A photograph of the interior of 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".

Photographs belonging to Ross and Alison Barr documenting their life at Parkhurst sawmill on Green Lake, Whistler. One comic poem about Parkhurst.

Materials collected and donated by Geoff Archer, including postcards dating from 1942 of Joran's Lodge, Whistler Mountain, Alta Lake, and Nita Lake.

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.

Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain in April of 1966, including photographs of Red Chair and T-Bars, a helicopter landing on the ski hill, and views of the Whistler Valley lakes, creeks, and surrounding mountain ranges.

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).

A frame with four photographs spliced together to create a panoramic shot of Alta Lake and the surrounding mountains.

Photographs of the Christiana Inn, the sign for the Christina Inn, and Alta Lake which were taken during a trip to Whistler in June 1971.

Materials created by Adventures West relating to the development of Adventures West Village on the East shore of Alta Lake in Whistler Cay, including maps, planning documents, and promotional material.