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Bonny Makarewicz was a Canadian photographer and photojournalist who documented Whistler's growth, culture, and inhabitants for over two decades. She was born in Revelstoke, BC on July 29, 1962 to Nick and Joanna Makarewicz, Polish immigrants who settled along the Columbia River to farm. She had six siblings (and was the second youngest): Sharon, Gail, Linda, Janice, Sheila, and Bob. Having become interested in photography while attending Revelstoke Secondary School from 1976 to 1980, she then went on to study photojournalism at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Calgary, AB. She moved to Whistler in 1991 and operated Bonny Makarewicz Photography. Her images appeared regularly in PIQUE Newsmagazine, the Whistler Question, Whistler Magazine, the Vancouver Sun, The Province, the National Post, Ski Magazine, the New York Times, and The Globe and Mail. She was the only female member of the European Pressphoto Agency's 200-strong crew at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Her photos can also be found in the book 'The Top of the Pass: Whistler and the Sea to Sky Country'. In 1996, she married her husband, Laurence Perry (a helicopter pilot), with whom she lived in the White Gold neighbourhood of Whistler before moving to the Barnfield/Tapley's Farm area. In her spare time she enjoyed skiing, snowboarding, and mountain biking, and she had a Jack Russell Terrier named Biggles. Upon being diagnosed with cancer, she became an advocate for the Save Your Skin Foundation. Bonny passed away from melanoma on March 27, 2014. Her ashes were spread at a monastery at a Buddhist temple on an island near Victoria, BC, on the family land on the Columbia River near Revelstoke, and on Billy's Epic, a mountain bike trail on the West side of Whistler.
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Calgary, AB
Whistler
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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Catalogued October 2018.
Revised June 2023.
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1) Archival material
2) https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/whistler-photographer-bonnie-makarewicz-loses-battle-to-cancer/Content?oid=2549460
3) https://www.whistlerquestion.com/news/local-news/remembering-bonny-makarewicz-1.962826
4) https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler-news/bossy-bonny-two-braids-documented-whistlers-life-and-soul-2495869
5) https://www.revelstokereview.com/obituaries/bonny-makarewicz/
6) https://www.cylex-canada.ca/company/makarewicz-bonny-photography-12303628.html
7) https://npac.ca/2014/03/bonny-makarewicz/