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Fisher, Barrett

  • CA-BC-FB005
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1980s-

Barrett Fisher is the President & CEO of Tourism Whistler. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from UBC, a Diploma in Journalism from Vancouver Community College, and a Diploma in Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago. After her schooling, she worked in the newspaper industry for seven years - first as a Reporter, News Editor, and Lifestyles Editor, then as Managing Editor of North Shore News. She was recognized as Woman of the Year by the North Vancouver YWCA during this time. In 1990, she fell in love with Otto Kamstra, a man working at Blackcomb Mountain, and one of them would have to move if they were to be together. So, she took a job as Director of Advertising and Promotions at Tourism Whistler and moved to Whistler. The couple had a daughter, Pietra, and, in 2004, Barrett became President and CEO of Tourism Whistler., responsible for marketing Whistler as a destination, overseeing the Conference Centre, Whistler Golf Club, and Whistler Visitor Centre operations, and for reservations at Whistler.com. In 2006, she was recognized by Business in Vancouver as one of 10 influential Women in Business. Fisher served on the board of the Vancouver Organizing Committee of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games from 2003 to 2013, and she was a former board member of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce, Whistler Arts Council, and the Pemberton Airport Authority. Fisher currently serves on the boards of the Tourism Industry Association of British Columbia, the British Columbia DMO Association (which she chaired for three years), and Whistler Sports Legacies. In addition, Fisher sits on the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s Economic Partnership Initiative Committee; the Municipality’s Festivals, Events & Animation Oversight Committee; and One Whistler Committee.

Barnard, Pearl

  • CA-BC-BP002
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1980s-1990s

Pearl Barnard was the creator and business-owner of the Cookie Co., a small coffee shop in St. Andrews Lodge in Whistler Village. It opened in 1987, and was bought by loyal customer Victor Kayam Collins around 1996. The shop eventually closed in 2000, struggling to compete with major coffee chains that had move into Whistler Village, like Starbucks.

Davies, Tim

  • CA-BC-DT003
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1990s-

Cusson, J.F.

  • CA-QC-CJF001
  • Pessoa
  • fl. 1990s-

J. F. Cusson is a pioneering freestyle skier and one of the 'New Canadian Air Force' skiers. Originally from Montreal, he moved to Whistler in the 1990s. By 1997, skiing had faded in popularity, usurped by snowboarding. So a small group of skiers in Whistler – JP Auclair, Cusson, Mike Douglas, and Vincent Dorion – began to emulate the snowboarders by devising new tricks on jumps and the halfpipe - reinventing skiing. The Horstman Glacier on Blackcomb Mountain was open for skiing in the summer, with an array of jumps attracting pros and film crews. The pioneering skiers were dubbed the New Canadian Air Force. At the inaugural Winter X Games in 1999 in Crested Butte, CO, big air skiing debuted and J. F. Cusson won the event with a 720 – two full rotations of 360 degrees, taking off and landing backward. He went on to judge for the Dew Tour and the X Games, and has coached golf and he used to coach at summer ski camps at Whistler. In 2011, he was named the new technical coach of Canada's National Slopestyle Ski Team.

Kass, Danny

  • US-VT-KD001
  • Pessoa
  • September 21, 1982 -

Danny Kass is an American professional freestyle snowboarder who competed in slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air. Kass was born on September 21, 1982 in Pompton Plains, NJ and began snowboarding in the area at the age of twelve. His home slopes are what are now known as Hidden Valley and Mountain Creek ski resorts, both located in the mountains of Vernon Township and Highland Lakes. After several years of snowboarding around the mid-Atlantic states, Kass entered the Okemo Mountain School in Vermont to focus more of his time on riding some of the halfpipe and terrain park in the East. In 2001, after winning his first pro halfpipe victory at Okemo, VT, Danny was almost arrested for underage drinking after putting away most of his sponsor’s beer at an industry convention. A few years later, he was arrested twice in New Zealand, once for possession and another time for driving his van up a ski run in Cardrona, NZ. Nevertheless, in 2001 Danny broke out into what has become one of the most successful contest streaks in US snowboarding with four US Open Championships, seven Winter X Games medals, and two Olympic silver medals (2002 in Salt Lake City, UT and 2006 in Torino, Italy). Danny Kass won the halfpipe format of the 2009 Burton US Open, which is the final of the TTR World Snowboard Tour. Kass and his brother, Matt, were the founders of Grenade Gloves, which specializes in snowboarding gloves, accessories, and other extreme sporting gear. Kass is one of the stars of The Adventures of Danny and The Dingo on Fuel TV. He has also starred in several snowboarding films, including Snowboarding: For Me (2014) and FunDuhMentals: Transworld Snowboarding (2012). He has also made appearances on MTV's The Real World and Rally On.

Keevil, Norman B. (Jr.)

