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Featured Image: The Den at Dusty’s photo. Intrawest Collection. Does anyone have any information about ‘The Den’? The Museum would love to learn more… Last week, the adventures of Dusty – the one-time stuffed bucking bronco – from the bar that still bears his name, were chronicled. This mythic tale takes up where the last […]

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Featured Image: The Interior of Dusty’s Bar & BBQ, 1987. Whistler Mountain Collection. Dusty’s Bar & BBQ is about as synonymous with Whistler’s Après party scene as is snow to skiing, fish to water… or, in the memories of many locals and longer-timers: a stuffed bronco is to beers (and braless bawdiness!). Dusty was a […]

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Featured image: Boarder Bob comic illustrated by Olivier Roy, published in Snowboard Canada Magazine (starting somewhere in the mid-nineties!) Olivier (Oli) Roy is “an artist snowboarder” who first came to Whistler “right after high school in 1990” to attend a Craig Kelly Camp. He moved here, three years later, after art college.  Now, with a […]

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“Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particularenvironment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?”– E. O. Wilson Featured Photo: Whistler’s old trees are living monuments that have withstood centuries of change. Bob Brett, photographer. Whistler is fortunate to be surrounded by […]

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Featured Photo: John Millar outside of his cabin 1911. Philip Collection. The trials of this town’s early trailblazers were not without their moments of hilarity, precarious predicaments and comic quandaries. Here, I highlight four such stories: standouts in the history of how a place comes to be…  John Millar ran a roadhouse at Mile 34 […]

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