Cover Stories

An echo boomer in King Arthur’s court Intrawest goes after the spirit of youth in the mountains By Stewart Glen Photos by Erik Graham/CMP Original drawings by Paul Waller Star light, star bright first star I see tonight I wish I may I wish I might I

Behold: an eagle! The (now) relatively plentiful King of Birds can't fail to inspire Story and photos by Chris Woodall They are huge, but everyone knows that of eagles.

A company town: Can Whistler incorporate The Corporation? By Stephen Vogler There's a buzz around town lately and it's not the sound of Canada geese heading south for the winter.

By Kristen Robinson There is a fun park in Ontario, a short drive from Toronto, called Canada's Wonderland.

Defying Mother Nature A $4 million computerized system, 14 million gallons of water and a month of 12-hour shifts are all it takes to make enough snow for the World Cup downhill. By G.D. Maxwell There are two pictures in Bob Morton’s office.

The boom in B.C.

Housing culture Culture may define a community, but it needs more than a refrigerator to fully develop By Stewart Glen Culture... Please define. A real poser, isn’t it? A riddle wrapped in a conundrum shrouded in enigma and waxed with metaphor.

Now you see ’em, now you don't Whistler's not so elusive Hydro lines By Stephen Vogler Imagine what it would feel like to have 960,000 volts of electricity coursing through you.

Darren. A story for Halloween Fiction by Chris "Midnight Stalker" Woodall Darren loved to go to school. As soon as it was September, there he would be at his favourite place at the back of Mrs. Barker's Grade 4 class.

Diversifying the base Whistler may be learning from Bre-X and Doug the squirrel By G.D.