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Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME]."}],"FullText":[{"label":"Full Text","value":" Okanagan History\n OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN\n OKANAGAN\nHISTORY\nThe Seventy-sixth Report\nofthe\nOKANAGAN\nHISTORICAL\nSOCIETY\nFounded September 4,1925\nISSN-0830-0739\nISBN: 978-0-9916919-0-6\n2012\nwww .okanaganhistoricalsociety .org\nPrinted in the Okanagan Valley\non acid-free paper\nby Kettle Valley Graphics\nKelowna, B.C.\n SEVENTY-SIXTH REPORT OF THE\nOKANAGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY\nThe information, views and opinions expressed in the following articles are\nthose ofthe author(s). The information, views and opinions are not necessarily\nthose ofthe Okanagan Historical Society.\nEditor\nDavid Gregory\nEditorial Committee\nArmstrong-Enderby: Robert Cowan, Jessie Ann Gamble\nSalmon Arm: Diane Ambil\nVernon: William Dunsmore\nKelowna: Ann Bostock\nSummerland: Mary Trainer\nPenticton: Suzanne Schmiddem\nOliver-Osoyoos: Ken Favrholdt\nMEMBERSHIP\nThe recipient of this Seventy-sixth Report is entitled to register his\/her\nmembership in the Seventy-seventh Report, which will be issued November 1\n2013. For membership registration and certificate see insert in this book.\nPURCHASING REPORTS\nReports of the Okanagan Historical Society, including recent back issues are\navailable through the Treasurer, Box 313, Vernon, B.C. V1T 6M3, from\nBranches of the OHS, and from most museums and bookstores in the\nOkanagan-Shuswap-Similkameen region. You may also arrange to receive\nfuture Reports by mail by contacting the Treasurer.\nEDITORIAL INQUIRIES\nInquiries about the material in the Reports, or for inclusion in future Reports\nshould be directed to the Editor at 110 Sumac Ridge, Summerland, B.C. VOH\n1Z6\n OFFICERS of the EXECUTIVE COUNCIL\n2012-2013\nPRESIDENT\nAlice Lundy\nVICE-PRESIDENT\nRandy Manuel\nSECRETARY\nJoan Cowan\nTREASURER\nBob Cowan\nEDITOR\nDavid Gregory\nPAST PRESIDENT\nRandy Manuel\nDIRECTORS to the EXECUTIVE COUNCIL\nArmstrong-Enderby: Don Moor, Robert Dale, Jessie Ann Gamble\nKelowna: Tracy Satin, Collen Cornock, Bob Hayes\nOliver-Osoyoos: Larry Shannon, Mary Roberts, Gaye Cornish\nPenticton: Dave Morgenstem, Dan Reilly, Maggie Ricciardi, Suzanne\nSchmiddem\nSalmon Arm: Rosemary Wilson, Dorothy Rolin, Diane Ambil\nSimilkameen: Brenda Gould, Angelique Wood\nSummerland: David Mallory, Mary Trainer\nVernon: Mary Ellison Bailey, Peter Tassie, Ken Waldon\nDIRECTORS-AT-LARGE\nDigitization Project: Shannon Bews Croft\nWebsite Manager: Joan Cowan\nStudent Essay Contest: Diane Ambil\nFather Pandosy Mission Site: Alice Lundy\nHistoric Trails: Peter Tassie, David Gregory\nIndex: Dorothy Zoellner\n 2012-2013\nEXECUTIVE COUNCIL\nSociety Executive: Front: Joan Cowan, Alice Lundy. Back: David Gregory, Randy\nManuel and Bob Cowan\nINDEX TO THE REPORTS\nThe index to the Annual Reports (Vol. 1 to 71) is available in printed form\nfrom the Treasurer. This index is also available on the Okanagan Historical\nSociety website: www.okanaganhistoricalsociety.org\nPOLICY OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM\n\" Editorial freedom gives the Editor the right to edit all material submitted as\nhe\/she sees fit:UNLESS the author has stated otherwise in writing at the time\nof submission\"- February 26th, 1978\nDISCLAIMER\nWhile attempts are made to verify the accuracy of the information contained in\nthe articles in this Report, the individual authors are responsible for their\nresearch and claims made within the articles they write. Individuals using this\nReport as resource material are advised to use more than one source to verify\ntheir own material.\n From the Editor-\nOn behalf of the Okanagan Historical Society, I welcome the reader to the\nSeventy-sixth Annual Society Report.\nOur Society was founded in 1925. According to the Society's Constitution,\n\"The objects ofthe Society are:\n(a) To stimulate active interest in our heritage, more particularly, its historical\nand archaeological aspects\n(b) To promote the preservation of historical sites, monuments, buildings,\npictures, writings and names.\n(c) From time to time and as circumstances permit, to accurately record and\npublish the current and past history ofthe Okanagan, Similkameen and\nShuswap areas, and other matters of significant interest to the Society.\n(d) To cooperate with museum boards and educational institutions.\nI would like to thank the Branch Editors, the proofreaders, Mary Trainer and\nthe authors for their contributions to this book. Special thanks to Summerland\nartist Bruce Crawford for the cover designs. The covers are depictions of\nOkanagan First Nation pictographs: ancient rock art created with red ochre\n(ferric oxide).\nI would like to thank the authors who submitted articles on our First Nations.\nThe history ofthe Syilxw people enhances this Report.\nlimtmnwix\ninca kan muslx ca?kw xa?ntixw axa? a? cqy i? qymin\n(Okanagan language)\nRespectfully submitted,\nDavid Gregory\n Table of Contents\nSTUDENT ESSAY WINNER\nA Closer Look at the Foundations:\nThe Role of Freemasonry in Early Kelowna-Brian Stephenson\nFIRST NATIONS\n\"We are only a strand\": Indigenous Peoples as\nStewards of Bio-cultural Diversity-Nancy J.Turner 16\nThe Syilxw Nation's Relationship with the\nOkanagan River-Marlowe Sam 22\nOkanagan-Similkameen Place Names\nSkw8Stula?Xw-Delphine Derickson & David Gregory 32\nThe En'owkin Centre and Ecommunity Place-Ellen Simmons 39\nMy Search for Dance-esquist cac'awet\/Robyn Kruger 41\nNATURAL HISTORY\nSummerland Silt Bluffs-Murray Roed 45\nOkanagan Mountain Park Birds:\nBefore and After the 2003 Fire-Le^ Gyug 48\nRestoration of Okanagan Salmon-y\u00abKan Tamblyn 54\nMax Lake Then and Now-Anthea Bryan & Eva Durance 61\nPEOPLE AND EVENTS\nAlexander Caulfield Anderson:\nThe Pathfinder's TrailS-Nancy Anderson 66\nPenticton Secondary School: 100th Anniversary in 2012-Bryan Snider 73\nHiram Walker Distillery-Soi Whitehead 82\nNaming Naramata: Legends Floating in Muddy Waters-Oaj'g Henderson 92\nThe Codd and Walters Families of Notch HUl-Estelle Noakes 98\nHow Aurora Golden Gala Apple Got Its Name-Cheryl Hampson 106\nMoving Fresh Fruit by Steam Tugboat-\/an Pooley 111\nSOSS Burns Down September 12, 201 l-Andrea Dujardin-Flexhaug 120\nMarron Valley: its Mystical Pull-Suzanne Schmiddem & Randy Manuel 125\n TRIBUTES\nHarold Peter \"Herb\" Capozzi-sheena Capozzi 134\nDenis Marshall - a Dedicated Historian-Deborah Chapman 139\nGifford Wakley Thomson-Arenaa (Butler) Thomson 143\nStanley Dickson (nee Tait), formerly Bertram-Diana (Bertram) Denny 145\nJoan Elsie Chamberlain-Trevor Chamberlain & Patty (Chamberlain) Mcintosh 147\nMargaret Ivy Jackson (nee McEwen)-Mary Hickman 150\nMarion Bews-Shannon Bews Croft 155\nMarjory Smith-Gail Capostinsky 158\nJune (Tryon) Osbom-Diane Toth & Andrea Toth 161\nRaymond Bostock-Sarah Roberts (nee Bostock) 165\nRobert Charles \"Bob' DeMara-Bemice DeMara 168\nAlan Claridge-Richard Rolke 171\nElizabeth Vema Nielson-Mary Ellison Bailey 172\nMat Hassen-Maf R.Hassen 174\nLIVES REMEMBERED 179\nSOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nOfficers ofthe Executive Council 195\nBranch Officers 196\nStudent Essay and Video Contest 197\nNotice of Meeting 2013: Armstrong 199\nMinutes of 2012 AGM 200\nReports of Officers 203\nBranch Reports 206\nCommittee Reports 211\nLIFE MEMBERS 218\nSOCIETY MEMBERS 218\nINSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS 224\n STUDENT ESSAY\nSTUDENT ESSAY WINNER\nA Closer Look at the\nFoundations: The Role of\nFreemasonry in Early Kelowna\nBy Brian Stephenson\nIn Kelowna's Pioneer Cemetery stands the grave marker of the city's\nfirst lawyer and police magistrate, John Ford Burne.' Though showing signs of\nage, the plain concrete column stands proudly in commemoration of an\ninfluential pioneer and active community member. The marker, however,\nserves as more than just a memorial for an\nindividual, for inset prominently upon the\ntop of the miniature obelisk is the emblem\nof a global fraternal organization known as\nFreemasonry. Adorning the final resting\nplace of Burne, the Masonic G centered\nbetween the Square and Compass\nsymbolizes the importance which\nFreemasonry had in the life of one of\nKelowna's prominent pioneers. To be\nforever remembered as \"John Ford Burne,\nMason\", the presence of a Masonic\nPhoto courtesy of author\n1 O. Arthur Strandquist, \"Kelowna's Lawyers,\" in The 53rd Report ofthe\nOkanagan Historical Society, ed. Robert Cowan (Vernon: Wayside Press Ltd..\n1989), 41. and \"Appointments in Official Gazette: Attorney General Bowser\nActing Commissioner of Lands and Works,\" Victoria Daily Colonist, August\n23, 1907,\nhttp:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca\/display .php?issue=19070823&pages=007.\n STUDENT ESSAY\nemblem in Kelowna's Pioneer Cemetery serves as a reminder of Freemasonry's\nhistorical influence within the city, prompting further investigation into the\nfraternity and its role in early Kelowna.\nFreemasonry is a form of voluntary association, a fraternal\norganization dedicated to the moral improvement of its members and the\npromotion of social benevolence. The modern version of Freemasonry\nofficially began in Britain in 1717 with the formation of the Grand Lodge of\nEngland and over the subsequent decades Masonic Lodges appeared across the\nglobe following in the wake of the expanding British Empire.2 Arriving in\nNova Scotia more than a century before the Canadian nation was born,\nFreemasonry's advance west can be traced through the history of British North\nAmerica.3 On August 22, 1860, Mason Amor De Cosmos' Victoria-based\nnewspaper, the British Colonist, enthusiastically announced the formation of\nVictoria Lodge No. 1085, noting that \"this is the first lodge of the Order ever\nestablished here, or in fact, in any part of the British possessions on the\nPacific.\"4 Freemasonry flourished and in 1871, coinciding with the introduction\nof British Columbia into the Canadian Confederation, the Grand Lodge of\nBritish Columbia was established in Victoria as the province's supreme\nMasonic authority.5 As the population of British Columbia increased so too did\nthe popularity of Freemasonry, and soon the Grand Lodge of British Columbia\nbecame inundated with requests for new Lodge charters.6 By the start of the\nFirst World War, the importance of Freemasonry within emerging communities\nwas such that of the twenty-one incorporated municipalities in British\nColumbia's interior, not a single one lacked a Masonic Lodge.\nFreemasonry served a significant function in the lives of our\nprovince's earliest settlers and pioneers; and yet, the role of Freemasonry in the\nearly development of Kelowna represents a gap in our local historiography.\nFollowing the city's incorporation in 1905, the frontier community of Kelowna\nRonald Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Study of Empire and\nExpansion (London: The MacMillan Press Ltd, 1993), 299.\nRoss J. Robertson, The History of Freemasonry in Canada from its\nIntroduction in 1749. Vol. I. (Toronto: George R. Morang & Company,\nLimited, 1900), 159. Also see William Douglas, Freemasonry in Manitoba:\n1864-1925 (Winnipeg: Bulman Bros. Limited, 1925) and Walter S. Herrington,\nThe History ofthe Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario: 1855-\n1930 (Hamilton: Robert Duncan Company, 1930).\n4 \"Masonic Lodge,\" The British Colonist, August 22, 1860,\nhttp:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca\/display .php?issue= 18600822.\n5 \"Masonic Grand Lodge,\" The British Colonist, October 22, 1871,\nhttp:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca\/display.php?issue= 18711022&pages=003.\nJohn T. Marshall, History ofthe Grand Lodge of British Columbia A.F. &\nA.M. 1871-1970 (Victoria: Colonist Printers, 1971), 158.\n STUDENT ESSAY\nexperienced a turbulent period of rapid growth. I argue that Freemasonry acted\nas a source of social capital and was a stabilizing force in early Kelowna,\ncreating beneficial social networks while helping to overcome the difficulties\nof establishing political order within an emergent community.\nThe first Masonic Lodge to be established in a British Columbia rural\ncommunity appeared in the Okanagan in the small town of Lansdowne in 1888,\ntwenty-four miles north of Vernon.7 Known as Spallumcheen Lodge No. 13,\nthis Lodge habitually advertised in the Vernon News, inviting nearby Masons to\nattend its meetings.8 Vernon Masons were enticed by the opportunity to attend\na formal Lodge, and these travelling Masons soon became known as the\n\"Sojourning Brethren\" ? Frequent travel was difficult and expensive however,\nand on June 23, 1893, Miriam Lodge No. 20 was established in Vernon by\nlocal Masons.10 Freemasonry became a shared experience for the frontier\ncommunities of the Valley, and by the winter of 1905, three Masonic Lodges\nhad been established at Lansdowne, Vernon, and Enderby. Though Kelowna\nwould soon become the home of the Okanagan's fourth official Lodge, the\ncommunity's experience with Freemasonry had already begun years earlier.\nFollowing the creation of the town site of Kelowna in 1892, a unique\nconnection between the young community and its northern neighbor of Vernon\nemerged upon the basis of Freemasonry.\" Masons in early Kelowna who\nwished to attend official Lodge meetings in Vernon had to embark upon a\ndifficult, lengthy, and expensive journey. In an experience reminiscent of\nVernon's own \"Sojourning Brethren\", Kelowna Mason Dr. Benjamin de\nFurlong Boyce, along with his Masonic companions, regularly travelled \"over\n35 miles each way, summer and winter by horse and buggy or cutter.\"12 Dr.\nBoyce would come to embody the bond Freemasonry formed between two of\nthe Okanagan's frontier communities when, although living in Kelowna, he\nbecame the Worshipful Master of Vernon's Miriam Lodge in 1902 and was\n\"reputed never to have missed a meeting.\"13 The dedication of Dr. Boyce to\nFreemasonry exemplified the fraternity as a unique source of social capital,\n7 Marshall, 162-163.\nLorraine Uzick, A History of Miriam's Beginning (Vernon: Miriam Lodge\nNo. 20A.F. &A.M., 1985), 2.\n9 Ibid.\n10 Marshall, 167.\nF. M. Buckland, Ogopogo 's Vigil: A History of Kelowna and the Okanagan\n(Kelowna: Regatta City Press Ltd., 1979), 82-83.\n12 O. Arthur Strandquist, Floreat, St. George's Lodge No. 41 A.F. & A.M.: A\nbrief history of Freemasonry in Kelowna, B.C. 1905-1980 (n.s., 1981), 3. and\nUzick, 2.\n13 Ibid.\n10\n STUDENT ESSAY\nfacilitating the creation of links between Vernon and Kelowna which\ntranscended typical socioeconomic relationships.\nThe value of the connections Freemasonry created extended beyond\nindividual relationships to serve as a force for social order within emerging\nfrontier communities. The growth of Kelowna soon justified the creation of a\nlocal Masonic Lodge, solidifying Freemasonry's place within the local\ncommunity while reinforcing Kelowna's status within wider Masonic\nnetworks. In the winter of 1904 and 1905 Kelowna's small but growing band of\nFreemasons, the majority of whom were members of Vernon's Miriam Lodge,\nmet to discuss the establishment of a Lodge in Kelowna.14 Dr. Boyce and John\nF. Burne featured prominently in the proceedings, and the groups' efforts were\nrealized on April 14, 1905 when St. George's Lodge No. 41 of Kelowna held\nits first meeting under Dispensation from the Grand Lodge of British\nColumbia.15 Freemasonry's formal arrival in the community was publically\nacknowledged and announced with The Kelowna Clarion and Okanagan\nOrchardist publishing notice that \"the first meeting of St. George's A.F. & A.\nM. Kelowna, will be held in the Loge [sic] Room, Raymer Block, on Friday\nApl. 14th, at 8 p. m.\"16\nThe development of Freemasonry in Kelowna did not occur\nindependently of the development of the community; rather, it acted as a\nstabilizing force during changing times. In 1905, Kelowna was in a state of\nrapid growth. The city's economy was becoming increasingly driven by the\nfruit industry, and the region experienced a growing influx of settlers, an influx\nwhich by 1911 would have tripled Kelowna's 1905 population of 600 to\n1,800.17 Kelowna was booming as an investment opportunity, with the British\nColonist featuring a report from Mr. Palmer, the Secretary of the British\nColumbia Bureau of Information and Immigration, which emphasized the\nimpressive eight hundred acres of fruit-tree planting activity occurring in\nKelowna, while heavy land speculation, \"very large additions to the\npopulation\", and the community's recent incorporation were cited as \"other\nevidences of progress.