Photographs of Rainbow Lodge and Alta Lake

Minutebook for meetings of the Alta Lake Community Club from 1951-1985. Subjects discussed include holiday parties and dances, the purchasing of a projector, hosting films, Girl Guides and Cubs, memorial benches, the purchasing of a snowplow, logging, moving the Alta Lake School flagpole, fire safety, postal service, roads, Robbie Burns Night, fishing derbies, art lessons, theatre, Myrtle Philip's birthday, the Squamish Youth Choral, Blackcomb Ski Club, Rainbow Mountain ski hill, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, TV's coming to the Whistler valley, building the Whistler Mountain Ski Club building, the formation of a ski club, the Mountain Rescue Group, Mount Whistler Lodge, Alta Lake Ratepayers Association, building a new school, physical education classes on the mountain, Cypress Lodge, donation to the Garibaldi Olympic Development Association, Highland Lodge, the Logger's Sports Day Parade, seasons passes for children, square-dancing, and badminton.

Series includes photographs regarding forestry and tree management; forestry tours; consulting projects Don MacLaurin was involved in; Whistler Interpretive Forest informative and trail signs; Bear Awareness signs; photographs related to Don MacLaurin's ABCPF [sic] thesis; photographs of the Whistler golf course; construction of the Whistler Creek dam; construction; photographs of vegetation and flowering plants; photographs related to an Environmentalists' conference.

Photographs of various locations and people in Whistler in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Photographs depicting various locations and people from the Whistler area in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Photographs of Florence and Andy Petersen (duplicate of 007), a group of women at Witsend house from December 1955 [Caption reads "Jacquie Pope, June (Tidbull) Collins, Betty (Gray) Atkinson, Florence (Strachan) Petersen, and Eunice ("Kelly" Forster) Fairhurst." Name of house is written in pen on the photograph], a small group of people on the shore of Green Lake with a boat [Caption reads: "April 30, 1966"], and a group of adults and children sitting on a porch [Caption reads: "August 1955"].

Photographs of Florence and Andy Petersen, two workmen building a wooden structure, and a young girl standing in a boat with the railway line behind her.

File includes photographs and negatives of "Loon Lake Camp, UBC Forest"; envelopes with details regarding subjects in photographs; photographs of a tree house on "Pine Point"; photographs of tree topping on Texada Island; forestry photo negatives from Florence Petersen.

Notes:
Items 002 - 003 were found in Item 001.
Items 005 - 006 were found in Item 004.
Items 008 - 009 were found in Item 007.
Items 011 - 012 were found in Item 010.
Items 014 - 015 were found in Item 013.
Items 016 - 017 were found in an envelope labelled "Tree house on Pine Pt."
Items 019 - 022 were found in Item 018.
Items 024 - 027 were found in Item 023.

Photo Captions:
Items 019 - 022: "D. H. MacLaurin"

Pamphlets collected by Don MacLaurin during his lifetime. File includes pamphlets concerning nature, as well as pamphlets specific to Whistler.

Details of each item:
001: Pamphlet titled "Vancouver/Garibaldi" involving the site proposed for the 1976 Olympic Winter Games bid. The text in the pamphlet is written in multiple languages.
002: Map titled "Village & Valley Map & Service Directory" for Whistler from August 2001.
003: Pamphlet titled "Our Whistler: Honouring Our History 25 years" by the Whistler Arts Council from October, 2007.
004: Pamphlet titled "Wild Flowers of British Columbia" presented by Home Oil Distributors Ltd.
005: Pamphlet titled "Whistler Birds 2005" published by Whistler Naturalists Society.
006: Pamphlet titled "Garibaldi's Whistler Mountain British Columbia, Canada". Pamphlet includes an insert with rates for the 1966/1967 ski season.
007: Pamphlet titled "Nature Tours Whistler Eco-Tours" with rates for various tours offered.

Photographs of Pat Carleton, Sig Young, Al Raine, and others at an event, a woman wearing a Whistler sweater, Florence and Andy Petersen posing for the camera, Sid Young at his desk at Sid's Travel in the early 1980s, and Tony Biggen-Pound sitting on a fence with a woman in front of the Skier's Chapel.