Whistler Pioneer Photographs from the Myrtle Philip Collection was produced by Pepper Sunlight Productions, Inc. using the Myrtle Philip fonds at the Whistler Museum and Archives under contract to Canada's Digital Collections program, Industry Canada. Pat Gemmill, Project Manager, would also like to thank Florence Petersen, John Darby, and Kathryn Tumpach for their various forms of support and acknowledge the work and dedication of Robin Bonner, Kerry Clark, and Alec Home-Douglas.

Pepper Sunlight Productions, Inc. (http://www.peppersunlight.com) is an entrepreneurial Canadian production company with a mandate to produce high-quality multimedia productions, incorporating photography, video, and other new media technologies, which relate informative subjects in an artistic manner. The company is comprised of young Canadians with backgrounds in art history, journalism, photography, digital video, graphic design and computer science. Since 2000, Pepper Sunlight Productions has produced two online documentaries Quiero el paseo mi bicicletta and The Anarcoustic Accordion Player Goes to the Fair (both available through http://www.peppersunlight.com), in addition to many other website, photography, and video based projects.

The Whistler Museum and Archives (http://www.whistlermuseum.org), organized under the Societies Act of British Columbia and incorporated on February 12, 1987, has been established to serve the people of Whistler, and the community as a whole, as a research institution for local area history. The Mandate of the Whistler Museum and Archives is the preservation and interpretation of the natural setting, recreational history, and material heritage of the Whistler Valley; and more broadly, of the history and technology of international sports of which Whistler forms an important dimension. The Archives serves the entire population of the Resort Municipality of Whistler and its institutions by protecting information and archival material pertaining to the history and prehistory of the Resort Municipality of Whistler/Alta Lake with fundamental significance in establishing, maintaining, and developing community identities and individual or collective self knowledge.

Canada's Digital Collections (http://collections.ic.gc.ca/) showcases over 400 Web sites celebrating Canada's history, geography, science, technology and culture. These fascinating Web sites range from treasures of federal institutions, such as the National Library, the National Archives and the Museum of Civilization, to the local histories and way of life of Canadian communities. Canada's Digital Collections also features a growing set of on-line educational resources, such as curriculum units, classroom activities, quizzes and games. One of the largest sources of Canadian material on the Internet, Canada's Digital Collections has employed more than 2,700 young Canadians to date, under contract to Industry Canada. The program is funded by the federal Youth Employment Strategy.