Bicycle race from Vernon to Kelowna
Young boys at Cub Camp at McKinley Landing
Day family on Kalamalka Lake
Ferry slip at Okanagan Centre
Vernon to Okanagan Mission
Gleed father and child
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April 19, 2013
I visited the United Church-sponsored thrift shop the other day and when I opened the back door I was greeted by a veritable “Santa’s workshop” of folks, sorting, labelling and displaying all manner of donated items. What tremendous value they … Continue reading
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March 22, 2013
How did one travel from the Okanagan to the coast in the first decades of the twentieth century? Crossing the coastal mountains was no easy task. The Dewdney Trail, connecting the South Okanagan to Hope, had been built during the Gold … Continue reading
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March 8, 2013
Included in the recently acquired Heddle papers is an unidentified newspaper article, date unknown and most likely from the Vernon News. The article quotes from a journal kept by W. T. Heddle of Oyama during an auto trip that he … Continue reading
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January 18, 2013
When and why did BC make the decision to drive on the right side of the road in Left Hand Drive (LHD) vehicles? John A. Mara, MP for the Yale riding from 1887 to 1896 first suggested that BC adopt … Continue reading
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September 1, 2012
September 1, 1952. Sixty years ago today the Gallacher Gangsters played a baseball game against the Oyama Juniors team. The Gangsters line-up included Oyama players in their late twenties and thirties – many returned veterans: Yamamoto, Gallacher, Trewhitt, Stephens, Eyles, … Continue reading
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June 22, 2012
Ninety years ago, on June 22, 1922, the first radio receiver was set up in Lake Country. Northcote Caesar had purchased a radio and had it set up by Messrs. Creyell and Edgar of Vernon. The first signal that he … Continue reading
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June 12, 2012
Lucas Anderson of Oyama is the 2012 recipient of the Arnold Award, named after Jane and Gilbert Arnold, two Lake Country residents who contributed greatly to their community and specifically to the Lake Country Museum. Lucas, a recent graduate of … Continue reading
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May 3, 2012
Lake Country residents Ron Taylor and Jim Moody are once again presenting a lecture on Fir Valley, an early pioneer community just east of Winfield (7 p.m., Thursday, May 3, 2012, at the George Elliott Secondary School Library) and a … Continue reading
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April 6, 2012
The Lake Country Museum has mounted its manuscript digitization project, Life Histories. Historical Manuscripts of the District of Lake Country, on its re-designed website, www.lakecountrymuseum.com/. This project makes forty-eight Museum manuscripts available, and searchable, on-line. It also allows these manuscripts … Continue reading
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March 29, 2012
Did you remember that this Saturday, March 31, 2012, is Dan Bruce’s presentation Tropical Seashells at the Vernon Museum. Guests will see a wide selection of shapes & colours from the tropical seas of the world as well as the … Continue reading