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Helmer Fonds

  • WMA_P05_016
  • Fonds
  • [1930s]

Photographs taken by Dorthy Helmer at Alta Lake in the 1930s. Photographs include staff, visitors, and people visiting or working at Rainbow Lodge.

These names are marked on the back of some of the photographs: "Myrtle Philip", "Gillespie", and "Helmer".

Helmer, Dorothy

Alta Lake Community Club fonds

  • CA WMA 1987_002
  • Fonds
  • [1923]-[1967]

Papers of Alta Lake Community Club comprising:

Folder 1 - Alta Lake 'Community Weekly Sunset' and 'Alta Lake Echo' newsletter 1959 v.2 no.1 to v.2 no. 38 (v.2 no. 18, 30 missing) Several issues distributed in v.2 have '?' as to the issue number. 'Alta Lake Echo' newsletter 1961 v.4 no.1 to v.4 no.9. 'Alta Lake Echo Special Edition.' Ratepayers open letter from the President January 25, 1967. 'Alta Lake Owl' January 24, 1967. 'Alta Lake Echo' 1960 v.3 no.1 to v.3 no.36. 'The Alta Lake Community Reminder' v.1 no.1 to v.1 no.42 with a 'History of Alta Lake: Dedicated to Alta Lake School' dispersed within various editions.

Folder 2 - Film and movie correspondence for the Alta Lake Community Club - Alta Lake Community Club library holdings and acquisitions - Bylaws and Constitution.

Folder 3 - Photocopies of Newspaper clippings related to the Alta Lake Community Club events in Whistler. Contains actual newspaper clippings as well.

Folder 4 - PGE Railway. Alta Lake School/Alta Lake Community Club land lease and rental receipts - Alta Lake Community Club agendas and minutes documentation (appears to be draft copies).

Alta Lake Community Club book of minutes.

Folder 5
Alta Lake Community Club business correspondence addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Philip, receipts, debit notes, freight bills, bills of lading, note from Betty Woods re: wedding cake, letter from Fred Woods declining gifts from Community Club, letter from Fred Woods discussing the possibility of making Alta Lake membership free, letter to Myrtle from J. Bailiff, Alta Lake Community Club By-laws and Constitution, Alta Lake Community Club letterhead envelopes, Canadian Bank of Commerce cheques.

Folder 6
Alta Lake Community Club business correspondence addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Philip, receipts, debit notes, freight bills, bills of lading, cheques, directions and guides (carpentry and hardware), bankbook, letter of resignation from [Nadia Bisson], letter from Fred Woods requesting cake and sandwiches for dance, receipts and letters re: piano and gramaphone and phonograph for Community Club

Folder 7
Community Club safety duplicating receipts, money order book, 2 receipt books, small lined logbook, burgundy community club meeting logbook, black meeting roll book, cash book, tabbed exercise books (2)

There are two other accessions found in the collection at a later date that also belong to this fonds:

WA_2009_011: Set of original newsletters put out by the Alta Lake Community Club, 1958-1961 including 'Community Weekly Sunset', 'Community Weekly Reminder and 'Alta Lake Echo'.

WA_2009_017: Recipe book produced by Alta Lake Community Club, Whistler, B.C. entitled 'Mountain Cookery'. Edited and coordinated by Joan Gross. Printed by Whistler Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. c1960s-1970s.

Alta Lake Community Club

Jan Smith Fonds

  • WA_2023_024
  • Fonds
  • 1976

A pamphlet made for the opening of the original Myrtle Philip Elementary School which opened October 26, 1976. The pamphlet lays out the programme for the opening day. The programme begins with O Canada, followed by an Invocation by Mr. Gary McLeod, then a welcome by Mr. Fougberg (chairman of the board), then a greeting from the Mayor Pat Carleton, then some remarks from the Architect Mr. Davies and by one of the builders Mr. Storm, this will be followed by the entertainment provided by the pupils and introduced by the Principal Mr. Griffin, then there will be a thanking of the pupils by Mrs. M. Marchant, this will be followed by the introduction of the guest speaker Mr. E. A. Maglio the districts superintendent of schools, then an address and unveiling of plaque by Mrs. J. Phillipson the associate deputy minister of education, and finally closing remarks by Mrs. M. Philip.
The school opened with 57 students but the number of students quickly outgrew the school and a new school was built in 1992 and the original Myrtle Philip Elementary School was torn down to make way for Whistler Village, and now the Delta hotel sits where the school used to be.

Alta Lake School Board fonds

  • CA WMA 1987_003
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1980

Records of the Alta Lake School Board including:

'The Alta Lake School Gazette' photocopied editions from 1939.

Folder 1 - School District #48 miscellaneous correspondence regarding history and potential shut down in 1971 - British Columbia Department of Education Annual Reports for Alta Lake School (1934 to 1936).

Folder 2 - Alta Lake School insurance policies (1930s) - PGE Railway and Alta Lake School land lease agreement (1933) - Myrtle Philip school board insurance correspondence.

Folder 3 - 'Philosophy and Organization of Secondary Education in the Howe Sound Secondary School' presentation report (1968) - Miscellaneous correspondence - School board minutes (1976/77) - Thank you cards.

Folder 4 - 'Squamish Ethnobotany' report (1972) - Teachers and principals Bulletin No. 1 School District #48 (1973).

Folder 5 - High school graduation ephemera.

Folder 6 - British Columbia Department of Education Alta Lake School inspection reports (1930s) - Myrtle Philip correspondence regarding Alta Lake School (1930s).

Folder 7 - British Columbia Department of Education Alta Lake School inspection reports (1930s) - Teacher reports and salary contracts concerning Miss Margaret Partridge (1930s) - Medical inspections of Alta Lake School (1930s) - Bookstore and miscellaneous receipts - Alta Lake School textbook usage reports. Various correspondence.

Folder 8 - Receipts and correspondence pertaining to the building and foundation of Alta Lake School.

Folder 9 (Envelope 1) - Photograph of declaration to Myrtle Philip in recognition of pioneering and settling.
'Informational Report prepared for Howe Sound School District #48: Secretarial and Clerical Help [and] Auxiliary School Personnel' (1969).
Copies of The Alta Lake School Gazette (1939).

Alta Lake School

Philip Fonds

  • PHILIP
  • Fonds
  • [c. 1890]-1986

The fonds consists of personal papers of Myrtle Philip, including education documents, journals, diaries, banking records, certificates and passports, legal and property records, correspondence, birthday and recipe books, postcards of the Alta Lake/Whistler area, scrapbooks, reference material, and photographs. The photographs depict the Philip family, people (including guests at Rainbow Lodge), events, and scenes of the Whistler area. The fonds includes Alex Philip's manuscripts, as well as records relating to his estate. The fonds also includes records of Rainbow Lodge, including guest registers (1915-1947), a cashbook (1928-1952), employee records (1941-1948), invoices, and receipts.

Philip, Myrtle