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Lundgren, Doug

  • CA-BC-LD016
  • Person
  • fl. 1980s-

Doug Lundgren is a Canadian snowboarding pioneer and avalanche forecaster at Big White Ski Resort. In 1985, Lester Quitzau brough snowboards to Kelowna from Calgary snowboarder Ken Achenbach, who is known as the father of Canadian snowboarding. A friend of Lester and Ken, Doug heard of the new sport and decided to get some blank snowboard decks from Chuck Barfoot. Back in Doug’s dads’ garage, Doug developed plastic bindings made of flat sheets of UHMW, which he heated up with a torch and bent. He traced out Lester’s Pro model, and Barfoot cuts out the blanks with a router. Doug hand planed a deeper side cut into the heel edge of the board, thus inventing the very first asymmetrical snowboard. Doug and Lester Quitzau lobbied provincial ministry officials and resort managers at Big White for on-hill inclusion for snowboarders, which they eventually got. Doug and Flynn Seddon created the first banked slalom course at the ski resort in 1987. Lundgren then moved to Whistler in 1988 with other snowboarding pioneers, including Ken Achenbach and Alex Warburton. They formed a brotherhood of riders that stirred up the snow sports world and attracted even more riders to the area, also working to create acceptance at the resort. This group of snowboarders eventually tapped into Blackcomb Mountain, where they were allowed to ride in 1988. While skiers mainly stuck to a generic style, snowboarders embraced creativity, finding natural features and adding tricks and radical techniques to the act of making turns. Infamous terrain features like the natural quarter pipe and wind lip sections at 7th Heaven on Blackcomb were the platform for experimentation in the freestyle realm, pushing the sport to new levels. Doug Lungren is well-known for starring in a cover for Transworld SNOWboarding magazine, in which he is high above the windlip at 7th Heaven. Doug went went on to run The Snoboard Shop in Whistler and became the first snowboarder to work at Mike Wiegele’s Heli-Skiing. Doug eventually moved to Kelowna, BC, where the opened the city's first snowboard shop, and then back to Big White. In 1995/1996, he built up the Big White snowboard program with BC Snowboard, paying 30 staff to work on the terrain park, event development, and industry best practices. In 1997, Doug became President of BC Snowboard. He has been an avalanche forecaster at Big White since 2011.

Lundie, Omar

  • CA-BC-LO001
  • Person
  • fl. 1990s-

Omar Lundie is a snowboarder who lived in Whistler in the 1990s and was featured in Snowboarder Magazine (1996). He competed in snowboard slalom and boardercross in the 1990s and was part of the snowboard crew, the privateer riders "Team Playas".

Lundstrom, Verner

  • SE-LV001
  • Person
  • [1910s?]-2009

Verner Lundstrom was a Swedish logger living and working in the Whistler area during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He came to Canada from Sweden in the late 1920s when he was 18 years old to live with his brother, Charlie Lundstrom. In his first few years at Alta Lake, Verner worked at Rainbow Lodge as a seasonal handyman, where he learned English. He also worked for his brother taking out cedar poles and logging the land where Jordan's Lodge was later built in what is now Creekside, on Nita Lake. The brothers first lived in a cabin close to the railway and near Fitzsimmons Creek, about a mile away from Lost Lake. Together, they also logged cedar poles around the northeast area of Alta Lake. Verner and Charlie worked together for 8 to 10 years before Charlie moved on. Vern enjoyed swimming and climbing the mountains in the area. He married his wife, Lauretta Lundstrom (nee Arnold), in 1942, and they lived at Mile 43, between Whistler and Pemberton. The couple then moved to Mile 48, where Vern worked logging for the sawmill of John Brunzen and Denis DeBeck. After their first child was born, Verner and Lauretta moved to Birken, BC, then later to Pemberton, where their daughters could attend school. In 1950, the family left the Sea to Sky corridor and moved to Chilliwack, BC, where Verner continued to work in logging camps. Even after he retired, Verner continued to fell trees for his friends until the age of 85. He passed away in 2009.

