Museum Musings

'When the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was formed in 1975, the organization was small enough its employees numbered in the single digits for the first couple of years.'

Whistler’s first municipal council was faced with the daunting task of building a resort in the ski area

Catch Raine in discussion with Drew Meredith on June 12

'While we might be used to busy summers in Whistler these days, in the 1970s and into the 1980s, visitor numbers would drop dramatically after the ski season ended in the late spring'

'In the early years of lift operations on Whistler Mountain, the end of the ski season was sometimes determined not by the conditions or lack of snow, but by a lack of skiers'

'Over the 1980s, Mountain FM became an established source of regional news and up-to-date highway reports...'

'In some ways, the Answer of 1992 looked very different than that of earlier years'

'Before the summer of 1984, there was no permanent financial institution in the resort...'

'In a recent look through the Whistler Museum’s reference section, we came across another book aiming to teach skiing...'

'As far as we know, Drew Meredith never did win the lottery...'