Trousers, slacks, britches, pantaloons or jodhpurs. There was a time, relatively recently, when local women were challenging societal expectations when choosing to wear pants. Many will be familiar with the picture of Whistler’s ‘first lady’, Myrtle Philip, in her chequered pants with a big smile and hands on her hips. The image has been immortalised […][...]
With the beginning of a new (though uncertain) school year, we thought we’d take a look back at the first school built in the Whistler valley and one of its teachers. The Alta Lake School was built in 1931 and operated until 1946, when it closed due to an insufficient number of students. It reopened […][...]
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 […][...]
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. […][...]