Tag: Charlie Conroy

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Rocking Howe SoundRocking Howe Sound

April 28, 2018 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

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 […][...]

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Brandywine’s Murky Origin StoryBrandywine’s Murky Origin Story

April 29, 2017 Whistler Museum 13 Comments

Long before Brandywine Falls was established as a provincial park in 1973 the area was a well-known destination for sightseers, hikers and campers. Not known, or at least not confirmed, is the origin of the name Brandywine. The most popular story of the name was reported in The Vancouver Sun in 1946 by Wallace Gillespie […][...]