Though not as common an occurrence as in previous decades, power outages are not unknown in Whistler, especially during the winter months. However, power outages today are usually more localized and of a shorter duration when compared to outages in the 1960s. In an interview conducted in 2016, Hilda McLennan, whose family owned a unit […][...]
When the museum conducts oral history interviews, one of the questions asked is how the interviewee first came to the Whistler area. This question is often interpreted in one of two ways, with answers as varied as the individuals. Some interpret it as why they visited or moved to the area, while others answer more […][...]
The past year has been one of great exhilaration, vision and accomplishment for the Whistler Museum & Archives Society. Together with the Board of Trustees, staff and volunteers, the museum continued to advance its mission to collect, preserve, document and interpret the natural and human history of mountain life in Whistler, and broaden our program […][...]
You wouldn’t expect a pulp mill, a pop-rock band and 20th century settlers to have a lot in common, but in the Sea to Sky corridor you can find the unlikeliest of connections. In 1909, the Conroy family moved west from Ontario and preempted 380 acres of land in the area around Brandywine Falls, including […][...]