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Learn more about the history of the Whistler area from the time the First Nations people hunted and gathered here to the modern world-class year round resort.
- Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation
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These lands and waters lie within the unceded territories of the Lil’wat Nation and Squamish Nation, holding historic and cultural traditions. Over thousands of years, the Nations built vibrant, distinct cultures through an intimate relationship with the natural landscape. Learn more about the shared territories of the Lil’wat Nation and Squamish N...
The first non-indigenous pioneers to live in the Whistler area arrived in the 1880s. By this point the Pemberton Trail had been completed (which connected Howe Sound through Pemberton to Lillooet and the Interior), drawing prospectors and trappers to the area. One trapper, John Miller, enticed Myrtle and Alex Philip from Vancouver to the north shor...
By the mid-1970s, local visionaries, dreaming of the Olympics, began plans for a world-class summer and winter resort. The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was incorporated on September 6, 1975. At the time of incorporation, fewer than 1,000 people lived in Whistler. The newly elected mayor and council, along with municipal staff, local resid...
In 1992, Whistler received the first of its numerous accolades when it was named the Number One Ski resort in North America by Snow Country Magazine. The accolades continued, as locals strategized and planned their growing resort community, adding summer amenities and a mix of recreational pursuits. In 2005, Whistler was declared one of the most li...
Today, Whistler is home to almost 12,000 permanent residents and is visited by more than 3 million guests annually. Whistler is guided by the community’s Official Community Plan, which has been updated through extensive community collaboration.
For the last five decades, Whistler Blackcomb has left its mark on those who are drawn to the mountains. What started as a single Olympic dream in 1966 has evolved into the largest ski resort in North America, with a slew of accomplishments to back it up.
By the late 1920s it was considered the most popular tourist resort west of Banff. Myrtle & Alex Philip coming up the Pembrton Trail on their first visit to Alta Lake, August 1911. Rainbow Lodge and surrounding developments, 1930s. Alex Philip was an incurable romantic and writer of fiction novels.
John Millar was one of these first settlers, who built a kind of hotel of the time for traders who traveled the forest roads. An event that favored the transformation of this place was the construction of the Pemberton Road in 1877, which connected the valley of the same name with the coastal areas of Vancouver.
As a visionary of the early 1900s she set about to establish Whistler as one of the most popular summer resorts in western Canada. Here is a chronology of Whistler's European history. 1860s. British naval officers survey the area and give modern-day Whistler Mountain its first European name: London Mountain. 1877.
Mar 6, 2017 · Here is a brief glimpse at the resort’s history: from its beginning as London Mountain to its Winter Olympic debut. Whistler’s beginning starts in the 1860s when British Naval Officers came to the area and called the main peak London Mountain.
