by lakecountry | Jul 26, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Laura Neame
The Okanagan today is identified with beaches, orchards and vineyards, rather than the Wild West. However, this letter, written in 1910, is a glimpse into the Okanagan’s frontier past. James Goldie, manager of the Rainbow Ranche in Okanagan Centre, was...
by lakecountry | Jul 12, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
Pelmewash Parkway is about to be devoted entirely to local traffic, providing Lake Country with the wonderful asset of seven kilometres of lakeshore for all manner of recreation. This seems to be an opportune time to discuss the origin and possible meaning of the...
by lakecountry | Jun 14, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
“The Railroad” was the name used on the earliest colonial maps, before the settlement in Lake Country, to refer to the isthmus at Oyama. The term certainly did not refer to any European-made feature; it had to refer to either a natural or an Okanagan Indian structure....
by lakecountry | May 31, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Laura Neame
April 29, 2013: e-mail to Mits Hikichi, son of Rainbow Ranche (Lake Country) Foreman Sam Hikichi, from Laura Neame, archivist of Lake Country Museum and Archives. Hello Mits Hikichi, We are hoping you can shed some light on a mystery. We received some donated papers...
by lakecountry | May 17, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
The following poem, by Meiri (Koyama) Itami, was written in 1980 to honour Eijiro Koyama. Koyama farmed in the Winfield area in the 1920s. Eijiro Koyama died on January 17, 1956. A Day with Dad on the Farm As certainly as dawn crept over the hills he was awake. No...
by lakecountry | Apr 26, 2013 | Bloggers, Hayes, Bob, History of Lake Country
On page five of the Thursday, November 16, 1911 edition of The Kelowna Courier and Okanagan Orchardist appeared the following article: DIED – At the Hospital, on Monday, Nov. 13th, Frank Reiner, Okanagan Centre, aged 52. Mr. Reiner had been ailing several weeks, but...
by lakecountry | Mar 22, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
How did one travel from the Okanagan to the coast in the first decades of the twentieth century? Crossing the coastal mountains was no easy task. The Dewdney Trail, connecting the South Okanagan to Hope, had been built during the Gold Rush, and for years supplies came...
by lakecountry | Mar 15, 2013 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
Last week I attended the OKANAGAN READS presentation by folk singers Rika Ruebsaat and Jon Bartlett, of Princeton, and was charmed by Jon’s reading of a poem from the newspaper, the Princeton Star (23rd of June 1927). I include it here. TEACHING THEM TO DRIVE...
by lakecountry | Mar 8, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
Included in the recently acquired Heddle papers is an unidentified newspaper article, date unknown and most likely from the Vernon News. The article quotes from a journal kept by W. T. Heddle of Oyama during an auto trip that he made from Oyama to Vancouver, via...
by lakecountry | Feb 8, 2013 | Bloggers, Hayes, Bob, History of Lake Country
British Columbia’s first Family Day will be held on the second Monday in February, making the date for the first Family Day this Monday, February 11, 2013. As we prepare for this celebration it is interesting to think of some of Lake Country’s pioneer...
by lakecountry | Jan 25, 2013 | Bloggers, Hayes, Bob, History of Lake Country
“We are sorry to record the death by accident of Mr. A. [Arthur] Chatterton, of Alvaston [Winfield]. The accident occurred about noon on the 2nd. Mr. Chatterton was alone in the old Pearcie shack, which property he had lately bought, and was thawing out powder and...
by lakecountry | Jan 18, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
When and why did BC make the decision to drive on the right side of the road in Left Hand Drive (LHD) vehicles? John A. Mara, MP for the Yale riding from 1887 to 1896 first suggested that BC adopt a Rule of the Road in 1892. In a letter to Forbes George Vernon (see...
by lakecountry | Jan 4, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
“On February 29, 1904, the province enacted the Act to regulate the speed and operation of Motor Vehicles on Highways, which required motorists to have displayed on the vehicle their registration number so as to be plainly visible at all times during the...
by lakecountry | Dec 21, 2012 | Bloggers, Jim Taylor
It was our first Christmas away from family. Joan and I had moved from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, on the far north end of B.C.’s coast. We didn’t have many decorations — we had usually celebrated Christmas with my parents – so we had to improvise. The kids and...
by lakecountry | Nov 10, 2012 | Bloggers, Gibbons, Richard
The song A Helmet and a Cross bears very special meaning for all those who have experienced a loss of a loved one, particularly as a result of conflict. It also has very special meaning to many who have resided in the Lake Country area for many years as it was written...
by navigator | Jul 20, 2010 | MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
Now who is this Dr. Chase? In the nineteenth-century manner, Chase earned his fame and fortune with equal parts of hard work and self-promotion. Born in New York State in 1817, Alvin Chase came to Ann Arbor in 1856 to pursue a medical degree after a career as a...
by navigator | Mar 31, 2010 | MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
Dan Bruce, our Curator, bought this little booklet to complement our patent medicine collection. It doesn’t have a publication date but there’s a rudimentary ‘Baby Book’ with a place for a picture and some birth statistics. Written in pencil is the notation that Our...
by navigator | Feb 28, 2010 | MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
I have always liked arrowroot biscuits but I didn’t realize the history behind them until I started researching the museum’s can of Montserrat’s Arrowroot. Arrowroot has a long history of cultivation in the Caribbean as a food staple. Arrowroot thickens at a lower...
by navigator | Jan 26, 2010 | MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
I thought that Zam-Buk might be boring. I vaguely remember a tin of it at home when I was a child although I don’t remember it being used. It was just there. According to the script on the tin it is used “for cuts, bruises, scratches, burns, scalds, athlete’s foot,...
by navigator | Jan 19, 2010 | MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
This medication was first manufactured by Hazeltine & Co in 1864 apparently started out labeled as a remedy for consumption although it was really only ever a cough remedy and the jury is still out on that. One source says “Piso’s was essentially a pretty...
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