  • CA-ON-KNB001
  • Pessoa
  • 1938-

Norman B. Keevil Jr. is a Canadian mining industry pioneer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His father, Norman B. Keevil Sr., was a professor and geologist who was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project due to his knowledge of radioactive dating. Keevil Sr. agreed, until it became clear that being Canadian meant it would take a year to get security clearance. Rather than wait, Keevil Sr. turned down the offer and came back to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto, his wife and Norman B. Keevil, Jr. - just six months old - in tow. Norman B. Keevil Jr.'s first exposure to geology came a decade later, while spending time with his father on the waters in and around Lake Temagami, near North Bay, ON. The Keevil family had a cottage there, and canoeing along its rocky shores instilled in the family a natural curiosity for the rocks that formed the landscape. If they saw a stream, they would sample the sediments. By the time Keevil Jr. was 16, in 1954, Temagami Island would play host to the first key asset in the Keevil mining dynasty: the Temagami copper mine. While Temagami was being proven up, Norman B. Keevil Jr. was a student at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, ON. He then studied geological engineering at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1959. Having decided to do his PhD in geophysics the United States, he made the decision on which university based on which could help secure the funds to support his young family while completing his studies. He applied to Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago and MIT, asking for work as a research or teaching assistant. Four of those schools offered $125/month, and Berkeley offered $150/month, which is why he chose to go to the University of California, Berkeley. Part of his doctorate at Berkeley required him to go to Merritt, BC, to work for Placer Development, the predecessor to Placer Dome, for his thesis. So with his wife and three children, the Keevils shuffled between Berkeley and Merritt for three years. After his doctorate, he was planning to teach geophysics at the University of Utah, until his mother called saying that Keevil Sr. wanted his son to return to Ontario to work for his company, Teck. Keevil Jr. returned with his family to Ontario in 1963 to serve as vice-president of exploration for Teck; he was just 25 years old. He remained in that position until 1968, when he was promoted to executive vice-president of Teck. The acquisition of the Afton deposit defined Dr. Keevil’s tenure at Teck. While Afton would later bring in Placer as a tactic to dilute away Teck’s controlling position, Teck eventually bought Placer out, and in 1978, Afton went into production and became a key Teck asset. The Afton deal not only secured for Teck a solid copper asset, it also crystallized a growing feeling in the company’s executive suite that Vancouver would be the best place for Teck’s head office to be. The office, along with the Keevil family, made the move to Vancouver in 1972, Teck taking on several coal projects in BC and going on to become second largest shipper of seaborne metallurgical coal in world. The company came out of a string of winners after building Newfoundland Zinc in 1975, Niobec Niobium in 1976, and the Afton copper-gold mine and smelter in 1978. The company also helped build one of Canada’s great gold mines: the David Bell mine at Hemlo, which was discovered in 1981. Teck bought stakes in many other mining companies of the time, often in a controlling position. In 1979, The Northern Miner named Norman B. Keevil Jr. its Mining Man of the Year, citing the impressive string of mine constructions he presided over in the 1970s (Keevil Jr. also later received their Lifetime Achievement Award). Since winning that award, Keevil Jr. went on to ensure Teck was part of some of the biggest mining projects over the next 30 years, such as Hemlo, Voisey’s Bay, and Antamina. In 1981 he became president and CEO of Teck upon his father's retirement, a position he held until 2001, when he stepped back to serve as Chairman of the Board. Through his leadership, Teck grew from a small gold mine in Northern Ontario to Canada’s largest diversified resource company with mines in Canada, the United States, Chile, and Peru. Keevil Jr. is an avid supporter of research and education in mineral resources at UBC. In 2006, Teck donated $7.5 million toward the establishment of the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering. Keevil Jr. was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in January 2004 and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2012. He received the Order of BC in 2012, in part due to major donations he made to the BC Children’s Hospital, the University of Alberta, and the Royal Ontario Museum. He received the Order of Canada in 2014. In 2017, he published his autobiography with McGill Queens University Press under the title “Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time". Keevil Jr. retired as Chairman of the Board in January 2019, when he was appointed Chairman Emeritus and Special Advisor to the Board of Teck. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia in May 1993 and is a lifetime director of the Mining Association of Canada. Keevil Jr. was also named to the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. He has been inaugurated into the Mining Hall of Fame, named Canadian International Business Leader of the Year, and received the T. Patrick Boyle Founder’s Award from the Fraser Institute.

Hujara, Günter

  • DE-HG001
  • Pessoa
  • June 9, 1952 -

Günter Hujara is a German former skiing official and ski coach. Hujara was born on June 9, 1952 in Neuenbürg, Germany. In his youth, he competed in several races for the Neuenbürg Ski Club. In 1969, in Steinlach near Mössingen, he won one of the first nationwide grass ski races in the junior class. In 1970, he was also the youth class district champion in giant slalom. He was trained as a geography and sports teacher, but began his career in professional ski racing in 1976 for the German Ski Association (DSV). After being head coach of the German women's speed team in the 1980s, he moved to the International Ski Federation (FIS) in 1991. For two years, Hujara was responsible for the women's skiing along with the Austrian Kurt Hoch. In 1993, he replaced Karl Frehsner as race director in the men's World Cup, and from then on, was responsible for the safety and technical management of the races. Because of his resolute nature, he often clashed with athletes in this role, such as Hermann Maier, who was disqualified twice for minor rule violations, or with Bode Miller and Didier Cuche, whose safety concerns he didn't always share. On June 10, 2013, Hujara announced at a FIS conference in Dubrovnik that he would step down from his role as race director after the 2013/2014 season. As part of the team captains' meeting, he retired on March 15, 2014 and handed over his office to Markus Waldner from South Tyrol. Hujara remained with FIS as an expert on "special projects" and pushed - with a view to the 2018 and 2022 Olympic Games - the development of alpine skiing in South Korea and China. For example, he was involved in the training of specialists and the development of the infrastructure in the Jeongseon Alpine Center. Hujara is married and has two daughters: Maike and Svenja, both also involved in ski racing.

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