\"18 Indeed, May 4,1905, had marked the incorporation of\nO. Arthur Strandquist and Kevan F. van Herd, Floreat St. George's Lodge\nNo. 41 A.F. & A.M.: G.R. of B.C. and Yukon, 1905-2005 (n.s., 2005), 7.\n15 Marshall, 203.\n\"Items of Interest,\" The Kelowna Clarion and Okanagan Orchardist, April\n14, 1905.\n17 \"Canada Year Book 1932,\" Statistics Canada,\nhttp:\/\/www66.statcan.gc.ca\/eng\/acyb_cl932-\neng.aspx?opt=\/eng\/1932\/193201460108_p.%20108.pdf.\n1 Palmer, \"Opposition to Investment,\" Victoria Daily Colonist, May 23, 1905,\nhttp:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca\/display .php?issue=19050523&pages=004.\n11\n STUDENT ESSAY\nKelowna as an official municipality of British Columbia.19 The young, yet\nquickly-growing city required leadership, and it would be Kelowna's\nFreemasons who would answer the call.\nAccording to political scientists Michele P. Claibourn and Paul S.\nMartin, voluntary associations and the social relationships they create help\nincrease political awareness.20 Freemasonry, through its ritual voting, internal\nhierarchy, procedural rules, minute-taking, financial management, and by-law\ncreation and enforcement, introduced to, and prepared Kelowna's Masons for,\nthe necessities of local government. The regular practice of Freemasonry\nexposed Masons to democratic learning processes, improved public speaking\nabilities, and promoted social responsibility.21 Furthermore, the formal process\nof establishing and maintaining a Masonic Lodge had provided Kelowna's\nMasons with important experience which was translatable to municipal\ngovernance. As social historian Mary Ann Clawson notes, a fraternal order\nsuch as Freemasonry represents a resource, a resource of organization, of\ncoordination, and of the capacity to mobilize for particular ends.22 In 1905\nKelowna, Freemasonry became one such resource for social order. When\nKelowna received its City Charter a municipal government had to be\nestablished quickly as the city's rapid development necessitated equally rapid\nmunicipal organization and action. The urgency of the matter is perhaps best\nhighlighted by Mr. Palmer's statement in the British Colonist that \"among the\nvery first things to have attention will be the sanitary arrangements, a matter\nwhich is urgent, and a water supply.\"23 Effective and efficient leadership was\nrequired, and fortunately for Kelowna, according to the Kelowna Clarion, the\ncity was \"saved the expense of an election\" due to the \"election by\nacclamation\" of Kelowna's first municipal government, led by Mason Henry\nRaymer.24 Of the city's four aldermen, all were Masons, including David\n19 \"Proclamation,\" The Kelowna Clarion and Okanagan Orchardist, May 11,\n1905.\n20 Michele P. Claibourn and Paul S. Martin, \"The Third Face of Social Capital:\nHow Membership in Voluntary Associations Improves Policy Accountability,\"\nPolitical Research Quarterly 60 (2007): 191-201. JSTOR, www.jstor.org.\n21 Dietlind Stolle, \"Bowling Together, Bowling Alone: The Development of\nGeneralized Trust in Voluntary Associations,\" Political Psychology 19 (1998):\n498. JSTOR, www.jstor.org.\nMary Ann Clawson, Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and\nFraternalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 7.\n23 \"Opposition to Investment,\" Victoria Daily Colonist, May 23, 1905.\nhttp:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca\/display .php?issue=l 9050523 &pages=004.\n\"Proclamation,\" The Kelowna Clarion and Okanagan Orchardist, May 11,\n1905.\n12\n STUDENT ESSAY\nLloyd-Jones, D. W. Sutherland, P. B. Willits, and E. R. Bailey.25 The\nrespectability and quality of Kelowna's local Masons elected to public office\nwas such that the Kelowna Clarion suggested local citizens \"congratulate\nthemselves with having secured the services of men of public spirit and\nbusiness ability\", celebrating the successful start of Kelowna's political life\nguided by such worthy men.26\nThe civic history of Kelowna has been significantly influenced by\nmembers of St. George's Lodge. In fact, the Masons of St. George's have\naccounted for an astounding nine Mayors, forty-seven councillors, four\nFreeman of the city, and several members of the District School Board.27 The\nholding of public office provides an excellent demonstration of the merit of\nKelowna's Masons as well as the historical force Freemasonry has been for\nsocial order. Perhaps the obituary of Kelowna's first Mayor, Freemason Henry\nW. Raymer, best exemplifies the role Masons played in stabilizing early\nKelowna during its municipal infancy, noting that \"Mr. Raymer had led an\nactive part in all civic affairs and had played an important role in bringing both\nthe city and district to its present state of prosperity and popularity.\"28 The local\npioneers who had played such a significant part in the founding of Kelowna\nbecame the Masons who were so vital in the leading of Kelowna. The presence\nof Freemasonry became a force for social order and a beacon of leadership, not\nonly in Kelowna, but in similar emerging communities across the province.29\nThe Masons, true to form, helped to lay the foundations of Kelowna.\nFreemasonry allowed for the creation of unique social networks and facilitated\ncivic engagement in a rapidly-changing community. Today, the names of\nKelowna's central streets and public spaces are a tribute to the city's early\nMasons, a reminder of the Masonic foundations upon which Kelowna\ncontinues to flourish.30 The role of Freemasonry in the development of\nKelowna is often overlooked and represents a gap in our local historiography, a\nhistoriography which readily identifies the man as a Mason but fails to identify\nthe Masonic Order which influenced the man. The social and political\nimportance of St. George's Lodge in early Kelowna cannot be overstated, and\nyet there is so much more to be told. Freemasonry served a useful social\n25 Strandquist, Floreat, 53.\n26 \"Items of Interest,\" The Kelowna Clarion and Okanagan Orchardist, May\n18, 1905.\n27 Strandquist and van Herd, Floreat, 112.\n28 \"Obituary: The Late Mr. H. W. Raymer,\" The Kelowna Courier and\nOkanagan Orchardist, April 6, 1916.\n29 Marshall, 201-204.\n30 Note: Raymer Ave., Boyce-Gyro Park, Burne Ave., Sutherland Ave.,\nDilworth Dr., Dr. Knox Middle School, Raymer Elementary School, DeHart\nRd., etc.\n13\n STUDENT ESSAY\npurpose, one which promoted a better society through brotherhood, charity,\nself-improvement, and social responsibility.31 Furthermore, Freemasonry, a\nvenerable historical institution with connections to Great Britain, can be\nanalyzed for its influence upon local notions of respectability and its capacity\nfor managing cultural consent. By blunting the force of community differences\nand individual idiosyncrasies, the Masonic brotherhood provided an organizing\nprinciple that allowed broad, though in some ways exclusive, fellowship,\ndirectly contributing to the fraternity's province-wide success.32 Freemasonry\nin British Columbia, and St. George's Lodge in Kelowna, has survived two\nWorld Wars, a Great Depression, and countless other misfortunes to remain a\nvisible presence in communities throughout the province to this day through\ninitiatives such as the Masonic Cancer Car program.33 Transporting cancer\npatients to various treatment centers throughout the province at no cost to either\nthe patient or the Canadian Cancer Society, the Masons continue to act as a\nbenevolent force in the very communities they helped to establish throughout\nBritish Columbia.\nPrimary Sources\n\"Canada Year Book 1932.\" Statistics Canada, http:\/\/www66.statcan.gc.ca\/eng\/acyb_cl932-\neng.aspx?opt=\/eng\/1932\/193201460108_p.%20108.pdf.\nThe Kelowna Clarion and Okanagan Orchardist, April 1905 - April 1916.\nThe British Colonist, August 1860 - October 1871. http:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca.\nVictoria Daily Colonist. May 1905 - August 1907. http:\/\/www.britishcolonist.ca.\nSecondary Sources\nBuckland, F. M. Ogopogo's Vigil: A History of Kelowna and the Okanagan. Kelowna: Regatta\nCity Press Ltd., 1979.\nBullock, Steven. Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation ofthe America\nSocial Order, 1730-1840. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.\n\"Cancer Car Program.\" Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon.\nhttp:\/\/freemasonry.bcy.ca\/textfiles\/cancer.html.\nClaibourn, Michele P. and Paul S. Martin. \"The Third Face of Social Capital: How Membership in\nVoluntary Associations Improves\nPolicy Accountability.\" Political Research Quarterly 60 (2007): 191-201. JSTOR.\nwww.jstor.org.\nPolicyAccountability.\" Political Research Quarterly 60 (2007): 191-201. JSTOR. www.jstor.org.\nClawson, Mary Ann. Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism. Princeton:\nPrinceton University Press, 1989.\n\"Declaration of Principles.\" Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon.\nhttp:\/\/freemasonry.bcy.ca\/texts\/principles.html.\n31 \"Declaration of Principles,\" Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon,\nhttp:\/\/freemasonry.bcy.ca\/texts\/principles.html.\nSteven Bullock, Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the\nTransformation of the America Social Order, 1730-1840 (Chapel Hill:\nUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1996), 26.\n33 \"Cancer Car Program.\" Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon.\nhttp:\/\/freemasonry.bcy.ca\/textfiles\/cancer.html.\n14\n STUDENT ESSAY\nDouglas, William. Freemasonry in Manitoba: 1864-1925. Winnipeg: Bulman Bros. Limited, 1925.\nHerrington, Walter S. The History of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario:\n1855-1930. Hamilton: Robert Duncan Company, 1930.\nHyam, Ronald. Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion. London:\nThe MacMillan Press Ltd., 1993.\nMarshall, John T. History of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia A.F. & AM. 1871-1970.\nVictoria: Colonist Printers, 1971.\nStolle, Dietlind. \"Bowling Together, Bowling Alone: The Development of Generalized Trust in\nVoluntary Associations.\" Political Psychology 19 (1998): 497-525. JSTOR,\nwww.jstor.org.\nRobertson, Ross J. The History of Freemasonry in Canada from its Introduction in 1749. Vol. I.\nToronto: George R. Morang & Company, Limited, 1900.\nStrandquist, O. Arthur. Floreat, St. George's Lodge No. 41 A.F. & A.M.: A brief history of\nFreemasonry in Kelowna, B.C. 1905-1980. n.s., 1981.\nStrandquist, O. Arthur. \"Kelowna's Lawyers.\" In The 53rd Report of the Okanagan Historical\nSociety, edited by Robert Cowan, 40-60. Vernon: Wayside Press Ltd., 1989.\nStrandquist, O. Arthur and Kevan F. van Herd. Floreat St. George's Lodge No. 41 A.F. & AM.:\nGJi. of B.C. and Yukon, 1905-2005. n.s., 2005.\nUzick, Lorraine. A History of Miriam's Beginning. Vernon: Miriam Lodge No. 20 A.F. & A.M.,\n1985.\nMembers of Spallumcheen Masonic Lodge #13, 1891 Lansdowne\nBack Row L-R: Richard S. Pelly, secretary, Geo. H. Rashdale IMP\nFront Row L-R: Frank Hassard Sr. senior Deacon, Thos. W. Fletcher junior Deacon, Fred H.\nBarnes, John Hamill, W.M. Thomas Clinton-Taylor, DJ. MacDonald junior warden,\nNorman McLeod senior warden\nPhoto courtesy of Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum and Arts Society\n15\n INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS STEWARDS\nFIRST NATIONS\n: ;;.,,,,,,,,,\u25a0\n\" \" \u00bb\u2122 s *.!\u25a0:\u00ab ' \"\".\u25a0..:sa^ ; \u00ab. . .liSf ii\u00abs- 11\nI\n'\u25a0-\u25a0- \u00bb. ...\n'\n. : ;\u00ab:\u25a0 : : :.;;.^..: : v .:::. .:. ...:':.. :..;....: ;.;\t\n! mgS\u00abmsmm : .i s?Kxm:''ss:j::m\u201eli.,mi &8*\u00bb?MM1\n: .\nPen-Hi, northern half, 2003,1. to r.: East Wing, North (Main) Gym, Auditorium. Photo courtesy\nBryan Snider\n78\n PEN HIGH: 100 YEARS\nUnder Mr. Corcoran's leadership, previous programs enjoyed continued\nsuccess, and new programs were again added, including the International\nHockey Academy, and an expanded Advanced Placement Program.\nAcademically, the school was a perennial provincial top performer. This\nsuccess was measured not only by excellent exam results, but also in low\ndropout rates, variety of programs, student\/parental satisfaction, and success in\nathletic, academic, vocational and artistic inter-school competitions.\nMr. Corcoran oversaw the building of the fifth Pen-Hi, beginning in\n2006. This building was located to the east of the Ellis Building, which remains\nas part of this 'newest' school.\nIn September 2008, William \"Bill\" Bidlake became Pen-Hi's 12th\nprincipal, effective upon Mr. Corcoran's resignation. Mr. Bidlake was an\nexperienced teacher and administrator, who had previously seen service in the\nschool as a student-teacher, teacher, department head, athletic director and\nvice-principal. The high standards of most of the previous 100 years continued\nduring his term.\nMr. Bidlake oversaw the completion and opening, in September 2008,\nof the new school. After years of planning and study, much of the previous\nschool (including the north and east wings) was razed, and replaced by a\nmodern structure. It is largely constructed of brick and glass, and blends well\narchitecturally with the adjacent, venerable and attractive Ellis and Shatford\nBuildings.\nb?-\n~\n\"\u25a0\u25a0 Bar*\u00ae\n:\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0-;,\nIn S _E_* ^EHHp *'\n\u25a0ESP*'-* js\nfw\u00ab J. t%-f- '\n\u25a0\n,\/E\u00abt;5:': \u25a0 ^Vti-*** . ; : .. .\n\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0:\u25a0:\u25a0\u25a0\nmlMiSSMMB\u00a7yMMMBii\n\u25a0\"\u25a0\u25a0''\u25a0\u25a0.^\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.:\"*Cj;'*^i:\n:t:::.:.:.;.3\nPen-Hi, September 2011,1. to r.: Shatford Building, Ellis Building, new South Wing. Photo\ncourtesy Bryan Snider\n79\n PEN HIGH: 100 YEARS\nCompletion included the remodeling of the Ellis Building, as well as\nadding new classrooms, a massive gymnasium, weight room, dance studio,\nteaching kitchen, choir room, computer and, science labs, tech-ed (shop) areas\nand a grand new library. The new air conditioning system is undoubtedly more\neffective than Mr. Marr's system used in the 1911-1912 school, and\nundoubtedly much more expensive!\nOngoing expansions and renovations also resulted in the demolition\nof some significant structures, including the south gym and the agriculture\nbuilding (on Jermyn Avenue). The removal of the Pen-Hi auditorium and north\ngym was the subject of a huge controversy throughout the community, but\nremoved they were. Gone too are the \"link\" which joined the Shatford and Ellis\nBuildings, and the astronomical observatory.\nAlan Stel, who had been principal at Clearwater Secondary School for\nfive years, replaced Mr. Bidlake in August 2012.\nWith reference to original principal John Marr's aforementioned\nstatement regarding students' character: judging from the many successes of\nPen-Hi, and its continuing leadership in academic achievement, the school has\nbeen blessed with students of excellent character. It has also been blessed with\nexceptional staffs and administrators who have had vision and the ability to\nbring their vision to fruition. Their time at Pen-Hi has been not just a job, not\njust a career, but a way of life. And so it is today.\nShrek, (in the movie ofthe same name) claimed that \"Change is good,\nDonkey!\" and change certainly can be good, but the importance of heritage,\nhistory, tradition, and a culture of excellence must not be lost, simply in the\nname of change and modernization.\nPen-Hi, 2012,1. to r.: Shatford Centre, Pen-Hi Library, Ellis Building Photo courtesy Bryan Snider\n80\n PEN HIGH: 100 YEARS\nThe 100th anniversary of the first school's opening (and 100 years of\noutstanding operation) was celebrated at the new school during the 2011-2012\nschool year. The major celebration in May 2012 included a centennial\nhomecoming, a wine and cheese reception, homecoming reunions, school\ntours, sporting tournaments and \"decade rooms.