Last year marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied land invasion of Normandy which initiated the liberation of Europe from the Nazi regime. The Second World War managed to disrupt Alta Lake’s idyllic summers, and for one of its longtime families, June 6th, 1944 would prove to be especially memorable. Margaret Bellamy (née Clarke) […][...]
While some of the stories we hear or read about at the museum provide only a glimpse into the lives of individuals who lived in the Whistler Valley (such as Josef Janousek, the subject of last week’s article), others provide a much more complete picture of an individual or family. One such individual was Grace […][...]
When Bob Williamson first arrived at Alta Lake (now Whistler) in February of 1930, he found himself in a valley bearing little resemblance to the bustling resort town of today. Even getting there was a completely different experience. Bob came to work as a lineman for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, at the time the […][...]
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 […][...]