Museum Musings

Looking through Whistler publications from the 1970s, it's easy to see that building and design in Whistler has changed a lot over the decades.

November has traditionally been a time of arrivals in Whistler: the snow arrives in the valley (we hope) and new faces arrive for the upcoming season.

When we post images on social media, it's hard to predict which will be particularly popular and start conversations.

As we've discussed in the last few weeks, countless women have contributed to Whistler's success over the past decades.

If you read last week's Museum Musings, you already know that October has been designated Women's History Month in Canada since 1992.

Museum marks October's Women in History Month

Dick Fairhurst's Whistler Stories introduce some of the best

When the mountains open this winter things will look a bit different. Over the summer both mountains have undergone some changes. On Whistler a new six-person Emerald Express chairlift will replace the four-person chair.

We are incredibly lucky at the Whistler Museum to have stories from myriad different people who lived, worked or visited the valley over the past 100 years.

In the past we've covered the building of various backcountry huts situated around Whistler beginning in the 1960s. Gothic-arch huts have a place in much more recent history as well, as the Watersprite Lake Hut proves.