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Denes Devenyi Fonds

  • WA_2017_014
  • Fonds
  • 1960s

Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain taken by Denes Devenyi and commissioned by Star Weekly Magazine.

Julie Gallagher Fonds

  • WA_2018_022
  • Fonds
  • 1965

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.

Brenda McGill

  • WA_2019_041
  • Fonds
  • 1965-1966

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.

MacDougall fonds

  • WA_2018_015
  • Fonds
  • [1962?]-1968

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.

  • MACDOUG_001: Meeting minutes of “informal meeting of the pro-tem Directors of Whistler Alpine Villa Limited,” November 19 1965, with attached letter from Michael Doyle (Whistler Alpine Villa Limited Secretary Pro-Tem) to Mr. Roy B. Jacobson of Whistler Development Co. Ltd. (November 22 1965) and list of Pro-Tem Directors (6 pages).
  • MACDOUG_002: Newspaper article, “Garibaldi: Blueprint for the future,” The Lions Gate Times, January 16 1964.
  • MACDOUG_003: Newspaper or magazine clipping, “HOMES, January 1968, a section of the Canadian,” with image of mountain townhouses on front and Q & A on the back.
  • MACDOUG_004: Newspaper article, “Work Starts Garibaldi Ski Resort,” reprinted from Journal of Commerce Weekly, June 12 1965.
  • MACDOUG_005: Magazine article, “Town house in the mountains: there’s a 5,000-foot ski run at the front door.”
  • MACDOUG_006: Newspaper clipping, photograph of four men (John Fraser, Michael Doyle, A.J. Forster, Hartland MacDougall) with skis, regarding the construction of the Whistler Skier’s Chapel. The Province, Saturday June 25, 1966.
  • MACDOUG_007: Letter from Whistler Alpine Villa Ltd. directors to shareholders, regarding fire of December 19 1965, dated December 22 1965.
  • MACDOUG_008: President’s Report to Shareholders, Whistler Alpine Villa Limited, November 25 1965 (4 pages).
  • MACDOUG_009: Photocopy of telegram from E. F. Bosiger to Head Office, Montreal P.Q., DGM Vancouver, regarding nomination of H. M. MacDougall as Director of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., May 6 1963.
  • MACDOUG_010: Photocopy of letter from J. B. Lesslie to Bank of Montreal Superintendent of Staff, regarding nomination of H. M. MacDougall as Director of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., May 2 1963 (2 pages).
  • MACDOUG_011: Letter, H. M. MacDougall to Franz Wilhelmsen, declining nomination as Director of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., May 8 1963.
  • MACDOUG_012: Memorandum from H. M. MacDougall to G. O. Vandervoort, Esq., regarding Whistler Skiers’ Chapel, June 29 1966.
  • MACDOUG_013: Mount Whistler Feasibility Study by Willy Schaeffler, Ski Area Consultant, c. 1962 (10 pages).

Colin Pitt-Taylor

  • WA_2015_013
  • Fonds
  • 1968

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

  • Fonds
  • 1964 - 1970

Skiing ephemera and publications, including:

  • Austrian Ski School booklet.
  • Whistler Mountain Snow Report, 1963 to 1964.
  • Excerpts from Ground Search Manual.
  • Garibaldi Olympic Development Association documents.
  • Western Canada Skier, 1963; 1966.
  • Northwest Skier, 1963.
  • Newspaper Section on Whistler from the Vancouver Sun, October 10, 1980.

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.

Dennis Therrien Fonds

  • WA_2016_044
  • Fonds
  • 1971-1972

Photographs and magazine clippings, as well as one postcard showing skiing on Whistler Mountain, including Hugh Smythe and Dennis Therrien.

Jordan Bright Fonds

  • WA_2017_037
  • Fonds
  • [1965]-1972

Fonds consists of documents related to the early years of Garibaldi's Whistler Mountain in the 1970s.

Ken Snowball Fonds

  • KSNO
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1973

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.

Anne Corrack Fonds

  • WA-2016-003
  • Fonds
  • [1974]

Snapshot of Dave Murray in Canadian gear and race bib, possibly at the 1974 World Series of Skiing in Vail, Colorado.

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