Avenue. The library houses a collection of books, CDs, DVDs, and magazines. It has an Art for Loan collection and an online historical archive of various photographs, periodicals, and other items. Nearby museums include the Britannia Mine Museum and the West Coast Railway Association. In 1998, Squamish was briefly the home of the world's first unionized McDonald's franchise, although the union was decertified by the summer of 1999. Every year, Squamish hosts the popular Squamish Valley Music Festival, though they did not proceed with the festival in 2016. Usually taking place in August, the festival has hosted artists such as Eminem, Bruno Mars, Macklemore and Arcade Fire. In media Squamish has been a filming location for a number of media works and is a very popular place to film movies and TV shows. Examples include the films Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997), Insomnia (2002), Walking Tall (2004), Chaos Theory (2008), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), The 12 Disasters of Christmas (2012), Star Trek Beyond (2016), Woody Woodpecker (2018), the television series Men in Trees, The Guard, A&E's U.S. adaptation of The Returned, the Hallmark Channel's Aurora Teagarden mysteries, and Netflix's Lost in Space reboot. Sneaky Sasquatch, an Apple Arcade game, is also based there. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Squamish had a population of 23,819 living in 9,191 of its 9,906 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 19,497. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Ethnicity Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Religion According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Squamish included: Irreligion (16,500 persons or 70.1%) Christianity (5,110 persons or 21.7%) Sikhism (1,260 persons or 5.4%) Islam (160 persons or 0.7%) Hinduism (90 persons or 0.4%) Judaism (70 persons or 0.3%) Buddhism (60 persons or 0.3%) Indigenous Spirituality (40 persons or 0.2%) Climate Squamish has an oceanic climate (Cfb) with warm summers and moderately cold winters. Squamish is one of the wettest inhabited locations in Canada, with over of rainfall per year, often falling in long stretches through the winter. Industry Carbon Engineering, a company focusing on the commercialization of direct air capture technology, is headquartered in Squamish. Transit Public transportation is provided by the Squamish Transit System; this service is free over the summer to students at school age (elementary