Museum Musings

'The resort found the answers it was looking for at the end of the rainbow—Rainbow Lodge, that is'

'Go past Lakeside Park on a warm, summer day and you will quickly see it is no longer Whistler’s forgotten park.'

'When the opportunity arose in 1982 to purchase land on Alpha Lake from John Taylor, the municipality jumped at the chance...'

'The value of recreational green space was not underestimated in Whistler even before the municipality was created'

'How did two different properties on two different lakes come to be named after the home of Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows?'

'Whistler Mountain had a reputation for excellent staff parties...'

The hard-scrabble history of Whistler's first official campground

When Paul and Jane Burrows began printing the Whistler Question in their Alpine Meadows home in 1976, they created an incredible resource for researching happenings in Whistler.

'After a busy life, eventually it was only mice that wanted to be inside the mascot suit. Ultimately, Willie went the way of Dusty the Horse and ended up in the landfill.'

'The corduroy that we know and love today would not come along until later.'