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53-580: Whistler ( Lillooet/Ucwalmícwts : Cwitima, IPA: [xʷetemɛ] ; Squamish/Sḵwx̱wú7mesh : Sḵwiḵw, IPA: [sqʷɛqʷ] ) is a resort municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District , British Columbia , Canada. It is located in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains , approximately 125 km (78 mi) north of Vancouver and 36 km (22 mi) south of Pemberton . It has

106-600: A group of ranges with no collective name but that are part of the larger Pacific Ranges and are essentially fore-ranges of the Pemberton Icefield . Although there are a few other routes through the maze of mountains between the basin of the Lillooet River just east, the Cheakamus-Green divide is the lowest and most direct. Before Whistler was founded, it was the shared ancestral territories of

159-480: A monthly events guide and calendar that lists what is happening in the resort. Other tourist-oriented, print media such as FAQ, Visitors Choice and Whistler Magazine are published from quarterly to once or twice a year. An internet radio site for the community exists It is designed to be a community radio station showcasing local music talent and interests of relative importance. History: 28 November 2003, "Feds shut down local pirate radio station... frequency 105.5 FM in

212-502: A permanent population of approximately 13,982 (2021), as well as a larger but rotating population of seasonal workers. Over two million people visit Whistler annually, primarily for alpine skiing and snowboarding and, in the summer, mountain biking at Whistler Blackcomb . Its pedestrian village has won numerous design awards, and Whistler has been voted among the top destinations in North America by major ski magazines since

265-628: A population of 13,982 living in 5,597 of its 10,065 total private dwellings, a change of 19% from its 2016 population of 11,746. With a land area of 240 km (93 sq mi), it had a population density of 58.3/km (150.9/sq mi) in 2021. According to the 2021 census , religious groups in Whistler included: The resort town was granted heraldic symbols by the Canadian Heraldic Authority in January 2016. Whistler

318-748: A viewership of 3 million and had an estimated public relations value of $ 2 million. Stewardess Cops Fuji Television AKA Fuji Network , a popular Japanese drama, shot a two-hour special on location in Whistler during the fall of 2001. It was aired January 2002 and had an estimated audience of 22 million. Besides the 2010 Winter Olympics broadcasters from the United States , Australia 's Today Show, and Japan have done daily up to week long segments from Whistler. ESPN2 shows BMX Races from Whistler but they are really from nearby Pemberton's Green River BMX Track . Most videos of Whistler Backcountry skiing , snowboarding , and snowmobiling are filmed in

371-415: Is "a hybrid spruce that is unique to Whistler, aptly dubbed the "Whistler Spruce". "The Whistler spruce hybrid is indicative of Whistler's geographic position—we're not quite coastal, but not quite interior". It is a hybrid of the wetter West Coast Sitka spruce ( Picea sitchensis ), which ranges from Northern California to Alaska , and the drier Interior Engelmann spruce ( Picea engelmannii ). Others include

424-460: Is Máma I am going to talk about. She went that way to get some food from her roothouse. So she took along her bucket. She got there, and she stayed around, taking potatoes. She was doing that, and then a mouse ran by there. So she grabbed it, she squeezed it. So she said: "You get all squashed now!" So she opened her hand and she let go of what turned out to be a potato, it was a rotten potato that she had caught... Rainbow Lodge Rainbow Lodge

477-471: Is an American reality television series that premiered on A&E on 7 August 2006. The show follows the life of Kiss bassist and vocalist Gene Simmons , his longtime partner and wife Shannon Tweed , and their two children, Nick and Sophie. Sophie Tweed-Simmons has her own reality TV series spin off in production. Filming began December 2013, in Whistler, Vancouver , Los Angeles , and Nashville . Sophie and her mother, model Shannon Tweed, will be

