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ADOUGLAS-01-03-002 · File · 1940-[c. 1980s-1990s]
Part of Alex Douglas Fonds

File consists of a London Drugs Photo Station CD containing 11 digital photographs. One (001) is a Toni Sailer (or Dave Murray) Summer Ski Camp group photo from likely the 1980s or 1990s. The rest (002-011) are black-and-white photos from 1940 showing the Enqvist Ski Camp on Mount Seymour (North Vancouver). Harald Enqvist Sr. built Mount Seymour Ski Lodge in 1938, opening the mountain up for skiing. These photos can also be found online on the Mount Seymour History Project website (link in 'Sources' section below).

  • 001 - TSSSC or DMSSC group photograph on the mountainside, c. 1980s-1990s.
  • 002 - skier standing on a slope with back to camera, looking out over the landscape.
  • 003 - group of six people dressed up and standing indoors; the man in the middle holds a trophy. L to r: Myrtle Skidmore, Norm Skidmore, Muriel Currie, Tony Brown, Chuck Milstead, Irene Byers, Ken Johnstone.
  • 004 - man in overalls standing outside a log building.
  • 005 - two buildings in a snowy clearing with many stumps.
  • 006 - exterior shot of a log building.
  • 007 - man standing on some sort of machine in snow.
  • 008 - skiers in the snow outside a building with a steeply-sloped roof.
  • 009 - exterior shot of a wooden building with a steeply-sloped roof. Wood is piled up & skis are leaning beside it. Two people are in front.
  • 010 - a group of people seated around a dining table inside a log building.
  • 011 - a man and two teenaged boys standing in the snow in front of a tree.
WA_2016_083-04-02-002 · File · 1998-1999
Part of Arts Whistler Fonds

File contains a transmittal (001) from Dalla-Lana Griffin Dowling Knapp Architects to Alex Kleinman of the Whistler Skier's Chapel Society regarding Whistler Millennium Place, dated February 8, 1999. Also included are an letter size colour photocopied photograph (002), an colour print (003), and a colour slide (004), all showing the same concept art of Millennium Place. The concept art appears to be signed "Andrews 98."

WA_2016_083-04-02-001 · File · 1998
Part of Arts Whistler Fonds

File contains a transmittal (_001) from Dalla-Lana Griffin Dowling Knapp Architects to Alex Kleinman and Stephen Milstein regarding Whistler Interfaith Chapel/MY place, dated September 30, 1998. Also included are two identical colour prints (_002, _003) and one photocopied photograph (_004) of the Artist's Rendering of Millennium Place, which were sent with the transmittal "for inclusion into your brochure material." The concept art appears to be signed "LOVE 98."

Slides
GRI-01-30-040 · File · April 1981 - April 1982
Part of Greg Griffith Fonds

Photographs of Roundhouse Lodge on Whistler Mountain with a crowd of skiers in the foreground, Roundhouse Lodge with Red Chair/Big Red Express in the foreground, Whistler Mountain ski runs with Red Chair in the foreground, a view of a building on a ski hill with a snowmobile parked in front, and the light board at the top of Green Chair on Whistler Mountain (note on file: "Lightboard Top of Green").

ADOUGLAS-01-03-001 · File · [c. 1970s-1980s?]
Part of Alex Douglas Fonds

File consists of a London Drugs Photo Station CD with 20 digital photographs (in .jpg format) on it. The photos depict people, scenery, buildings, and machinery at the Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp, Whistler Mountain, and Mount Seymour (in North Vancouver). Some or all of them were presumably taken by Noel Thompson.

  • 001 - 003 - bulldozers shovelling large piles of snow.
  • 004 - campers and staff sitting and standing around in front of the TSSSC office.
  • 005 - interior shot of building with skis and various tools.
  • 006 - view of a house on a tree-covered hillside.
  • 007 - view of a red chair lift and a ski hill.
  • 008 - view of a snow-covered ski hill with the terminus of a lift in the distance.
  • 009 - a First Aid/Ski Patrol building in the snow with skiers standing beside it.
  • 010 - view of a full parking lot.
  • 011 - a bulldozer shovelling snow.
  • 012 - a house among trees in deep snow.
  • 013 - a red chair lift with people riding in it.
  • 014 - a bulldozer shovelling snow.
  • 015 - a man in a red sweater standing in the doorway of a ski rental shop.
  • 016 - a man and a woman standing in the snow with a house in the trees behind them.
  • 017 - a white dog.
  • 018 - a group photograph of many people, most wearing purple jackets, with snow falling.
  • 019 - a group photograph of Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp staff, c. 1970s. Very similar to photograph 020.
  • 020 - a group photograph of Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp staff, c. 1970s. Very similar to photograph 019.

The people in photos 019-020 are:
Back row: unknown, Wayne Wong, unknown, unknown.
Middle row: Toni Sailer, unknown, Greg Lee, Don McQuaid, Nancy Green Raine, unknown.
Seated in front: unknown, Floyd Wilkie.

Photographs
WA_2015_011-01 · Series · 1997
Part of Rosemary Malaher

Photograph of Rainbow Park and Alta Lake from March 1997.

Olympics
GMCK-02 · Series · 2001-2010
Part of Gordon McKeever Fonds

The series includes event tickets from the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, two temporary tattoos representing the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosted in Whistler and Vancouver, stickers promoting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, three DVDs from 2005-2010 that contain videos on a variety of topics regarding Olympic Games, one CD-R disc that contains one PDF of a study on the Whistler Athlete's Village heating system feasibility from 2004, an excel matrix, a promotional VHS tape for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games bid, a BC Transit brochure map that outlines its bus services during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, a [dinner] menu prepared for His Royal Highness, the Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex by the Resort Municipality of Whistler [during his visit to the Paralympic Games in 2010], a paper booklet of a concept design for the Whistler Olympic Centre, a spiral bound paper booklet created for the Vancouver Whistler 2010 Bid Corporation Supporter Conference from November 23, 2001, a poster created by Tourism Whistler to advertise the temporary closure of the Whistler Public Library while the building functioned as the Whistler Canada Olympic House during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, a congratulatory issue of TIME Magazine from July 14th, 2003 with a cover image of three local Whistler youth celebrating the Vancouver and Whistler 2010 Olympic bid victory in the Village Square, Whistler Village.

Millennium Place Artists
WA_2016_083-05 · Series · 1980-2000
Part of Arts Whistler Fonds

Photographs of artworks and other accompanying material relating artists who lived and/or worked in the Whistler area and have submitted art to Arts Whistler, primarily in the 1990s.

Millennium Place
WA_2016_083-04 · Series · 1991-2001, predominant 1998-2001
Part of Arts Whistler Fonds

Photographs and documents relating to the development, construction, and opening of Millennium Place. It includes concept art, photographs, correspondence, and a promotional folder.