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Rainbow resort

Panorama of Rainbow Lodge with Alta Lake and Wedge & Blackcomb mountains in background.

Alex on Blackcomb Mountain

Alex Philip on top of Blackcomb Mountain in snow. Inscription on verso: "Alex on top of Blackcomb Mt / 1940?"

Mammals of the Alta Lake Region of South-western British Columbia booklet

A booklet entitled "Mammals of the Alta Lake Region of South-western British Columbia" by Kenneth Racey and Ian McTaggart Cowan. The booklet is noted to be "reprinted without change of paging from the report of the Provincial Museum, 1935". Contains a description of the Alta Lake region including weather patterns, vegetation and the surrounding mountains. Provides descriptions of 1-2 paragraphs for each of the 42 mammals present in the Alta Lake region. Also includes five plates of black and white photographs of the landscape in the area.
Pictures are titled as following:
-"Looking south from Mount Overlord, Black Tusk at right, Mount Corrie and Cheakamus Glacier in centre."
-"Looking north from shoulder of Mount Overlord, peak of Overlord and Fitzsimmons Glacier at right, Mount Trorey at left - Hudsonian and Arctic Zones.
-"Nita Lake, altitude 2,100 feet - Canadian Zone coniferous forest".
-"Timber-line in Avalanche (Singing) Pass, looking north; Blackcomb Peak in background across Fitzsimmons Valley."
-"Cheakamus Lake and Glacier."
-"Cheakamus Canyon - Canadian Zone forest, western cedar and western hemlock predominating."
-"Devil's-club in Sitka spruce bottom-land - Canadian Zone."
-"Alta Creek and brushy meadow-land at north end of Alta Lake - brush is willow and red alder."
-"Alta Lake from the west, Wedge Mountain at extreme right."
-"Winter nest of Phenacomys olympicus."
-"Alpine meadow habitat of Phenacomys, Synaptomys, and Microtus richardsoni."

Blackcomb Mountain

Blackcomb Mountain & Wedge Mountain in summer, from across Alta Lake.

Photo of a woman skiing

A magazine clipping showing a photo of an unidentified woman skiing with a short paragraph about resort development in Whistler and some of the attractions available in the area.

Whistler Village Report, Issue Number Two, December 1978 + duplicate

The Whistler Village Report published by Whistler Village from December 1978. Articles are entitled: "Where We've Been ... and Where We're Going," "Joint Government Agreement Gives Whistler $9 Million," "Blackcomb Mountain Development Begins," "Snow Unseasonably Slow at Whistler," "Developments Proceed With Set Schedule," and "New Council Sworn In."

The articles are about the subjects of the history of Whistler as a resort town and the building of Whistler Village, the Whistler Village log, a 9 million dollar grant from the federal and provincial governments for resort development and town planning, the development of Blackcomb Mountain, the unseasonably slow snow, the seasonal schedule for development in Whistler and the new council for the Resort Municipality of Whistler being sworn in.

1 Duplicate.

Whistler Village Pamphlet

A pamphlet for Whistler Village from 1980. One side of the pamphlet shows a drawing of the village from the perspective of Whistler Mountain with skiers in the foreground. The other side of the pamphlet shows a site plan for the village as well as descriptions of what the village will look like and some quick facts about Whistler.

Skiing Magazine September 1980

Skiing magazine for September 1980. Whistler area is only mentioned on pages 26, a description of the construction of Blackcomb Mountain. A few Whistler skiers are also mentioned in various articles, such as Ken Read and Steve Podborski.

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