With most schools in Whistler just a couple of weeks away from closing for the summer, students in the valley are looking forward to a couple months without homework or classes. Five schools now operate within Whistler and it’s easy to forget that for many years children living around Alta Lake had to learn from […][...]
For some people the long, dark and cold nights of winter are reason to stay warm indoors and catch up on episodes of something on television or watch movies in the comfort of your own home. Though now a common way to spend an evening, television did not arrive in Whistler – then Alta Lake […][...]
The Alta Lake Community Club’s (ALCC) first meetings were held at the Rainbow Lodge store in 1926. In order to join the club each member had to pay $1. This, however was not where the story began for the ALCC. In 1923, Grace Archibald thought that because there were a few regular summer visitors it […][...]
This is part two of a post on the Jardine-Neiland family. For part one, please click here. In early July 1922 the export log prices of cedar logs collapsed and so did Thomas Neiland’s business – he had to file for bankruptcy. The family pulled up stakes and went back to North Vancouver. Later that month, […][...]