by lakecountry | Feb 17, 2017 | Bloggers, Community Events, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
Reminiscences of Clara Hallam (née Bailey) continued Hallam reminiscences 2 (pp. 27-30) Some stylistic changes have been made in the text to reflect modern usage. 1907 – 1909 “… There was to be a big skating party on Duck Lake one night so brother Bill,...
by lakecountry | Oct 31, 2016 | Bloggers, Community Events, History of Lake Country, Shannon Jorgenson, This Day in History
The Westbury Hotel, built in 1908, was one of two hotels in Okanagan Centre in the early 1900s. On Halloween day in 1947, fire broke out and the hotel burned to the ground. Although no one was injured, the guests and the seasonal packinghouse workers who boarded there...
