The collection relates to the Olympic Torch Relay, an event sponsored by Petro-Canada. The relay involved 6,820 Canadians carrying the sacred Olympic flame across Canada prior to the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. The collection consists of: press releases; speeches given at the kindling of the Olympic flame in Greece; correspondence; a report on the torch design; pamphlets; maps of the route of the Olympic torch across Canada; list of Canadian Olympians participating in the relay.

The fonds consists of a ticket to the opening ceremonies of the XVI Olympic Winter Games, Albertville, France 1992; and 8 posters promoting the Ski Jeep Eagle international competitions of 1995 in freestyle skiing, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing and snowboarding.

The collection consists of souvenirs of the 1988 Olympic Winter Games: tickets, circular letter; schedule; brochures; decal; pamphlet, Spectators Guide to the XV Olympic Winter Games

The collection consists of: an autograph book signed by athletes and dignitaries driven by Lyman Hopkins; handbooks and manuals issued to volunteer drivers, entitled Team '88, Team '88 Drivers' Guide, First Aid-CPR Training Manual, Defensive Drivers' Manual; event schedule; unused ticket to the Closing Ceremonies; 4 stickers of the Czechoslovak and Bulgarian teams; handbook issued by the Czechoslovak Olympic Team; set of 14 prints of venue sites.

The collection has been arranged into series: (I) Bid materials; (II) Materials produced by Lillehammer OL '94 A/S and its associated agencies; (III) Collections; (IV) Materials produced by Canadian agencies; (V) Materials produced by various agencies; and (VI) News clippings

The collection has been grouped into the following series: (1) Materials produced by the Organizing Committee of the XIVth Olympic Winter Games Yugoslovia - Sarajevo 1984; (II) Materials produced by Canadian agencies; (III) Materials produced by other organizations; (IV) News clippings

The collection consists of: stickers issued to celebrate the Olympic Winter Games at St. Moritz, Switzerland (1948), Lake Tahoe, California (1960), Squaw Valley, California (1960) and Lake Plaid, New York (1980); and a spectator ticket to an event at the 1972 Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan.

The collection consists of: 13 newspaper supplements, The Montreal Star Olympic Report, issued during the 1976 Olympic Games; a pamphlet, in Russian, issued by the Russian Olympic Committee to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894; and a bumper sticker, "Share the Olympic Spirit, Atlanta 1996

This collection consists predominately of printed materials produced by OCO '88, such as manuals, handbooks, reports, press releases, and education kits; and printed materials accumulated by OCO '88, such as proposals, bids, and consultants' reports. It has been grouped into two series on that basis. A third series contains materials produced by the Olympic Arts Festival, a related event administered by OCO '88.

The collection includes souvenirs of the IX Olympic Winter Games, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1964. Included are a programme, two tickets and cancelled postage stamps.