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Fairmont Chateau Fonds

  • WA_2018_040
  • Fonds
  • 1987-1993

Scrapbook containing newspaper/magazine clippings, photographs, brochures, and other material relating to the development, opening, and activities of the Fairmont Chateau resort. Other articles relate to Blackcomb Mountain, Whistler Village, and Whistler in general.

Sabre Group

  • WA_2018_031
  • Fonds
  • 1979-1998

Materials created by the Sabre Group of companies originally owned by Art de Duyf, including Sabre Excavation and Sabre Rentals. Includes photographs of Whistler Village development taken by Sabre Excavation between 1979 and 1998.

Julie Gallagher Fonds

  • WA_2018_022
  • Fonds
  • 1965

Fonds consists of a page advertising Garibaldi Ski Development at Whistler Mountain for the 1965/66 season. Includes a brief description of the runs, lifts, rates, and facilities at Whistler Mountain; four black-and-white drawings and photographs; advertisements for Cheakamus Inn and Highland Lodge; and information on travelling from Vancouver, including a map. Reprinted from a skiing guidebook.

Sonya McCarthy

  • WA_2018_021
  • Fonds
  • 1980-1996

Material donated by Sonya McCarthy gathered from her time as Alderman on the Municipal Council (RMOW), working for the Whistler Area Information Office, doing community work, and from Whistler Mountain. Documents include personal files, correspondence, pamphlets, posters, maps, and other promotional material regarding events, planning, accommodation, and services in the Whistler area from 1980 to 1996.

Ron Dart Fonds

  • WA_2018_020
  • Fonds
  • October 7, 2017

Memorial booklet about Richard (Dick) Revis Culbert (1940-2017), a B.C. mountaineer, author, poet, geologist, geophysicist, activist and photographer. The booklet was printed for his memorial gathering held at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum (University of British Columbia) on October 7, 2017.

Bryan Vogler

  • WA_2018_017
  • Fonds
  • 2003-2006

Fonds consists of two letters representing the proposal that started the Whistler Express train, in which donor (Bryan Vogler) played a role. The proposal was a bid process between VIA Rail and the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Group; the Rocky Mountaineer was ultimately successful. The letters talk of the necessity of developing a Commuter Rail Service to facilitate tourist transportation between Whistler, Squamish, and North Vancouver.

Contents include:

  • VOG_001: Letter, Dena Coward (Manager of Transportation & Paralympics) to Peter Milburn (Executive Project Director, Ministry of Transportation, Sea to Sky Project Office) cc Bryan Vogler, February 6 2003.
  • VOG_002: Letter, Bryan Vogler to Peter Milburn, May 11 2006 (2 pages).

Dave Clement Fonds

  • WA_2018_016
  • Fonds
  • 1987

Fonds consists of postcards, posters, and a magazine relating to the Saudan Couloir ski run and race, donated by Dave "Doctor Damage" Clement.

001-002: 2 postcards: Saudan Couloir, Experts Only.
003: Action Magazine, Spring ’87, containing an article on the Saudan Couloir race.
004-005: 2 posters: Saudan Couloir Descente, April 18 1987 ski race extreme, Blackcomb Mountain.

MacDougall fonds

  • WA_2018_015
  • Fonds
  • [1962?]-1968

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.

  • MACDOUG_001: Meeting minutes of “informal meeting of the pro-tem Directors of Whistler Alpine Villa Limited,” November 19 1965, with attached letter from Michael Doyle (Whistler Alpine Villa Limited Secretary Pro-Tem) to Mr. Roy B. Jacobson of Whistler Development Co. Ltd. (November 22 1965) and list of Pro-Tem Directors (6 pages).
  • MACDOUG_002: Newspaper article, “Garibaldi: Blueprint for the future,” The Lions Gate Times, January 16 1964.
  • MACDOUG_003: Newspaper or magazine clipping, “HOMES, January 1968, a section of the Canadian,” with image of mountain townhouses on front and Q & A on the back.
  • MACDOUG_004: Newspaper article, “Work Starts Garibaldi Ski Resort,” reprinted from Journal of Commerce Weekly, June 12 1965.
  • MACDOUG_005: Magazine article, “Town house in the mountains: there’s a 5,000-foot ski run at the front door.”
  • MACDOUG_006: Newspaper clipping, photograph of four men (John Fraser, Michael Doyle, A.J. Forster, Hartland MacDougall) with skis, regarding the construction of the Whistler Skier’s Chapel. The Province, Saturday June 25, 1966.
  • MACDOUG_007: Letter from Whistler Alpine Villa Ltd. directors to shareholders, regarding fire of December 19 1965, dated December 22 1965.
  • MACDOUG_008: President’s Report to Shareholders, Whistler Alpine Villa Limited, November 25 1965 (4 pages).
  • MACDOUG_009: Photocopy of telegram from E. F. Bosiger to Head Office, Montreal P.Q., DGM Vancouver, regarding nomination of H. M. MacDougall as Director of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., May 6 1963.
  • MACDOUG_010: Photocopy of letter from J. B. Lesslie to Bank of Montreal Superintendent of Staff, regarding nomination of H. M. MacDougall as Director of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., May 2 1963 (2 pages).
  • MACDOUG_011: Letter, H. M. MacDougall to Franz Wilhelmsen, declining nomination as Director of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., May 8 1963.
  • MACDOUG_012: Memorandum from H. M. MacDougall to G. O. Vandervoort, Esq., regarding Whistler Skiers’ Chapel, June 29 1966.
  • MACDOUG_013: Mount Whistler Feasibility Study by Willy Schaeffler, Ski Area Consultant, c. 1962 (10 pages).

Werner Himmelsbach Fonds

  • WA_2018_013
  • Fonds
  • 1970

Photograph of a gothic-arch mountain hut in the mountains above Britannia Beach on its opening weekend, October 1970. The photo shows a Gothic arch-style hut with an orange front, withblue doors and two people in front of it.

A. Clausen

  • WA_2018_006
  • Fonds
  • 1975

Fonds consists of two colour photographs of skiers on Whistler Mountain in 1975.

01_001: 1 photo of Melanie and Craig Clausen, [1975?].
01_002: 1 photo of Melanie Clausen and Nancy Greene Raine, 1975.

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