530-697: Is in the Southside area, between Nita and Alpha Lakes. Local bus transit service is provided by the Whistler and Valley Express , which also provides service to Pemberton . A shuttle bus service from the Vancouver Airport and Downtown Vancouver is provided by the Whistler Shuttle and YVR Skylynx . Vancouver International Airport ( IATA : YVR , ICAO : CYVR ) is the main international airport for Whistler residents and tourists and

583-432: Is known for its skiing and snowboarding in the winter and mountain biking and hiking in the summer. Other winter activities that are enjoyed in Whistler are cross country skiing, skate skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing, backcountry skiing, telemark skiing, and tobogganing. Summer activities enjoyed in Whistler include golfing , fishing , trail running , mountain biking, outdoor yoga, and hiking. For skiing, arguably

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636-418: Is located 140 km (87 mi) south. Pemberton Regional Airport ( ICAO : CYPS ) is a public airport serving Pemberton and Whistler. It is the closest airport for fixed-wing non-amphibious aircraft and is 38 minutes north of Whistler. There are no scheduled flights but three charter services operate out of the airport. Whistler (Municipal) Heliport ( TC LID : CBE9 ) is a public heliport operated by

689-786: Is located at the Nicklaus North subdivision on the South end of Green Lake . Whistler is located on the Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99), which goes from the Peace Arch Border Crossing in Surrey, British Columbia to the Cariboo Highway (Highway 97) 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Cache Creek, British Columbia . North of Whistler is Pemberton, British Columbia , which is about 23 km (14 mi) north of

742-1388: Is not selected by attitude verbs. St̓át̓imcets has a complex system of subject and object agreement. There are different subject agreement paradigms for transitive vs. intransitive predicates. For intransitive predicates, there are three distinct subject paradigms, one of which is glossed as 'subjunctive' by van Eijk (1997) and Davis (2006) The following is a portion of a story in van Eijk (1981:87) told by Rosie Joseph of Mount Currie. St̓át̓imcets: Nilh aylh lts7a sMáma ti húz̓a qweqwl̓el̓tmínan. N̓as ku7 ámlec áku7 tsípunsa. Nilh t̓u7 st̓áksas ti xláka7sa. Tsicw áku7, nilh t̓u7 ses wa7, kwánas et7ú i sqáwtsa. Wa7 ku7 t̓u7 áti7 xílem, t̓ak ku7 knáti7 ti pú7y̓acwa. Nilh ku7 t̓u7 skwánas, lip̓in̓ás ku7. Nilh ku7 t̓u7 aylh stsuts: "Wa7 nalh aylh láti7 kapv́ta!" Nilh ku7 t̓u7 aylh sklhaka7mínas ku7 láti7 ti sqáwtsa cwilhá k̓a, nao7q̓ spawts ti kwanensása... International Phonetic Alphabet: /neɬ ɛjɬ lʧʔɛ ˈʃmɛmɛ te ˈhoˀzɛ qʷəqʷˀləˀltˈmenɛn. ˀnɛʃ koʔ ˈɛmləx ˈɛkoʔ ˈʧeponʃɛ. neɬ tɬʼoʔ ˈʃtɬʼɛkʃɛʃ te ˈχlɛkɛʔʃɛ. ʧexʷ ˈɛkoʔ neɬ tɬʼoʔ ʃəʃ ɣʷɛʔ ˈkʷɛnɛʃ ətˈʔo e ˈʃqɛɣʷʧɛ. ɣʷɛʔ koʔ tɬʼoʔ ˈɛteʔ ˈχeləm tɬʼɛk koʔ ˈknɛteʔ te ˈpoʔˀjɛxʷɛ. neɬ koʔ tɬʼoʔ ˈʃkʷɛnɛʃ lepʼeˀnˈɛʃ koʔ. neɬ koʔ tɬʼoʔ ɛjɬ ʃʧoʧ ɣʷɛʔ nɛɬ ɛjɬ ˈlɛteʔ kɛˈpʌtɛ neɬ koʔ tɬʼoʔ ɛjɬ ʃkɬɛkɛʔˈmenɛʃ koʔ ˈlɛteʔ te ˈʃqɛɣʷʧɛ xʷeɬˈɛ kʼɛ naʔqχʼ ʃpɛɣʷʧ te kʷɛnənˈʃɛʃɛ/ English translation: This time it

