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2010 Legacies Now

  • CA-BC-201-001
  • Corporate body
  • 2000-2011

2010 Legacies Now was a non-profit organization created in the lead-up to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games aimed at building support for Vancouver and Whistler's bid for the 2010 Games and ensuring a stronger sport system in British Columbia. In 2004, the scope was expanded to focus on developing community legacies leading up to, during, and beyond the Games in the areas of literacy, arts, volunteers, accessibility, and inclusion.

4TUNES

  • CA-BC-4TU-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1989-

4TUNES is an acapella quartet from British Columbia. They began creating music in 1989, and have since performed on the main stage at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) in Vancouver, the Vancouver Fringe Festival, and at Whistler Mountain for the First Night New Year's Eve celebrations.

7 Up

  • US-MO-7UP-001
  • Corporate body
  • June 19, 1929 -

7 Up is an American brand of lemon-lime-flavoured non-caffeinated soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Keurig Dr. Pepper in the United States and by 7 Up International in the rest of the world. The soft drink was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his St. Louis–based company, The Howdy Corporation, in 1920. Grigg came up with the formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929 and originally named it "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda," as it contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948. It was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Its name was later shortened to "7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda" before being further shortened to just "7 Up" by 1936. 7 Up was a privately held corporation owned by the original founding families until it was sold in 1978 to Philip Morris, which sold it in 1986 in two parts: the international division to PepsiCo and the US business to a group led by the investment firm Hicks & Haas. In the US, 7 Up merged with Dr. Pepper in 1988 and Cadbury Schweppes bought the combined company in 1995. The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group was spun off from Cadbury Schweppes in 2008 and it merged with Keurig Green Mountain in 2018 to form Keurig Dr. Pepper.

7-Eleven

  • US-TX-7EL-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1946-

7-Eleven in Whistler was located on the corner of Main St. and Northlands Blvd. in Whistler Village. It was loacted there from the 2000s-2016 and was replaced by Hunter Gather Eatery & Taphouse.

97 Kiss FM Vancouver

  • CA-BC-CJA-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1986-2002

Although primarily an Vancouver radio station, Kiss FM also operated a transmitter in Whistler. It became Jack FM on Boxing Day, 2002.

A&W Food Services Canada, Inc.

  • CA-MB-A&W-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1956-

A&W was once located in the building bordering the open-air parking lot next to the Whistler Conference Centre in Whistler Village (c. 2000s). Once this location closed, the only A&W location to remain in the Sea to Sky area was the Squamish Station location.

Aabye, Dag

  • CA-BC-AD001
  • Person
  • 1941-

Originally from Norway, Dag Aabye was known in Whistler and the skiing world as one of the pioneers of extreme skiing in North America, earning his reputation dropping cliffs and bombing chutes in Whistler and also as a stunt skier for high-speed chases in James Bond movies. In 1969, Dag Aabye skied a 70-degree B.C. face, triggering an avalanche and breaking his ribs riding it through the trees on the way down (and he still showed up to teach skiing that afternoon!). Dag Aabye currently lives in a bus outside of Silver Star, B.C., where he still competes in speed-skiing events.

Aamodt, Kjetil Andre

  • NO-AK001
  • Person
  • 1971-

Kjetil Andre Aamodt is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Norway, a champion in the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. He is the most decorated ski racer from Norway.

Aarm Dental Group

  • CA-BC-AAR-001
  • Corporate body
  • 1985-

Aarm Dental Group was founded in 1985 by UBC Dental graduate Dr. Jim Armstrong. The group has locations in both Vancouver and Whistler (near Adara Hotel in Crystal Lodge).

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