Museum Musings

Whistler's steep, mountainous terrain is part of what makes it so attractive as a tourist destination. It's perfect for skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking and hiking.

A season working in Whistler can mean many different things. For some, a season means spending as much time as possible on the mountains; for others, it can mean settling for the next few decades of your life.

Parkhurst may now be known primarily as a ghost town, but it was once the site of the first large and more-permanent mill operations in the valley. Mr. and Mrs.

Whistler hasn't always been a resort town. In the 1920s and '30s Whistler was still a collection of permanent and part-time residents on the shores of Alta Lake. In those days, storing and preparing food was a little different than it is today.

A special thank you to everyone that came out to our annual general meeting (AGM) held last Wednesday, June 13 to reflect on 2017.

With the successful completion of the Himmelsbach Hut in 1968, the British Columbia Mountaineering Club (BCMC) began looking for another location to build a Gothic arch hut near Whistler.

Today the term "condo" can be heard pretty much every day throughout most of Canada. When Whistler Mountain first opened in the 1960s, however, condominiums were almost unheard of.

T he Whistler Question , published from 1976 to the beginning of 2018, was Whistler's first official newspaper. The municipality only came into being in September 1975 and Pique wouldn't begin publishing until 1994.

If you've ever taken a look at the Whistler Museum's YouTube channel you might have seen a short film from the Petersen Film Collection that features the drive to Whistler in 1958.

Whistler has a history of re-using buildings. You may remember from a previous column that before today's museum buildings were the museum they were the post office, and then the library.