by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Jul 3, 2021 | Natural History, Pam Laing
More Icterids – Bullock’s Oriole and Western Meadowlark In the spring posting we looked at three of the family known as Icterids. Those three were Red-winged Blackbird, Brewer’s Blackbird and Yellow-headed Blackbird. Today let’s turn our attention to two more...
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 | Oct 20, 2017 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Laura Neame
The Rainbow Ranche Collection was donated to the Lake Country Museum and Archives in 2013 by Roger MacDonnell, a grandson of the Ranche Manager, James Goldie. We are fortunate in having these records, preserved by James Goldie’s daughter, Nancy Goldie. The record of...
by lakecountry | Nov 28, 2014 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol, Thomson, Duane
Fourteen years ago (2000) Ken Ellison published a book, Irrigation is King: A Century of Water in Oyama, BC. 1892-2000. This work exhaustively examined and interpreted the land, water and irrigation records of Oyama, BC. Now, a complementary video, Flume. The story of...
