Minutebook for meetings of the Alta Lake Community Club from 1951-1985. Subjects discussed include holiday parties and dances, the purchasing of a projector, hosting films, Girl Guides and Cubs, memorial benches, the purchasing of a snowplow, logging, moving the Alta Lake School flagpole, fire safety, postal service, roads, Robbie Burns Night, fishing derbies, art lessons, theatre, Myrtle Philip's birthday, the Squamish Youth Choral, Blackcomb Ski Club, Rainbow Mountain ski hill, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, TV's coming to the Whistler valley, building the Whistler Mountain Ski Club building, the formation of a ski club, the Mountain Rescue Group, Mount Whistler Lodge, Alta Lake Ratepayers Association, building a new school, physical education classes on the mountain, Cypress Lodge, donation to the Garibaldi Olympic Development Association, Highland Lodge, the Logger's Sports Day Parade, seasons passes for children, square-dancing, and badminton.

The Whistler Village Report published by Whistler Village from December 1978. Articles are entitled: "Where We've Been ... and Where We're Going," "Joint Government Agreement Gives Whistler $9 Million," "Blackcomb Mountain Development Begins," "Snow Unseasonably Slow at Whistler," "Developments Proceed With Set Schedule," and "New Council Sworn In."

The articles are about the subjects of the history of Whistler as a resort town and the building of Whistler Village, the Whistler Village log, a 9 million dollar grant from the federal and provincial governments for resort development and town planning, the development of Blackcomb Mountain, the unseasonably slow snow, the seasonal schedule for development in Whistler and the new council for the Resort Municipality of Whistler being sworn in.

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Two Resort Municipality of Whistler newsletters from February 1979 and March 1981 sent to the Alpine Club of Canada Vancouver Section. The issues were read and used by the Section executive of the Club and were previously part of the Section archive.

The newsletters broach subjects including regarding a Garibaldi Lift Company announcement to develop the North Face of Whistler Mountain, the rights to develop Blackcomb Mountain by Fortress Mountain Resorts Ltd, the sod turning ceremony of the Town Core [Whistler Village], announcement for a contract for underground parking, the announcement that Arnold Palmer Enterprises set to design an 18 hole golf course [Whistler Golf Course], the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department, private water systems, the Information Center, thank-yous to council members, welcomes to newly elected council members, highway improvements to the north, subdivision paving, overnight camping, Health Center and ambulance service, efforts to establish an R.C.M.P detachment, establishment of a ski train, television and radio reception, bylaws to control dogs and noise, taxes, establishing a municipal works yard, employee housing, schools, road maintenance, garbage service, zoning, recreational facilities, legal costs, budgets, flooding, gas utilities, Municipal Hall, bus transportation, Sunday shopping, construction, the cemetery, and the Cheakamus River.

Minutebook for the Alta Lake Community Club's general meetings between 1984 and 1985. Subjects broached at meetings include the Children's Festival, the BMX track, North Shore Credit Union's opening, the Whistler Question, a Whistler cookbook, a treasure hunt, the Expo 86 Committee, the Whistler BMX Association, the Fall Fair, the Whistler Chamber of Commerce, a Christmas party, a Teen Dance, the construction of Dandelion Daycare, a rummage sale, Camp Rain Shine, babysitting, a children's book, the Whistler Museum and Archives, the Rotary Club, the RMOW, and Myrtle Philip Elementary School.

Photographs of a the interiors and exteriors of Andy and Bonnie Munster's squatters cabin near Fitzsimmons Creek, early construction of Whistler Village, and a tennis event or tournament at the Myrtle Philip Elementary School.

Newspaper articles collected by Arv Pellegrin about Whistler, with a focus on real estate and resort development.

A two-page spread from The Citizen newspaper in Squamish published Thursday May 29, 1986. Various small articles about Whistler are entitled: "Whistler summer kids program underway," "Green light given to Village Green project," "Second place for 3 Whistler residents," "Whistler Police Notes" and a short article about the funeral of Whistler resident Max Steininger.

Photographs of Umberto Menghi standing in front of a table of food inside a restaurant [possibly the opening of one of his restaurants], a kayaker in a river, mountain views over a lake, mountain views in the Whistler Valley with hydro lines and a golf course below, Blackcomb Lodge and a Whistler Village sign as seen from Village Gate Boulevard with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, early Whistler Village under construction, Myrtle Philip Elementary School in winter, Roundhouse Lodge area with crowds of skiers, a helicopter clearing out trees and helping install chairlift towers, and the exterior of a squatters cabin.

Various aerial photographs of early Whistler Village construction from the 1980s. Buildings include: Whistler Conference Centre, Myrtle Philip Elementary School, Hearthstone Lodge, Rainbow Building, Blackcomb Lodge, Fitzsimmons Lodge, Executive Inn & Suites, Clocktower Building, Crystal Lodge (under construction), Delta Mountain Inn, Carleton Lodge (under construction), Mountainside Lodge, Pan Pacific Mountainside, and the Police and Fire Hall.

Captions:
001: "Whistler Village Early 80s"
003: "WHISTLER VILLAGE 198'S [sic] (APPROX)

Photographs of a man standing next to a tree in a forest, an information sign about bears that states: "QUIET! BEARS SLEEPING", aerial photographs and close up views of early Whistler Village under construction (buildings include: Whistler Conference Centre, Blackcomb Lodge, Hearthstone Lodge, Rainbow Building, Delta Mountain Inn/Hilton Whistler Resort, Executive Inn & Suites, Clocktower Building, Crystal Lodge/Tapley's Neighbourhood Pub, Fitzsimmons Lodge, Carleton Lodge, Mountainside Lodge, and Myrtle Philip Elementary School), and a Whistler Village sign in front of the construction.