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Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s Parks—The three-way deal for Emerald Forest

Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s Parks—The three-way deal for Emerald Forest

'Nancy Wilhelm-Morden made many important decisions for the Whistler community during her time as councillor and mayor.'
Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s Parks—Rainbow Park, appropriate to expropriate

Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s Parks—Rainbow Park, appropriate to expropriate

'The resort found the answers it was looking for at the end of the rainbow—Rainbow Lodge, that is'
Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s Parks—Lakeside Park, slowly but surely

Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s Parks—Lakeside Park, slowly but surely

'Go past Lakeside Park on a warm, summer day and you will quickly see it is no longer Whistler’s forgotten park.'
Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s parks—Alpha Lake Park, for the love of tennis

Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s parks—Alpha Lake Park, for the love of tennis

'When the opportunity arose in 1982 to purchase land on Alpha Lake from John Taylor, the municipality jumped at the chance...'
Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s parks

Museum Musings: Creating Whistler’s parks

'The value of recreational green space was not underestimated in Whistler even before the municipality was created'
Museum Musings: Tales of Toad Hall—Beyond the Poster

Museum Musings: Tales of Toad Hall—Beyond the Poster

'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?'
Museum Musings: The season-ending Whistler Blackcomb staff party that became the stuff of legend

Museum Musings: The season-ending Whistler Blackcomb staff party that became the stuff of legend

'Whistler Mountain had a reputation for excellent staff parties...'
Museum Musings: Camping inside municipal boundaries

Museum Musings: Camping inside municipal boundaries

The hard-scrabble history of Whistler's first official campground
Museum Musings: Questionable UFOs

Museum Musings: Questionable UFOs

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.
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the ‘First Annual Mascot Race’

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the ‘First Annual Mascot Race’

'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.'