Details
Details make a difference. We got out some old pictures a while ago. Like so many old pictures, the prints had no date, no captions. A picnic table, with a broad river in the background; beyond it, a range of... [Continue Reading]
November 2016
Sir Edward Simons Ward of Okanagan House
Just south of the old pilings for Carr’s Landing stands a heritage home known as Okanagan House. It was built in 1909 by H. R. Raymer of Kelowna for a young English adventurer Sir Edward Simons Ward and his wife Lois.... [Continue Reading]
Remembering … and Honouring
Flags fly at the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, to honour those who have fallen.... [Continue Reading]
Hall of Learning — Oyama’s one-room high school
In these days of modern secondary education it’s almost impossible to visualize a high school with all grades in one room. It’s equally difficult to imagine one teacher instructing about 25 students in every subject in that classroom. Such was... [Continue Reading]