A letter from Pat Carleton to the residents of Alta Lake, regarding the upcoming first municipal election which was held in 1975. In this letter, Carleton outlines his plans and focuses if he is to be elected mayor. He many plans to focus on making Whistler a year round resort municipality not just a Winter one.

Photographs including but not limited to Alpine Building at Whistler Mountain; Skiing; Chairlifts; Lodge; Myrtle Philip School; dinner event; Squamish RCMP; T-bar bowl; Red Chair; car accident; Ridge Run; Pat Carleton; logging truck accident; municipal skating rink;
Photographs 040-056 show the Citizen of the Year ceremony with Drew Meredith, Wendy Meredith, Pat Carleton, and Grace McCarthy present.

December 13, 1978 issue:
02-028-20. Pg. 1. Caption: New Whistler Council elect share a joke with Judge S.M. Toy. Alderman Horsey, Judge Toy, Mayor Carleton, Alderman Young, and Alderman Raine. Missing was Alderman Watson.
02-028-11. Pg. 3. Caption: Only at Whistler -- local top-hatted chimney sweep at work in the snow!
02-028-24. Pg. 4. Caption: The new municipal skating rink recently constructed adjacent to the school.
02-028-22. Pg. 8. Caption: New district staff members of the Squamish R.C.M.P. detachment, Cst. C. Doherty and Cst. R.W. Krenz.
02-028-26. Pg. [12] or back cover. Caption: Whistler skiing December, 1978 style. Making a few turns at Rainbow!
December 6, 1978 issue:
02-028-08. Pg. 1. Caption: The T-Bar bowl with the "Little Red" Chair in the foreground. Saturday Dec. 2/78.
02-028-42. Pg. 3. Caption: Municipal 4X4 tries to get motorist out of ditch on Thursday.
02-028-02. Pg. 3. Caption: The new service building on the top of Whistler Mountain. The "Little Red" Chair runs past it.
02-028-06. Pg. 6. Caption: The Rotary Exchange students on the steps of the Roundhouse.
02-028-60. Pg. 8. Caption: All smiles! John Howells (left) receives the Citizen of the Year award from Paul Burrows while Drew Meredith looks on.
Pg. 9-10 are missing.
02-028-37. Pg. 11. Caption: Low cost housing! The Blue Goose now located in Whistler Village!
02-028-43. Pg. 13. Caption: Thursday was not a good day for some! On the left, Squamish Freightways truck tangles with the school sign.
02-028-35. Pg. 13. Caption: While the concrete curbing on the right was taken out by persons unknown early on Thursday morning.
02-028-27+38. Pg. 14. Caption: Mrs. Lawrence presents awards to Shylo Mekerson (left) and Andy Naylor while they proudly display their posters.
02-028-05. Pg. [16] and back cover. Caption: The Way It Is -- View from the Roundhouse looking towards a rather bare Ridge Run on Whistler. Saturday, Dec. 3/1978.

Photographs including but not limited to children in Whistler Village; Whistler Village sign; sunbathing at Rotary Wharf on Alta Lake; baseball; Men's Fast Ball League; water aerials at Alta Lake; football; Pemberton anniversary party
Appears in July 30, 1981 issue:
02-172-95. Pg. 1. Caption: Mayor Shirley Henry presents former Mayor Gordon Sangster with his certificate.
02-172-28. Pg. 4. Caption: [top] Bob Daly, recently of Surrey, has been appointed the new principal for Myrtle Philip Elementary School. Daly has 12 years teaching experience as well as experience as the head of a science department. In addition to his administrative functions, he will be teaching Grades 6 and 7 at MPES.
02-172-15. Pg. 4. Caption: [bottom] Whistler's new Building Inspector, Chris Moore, takes a break in his office from the facts and figures of his job. Moore, a native of Winnipeg and a graduate of Manitoba Institute of Technology in Building Technology, will be replacing Dave Culbard.
02-172-52. Pg. 6. Caption: [top] Flag footballers take advantage of a sunny Sunday to show off some of their moves.
02-172-73. Pg. 6. Caption: [bottom] It's a bird, it's a plane, it's super skier!.
02-172-31. Pg. 7. Caption: [left] Dave Paterson snags an in field pop-up in playoff game against Old Stock.
02-172-40. Pg. 7. Caption: [right] Kenny Hall throws to third baseman Roy Onyschuk (out of picture), Tom Rivett of Old Stock is in the hot box.
02-172-82. Pg. 8. Caption: Teresa Delgado, Carol Fairhurst and Monica Rios pose after the Whistler Rotary lunch.
02-172-77. Pg. 10. Caption: Rain Coast Puppet Theatre group captivates an audience of young and old in Whistler Village Square on July 24.
02-172-24. Pg. 11. Caption: One innovative sunbather found a unique way to bat the heat of Saturday, July 25 at the Rotary Wharf on Alta Lake.
02-172-25. Pg. 13. Caption: Lyall Fetherstonhaugh, and a multitude of sun worshippers, took full advantage of one of the finest days on the summer, Saturday, July 25, to enjoy Alta Lake.
02-172-17. Pg. 14. Caption: Annette Ducharme and Jamie Boyd try out what may be an efficient answer to Whistler's search for viable public transportation.
02-172-18. Pg. 15. Caption: A sunny summer day and lush new landscaping -- Mayor Pat Carleton and his wife Kay take advantage of Whistler at its finest to enjoy a stroll through Town Centre.
02-172-63. Pg. 17. Caption: [top] Diver cuts the water after jumping from the water ramp at Lost Lake.
02-172-64. Pg. 17. Caption: [bottom] [entry into water]
02-172-91. Pg. 18. Caption: Former Mayor Wendell Watson and Mayor Shirley Henry cut the Pemberton Village Anniversary Cake.
02-172-71. Pg. [20]. Caption: [Freestyle Training]