795-401: Is one high school in the community, it is named Whistler Secondary School . The Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique operates one Francophone primary school in that city: the école La Passerelle . Whistler has one weekly newspaper, Pique Newsmagazine , published every Friday. The Whistler Answer was published intermittently from 1977 to the 1990s. The Lost Duck is

848-581: Is spoken around Mount Currie and neighboring areas. An additional subdialect called Skookumchuck is spoken within the Lower St̓át̓imcets dialect area, but there is no information available in van Eijk (1981, 1997) (which are the main references for this article). A common usage used by the bands of the Lower Lillooet River below Lillooet Lake is Ucwalmicwts . The "Clao7alcw" (Raven's Nest) language nest program at Mount Currie , home of

901-709: The 2010 Winter Olympics , dealing with his rival Shaun White . It was a selection for the Whistler Film Festival , the Montreal World Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival . Lillooet language Lillooet is an endangered language with around 580 fluent speakers, who tend to be over 60 years of age. St̓át̓imcets has two main dialects: Upper St̓át̓imcets is spoken around Fountain , Pavilion , Lillooet , and neighboring areas. Lower St̓át̓imcets

954-633: The British Columbia Interior via Pemberton - Mount Currie to Lillooet and connections beyond to the Trans-Canada and Cariboo Highways . Passenger rail service is only provided at the Whistler railway station between Vancouver and Jasper by the Rocky Mountaineer , using Canadian National Railway tracks from North Vancouver via Whistler and Prince George. The station for tour passengers embarking from Whistler

1007-467: The Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ), lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ), and endangered whitebark pine ( Pinus albicaulis ). The higher slopes transition to many species of scrub juniper , Rocky Mountain juniper ( Juniperus scopulorum ), and many species of scrub willow in the genus Salix at the tree line , and to Arctic tundra-like conditions in the high alpine above the tree line. Both

1060-739: The Lil’wat , is conducted in the Lil̓wat language and was the focus of Onowa McIvor 's Master's thesis. As of 2014, "the Coastal Corridor Consortium— an entity made up of board members from First Nations and educational partners to improve aboriginal access to and performance in postsecondary education and training— ... [has] developed a Lil’wat-language program." St̓át̓imcets has 44 consonants : St'at'imcets has 8 vowels : Post-velar Harmony (retraction): There are two orthographies, one based on Americanist Phonetic Notation that

1113-536: The alpine . The wet West Coast marine temperate climate in the valley floor is characterized by a coniferous mixed forest, with a preponderance of western red cedar —a continuation of the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest . The slopes are slightly drier and are also coniferous mixed forest with western hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla ) and mountain hemlock ( Tsuga mertensiana ), Whistler hybrid spruce ( Sitka spruce and Engelmann spruce ). The last

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1166-532: The hoary marmot . In the late 19th century, a trail was cut through the valley, linking Lillooet via Pemberton with Burrard Inlet via a pass from Squamish to the Seymour River. The trail was completed in 1877, but because of the difficult and unforgiving terrain, it was only used once for its intended purpose, which was to drive cattle. The area began to attract trappers and prospectors (such as John Millar and Henry Horstman) who established small camps in

1219-403: The 1960s, this quiet area was without basic infrastructure. There were no sewage facilities, water, or electricity, and no road from Squamish or Vancouver . In 1962, four Vancouver businessmen began to explore the area with the intent of building a ski resort and bidding for the 1968 Winter Olympics . Garibaldi Lift Company was formed, shares were sold, and in 1966, Whistler Mountain opened to

1272-467: The Athlete's village) housed around 2,400 athletes, coaches, trainers and officials. Post-games, the site has been turned into a new residential neighbourhood, Cheakamus Crossing. Whistler is located on British Columbia Highway 99 , also known as the "Sea to Sky Highway", approximately 58 km (36 mi) north of Squamish , and 125 km (76 mi) from Vancouver. The highway connects Whistler to

