MAR 26, postal places, Canada: Whistler, BC

   a) Reprise of material posted on March 26 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, springtime excursion (photo-collage)
2021: mammalian wildlife, woodchucks (illustrated poem) 

2022: bar-fauna, the Lizards' Lair (illustrated poem)
2023: defining opinion, hopeful (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Mar 26, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note: BC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of British Columbia in which the resort-municipality of Whistler, permanent population 14,000, is located. Two million tourists visit Whistler annually for winter alpine sports, and for the summer pastimes of hiking and mountain biking.

Prior to European settlement, the site was the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations. Trappers and prospectors were gradually attracted, but completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 provided easy access from Vancouver, and brought logging and escalating tourism. The resort-city is named for the call of the hoary marmot, a ground squirrel dwelling at high elevations. The Whistler-Blackcomb area served as a major venue for "Vancouver 2010", the twenty-first Olympic Winter Games.

 

You can read more about the hoary marmot in another of our verses HERE.

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