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Documents relating to the Resort Municipality of Whistler's recreational development plans.

Items donated by Alison Apps (nee Racey), including the RMOW's Heritage Plan, Gondola Area Study, the building of Highway 99, and the procurement and maintenance of their plot of land near Wayside Park on Alta Lake, animal and bird pamphlets, and logging maps from the Whistler Valley.

Textual and graphic material from Whistler Blackcomb, including their 50th anniversary celebration event held in December 2015 at the Whistler Conference Centre, a mountain biking poster for the UnReal movie premiere in Whistler, and an August 2017 monthly bus pass for BC Transit Whistler.

Planning booklets from the Resort Municipality of Whistler including Five-Year Financial Plans from the Resort Municipality of Whistler and 2010 Olympic Winter Games framework summaries, reports, and budgets.

Material created by Bob Bishop, a member of Whistler's first municipal council, including a letter addressing voters from his election to the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) council in 1975.

Documents from Economic Planning Group:

1. Official Community Plan(s) 74 - 81
2. Recreation Master Plan
3. Concept Plan
4. Design Guidelines
5. Whistler Economic Effects Feb '78 + Dec '80
6. Whistler Mountain Area - An Overview of the Role of Government
7. Whistler Town Centre Development Program SGM
8. Community Development Study 1974
9. Whistler Town Centre - APRA
10. 1st Draft Report
11. Whistler - A Banking Opportunity
12. Whistler Village Facts
13. Whistler Magazine
14. Whistler Town Flyer
15. Market Summary - '78
16. Whistler Village Land Company - Annual General Meeting 1st
17. Whistler Village Land Company - Annual General Meeting 2nd
18. Whistler Resort Association - Bylaws
    20a. Proposal Call - 1st - Phase I
    20b. Proposal Call - 2nd - Market Survey
    20c. Proposal Call - 2nd - Phase II
    20d. Proposal Call - 2nd - Soil Information
    20e. Proposal Call - 3rd - Phase III
    20f. Proposal Call - 3rd - Parcel 52
    20g. Proposal Call - 3rd - Soil Information
    20h. Proposal Call - Site # 14
    20i. Proposal Call - 4th - Phase IV
19. Covenant I + II
20. Resort Municipality of Whistler - Land Use Contract
21. ???
22. Al Raine - Remarks - Whistler Village Land Company AGM
23. Whistler Town Centre Summary (Blue)
24. Whistler Update Report - Ski Consultants Inc.
25. Recreation Canada Article
26. Whistler Resort Association - AGM
27. Analysis of November Budget
28. Mountain Inn
29. Carleton Resort Ltd.
30. Brandywine Inn
31. Analysis and notes
32. Commercial Accommodation Market Survey and Analysis
33. Ecosign Accommodation Analysis 1983 - 84 (winter)
34. Official Community Plan, 1982
35. Gondola Area Land Use and Urban Design study
36. Preliminary Overview of Community Facilities Requirements
37. Whistler Village sites
38. Resort Municipality of Whistler Amendment Act, 1979
39. 1983 Annual Report
40. Commercial Demand Study
41. The Whistler Story

Fonds contain the records of Don MacLaurin. MacLaurin was involved in the forestry industry of British Columbia, taught at BCIT, and was heavily involved with the Resort Municipality of Whistler. He was in several forestry associations, including the Canadian Institute of Forestry, British Columbia Foresters, and the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia. MacLaurin created the Whistler Interpretive Forest. MacLaurin also completed assessments for private developers. Included in the fonds are his personal records.

Most of the records were created in the Whistler region.

Materials gathered by Geoff Pearce during his time in Whistler, including between 1976 and 1986 as Clerk-Treasurer for Whistler's first municipal council (RMOW). Documents include Official Community Plan drafts and revisions, an Resort Municipality of Whistler Newsletter, a Commercial Accommodation Market Survey & Analysis, and a Whistler Blackcomb Vacation Guide.

Items donated by John and Joyce Hetherington, including a poster of an artist's conception of Whistler Village presented to John Hetherington (RMOW Councillor at the time) on the occasion of the Founders Club Dinner on May 15, 1981, and an account ballot for the 1976 municipal election where Pat Carleton was voted into office as mayor.

Reports and studies from the Resort Municipality of Whistler that relate to the planning and development of Whistler Village, the resort municipality, the gondola area, and the Sea-to-Sky region between Squamish and Pemberton. The documents broach subjects including ecology, resort development, the environment, transportation, heritage, schools, architecture, sustainability, and municipal politics. Also includes photographs of RMOW events and a public art catalogue.

Photographs of events held in Whistler run in-part by the Resort Municipality of Whistler.