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Karl Ricker Fonds

  • WA_2013_003
  • Fonds
  • 1959-2003

Fonds consists of maps, textual records, and photographs relating to the geography, geology, and natural history of the Coast Mountain range, with particular focus on the Garibaldi Park area. Much of the material relates to Dr. Neal M. Carter (1902-1978), a mountaineer, surveyor, and cartographer and active in the Coast Mountains from the 1920s-1950s. Photographs document glacier recession in the Whistler area.

  • Series 01 consists of a manuscript, "Garibaldi Provincial Park and Region," written for the Provincial Parks Branch on the geology, ecology and ecosystems contained within park boundaries in southwestern British Columbia.
  • Series 02 consists of photocopied pages from two volumes of the University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club Journal, including a letter and article written by Neal Carter.
  • Series 03 consists of 5 photocopied maps created by/with the help of Neal Carter.

Robert Clark Kline Fonds

  • RCK
  • Fonds
  • 1988-1991

Photographs and video taken by Robert Clark Kline on mountaineering trips to various peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park, Golden Ears Provincial Park, and peaks in the Lower Mainland between 1988 and 1991.

Neal Carter

  • WMA_P88
  • Fonds
  • September 1923

Photographs of Neal Carter and Charles Townsend's mountaineering trip into Garibaldi Provincial Park and the Spearhead Range in September, 1923, including ascents of Wedge Mountain, Whistler Mountain, Overlord Mountain, Fissile Peak, Diavolo Peak, and Mt James Turner.

Rene Widmer

  • WA_2019_040
  • Fonds
  • 2019

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

Vicki Lawson

  • WA_2019_039
  • Fonds
  • 1920s

Postcards donated by Vicki Lawson, including a postcard depicting a mountaineering party gazing upon Black Tusk in Garibaldi Provincial Park, [possibly in the 1920s] taken by Philip Timms.

Summit Magazine Fonds

  • SUM
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1968

Issues of Summit mountaineering magazine from the years 1964-1968.

Ron Dart Fonds

  • WA_2018_020
  • Fonds
  • October 7, 2017

Memorial booklet about Richard (Dick) Revis Culbert (1940-2017), a B.C. mountaineer, author, poet, geologist, geophysicist, activist and photographer. The booklet was printed for his memorial gathering held at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum (University of British Columbia) on October 7, 2017.

George Bury Fonds

  • WA_2008_002
  • Fonds
  • 1939

Photographs of an exploratory trip in the mountains around Alta Lake to search for a suitable location for a ski hill. The group of four men comprised of George Bury, George Eisenschimmel, Howard Hamil (all from the Holyburn Ski Club on the North Shore) and a guide, whose name has been forgotten. They explored around Cheakamus Lake, Black Tusk, Garibaldi Lake, and the Barrier. The group were dropped off by float plane on Cheakamus Lake and exited down the Barrier. They then hiked to the rail line, where they flagged down the Pacific Great Eastern train to Squamish, and then took the boat back to Vancouver. The ski hill plans were never carried out due to the interruption of the Second World War.

Dick Chambers

  • WA_2019_030
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1968

Photographs taken by Dick Chambers during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily of mountaineering trips in the Pacific Northwest and BC.

Charles E. Wills Fonds

  • WA_2016_011
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1951

Film and photographs of a hike to Black Tusk in December of 1950.

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