\"\nTime will tell what the next 100 years will bring, and what attributes\nthe school will encompass by 2112!\nReferences:\nHistorical souvenir of Penticton, B.C., 1867-1967 : on the occasion of the\ncentenary of the dominion of Canada \/ by R. N. Atkinson. Edited by J. G.\nHarris. Okanagan Historical Society.\nPenticton, British Columbia: Celebrating a Century: Snpintktn (a Place to Stay\nForever)\/compiled and published by Penticton Writers and Publishers; (edited\nby) Yasmin John-Thorpe, Penny Smith. 2007.\nPenticton now, then & way back when: a pictorial & anecdotal history of\nPenticton \/ Cox, Doug.c2007.\nSources:\nAuthor interviews with current and former Penticton Secondary School\nstudents, teachers and administrators, 2000-2011.\nPenticton Herald back issues.\nPenticton Secondary School annuals.\nPenticton Secondary School newspapers.\n81\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nHIRAM WALKER\nDISTILLERY\nThe Story of the Hiram Walker and Sons\nLimited Okanagan Distillery\nBy Bob Whitehead\nBob Whitehead was one of the original team of five that designed the Hiram Walker\nDistillery. He moved to Kelowna with his family in 1970 to start up and operate the plant and then\ntransferred back to the Windsor, Ontario, head office in 1973. In 1981, he returned as Plant\nManager before heading east again to become Vice President of Corby Distilleries in Montreal. In\n1988, he returned for the third, and final, time as Vice President!Plant Manager. He managed the\nclosure ofthe plant in 1995 and the disposition of many ofthe assets.\nIt is a matter of historical record that Kelowna was home to the\nwhisky of Canada - the world-renowned Canadian Club. This famous whisky\nwas manufactured, aged and bottled in Kelowna by Hiram Walker & Sons for\nsome 25 years and shipped around the world.\nThe Okanagan Distillery was an ultra-modern plant designed to last\n100 years and constructed to the highest standards of the time. Its bottling\ncapacity was of such a size that all the wine produced in B.C. today in one year\ncould have been bottled at this plant with room left over. The daily water use\nfor the cooling of the distillation process was greater than what many cities use\nat peak demand.\nWhy was such a plant built in Kelowna and what happened to it?\nWhat follows is the story ofthe Hiram Walker Okanagan Distillery.\nThe beginning\nHiram Walker and Sons Limited was founded in 1858 in Ontario and\ngrew to become one of the largest distilled beverage companies in the world,\nwith production operations in the USA, UK, Argentina, France and Canada.\nWell known international brands owned were Canadian Club, Ballantine's\nscotch, Beefeater gin, Kahlua coffee liqueur and Courvoisier brandy. In 1986,\nit was sold to Allied Lyons, a UK company, that was the brand owner of Tetley\ntea, Baskin-Robbins ice cream, Harveys sherries and numerous other foods,\nspirits and wines.\nBy the late 1960s, sales were growing so fast that a second plant was\nneeded in western Canada to supply the ever-increasing demand in the western\nprovinces, the United States and the Far East.\n82\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\niP ..^fe; :M\u00a7MiM:&^'::^::^M::sf^\nArtist's rendition of aerial photo (courtesy of Bob Whitehead)\nIn 1968, a team of five technical specialists was selected to design and\nbuild the new plant. They were Gord Hunt, Frank Leeder, Dennis Patton, Tony\nPetricola and Bob Whitehead. All were transferred to Kelowna to oversee\nconstruction and start up the plant, and to eventually run it. Leeder and Hunt\nlater returned to Ontario; Petricola was moved to the USA; Patton stayed in the\nOkanagan until his untimely death at an early age. Whitehead now resides in\nKelowna, after having been transferred to various other operations several\ntimes.\nThis team was given projected sales figures up to the year 1990 (20\nyears into the future) and assigned to build a plant capable of processing those\nvolumes. In addition, because the growth figures were considered to be\nconservative, each process was laid out in such a way that they could be readily\nexpanded when needed. The equipment selected was the best technology could\noffer at the time and of the highest quality. No expense was to be spared.\n83\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nSite selection and start-up\nIt was important that the chosen site provide an abundant source of\nclean, cold water, be situated on a rail line, close to a major highway and have\naccess to large natural gas and power supplies. During a year of investigation,\nmany potential sites in the northern Okanagan, southern Alberta and the lower\nmainland were considered. Eventually a flat 210-acre site was chosen just north\nof the Kelowna airport. This site had access to Okanagan Lake water, was\nlocated on a rail line and highway, and the main transmission lines of West\nKootenay Power and Inland Natural Gas passed through or close to the\nproperty.\n\"\u2022\"jfcj**\u2014\u00abii no\nOriginal design team of five - Tony Petricola, Denis Patton, Bob Whitehead, Frank Leeder, Gord\nHunt, early 1971. Photo courtesy Bob Whitehead.\nThe official sod-turning ceremony was held on June 27, 1969, and\nwas attended by dignitaries from all over the valley and province. The plant\nwas constructed over a two-year period by a workforce of over 400 trades\npeople, labourers and engineers. The cost to build just the initial stage of the\nplant was $37 million in 1970 dollars (about $185 million in 2012 dollars).\nOver the next ten years an additional $20 million would be spent on new\n84\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nwarehouse construction. The final cost of this plant in today's dollars would be\nclose to $250 million.\nNumerous other companies were attracted to the central Okanagan to\nservice Hiram Walker, including Consumers Glass in Lavington, Crown\nPackaging in Kelowna and many smaller suppliers and specialty\nmanufacturers. Some still exist today.\nInitially, aged whiskies were shipped in from the east in 90,000-litre\nstainless steel tank cars, unloaded and barreled into oak barrels. The first\nbottling of Canadian Club whisky took place on June 10, 1971, using spirits\nfrom the Ontario plant. The first bottling of whiskies distilled and aged\ncompletely at the Okanagan plant was in 1974. Some of the first packages\nbottled still exist today as treasured keepsakes.\nIn keeping with a long-time Hiram Walker tradition started in\nScotland, the maturing warehouses were guarded by a free roaming flock of\nlarge, white Chinese geese. These geese had proven to be more effective in\nScotland than watchdogs. However, they were quickly killed by coyotes, and\nafter a couple of years were gone. In Scotland they had no natural predators.\nPlant description\nThe Hiram Walker Okanagan Distillery was the second largest plant\nof its kind in Canada and one of the most modern distilleries ever constructed.\nIt still remains as the largest, most efficient and most expensive beverage\nproduction facility of any kind ever built in western Canada.\nIt featured innovative new concepts such as a fully automated,\ncomputer-controlled 200,000 case warehouse, several central process control\nrooms and an automated barrel filling and dumping system. There were over 15\nkm of stainless steel piping, Vh million litres of process tankage and four highspeed bottling lines running up to 300 bottles per minute each. The rail yard,\none of the largest in the Okanagan, could hold over 50 rail cars and consisted\nof three km of track on eight sidings, with mowed grass between each siding.\nThe 10,000 sq. ft. office building was an open concept design and featured\nwhite oak furniture, brick feature walls, a sunlight ceiling and large windows\noverlooking the manicured grounds. A large steam plant burning natural gas\nprovided services to all the buildings and processes. As a result, the plant was\ntotally self-contained and required no services whatsoever from the City of\nKelowna.\nDuring construction, it was a company priority to retain as many of\nthe mature trees on the site as possible. Over 50 acres of the site were planted\nwith grass and flowerbeds. These provided colourful accents to the\nlandscaping, which was designed to create as aesthetically pleasing a setting as\npossible. The many requests from the community to use the grounds as a\nbackdrop to wedding or graduation pictures indicated the success of these\nendeavours.\n85\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nOver 20 million litres of water per day were drawn from Okanagan\nLake at a depth of 100 ft. and pumped more than 4Vi kilometres through a one\nmetre diameter steel and concrete pipe up and over the hills between the valley\nsite and the lake. The large lakeside pump house housed three 750-horse-power\npumps with a pumping capacity of 30,000 litres per minute. The pump house\nwas made of poured concrete and designed to blend unobtrusively into the lake\nlandscape.\nThe majority of the water was used to cool the distilling process. After\nit cooled the distillates, this water was passed through a cooling tower and\ndischarged into Duck Lake. Eventually it was returned to Okanagan Lake via\nWood Lake, Kalamalka Lake and Vernon Creek. Great efforts were made to\naddress the environmental concerns of the residents of Winfield and Vernon.\nFor years, a detailed sampling of lake waters was conducted monthly and\nreported to the B.C. Ministry of the Environment, as there were concerns by\nsome that the extra water flow might flush water from Duck and Wood Lake\ninto Kalamalka Lake.\nThe rest of the water, which was used for processing and general plant\noperations, was treated in a large company-owned waste treatment plant. Water\nto be used for blending products was pre-treated by two 450-litre\/minute\ndemineralizers and activated carbon beds to render the water pure and\nodourless.\nFour distinctly different production processes were housed in over one\nmillion square feet of floor space. These divisions were Distilling, Blending,\nMaturing and Bottling. In addition there were support services such as a large\nmachine shop, engineering division, security force, fire protection and an\nadministrative office which managed functions such as planning, scheduling\ntraffic, purchasing, accounting, public relations and industrial relations. Dried\ngrains produced as a by-product of the distilling process was a valuable\nlivestock feed supplement and was shipped via truck and rail to locations in the\nUSA and Canada.\nUp to 150 hourly workers were unionized ending with the Canadian\nAuto Workers (CAW). Hiram Walker employees were among the most skilled\nand highest paid personnel in the valley and, without a doubt, had the best\nbenefit plans.\nTechnical specialists from all over the world came to see this ultramodern, very efficient and strikingly beautiful plant. It was considered to be\n\"the best of the best.\"\nOver 125 different packages were bottled at Kelowna, including\nCanadian Club, Wisers Deluxe and a wide variety of gins, vodkas, brandies and\nliqueurs under the Hiram Walker, McGuinness, Corby, Wisers, Barclay and\nGooderham & Worts brand names.\nIn 1972, the City of Kelowna expanded its boundaries and included all\nthe Hiram Walker property up to Beaver Lake Road to obtain its tax base. The\n86\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nplant was the largest industrial taxpayer in Kelowna for many years with\nannual taxes of about $5 million in 1980 dollars ($15 million in 2012 dollars),\nand this infusion of revenue no doubt contributed significantly to the growth of\nthe City at the time.\nBy the peak production year of 1981 there were 210 full time\nemployees at the plant. Over 24 million 710-ml equivalent bottles of whisky,\ngin, vodka, rum and liqueurs were produced in 1981 along with over 7 million\nlitres of absolute alcohol. Over 400 rail cars of grain were processed per year\nand about 500,000 180-litre white oak barrels were now being stored in over\n700,000 sq. ft. of palletized warehouse space. __\n'* f\nFirst employees on site - plant not operating yet, early 1971.\nFront row: Frank Leeder, Carol Sanderson, Cynthia Jackson, Jim Gray, Gord Mcllveen, Brian\nByrnes, Len Russell, Col. David Kinloch, Ken Tiessen, Gord Hunt.\nBack row: Ray Grant, Howard Watts, Bob Whitehead, George Chantler, Tony Petricola, Don\nCrabbe, Peter Koch, Mike Booth, Don Bruce.\nPhoto courtesy Bob Whitehead.\nEmployee benefits and Community involvement\nHiram Walker employees were active in the community, serving on\norganizations like the United Way and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce\nand many other Boards of Directors. The company actively supported many\ncharities and organizations such as the Kelowna General Hospital's new\n87\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nbuilding expansion, the Kelowna Art Gallery's expansion and the Easter Seal\ncamp in Winfield. It was, for example, one of the top leaders in United Way\ngiving for many years. Its support was also extended to numerous initiatives\nand endeavours in sports, heritage, arts and culture groups such as Sunshine\nTheatre and the Okanagan Symphony. Its art collection featured works by\nKelowna artists Robert Dow-Reid, John Revill, Jack Hambleton, Harold\nLyons, Bob Kingsmill and many other outstanding Canadian artists.\nBesides the usual employee benefits, Hiram Walker was noted for\nseveral special programs. Every employee received a 20+ lb. turkey at\nChristmas; Christmas time-off was usually from before Christmas to after New\nYear's; valuable jewelry awards or clocks were given for long time service;\nevery June saw a Family Day where management treated all employees and\ntheir families to a full steak dinner with all the trimmings on the park-like\ngrounds. Access to the services of a health nurse, an on-site gym, table-tennis\nequipment and a tennis court spoke to the company's concern for employee\nhealth and fitness. A newspaper named the Okanagan Standard was published\nmonthly, detailing stories of employees and happenings around the plant. There\nwere many regular management\/union meetings, including special dinners\nfrom time to time. The company had a popular tour program and employees\nshowed pride in their work - and in their place of work - whenever opportunity\nallowed them to share their knowledge and views of the plant operations and\nproducts.\nThe decline\nUnfortunately, 1981 was also the start of a slow sales decline in North\nAmerica and both bottling and distilling volumes began to decrease. There was\na gradual, but definite, switch from spirits to wine and beer, plus the economy\nwas hard hit in the early 1980s. Every year from 1981 saw fewer cases being\nshipped from the plant and fewer cases meant less alcohol was needed to be\ndistilled in that part of the process.\nFortunately, in 1983 a new specialty malt distillery at a cost of about\n$6 million was built to service the Japanese market. This malt whisky plant\nwas a replica of a distillery at one of Hiram Walker's northern Scotland\noperations and consisted of four large copper pot stills, a large lauterlauter and\nall the other associated equipment for making scotch whisky. This malt whisky\nwas produced for the next eight years, matured in barrels and then shipped in\nbulk to Japan. Capacity of this malt plant was about 700,000 litres of whisky\nper year.\nHowever, sales continued to drop in North America and something\nhad to be done before it was too late. It was decided to diversify into another\ntype of business to make better use of the infrastructure. To this end, a 600-\nbottle-per-minute carbonated beverage line and associated equipment was\ninstalled to produce non-alcohol beverages. Two years later a large pasteurizer\n88\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\nwas added, which enabled juices to be bottled.\nFor the next eight years, up to 100,000 bottles per day of brands such\nas Clearly Canadian, Koala juices and Bacardi coolers were contract-bottled\nand shipped to markets across western North America. This new business\nadded a big boost to the plant's economics and the workforce as it helped to\noffset overall plant overhead costs.