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General Information

Information sheets used to create the book entitled "The History of Alta Lake Road" by Florence Petersen. The information sheets are about things common to all residents such as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and Mail Delivery. Also included are some information pages about more than one lot and their owners.

RMOW Certificate to Florence Petersen

A framed certificate from the RMOW to Florence Petersen, which grants Florence Petersen the honour of freedom of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, for her outstanding contribution and tireless service to the ResortMunicipality of Whistler, signed by Nancy Wilhelm-Morden, the Mayor at the time

2004 Prints

Photographs of the 2004 Whistler Blackcomb Barbecue for longtime passholders, a tent being set up for an insurance convention at Rainbow Park, Whistler Mountain as seen from the Bridge of Sighs at Rainbow Park, Mount Currie, Mount Weart, and Armchair Mountain as seen from Rainbow Park, Wedge Mountain as seen from the Bridge of Sighs at Rainbow Park, the 2004 Canada Day parade in Whistler Village, and the exhibit launch of 'Faces + Spaces' at the Whistler Museum.

Captions:
001-002: "June 6/04 at Roundhouse Top of Whistler Mt. for Wh/Blck. BBQ for longtime passholders"
001: "Don + Izzy MacLaurin - Mercie"
002: "Gordon Marshall, Florence Petersen, Frank + _ Wohlgemuth"
003-007: "May 29/04 Rainbow Park"
003-004: "Large tent set up for INSURANCE CONVENTION"
005: "Whistler Mt."
006: "Mt. Currie, Weart + a bit of Armchair Mt."
007: "Wedge Mt."
008-024: "July 1/04 Canada Day Parade Entries"
008: "Cpt Dave Smith on 'Justice' led the Parade"
009: "Diversity"
010: "Dog Groomers"
011: "Black Tusk Pipe Band"
012: "Mayor Hugh O'Reilly in 'hybrid' car"
013: "?"
014: "Garden Group (Community Winner)"
015: "2010"
016: "Croatian Group (were in Vanc[ouver] on tour)"
017: "Philippino-Canadian Group"
018: "Buffalo Bills (Best Commercial entry)"
019: "Reynolds Marching Band from Victoria (come every year)"
020: "Hybrid Technology"
021: "'Pique' Pedal Power"
022: "Horse + Carriage Tours"
023: "'Birthday Cake'"
024: "Whistler Children's Choir (sang O-Canada)"
025-029: "Sept. 10/04 Launch of Photos 'Faces + Spaces'"
025: "Band man ____
[Kostaman]"
026: "Ellen Bartlett Izzy MacLaurin"
027: "_
_ , Isobel MacLaurin, __"
028: "Ellen Bartlett Karen Overgaard Kris Shoup"
029: "Band + [Kostaman]"

Greeting card addressed to Florence [Petersen] & Elaine

Accession number: WA_2016_001_02_03
Greeting card from Fernand [Desroches, owner of Myrtle's Restaurant] to Florence [Petersen] and Elaine [?]. The card, which has balloons on the cover, reads:
Cover: "You're leaving... and we hope that your days will be as good as your daydreams. We want you to know that we will miss you very much."
Cover verso: "In remembrance of Myrtle's 100th birthday Fernand would like to invite you for dinner on Tuesday, March 19th at 6:30pm ~ Reservations have been made and we look forward to hosting you and your spouces [sic - spouses], Andy + Bill ~ This is our special 'thank you' for your years of dedication to the Museum + Archives Society ~"
Back recto: "Florence + Elaine ~ Think about us often. Will be thinking about you. Good Luck! Fernand + Staff" ["Owner of Myrtle's Restaurant" written at the bottom in pencil at a later date]

Prints 007-009

Photographs of Florence and Andy Petersen, two workmen building a wooden structure, and a young girl standing in a boat with the railway line behind her.

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.

Prints 010-013

Photographs of Florence and Andy Petersen (duplicate of 007), a group of women at Witsend house from December 1955 [Caption reads "Jacquie Pope, June (Tidbull) Collins, Betty (Gray) Atkinson, Florence (Strachan) Petersen, and Eunice ("Kelly" Forster) Fairhurst." Name of house is written in pen on the photograph], a small group of people on the shore of Green Lake with a boat [Caption reads: "April 30, 1966"], and a group of adults and children sitting on a porch [Caption reads: "August 1955"].

Florence Petersen

Photographs taken by volunteer Florence Petersen for a Whistler Museum and Archives exhibit entitled 'Picturing Whistler: Local Faces, Local Spaces'. Volunteers were asked to 'take photographs of people, places, events and phenomena or anything else that you consider to be essentially 'local' in Whistler'.

Museum Photos 2001

Photographs of school field trip at the Whistler Museum and Archives and Halloween party at the Old Spaghetti Factory with museum staff and friends.
Caption on envelope:
"Museum 2001"
Negatives duplicates of photographs; some prints missing.

011: Closing of the Boot Pub, 2006. From left to right: Shirley Langtry, 'Elvis', and Florence Petersen.

Prints 045-050

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.

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