Memoirs written by Jenny Betts (nee Jardine) recounting her life, starting from her birth in 1912 and finishing with entries written in 1982 celebrating Lizzie Neiland's 100th birthday. Jenny recounts her family's many moves, the death of her father, her mother's remarriage to Thomas Neiland, the logging operation and daily life in the Whistler Valley (at Mons, Alpha Lake, 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area], and Nita Lake), the birth of her brothers Robert and Thomas, her Uncle Jim Laidlaw's time in the valley, meeting and marrying Wallace Betts, logging work at the Alaric operation at Parkhurst, tobogganing, raising her children, flooding in the early 1940s, her brothers' service in World War II, the family's time at Port McNeill on Vancouver Island living at a work camp Wallace was working at, her appendicitis operation and hemorrhages which required a blood transfusion from Wallace, Thomas Neiland's passing and the selling of the 34 1/2 Mile property in the 1950s.

After many blank pages, there is an entry from December 19-28, 1981 recounting a large holiday get-together with the extended Jardine family in the Lower Mainland (each couple travelling from several places in BC to join). The following page is an entry written by Jenny on February 22, 1982 describing another large family get-together with the Jardine clan at a nursing home to celebrate Lizzie Neiland's 100th birthday with some champagne.

Photographs of and taken by the Jardine / Neiland family during their time living at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area] between 1920 and 1948.

Series consists of letters, bankruptcy papers, receipts, cheque stubs, postcards, a booklet, and a letter bill relating to the life of the Jardine-Neiland family at Alta Lake, as well as travels abroad. The postcards have been designated as a separate file.

• File 001 - 16 postcards to members of the Jardine-Neiland family from friends and relatives in Europe, the USA and Canada, c. early 1900s-1946.
• 002: letter from Pat O'Neil (in Winnipeg, Manitoba) to Jack Jardine, March 10 1940.
• 003: Function Junction Mill bankruptcy papers.
• 004: receipt from Alex Philip general store, W.O. Betts, February 10 1938.
• 005: receipt from Alex Philip general store, W.O. Betts, March 2 1938.
• 006: letter to Lizzie Neiland from niece Ann (in New Westminster), postmarked February 1931.
• 007: cheque stub, September 27 1938 to mid-1939.
• 008: cheque stub, July 25 to October 26 1939.
• 009: booklet, "Picture Taking with the No. 1A Kodak Junior," owned by Grace Archibald, 1914.
• 010: letter bill, to W.O. Betts from Buckerfield's Ltd., December 24 1937.

Photograph of the Jardine-Neiland family and their property at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area] between 1930 and 1943, featuring many photographs of Bob Jardine.

Photograph of, from left to right: Jenny Jardine; Thomas Neiland Jr; Howard Gebhart; Robert Jardine, and Lizzie Neiland.

The inscription on the verso reads "My mum Lizzie, Bob Jardine, Howard Gebhart, Tom Neiland, Jenny Jardine Neiland Betts, horse Bill 34 1/2 mile [S&Q] Rly Po".

Photograph of Bob and Jenny Jardine with rifles outside their house at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. The inscription on the reverse reads "Bob and Jenny Jardine (Betts) in front of our 34 1/2 mile home being added to, "Lilac trees".