\nIn efforts to further offset overhead costs and reduce the size of the\nplant, a 130,000 sq. ft. maturing warehouse was sold to HRI (now Sysco) in\n1992 where it is still remains as their Central Okanagan headquarters. Fifty\nacres of unused land was sold and is now an industrial park at the corner of\nBeaver Lake Road and Jim Bailey Road. An additional 17 acres of land was\nsold to the provincial government for a future prison, however, it will now be\nbuilt in Oliver.\nBy 1994, it was apparent that two large plants were no longer\nnecessary in Canada and, after much analysis, a decision was made to\npermanently close the Okanagan Distillery and consolidate the volumes back to\nthe 140-year-old head office and plant in Windsor, Ontario.\nOn June 16, 1995, the last package was bottled and at the end of that\nOctober the last employee left for good. The summer of 1995 was a very sad\ntime for all involved.\nIt is a testimony to the exceptional wages, working conditions and\ncalibre of personnel at this plant that about 80% of the employees terminated at\nthe closure were original personnel hired 25 years earlier.\nThe final disposition of the plant\n\u25a0 The pump house, pipeline and associated equipment were sold to the\nOkanagan Centre Irrigation District (now Lake Country) and are being\nused to supply a significant portion of the Lake Country water\nrequirements.\n\u25a0 The bottling contracts with Clearly Canadian, Koala and others were\nterminated.\n\u25a0 All the remaining barrels of whisky in the warehouses were shipped to\nOntario over a six-month period.\n\u25a0 The bottling lines were dismantled and either returned to Ontario\nwhere they were re-installed or sold.\n\u25a0 All the stainless steel tanks were sold to various companies around\nNorth America.\n\u25a0 The majority of the large equipment in the distillery, steam plant and\nother associated buildings were sold \"as-is\" or for their scrap value\nand then the buildings were demolished in 2011. Approximately 18\nacres of the land that these buildings occupied will likely be turned\ninto an industrial park.\n\u25a0 Most of the trees that were so preciously saved in 1970 have been cut\n89\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\ndown and the formerly manicured grasses and gardens are now just\nweeds.\nThe sale of the various buildings\nMain Office Building - sold to Wood Lake Books, resold to USA\nfirm, now vacant and deteriorating.\nGatehouse, Steam Plant, and Manufacturing Complex - sold to\nHayward Securities and have been mostly demolished.\nBlending \/ Drain & Fill Complex - sold to Premium Canada\n(chemical company).\nBottling and Finished Goods Complex - sold to Mcintosh Properties\nLtd. and the building is now leased to Natural Factors Food\nSupplements.\nThe twenty-two 30,000 sq. ft. maturing warehouses were sold to\nvarious business owners as follows at the time of this writing:\nSysco foods (previously HRI foods)\nCapozzi Group\nGrizzly Metal Works (steel fabrication)\nHyatt Industrial\nArmour Works (protective clothing)\nUPS (parcel delivery service)\nATS Retail Solutions\nCCV - Canadian Commercial Vehicles (plastic forming)\n\u25a0 The Upper Waste Basin & Percolation Bed lands were sold to various\nbusiness owners as follows:\nA J.Forsyth Steel Company (steel fabrication)\nVarsteel Metal Works\nHarris Rebar Sales\nSuper Save Group (waste removal)\nFortis Substation\nEpilogue\nSo it ended after almost exactly 25 years. One of the most valuable\nplants ever built in the Okanagan, world renowned in the beverage industry,\nwith extremely efficient processes and a very competent workforce, could not\ncompete with head office to be the surviving plant.\nWhile all the bottling needs of the company could have been readily\nmet at Okanagan, about 75% of the Canadian volume was, by then, destined\nfor eastern markets. However, if the plant were to meet the maturing and\ndistilling requirements as well, additional warehouses would have to be built\nand the distilling capability would have to undergo a major expansion. On the\nother hand, the Ontario plant already had enough warehousing and distilling\n90\n HIRAM WALKER DISTILLERY\ncapacities for all North American sales.\nIn addition, the cost for grain transportation from Alberta was high\nrelative to the Ontario plant, and transportation costs for shipping finished\nbottles to markets were higher than the Ontario plant.\nAnd, of course, there were \"soft\" considerations. The head office was\npart of the big Windsor plant which had been located on the same site since it\nwas founded in 1858. It was home to all the top management of the company.\nWhere would they move if that plant was closed? And what would happen to\nthe substantial history and presence ofthe company?\nThe Okanagan plant did, however, have several substantial advantages\nsuch as lower fixed costs, higher efficiencies, intensely dedicated employees\nand a less militant union than the Ontario plant. Okanagan was the emotional\nfavourite going into the analysis, even with many members of senior\nmanagement. It was the \"dark horse\" option.\nBut, unfortunately, this time the dark horse favourite did not win the\nrace and Kelowna lost an important employer, taxpayer and community\nsupporter.\n:\nAerial view of plant looking north, late 1970s. Photo courtesy Neal Eberle\nThe writer would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance of Neal\nEberle and Susanna Svendsen in the preparation of this article.\n91\n NAMING NARAMATA\nNaming Naramata:\nLegends Floating in\nMuddy Waters\nBy: Craig Henderson\nCraig Henderson is active in community affairs and is the editor of\nwww.MyNaramata.com. In 2007, he wrote and produced Robinson's Rainbow, the\nNaramata history play. In 2010, Craig was named Naramata Citizen ofthe Year, and in\nNovember 2011 published Naramata Chronicles - Life & Times of a Community.\nI've spent a lot of time researching the name of my town, Naramata,\nlocated 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of Penticton near the south end of\nOkanagan Lake. Why couldn't it be simple and straightforward, like Penticton,\nArmstrong or Oliver? Other communities have adopted names that were\nderivations of Interior Salish words, or were named after their founders or\ninfluential leaders. Not my town: Naramata, the Smile of Manitou.\nWhat does it mean? Who thought of it?\nThe exact origin and meaning seem muddy and unclear. I have\ncollected five legends of the name \"Naramata\" and its subtitle the \"Smile of\nManitou,\" including: an Aussie word for 'place of water;' a maiden by the\nwaterfall; a child's birth bringing rain showers; and a sculpting of the lake to\nform a shoreline smile.\nWater played a key role in Naramata's settlement, as it did for most\nOkanagan towns. Many of the first white settlers arrived at their destinations by\nwater. Fruit trees could take root only once water from the creeks was\nharnessed and distributed to the new orchard. Water provided a place to relax\nand refresh from the rigors of pioneer life. Maybe that is why a water theme\noften surfaced in the legends?\nOne aspect of the story is not murky. Two people clearly were the key\nplayers when it came to naming Naramata: John Moore Robinson, the town\nfounder, and Anna Gillespie, wife of one of Robinson's business associates.\nGillespie was a well-known medium and was a minister in the American\nSpiritualistic Church.\n92\n NAMING NARAMATA\nJohn Moore Robinson\nPhoto courtesy of Naramata Heritage\nMuseum and Archives\nAnna Gillespie\nPhoto courtesy of Penticton\nMuseum and Archives\nLegend #1: Named from a Seance\nThe most quoted story about Naramata's naming dates from 1907, not\nlong after the founding of the community. In the Gillespie tent house a seance\nwas held. Mrs. Gillespie, acting as medium, channeled the voice of a Sioux\nchief named Big Moose. The chief spoke of his love for his wife Narramattah.\nShe was the \"Smile of Manitou.\" I read that to mean that the Central North\nAmerican First Nations' deity of Manitou, the Creator, was proud of his work\nin molding this lovely woman Narramattah.\nThe Okanagan Historical Society Report of 1935 (6:143) quotes a\nletter written by Robinson on September 23, 1931: \"(After the seance,) it struck\nme that this would be a good name for our village, which I thought of calling\nBrighton Beach. We therefore cut out the unnecessary letters and called the\ntown Naramata.\"\nThe same OHS report (6:142) tries to answer the question, \"What is\nthe origin of the name Naramata, could it be related to a First Nations'\nlanguage?\" Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, a respected author and First\nNations' expert in the 1930s, is quoted: \"It seems to me that Naramata has been\nwrongly spelt (sic) by the white man or transplanted there from some other\nquarter by him for I know of no British Columbia (Aboriginal) language in\nwhich the letter 'r' occurs. The letter V occurs nowhere west of Eastern\nCanada.\"\nIn the OHS report of 1948 (12:212-213), writer A. G. Harvey states:\n\"Research suggests that perhaps Mrs. Gillespie unconsciously drew the name\nfrom an Australian source, since 'naramata' in aboriginal Australian dialect\nmeans 'place of water.' Her first husband had lived in Australia.\"\n93\n NAMING NARAMATA\nThis led me to consult two Australian specialists in 2006, and neither\ncould confirm a link between Naramata and an Aborigine dialect. David Blair,\ndirector of the Australian National Placenames Survey, replied: \"Re:\n'Naramata' meaning 'place of water,' I am skeptical. Australia is full of\nmellifluous placenames based on indigenous words that mean 'place of\nwater.'\" Greg Windsor, Secretary, Geographical Names Board of New South\nWales, replied: \"There are over 250 Australian Aboriginal language groups so\nit is difficult to give a definitive answer. You may find words close to\n'Naramata' in many dialects, it is doubtful if one could definitely confirm any\nof these words as the origin of your name.\"\nThe only other recorded geographic references to the name are the\nNaramata Dam and Lake near the Japanese city of Minakami, 160 kilometres\n(99 miles) west of Tokyo. The hydro dam, completed in 1990, formed the lake.\nI believe it is purely coincidence and there is no link between this Japanese\nNaramata and the Okanagan Naramata.\nIt's plausible that there could have been a seance in 1907, since such\npractice was normal for both Gillespie and Robinson. Whether there was a\nseance or not, I believe that Robinson and Gillespie created the name Naramata\nfor its story-telling value. \"Smile of Manitou\" was created perhaps to sprinkle\nthe legend with a touch of romantic, exotic mystery. Robinson was in the\nbusiness of selling home sites and orchard lots. As a former newspaperman, he\nknew the value of a good story when it came to peddling the virtues of a new\ntown.\nIn my opinion, the use of \"Manitou\" was a handy reference for\nRobinson. Manitou designates spirit beings among Algonquin groups of central\nCanada, the plains and the Great Lakes region. Prior to coming to B.C., he\nspent 20 years in Manitoba as a politician, teacher, real estate agent and\npublisher. The name Manitoba is derived from the word Manitou.\nWhile the seance legend has been the one that is most often repeated,\nRobinson, Gillespie and journalists noted several other twists and tales to\nexplain Naramata and the Smile of Manitou. Let's dive deeper into the muddy\nwaters of these twists, tales, and names...\nLegend #2: Indian Princess at the Waterfalls\nIn an August 1909 promotional program for the regatta at Naramata,\nJ. M. Robinson wrote: \"Naramata is an Indian word connected in legend with\nthe beautiful falls of Naramata about two miles back from the lake.\n\"Narramattah meaning 'Smile of Manitou,' was the name of an Indian princess\nwhose lover Big Moose was a great warrior and chief of his tribe. After many\nperilous adventures and vicissitudes of fortune he finally won the hand of\nNarramattah.\"\n94\n NAMING NARAMATA\nLegend #3: Newborn Girl Brings Needed Rain\nA Penticton Herald special section for Canada's centennial contained another\nstory about Naramata and Smile of Manitou. On June 30,1967, the Herald\npublished dozens of articles on regional history. One such article, unattributed\nto a writer, was titled, \"Naramata Legend 'Rain Gods Forgot:'\"\n\"The legend of Naramata is told by Mrs. A. L. Gillespie, wife of J.\nM. Robinson's right hand man, in a special holiday number of 1912.\nShe recounts that 'many moons ago,' a tribe of Indians from the south and east\ncame to hunt and fish. All summer, there was much meat to eat, and the tribe\nrejoiced, but in the winter 'the Rain Gods forgot to walk and there came a\nstrange sickness upon the people.'\nOnly Po-a-ko-pe, the ancient medicine man, did not despair, and by his dying\nfirelight called again and again to the Sun God for help; and as he called he\nlistened, and listening heard the sighing like the rustling of soft wings, then\nwaited for the Sun God to send the sign of his favor, for he read the stars and\nsaw a promise there.\nAnd when the dawn time came he heard the laughter of a girl child new born\nand on the breath of the warm Chinook wind came soft gentle rain, which\nwashed the fear from the hearts of the people. Po-a-ko-pe said, 'It is well the\nSun God will give his smile to us once more.'\nHe called her Naramata, Smile of Manitou, and the day brought\npeace, rest and gladness to all the people. It's not known where Mrs. Gillespie\nfound the legend.\"\nLegend #4:\nGreat Spirit's Smile Formed by Setting Sun\nIn the Vancouver Province, September 16, 1918, author Mabel\nDurham wrote a profile on Naramata, and the subheading read, \"Okanagan\nVillage on Which Manitou's Smile Lingers.\" Here is the opening of the article\nin which Durham alludes to the fact that Manitou's Smile is in fact the sun set\non the western hills above Summerland as viewed from Naramata: '\"The Smile\nof Manitou' is said to be the meaning of the name which has been given to this\nidyllic little spot on the shore of Okanagan Lake. Owing to the conformation of\nthe hills on the other side of the lake, when the sun sinks behind them it is\nclaimed that its rays linger longer upon the point on which this village has its\nsite than on any other point on the lake shore.\"\nLegend #5: 'Smile' Sculpted by Manitou the Creator\nIn the Vancouver Province, December 9, 1950, writer Les Rimes\nbegins an article on Naramata by stating: \"Naramata: Smile of Manitou.\nManitou, the great creator according to Indian legend, was mighty happy about\nthe way he had scooped out the Okanagan Lake and had piled up the\nsurrounding mountain. Great job! He rubbed his hands and smiled. And as a\nfinishing touch, like the last stroke of a master's brush, he added a lovely point,\n95\n NAMING NARAMATA\nwhich reaches verdantly into the lake. Here lies Naramata, the Smile of\nManitou.\"\nNaramata: Also Known As\nWhat legend holds water for you? Was the naming of Naramata\npassed down by spiritual intervention, or was it a strategic spin to spur lot\nsales? Other than reaching Gillespie and Robinson via a seance we may never\nknow for sure. In a 1965 interview with CBC radio, J.M.'s daughter Dorothy\nRobinson stated that the seance story contains more fiction than fact. \"I think\n'Naramata' came out of the air. It is not a bad name, we like it. My father\nnamed the town, and it may not even be true that Naramata is a (Native) Indian\nword.\" Dorothy Robinson went on to tell the CBC interviewer about the other\nnames her father considered, \"First of all he thought of East Summerland and\nhe thought of Brighton Beach. Brighton Beach, wouldn't be that dreadful.\nIn reviewing the Penticton Press newspaper reports of the day, it appears\nour community had an identity crisis. In a period of nine months, this place had\nfour names.\nNovember 24,1906, announcing the purchase of land by John Moore\nRobinson: \"Exit Nine Mile Point, enter East Summerland.\"\nJune 15, 1907: \"H.C. Huyke was in town from Nine Mile Point on Tuesday.\nThe name of the place, which was changed to East Summerland after being\nacquired by the Summerland syndicate last fall, has again been changed to that\nof Brighton Beach.