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Tales from Alta Lake

A Dairy at Alta LakeA Dairy at Alta Lake

August 4, 2020 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

When Alfred Barnfield first came to the Sea to Sky area he likely wasn’t planning to one day be delivering milk and cream by canoe. After arriving in Canada, Alfred spent a few years working various jobs before settling in Squamish in 1891. Around that time, the provincial government paid him $1,000 to inspect the […][...]

Museum Musings
Tales from Alta Lake

Summer Jobs at Rainbow LodgeSummer Jobs at Rainbow Lodge

August 26, 2017 Whistler Museum 2 Comments

The Barnfield family is best known in Whistler as the owners of a dairy farm that once operated where the Barnfield neighbourhood is located today (read more about that here). The farm was moved south to Brackendale in 1926, though the family continued to bring the cows and chickens back to Alta Lake for the […][...]