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Photograph taken at the Intercontinental Hotel in Paris, France.

Image is one of 15 photographs accompanied by notation on piece of paper reading: “1980 Paris, Bid for 1988 Calgary Olympics with Roger Jackson,” and “Reportage minister du Canada, 14.5.81, Reportage Pele der 14.5.81” See also items 2009.6.1.406 - 2009.6.1.420.

Subseries consists of correspondence and accompanying informational material related to the operations of the Fitness and Amateur Sport branch of the Department of National Health and Welfare. Records include newspaper clippings, reports, newsletters, memoranda, brochures and pamphlets, reference material, budgetary documents, news releases, and speeches by Minister Campagnolo. Includes correspondence regarding national sports events and services; congratulations to Canadian athletes, teams, and coaches; requests for financial aid and grant applications from sport organizations and athletes; handicapped athletes and organizations; the National Sports and Recreation Centre; requests for information and publications from the branch; the National Advisory Council on Fitness and Amateur Sport Operations; national and international sports conferences; liaison with businesses, educational institutions, and foreign countries regarding sport; the issue of apartheid and its effect on sports; sports training facilities at universities; and sports and fitness research. Also includes alphabetical name registry files for sport associations and organizations that contain correspondence and informational material related to specific groups.

Subseries consists of correspondence and accompanying informational material related to the amateur sport functions of the Fitness and Amateur Sport branch of the Department of National Health and Welfare. Records include copies of legislation and policy relating to sport, reports, questionnaires, newspaper and magazine clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, brochures, posters, reference material, and speeches from Minister Campagnolo and others. Includes correspondence regarding government policies on amateur sport; the metrication of sports; Canadian hosting policies for tournaments; Canada Cup 1976; the Commonwealth Games, particularly the 1978 Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton; the Pan American Games; international ice hockey competitions, particularly at the World Cup Championships; the Arctic Winter Games; the Canada Winter Games, particularly the 1979 Brandon, Manitoba games; the Canada Summer Games; requests for financial assistance and grant applications from various sporting bodies; Hockey Canada; the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; the Special Olympics and financial assistance for physically disabled atheletes; the effects of apartheid and racism on the Olympics; sports halls of fame; and sports award programs. Also includes alphabetical name registry files for amateur sport associations and organizations that contain correspondence and informational material related to specific groups. Contains records for Loto Canada, the national lottery that funded in part the Fitness and Amateur Sport branch, which include inquiries, complaints, and statements of opinion about lotteries from interested Canadians.

Subseries consists of correspondence and accompanying informational material related to the sports programs functions of the Fitness and Amateur Sport branch of the Department of National Health and Welfare. Records include reports, newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, newsletters, rules for games and sports, meeting minutes, pamphlets and brochures, news releases, itineraries, and speeches by Minister Campagnolo and others. Includes requests for financial assistance and information for sports programs in the following sports: archery, basketball, boxing, baseball, badminton, bowling, curling, cycling, canoeing, cricket, diving, equestrian, field hockey, football, figure skating, fencing, gymnastics, golf, ice hockey, handball, judo, karate, kendo, lacrosse, lawn tennis, lawn bowling, netball, orienteering, parachuting, pentathlon, pentaque, ringette, rugby, rowing, roller skating, soccer, softball, skiing, cross-country skiing, speed skating, squash, soaring, synchronized swimming, swimming, shooting, ski jumping, track and field, table tennis, volleyball, wrestling, water polo, water skiing, weightlifting, and yachting. Also includes correspondence on emerging sports in Canada, drug abuse in sports, Hockey Canada, violence in hockey, and the merger of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA).

Subseries consists of correspondence and accompanying informational material related to the fitness and recreation functions of the Fitness and Amateur Sport branch of the Department of National Health and Welfare. Records include reports, newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, newsletters, meeting minutes, pamphlets and brochures, news releases, itineraries, and speeches by Minister Campagnolo and others. Includes correspondence regarding funding and requests for financial assistance for fitness programs and facilities, Campgnolo’s green paper entitled “Toward a National Policy on Recreation” and feedback on the publication, the promotion of physical fitness programs, employee fitness and the Exercise Break Program, ParticipACTION, physical education in schools, fitness programs for seniors, the Canada Fitness Award Program, and sports and recreation programs for First Nations people. Also includes alphabetical name registry files for sport associations and organizations that contain correspondence and informational material related to specific groups.

Publication contains unpublished analysis that is "a digest of the numerous briefs which were received in response to the Green Paper entitled 'toward a national policy on amateur sport'" written by Iona Campagnolo and her office of the Ministry of Fitness and Amateur Sport.

Publication contains a government green paper on amateur sport that is an outline by the Federal Minister for Sport and the staff of Sport Canada on how Canadian amateur sport stood in 1977 and a series of proposals for the future.

Publication contains the first edition of The Corpus Almanac's Canadian Sports Annual, which contains Canadian sport history and honours Canadian national champions.

Publication contains a handbook for the Canada Games that serves as a guide to promote the concept of the Games, to provide information for cities interesting in hosting the Games, and as a help to the Society organizing the Games. "The handbook presents the structural foundation of the Games. It includes the general objectives, the parties involved and the responsibilities of these parties in organizing and staging the Games."

Publication contains two booklet publications (one in English, one in French) from the Fitness and Amateur Sport branch regarding the construction and usage of fitness trails.

Publication contains a booklet outlining the terms and conditions for requests for funding from the Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch.

Publication contains two booklets of the "National Report on New Perspectives for Elementary School Physical Education Programs in Canada" (one published, one draft) published by CAHPER and funded by the Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch.

Publication contains a workbook published by CAHPER for the promotion of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games in Canadian schools.

Publication contains a government publication published in 1969 by the Task Force on Sports for Canadians, which was authorized by the Cabinet to study the field of sports and to report their findings on the sports situation in Canada at the time.

This book gives a complete pictorial record of the 1978 IX Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. On the first page there is an acknowledgment from Minister Iona Campagnolo in support of the games.

This book was prepared and published after the Quadrennial Membership meeting of the Canadian Olympic Assoication (COA) that was held from February 26 - 27, 1977. It contains reports from various individuals that were members of the COA and pictorial records of Team Canada at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Sapporo, Japan; 1972 Winter Olympics in Munich, Germany; 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada; and 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

This book is a complete pictorial history of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada and Innsbruck, Austria.

Button badge promotes “Team Estevan” of the Lignite Louis’ Oldertimers hockey team at Saskatchewan's ‘Power’ Centre.

Includes six ribbons for first, second, and third places with three in English and three in French. Also includes 2 foam badges for the 1979 Royal Bank Junior Olympics, one in English and the other in French.

Includes three iron-on badges for gold, silver and bronze Canada Fitness Awards. Also includes lapel pin with the logo for the Canada Fitness Award.

Drawing of proposed Pacific Rim Stadium on False Creek in Vancouver. The drawing shows details of the baseball configuration, football configuration, and a perspective sketch of the stadium adjacent to the Georgia Viaduct. Annotated sketch of light rail transit route is also depicted.

Computer print-out contains information regarding various projects funded by Ministry of Fitness and Amateur Sport. Includes the names of projects, organization names, project number, description of project, the approval amount of funds allotted to the project and the payments year to date. Also included are the projects missing refusal.

Poster advertising the Alberta Winter Games in Medicine Hat, March 1-5, 1978.