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The 2019 Whistler Writers Festival will be held from October 17 to 20 at multiple locations throughout Whistler Village, including the Fairmont Chateau Whistler.. Featured authors are Cherie Dimaline, Andrew Pyper, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Deborah Ellis, Eve Joseph, Richard Van Camp, Jim Brown, Omar El Akkad, Emma Donoghue, Maude Barlow, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Harold R. Johnson and more.
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 the British Columbia Interior via Pemberton-Mount Currie to Lillooet and connections beyond to the Trans-Canada and Cariboo Highways.
The current station building was built for Whistler Rail Tours (former operators of the Whistler Sea to Sky Climb) in 2007. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the 2010 Winter Olympics , a special Rocky Mountaineer train sponsored by the government of the neighbouring province of Alberta served as public transit between Vancouver and Whistler.
This is a route-map template for the Whistler Sea to Sky Climb, a former Rocky Mountaineer route in British Columbia, Canada. For a key to symbols, see {{ railway line legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers, IT professionals and partners, hosted by Microsoft. The first conference, then known as TechEd , happened in 1993 in Orlando , Florida , United States .
The Peak 2 Peak Gondola's Whistler Terminal under construction in July 2008. Whistler Blackcomb broke ground for the Peak 2 Peak Gondola in a ceremony on May 21, 2007. [7] The Doppelmayr Garaventa Group would supply the gondola itself, with Timberline Construction as the general contractor and Glotman Simpson as the Consulting Engineers. [8]
February 5: Squamish to Whistler; February 6: Whistler to Merritt; February 7: Merritt to Abbotsford; February 8: Abbotsford to Surrey; February 9: Surrey to Richmond (The torch briefly went into the United States at the Peace Arch in Surrey, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington) February 10: Richmond to West Vancouver, British Columbia
Whistler Blackcomb was the centrepiece of a renewed bid on the part of nearby Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which they won in July 2003. Whistler Blackcomb hosted the alpine skiing events, including the men's and women's Olympic and Paralympic alpine skiing disciplines of downhill, Super-G, slalom, giant slalom and super combined.