Records concerning BCIT's Basic Resources Instruction for Development, Growth, and Employment (BRIDGE) Distance Education Program; records concerning the Sunshine Village Ski Area; and various records pertaining to the South Pacific.

The file includes correspondence regarding the BRIDGE Program; financial records; travel insurance information; reports and proposals; Don MacLaurin's 1982 copy of "Learning at a Distance and the New Technology"; Don MacLaurin's copy of "International Council for Distance Education: 1982 Conference Report and Handbook"; BCIT audio teleconferencing information; conference summaries, programs and notes; contact information; copies of BRIDGE Program initiatives, core modules, and descriptions.

The file also includes technical details for an experimental satellite communications project; a map with information on the South Pacific; an executive summary on the Anik-B Interactive Instructional Television Project.

The file also includes correspondence and reports regarding the expansion of the Sunshine Village Ski Area.

File contains a full draft copy of the Whistler Whistler Mountain Skier Usage Report written by BCIT Students in 1971.

Documents concerning the ecology course taught by Don MacLaurin in 1974. The file includes lab notes and handouts; soil notes; classification systems; and course handouts.

Contains documents used by Don MacLaurin while teaching courses at BCIT, including marking keys (rubrics); course notes; course planning and laboratory activity details; lecture schedules and notes; workshop notes; course-related academic papers; class attendance notes; course-related definitions, records, and descriptions; land use planning frameworks. Also includes a CD containing Project Course Reports for the year 2000, involving the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.

Correspondence addressed to Don MacLaurin during this teacher years at BCIT. The file contains correspondence regarding Don MacLaurin's 1984/85 study leave; correspondence regarding a student project in the Whistler area; email correspondence with the Canadian Avalanche Association; and correspondence regarding forestry technology course modules.

Records concerning the Sunshine Ski Area expansion project, evaluated by Don MacLaurin. File includes correspondence regarding the Sunshine Ski Area; a BCIT forestry education course completion certificate; project reports and proposals; notes and reports on site visits; reports on the use of computer graphics in the visual analysis of the Sunshine Ski Area Expansion; the final report to the Sunshine Study Group.

Records concerning the BCIT Pioneers Club. The file includes Forest Ranger training materials; documents regarding the extension of the Chilliwack Forest Development Road; various correspondence; a briefing document on distance education at BCIT; a list of contacts associated with Don MacLaurin's 1984/85 study leave; a copy of the December 1959 Forest Service Newsletter.

Contains "Wildlife - A Bibliography: Government publications on wildlife held in the Library of the B.C. Institute of Technology," compiled by Katherine Kent. The file also contains an interoffice memo addressed to Don MacLaurin from Margot Allingham.

Contains "Notes on Ski Resort Area Planning (taken from U.S.F.S. ski area seminar notes, Lake Tahoe, 1970)," by the BCIT FWR Program.

Records concerning the Whistler Mountain skier usage report by BCIT Students from 1971. The file includes correspondence, a draft copy of the Whistler Mountain User Study (1976); an edited copy of the students' ski report with editorial notes.