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Whistler Village

Whistler
Resort municipality
Resort Municipality of Whistler
Whistler Panorama
Whistler Panorama
Official logo of Whistler
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Whistler is located in British Columbia
Whistler
Whistler
Location of Whistler in British Columbia
Coordinates: 50°7′15″N 122°57′16″W / 50.12083°N 122.95444°W / 50.12083; -122.95444
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Region Sea to Sky Country
Regional District Squamish-Lillooet
Settled 1914 by Myrtle and Alex Philip
Incorporated as a Resort Municipality 1975
Government
 • Type Elected town council
 • Mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden
 • Manager Mike Furey
 • Governing body Whistler Town Council
 • MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones
 • MLA Jordan Sturdy
Area
 • Total 240.40 km2 (92.82 sq mi)
Elevation 670 m (2,200 ft)
Population (2016)
 • Total 11,854
 • Density 49.3/km2 (128/sq mi)
Time zone PST (UTC-8)
Postal code span V0N
Area code(s) 604
Website www.whistler.ca

Whistler (Squamish language: Sḵwiḵw) is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately 125 km (78 mi) north of Vancouver and 36 km (22 mi) south of the town of Pemberton. Incorporated as the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), it has a permanent population of approximately 9,965, plus a larger but rotating "transient" population of workers, typically younger people from beyond British Columbia, notably from Australia and Europe.

Over two million people visit Whistler annually, primarily for alpine skiing and snowboarding and, in 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 the mid-1990s. During the 2010 Winter Olympics, Whistler hosted most of the alpine, Nordic, luge, skeleton, and bobsled events, though freestyle skiing and all snowboarding events were hosted at Cypress Mountain near Vancouver.

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 a group of ranges with no collective name but which 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 and naturally was the main trading route of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations long before the arrival of Europeans. One Lil'wat legend of the Great Flood says that before the deluge, the people lived at Green Lake.


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