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From its humble beginnings as a fishing lodge in 1914, to being centre stage for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games — Whistler was always considered a special place and outstanding destination for adventurous spirits. Learn more about the history of the Whistler area from the time the First Nations people hunted and gathered here to ...
Whistler, often referred to as Whistler Blackcomb, is a town located in the mountains of the British Coast. Formerly, in 1932 its famous ski mountain was called London Mountain due to a British mining operation located in this area. Years later, in 1965, it was renamed Whistler. The current town of the same name, before the 70’s, received the ...
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This was the first agreement of its kind in Canada. On July 2, 2003 a dream almost fifty years in the making finally came true. Whistler, in partnership with Vancouver, won the bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. Once again development in Whistler (and Vancouver, as well as along the Sea-To-Sky Highway which links the two) skyrocketed.
- 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.
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Whistler is on the traditional territory of the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations. (See: Central Coast Salish; Interior Salish.) Non-Indigenous trappers and prospectors began to pass through the area with the clearing of the Pemberton Trail between Lillooet and the Pacific coast in 1877. In 1914, Rainbow Lodge opened on Alta Lake, adjacent to Whistler M...
In the early 1970s, this area of British Columbia had few residents, and what would become Whistler was little more than a few ski cabins. The provincial government, however, created a unique local government structure that allows Whistler to provide both public and private services. The passing of the Resort Municipality of Whistler Actin 1975 ope...
Whistler has a relatively young population. About 66 per cent of the population is between 20 and 54 years of age (compared to 47 per cent for British Columbiaand Canada).
Whistler Blackcomb was the centrepiece of a renewed bid on the part of nearby Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which they won in July 2003. Whistler Blackcomb hosted the alpine skiing events, including the men's and women's Olympic and Paralympic alpine skiing disciplines of downhill, Super-G, slalom, giant slalom and super combined. In ...
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. Whistler then became the most popular summer destination west of the Canadian Rockies in the 1920s ...