\"\nAugust 17, 1907, was the first reference in the newspaper to the word\nNaramata: \"Mr. J. M. Robinson's gasoline launch, the Naramata, was launched\nMonday afternoon.\"\nAugust 24, 1907, first newspaper reference to Naramata as a town: \"Work is\nabout to start on the wagon road from Naramata to connect with the road at\nFour Mile Point, This will give a through road from Naramata to Penticton.\"\nOctober 19,1907, another reference to Naramata as a town:\n\"Naramata is the youngest of Okanagan settlements. The place was named East\nSummerland, but this has recently been changed to the more romantic term\nNaramata, being an Indian word for 'The smile of the gods.' If the gods had\nanything to do with the creation of Naramata, they most certainly have been in\na happy mood when they did the work as no spot along the entire lake is more\nbeautifully situated.\"\nSome history writers have stated that Robinson had considered\nBrighton Beach as a tribute to his family roots in the British Isles. But,\nRobinson's parents were born in Ireland, and I believe Robinson was not\nreferring to Brighton, England. I think he was inspired by Brighton Beach,\nadjacent to Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. In a 1909 regatta\npromotional program, Robinson wrote that Naramata will become a pleasure\nresort of respite and relaxation, \"the Coney Island of the Okanagan.\" In the\n1870s, Robinson was a student in upstate New York, and I suspect that he\ntravelled to New York City at one time. Perhaps he was impressed by the resort\n96\n NAMING NARAMATA\nneighborhoods of Coney Island and Brighton Beach as a place for the urban\nfamily to play and relax.\nThe Syilx (Okanagan First Peoples) called the Naramata area\n\"Citxws Peqlqin,\" or \"Eagle's House.\" In a 2008 documentary entitled\nNaramata: Citxws Peqlqin (Dust Dancer Productions and Okanagan Indian\nEducational Resources Society), Syilx educator Richard Armstrong said that\nthe Naramata bench had an important role for sustenance and cultural practices:\n\"The area provided a seasonal camp site for elk hunting and food\ngathering. Roots, berries and wild vegetables were gathered and dried. Elk\nmeat would be smoke-dried. The bitterroot is one of the most important foods\nin our tradition, and our stories say that the 'grandmother bitterroot' comes\nfrom Citxws Peqlqin.\" Several sites on the Naramata bench point to use by\nSyilx youth for the right-of-passage vision quest.\nPerhaps instead of trying to explain the wherefore and whys of\nNaramata's name, I should just embrace what it has come to mean. History is\nabout telling stories, even if there is a legend - or five - mixed in now and\nthen. Naramata has come to identify an Okanagan community of tranquil\nbeauty, agricultural abundance and refreshing waters. Manitou and all forces of\ncreation would have to smile about that.\n97\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\nThe Codd and Walters\nFamilies of Notch Hill\nBy Estelle Noakes\nEstelle Noakes is a descendent of early pioneers ofthe North Shuswap. She enjoys researching and\nwriting about people and places. She began writing in the 1990s and is the author of a trail book, a\npictorial guide and more recently a book on Seymour Arm. She has also written numerous articles\nfor newspapers, magazines and journals. She currently resides in Deep Creek, north of Enderby.\nNotch Hill\nNotch Hill is a small detour off the Trans Canada Highway at\nSorrento or Balmoral. At one time the highway went through Notch Hill and it\nwas a thriving centre for freight, timber mills and farming. The town of Notch\nHill was built in 1910 on land donated by adjacent farmers. It was named for a\nnotch between the mountains where the CPR laid its tracks in 1885. For many\nyears it was a CPR town with a train station, packing-house, freight shed, oil\ntank, water tank, coal chute, sand house, pump house and round house. Notch\nHill was a centre for the surrounding areas. The railroad brought shipments\nfrom all points and dropped them at Notch Hill, where they were transported\nfirst by wagon and then by truck to other areas and to the ferry or barges for\nshipment around Shuswap Lake. Besides being a CPR train centre, the village\nhad three stores, a school, hall, garage, jail, post office and two churches. There\nwere over 600 people living at Notch Hill by the 1920s.\nAlthough there are many changes, today the scenic drive through\nNotch Hill retains its rustic charm with its historic buildings, old barns and\nfertile farmland. Many of today's residents are descendants of early settlers,\nstill living on the old family farms. Some of the historic town buildings have\nbeen restored: on the hall property the heritage school built in 1921, the\nPresbyterian Church built in 1906 (moved to its current location in 2004 and\nonce again in use) and the community hall built in 1910 have been restored.\nThe old graveyard has had a refurbishing too, with new gravestones and\ncataloguing. There is also an inviting picnic area under ancient maples. Keith\nand Anita Walters are among the long-time Notch Hill residents who have\nworked hard to effect these changes.\nKeith Walters remembers the Notch Hill area in the early 1900s as\nbeing inhabited mostly by Swedes, Norwegians and Finns. He says the English\n98\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\nwere in Sorrento. Keith has a wonderful memory and can reminisce all day\nabout the old-timers and the history of this unique area. If you drive with him\nalong the lanes of Notch Hill he can remember who lived in each of the houses\nyou pass, and tell you all about their histories. His own family arrived in the\narea in 1935.\n' \"., .\n:bix \u25a0'.' ;>t \u25a0::\u25a0\u25a0 |;lllll:;:s-K.-. .\u25a0:\u25a0:\u25a0.: \u25a0\u25a0SI:-:-'\n: i iSSt : Si ;\t\n\u25a0\"\"\u25a0:\u2022\u25a0\u2022 .-\n1 \u25a0\u25a0:\u25a0:-.:.: ,.\nKeith's uncle Henry Codd was born in\n1893 in Wales, one of ten children. His\nfamily had along history as horse\ncontractors, raising purebred\nPercherons. They also were sheep and\ndairy farmers and operated a grist mill.\nHenry emigrated from Wales at the age\nof 17, settling at Minburn, Alberta. He\nfought in WW1, was injured and\nreturned to Canada. Henry was well\nknown in Alberta as a breeder of\npurebred Percheron horses as well as a\ncattle rancher. Keith Walters says his\nuncle was a tough man. In Wales he\nbare-hand boxed with the gypsies,\nriding 35 miles each way to do so. He\nwas known as a high stakes poker\nplayer and also made moonshine in\nAlberta: both of which he gave up on\ncoming to British Columbia.\nBesides his sister Rosalyn and her\nthree children, Henry brought from Alberta a car-load of cattle, 22 purebred\nPercheron horses and an English man, Harry Massy, who worked for them.\nThey arrived in Notch Hill in March of 1935 to four feet of snow. Henry had\npurchased the original homestead of the Martin Johnson family from George\nGurr. There was an old liveable house on the property which the family used\nuntil building a new one in 1936. The new home was built with first grade\nlumber, had a basement and cost $2000 to build. When Henry gave the\ncontractor a $200 bonus, the man cried - that was a lot of money in those days.\nThe farm had chickens, pigs, cattle and horses as well as a large garden.\nHenry was a kind man and gave much to his community. He loved\nhorses and treated them with great care. He believed also in treating people\nwell and often paid his workers double the going wage. Henry served for forty\nyears as chair of the Notch Hill Community Association, ten years as a school\nHenry Codd in the 1920s. Photograph\ncourtesy of Keith and Anita Walters\n99\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\ntrustee (also six years in Alberta), ten years as chair of the Farmers Institute,\nfifty years as trustee of Cardinal Estates and he worked for many years with the\nChase Fall Fair. Henry died in 1984 at the age of 91, and is buried in the Notch\nHill graveyard.\nFrances Elizabeth Rosalyn Codd Walter(s)\nKnown as Rosalyn, she was born in 1910. She immigrated to Canada\nin 1927 at the age of 17 along with her brother Ed Codd. Later another brother\nGeorge also relocated to Canada. In Alberta, Rosalyn married Paul Walter and\nhad three children, Keith, Gywn and Yvonne. Rosalyn separated from her\nhusband in 1935 and along with the three children accompanied her brother\nHenry Codd to Notch Hill. There she looked after the home and the children. In\n1942, Henry Codd set aside a small property for Rosalyn and her new partner\nHenry Blackman, who was a farmer and a logger. He and Rosalyn built a home\non the property where they lived with the two younger children. Keith stayed\nwith his uncle Henry. Henry Blackman died in 2000 at the age of 94. He is\nburied in the Eagle Bay cemetery. In her later years Rosalyn lived with her\ndaughter, Yvonne. She died in 2006 at the age of 96. At some time Rosalyn\nchanged her name from Walter to Walters.\nKeith and Anita Walters\nKeith Walters was born on June 30, 1930 in Viking, Alberta, on the\nfamily farm. He was five when his mother and father separated. He remembers\narriving at Notch Hill. At the station, among the men who came to help them\nunload was John Lindsay, who became a lifelong friend until his death in 2011.\nKeith recalls his uncle shipping out purebred horses and cattle by\ntrain from Notch Hill. The Indian School in Kamloops was a regular customer\nfor the horses, as they wanted to improve their stock. Keith has kept up the\nfamily tradition of raising purebred Percherons, and his son Irwin is following\nin his footsteps. Keith also has riding horses and says he has never been\nwithout a good horse.\nKeith began school in Notch Hill at the age of seven and finished\ngrade one and two, after which he suffered a ruptured appendix and gangrene\nset it. Over the next five years Keith was in hospital almost continuously and\nunderwent several operations. Finally, from a fellow patient the family heard\nabout an army doctor, Dr. Wallace, who was returning to the area and had a\ngood reputation with abdominal surgery. Keith was taken to Kamloops where\nDr. Wallace had set up practice. Dr Wallace operated and Keith recovered\nquickly afterwards and says he has never looked back. There were two schools\n100\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\nat Notch Hill then (the high school closed in the late 1930s) but, having missed\nso much school by then, he decided not to go back.\nAt the age of fourteen, his Uncle Henry Codd gave Keith an eighty-\nacre farm across the road from where the family lived. Keith built a cabin and\nsome barns. In the next years, he cut firewood at $3 a cord with a crosscut saw\nand delivered it by horse and wagon. He supplied the Notch Hill Hall with\nfirewood for many years. In addition, he did horse logging for other people,\nincluding Ed Riley at Celista. Keith says he was skidding with horses by the\ntime he was sixteen. One of his first logging jobs was for Saul Rabie, where he\nworked a ten-hour day for $5. Later on he bought the Rabie's eighty acres for\n$400. Keith also had horses and cattle, farming with his Uncle Henry Codd\nover the next fifty years. At one point Keith worked in Prince George for five\nyears for the Forest Service as foreman of the bush crews, but was happy to\nreturn home and back to farming.\nIn 1948, Keith remembers buying a new rubber-tired wagon and a\nnice team of horses. He headed to the Cariboo with a friend Cecil Milliken for\neight days, but ended up working all year, cowboying and haying for two old\nbachelors, the Scallons. In 2010, Keith along with sons Reg and Dewy and\ngrandson Rylan retraced that route, also visiting the Gang Ranch, the Empire\nValley and Red Mountain, where they have a cabin.\nKeith played badminton when he was young, and in winter there was\na skiing hill on the mountain across from the farm, with ski jumps and\neverything. A Finnish resident, Mr. Fenn made excellent skis for $4. Keith\nsays he would tie a rope to the saddle horn and his horse would pull him up.\nAfter skiing all day, the horse was really ready to come home and he says he\nhad some hair-raising trips getting back home. He remembers, too, being able\nto sleigh and toboggan right down to the Sorrento wharf. Keith's favourite getaway was to ride up Black Mountain to the Seldom Inn, a cabin named by Joe\nEdie and built by Keith and the Mowers. Unfortunately, the cabin burned in the\nNotch Hill fire of 1973.\nIn 1957, Keith met Anita (Blackman) at the wedding of his sister\nYvonne, who was marrying Chris Dalin. Anita was born in 1938 to pioneers of\nValemont, Bill and Ellice Blackman. (Bill's brother Henry had been Rosalyn\nWalters'partner.) Bill was a trapper, logger and big game guide. The\nBlackmans also had three sons. Anita had attended high school in Kelowna and\nwas still living there, working at the Kelowna Courier.\n101\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\nAnita and Keith had a long distance courtship. Anita tells the story of Keith,\nalong with a buddy, visiting a gambling place before coming to see her. Of\ncourse, the two were broke and she had to lend them $10 to go home.\nKeith and Anitia Walters wedding Valemont 1959\nPhoto courtesy of Keith and Anita Walters\nAnita and Keith married in her family's log home in Valemont in\n1959. They travelled back to Kamloops by train where Henry Codd picked\nthem up in his 1949 truck (which is still on the farm). Keith had built them a\nlittle home which Anita found quite delightful - it had a chrome table and\nchairs, hot water heater and fairly new bedroom and living-room furniture. It\nalso had canned peaches and pears from his mother in the cupboards, a freezer\nfull of meat and lots of wood. That fall they managed the luxury of a truck of\ntheir own.\nThe Walters raised four sons on the farm, Reginald (1959), Jeryl,\nnicknamed Dewy (1960), Irwin (1962) and Ian (1964). Henry Codd was a great\nsportsman and the boys' greatest coach - all four excelled at hockey and\nbaseball, having spent many years playing in various Salmon Arm leagues.\n102\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\nKeith says he has been in every arena and ball field in the country, putting\nabout 80,000 km. a year on his vehicle. During this time, Keith says he didn't\nsave a nickel - it all went for the kids. Dewy went to a world competition in\nbaseball and Ian spent three years playing for the Kootenay Hockey League.\nNow the Walters' grandsons are playing hockey in Kelowna and at U.B.C.\nWalters Family 1984: Back Jeryl, Reg, Irwin and Ian . Front Anita and Keith. Photo courtesy of\nKeith and Anita Walters\nDue to the sports schedule of his sons and the cost, Keith gave up the\nmilk cows and got a job at Adams Lake Lumber (then Holdings Mill) where he\nworked for twenty years, night shift on the boom from 1970 to 1990. For some\nof these years, Anita's cousin Bill Blackman lived with them on the farm. They\nlooked after him and he helped around the farm.\nAnita remembers that during the Notch Hill fire in 1973, Keith would\ncome home from his graveyard shift at the mill, pack a lunch and work on the\nfire all day, come home and sleep a few hours and then go back to his job. He\ndid that all summer. After leaving Holdings, Keith worked for the Forestry for\n103\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\na few years up on Fly Hills, White Lake and Eagle Bay. He would camp up in\nthe high country where his job was to move the cattle around so they didn't\nover-forage in the newly planted areas. His border collie was company and his\nmost willing helper. Keith worked for various other people including some on\nthe north shore, Ed Riley and Pat Bischoff. He also helped with haying on\nnorth shore farms, including those of George Lamberton and Prince Orser.\nAnita is an artist, using pastels to create scenes of the area and the old\nbuildings around Notch Hill. In addition, she is adept at quilting. Keith judged\nlogging shows for many years throughout the valley while Anita was\ncompeting with Sandy Mowers in the Jack and Jill cross-cut event, winning\nmany awards. Keith also judged the heavy horse pull events at local fairs and at\nthe PNE.