- WMSC
- Fonds
- 1965-1997
Photographs and newsletters created by Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation before merging to become Whistler Blackcomb in 1997.
Photographs and newsletters created by Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation before merging to become Whistler Blackcomb in 1997.
Whistler Colouring Book by the Whistler Museum
Fait partie de WMAS (Whistler Museum and Archives Society) Fonds
Whistler-themed colouring book created by the Whistler Museum and Archives using traced photographs from the archives featuring prominent Whistler figures and scenes. The book was sold at the Whistler Museum's gift shop and other locations in Whistler Village.
Fait partie de Wilhelmsen fonds
VHS tape labeled "Special Memories 2 of 2", containing Franz Wilhelmsen's home videos, featuring water skiing, swimming in an indoor pool, Franz building with two boys, canoeing, hunting, fishing, skiing at various mountains, family vacations, school sports day, a herd of rams filmed from the car, Franz putting up a sign declaring that the area was to be developed by Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. (sign gives information about share purchasing), skating at a rink, a hockey game, riding the gondola at Wildcat Mountain (possibly Franz doing research on other mountains before starting on Whistler), a boys choir singing, school gym class, a parade in Norway, and driving through the mountains.
Fait partie de Renate Bareham (nee Ples) Fonds
A various collection of photographs from around Whistler. The collection includes photos of skiing, people, wildlife, snowmobiling, helicopters, and snow removal.
Fonds consists of a page advertising Garibaldi Ski Development at Whistler Mountain for the 1965/66 season. Includes a brief description of the runs, lifts, rates, and facilities at Whistler Mountain; four black-and-white drawings and photographs; advertisements for Cheakamus Inn and Highland Lodge; and information on travelling from Vancouver, including a map. Reprinted from a skiing guidebook.
Work Starts Garibaldi Ski Resort
Fait partie de MacDougall fonds
Item is a newspaper article entitled "Work Starts Garibaldi Ski Resort," announcing the beginning of construction work at the Garibaldi Ski Resort on Whistler Mountain. Included are a black-and-white photograph of a gondola and a cross-sectional drawing of a housing unit in the Alpine Village. The article was reprinted from Journal of Commerce Weekly, June 12 1965.
Garibaldi: Blueprint for the future
Fait partie de MacDougall fonds
Item is a large newspaper article from page 3 of The Lions Gate Times, entitled "Garibaldi: Blueprint for the future" and dated Thursday, January 16, 1964. The article discusses potential ski hill development within Garibaldi Park, particularly at the Alta Lake/Whistler Mountain area. There are two 'sub-articles': "Garibaldi ski lift: the public can build it," by Mary MacDonald, and "On to Garibaldi," by Editor. Article includes three images: diagram of Whistler Mountain with planned ski hills (current location of Creekside), photograph of Whistler Mountain, and map of southwestern B.C. with key locations indicated.
Series consists of meeting minutes, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, a report, and a feasibility study relating to the development of Whistler as a ski hill and a residential area in the 1960s. There is a particular focus on Whistler Alpine Villa Ltd., for which Hartland M. MacDougall (donor's father) worked. Also mentioned are the Whistler Skier's Chapel and Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. The items are arranged in the order they were received from the donor.
Fait partie de Janet Love Morrison Fonds
Photographs of newspaper articles on the development of early Whistler Mountain, hotdoggers (including Wayne Wong) posing, children skiing, a large group photo of ski instructors, Gerry Rinaldi ski racing down Whistler Mountain, a Toni Sailer summer ski camp flyer, an annual ski pass for Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. for Dr. Fred Harder for 1966/67, an annual ski pass for Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. for Gordon Harder for 1966/67, the first guests to sign in at the Chateau Whistler Resort, skiers outside Roundhouse, skiers relaxing while looking at Whistler's Peak, people sitting in lawn chairs outside Roundhouse, Jim McConkey skiing off a snowy cornice on Whistler Mountain in The Vancouver Sun, 1971, and two skiers in powder.
Fait partie de Janet Love Morrison Fonds
Photographs given to Janet Love Morrison by Intrawest.
Photographs of Franz Wilhelmsen skiing with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Summer Camp ski pass, Whistler Village in the midst of construction from Whistler Mountain, a ski school group photo with children posing with Willie Whistler, Garibaldi Olympic Development Association (GODA) notice of annual general meeting form 1966, Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Subscription Agreement, a letter from Franz Wilhelmsen to Florence Strachan notifying the sending of the Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Subscription Agreement, a flyer about Jim McConkey and Bob Dufour's Garibaldi Ski School, a group of children in ski school with their instructor, a baby on skis, a group photo of Yosemite Ski School from Winter 1948 (including, from left to right, Bob Berelsford, Ross Moore, Norm Palmer, Jim McConkey, Chuck Freshwater, Nic Fiore, Tony Freitas, Bill Cahow, and Luggi Foeger), Alta Lake train station on the PGE, Myrtle Philip in her elder years walking with Gary Watson, a sign on Whistler Mountain listing the town services in the 1970s [post-it reading "For Sure"], Roundhouse, Eric Beardmore and the Woodward family skiing Whistler Mountain, Jim McConkey skiing Whistler Mountain, the front cover of the September/October 1963 issue of Skier Magazine showing Willy Schaeffler and Franz Wilhelmsen inspecting the mountain, skiers posing, Whistler T-bar, skiers from Garibaldi Ski School posing for a portrait, children posing with their instructor, and a woman from Ski Patrol.