Information Sheet about Mail Delivery
- WA_2016_049-01-022-009
- Item
- [2005]
Part of Gay Cluer Fonds
An information sheet about mail delivery in Alta Lake, including the Pacific Great Eastern railway and the post office located at Rainbow Lodge.
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Information Sheet about Mail Delivery
Part of Gay Cluer Fonds
An information sheet about mail delivery in Alta Lake, including the Pacific Great Eastern railway and the post office located at Rainbow Lodge.
Photographs taken by Dorthy Helmer at Alta Lake in the 1930s. Photographs include staff, visitors, and people visiting or working at Rainbow Lodge.
These names are marked on the back of some of the photographs: "Myrtle Philip", "Gillespie", and "Helmer".
Helmer, Dorothy
The fonds consists of personal papers of Myrtle Philip, including education documents, journals, diaries, banking records, certificates and passports, legal and property records, correspondence, birthday and recipe books, postcards of the Alta Lake/Whistler area, scrapbooks, reference material, and photographs. The photographs depict the Philip family, people (including guests at Rainbow Lodge), events, and scenes of the Whistler area. The fonds includes Alex Philip's manuscripts, as well as records relating to his estate. The fonds also includes records of Rainbow Lodge, including guest registers (1915-1947), a cashbook (1928-1952), employee records (1941-1948), invoices, and receipts.
Philip, Myrtle
Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds
Articles include information on Myrtle and Alex Philip opening Rainbow Lodge, the development of the resort on Blackcomb Mountain, grand hotels at resorts like the Chateau Whistler, driving the Sea to Sky Highway, living in Whistler, summer activities, Bosa Development Corp. building Blackcomb Mountain, how Blackcomb Mountain's previous season went, and development of hotels on Blackcomb Mountain.
Blackcomb Resort Magic Volume 1 Spring 1988
Part of Arv Pellegrin Fonds
The Magic magazine released by Blackcomb Mountain, volume 1, spring 1988.
Table of Contents:
3 The Art of the Grand Resort
5 A Passion for Building
2 The Blackcomb Vision
4 Summer Magic
Articles include information on Myrtle and Alex Philip opening Rainbow Lodge, the development of the resort on Blackcomb Mountain, grand hotels at resorts like the Chateau Whistler, driving the Sea to Sky Highway, living in Whistler, summer activities, Bosa Development Corp. building Blackcomb Mountain, how Blackcomb Mountain's previous season went, and development of hotels on Blackcomb Mountain.
Part of Gay Cluer Fonds
Four sheets of handwritten narrative about 5730 Alta Lake Road, also known as Whispering Leaves. The narrative talks about the successive owners of the property and how the owners came and went form the Whistler area.
"Whistler Mountain through the years" Timeline
Part of Jack Douglass Fonds
Newspaper clipping from the Vancouver Sun including a timeline of "Whistler Mountain through the years." Significant events from the opening of Rainbow Lodge in 1914 to the naming of Whistler as top ski resort in North America in 2015 are listed. The clipping also contains the continuation of an article from page A17 about the history of Whistler. There are two photographs: skiers disembarking a gondola in 1991 and construction work on Whistler Town Centre in 1980.
Vancouver Sun
Part of Mike Hurst Fonds
Whistler-themed magazine, published by Paul Burrows, containing the following articles:
"A Letter From the Editor"
"Whistling Jack"
"A Town in the Making"
"Whistler Village - It's all by Design"
"Whistler Accommodation Guide"
"Reflections on Whistler"
"The Year in Revue"
"Shop Talk"
"Top of the Table"
Whistler Colouring Book by the Whistler Museum
Whistler-themed colouring book created by the Whistler Museum and Archives using traced photographs from the archives featuring prominent Whistler figures and scenes. The book was sold at the Whistler Museum's gift shop and other locations in Whistler Village.
Part of Philip Fonds
Jean Tapley and Myrtle Philip with unidentified man, all with skis. Rainbow Lodge, bridges and mountains in background.