- WA_2017_014
- Fonds
- 1960s
Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain taken by Denes Devenyi and commissioned by Star Weekly Magazine.
Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain taken by Denes Devenyi and commissioned by Star Weekly Magazine.
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.
Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain in April of 1966, including photographs of Red Chair and T-Bars, a helicopter landing on the ski hill, and views of the Whistler Valley lakes, creeks, and surrounding mountain ranges.
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.
Group photograph of Robert Scherle, Eugene Rickli, Muffy, Maureen Rickli, Peter Wittwer, Debie Wyndham (nee), and Hans Steiner at the top of the T-bar on Whistler Mountain in winter, 1968.
Renate Bareham (nee Ples) Fonds
Skiing ephemera and publications, including:
This fonds record has been transferred from old FileMaker Pro records, and as such, may be missing information and may not entirely adhere to RAD.
Photographs and magazine clippings, as well as one postcard showing skiing on Whistler Mountain, including Hugh Smythe and Dennis Therrien.
Fonds consists of documents related to the early years of Garibaldi's Whistler Mountain in the 1970s.
Photographs taken between 1972 and 1973 by Ken Snowball, primarily of skiing and ski racing on Whistler Mountain and Grouse Mountain, the Mount Currie Rodeo, Nairn Falls, cityscapes and street scenes of Vancouver, Adventures West and Alta Lake, and the Easter Parade in Whistler.
Snapshot of Dave Murray in Canadian gear and race bib, possibly at the 1974 World Series of Skiing in Vail, Colorado.