DUC AT iat eS TARO AL CSTE Oi tles tt GAY PM tae ae 4 it iNet ns ‘ paren ORIEN ASHLEE pal ‘ NAL CC Carn A$ nice Rf CAR RSET OULU oe a - > i Hy ‘ v 8 at, ‘rat Province of Ministry of Provincial Parlament Guildings British Cotumbla Secretary and Victoria Government Services British Columbia VV 1X4 OFFICE OF THE MINISTER September 20, 1985 Mayor Len Traboulay City of Port Coquitlam 2272 McAllister Avenue Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 2A8 | Dear Mr... Traboulay: RE: 1989 British Columbia Winter Games 7 1989 British Columbia Summer Games 1990 British Columbia Winter Games 199C British Columbia Summer Games On betalf of the Government of British Columbia, it is my pleasure to invite your community to bid to host the 1989 or 1990 British Columbia Summer or Winter Games. Your community may bid on all four Games or any number of the four Games. However, you would of course only be awarded one of the Events. In the event you bid on more than one of the Games, each Games you bid on must be by a separate and distinct bid. 4 7 4 | J + ; The first British Columbia Summer Games were held in Penticton in 1978; the first B.C, Winter Games in Kamloops in 1979; the second B.C. Summer Games in Richmond in 1979; the second 8.C. Winter Games in Kimberley in 1980; the 1980 Sunmer Games were held in Kelowna; the 1981 Winter Games in Prince George and the 1981 Summer Games in the Comox Valley. Trai] hosted the 1982 Winter Games; Vernon the 1982 Sumner; and the 1983 Winter Games were held in Revelstoke. The 1983 Summer Games were in Maple Ridge, Fort St. John ~ 1984 Winter; Burnaby ~ 1984 Summer; Osoyoos « 1985 Winter; and Nanaimo just recently held the 1985 B.C. Summer Games. Future Games have been awarded to Terrace - Winter 1986; Cranbrook - Summer 1986; Fernie - Winter Games 1987; 1987 Summer Games - Delta; 1988 Winter Games - Dawson Creek; 1963 Summer Games to Oak Bay. A tC RN ape) re ot SSN et ane ee | During the past 12 months in playdowns leading up to the 8.C. Winter Games in Osoyoos-Oliver and the 8.C. Summer Games Nanaimo, there were 269,000 British Columbians invalved, ranging in age from 13 to 79. This year's B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo had 3,834 athletes competing.