Documents, photographs, films, and other graphic material relating to the career, accomplishments, interests, and family life of Franz Wilhelmsen, including:

• Awards and honours he received
• Organizations and Corporations he ran or was involved with
• Personal photographs
• Newspapers and magazine articles
• Personal and professional correspondence
• VHS Videos

The fonds consists of constitution and bylaws, incorporation records, minutes, correspondence, banking records, membership lists, circulars, and reference material (including rules of the game of ice stock sliding).

Folder 1 - Whistler Ice Stock Club Constitution (1977).
Folder 2 - Whistler Ice Stock Club Minutes.
Folder 3 - Whistler Ice Stock Club Correspondence (1976 to 1981).
Folder 4 - Whistler Ice Stock Club Lists.
Folder 5 - Ice Stock Canada Newsletters, Ephemera

Photographs including but not limited to firefighting; skiing; hot air balloons; eating at a restaurant; ski racing; portraits; band playing; Volunteer Fire Dept.; drinking; Celebrity Invitational; Keg Challenge; High School Cross-Country Championships; Alta Lake Sports Club
Appears in February 14, 1985 issue:
02-378-17. Pg. 1. Caption: [top] For five and a half hours Saturday, volunteer firemen battled a condominium blaze that swept between walls. Six units were lost. Then Monday, fire broke out again nearby at the Baxter project. See story page 3.
02-378-23. Pg. 2. Caption: Firemen and residents were able to rescue some possessions from burning condos at Alpine Village Saturday, but losses were heavy and by the next day insurance investigators were already on the scene.
02-378-57. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] Whistler Mountain created a new sport Saturday: Gondola stuffing. The kids' team stuffed the most bodies into the gondola with 27, while the counterweights (a minimum of 200 lbs. each) could only manage nine.
02-378-84. Pg. 12. Caption: Whistler cross-country skier Jodi Rusted poles around a sharp corner during a fun relay race held to cap off the B.C. High School Cross-Country Championships held Saturday.
02-378-87. Pg. 13. Caption: Mike Davidson of the Alta Lake Sports Club will even spend time in the brig if it means hanging onto his hobby cannons. The one-pounder above was made by Great West Cannon Co. of Granville Island and is authentic in size and workmanship to the original. Davidson says. It was often hoisted into a ship's rigging and used to fire nails and other shrapnel at the enemy. Davidson uses the cannon to proclaim the open various sporting events but two years ago found himself in RCMP lock-up for four hours when a policeman arrested him for discharging a firearm in the municipality. But it's all in good fund, and the only thing fired is paper.
02-378-80. Pg. 20. Caption: [top left] Seppo Making, Logger (logged first ski runs), Nesters.

Photographs of a Whistler Mountain Staff pass for Stefan Ples and a Whistler Mountain trail map sign.

Photographs including but not limited to Fire Hall; RCMP; Pat Carleton; town planning; Construction; village planning
02-117-22. Pg. 1. Caption: Crowds and officials bask in the sun shine during Mayor Carleton's address at the Public Safety Building. Left to right Sgt. Stan Nowicki, RCMP, Cpl. Hurt, RCMP (finance); Tom Robertson, RCMP; Mr. Ayers, B.C. Ambulance Service; Lindsay Wilson, Whistler Fire Chief; Assistant Commissioner RCMP 'E' district, Hank Jensen, RCMP; Mayor Carleton; Larry Bell, Deputy Minister of Lands, Parks and Housing; Cpl. Neal Davidge, RCMP; Const. A.J. Rybka, RCMP.
02-117-51. Pg. 3. Caption: Pumps are at work in these vertical culverts to keep the water table down at the site of the Resort Centre excavation during the spring runoff.
02-117-31. Pg. 4. Caption: Cpl. Neal Davidge, RCMP Whistler receives a small plaque for RCMP's rack commemorating the opening of the Public Safety Building from Mayor Pat Carleton. RCMP's staff Sgt. Stan Nowicki and Cpl. Hurt look on.
02-117-53. Pg. 5. Caption: Stefan Ples, long-time resident of Whistler, receives lifetime passed from Garibaldi Lifts President Franz Wilhelmsen in recognition of his long involvement with Whistler.
02-117-48. Pg. 7. Caption: Lonely toilet stands ready to serve Parcel 16, not 15 as shown, in the Town Centre. See centre spread for more Town Centre news.
02-117-2. Pg. 9. Caption: The Bears have returned to the dumps! Yearlings are quickly learning the ins and outs of the new bins and lend a helping paw to the crows everyday in the Rubbish-spreading department.
02-117-15, 14, 13. Pg. 10-11. Caption: Mountainside Lodge, Package 16, Inn at the Keg.
02-117-55. Pg. 14. Caption: B.J. Cooper and Pauline LePatourel of the Whistler Question staff kick-off the Pitch-In clean-up campaign for Whistler.
02-117-11. Pg. [20] or back cover. Caption: Construction City 1980. Piledriver towers over Resort Centre at town centre site as spring-summer construction picks up pace. Workers began flooding into the Valley this week as new town centre packages began.

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

Photographs of the dedication ceremony of “Franz’ Run” (a ski run on Whistler Mountain) in honour of Franz Wilhelmsen, December 10, 1983, as well as a Whistler Blackcomb brochure announcing, among other things, the installation of Franz's Chair, and a draft letter from Franz Wilhelmsen responding to the honour from April 2, 1998.

Whistler-themed magazine, published by Paul Burrows, containing the following articles:
"A Letter From the Editor"
"Whistling Jack"
"A Town in the Making"
"Whistler Village - It's all by Design"
"Whistler Accommodation Guide"
"Reflections on Whistler"
"The Year in Revue"
"Shop Talk"
"Top of the Table"

Photographs taken by Brian Sprout and Paul Morrison depicting Franz Wilhelmsen, Jim Conkey, Dave Murray, Stefan Ples, and performances.

Personal photographs belonging to Franz Wilhelmsen