West Vancouver-Sea to Sky.
4 candidates, one seat.

The Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, gives its traditional territory as 6,732 square kilometres. Its website says that territory includes all of West Vancouver, the District of Squamish and the Municipality of Whistler, and all of Howe Sound with the islands in it. The same page says some village sites in the territory date back 3,000 years. Bowen Island Municipality's website names the island Nexwlélexwm and says the municipality lies on the traditional, unceded territory of the Squamish Nation.

The Líl̓wat Nation describes itself as an Interior Salish people with cultural and kinship ties to the St̓át̓y̓emc Nation. Its website gives its territory as 791,131 hectares, reaching south to Rubble Creek, north to Gates Lake, east to the Upper Stein Valley and west to Toba Inlet. It says artifacts more than 5,400 years old have been found from the Stein Valley to Bishop-Bridge, and that from the late 1800s its ancestors were confined to 10 reserves totalling 2,930 hectares. Most citizens live near Mount Currie.

At the head of Anderson Lake, which the provincial government's listing places near D'Arcy, the N'Quatqua Band says its reserve was established under the Indian Act in September 1858, and that its band office has served members since 1987. Its website describes the Sea-to-Sky corridor as the traditional territory of the St'at'imc people. The Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre says the Líl̓wat Nation met the Squamish Nation in 1999 to discuss land use where their territories overlap, and that the two Nations signed a Protocol Agreement in 2001. The centre opened in Whistler in July 2008.

BC Geographical Names records that the land at Horseshoe Bay was surveyed in 1909 as White Cliff City for Sir Charles Tupper and Colonel Albert Whyte. The Whytecliff post office opened on 1 June 1920 beside the railway station of the same name. The name changed to Horseshoe Bay on 28 July 1945, which the record calls the preferred local name. A 1927 manuscript quoted in the record says the Admiralty survey of Howe Sound named White Cliff Point for the white look of the weathered cliffs at the tip of the peninsula.

The Black Ball Line ran ferries on the south coast from 1951 to 1961, according to the Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Its routes joined Horseshoe Bay with Nanaimo and with Langdale on the western shore of Howe Sound. The same encyclopedia puts Bowen Island 15 minutes from Horseshoe Bay by ferry.

East along the shore, Caulfeild is named for Francis William Caulfeild, an Englishman. BC Geographical Names says he bought land between Cypress Creek and Point Atkinson in 1899, laid out winding streets that follow the slopes instead of a grid, made the waterfront strip a public park, and sold the first lots in 1909. The record says Caulfeild died in 1934.

BC Geographical Names says Captain Richards named Bowen Island in 1860 for Rear Admiral James Bowen. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia gives the island's area as 52.6 square kilometres. It says the earliest settlers were loggers and farmers, that a brickyard in Snug Cove made bricks used to build Vancouver's first city hall, and that steamer service after 1900 made recreation the main appeal. Bowen Island Municipality says an island-wide referendum on 19 June 1999 led to an election on 20 November and to incorporation on 4 December 1999.

Two peaks above Lions Bay are named The Lions. BC Geographical Names adopted that name on 6 May 1924 and records the Squamish and Líl̓wat name for the peaks as Chích'iyuy Elxwí7kn, the Twin Sisters. The village's own website describes a small, mostly residential community of 2.5 square kilometres on the eastern shore of Howe Sound. It says the village incorporated in January 1971, while BC Geographical Names records incorporation as a village municipality on 17 December 1970.

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says the Sea to Sky Highway between Horseshoe Bay and Squamish opened on 7 August 1958 and cost $10 million. BC Geographical Names adopted Lions Bay as a steamer landing on 3 April 1959.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the Britannia Mines took copper ore from the area around Mount Sheer, on the eastern shore of Howe Sound, from 1903. Concentrators installed in 1904 and 1914 were replaced by the present concentrator, built in 1922 and 1923 to process 2,500 tons of ore a day. The register says Britannia was the largest producer of copper ore concentrate in the British Empire between 1925 and 1930, and that the concentrator was recognized as a national historic site on 20 November 1987.

