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Various newspaper clippings from newspapers such as the Whistler question, which relate to aviation in the Whistler Valley. Many of the articles are about heli-skiing, aerial search and rescue, aircraft accidents, and aerial photography/reconnaissance.

Minutebook for meetings of the Alta Lake Community Club from 1951-1985. Subjects discussed include holiday parties and dances, the purchasing of a projector, hosting films, Girl Guides and Cubs, memorial benches, the purchasing of a snowplow, logging, moving the Alta Lake School flagpole, fire safety, postal service, roads, Robbie Burns Night, fishing derbies, art lessons, theatre, Myrtle Philip's birthday, the Squamish Youth Choral, Blackcomb Ski Club, Rainbow Mountain ski hill, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, TV's coming to the Whistler valley, building the Whistler Mountain Ski Club building, the formation of a ski club, the Mountain Rescue Group, Mount Whistler Lodge, Alta Lake Ratepayers Association, building a new school, physical education classes on the mountain, Cypress Lodge, donation to the Garibaldi Olympic Development Association, Highland Lodge, the Logger's Sports Day Parade, seasons passes for children, square-dancing, and badminton.

Series contains records concerning the Alta Lake District Ratepayers Association (ALDRA). Series contains meeting notes, minutes, notices, and announcement flyers; ALDRA booklets; district map; ALDRA news files; correspondence; membership contact and payment information; a fire protection report.

Four Alta Lake Sports Club newsletters from the winters of 1978 and 1979 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 the Fisher Ski Cup Race event cancellation and rescheduling due to weather, the date and time of the Labatts Tour/Race on the Lost Lake course, the Cariboo Marathon 50km Race from Lac La Hache to 100 Mile House, welcoming new club members, alpine downhill club member Raymond Massey, track preparation and preservation, requests for Lost Lake to be declared a municipal park, revised tour/race schedules, Alta Lake Sports Club membership application, a Labbatts Citizens Ski Tour/Race application form, a re-cap of the Labbatts Tour/Race including weather events and winners, blizzards, snow management, congratulations to a Vancouver Island Nordic Club member, Williams Lake High School Cross Country Championships, Alta Lake Sports Club ski shirts, a plea for the return of lost skis, a help wanted post for the Fisher Ski Races, request for membership dues , thank-yous to supporters of the Alta Lake Sports Club, a re-cap of the Molsons Tour-Race including racers and results, Vancouver and District High School Meet, successes of junior club members, the Vancouver International Marathon, the Bonnie Bell 10 km Woman's Only Race, limericks, BC Winter Games Times Trials, race categories, Mayor Pat Carlton's agreement to stop vehicles from driving on the Lost Lake course, and a suggested by-law, created by the Alta Lake Sports Club, for the preservation of the Lost Lake area.

Draw entry answer by Cliff Jennings for the Whistler Museum event "Whistler's Mountain Identity [...]". In response to the question "What would you like to say about the past, present, and future of Whistler's Mountain Identity?" Cliff responded:

"Past: Wild West
Present: Disneyland
Future: New Mother Corp.[oration]"

Documents concerning the 2004 Legends of Whistler nominations. File includes filled out nomination forms; correspondence regarding the Legends of Whistler.

The Molson World Downhill (Whistler Mountain, February 27, 1982) magazine.
Table of Contents:
2 Canadian Alpine Ski Team
3 Premier's Message
4 Mr. Eric Molson's Message, Dr. Peter Andrew's Message
6 Acknowledgements
8 Organizing Committee, World Cup Rules, Schedule of Events
10-11 World Cup to Date
13 Competitors Picture Page
15 Ken Read Story, "This is Whistler" Section
18 The Course
20 1981 Final World Cup Standings
22 Skiing for Medals, National Team Coach John Ritchie
26 The Competitors
28 Race Results Chart
28 How to Watch the Race

Includes information on the story of the World Cup Race, the World Cup rules, the Schedule of Events, past World Cup results, the top competitors, an article on the resort town of Whistler, and article on downhill skiing by Ken Read, map of the course, an article about Molson skiing and information about how and where to watch the race.

Photographs of various ski action shots and portraits of unidentified people.

The man in photograph 3 has been identified as Steve Podborski. The man in photograph 6 has been identified as Cliff Jennings.

Documents concerning fish counting data in Whistler. The file includes Whistler Area Creeks Trapping Data forms; correspondence regarding environmental reviews; fish collecting permits and permit information; hand drawn map sketches; fish migration data summary charts; a Bare Land Strata Plan of select lots; two floppy disks.

Note:
The first floppy disk is labelled:
"Nov 21.95 Fish Data (Raw)
RMOW Parks
21 Mile Creek
R of Golden Dreams
Crabapple Creek.
Disk 1/2".

The second floppy disk is labelled:
Nov 21.95 RMOW Parks.
Fish Data
Raw Consolidated
Fishmdb.XLS from database.
Disk 2/2".
The second floppy disk also has a post-it note reading "Date from Aug Crabapple Creek missing from Fishmdb.XLS".

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.".