Squamish is a resource & holidaymaker town at a northerly prevent of Howe Sound, 67 km (42 mi) northwest of Vancouver, and the key prevent on the Sea-to-Sky Highway to the Whistler village and ski/snowboard resort.

Squamish (people: 16,000) occurs as convenient-aggressive community that has expanded from either its roots as a forestry and industry town into one of western Canada's top outdoor recreation centers. These are as well more and more popular by having Vancouver residents escaping the increased dollars and cents of dwelling in this city, simply 1 hours chase away.

Tourer attractions include a Stawamus Chief, a brobdingnagian cliff-faced granite massif favoured by rock climbers; the Shannon Lessens falls; river-rafting on the Elaho & Squamish rivers; wind surfboarding & kite surfriding at a mouth of the Squamish Flow of any stream; and bald eagle viewing in the nearby community of Brackendale, which has one of North America's big populations of bald eagles.

Squamish is likewise a title of the First Nations people who use at times inhabited the big part of south-west BC (including great deal of Vancouver since before a instance of call for using Europeans. A meaning is "mother of wind", on to the incredible winds that came charging through the vale.

Antecedently known as Newport, Squamish is the European pronunciation of Skwtenwú7mesh, a traditional title. Smwtenwú7mesh comes from either a local First Nations who have inhabited this land prior to email. Sthousandwtenwú7mesh's translation is "people of great drinking water".