\nKeith and his sons, along with his lifelong friend Sandy Mowers, took\nnumerous horseback hunting trips in the Yalakom River country north of\nLillooet, where they have a prospector's cabin. Keith also enjoyed trips with\nhis cousin Julian Codd (the son of Ed Codd) who farmed at Tappen. In 1991,\nKeith, along with his son Irwin, rode in the first Kamloops Cattle Drive with\n420 other riders. Keith and Sandy Mowers spent many winters top-loading\nChristmas trees for shipment to Vancouver. The Walters' sons continued this\nbusiness until last year.\nFor over twenty years the Walters have given horse and sleigh rides\n(Broderick Creek Sleigh Rides) pulled by their purebred Percherons. The\nenterprise began as a treat for their friends. The rides are a true delight for any\nlucky sleigh riders, who are bundled up in Anita's (and her mother's) home\nmade quilts and regaled with stories of the area's heyday, finishing with\ncinnamon buns and hot chocolate at the end. Their son Irwin does most of the\nrides these days but Keith still likes to help out driving the team. Keith loves to\nride and still keeps a horse handy.\nIn 1998, accompanied by his sons Ian and Reg, Keith visited his\nWelsh homeland. The Walters have many relatives still living there, now sixth-\ngeneration farmers with horses, sheep and dairy. Keith made a point of visiting\nthe Gypsy camps that his uncle Henry Codd spoke of so often, but he says it\nwas too rainy for him, and he would not live in Wales for anything.\nKeith and Anita have been and still are staunch supporters of their\ncommunity. They are both life members of the Notch Hill Town Hall, and\ninstrumental in the restoration of the historic buildings and the care of the\n104\n FAMILIES OF NOTCH HILL\nNotch Hill Cemetery, most recently with Louise Barber. For nine years Keith\nwas a director with Caravan Farm Theatre, during the theatre's touring days.\nThe Caravan would stop at the Walters farm and put on their performance\nduring their tours, which were a delight for the whole community. Anita keeps\nbusy with the Notch Hill Community Association which has done an admirable\njob of keeping up the archives and restoring the old buildings. The Walters'\nproperty itself is a veritable museum, with four old log buildings which have\nbeen dismantled and restored. One is a blacksmith shop, and another was a\ndemonstration building built by Sandy Mowers with logs salvaged from the\nNotch Hill fire in 1973. Its purpose was to teach the Walters sons to build. It is\nnow a cozy cabin used for Broderick Creek Bed and Breakfast and as a guest\nhouse. The Walters' sons have also been instrumental in helping restore the\nhistoric buildings.\nThe Walters' sons live close by. Keith has been able to return the\nfavour once granted him by Henry Codd, and given each of his sons a fair\nparcel of land. The Walters have six grandchildren and three step-\ngrandchildren. Reg lives in Salmon Arm where he is a building inspector. Jeryl,\nnicknamed Dewy, lives on Wellbanks Rd. at Notch Hill. He and his wife\nKaren operate High Country Tree Farm. Ian lives on the original Laing farm at\nNotch Hill and is a welder. Irwin lives across the road on Henry Codd's original\nfarm, in the old home built in 1936, which is still in good repair. He is a partner\nwith Dewy in Walters Construction and also operates the trail rides.\nKeith's brother Gywn worked for BC Hydro and lived in various\nplaces around B.C. He passed away in 2002. Yvonne is living in Louis Creek.\nHarry Massey, who came from Alberta with Henry Codd, died in 1938 and is\nburied at Notch Hill.\nIn 1973, Keith met a stepbrother, Neil, and discovered their father\nwas still living at Medicine Hat, Alberta. Keith visited his father for the first\ntime since his parents' separation when he was five years old. Paul Walters\ndied shortly after the visit and is buried at Medicine Hat.\nKeith and Anita Walters are people one would refer to as \"salt of the\nEarth\", but they are much more - dedicated to family, friends and community.\nThey have resided on the same farm in Notch Hill almost all of their lives,\nKeith from the age of six and Anita from the time of her marriage to Keith at\n21. They have been instrumental in preserving much ofthe heritage and history\nof the area, not for fame or fortune but because it matters to them. They still\nenjoy life on the farm at Notch Hill, surrounded by good memories, good\nfriends and their large family.\n105\n AN APPLE GETS ITS NAME\nHow Aurora Golden Gala\nApple Got Its Name\nBy Cheryl Hampson\nDr. Hampson is the research scientist overseeing the apple breeding program at the Pacific Agri-\nFood Research Centre in Summerland.\nIn 2003, the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) research\nfacility in Summerland held a national internet-based contest to choose a name\nfor the new apple then known as 8S6923. The story of how 8S6923 reached\nthis point is typical in most ways of the long timeline involved in apple\nbreeding.\nApple breeding at the AAFC started in the 1920s. Probably \"Spartan\"\nis the most famous of Summerland apples. Named in 1936, Spartan was one of\nthe first varieties to be named, although it was not widely planted until the\n1950s. The apple-breeding effort was fairly small and regional in focus for\nmuch of its history. In the mid-1990s, AAFC ceased its apple-breeding\nprograms in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and Summerland was tasked with\nbreeding apples for commercial producers in all of Canada while the other two\nprograms were slowly wrapped up. The current breeding objectives are high\nfruit quality (including appearance, texture and flavour), ability to remain firm\nand juicy in long storage, early fruit bearing, productivity and regular cropping,\ndisease resistance, ease of management, and adaptation to the Canadian\nclimate.\nWhy are new varieties needed when so many already exist? In part we\nseek new varieties to satisfy the consumer's desire for novelty, but mainly we\nneed varieties that are superior to existing ones for eating quality or disease\nresistance, or that possess some other advantage for growers or consumers.\n8S6923 started as an idea in the mind of then-breeder Dr. David Lane.\nFlowers on a \"Splendour\" tree were pollinated with \"Gala\" pollen in the spring\nof 1981. In autumn, the apples from this Splendour tree were collected and\ntheir seeds were extracted. The apple is part of the mother tree, but the seeds\ninside get half their genes from the mother tree, and half from the pollen parent.\nEach seed is unique in genetic makeup, just as siblings from a human family\nare different from each other despite having the same parents. Hundreds of\nsuch seeds were generated from this Splendour x Gala cross.\n106\n AN APPLE GETS ITS NAME\nAll the seeds in this family were put into a cool moist treatment for\nseveral months to break dormancy, along with about 4,000 others from the\nother cross-pollinations made that same year, keeping each family separate. In\nspring 1982, the seeds were germinated and the tiny trees planted in the\ngreenhouse, then transplanted into the field nursery in May. Trees grown from\nseed go through a juvenile period of several years' length before they will\nflower or fruit. To shorten this waiting period, each tree is budded in the field\nonto a dwarf rootstock after spending 2.5 years in the field nursery.\nUnacceptable trees (too weak, too diseased) are discarded before budding.\nFrom this single bud that is transferred to the rootstock, a new tree grows,\npassing out of its juvenile phase and eventually starting to bear fruit. Hence, the\nseedling tree of the future variety was budded into Field 8 South in August\n1984 along with all of its siblings and a few thousand other trees from the\ncrosses made in 1981.\nIn autumn 1989, breeding program technician Richard MacDonald\nsampled a fruit from this tree during his weekly check of the field and was\nimpressed by its sweetness, juiciness, crunchiness and smooth clean yellow\nskin. He noted its location in Field 8 South, Row 69, Tree 23, and collected a\nfruit sample for storage. After about eight weeks in refrigeration, the fruit\nquality was still outstanding, and the tree was marked for propagation the\nfollowing August, i.e., more \"copies\" of the tree were made by budding. The\nnew trees spent two years in the nursery, alongside dozens of other selections\npropagated for the same reasons, while they again grew from single buds into\nnew trees large enough to plant. The re-propagated trees were planted in 1992\ninto a replicated plot and more detailed record-keeping began upon first\nfruiting in 1994. The selection now known as 8S6923 passed all tests with\nflying colors. The trees were productive, easy to train, regular bearing, had\nadequate resistance to diseases, and survived a few cold winters unscathed. The\nfruit eating quality before and after storage was superlative, remaining crisp\nand juicy long after most other types had become soft, and being free from\npost-harvest disorders. Most importantly, these attributes were consistent year\nafter year, indicating that the new apple was not overly sensitive to the vagaries\nof yearly weather or other environmental factors.\nThe only major problem was that it had yellow skin. Yellow is\nconsumers' least favorite apple colour, and most yellow apples show bruises\nmore readily than red ones do. Here the progress of 8S6923 stalled for a few\nyears until we found a few growers willing to try the variety, in the belief that\nthere was a place in the market for a yellow apple of top-notch quality.\nMeanwhile, we became more and more impressed with the new apple's\ncharacteristics while some other potential varieties fell by the wayside.\nEventually the growers with on-farm tests applied pressure to give 8S6923 a\n\"real\" name under which the fruit could be sold. Although many names were\n107\n AN APPLE GETS ITS NAME\ndiscussed amongst the breeding team, we wanted to hold an apple naming\ncontest in the hope that it would heighten consumer interest in the marketplace\nfor a new yellow apple. Because AAFC is federal, the contest had to be\nnationwide rather than just local.\nAt this point, an enthusiastic ally stepped\nin. Ann de St. Remy worked for\nResearch Branch Communications at the\ntime, and with help from Audrey\nNadalin, Cathy Shearer and Therese\nOtis, she spearheaded the contest, doing\nthe massive amount of work required to\nbring the idea into reality. The contest\nwas officially launched at the Interior\nProvincial Exhibition in Armstrong on\nAugust 29, 2003, with the winner and\none guest to be flown to Kelowna for the\nnaming announcement, an overnight stay\nin the city and tickets to the Fall Wine\nFestival. Several smaller random prizes\nwere also up for grabs.\nMedia interest snowballed. Interviews\nappeared in the Ottawa Citizen,\nPenticton Western, Vancouver\nProvince, Vancouver Sun, Western\nProducer, Windsor Star, BC Fruit Grower, Guelph Mercury and Kelowna\nCourier. Radio stations in St. Catherines, Edmonton, Regina, Vancouver, and\nKelowna called, and even CBC Radio's \"As It Happens\" and \"The Food\nChain\" ran interviews. Only the Summerland Review showed no interest!\nContest entries poured in from all ten provinces and three territories. Although\nonly Canadian entries were eligible to win, people from Texas, California,\nMichigan, France and the Netherlands submitted names. In total, 11,006 entries\narrived before the deadline.\nNames ranged from A+ to Zipper. The most common entries were\nthose combining the new apple's parent's names in some way: Galandor,\nGlenda, Splendid Gala, Galdor, Gasp, and others. Also popular were two-part\nnames with Canada\/Canadian, Okanagan, B.C., Blonde, Amber, Gold(en) or\nSummer as one of the elements. The Kelowna wildfire of 2003 was still raging,\nand many fire-related names were submitted. Some names were ineligible\nbecause of previous usage for other apple varieties: Silken, Honeycrisp,\nAmbrosia, Keepsake, Sunrise, and others. Suggestions ranged from short (A+)\nto long (shehamsplendgala), and included the witty or whimsical (Malus\nPhotograph courtesy of Agriculture Canada\n108\n AN APPLE GETS ITS NAME\naforethought, Seedy Gonzalez, Smokanagan), the mundane (Bob, people's own\nnames, or names of their pets or neighbours), and the oddball (Clockintower,\nFleshy Fairy). Some had dubious connotations (Abruise, Dropping Apple,\nOrgasma, Special X, Special Freak, Squishy Delicious, Crapple, Climax,\nXtasy, Bumpkin, Sweetass, Honey Pail) and one was outright grouchy (A\nColossal Waste of Taxpayers $). A few seemed to rather miss the point\naltogether (Rosey Red, Big Red Jewel, Round'n Red, Golden Delicious,\nGranny Mac). Many contestants gave humorous or touching explanations for\ntheir entries. Others took the opportunity to laud or slam famous political\nfigures of the day.\nEach of the three judges was asked to shortlist 10 names, and then we\nhashed it out, focusing on names common to two or all three short lists.\nEventually \"Aurora\" was chosen to evoke the Northern Lights (a very\nCanadian experience), to reflect the apple's color (Au is the chemical symbol\nfor gold), and because this name was nearly the same in English, French and\nSpanish. Last-minute advice from a marketer and a packinghouse insider\nstrongly favoured having \"Gala\" as part of the name to help with marketing. I\nwas reluctant after asking people to be creative in their ideas, and because I\ndidn't want to associate the new apple with one that softened quickly. But in\nthe end I compromised and Aurora Golden Gala became the apple's new\nmoniker. Several reporters tried to sweet-talk me into prematurely releasing the\nname, but my lips were sealed.\nAll 52 entries of \"Aurora,\" \"Aurore,\" or \"Golden Gala\" were literally\nput into a hat and the winner drawn. Daphne Biggs of Ottawa and her husband\nwere flown out for the media announcement on October 2 at the Laurel\nPackinghouse in Kelowna. By great good fortune, Daphne turned out to be\nphotogenic, poised and articulate. Happily she also liked the apple, after tasting\nit for the first time just before the press conference. The name was announced\nin several media, including CBC television's news program \"The National\"\nwith Peter Mansbridge. Immediately, more than 10,000 people were\ndisappointed that their name was not chosen, and critics complained that the\nname was too long or too boring!\nAll told, the contest cost less than $10,000 to run, including all the\nprizes, but garnered millions worth of free publicity for the apple and positive\nimages for AAFC. Growers of the new apple found their product in high\ndemand. One local fellow even sold his culls for $1 per pound ($2.20 per\nkilogram). The mention that the new apple was available for tasting at UBC\nVancouver's Apple Festival that autumn was instrumental in breaking their\nattendance records. Consumers raved over the taste and the crunch.\n109\n AN APPLE GETS ITS NAME\nNine years later, why is the Aurora Golden Gala so hard to find?\nSadly, an apple can be excellent in nearly all respects but still fail commercially\nif it does not meet the needs of growers and industrial fruit packers as well as\nThe Aurora, Golden Gala logo is the property of the Okanagan Plant Improvement Corporation\n(PICO)\nwholesale buyers and consumers. Growers found it unexpectedly difficult to\nthin the fruit (resulting in small apples or higher production costs). Packers\nfound it too sensitive for mechanized handling. Consumers who did not\nremember the name after 2003 were apt to overlook it at the point of sale as\n\"just another yellow apple.\" Many growers grafted over their trees to different\nvarieties after the packinghouse gave up on the apple, but a few who sell\ndirectly to consumers have persisted, and some are field packing the fruit for\nsale in specialty produce stores. Their customers always return for more, and\nsome will buy only Aurora Golden Gala. Perhaps one day technology will\ncatch up to the needs of delicate apples. Meanwhile, those who value taste over\nappearance must seek out Aurora Golden Gala from the dedicated Okanagan\ngrowers who still believe that the consumer's eating experience is paramount.\n110\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\nMOVING FRESH FRUIT BY\nSTEAM TUGBOAT:\nTHE INTRODUCTION OF RAILWAY\nTRANSFER BARGES IN THE OKANAGAN\n\"....the long dream will soon become an actual fact....