Canada
- Whistler, British Columbia, a "resort municipality" in British Columbia, Canada
- Whistler Sliding Centre, a Canadian bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
- Whistler Blackcomb, a ski resort in British Columbia, Canada
- Whistler Mountain, the geographic entity, named for the hoary marmot, that is one of the two mountains the above ski resort is based around; also a glacier and a creek on that same mountain
- Whistler railway station, a railway station on the Canadian National Railway in Whistler, British Columbia
- Whistler Olympic Park, The cross country skiing facility in the Callaghan Valley near Whistler in B.C., which hosted the cross country skiing, biathlon, Nordic combined, and ski jumping events in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
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Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)