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Materials donated by Caroline Dwyer from her time competing in snowboard slalom races (during the early years of competitive snowboarding) from 1998-2000, including photographs of Dwyer competing at the 1998 Nagano Olympic selection trials (the first year snowboarding was a sport in the Olympic Games) held at Nakiska, Alberta, and BC Snowboard Provincial SeriesFinals snowboard race information sheets from 2000 at Big White.

Materials collected by Ross Rebagliati relating to his career as a professional snowboarder and during his time competing for Team Canada in the Winter Olympic Games at Nagano, Japan in 1998, where he was the first person to win an Olympic gold medal in the discipline of snowboarding. Included is a scrapbook of his achievements and magazine features. Also included are fan letters expressing support for him during the post-Olympics controversy over marijuana which resulted in his gold medal being stripped and then re-awarded.