people identified in photographs:

  • 001: (right to left) "someone from Canada Post reading", Cecile Valleau (Postmaster), Drew Meredith (Mayor)
  • 002: "Cecile Valleau when we moved into the trailer [where] the fire hall is now."
  • 003: "MOVE TO NEW P.O. 1993." (left to right) Patty Bramfield, Cecile Valleau, Rachel Roberts, Linda Jenkinson, Wilma Kingston, Denise Fairhurst, Kathy Zurcher, Janet MacIntosh, Leslie Roberts, Pixie Sills, Jan Morrison, Lorraine, Heidi Rose.
  • 004: (left to right) Patty Bramfield, Jan Morrison, Linda Jenkinson.
  • 005: (top left to right) Cecile Valleau ("Postmaster"), Janet MacIntosh, Wilma Kingston ; (bottom left to right) Laurie, Patty Bramfield ("Assistant P.M."), Janice Hall.
  • 006: (back left to right) Patty Bramfield ("Assistant P.O."), Cecile Valleau ("Postmaster"), Leslie Roberts ; (middle left to right) Lorraine, Linda Jenkinson, Heidi Rose, Rachelle Roberts ; (front row) Wilma Kingston.
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