It is rare that any event goes exactly according to plan and, no matter how much you might attempt to expect the unexpected, there is almost always something that comes up. This was certainly the case for the opening of the Whistler Grocery Store, Whistler’s first dedicated supermarket, in January 1981. The Grocery Store was scheduled […][...]
Discussions of weather in Whistler have been going on for decades, as is apparent from past editions of the Whistler Question. In the early months of winter the conversations usually focus on snow. Reports from January 1981, however, show that rain, rather than snow, was the topic of discussion in town that year. While there had […][...]
Back in September the museum posted a series of photos on social media picturing some of the activity taking place on Blackcomb Mountain as they prepared to open for their first season in December 1980. One comment made on the photos made clear that their first season wasn’t necessarily all that Blackcomb had hoped it […][...]
Recently, we were tasked with finding more information about a flood that washed out and damaged several bridges over Fitzsimmons Creek in the 1990s. As it turned out, the flooding had happened exactly 28 years before we looked into it, with the bulk of information found in the September 5, 1991 edition of The Whistler Question. […][...]