by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Feb 9, 2025 | Environment, Natural History, Uncategorized
By D. Scott Forfar. The Lake Country Museum & Archives has an intriguing little cookbook in its collection that tells a fascinating story. “Fish and how to Cook it” (1914) was the first cookbook ever published by the federal government. It was modeled after...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 23, 2025 | Backward Glances, Bloggers, Gibbons, Richard, Uncategorized
We all love our “stuff”. We accumulate “treasures” throughout our life and then ultimately wonder what will become of them after we’re gone. Both my parents and in-laws lived over fifty years in their homes. They didn’t throw much out…they had grown up during very...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Dec 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
“You’ve Got Mail.” There is now a much different context to that phrase than once was the case. Today it probably indicates a long list of unopened emails, most quickly deleted, some perhaps unread. Many check their text messages and emails with the frequency similar...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Sep 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Fall is here again, and fall migration well under way in the bird world. Some birds left us as early as late July or early August, and the last won’t really be gone until there is lingering snow and the temperatures fall dramatically. One of the most dramatic of fall...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | May 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Annual Report 2020 Lake Country Heritage & Cultural Society The Lake Country Heritage and Cultural Society presented its 2020 Annual Report at the Annual General Meeting on May 13, 2020. For any questions regarding this Report please contact the LCHS Executive...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
The front entrance to Jack Seaton Park got a new face lift with the installation of a new gate, landscaping upgrades and an addition to the sign that marks the entrance. Lake Country Crane Service owner Bob Yunick and Seaton Park board directors Jack McCarthy and...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Work began in February on Phase 2 of Lake Country’s sewer project, as well as an extension of sewer service from the new Cooper’s Foods store on Beaver Lake Road via Jensen Road and Bottom Wood Lake Road (pictured here) to the Phase 1 works installed at Berry Road....
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
R and L Excavating began work in late November, prepping the land in order to begin installing sewer pipe under the area already dedicated for Main Street. Adding the sewer line this year was not something the District had planned but when Winfield Plaza started to...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Middleton Road may be relatively newly established but the Middleton family for whom it was named arrived in the area in 1903. The first of the Middleton family to move to this area were William and Catherine Middleton. They had five children — Louisa Alexandra,...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
At the recently concluded convention in Penticton of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association, long-time association activist Allan Claridge was re-elected as the industry’s ombudsman. In addition, son Don was elected as the new market board chairman, replacing the...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Tennis courts have been added to Jack Seaton Park — a Lake Country Lions Club project. See also 1971,...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jan 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
St. Edward’s Catholic Church was built in 1949. It was named for St. Edward the...