Lundstrom, Lauretta Mabel

  • CA-BC-LLM001
  • Person
  • March 2, 1923 - May 5, 2019

Lauretta Mabel Lundstrom (nee Arnold) was an early resident of the Alta Lake area (in what is now Whistler) in the 1940s. She married her husband, Verner Lundstrom, in 1942, and they lived at Mile 43, between Whistler and Pemberton. The couple then moved to Mile 48, where Vern worked logging for the sawmill of John Brunzen and Denis DeBeck. After their first child was born, Verner and Lauretta moved to Birken, BC, then later to Pemberton, where their daughters could attend school. In 1950, the family left the Sea to Sky corridor and moved to Chilliwack, BC, where Verner continued to work in logging camps. Verner passed away in 2009, and Lauretta passed away on May 5, 2019.

Lundstrom, Charlie

  • SE-LC001
  • Person
  • [1910s?]-1961

Charlie Lundstrom is a logger and early resident of the Alta Lake area, living there from the 1920s to 1950s. He moved to Canada from Sweden in 1927 and settled between Rainbow Lodge and Parkhurst in what is now known as the Whistler area. He worked as a logger, and his brother, Verner Lundstrom, eventually joined him in his work. The brothers lived in a cabin close to the railway and near Fitzsimmons Creek, about a mile away from Lost Lake. Together, they logged cedar poles around the northeast area of Alta Lake. The brothers also logged cedar poles where Jordan's Lodge was later built in what is now Creekside, on Nita Lake. Charlie Lundstrom also had a farm at the end of Green Lake. Verner and Charlie worked together for 8 to 10 years before Charlie moved on to take logging work elsewhere , [likely in the 1940s]. He was killed in a logging accident (while felling a tree) in 1961.

Bodner, Carla

  • CA-BC-LK011
  • Person
  • fl. 1980s-

Carla Bodner (nee Lundstrom) grew up in British Columbia. She is the granddaughter of early Alta Lake (now Whistler) residents, Verner and Lauretta Lundstrom. She attended the Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp at Whistler Mountain in [the 1980s?]. She is married to Jim Bodner, and lived in Smithers, BC in the 2000s.

Lunn, Amber

  • CA-BC-LA013
  • Person
  • fl. 2000s-

Amber Lunn is an environmental scientist who has worked for Cascade Environmental Resource Group Ltd. in Whistler.

