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WA_2017_032-003 · Item · November 21, 2015
Part of Jack Douglass Fonds

Newspaper clipping from the Vancouver Sun including a timeline of "Whistler Mountain through the years." Significant events from the opening of Rainbow Lodge in 1914 to the naming of Whistler as top ski resort in North America in 2015 are listed. The clipping also contains the continuation of an article from page A17 about the history of Whistler. There are two photographs: skiers disembarking a gondola in 1991 and construction work on Whistler Town Centre in 1980.

Vancouver Sun
MACLAURIN_2017_011-008-005 · File · 1992 - 1999
Part of Don MacLaurin

File contains one bound copy of 1998 Whistler Community and Resort Monitoring Report; 1998 Town Hall Open House Bulletin; 1998 Whistler Town Hall Public Open House Survey; one bound copy of 1994 Resort Municipality of Whistler Community and Resort Monitoring System report; 1994 RMOW public meeting agenda; one bound copy of 1995 Whistler Community and Resort Profile; one bound copy of the 1999 Whistler Community and Resort Monitoring Report; 1995 Community and Resort Monitoring Program; 1997 Report on the Community and Resort Monitoring Program; bound copy of Whistler Resort Profile; Draft of 1992 Community and Resort Monitoring System for the Resort Municipality of Whistler: Discussion Paper; notes regarding Comprehensive Development Plan; typed notes regarding Official Community Plan Review Draft Studies; LRUP Forest Rec Area Map; draft of 1994 RMOW Community and Resort Monitoring System; 1995 Community and Resort Monitoring Program.

GMCK-02-005 · File · [2000]-2003
Part of Gordon McKeever Fonds

A promotional VHS tape for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games bid. The tape contains images and videos of winter Olympic sports, Canadian scenery, nature, landscapes, wildlife, Whistler, Vancouver, people, youth, famous Canadians, and Canadian Olympians. The tape contains short cameos of various speakers discussing topics ranging from Indigenous traditions, Japanese Taiko Drumming, and previous Olympics. The tape also shows the Jamaican bobsledding team crashing and a downhill ski race crash. The video supports and promotes Canada as the next nation to host the 2010 winter Olympics.

Tourism Whistler
TOUR · Fonds · 1998-2003

Materials created by Tourism Whistler, including a video and news release announcing Whistler's intention to bid along with Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

GMCK-02-011 · File · July 14, 2003
Part of Gordon McKeever Fonds

A congratulatory issue of TIME Magazine from July 14th, 2003 with a cover image of three local Whistler youth celebrating the Vancouver and Whistler 2010 Olympic bid victory in the Village Square, Whistler Village. An article on page 14 discusses the bid victory and on page 18 there is a letter to the editor discussing potential downsides to Whistler hosting the Winter Games. The cover image was later used on item GMCK_02_010_001, as well as a framed copy was hung behind the Whistler Blackcomb ticket office located below the GLC.

Sea to Sky Games Pamphlet
WA_2023_037-001-003 · File · [ca. 2003]
Part of Lynda/Walter Sellmer Fonds

A pamphlet made by the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, to detail why Vancouver and Whistler should be the host cities for the 2010 Winter games.