The community of Whistler has undergone many changes in the last hundred or so years, and nowhere is this more evident than in our elementary schools. When the first non-indigenous settlers began to make their homes around Alta Lake in the early twentieth century, there was no school- no infrastructure at all, in fact. The […][...]
The 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. Well before the first edition of The Question, however, the valley’s first newspaper was put together by a small group of students at the […][...]
If you’ve been in Whistler over the past couple of months you probably experienced or heard about power outages around town, most notably on October 18 when most neighbourhoods experienced a loss of power. The most common reason Whistler residents lose electricity seems to be from trees coming down on the lines due to rain, […][...]
Though there are some scattered throughout the valley, not many houses in Whistler have been passed down through generations, and fewer can claim to have been occupied by five generations of the same family. The cabin of the Woollard/Clarke/Bellamy family, is one such home. Betty Woollard, later Betty Clarke, was the second teacher at the […][...]