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1993 RMOW Environmental Strategy

Records concerning RMOW's Parks and Recreation environmental strategy from 1993. The file includes LRUP meeting notes and minutes; correspondence; Forest Recreation Plan drafts; a road use permit application; trail maintenance work lists.

BC Transit Services Map for Whistler, Pemberton, and Squamish - 2010 Winter Olympics

The item is a BC Transit brochure map that outlines its bus services during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosted by Vancouver and Whistler. The map depicts the temporarily enhanced bus routes throughout the Whistler Valley for the Games, as well as shows Pemberton and Squamish connector routes and stops. The brochure also shows bus pass prices, schedules, and other information.

Loose Prints #8

Photographs of the Burns Lake bust (3/2/213/1), Steve Podborski, dynamite cash on Whistler Mountain (3/2/213/4), Duncan Bell-Irving in the back of a police car, a flood at Alpine Meadows and 19 Mile Creek, an avalauncher, Roundhouse, the parking lot at Creekside and the Gondola Barn, the Tokum Corners sign, Franz Wilhelmsen, Armchair Glacier, and Jordan's Lodge covered in snow.

November 1981 Flood Photographs

File includes photographs of a flooded Nineteen Mile Creek in Alpine Meadows. The photographs were found in an envelope labelled "Photos Oct 31 1981 Flood's Alpine Meadows 19 Mile Creek" [sic] and "Stt letter KWL Nov. 13/81".

Photo captions:
002: "40"
003: "38"
004: "41"
005: "39"
006: "36"
007: "43"
008: "42"

Prints

Photographs of Whistler, Blackcomb, and Wedge Mountain landscapes, with some including Alpine Meadows, Green Lake, and Lost Lake. The contact sheet includes additional photographs with someone walking along a path with the Wedge Mountain behind.

Note: duplicate prints of some of the items, as well as a contact sheet that also includes photographs that are not included as prints in this file. There are also no corresponding negatives for this file despite being shown in the contact sheet.

Resort Municipality of Whistler Newsletters

Two Resort Municipality of Whistler newsletters from February 1979 and March 1981 sent to the Alpine Club of Canada Vancouver Section. The issues were read and used by the Section executive of the Club and were previously part of the Section archive.

The newsletters broach subjects including regarding a Garibaldi Lift Company announcement to develop the North Face of Whistler Mountain, the rights to develop Blackcomb Mountain by Fortress Mountain Resorts Ltd, the sod turning ceremony of the Town Core [Whistler Village], announcement for a contract for underground parking, the announcement that Arnold Palmer Enterprises set to design an 18 hole golf course [Whistler Golf Course], the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department, private water systems, the Information Center, thank-yous to council members, welcomes to newly elected council members, highway improvements to the north, subdivision paving, overnight camping, Health Center and ambulance service, efforts to establish an R.C.M.P detachment, establishment of a ski train, television and radio reception, bylaws to control dogs and noise, taxes, establishing a municipal works yard, employee housing, schools, road maintenance, garbage service, zoning, recreational facilities, legal costs, budgets, flooding, gas utilities, Municipal Hall, bus transportation, Sunday shopping, construction, the cemetery, and the Cheakamus River.

Resort Municipality of Whistler Recreation Master Plan - 1980

Recreation Master Plan created by Professional Environmental Recreation Consultants Ltd. for the Resort Municipality of Whistler in 1980. The report investigates outdoor recreation demand and analyzes Whistler's physical resource base. The report includes multiple trail maps of the Whistler Valley and manually highlighted text [possibly by Geoff Pearce].

Table of Contents:

  • Letter of Transmittal
  • Introduction
  • Demand - Proposed Park and Recreation Service Standards
  • The Outdoor Recreation System
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix A - Implementation
  • Appendix B - Five Year Capital Cost Program, Estimates, and Priorities
  • Appendix C - The Rationale for the Delivery of Municipal Services
  • Appendix D - Selected Bibliography
  • Appendix E - The Preliminary recreational Land Use Report
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