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First Recreation Master Plan

This item is the Resort Municipality's first recreation master plan technical drawing by Trevor Roote. The file contains a three year (1981-1983) program - recreation land development prepared by Trevor Roote, and the sketch was used at public meetings to promote a referendum which raised two million dollars. The funds were used to start building the valley floor recreation facilities like parks, trails, and beaches. The original plan was produced by a volunteer ad hoc committee including Trevor Roote, Al Raine, Murray Coates, Sid Young and Cesar Gianna.

Maps

Maps and technical drawings related to the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW)'s recreation planning between 1980-1984. Areas include Lost Lake Park and the Whistler valley.

Mike Hurst Fonds

  • WA_2015_026
  • Fonds
  • 1970s-1989

Issues of Whistler - The Magazine from 1982-1989, maps of Whistler Village designs and development, and other textual documents relating to the planning, design, and amenities offered in the new Whistler Village.

Miscellaneous

Photographs depicting Nancy Greene, concept art of Whistler Village, the Rendezvous, construction in Whistler Village, Dusty's, and aerial views of Blackcomb Mountain and Whistler Village.

Mixed Graphic Material

Photographs of a helicopter, hiking in the mountains, an alpine lake, a group photo beside a helicopter, and a business card design for Whistler Heli-Skiing Ltd.

Mixed Graphic Material

Photograph of skiers looking over Whistler Village and a photo of a mountain design with black marker crop lines and blue and red pen rectangles with alphabetic labels.

Olympics DVDs and CD-R

The items include three DVDs from 2005-2010 that contain videos on a variety of topics regarding Olympic Games and one CD-R disc that contains one PDF of a study on the Whistler Athlete's Village heating system feasibility from 2004, as well as an excel matrix on the same topic.

One DVD is a short promotional video endorsing the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics bid, titled "Driven by Nature". The video contains a slide show of images related to Whistler, Vancouver, Canadian Olympic Athletes, Coastal Mountain landscapes, recreational activities, winter sports, and people. The short video is set to lively music with the slogan "we are driven by nature" overlaying the images. The images are also tinted with the Olympic colours of blue, yellow, green, and red. This DVD is housed in a paper cover with further promotional information to do with the 2010 Olympic bid as well as images of mountains, people, and Coastal B.C. Indigenous art.

One DVD is a short video, titled "Response to Request for Proposal - Gold Option Fly Through", and contains Lunney International Group Ltd's concept design for the BC Canada House at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games. The flythrough shows the concept design for both the exterior and interior of the proposed BC Canada House. The concept design included promoting Vancouver and British Columbia as the host city and province for the following winter games in 2010.

The PDF is titled "Whistler Athlete's Village District heating System Feasibility Study for the Resort Municipality of Whistler BC Hydro Terasen Gas". The study was conducted and prepared by Keen Engineering and outlines several options for sustainable, economic, and appropriate methods for supplying heat to the proposed Athlete's Village development. The Excel matrix is titled "6547-01 Appen C Whistler Matrix_006" and displays data regarding heating systems, their sustainability, economics, characteristics, and an evaluation criterial list.

One DVD contains a digital orientation program for volunteer applicants of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosted in Vancouver and Whistler. It requires Adobe Flash Player to run.

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Photograph of a mountain design with rectangles and alphabetic labels in blue pen.

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