Tag: Whistler
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West Coast Awesomeness!
Read more: West Coast Awesomeness!We love the West Coast and really enjoyed visiting all of the great tourist sites…but nothing is better than staying with locals who are also very dear friends. About 20 years ago, I went to the University of Ottawa with one of my highschool friends Jenn Holley. While living in Thompson residence, she met another Torontonian,…
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Learning the Native Way
Read more: Learning the Native WayWe have learned a lot about the Natives in Alaska and thought we should learn about the ones in Canada, our own country. The Native Center in Whistler was the perfect place to learn about them. This museum in the Whistler Village was for the Squamish and Lilwat tribes. We learned about everything the Natives had to…
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Wonderful Whistler!
Read more: Wonderful Whistler!After a great time touring Vancouver, we were ready to move to the resort town of Whistler. Here, we learned many interesting things about the previous Olympics and the history of the town at the Whistler Museum. One of the first settlers, Myrtle and Alex Phillips, arrived in 1911. They built the Rainbow Lodge which became…