Photographs including but not limited to canoeing Alta Lake; construction; windsurfing; driving; Pat Carleton; restaurant; chefs; music; musicians; Stanley Lake; Daisy Lake; Village Stroll; Stoney's; Whistler Village; birds
02-175-44. Pg. 1. Caption: One of the government's new warning signs posted at Stanley Lake.
02-175-48. Pg. 3. Caption: Picnic site at Daisy Lake -- soon to be one of the many recreational facilities closed by the provincial government.
02-175-9. Pg. 4. Caption: [top] Paving helps smooth things out in the Village entrance
02-175-13. Pg. 4. Caption: [bottom] and Sunshine Place.
02-175-38. Pg. 6. Caption: Ted Nebbeling surveys his new satelitte receiving antenna.
02-175-21. Pg. 8. Caption: [windsurfers]
02-175-22. Pg. 9. Caption: [top] The first Miss Bikini of Whistler, Keli Johnston, 19, of Whistler won herself a crips[sp.] $100 bill in the Mountain House's first bikini contest held July 6.
02-175-14. Pg. 9. Caption: [bottom] Florence Corrigan, Whistler's new pharmacist.
02-175-24. Pg. 10. Caption: SUN! and its followers were out in full force on Sunday, July 5. These found a spotnear Whistler Mountain Lodge.
02-175-16. Pg. 10. Caption: Chef Michel and Pascal of Stoney's [advertisement]
02-175-12. Pg. 13. Caption: [Mayor Pat Carleton] photo repeats in July 16, 1981 issue on pg. 13.
02-175-28. Pg. 15. Caption: Diver leaps from 'swinging tree' at Lost Lake.
02-175-55. Pg. 17. Caption: [top] Jacquie Cherot, Nobby Yashime and Michel Bertholet.
02-175-65. Pg. 17. Caption: [bottom] Never let a government agent get your goose! Doug Wilson of the Fish and Wildlife Branch shows one of the 75 Canada Geese being transferred from Stanley Park to the Pemberton Valley.
02-175-19. Pg. 18. Caption: [top] Stuart McNeill and 16 of his sunny students take to the shade on the first day of Camp Rainshine. McNeill is assisting Susie McCance in supervising the program.
02-175-61. Pg. 18. Caption: [bottom] Looking like the stark rib cage of a whale, the support beams to the roof of the Resort Centre are put in place.
02-175-29. Pg. [20]. Caption: The sunworshippers poured out of the shadows and on-to the wharf of Lost Lake on July 5 to enjoy a bit of Old Sol, whom some believe to be on the endangered species list.

Photographs including but not limited to Opening Ceremonies Men's Downhill 1982; Pat Carleton; Dr. Peter Andrews; Franz Wilhelmsen
Appears in February 25, 1982 issue:

Photographs including but not limited to Pat Carleton; police stopping cars; old limo; portraits

Photographs of Pat Carleton, Sig Young, Al Raine, and others at an event, a woman wearing a Whistler sweater, Florence and Andy Petersen posing for the camera, Sid Young at his desk at Sid's Travel in the early 1980s, and Tony Biggen-Pound sitting on a fence with a woman in front of the Skier's Chapel.

Photographs of the chairman of the Squamish Lillooet Regional District, Slim Fougberg, and Mayor Pat Carleton shaking the hands of Whistler's Aldermen (left to right) Gary Watson, John Hetherington, Al Raine, and (out of camera range) Bob Bishop in 1970, and Minister of Municipal Affairs (NDP), Jim Lorimer, presenting the proclamation of incorporation of the Resort Municipality of Whistler in 1975.

Photographs granted to Janet Love Morrison by Pat Carleton in 1996.

Photographs of Whistler Mountain employees, and Pat Carleton launching the first chair on the opening day of Blackcomb.

Documents concerning community planning for the RMOW. File includes bound copy of the 1976 Whistler Mountain Community Plan Study update; bound copy of the 1981 RMOW Official Community Plan; document from 1975 titled "A Study of the Whistler Community Plan"; information on Memorial Bench/Plaque projects in Whistler; notes; correspondence regarding zoning bylaws.