The Britannia Mine Museum gives the years of operation as 1904 to 1974. It says more than 60,000 people from over 50 countries lived and worked there, and that the Anaconda Mining Company owned the mine from 1963 until the last shift on 1 November 1974. Its list of disasters gives the Jane Slide of 1915, with 56 deaths, and the Britannia Beach flood of 1921, with 35 deaths.

The Britannia Beach Historical Society founded the museum in 1971, and it opened to the public in 1975. The museum says a campaign to clean up the site began in 2002, and that salmon and trout have returned to the local creeks. BC Geographical Names places Britannia Beach on the east side of Howe Sound, south of Squamish.

BC Geographical Names says the Squamish post office opened on 1 July 1892. Sometime near 1909, the record says, the owners of the Howe Sound and Northern Railway announced that the settlement would be called Newport. After the province took over the railway in 1912 and made it the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, a naming contest for schoolchildren drew 2,000 entries. The record says the railway's vice-president, D'Arcy Tate, chose Squamish, and that the $500 prize was shared by 28 winners.

The District of Squamish says the Geographic Board of Canada made the name official at a meeting on 3 March 1914, and that an Act to incorporate Squamish received Royal Assent on 4 March 1914. No council was elected then. BC Geographical Names records incorporation as a village municipality on 18 May 1948. In January 1914 the railway agreed to buy 1,100 acres from the Squamish Nation, and the District says the Squamish Adventure Centre and Howe Sound Secondary School now stand on one of those former reserves.

The District says that by the fall of 1914 the railway ran north from Squamish as far as Pemberton. On 15 December 1964 Squamish, Brackendale and Mamquam joined as the District Municipality of Squamish.

The Pemberton Valley Dyking District says non-native people were looking for fur trade routes through Seton and Anderson Lake in the years near 1839, and that a trail built in the 1850s joined Pemberton and Squamish and became the main supply route to the Cariboo gold fields. It says residents asked the federal government for help with flooding in 1912, and that a permanent non-native community existed at Pemberton by 1914. BC Geographical Names records that the Agerton post office opened beside the railway on 1 August 1912 and was renamed Pemberton on 1 February 1931.

A large flood in 1940 led to the Pemberton Valley Drainage Committee. In 1946 the federal government agreed under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act to support the Pemberton Valley Reclamation Project, and the Pemberton Valley Dyking District was formed to keep up the dykes. The early work built dykes, straightened bends in the Lillooet River and lowered Lillooet Lake. It lists 17 registered seed potato growers in the valley, growing 34 varieties. BC Geographical Names records that Pemberton became a village municipality on 20 July 1956 and is named for Joseph Despard Pemberton.

At the south end of Anderson Lake, BC Geographical Names says D'Arcy takes its name from D'Arcy Tate and that its post office opened on 1 January 1916 and took the name of the railway station.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler says the first settlers came to the Whistler area in the 1880s. In 1914 Myrtle and Alex Philip built Rainbow Lodge on Alta Lake, and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway came through the valley the same year. Whistler Mountain opened for skiing in January 1966 with a gondola, one chair lift and two T-bars. The municipality was incorporated on 6 September 1975, when fewer than 1,000 people lived there. BC Geographical Names prints the incorporation as 6 September 1976 and gives 8 December 1975 as the date the name was confirmed.

Whistler Village, Blackcomb Mountain and the north side of Whistler Mountain opened in December 1980. On 2 July 2003 the International Olympic Committee chose Vancouver and Whistler to host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and named Whistler the first Host Mountain Resort. The municipality says Whistler co-hosted the Games with the four Host First Nations and Vancouver.

Infrastructure BC lists the Sea-to-Sky Highway Project, between Horseshoe Bay and Whistler, as completed in October 2009 at a cost of $600 million, with S2S Transportation Group as the partner. The Pemberton Valley Dyking District says the highway was built through Whistler and then Pemberton in the early 1970s.