Lunn, Arnold Henry Moore

  • GB-LAHM001
  • Person
  • April 18, 1888 - June 2, 1974

Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn was an alpine skier, mountaineer, and author. He was born on April 18, 1888 in Madras, India. He was the eldest of three sons and a daughter of Sir Henry Simpson Lunn and Mary Ethel Lunn (nee Moore). His father was a lay Methodist minister, but Arnod was an agnostic and wrote critically about Catholicism before he converted to that religion at the age of 45. His father also later founded Lunn's Travel Agency (that would become Lunn Poly), which encouraged tourism in the Swiss Alps. Arnold attended Orley Farm School, in Harrow, England, followed by Harrow School. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and while he was there, founded and was president of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club. Introduced to skiing by his father, Arnold invented the slalom skiing race in 1922. Towards the end of 1913, Lunn married Mabel Northcote, the granddaughter of Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. They had three children: Peter, John, and Jaqueta. Though not keen on mountaineering, Mabel shared her husband's love of skiing. She was the first woman to pass the British First Class skiing test, and she was a founder member of the Kandahar Ski Club. When her brother became 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh in 1927, she acquired the courtesy title of "Lady Mabel". Following the First World War (1914-1918) and a hiatus in international skiing, Sir Arnold continued to winter in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland in the village of Murren. In January 1921, Arnold organized the British national ski championship at Wengen, the first national championship to include a downhill race as well as jumping and cross-country skiing. Previously, slalom style races had been decided by style, however by 1922, Lunn, convinced that there was a real need for a race designed to test a skier's ability to turn securely and rapidly on steep alpine ground, was insisting on speed being the only arbiter. On January 21, 1922, the Alpine Ski Challenge Cup, first held in 1920, was transformed into a challenge cup for slalom racing based on speed. On the practice slopes at Mürren, Lunn set pairs of flags through which the competitors had to turn, and the flags were so set as to test the main varieties of alpine ski turns. Lunn's innovation was that the winner was simply the competitor who could make his way down in the shortest time. This first slalom was won by J. A. Joannides. Sir Arnold persisted, despite doubts from the Swiss and Nordic nations, with his campaign to officially regulate and incorporate slalom into the Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS). At a FIS conference held in Oslo in 1930, the downhill and slalom racing events and their rules were accepted and the discipline of alpine skiing was officially born. Lunn was the founder of the Alpine Ski Club (1908), the Ladies Ski Club (1923) and the Kandahar Ski Club (1924), and he was the organizer of many ski races around the world. He initiated in collaboration with the Austrian skier Hannes Schneider the Arlberg Kandahar Challenge Cup in honour of Lord Roberts of Kandahar. Through his efforts, the Downhill and Slalom races were introduced into the Olympic Games in 1936, although he opposed the Winter Olympic Games of that year being held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He later wrote, "In 1936 the Olympic Committee paid Hitler the greatest compliment in their power by entrusting the Nazis with the organization of the summer and winter Olympic Games." Lunn refereed the slalom in the 1936 Winter Olympics, and his son, Peter, was the captain of the British ski team, but neither marched in the opening procession or attended the lavish banquet organized by the Nazis. Sir Arnold was also a prolific writer with over 50-titles to his credit between 1912 and 1958. In his capacity as an author and agnostic, he published Roman Converts in 1924, which consisted of highly critical studies of five eminent converts to Roman Catholicism: John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning, George Tyrell, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and Ronald Knox. In 1930, Lunn published The Flight from Reason, in which he argued that scientific materialism is finally a philosophy of nihilism: it ends by questioning the very basis of its own existence. If materialism be true, Lunn argued, our thoughts are the mere product of material processes uninfluenced by reason. They are, therefore, determined by irrational processes, and the thoughts which lead to the conclusion that materialism is true have no basis in reason. In the same year as The Flight from Reason appeared (1930), Lunn proposed to Knox an exchange of letters for subsequent publication in which he would advance all the objections he could conceive of to Roman Catholicism and Knox would reply. Knox accepted, and for more than a year the letters went to and fro. In 1932 they appeared as a book under the title Difficulties. This exchange did much to clarify Lunn's mind, but even so, nearly two years were to elapse before he was received into the Catholic Church. In 1932, Lunn accepted a challenge from the noted philosopher C. E. M. Joad to discuss Christianity in a series of letters; they were published the following year as Is Christianity True? Joad, an agnostic, attacked Christianity on a wide variety of fronts, and Lunn, by now a believing Christian, if uncommitted to any particular denomination, responded. Lunn later wrote: "I can imagine no better training for the Church than to spend, as I did, a year arguing the case against Catholicism with a Catholic, and a second year in defending the Catholic position against an agnostic." On July 13, 1933, Monsignor Knox received Lunn into the Catholic Church. Lunn's story of his conversion is related in Now I See, which was published in November of the same year. During the Spanish Civil War, Lunn became a dedicated supporter of the Nationalist side; he wrote many anti-Republican articles for the British press, and was a member of the pro-Franco group Friends of National Spain. Lunn visited the Nationalist lines during the war and interviewed the Spanish General Gonzalo de Aguilera Munro; Lunn praised Aguilera as "not only a soldier but a scholar". In 1937, Lunn published Spanish Rehearsal, a pro-Franco analysis of the Spanish war, and George Orwell reviewed it for Time and Tide together with Storm over Spain by Mairin Mitchell. In commending Mitchell’s well-informed analysis, Orwell savaged Spanish Rehearsal, in particular disputing that the burning of nuns was now commonplace in "red Spain". Lunn was also a supporter of Benito Mussolini, stating in a 1938 speech that Mussolini's Fascism "has no sense of bullying" and that life in Mussolini's Italy was "largely the same" as it was before Mussolini took power. Lunn was opposed to Nazism for "its excesses", but lauded Neville Chamberlain for his signing of the Munich Agreement, saying Chamberlain did "a splendid job". Lunn later became a friend of William F. Buckley, Jr. and a contributor to Buckley's National Review. Lunn's writings for the publication were marked by strong anti-communist sentiments. Arnold's wife, Lady Mabel Lunn, died on March 4, 1959. Two years later, on April 18, 1961, Lunn married Phyllis Holt-Needham. In the early 1930s, Lunn was on the point of advertising for a secretary when his wife told him that she had found the perfect secretary for him, the niece of a friend of hers. Two days later "a rather shy-looking young woman" was ushered into his office for a job interview, Phyllis Holt-Needham. An account of the interview is given in Lunn's book Memory to Memory. At the time Lunn was exchanging controversial letters with J. B. S. Haldane, published later under the title Science and the Supernatural. Phyllis, who was an agnostic and very familiar with modern attacks on Christianity, confidently expected that Haldane would demolish Lunn, and was "both surprised and annoyed" by his inability to do so. Her first reaction was to find fault with Haldane as a controversialist and to be "unduly complimentary" about Lunn's controversial talents. Gradually, however, she began to suspect that it was the weakness of Haldane's case which enabled Lunn to get the better of his "intellectual superior," and this was the first step in her return to the Christian faith. Although Phyllis was only mildly keen on skiing and never an accomplished practitioner, she was assistant editor to Lunn of the British Ski Year Book. Arnold was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952. A double-black diamond trail at Taos Ski Valley, NM is named for Sir Arnold Lunn. He was a long-standing member of the Committee of the International Ski Federation. He passed away on June 2, 1974 in London, England at age 86. He was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame as a builder in 1990.