1325-675: The Pemberton Valley or area. The Whistler name has a much higher brand recognition. The Whistler Film Festival is produced by the Whistler Film Festival Society (WFFS). It is held over five days from the first weekend of December. The Crash Reel , a 2013 documentary and reality film, directed by Academy Award Nominee Lucy Walker , was filmed on location in Whistler. It features top-ranked American snowboarder Kevin Pearce , who because of injuries missed

1378-739: The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games , the first time the International Olympic Committee has bestowed that designation on a community. Whistler hosted the alpine technical and speed events, the sliding events at Fitzsimmons Creek , the Nordic events in the nearby Callaghan Valley and all the Paralympic events except the opening ceremonies, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling. The Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Village (commonly referred to as

1431-681: The Whistler Heliport Society. Currently there are no scheduled flights but charter services to/from Vancouver International Airport , Vancouver/Harbour (Public) Heliport and Victoria Harbour (Camel Point) Heliport ( TC LID : CBF7 ) are available. Whistler/Green Lake Water Aerodrome ( ICAO : YWS , TC LID : CAE5 ) is a public floatplane base owned and operated by Harbour Air Group and Whistler Air. Seasonal scheduled flights are provided by Harbour Air Seaplanes and West Coast Air to Victoria Inner Harbour Airport and Vancouver Harbour Water Airport . The seaplane base

1484-501: The Whistler area, received a visit from Industry Canada and local RCMP officer", Federal Police. Freeradio Whistler still legally broadcasts over the Internet at freewhistler.com. The incumbent cable television provider in Whistler is Shaw Cable . Additional service providers covering Whistler include Telus TV (Optik IPTV service and Telus Satellite TV), Shaw Direct (satellite), and Bell Satellite TV (satellite). Whistler

1537-573: The area in the early 20th century. The area began to gain recognition with the arrival of Myrtle (who the Myrtle Philip school was named after) and Alex Philip, who in 1914 purchased 4.0 ha (10 acres) of land on Alta Lake and established the Rainbow Lodge . The Philips had relocated from Maine to Vancouver in 1910 and had heard rumours of the natural beauty of the area from Pemberton pioneer John Millar. After an exploratory journey,

1590-519: The confluence of Rubble Creek and the Cheakamus River at Function Junction in Whistler." This location represents the long-standing relationship of the two nations who used Spoez as a hub of trade and commerce between the two nations. Spoez was buried after Black Tusk Volcano erupted causing a massive rockslide that buried the ancient village under hundreds of metres of rubble. From this point forward both Nations continued to co-habitat within

1643-552: The couple was convinced. Rainbow Lodge and other railway-dependent tourist resorts were collectively known as Alta Lake . Along with the rest of the valley bridging the Cheakamus (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) and Green River (a tributary of the Lillooet River ) basins, they became part of British Columbia's first Resort Municipality in 1975. Completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 greatly reduced

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1696-518: The focus of the new show. Producers of the show are Force Four Entertainment, Vancouver. Eight 1 ⁄ 2 -hour episodes are to be broadcast on W Network Canada in the spring of 2014. Kansai TV Japan was produced in Whistler with a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -hour TV special, Race to the Canadian Northern Lights . Thirty minutes of footage on Whistler's winter activities, shopping, Village and spa. The show aired March 2001. It had

1749-593: The indigenous Squamish people (Sk̲wx̲wúmesh), known in English as the Squamish Nation , and L̓il̓watú, known in English as Lil'wat First Nation (originally Srapúl). Their history is tied to the rivers, lakes, and mountains that were used as reference for direction and travel. In the Late Pleistocene era, long before European settlement, Sk̲wx̲wúmesh and L̓il̓watú shared a village known as Spoez at

