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. |
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