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Fenner, Clifford "Cliff" Austin Garibaldi Provincial Park
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Correspondence

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

Rene Widmer

  • WA_2019_040
  • Archief
  • 2019

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

Letters from Rene Widmer to Whistler Museum & Archives

  • WA_2019_040-01-001
  • Bestanddeel
  • 2019
  • Part of Rene Widmer

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

  • Letter 001: References the Whistler Museum exhibit on Cliff Fenner, and shares autobiographical details of his employment as a park ranger in Garibaldi Provincial Park, how he came to Canada, how he met Cliff, and a rough timeline of his activities and jobs in the 1960s.
  • Letter 002: Offers to sign a donation form for the Whistler Museum and to translate his diary entries from his time in the Black Tusk area from German to English.
  • Letter 003: Elucidation of more specific memories from his time as a park ranger under Cliff Fenner's mentorship, including a trip leading girl guides from Squamish into the park to camp at Taylor Meadows and lyrics to a song the girl guides created about Widmer's role leading the climbing and hiking party.
  • Letter 004: Contains explanation of enclosed translated diary entry from 1961 detailing 'The Visit of Judge Wilson' to Garibaldi Provincial Park while Rene Widmer and Dick Bond were rangers there.

Personal Information

Series contains textual documents, slides, and a print related to the life of Clifford Fenner - portraits of him, biographical details, tourist and membership cards, survey results, job details, and obituary.

Cliff Fenner Fonds

  • FEN
  • Archief
  • 1949-2002

Photographs and accompanying notes, correspondence, tests, and invoices taken by Clifford Fenner during his career as Park Supervisor for Garibaldi Provincial Park. Clifford was an avid outdoors explorer, a mountaineer, and a distinguished professional photographer. He was appointed Park Supervisor for Garibaldi Park early in 1953.

Rene and Clifford

Photograph of Clifford Fenner and Rene Widmer in front of a floatplane at Snowcap Lake.
Photograph was previously in wooden frame.

Caption on back: "Snowcap Lake, Rene + self, Sept 1999/20 [20 is scratched out] ?"

Photographs

Series contains glass slides, slides, transparencies, negatives, and a print related to the photography career of Clifford Fenner and his travels across British Columbia and the United States. Most activities and landscapes portrayed are mountaineering and skiing in Garibaldi Provincial Park in which Fenner developed.

Correspondence and Invoices

Correspondence and invoices regarding sale and printing of photographs, potential for the Garibaldi region as an Olympic venue, and the inclusion of Haney in Garibaldi Provincial Park boundary.

Photo Order Notes

File contains documents pertaining to the prices and payment for photographs taken of the regions in BC, Alberta, and the United States. Areas include but are not limited to Garibaldi, Squamish, Pemberton, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, Alaska Highway, Kootenays, Cariboo, the Rocky Mountains, and Idaho. File also contains specific invoices regarding the sale of Garibaldi Park photographs to publisher Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., along with the business card of Marilyn Sack, of Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.

Gallery of Photography Fenner exhibit card

Card from the Gallery of Photography in Vancouver about Clifford Fenner's Color Photography exhibit that ran from February 16 to March 7, 1973. Attached to card is a postcard of one of Fenner's fishing on Garibaldi Lake photographs.

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