1802-463: The isotherm used. It has cold wet winters with significant snowfall and cloud cover, and warm summers which are somewhat dry. On average, Whistler receives approximately 11 days with temperatures over 30 °C (86 °F) and approximately 24 days with temperatures falling below −10 °C (14 °F). Whistler is a collection of microclimates ranging from coniferous mixed forest on the valley floor, to slightly drier slopes, to alpine tundra in

1855-726: The land that became the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, which was used by the Wolf Clan (now known as the Wallace Family) as shelter. The first British survey by the Royal Navy took place in the 1860s. These surveyors named the mountain London Mountain because of the heavy fog and cloud typically gathering around the mountain, but the area informally acquired the name "Whistler" due to the call of

1908-484: The main attraction of Whistler, the different run difficulties (easiest to hardest) are green (circle), blue (square), black (diamond), and double black (diamond). Throughout the year each run's difficulty stays the same. There are many signs around the mountain that indicate the difficulty of the runs and there are "expert only" signs at the bottom of some chairlifts indicating that most of the runs accessible from that chair are black diamonds or double black diamonds. Until

1961-584: The mid-1990s. During the 2010 Winter Olympics , Whistler hosted most of the alpine, Nordic , luge , skeleton , and bobsled events. The Whistler Valley is located around the pass between the headwaters of the Green River and the upper-middle reaches of the Cheakamus . It is flanked by glaciated mountains on both sides; the Garibaldi Ranges on the side that contains the ski mountains, and

2014-449: The mountain village. Also north is Lillooet, British Columbia , which is 122 km (76 mi) north of Whistler. South of the village is Squamish, British Columbia , about a 53 km (33 mi) drive. Also located south is Vancouver , which is 125 km (78 mi) south of the village. Whistler has a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification : Dsb/Dfb ) or an oceanic climate (Köppen: Csb/Cfb ) depending on

2067-469: The noun phrase 'one that goes along'. St̓át̓imcets, as is typical of the Salishan family, has several types of reduplication (and triplication) that have a range of functions such as expressing plural, diminutive, aspect, etc. A more complicated type of reduplication is the internal reduplication used to express the diminutive. In this case the consonant before a stressed vowel is reduplicated after

2120-399: The other Salishan languages, exhibits predicate/argument flexibility. All full words are able to occur in the predicate (including words with typically 'nouny' meanings such as nk̓yap 'coyote', which in the predicate essentially means 'to be a coyote') and any full word is able to appear in an argument, even those that seem "verby", such as t̓ak 'go along', which as a noun, is equivalent

2173-470: The outdoors was not the only activity in the valley, however. Logging was a booming industry. During the first half of the 20th century, most of the lower slopes of the surrounding mountains were cleared of old-growth. At its peak, four mills were in operation, most located around Green Lake. Prospecting and trapping were pursued as well, though no claims of great value were ever staked. In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Whistler had

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2226-605: The public. Later, the town, then still known as Alta Lake , was offered the 1976 Winter Olympics after the selected host city Denver declined the games due to funding issues. Alta Lake Whistler declined as well, after elections ushered in a local government less enthusiastic about the Olympics. The 1976 Winter Olympics were ultimately held in Innsbruck , Austria . Whistler was the Host Mountain Resort of

2279-404: The region travelling to the area in the warmer months where they established seasonal camps for hunting and trapping. Prior to settlement of the first European fishing and trapping communities, L̓il̓watú Nation members lived in camps along Green Lake, but were ousted by police in order to make way for the railway and other infrastructure around the lake. Evidence was found of an Istken pit-house on

2332-564: The same name and aired for two seasons from 2006 to 2008. The television series Peak Season is filmed in Whistler and documents the lives of people that live there. Reality Show Fresh Meat II was filmed in Whistler. The community also appeared as the location for Shane and Carmen's wedding in The L Word (season 3, episode 12) Whistler was also featured on The Real Housewives of Orange County and ABC's Extreme Weight Loss. Reality show Gene Simmons Family Jewels filmed some episodes in Whistler. It

