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Four Alta Lake Sports Club newsletters from the winters of 1978 and 1979 sent to the Alpine Club of Canada Vancouver Section. The issues were read and used by the Section executive of the Club and were previously part of the Section archive.

The newsletters broach subjects including regarding the Fisher Ski Cup Race event cancellation and rescheduling due to weather, the date and time of the Labatts Tour/Race on the Lost Lake course, the Cariboo Marathon 50km Race from Lac La Hache to 100 Mile House, welcoming new club members, alpine downhill club member Raymond Massey, track preparation and preservation, requests for Lost Lake to be declared a municipal park, revised tour/race schedules, Alta Lake Sports Club membership application, a Labbatts Citizens Ski Tour/Race application form, a re-cap of the Labbatts Tour/Race including weather events and winners, blizzards, snow management, congratulations to a Vancouver Island Nordic Club member, Williams Lake High School Cross Country Championships, Alta Lake Sports Club ski shirts, a plea for the return of lost skis, a help wanted post for the Fisher Ski Races, request for membership dues , thank-yous to supporters of the Alta Lake Sports Club, a re-cap of the Molsons Tour-Race including racers and results, Vancouver and District High School Meet, successes of junior club members, the Vancouver International Marathon, the Bonnie Bell 10 km Woman's Only Race, limericks, BC Winter Games Times Trials, race categories, Mayor Pat Carlton's agreement to stop vehicles from driving on the Lost Lake course, and a suggested by-law, created by the Alta Lake Sports Club, for the preservation of the Lost Lake area.

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).

Three pages of captions for photographs of a pack trail written by Eric L. Johnson in [2017?].

Subseries consists of 3 CDs containing 41 digital photographs of people and events at or related to the Toni Sailer/Dave Murray Summer Ski Camps and Mount Seymour.

Photograph of Eric L. Johnson posing in front of the "Lillooet Trail" [perhaps the Pemberton Trail?] plaque on September 10, 1998 after moving to Seylynn Park in North Vancouver.

Photograph with a full view of the "Lillooet Trail" [perhaps the Pemberton Trail?] plaque in North Vancouver, taken on March 1, 1992.

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.

Letter from Eric L. Johnson to the Whistler Museum from August 17, 2017 with his account of the Whistler Mountain iron mine, penned to fill in gaps of the "Whistler Iron Mine" article written by Sarah Drewery for the Whistler Question newspaper.

Photograph of a plaque on a monument in North Vancouver about the "Lillooet Trail" [perhaps the Pemberton Trail?] from March 1, 1992.

Maps of of the Sea to Sky area, from North Vancouver to Lillooet.