Poem titled 'The Ode to Rainbow' written by Freddie Fatkin, which is about Rainbow Lodge and can be sung to the tune of 'Galaway Bay'.

Documents and photographs produced by or relating to Arts Whistler (formerly the Whistler Arts Council) and Millennium Place {Maury Young Arts Centre).

The posters include a black and white poster promoting the Porsche Club of America's third annual weekend event in Whistler on the weekend of August 26th-28th, 1983, a poster advertising a Halloween masquerade ball fundraiser, a poster print of a painting of a ski racer in a yellow racing outfit skiing downhill amidst an abstract run with trees and snow, a large colour poster with the title " Whistler Resort Getaway", a large colour poster promoting the Whistler Summer Street Festival from between [1987 and the 1990s], a colour poster for the Music in the Mountains Whistler concert series in 1995 and 1996, a print of a vantage map of the Whistler Valley and surrounding mountains in 1994, a large collectors edition poster of the 1998 Canada's World Cup Ski Team, a poster advertising all the summer activities available at Whistler, a poster advertising the Molson World Downhill race that ran in Whistler on March 11th, 1984, a poster for Heli-Skiing Whistler, a poster of Creekside Base and Whistler Mountain at night in the [late 1970s or early 1980s], a poster for the 1984 Volvo Ski Show World Tour, a poster about the 1984 Whistler Winterfest, a large poster for the Shell Cup Canadian Championships for Cross Country Skiing, and a large poster for the Shell Cup Canadian Championships for Alpine Downhill ski racing.

Fond consists of material donated by Gordon McKeever and includes promotional stickers for Whistler Mountain and Whistler Blackcomb, a promotional book for Whistler's restaurants, four travel planners created by the Whistler Resort Association to promote both Winter and Summer seasons between 1997 and 2000, a paper spiral bound guide for Whistler Resort Association (WRA) members from November 15th, 1996, a 1999 VHS promotional resort video guide for the Resort Municipality of Whistler, a variety of materials supporting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, four paper business directory booklets printed for the Whistler Chamber of Commerce dating from 1994, 1996, and 1999, and sixteen posters depicting a variety of subject matter including Whistler festivals, ski racing events, concert series, car shows, heli-skiing, Molson and Shell Cups, and Whistler Resort tourism.

Photographs of a band playing live on stage at the Jazz Festival, a group of people meeting in a room [possibly at a hotel], and a restaurant setting where a couple is being served by both a waiter and chef with other patrons eating in the background.

Photographs of skiing, Molson Molstar ski races, the Great Snow Earth Water Race, Mountain Hosts, the construction of Whistler Village, chairlifts, ski school, skiers in costume at Easter, an avalauncher and avalanche control, helicopters, cabins, events, cycling, Whistler Golf Course and the Delta Mountain Inn, Rainbow Estates, Red Chair, the Gondola Barn in Creekside, cross-country skiing, Doc Fingers playing music, Willie Whistler, apres ski, Jim McConkey Ski Shop, tennis, canoeing, freestyle skiing at the Labatts World Cup Freestyle Championships, Roundhouse Lodge, windsurfing on Alta Lake, docks, picnics, hiking, running, glaciers, cats, the Garbage Dump, and Highway 99.

Photographs of golf courses, black bears, wildflowers, lakes, hiking, mountain views, street entertainment, Whistler Village, mountain biking, the Garibaldi Gruel mountain bike race, glaciers, skiing in summer, Roundhouse, the Whistler Express Gondola, aerial shots of the Whistler Valley, rafting, kayaking, horseback riding, the Jazz Festival, and the Whistler Farmers Market.

Photographs of people cross-country skiing, Skunk Cabbage Revue playing onstage (members: Charlie Doyle, Robin Blechman, and Rocco Bonito), kittens, and teenagers. Item 005 has been identified as Fern Bradley (nee McCarthy) on the left, and Meg Gallup in the middle.

Note that there is a contact sheet that corresponds to most of the negatives in this file (001-023). There is also a duplicate print that corresponds to item 005. The contact sheet also includes photographs from the previous file: GRI_01_42_043.

Photographs of Blackcomb Mountain, Rendezvous Lodge, Whistler Village, awards, signs, portraits of Greg Griffith and John 'Rabbit' Hare, Nancy Green Raine behind the bar at a pub, construction of Whistler Village, skiing on Whistler Mountain, partying, wet T-shirt contest at the Christiana Inn, canoeing on Alta Lake, Creekside, Nita Lake, heli-skiing in the Brandywine Meadows area, hiking, cross-country skiing, shovelling after heavy snowfall, aerial shots of the Whistler Valley, skateboarding, logging trucks, dogs, the first liquor store in Whistler, Myrtle Philip School, Ipsoot Mountain heli-skiing, dining, chairlifts, Creekhouse restaurant, Roundhouse Lodge, the Gondola Barn, Creekside Gondola, fisheye photography, sunbathing, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his son Alexandre 'Sacha' Trudeau skiing, freestyle skiing at the Labatts World Cup Freestyle Championships, Dave Murray Summer Ski Camp, Dave Murray, Stephanie Sloan, group portraits, the Molson Molstar ski races, Garibaldi Spring Slalom, Nigel Woods and Jo Schnetzler in the avalanche control cabin with an avalauncher, ski racing, shopping, fishing, the Snowgoose bus, parking lots, condominiums, musicians Doc Fingers and Gary Koliger, Village Chair, swimming at Mountainside Lodge's swimming pool, Ski Scamps, Willie Whistler, Whistler Golf Course, windsurfing in ski boots, telemark skiing, skiing on Gun Barrels run, Wedge Mountain, Blue Chair, Green Chair, Red Chair, Catskinner Chair, Ego Bowl, Jim McConkey skiing Symphony Bowl, Green Lake, Blackcomb Mountain's Grand Opening, and Glenn Ashton skiing moguls in Harmony Bowl.

Photographs of people heli-hiking in Whistler, people windsurfing on the ocean, a person bouldering in Whistler, someone canoeing on Alta Lake with Whistler Mountain in the background, a sunset over the Coast Range during the winter, people rafting on a fast-flowing river, windsurfing in Squamish, a First Nations/Indigenous individual dressed in a ceremonial costume for dancing, silhouettes of children fishing on a dock at a lake in summer, a river or creek in the fall with surrounding forests, Blackcomb Mountain with autumn-coloured trees in the foreground, a meadow on the side of the mountain, a lone hiker on a mountain ridge in the winter, Whistler Village in the summer with the Fitzsimmons Lodge in the foreground and Blackcomb Mountain in the background, Symphony on the Mountain, people mountain biking through a meadow on the mountain, an aerial view of Alta Lake with Whistler Village, Whistler Mountain, and Blackcomb Mountain in the background, a close-up of a plant labelled as 'Old Men' at Singing Pass, people fishing at a dock at Lost Lake, and a close-up of a wildflower.

Captions:
001: "HELI-HIKING, WHISTLER"
003: "BOULDERING, WHISTLER"
004: "CANOE, ALTA LAKE, WHISTLER MTN B.G."
005: "Winter/Whistler Sunset over Coastal Range British Columbia, Canada"
007: "Windsurfing Windsurfing in Squamish, B.C."
008: "INDIAN DANCER"
014: "Summer/Whistler Village Summer in Whistler Village"
018: "'OLD MEN' SINGING PASS"
019: "FISHING : LOST LAKE"