by lakecountry | Mar 2, 2018 | Bloggers, Community Events, Displays, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
The fourth heritage marker panel examined in this series is entitled “Water before Rail,” dealing with the transport of fruit and other goods by water, roughly between the opening of the canal connecting Kalamalka and Wood lakes in 1908 and the completion of the...
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...
by lakecountry | Jan 26, 2018 | Guest Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Natural History, Pam Laing
Which birds might I see today? Ducks that dive Remember the dabblers and the divers – the two categories into which we group ducks? In an earlier posting we took a look at the dabblers, and in this posting we’ll focus on the divers. All of the species featured...
by lakecountry | Jan 19, 2018 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
Putting a lifetime of photos and more on a DVD1 by Tim Talevich Like most parents, my mother and father were diligent about taking photos of all the key moments in their growing family’s life. There were the holiday snapshots: packages around the Christmas tree,...
by lakecountry | Dec 19, 2017 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, This Day in History, Thomson, Carol
The Lakeshore Garage was built by E. Swanson in 1947. It was later owned by Al Nagel and taken over by his son, Randy, in the 1970s. After that the building was leased to Alvin Meyer. The last gas was pumped on December 19, 1987. The garage was demolished when the...
by lakecountry | Dec 15, 2017 | Bloggers, Community Events, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
By Margaret Carruthers1 First established in the 1950s, Gable Road begins at Carr’s Landing Road and ends at Gable Beach on Okanagan Lake. The road is named for the Gabel family, [but] as you can see the spelling is incorrect, the result of a slight...
by lakecountry | Dec 8, 2017 | Bloggers, Community Events, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
This Heritage Marker, at the junction of Woodsdale and Lodge roads, is the third featured site along the Okanagan Rail Trail.1 The Thomas Wood Ranch dominated the flats at the south end of Pelmewash or Wood Lake until Wood retired to Victoria in 1903. He subdivided...
by lakecountry | Nov 24, 2017 | Bloggers, Community Events, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
The research, design and construction of five heritage markers along the Okanagan Rail Trail is a project of the Lake Country Museum & Archives. It is supported by the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia | Canada 150: Celebrating B.C....
by lakecountry | Nov 17, 2017 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
“Many Canadians are unaware of how broad and important a role Canada played in the Second World War, particularly in the Battle of the Atlantic, arguably the most crucial battle of the entire war, and on the sands at Juno Beach and in the Scheldt region of the...
by lakecountry | Nov 10, 2017 | Bloggers, Hayes, Bob, History of Lake Country
One hundred years ago, in October and November 1917, the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.) was engaged in a major battle in what was later known as World War I (1914 – 1918). There were many battles and campaigns in World War I including Passchendaele, also known...
by lakecountry | Nov 3, 2017 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
Construction of the Winfield Memorial Hall began in 1947 and the Hall opened in 1948. It was built as a memorial to those who served and those who died in WWI and WWII. The former school, built in 1910, that had served as a community hall until 1948 was torn down in...
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