\"1\nBy Ian Pooley\nIan Pooley, a recently retired high-school teacher, owes his interest in Okanagan history to his\nfamily. His grandfather, W.R. Pooley, came to Kelowna in the early 1900s, and was a partner in\nthe Kelowna Land and Orchard Company. Writing historical articles is a family tradition: his\nfather, a past president and branch editor of the Kelowna Branch, OHS, published articles on Dan\nGallagher and on pioneers in the Wells Gray region of British Columbia. Ian is currently\nresearching the history ofthe CN.R. in the Okanagan.\nI was born in 1948, too late to witness the sternwheelers on Okanagan\nLake, but a teenage memory still sticks in my mind. It is a July day in the early\n1960s. I've been helping Dad with a load of cherries at the old Kelowna\nGrowers' Exchange (about where the Kelowna Art Gallery is now located).\nDad has gone off to do other chores around town and given me a free hour to\nwander around the railway yard. Just at the southern end of the yard, where the\nC.P.R. barge slip angles into the lake (the site of the old barge slip is just south\nof the present day Delta Grand Hotel), I can see that the Naramata is getting up\nsteam.\" Alongside her, tied to her starboard side, she has charge of an oxide-\nred two-track car barge that is secured at the slip, and I can see a couple of\ncrewmembers on the deck of the barge. One man attaches a winch cable to a\ndirty black railway car full of coal. It's parked on a short spur perhaps 50 feet\nfrom the slip. His partner on the stern of the barge powers up the steam winch,\nand with much vigorous chatter and wisps of escaping steam the winch slowly\nhauls the hopper car on to the barge and all the way to the stern. The two men\nclimb onto it and start shoveling coal into the Naramata's bunkers. I'm old\nenough to understand I'm looking at an anachronism: a steam winch powered\nby a coal-fired steam tug that's been around for almost 50 years, 10 years after\nthe last steam locomotives have disappeared on local railway lines, and long\nafter sternwheelers and steam tugs have disappeared almost everywhere. I'm\nlooking at the final chapter in a story that nowadays isn't well known. This\narticle is an attempt to tell the initial chapter of that story: of how and why the\nOkanagan Lake barge service came to be.\nIll\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\nThe premise of this article is that the introduction of railway barges in\n1909 marked a technological leap in transportation on Okanagan Lake. One of\nthe chief limitations of the sternwheelers lay with the problem of handling\nfreight. The steamer freight not only had to be hand loaded at the large and\nsmall steamer landings up and down the lake, it also had to be unloaded by\nhand at Okanagan Landing and reloaded onto railway cars. Of course the same\nrule applied to freight being shipped in the opposite direction, down the lake\nfrom Okanagan Landing: everything had to be transhipped from the railway\ncars to the steamers. As long as traffic on the lake remained light, the\nsternwheelers were an efficient solution to transportation, but as the output\nfrom canneries, packinghouses, sawmills and stock producers increased, the\nsystem was no longer ideal. Since the barges could carry specialized rolling\nstock like refrigerator cars, stock cars, hopper cars and tank cars, they could\nefficiently pick up fruit, vegetables and livestock, and more effectively deliver\nbulk goods like coal and fuel oil. In 1908, an article in the Kelowna Courier &\nOkanagan Orchardist described the new technology succinctly:\n\"...[henceforth] car-loads will arrive in actual cars....'\"\"\nTo operate properly, the new transfer barges required specially built\nbarge slips that serviced small railway yards. From its base at Okanagan\nLanding, the C.P.R. began to methodically build a network of barge slips and\nrailway yards, starting with Kelowna. Once a barge slip was in place, railway\ncars could be winched on and off the barge using the barge's steam winch, or,\nas in the Kelowna yard, a steam winch used in conjunction with horses.\nOn Okanagan Lake, the first railway barge was launched at Okanagan\nLanding in late 1908,'\" and railway barges were first used in 1909, to cope with\nincreased volumes of agricultural produce, particularly from the rapidly\nincreasing output of new orchards and expanded vegetable cultivation. At first,\nsince the C.P.R. did not have a tug, the barge service was handled by the\nsternwheeler Aberdeen, launched in 1893. In her new role, she initially made\nruns from Okanagan Landing south to Kelowna\/ Okanagan Landing, on the\nnortheastern arm of Okanagan Lake, was the terminal of the C.P.R. branch line\nfrom Sicamous.vl On June 3,1909, the new railway barge was put to work, and,\nwith the Aberdeen pushing behind, made her maiden run to Kelowna. On the\nbarge was a pile driver that would begin work on the Kelowna barge slip.\u2122 The\nslip was completed by October 1909, and the Aberdeen made the inaugural\nfreight run on Monday, October 25, pushing the new barge loaded with six\nempty cars. Four of the cars were parked at the new 520 foot siding to the new\ntwo-storey Farmers' Exchange building. They were loaded immediately, most\nlikely with potatoes, onions and apples, and placed back on the barge for the\ntrip back up the lake. The Aberdeen returned two days later with eight more\nempty cars on the barge, and her own cargo of 15 tons of general freight,\nincluding some lath and plaster for Mr. Barnaby, which she took further down\nthe lake to the Okanagan Mission wharf.\u21221\n112\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\nThe new barge slip at Summerland: the outer \"cut\" of three cars will be loaded first, by moving\nfruit boxes through the adjacent empty cars on the track immediately beside the packing house\nloading dock. To the left, the Okanagan is docking at the new steamer wharf. (Photographer C.\nPeel Nelson, from the Dunsdon Collection, ca. 1920). Photo courtesy Okanagan Archive Trust\nSociety\n113\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\nBy 1910, a new barge slip was being built at Summerland, and a\npackinghouse was under construction. The little C.P.R. steamship York brought\ndown the first barge load of supplies to Summerland in early June.\"1 The\nrailway cars, which included a pile driver that would begin construction of the\nnew barge slip and steamer wharf, were unloaded onto a temporary track on the\nshore. At Okanagan Landing, construction of the new tug began in August.\"\nThe August 6 Summerland Review reports that the new barge service would\nbegin the next week, with the Aberdeen and the railway barge servicing\nSummerland on alternate days, arriving at 4 p.m. and leaving at 7 p.m. At this\npoint, the barge slip had not yet been completed, and it appears likely that the\nbarge was tied up at the government wharf, that railway cars remained on the\nbarge, and that loads were transferred to or from the wharf. By September, the\nC.P.R. had begun iced refrigerator service at Okanagan Landing, with\nrefrigerated trains leaving Okanagan Landing three times a week.\"1 By early\nOctober, the C.P.R. was actually using the new Summerland wharf and barge\nslip. The first load in consisted of a carload of bricks on October 5, followed by\na car of heating coal for the College and a car of lumber for Nelson Brothers on\nOctober 18.xii\nM|::\nDuring 1910, the tug Castle gar was\nunder construction. Once again the job\nof barge handling fell largely to the\nAberdeen, but since she was needed for\nscheduled summer freight and passenger\nservice and also as an occasional\nreplacement on the passenger run when\nthe newer sternwheeler Okanagan was\nin for a paint job or repairs, she was\nprobably not always available for the\nnew service. The small C.P.R.\nsteamship, the York, was used on more\nthan one occasion. There is some\nevidence that the 180 gross ton\nsternwheeler Kaleden may have been\nused as well.\"1\" Because the York was\nprobably underpowered to handle a big\nfully loaded railway barge, she didn't\nalways have an easy\nLaunching of the Castlegar at Okanagan\nLanding April 19, 1911. Photo courtesy of\nRoyal BC Museum Archives PABC A-00640\n114\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\ntime of it.xlv In September 1910, she was caught in a gale between Kelowna and\nOkanagan Center with a loaded scow and had to be rescued by the Okanagan.xv\nIn November that year a fall storm forced the York and a car barge to stay\novernight at Summerland.\u2122\nBy 1911, the new tug Castle gar had been put in service. According to\nthe Vernon News, she was launched on April 19, and she made her maiden\nvoyage pushing a car barge to Kelowna on May 4, 1911.x\u2122The Aberdeen,\nperhaps showing the wear and tear of long service, was sent to Okanagan\nLanding to be refitted as soon as the Castlegar entered service.\"\u21221 The\nCastlegar arrived in Penticton on May 29 towing a boom of piles from\nOkanagan Center for the new wharf and barge slip. Two days later, she brought\ndown a barge load of lumber from Westbank for the S.C. Smith Lumber Co.x,x\nIt must have been unloaded at the government wharf, as construction work on\nthe new wharf had not yet begun. The first pile for the new wharf was driven\non June 17, at 8:30 a.m., with a short opening ceremony presided over by the\nreeve, E. Foley-Bennett. He hadn't been informed in advance ofthe ceremony,\nand had to be hastily woken up earlier in the morning to make sure he arrived\non time.xx At the beginning of July, the South Okanagan Land Company\nshipped 126 head of cattle to Vancouver, using the Okanagan Lake route for\nthe first time. Up until then, the usual shipping route for cattle out of the south\nend of the valley was by trail to the railhead at Greenwood, but on this\noccasion the cattle were loaded on a barge carrying six stock cars and taken\nnorth by the Castlegar.\u2122 This small event marked an important beginning: for\nthe next 50 years, even after the construction of the Kettle Valley Railway, a\nsignificant portion of the agricultural produce from the South Okanagan would\nbe shipped north by barge to Okanagan Landing, and after 1926, to the new\ntranshipment point at Kelowna1\"\"1, and from there by rail to the main line.\nFor the July cattle shipment, the government wharf must have been\nused, because over at the new wharf the piles for the first section had only just\nbeen completed, the deck had not been installed, and the second portion had\nnot been started.xxm This second portion was the curved part of the wharf that\nswung east towards the shore to form one leg of the \"Y\"xxlv and connect with\nthe eastern spur tracks of the new lakeside railway yard. By August 5, the\nnewly refitted Aberdeen had brought down a pile driver to begin repairs to the\nold government wharf. The new wharf was ready for decking; however, by\nearly September there had been a delay. Decking promised by a local supplier\nhad not been delivered and a new supplier had to be found .xxv The new wharf\nand barge slip were not completed until early December. The December 2\nPenticton Herald records that:\n\"4 carloads of material for railway track were brought down the lake by the\nCastlegar Friday and landed at the new wharf. The cars were run from the\nbarge on to the rails, these being the first to land in Penticton, for unloading.\"\n115\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\n|;-\nThe old Penticton government wharf: a barge has been moored for transshipment of cargo. There is\na stock car spotted on the port bow. The Aberdeen appears to be decked out with flags for an\nexcursion; on the left, the Okanagan may have temporarily moved alongside the barge to make\nroom for the Aberdeen. The York, on the far right, may have come down from Okanagan Landing\nwith the barge. (City of Penticton Museum, PMA 5180.) Photo courtesy the Penticton Museum and\nArchives\nClearly, supplies were being brought in for Kettle Valley Railway\nconstruction: the contract for the 15 miles of track from Penticton to\nSummerland had been awarded early that summer.XXV1 The December 16\nPenticton Herald records that more railway construction supplies had arrived:\n\"Sixteen carloads of material for the railway [i.e.: two barge loads - a second\nrailway barge is now in service]..., and supplies for the business stores in town,\narrived from the landing [Okanagan Landing] this week, and were run on to the\nnew wharf, and sidings, for unloading. The landing apron [i.e.: the barge slip]\nis working well and the warehouses are finished. It is probable that most cars\nwill be taken to the new wharf in the future. Another warehouse for the\nlakeshore is under consideration by the K.V. Ry. Co., and construction will be\ncommenced in a few weeks.\"\nThe capacity of the railway cars and the capacity of the barges\ndramatically increased the ability of the system to meet seasonal fruit and cattle\n\"rushes.\" The barges, which carried eight standard sized railway cars, could be\nused in pairs. An early photo of a refrigerator car at Kelowna is captioned \"600\nboxes of apples\" - about 12 tons.xx\u2122 Working with the assumption that a\nboxcar of that era took 12 tons of apples, and taking into account that a\ncombination of two barges attached like bicycle panniers, with one barge on\n116\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\neach side of the tug, could handle sixteen standard railway cars, one can\nestimate a full load to be in the order of 9,600 apple boxes, almost 200 tons of\napples, more than the capacity of the freight deck of a medium sized\nsternwheeler like the Aberdeen, and much more than the freight capacity of a\nsmall freight boat like the York, whose gross displacement was only 134 tons.\nThe railway barges were too big, and drew too much water to be\nnudged up to beaches and isolated lakeside orchards the way the sternwheelers\nwere, but even so, they were surprisingly flexible and didn't necessarily need\nbarge slips. A spare railway barge loaded with empty cars could be left at one\nof the smaller landings or cannery docks, for example the wharf at Gellatly,\nand the cars could be loaded by hand direct from the wagons or trucks pulled\nup on the wharf. Barges carrying empty flat cars were used at the Vernon\nMarble and Granite Co. quarry south of Okanagan Landing without even a\nwharf, simply by pulling alongside the quarry to be loaded .XXV1\" Some of the\nstone shipped from the quarry was used in the construction of the Vernon\ncourthouse.\nIn contrast to the Okanagan railway barge service, the C.P.R. service\nin the Arrow Lakes, and Slocan and Kootenay Lake, was developed to speedily\nbridge the gaps between the rapidly developing but difficult to reach segments\nof the C.P.R.'s mining railway network in the Kootenays.xx,x Although, in the\nOkanagan, the barges did by 1914 form part of the transportation corridor that\nfunctioned as a bridge between the mainline and the Kettle Valley Railway, the\npredominant feature of the C.P.R.'s early Okanagan service was the little\nlakeshore railway yards: the barge slips, and the stubby fingers of track that\nreached out to serve the shore side packing houses and canneries in\ncommunities along Okanagan Lake. In Kelowna, for example, the C.P.R. by\n1914 had expanded its small railway yard to include a hay warehouse, a\ncontractor's warehouse used for Kettle Valley Railway construction supplies, a\ncoal and building supplier, several packinghouses that handled both fruit and\nvegetables, the C.P.R. freight shed, an ice storage house, and a cannery. There\nwas even an Imperial Oil depot that stocked gasoline, oil, and coal oil.xxx Less\nthan carload shipments or out of the way steamer landings could still be\nhandled by the sternwheelers, but the heavy freight demands of the rapidly\nindustrializing fruit and vegetable industry were from now on handled more\nand more by railway barge.