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Resort Municipality of Whistler Newsletters

Two Resort Municipality of Whistler newsletters from February 1979 and March 1981 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 a Garibaldi Lift Company announcement to develop the North Face of Whistler Mountain, the rights to develop Blackcomb Mountain by Fortress Mountain Resorts Ltd, the sod turning ceremony of the Town Core [Whistler Village], announcement for a contract for underground parking, the announcement that Arnold Palmer Enterprises set to design an 18 hole golf course [Whistler Golf Course], the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department, private water systems, the Information Center, thank-yous to council members, welcomes to newly elected council members, highway improvements to the north, subdivision paving, overnight camping, Health Center and ambulance service, efforts to establish an R.C.M.P detachment, establishment of a ski train, television and radio reception, bylaws to control dogs and noise, taxes, establishing a municipal works yard, employee housing, schools, road maintenance, garbage service, zoning, recreational facilities, legal costs, budgets, flooding, gas utilities, Municipal Hall, bus transportation, Sunday shopping, construction, the cemetery, and the Cheakamus River.

Chateau Whistler Construction

Chateau Whistler Resort Construction crew group portrait with construction still underway in the background, Summer [1989?].

Alta Lake School Log Book

A log book detailing the progress of the construction of Alta Lake School. It contains some sketches of the building, measurements, and some photographs of the construction site.

Building Reports

Building reports created by the Department of Public Works of Canada's Building Construction Branch, titled "Specifications for Three Classroom and Activity Room School' by E.A. Gardner, Chief Architect.

Park Signage and White Water Photographs

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-012-002
  • File
  • 1990 - 2010
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

File includes photographs of signage for different parks and trails, including bear awareness signs; photographs of dam construction on Whistler Creek; photographs of water rapids; Photographs were found in an envelope labelled "Don's photos of movie (White Water) plus Signs for Parks".

Slides

Photographs of a Slush Cup with skiers and snowboarders trying to skim across a slushy pond, and various photographs of Whistler Village under early construction in the summer and winter (some with Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains in the background) and include the following buildings: Blackcomb Lodge, Fitzsimmons Lodge, and various buildings around the Village.

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Photographs of an event on the mountain with skiers and tables of food, a photographer taking photos of a ski racer at a start line on Whistler Mountain, skiers on a three-person chairlift as seen from underneath, people canoeing on Alta Lake, a group of skiers climbing up a mountain, Arnold Palmer speaking with someone on Whistler Golf Course, a ski racer on a race course for the Molson World Cup Downhill, the Springs grill and waterslide at night, Whistler Village at night in winter near Fitzsimmons and Blackcomb Lodges, people riding a three-person chairlift in summer, hang gliding equipment in a field with Clocktower Building and Delta Mountain Inn in the background, a wood-chopping and log-climbing competition [Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival?], early construction of Whistler Village, an aerial of early Whistler Village with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, and people playing hockey on a frozen lake.

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