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Week of April 11, 1979

Photographs including but not limited to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's visit to Whistler Mountain; Skiing; Winter construction; freestyle skiing; Grouse Mountain Vancouver; the Posie Shoppe
02-014-33 on pg. 1. Caption: Prime Minister Trudeau a the bottom of the Olympic Run after a hard day's ski-ing on Whistler.
02-014-01 appears in April 18, 1979 issue on pg. 10 [L]: Caption: Don't look too closely! Highways crews work on a "suspended" section of the Cheakamus Canyon highway held up by logs.
02-014-26 on pg. 10. Caption: Some of the crumpled railcars and twisted track at the scene of the B.C.R. derailment.
02-014-52 on pg. 12. Caption: Champion Eaves exhibits fine form during the Labatt's World Cup Freestyle Aerials at Grouse.
02-014-10 on pg. 17. Caption: Highlands Mall and the Highlander Hotel as seen from the new Highway #99.
02-014-46 on pg. 20. Caption: The interior of the Highlands Mall showing the tropical plants in the mall itself.

Week of July 20, 1981

Photographs including but not limited to baseball; Men's Fast Ball League; car accidents; Rotary Club; Whistler Mountain Chamber of Commerce; railway tracks; helicopters; skiing from the peak; mountain views; town planning; band; musicians playing a show; construction
Appears in July 23, 1981 issue:
02-173-101. Pg. 1. Caption: [top] Model of the re-designed Day Lodge, presented during the public hearing for permit approval.
02-173-119. Pg. 1. Caption: [bottom] Earl Hansen, new Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Whistler Resort Association.
02-173-33. Pg. 3. Caption: Whistler Village parking! Wagon misses the parking lot on Wednesday evening. ending up in the newly landscaped garden.
02-173-46. Pg. 4. Caption: [top] The remainder of Janice Pidhiri's 1981 Toyota pick-up. Pidhiri was driving the vehicle along Westside Road at 12:30 am on July 15 when it went off a curve. Her passengers Donna McCaw of Elora, Ont. and Stephen Jones of Whistler suffered minor head injuries.
02-173-121. Pg 4. Caption: [bottom] Constable Brian Sowden -- the newest addition to Whistler's RCMP. Const. Sowden originally from Whitehorse, has transferred here from the Squamish detachment where he had been stationed for the past eight months. Const. Sowden says he 'skis on three kinds of skis' and is interested in all kinds of sports.
02-173-32. Pg. 6. Caption: [top] Bob Dawson and Neil Mawdsley unsuccessfully try to get a fly ball.
02-173-48. Pg. 8. Caption: [top] Herb and Jean Hepburn of Okanagan Produce, Vernon, managed to get in a few fruit sales before being asked to leave by municipal authorities.
02-173-116. Pg 8. Caption: [bottom] Chris Green, Laura d'Artois and J.G. Luckhurst at the Fireplace Inn opening party.
02-173-104 Pg. 9. Caption: And here he is! The mysterious Mr. B.A. Bell of Whistler slowly unpeels his talent -- much to the giggles and appreciation of his audience at the first Jock Contest held at Mountain House, July 20. With competition from Fast Eddie and Schultz, things looked mighty tough -- but then Peter Lamare took the floor and the $100 first prize.
02-173-45. Pg. 10. Caption: Rotary president Bob Brown is flanked by outgoing exchange students Susan Van Der Lee (left) and Allison Alder.
02-173-108. Pg. 11. Caption: Annette Ducharme, accompanied by Jamie Boyd, strummed out many a fine tune at JB's July 16-20 while Betsy Chaba took a temporary leave to entertain folks at the Folk Festival in Vancouver.
02-173-55. Pg. 14. Caption: Crews replace railroad crossing on the highway by the Whistler Industrial Park.
02-173-100. Pg. 16. Caption: Bruno Freschi, architect for the Day Lodge, points out recent changes to the building.

B+W Dune

Photographs of a speeder on railway tracks, the Pacific Great Eastern train, Nita Lake, Jordan's Lodge, the Toad Hall back door covered with snow, the Toad Hall woodshed, Whistler Mountain, a stove at Toad Hall called 'Master Climax', and a bear eating garbage.

Whistler

Photographs of Whistler Mountain, snow-covered trees, a man riding a bicycle next to the Pacific Great Eastern train tracks .

Snowy Whistler 2

Photographs of railway workers shovelling out a railway switch with a speeder in background, the frozen Alta Lake, Wedge Mountain, Red Chair overlooking [Tokum Corners], and skiing on Whistler Mountain.

Transparencies 001-003

Photographs of children sitting on a rail cart, Whistler Mountain officials showing Prince Philip a model of Whistler Mountain, and men giving a speech.

Slides

Photographs taken by Clifford Fenner from his work in Garibaldi Provincial Park and his travels in British Columbia, the United States, and Colombia.

Photo Envelopes

Photographs including but not limited to construction of Town Hall, squatters at Jordan's Lodge, kayaking, Ski Patrol, the Pemberton rodeo, flood damage, skiing on Whistler Mountain, hang-gliding, Gelandesprung ski jump contest, competitive downhill ski races, recreational skiing, Tokum Corners, Toad Hall, windsurfing on Alta Lake, canoeing and kayaking on the River of Golden Dreams and Alta Lake, the avalauncher gun, avalanche control, the Pacific Great Eastern train, train tracks, maintenance, and during a snowstorm, fishing on Alta Lake, Gondola Barn in Creekside, chairlifts on Whistler Mountain, Roundhouse, Nancy Greene Summer Ski School, Molson World Cup Downhill 1984, landscapes of Whistler, Pemberton, Mount Currie Rodeo, salmon-smoking, and parties at Jordan's Lodge on Nita Lake.

Prints 090-112

Photographs given to Janet Love Morrison by Intrawest.

Photographs of Franz Wilhelmsen skiing with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Summer Camp ski pass, Whistler Village in the midst of construction from Whistler Mountain, a ski school group photo with children posing with Willie Whistler, Garibaldi Olympic Development Association (GODA) notice of annual general meeting form 1966, Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Subscription Agreement, a letter from Franz Wilhelmsen to Florence Strachan notifying the sending of the Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Subscription Agreement, a flyer about Jim McConkey and Bob Dufour's Garibaldi Ski School, a group of children in ski school with their instructor, a baby on skis, a group photo of Yosemite Ski School from Winter 1948 (including, from left to right, Bob Berelsford, Ross Moore, Norm Palmer, Jim McConkey, Chuck Freshwater, Nic Fiore, Tony Freitas, Bill Cahow, and Luggi Foeger), Alta Lake train station on the PGE, Myrtle Philip in her elder years walking with Gary Watson, a sign on Whistler Mountain listing the town services in the 1970s [post-it reading "For Sure"], Roundhouse, Eric Beardmore and the Woodward family skiing Whistler Mountain, Jim McConkey skiing Whistler Mountain, the front cover of the September/October 1963 issue of Skier Magazine showing Willy Schaeffler and Franz Wilhelmsen inspecting the mountain, skiers posing, Whistler T-bar, skiers from Garibaldi Ski School posing for a portrait, children posing with their instructor, and a woman from Ski Patrol.

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