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Finally, on January 15, 1966 Whistler Mountain officially opened for skiing, and a new era in Canadian skiing began.
In February 1966, Whistler Mountain officially opened to the public for skiing.
Whistler Mountain ( Lillooet/Ucwalmícwts: Nsqwítsu) is a mountain in the Fitzsimmons Range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, located on the northwestern edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is the location of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort and the town of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada . Previously, the mountain was called ...
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Whistler Mountain finally gets the name "Garibaldi Whistler Mountain". Development of the ski area on the south side of Whistler Mountain began. What is now called Creekside was once the original Village and featured a four-person gondola to the mountain’s mid-station, a double chairlift to the alpine tree line, and two T-bars. 1966
Apr 4, 2015 · In January 1966, Whistler officially opened to the public with its first lifts, a four-person gondola manufactured by the Swiss company, Mueller Lifts Ltd., to the mid point of the mountain, a double chair lift called Red Chair to the upper tree line, which were both active until 1992, and two T-bars, T-Bar I on the top part and a Valley T-Bar.
- Whistler Blackcomb was originally established to be a host of the Winter Olympics. In 1960, the Canadian Olympic Association visited British Columbia looking for potential sites for the 1986 Winter Olympics.
- Whistler Mountain once had another name. Around the same time that GLC broke ground, they decided they didn’t like the name of the mountain, which was London Mountain in 1965.
- A large addition to Highway 99, aka the Sea to Sky Highway, was specifically built for access to Whistler. Beginning in 1964, GLC funded and extended the single-lane gravel hydro service road—which was the only way to access Whistler at the time— into a two-lane road from Squamish to Whistler.
- Roundhouse Lodge dates back to Whistler Blackcomb’s early days. The Roundhouse Lodge, atop the Whistler Village Gondola, has been around almost as long as skiers have been schussing on Whistler Mountain.
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. The Pemberton Trail is completed, linking the Pemberton valley to the Pacific Coast north of Vancouver. 1900.
