by lakecountry | Feb 15, 2018 | Bloggers, This Day in History, Thomson, Carol
“Whether it’s your teddy, bunny or lamb-lamb, stuffed animal toys were birthed from a less cutesy place: politics. Inventor Morris Michtom named his stitched creation aften then-U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and placed the very first “teddy” in a store...
by lakecountry | Feb 2, 2018 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
Okanagan Lake froze over in 1929. Temperatures remained consistently below zero long enough that serious concern over food supplies were quite real. This meant that the paddle wheelers had to break their way through the ice to reach their docking points. Local...
