Parkhurst may be known as a ghost town and hiking destination today, but for decades it was the site of an active mill and bustling community. We’re taking a look at life at Parkhurst in a new temporary exhibit opening Wednesday, November 17. Parkhurst: Logging Community to Ghost Town will run through January 17 and […][...]
The Woods family moved to Alta Lake around 1926 and worked in the area, both for the railway and in the logging industry, until the 1940s. Fred Woods was born in the Isle of Man and immigrated to Canada after a time in the army. He worked on the railroad in Broadview, Saskatchewan where he […][...]
Many of the people we learn about at the museum are introduced to us through the stories of others. Sometimes these stories are told as oral histories and others come from documents in our research files at the museum. One of these documents is a collection of stories, aptly called “Whistler Stories,” from Dick Fairhurst, […][...]
In the museum collections is one photograph of a New Year’s celebration held at the Alta Lake School in 1937. We don’t know who all of the people in the photo are, but a few names are written on its back, including the name of Jenny Jardine. Although Jenny and her family attended social events […][...]