Lunn, Gary Vincent

  • CA-BC-LGV001
  • Person
  • May 8, 1957 -

Gary Vincent Lunn is a retired Canadian politician, lawyer, carpenter, ski patroller, and member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2011, first as a member of the Reform Party of Canada and subsequently as a member of the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party of Canada. He was a Cabinet Minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Official Opposition Critic for Métis and Non-Status Indians, Minister of Northern Development, and Critic of the Secretary of State for Human Resources Development. Lunn was born on May 8, 1957 in Trail, BC. He was formerly a member of Canadian Ski Patrol and also formerly worked as a carpenter.He attended the University of Victoria, where he completed a Bachelor of Law. He practiced law in Victoria, BC for two years before seeking the federal nomination for Saanich-Gulf Islands. He was first elected to Parliament in the federal election of 1997 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada and was re-elected in 2000 as a member of the Canadian Alliance. In April 2001, Lunn was one of the first Alliance MPs to openly criticize the leadership of Stockwell Day, and was suspended from caucus in May of the same year as a result. He briefly sat with the Democratic Representative Caucus under the leadership of Chuck Strahl, but in November 2001, he left to rejoin the Alliance after Day agreed to hold a leadership race. He was permitted to return to the party in January 2002, during the leadership of John Reynolds, following Day's resignation. In the federal election of 2006, he won re-election against Liberal candidate Sheila Orr and NDP candidate Jennifer Burgis. Lunn was Minister of Natural Resources in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper from February 6, 2006 to October 30, 2008, when he became Minister of State (Sport) and Minister responsible for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Lunn is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada as well as the Knights of Columbus. He has also taught first aid for St. John’s Ambulance. He and his family reside in Sidney, BC, and formerly resided in North Saanich, BC. He has been the owner of Walking Stick Developments Inc. since 2012.

Lunney, Gar

  • CA-MB-LG001
  • Person
  • February 27, 1920 - March 23, 2016

Gar Lunney was a Canadian photographer and sailor. He was born on February 27, 1920 in Winnipeg, MB. Gar began his career as a photographer with the Winnipeg Tribune before serving as an Able Seaman and Quarter Master aboard the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Prince Robert from 1940-1945, during World War II. After the war, in 1950, he joined the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), which existed from 1939 until 1984. There, he documented Royal tours, took portraits of famous Canadians, and photographed landscapes, industries, and people in their everyday lives from every corner of the country. He left the NFB in 1964. In 1969, he married Anne Grete, a Danish woman he met in Montreal while he was based in Ottawa. Gar was a founder of the National Press Club in Ottawa. In 1970, he left Ottawa and moved to Vancouver, beginning a career as a freelance photographer specializing in photojournalism and annual reports. He was a longtime photographer for BC Packers Limited. Gar earned many awards for his photorgaphy, which appeared in the former Weekend magazine and the Beautiful British Columbia magazine, among others. His photography can also be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. He and Anne spent their years together living in Vancouver as long-time members of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. Gar worked as a freelance photographer until his retirement. He passed away on March 23, 2016.

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