The World Cup of bobsleigh and skeleton will be the first international post-Olympic event at Whistler.
The province of B.C. and Alberta will jointly host the competition with the Whistler Sliding Centre hosting competition from November 22 to 25 and Calgary's Canada Olympic Park hosting from November 29 to December 5.
Both provinces will provide funding to support the two events on the 2010-2011 calendar for the international bobsleigh federation. The announcement is the first event that will make use of venues from the 1988 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games following the signing of a memorandum of understanding by both provinces last year.
Klaus Roth, head of strategy and Olympic tourism marketing for Travel Alberta, said in a recent BIV interview that there is a plan to invite more international winter events to both provinces to take advantage of Western Canada's Olympic facilities.
The move builds on what Alberta has done in recent years to attract World Cup events to Calgary in the lead up to the 2010 Games.