While traditional meditation aims to induce, through the chanting of a mantra, quiet in the mind by stripping it away of fear and anxiety, Christian meditation focuses instead on Jesus Christ and stories from the Bible to form a personal connection with God.

Squamish started to grow with the railway which brought opportunities and development to town.

Money left over from the 1960‘s truck route construction would now be used for a Loggers Lane Interpretive Trail.

NOTHING says Canada more than a canoe and there is nothing about them that Billy Baker doesn’t know of. The intricate knowledge of making a canoe comes swimmingly to him via generations of men who knew exactly which log would work best for what kind of canoe.

Much of the community’s business, political debates and gossip occurred around the pot-belly stove as residents waited for the mail to be sorted.

As the debate on niqab rages in the country, we talk to Squamish Muslims to know what niqab means in their home countries. Niqab is not compulsory in Islam. It is a cultural phenomenon that varies from country to country.

Despite health issues that limit her mobility, Susan Magnuson has been part of the food drive for the last four years for the sheer joy of it.

In the early 1950s, when the community decided to build its own hospital, the biggest challenge was to raise funds. How people came together in a rare cooperative spirit and accomplished the task can be a valuable lesson for today's Squamish.

After incinerating fire and black rain came years of scarcity and disease. Sachi Rummel, now a Squamish resident, survived it all.

Velaniskis’s new position ties directly to his education at Guelph, where he specialized in rural planning. With competing priorities of industrial, residential and agricultural land use, planning in rural communities offers unique challenges to planners.