2385-517: The stressed vowel and usually the vowel then changes to e (IPA: [ə] ). Examples are below: More than one reduplicative process can occur in a given word: St’át’imcets has several other variants of the above types. Reduplication is further complicated by consonant glottalization (see van Eijk (1997) for details). The subjunctive mood appears in nine distinct environments, with a range of semantic effects, including: The St̓át̓imcets subjunctive also differs from Indo-European subjunctives in that it

2438-521: The travel time from three days, providing ease of access from Vancouver, and the Rainbow Lodge gained a reputation as the most popular vacation destination west of the Rockies. The lodge was primarily a summer destination, with boating, fishing and hiking among the most popular activities, and soon other lodges began to open not just on Alta Lake, but on other valley lakes as well. Appreciation of

2491-626: The valley floor and the mountain sides are characterized as mixed forest, predominantly conifers , but with a peppering of a few deciduous trees like the Pacific dogwood ( Cornus nuttallii ), locally extinct Pacific crabapple ( Malus fusca ) or Pryus fusca , bitter cherry ( Prunus emarginata ), pin cherry ( Prunus pensylvanica ), choke cherry ( Prunus virginiana ), red alder ( Alnus rubra ), Sitka alder ( Alnus sinuata ), paper birch ( Betula papyrifera ), big leaf maple ( Acer macrophyllum ), and Douglas maple ( Acer glabrum ). Whistler

2544-420: The wild plums were dug up too by Pemberton Pioneers for fruit trees to transplant and as rootstock. Once abundant on the forest floor, lingonberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea ) is no longer found because of the loss of habitat through the clear-cutting. The School District 48 Sea to Sky operates public schools in Whistler. There are two elementary schools, Myrtle Phillip Elementary and Spring Creek Elementary. There

2597-612: Was a small railway resort and was the first commercial fishing and weekend retreat cabin on Alta Lake , which is now part of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British Columbia , and stood from 1914 to 1977. The lodge was a log cabin with peaked roof on the northwest verge of the lake by the railway line. Rainbow Lodge was among the first built along the Pacific Great Eastern line, which as of 1915 opened from Squamish to Clinton, British Columbia and

2650-540: Was clear cut twice. The Oregon grape Mahonia aquifolium (AKA hollyleaved barberry) and highbush cranberry Viburnum opulus were accidentally re-introduced as escaped landscaping plants, and may all be Oregonian subspecies. All the wild Pacific crabapples were dug up by Pemberton Pioneers for grafting rootstock. It is unclear whether the Chickasaw plum ( Prunus americana ) was indigenous or introduced by Indigenous transcontinental trade networks or later Western contact. All

2703-770: Was developed by the Mount Currie School and used by the Lillooet Council, and a modification by Bouchard that is used by the Upper St̓át̓imc Language, Culture and Education Society. The latter orthography is unusual in that /tɬʼ/ is written ⟨t̓⟩ , but it is preferred in many modern Lillooet-speaking communities. St'at'imcets has two main types of words: The variable word type may be affected by many morphological processes, such as prefixation , suffixation , infixation , reduplication , and glottalization . St̓át̓imcets, like

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2756-752: Was one of several along the line as far as Lillooet where Craig Lodge was. Rainbow Lodge also served as the area's post office. Horse loggers were busy in the valley prior to the Second World War. By the 1940s, Rainbow Lodge had been enlarged to serve over 100 guests, and was the most popular camping lodge west of the Rocky Mountains. In 1948, the Philips sold the property to Alec and Audrey Greenwood. Myrtle Philip lived in Whistler until her death in 1986. Rainbow Lodge burned down in 1977. This British Columbia -related article

2809-454: Was previously served by CBUWT-TV channel 13, a CBC Television repeater of CBUT-DT ( Vancouver ); that station shut down in 2012 due to budget cuts affecting the CBC. The television show Whistler took place in Whistler. Whistler , the series is a Canadian television drama centering on the aftermath of the mysterious death of a local snowboard legend. The series was set in the ski resort of

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