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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.

Raine Fonds

  • WA_1995_015
  • Fonds
  • 1989-1995

Promotional videos for tourism and activities in the Whistler area, including the Whistler Cup.

Bryan Vogler

  • WA_2018_017
  • Fonds
  • 2003-2006

Fonds consists of two letters representing the proposal that started the Whistler Express train, in which donor (Bryan Vogler) played a role. The proposal was a bid process between VIA Rail and the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Group; the Rocky Mountaineer was ultimately successful. The letters talk of the necessity of developing a Commuter Rail Service to facilitate tourist transportation between Whistler, Squamish, and North Vancouver.

Contents include:

  • VOG_001: Letter, Dena Coward (Manager of Transportation & Paralympics) to Peter Milburn (Executive Project Director, Ministry of Transportation, Sea to Sky Project Office) cc Bryan Vogler, February 6 2003.
  • VOG_002: Letter, Bryan Vogler to Peter Milburn, May 11 2006 (2 pages).

Walter Zebrowski

  • ZEB
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1996

Materials created by Walter Zebrowski, including an annotated letter critiquing Bill 130 regarding the creation of the Resort Municipality of Whistler from July 8, 1975.

Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) Fonds

  • RMOW
  • Fonds
  • 1912-2020

Photographic and textual material created and collected by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) relating to planning and development of Whistler Village and the resort municipality, events held in Whistler, land management, culture and public art, ecology, resort development, the environment, transportation, heritage, schools, architecture, sustainability, and municipal politics.

Fairmont Chateau Fonds

  • WA_2018_040
  • Fonds
  • 1987-1993

Scrapbook containing newspaper/magazine clippings, photographs, brochures, and other material relating to the development, opening, and activities of the Fairmont Chateau resort. Other articles relate to Blackcomb Mountain, Whistler Village, and Whistler in general.

Sara Jennings

  • SJEN
  • Fonds
  • 1986-[2010]

Materials gathered by Sara Jennings, including a Myrtle Philip Elementary School newsletter from 1986, assignments completed by Sara for classes at Pemberton Secondary School from 1990-1994, and two pamphlets and a poster representing the anti-2010 Olympic Games perspective.

Greg Griffith

  • GRI
  • Fonds
  • 1969-2007

Original slides, transparencies, negatives, contact sheets, and prints of photographs taken by Greg Griffith, local photographer and owner of Mountain Moments Photography. The photographs are chiefly of skiing, snowboarding, mountain scenery, aerial shots, Whistler Village, skiing and snowboarding competitions (including the Molson World Cup Downhill), summer sports, freestyle skiing and snowboarding, heli-skiing, heli-boarding, and hotels and condominiums. The collection also includes photographs of well-known Whistler residents, historical moments in Whistler (such as the opening of Blackcomb Mountain, the construction of Whistler Village, squatter culture), and various events in Whistler.

Gordon McKeever Fonds

  • GMCK
  • Fonds
  • 1970-2009

Fond consists of material donated by Gordon McKeever and includes promotional stickers for Whistler Mountain and Whistler Blackcomb, a promotional book for Whistler's restaurants, four travel planners created by the Whistler Resort Association to promote both Winter and Summer seasons between 1997 and 2000, a paper spiral bound guide for Whistler Resort Association (WRA) members from November 15th, 1996, a 1999 VHS promotional resort video guide for the Resort Municipality of Whistler, a variety of materials supporting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, four paper business directory booklets printed for the Whistler Chamber of Commerce dating from 1994, 1996, and 1999, and sixteen posters depicting a variety of subject matter including Whistler festivals, ski racing events, concert series, car shows, heli-skiing, Molson and Shell Cups, and Whistler Resort tourism.

Whistler Chamber of Commerce Fonds

  • WA_1987_006
  • Fonds
  • [1980s?]

Documents and photographs from the Whistler Chamber of Commerce. Of particular note are minutes and correspondence of the Whistler Expo Committee (1984-1986) for Whistler's involvement in Vancouver's Expo '86.

Fond contains:

  • Folder 1 - Correspondence, membership information, and committee minutes
  • Folder 2 - Expo '86 committee correspondence, reports, venue and pavilion information, and press releases
  • Folder 3 - Expo '86 committee correspondence and reports
  • Folder 4 - Expo '86 correspondence, ephemera, and information
  • Folder 5 - Whistler Conference Centre Event Prospectus
  • Folder 6 - Expo '86 press releases, promotional folder brochures, fact sheets, and updates
  • Folder 7 - Expo '86 potential travel itineraries for visitors to British Columbia, infrastructure correspondence and urban transportation report, bulletins, and reports
  • Folder 8 - Whistler Citizen of the Year, and ephemera
  • 'Resort Awareness Workshop: Whistler, BC' manual (c. 1980s)

Whistler Chamber of Commerce

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