The Lake Country Museum Spring Day Camp is packed with activities that provide children with skills to use on adventures both inside the Museum and outside in Okanagan Centre Park. Students will enjoy learning about the Lake Country history and... [Continue Reading]
Orioles are a large group of birds found across the world, but the only oriole known to breed here in summer is the Bullock’s Oriole. In the east, Baltimore Orioles are the summer visitor.... [Continue Reading]
“Shackled together in the sternwheeler’s cabin the prisoners were apparently secure. Unfortunately, one hadn’t been thoroughly searched. About nine o’clock on the frosty night of March 16, 1912, the door of Chater and Taylor’s General Store and Post Office at... [Continue Reading]
The Rainbow Ranche Collection was donated to the Lake Country Museum and Archives in 2013 by Roger MacDonnell, a grandson of the Ranche Manager, James Goldie. We are fortunate in having these records, preserved by James Goldie’s daughter, Nancy Goldie.... [Continue Reading]
Fourteen years ago (2000) Ken Ellison published a book, Irrigation is King: A Century of Water in Oyama, BC. 1892-2000. This work exhaustively examined and interpreted the land, water and irrigation records of Oyama, BC. Now, a complementary video, Flume.... [Continue Reading]
For those of you who missed Dr. Ward Strong’s wonderful presentation on insects, Bugs & Us, which was presented by the Lake Country Museum & Archives in September 2012, here is an opportunity to hear it at Capsule College in Vernon. Insects … we... [Continue Reading]
You are invited, and encouraged, to participate in the Pelmewash Parkway public engagement and concept plan process. Please come out to either of the following sessions: Monday, January 21 (5 pm – 7 pm) in the Carr’s Landing Room at... [Continue Reading]
Look to the hills! Currently covering many of the Okanagan hillsides is the beautiful yellow Balsamorhiza sagittata (Arrow-leaved Balsam-root), more commonly known as the Spring Sunflower. The heat of the spring sunshine has brought this beautiful landscape to life. Information about... [Continue Reading]
The District of Lake Country is located the central Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. It has evolved over the last two hundred years from the homeland of the Okanagan Indians, who used the area for hunting, fishing and gathering,... [Continue Reading]
