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Whistler Public Library card for Alyssa Bruijns from 2017-2021.

Materials regarding Mary Murray's work on the board of the Whistler Museum & Archives.

Files include:
001: Thank-you greeting card celebrating Mary's work on the Whistler Museum's board and her retirement from the board, signed by the WMAS board and staff members.

Poster, created and used by Alyssa Bruijns, reading "We Stand with our Ancient Trees" with silhouettes of trees on each side drawn onto a folded brown paper bag, used as a protest poster during the protests against old-growth logging in BC held at Lorimer Road and Highway 99 in Whistler in Spring, 2021.

Tickets and passes used by Alyssa Bruijns during her time in Whistler (2014-2021), including one monthly bus pass for transit in Whistler, gift certificates for Whistler restaurants, a Moe Joe's membership card, Arts Whistler and Whistler Public Library memberships, an entrance tag for the Audain Museum, a day ticket for Whistler Blackcomb, and a ticket for an event at Tommy's nightclub.

$25 gift card for Three Below Restaurant & Lounge won by Alyssa Bruijns, Tim Mitchell, and Stephanie Derman at a pub trivia held there in 2019. The gift card was not able to be redeemed before the restaurant ceased operations permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

Materials donated by Alyssa Bruijns during her time in Whistler (2014-2021) relating to protests she attended in the Whistler area, including a poster she created and used at the Whistler protest against old-growth logging in BC in Spring, 2021.

Materials donated by Jinny Ladner on behalf of the late Whistler Museum & Archives board member, Mary Murray, just after her passing in 2020. Items include a colour copy of a print showing the top of the chairlifts on Whistler Mountain in 1975 and a thank-you greeting card celebrating Mary's work on the Whistler Museum's board signed by the board and staff members.

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

• Letter 001: References the Whistler Museum exhibit on Cliff Fenner, and shares autobiographical details of his employment as a park ranger in Garibaldi Provincial Park, how he came to Canada, how he met Cliff, and a rough timeline of his activities and jobs in the 1960s.
• Letter 002: Offers to sign a donation form for the Whistler Museum and to translate his diary entries from his time in the Black Tusk area from German to English.
• Letter 003: Elucidation of more specific memories from his time as a park ranger under Cliff Fenner's mentorship, including a trip leading girl guides from Squamish into the park to camp at Taylor Meadows and lyrics to a song the girl guides created about Widmer's role leading the climbing and hiking party.
• Letter 004: Contains explanation of enclosed translated diary entry from 1961 detailing 'The Visit of Judge Wilson' to Garibaldi Provincial Park while Rene Widmer and Dick Bond were rangers there.

Letter from September 25, 2017 thanking Alyssa Bruijns (Whistler Museum's archivist) for her reply and handing over maps and a USB stick with photo files of a trail maintenance project.