- WA_2016_029
- Fonds
- [c. 1960-1975?]
5 postcards with photographs of Nita Lake and Jordan's Lodge.
5 postcards with photographs of Nita Lake and Jordan's Lodge.
Fonds consists of material related to the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department in the early 1970s; newspaper articles about the ski bum Dag Aabye; maps of the Alta Lake, Emerald Estates, and Alpine Meadows neighbourhoods; and other records relating to Whistler's 20th/21st-century history.
Contents include:
The fonds contains a mixture of brochures and pamphlets related to Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain, as well as ski magazines and guides.
Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain taken by Denes Devenyi and commissioned by Star Weekly Magazine.
Series consists of meeting minutes, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, a report, and a feasibility study relating to the development of Whistler as a ski hill and a residential area in the 1960s. There is a particular focus on Whistler Alpine Villa Ltd., for which Hartland M. MacDougall (donor's father) worked. Also mentioned are the Whistler Skier's Chapel and Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. The items are arranged in the order they were received from the donor.
Slides taken by Gord Leidal showing the original 1964 construction of Highway 99 from Squamish to Pemberton and the landscape around Whistler at that time.
Renate Bareham (nee Ples) Fonds
Skiing ephemera and publications, including:
This fonds record has been transferred from old FileMaker Pro records, and as such, may be missing information and may not entirely adhere to RAD.
Materials created by Walter Zebrowski, including an annotated letter critiquing Bill 130 regarding the creation of the Resort Municipality of Whistler from July 8, 1975.
This fonds contains information for Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. shareholders. It is separated into two separate folders as follows:
Folder 1:
Folder 2:
Issues of Summit mountaineering magazine from the years 1964-1968.