Tag: Laurence Valleau

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A Family BusinessA Family Business

February 4, 2025 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

Not all summer residents of Alta Lake came to the area for the fishing or a mountain holiday. When Everett Valleau moved his company, Valleau Logging Ltd., to the area in 1955, he came to log timber around Alta and Green Lakes. Valleau Logging was a family business and over the years each of Everett’s […][...]

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Adeline the Alta Lake DonkeyAdeline the Alta Lake Donkey

December 14, 2021 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

The cover of the February 1969 edition of Garibaldi’s Whistler News featured a photo of Tex Rodgers guiding cars through the parking lot for Whistler Mountain on horseback. Over the years that Tex worked for the lift company, it was not uncommon for skiers to see him astride his horse directing traffic, but his was […][...]