File includes personal photographs belonging to Don MacLaurin. File also includes a Certificate of Qualification for "E. H. McLaurin", certifying that he attended "Provincial Civil Defence Rescue Course No. 8" with associated picture.

Captions:
001: "1961 Izzie - at least 7 months pregnant."
002: "Whistler Mtn. Signs"
003: "1961 Don skiing behind Cypress Lodge: under Hydro lines. 400 ft rope tow. Forest 'lift' in Whistler. Don MacLaurin."
004: "MacLaurin kids on Alpha Lake 1963? 1964? Maybe 1965. Whistler Mtn. in background. Don MacLaurin."
006: "Old No. 40 resting as a 'Tea House' in our front garden from 1965 Garibaldi Lifts"
008: Collage has captions or comments associated with each picture.
009: "Wait'l I get older it's worse. and retire."
010: Collage has captions or comments associated with each picture.
012: Collage has captions or comments associated with each picture. Titled "Ski '54' Club".

Item is a 10-page report by Willy Schaeffler, Ski Area Consultant, on the feasibility of opening Mount Whistler as a ski hill. It includes a detailed plan for the development of the resort and its facilities, with sections on chairlifts and gondolas, ski trails, snow slide prevention, a ski patrol, trail maintenance, buildings, roads, wind and weather data, and accessibility. The report concludes highly favourably, remarking that Whistler Mountain is "everything the beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert skier could look for."

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).

Subseries contains details (description, dates, and purchases) of transparencies and negatives. Fenner coded these descriptions to correspond with photographs in the collection.
The codes in this subseries are:
A (Alaska Highway)
C (Coastal)
G (Garibaldi)
G.W. (Garibaldi Whistler)
L (Local)
VI (Vancouver Island)
B (Buildings)
NAR (Article Negative)
TAR (Article Transparency)
LN (Night)
REC (Recreation)
RE (Resorts)
SP (Sports)
NSP (Sports Negative)
WF (Wildflowers)
NWF (Wildflowers Negative)
NF, FN, FNL (Flowers)

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.

Item is a large newspaper article from page 3 of The Lions Gate Times, entitled "Garibaldi: Blueprint for the future" and dated Thursday, January 16, 1964. The article discusses potential ski hill development within Garibaldi Park, particularly at the Alta Lake/Whistler Mountain area. There are two 'sub-articles': "Garibaldi ski lift: the public can build it," by Mary MacDonald, and "On to Garibaldi," by Editor. Article includes three images: diagram of Whistler Mountain with planned ski hills (current location of Creekside), photograph of Whistler Mountain, and map of southwestern B.C. with key locations indicated.

Photographs of Whistler Mountain from its opening in 1965/1966 to 1997. Photographs include those of Franz Wilhelmsen, President of Whistler Mountain, Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margret Trudeau on their honeymoon, the original gondola, skiers in the early days of the mountain, events, ski races, and other happenings at the ski resort.

This close up shows Jack Bright in ski gear looking into the distance with Margaret Trudeau standing beside him.

Photographs of Jim McConkey skiing off a cornice on Whistler Mountain and a large group photo.

Photographs of skiing on Whistler Mountain and in April of 1966, including photographs of the Red Chair and T-Bars, a helicopter landing on the ski hill, and views of the Whistler Valley lakes, creeks, and surrounding mountain ranges.