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Tales from Alta Lake
Whistler: A Town

School Days in WhistlerSchool Days in Whistler

September 8, 2018 Whistler Museum 2 Comments

The community of Whistler has undergone many changes in the last hundred or so years, and nowhere is this more evident than in our elementary schools. When the first non-indigenous settlers began to make their homes around Alta Lake in the early twentieth century, there was no school- no infrastructure at all, in fact. The […][...]

Museum Musings
Whistler: A Town

20 Years of Whistler Secondary School20 Years of Whistler Secondary School

July 8, 2017 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

Whistler Secondary School has a central role in the Whistler community. This school, along with the many extracurricular activities offered in Whistler, is the basis to encouraging the athletic, creative and academic minds that flourish in this town. It’s hard to imagine that just over twenty years ago there was no secondary school in Whistler. […][...]