by lakecountry | Nov 21, 2018 | Gibbons, Richard, History of Lake Country
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 marked the end of a unique and significant connection to the history of this community. Anne Land On that date Anne Land of Okanagan Centre died peacefully at the age of 104. Her life and death were significant in so many ways. It was...
by lakecountry | Jul 13, 2018 | Announcements, Bloggers, Community Events, History of Lake Country, Jim Taylor
“This is the 1172th column I have written for the Lake Country Calendar newspaper. In the autumn of 1995, Jack McCarthy called me. ‘How’d you like to write a column for us?’ he asked. That’s how it began. Jack was the owner and publisher...
by lakecountry | May 4, 2018 | Bloggers, Community Events, Displays, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
Oyama during World War II The final featured Heritage Marker will be placed where the Okanagan Rail Trail crosses Oyama Road. Like the other markers in the series, this one was prepared with the assistance of a Canada 150 grant. The crossroads of Highway 97 and Oyama...
by lakecountry | Mar 30, 2018 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
Continued from blog posts of March 16th and 23rd, 2018 … “As James had predicted, the night clerk was off duty, but the departure of the two men did not go unnoticed. Alf Watson, the ship’s purser, saw them leave and wondered who they were. When the...
by lakecountry | Mar 23, 2018 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
Continued from March 16, 2018… “At 5:30 the sternwheeler’s engines commenced their rhythmic throb as she headed for her first stop at Peachland. As the vessel churned the chilly waters of Okanagan Lakes, James was formulating a plan to escape. One...
by lakecountry | Mar 16, 2018 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
“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...
by lakecountry | Mar 9, 2018 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
A tin can from the large collection on display in the “general store” at the Lake Country Museum is an interesting artifact. This can was shipped from Spanish-speaking Argentina, under the label Flora De Lis. This packaging was commonly used from 1907...
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 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...
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