\nWood pilings, wood-hulled tugs and wood barges rot, and since most\nof the infrastructure of the early railway barge era on Okanagan Lake depended\non wood construction, little remains to remind us of what it was like. The\nAberdeen was retired 1919, the Castlegar in 1925. The steel-hulled York was\nused as a tug on Skaha Lake, and after the barge service there ended, was sold\nin 1932. The sternwheeler Okanagan was retired in 1934, and the wood-hulled\ntug Kelowna was out of service by 1956. The C.P.R. continued using the\nNaramata into the 1960s because, although the much newer diesel tug\n117\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\nOkanagan, launched in 1947, handled the bulk of traffic, the Naramata was\nneeded as a relief vessel and to handle extra traffic during the fruit season.1\"\"\"\nThe Naramata made her last run in 1967, not many years after I'd watched her\nbeing coaled, and the tug Okanagan pulled the last C.P.R. barge in 1972.\nCastlegar with two railway barges picking up boxcars and refrigerator cars of apples at Kelowna\nslip. (Hudson photo. Photo courtesy Kelowna Public Archives: Photo No. 3076)\nLuckily, the Naramata, launched in 1914, only three years after the\nlaunch of the Castlegar, was built with a steel hull, and she is preserved at the\nlakefront in Penticton, next to the sternwheeler Sicamous. Her designers\nproduced a vessel that no doubt met the practical demands of power and\nefficiency, but at the same time left her with a startling gracefulness. She is a\nfitting emblem of an early industrial era in the Okanagan.\n1. Summerland Review (hereafter, SR), June 11, 1910.\n2. A barge slip is the adjustable ramp and dock that allows railway cars to be moved from the barge\nto the tracks in the railway yard.\n3. Kelowna Courier & Okanagan Orchardist (hereafter, KC&OO), November 19, 1908. Much of\nthis article is based on accounts of events in Okanagan newspapers of the period, in particular the\nVernon News, the Kelowna Courier & Okanagan Orchardist, the Summerland Review, and the\nPenticton Herald.\n4 Ibid. The Courier says the barge has been \"recently launched.\"\n5. J. Claude McKim, \"The Tug and Barge Service on Okanagan Lake,\" Okanagan Historical\nSociety Annual Report #48, p. 45. McKim gives the beginning date of barge service as 1908, and\nattributes this date to Captain Otto Estabrooks, but all the newspaper accounts of the time\ncontradict the date.\n6.The line was opened in June 1892, and was initially called the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway.\n118\n TRANSSHIPPED FRUIT\n7. KC&OO, June 3,1909. By noon the same day, the C.P.R. had recalled the pile driver to deal\nwith a washout on the mainline. Construction ofthe barge slip was delayed until July. (KC&OO,\nJuly 8,1909).\n8. KC&OO, October 28,1909.\n9. SR, June 11, 1910. The York was not a sternwheeler; she was propelled by twin screws or\npropellers. There is much useful technical information on early Okanagan steamboats, tugs and\nbarges in Robert D. Turner, Sternwheelers and Steamtugs, Victoria, Sono Nis Press, 1984.\n10. Vernon News (hereafter, VN), August 25, 1910.\n11. SR, September 10,1910.\n12. SR, October 8 and 22,1910: The October 5 load was unloaded at the new steamer dock;\nhowever, by October 18, the new slip was working, and the cars were moved off the barge into the\nnew railway yard. The \"College\" in the news report is the Okanagan Baptist College, sometimes\nreferred to as \"Okanagan College.\" It was founded in 1906 and closed in 1915.\n13. VN, August 11,1910.\n14. The York had less than half the horsepower of the C.P.R.'s first tug, the Castlegar.\n15VW, September 29,1910.\n16. Si?, November 12, 1910.\n17. VN, April 20,1911. VN, May 4, 1911. (The April 27, 1911, Kelowna Courier & Okanagan\nOrchardist records the maiden voyage ofthe Castlegar as being on April 26. This version fits with\nthe story in the Penticton Herald for May 6 that records that the Castlegar made what may have\nbeen a publicity trip to Penticton on April 29.)\n18. VN, December 8,1910.\n19. Penticton Herald (hereafter, PH.), June 3,1911.\n20. PH, June 17,1911.\n21. PH, July 1,1911. Stock cars are railway cars with slatted sides, specifically designed to carry\nlivestock. The reference to Greenwood as the usual transshipment point for livestock from the\nOkanagan is confirmed by a short note in the Greenwood Ledge for July 13,1911: \"Cattle are now\nbeing shipped from Penticton to Vancouver. Formerly, they were driven to Greenwood, and\nshipped from there by rail.\" The shipping company at Greenwood is P. Burns & Co., who has a\ncold storage plant, abattoir, and a cattle yard with loading facilities.\n22. KC&OO, August 5, 1926. The Courier notes that the CPR is arranging to divert barge traffic\nfrom Okanagan Landing to Kelowna.\n23.Ibid.\n24. In railway parlance, a \"Y\" is a triangular-shaped track layout most frequently used to allow\nlocomotives to reverse direction.\n25. PH, September. 2, 1911.\n26. PH, July 8,1911.\n27. Kelowna Public Archives, #1637.\n28. \"Harley R. Hatfield, Commercial Boats of the Okanagan,\" OHS Annual Report #56, p. 30.\n29. In the Kootenay region, the CPR's railway barges were introduced earlier than the Okanagan\nbarges: by 1897, the CPR was operating its own railway barges on the Arrow Lakes and Slocan\nLake. Robert Turner cites a passage from the Canadian Pacific Railway Annual Report, 1896, that\nmentions the C.PJR.'s policy of connecting the mining branch lines with railway barges (Turner,\nSternwheelers and Steam Tugs, pp. 49-50). Turner's book provides a comprehensive overview of\nthe history of the CPR's Kootenay barge service.\n30. Copy of 1914 fire insurers' map labeled \"Chas. E. Goad Co. Civil Engineers, Toronto,\"\nKelowna Public Archives.\n31. For more on the Naramata, and the later history of the CPR tugs on Okanagan Lake, see Robert\nD. Turner, The Sicamous & The Naramata, Victoria, Sono Nis Press 1995.\n119\n OLIVER SCHOOL FIRE 2011\nSOSS Burns Down\nSeptember 12,2011...\nBut the memories remain\nBy Andrea Dujardin-Flexhaug\nAndrea Dujardin-Flexhaug is a reporter for the Okanagan Sun magazine and also a member of the\n(Jliver\/Osoyoos Historical Society.\nSouth Okanagan Secondary School was reduced to ashes last year\nbut the fond memories remain. The Oliver school which burned down in the\nearly hours of September 12, 2011 had housed thousands of high school\nstudents since its official opening on January 28,1949. It was in the process of\nhaving millions of dollars worth of renovations done before the fire.\nLong-time former SOSS\nteacher Ian Gibson was one\nof those quietly watching the\nschool engulfed in flames,\nalong with fellow retired\nteachers, at 4 a.m. on that\nMonday. \"The saddest part,\nor the strangest part, was the\nfull moon went down and\nthe sun came up and Frank\nVenables (auditorium)\ncollapsed,\" he says. \"And it\nwas so strange, to me it was\nthe most important part of\nthe school, and to see it go\nlast might have been\nappropriate, I don't know.\"\n\"That's where the tears\nreally started for the old\npeople,\" adds Gibson,\nchoking up as he describes\nthe scene.\nThe $700,000-plus school\nbuilding was innovative and\nmodern for its time,\nPhoto courtesy Jack Bennest Oliver Daily News\n120\n OLIVER SCHOOL FIRE 2011\nnicknamed the 'Taj Mahal' with its unique Streamline Moderne architectural\nstyle, especially evident in the curved corners, geometric designs and other Art\nDeco features of its Frank Venables auditorium. It was the first large school\nbuilt in the province following WWII.\nFrank Venables more than a building\nThe auditorium seating about 700 people was more than a building; it\nwas a meeting place for all of the community. In fact, the whole school was a\nwork of art, with its features such as oak handrails and teak doors, modern\nheating and ventilation system that did away with open windows, ceilings of\nacoustical tile, T- double glass windows, and most impressively, its Art Deco\ndesign, with the auditorium standing front and centre. In 2007, SOSS was\nrecognized by the Town of Oliver on the Heritage Register.\nAuditorium a centre of culture\n\"When it was built it was almost like the centre of culture for the\nwhole South Okanagan....and the western Boundary country really,\" comments\nformer SOSS student Larry Shannon, whose three children, now grown, also\nattended the school. At that time Okanagan Falls, Osoyoos, as well as\nBoundary country students would bus in to attend classes in Oliver. The ones\nfrom Beaverdell especially had a long commute, heading to Rock Creek at five\na.m. on a Monday, then on to Osoyoos, put on another bus and brought to\nSOSS. \"They stayed all week, they were billeted, and on a Friday afternoon\nthey would go home...,\" recalls Gibson.\nIn 1978, Oliver resident Marion Boyd, along with other local\nvolunteers, started the South Okanagan Concert Society (SOCS), which\nbrought out-of-town musicians and musicals to the Frank Venables auditorium.\n\"Everything happened in our auditorium,\" says Marion. All four of her children\nwent through the high school at various times, and says how they felt when\nthey heard about the school, \"Oh they're just so sad, just sad.\"\nIn earlier years, during the 1950s and 60s, there had been\nperformances by community groups such as the Choral Society and seasonal\nconcerts. \"So every Christmas the whole community's there singing Christmas\ncarols, you know, all off key, terrible but anyways,\" laughs Boyd. \"And my\none (son) that's in Tokyo, you know, he was the pianist, and remembers all of\nthe recitals that they had there, and the school concerts,\" she says. \"But it was\nschool and community, it wasn't seen as 'the school' auditorium, it was seen as\n'our' auditorium.\"\nMarion says that current SOCS president Janet Marcotte has been\nreceiving condolences that \"have just been rolling in from former performers.\nThe musicians loved that theatre.\"\n121\n OLIVER SCHOOL FIRE 2011\nOne important stage presence over the years that has been safely kept\nfrom harm is the old Steinway piano that was played at many events. \"We\nknew that the renovations were going to take some time, and we had this dear\nold Steinway, who is past her prime like many of us,\" laughs Marion, and it\nhad already been removed and given a new home. \"It really worked out well\nfor the community and the concert society that a good concert piano was not in\nthe auditorium at the time ofthe fire,\" says Shannon. \"And that's a blessing.\"\nSchool memories\nShannon has many good memories of his years at the school from\ngrade seven until 12. He had been active in a lot of school sports, including\nbasketball. \"Oliver still has a reputation for a good basketball program,\" he\nsays, \"and even back in the 60s and even 1950s, they were among the best\nteams in the Okanagan....\" Fortunately, the basketball team's familiar green\nand yellow Hornet emblem had been cut out of the floor in the original gym\nduring renovations, so it is safely in storage. Shannon also remembers the\nschool's cafeteria, which prepared lunches daily, and where every Friday they\nserved fish 'n chips. \"And I think meals were 15 cents, 25 cents and 35 cents,\ndepending on what size portion you got,\" he recalls.\nWhen Gibson first arrived to teach at SOSS in 1976, there were close\nto 900 students, with about 20 of those from Okanagan Falls and about 50 from\nOsoyoos. In contrast to that, nowadays there are about 500 students. Gibson\nsays when Osoyoos Secondary School opened that \"losing the kids from\nOsoyoos hurt the school.\" He also notes that many Okanagan Falls students\nattend Penticton High School.\nClass reunion tours\nAlthough Gibson is now retired after 33 years of teaching at SOSS, he\nstill coaches the school's field hockey team. He also often took former students\nwho came back for school reunions on tours of SOSS. The last class reunion\nhe took to walk through the school was the Class of '61 on the long weekend in\nMay 2011.\nWhen he took the grad classes on tours, there was one of the old\nchange rooms under the auditorium that had been used to store student records.\nWhen the renovations started three years ago, it became an electrical room so\nthe files were all moved out and stored elsewhere. \"But there were records\nback to '37 for every student, and they were all in these really cool wooden\nboxes. So I would take these people on tour and they'd want to know what\ntheir marks were,\" says Wilson. \"And the person they would really want to\nknow the marks for was Bill Barisoff. And so all these people wanted to look at\nBarisoffs marks, and I of course said no.\" He adds, \"But lots and lots of\nstudents, when I took them on tour, wanted to know their parents' marks...,\"\nand information such as when they got sent to the office.\n122\n OLIVER SCHOOL FIRE 2011\n\"I went on that tour with another retired teacher in 2008 when we had our 40\nyear reunion, and we were shown that same room,\" recalls Shannon, \"and we\nwere given permission to look at our own files.\"\nLine down the hallway\nGibson also remembers one of the stories that the Class of '52 told\nhim on one tour. \"They were telling me about this principal who would snap all\nthe time. They (he) had a line painted down the hall,\" says Gibson. \"So there\nwas Battleship linoleum, and I believe it was a yellow line, and you had to stay\non either side.\" Shannon was a student at the time, and remembers the line\nbeing a more forbidding colour of black. The Battleship linoleum proved to be\nvery enduring though, as it lasted about 58 years, and was only taken out\nrecently.\n\"And the original lockers were taken out and replaced recently,\" says\nGibson. \"There are lockers, there's a bank of lockers somewhere that were\nkept, some of the linoleum may've been kept, and ... right till this spring...was\nstill in the cafeteria.\"\nMany people have been in touch with the well-liked former teacher\nsince the fire. \"And visits to the house and phone calls, it's been quite\ninteresting the last two days,\" notes Wilson. \"I taught about 7,000 kids and I've\nheard from allot of them.\"\nAlthough about 70 percent of the school is gone, some parts were\nsaved, the new gym, science wing, most of the cafeteria and music room\namong them. The students are now in temporary school accommodation in\nOliver, including in the undamaged portables.\nMurals safe\nSome of the decorative features of the school had been taken out of\nthe building during the renovations, and may be incorporated back into the\nschool when it is rebuilt. An example is the five massive murals of school\nsports scenes painted by the art classes in 1984 that were taken down and\nstored elsewhere. \"...And they're pretty incredible,\" says Gibson. \"On the\nFacebook (SOSS page), people who painted them are talking about them.\"\nShannon likes the idea of adhering to the Art Deco theme, saying, \"I still think,\neven in the plans, modern architects could look at pictures and come up with a\nsimilar looking facade. It might be with more modern materials, but the\nappearance, the visual effect, could be similar.\"\nOliver & District Heritage Society archivist Lynn Alaric notes that the\npreliminary sketches originally used would have had to map the Art Deco style\nauditorium already \"to match it with the renovations....\"\nAlaric comments about the additions: \"And you know, the additions\nthat were made, it flowed to sell with the rest of the building. I was impressed\nwith it; I thought it actually looked really spectacular. It didn't take away from\n123\n OLIVER SCHOOL FIRE 2011\nthe old school portion of the school whatsoever; it just complemented it really\nwell.\"\nI love SOSS'\nThe fire has affected those students who are there greatly, as\nevidenced by some of the comments on a new Facebook page T love SOSS'\nwhere they can express their thoughts. As Shannon notes, \"The feeling from\nformer staff and students is let's make sure it comes back up.\"\n\"They spent half their lives there, if you think about it, in their youth,\nyou know,\" observes archivist Alaric. \"So when they're not at home, they're at\nschool, and it was quite emotional.\"\n\"This loss will not only leave gaping physical scars on the landscape,\nit will leave poignant emotional scars as well,\" says Alaric. \"Generations of\nOliverites have walked the halls of SOSS and have an attachment to the school;\nit has been our children's home away from home.\"\nSouth Okanagan Secondary School shortly after opening. Photo courtesy ofthe Okanagan Archive\nTrust Society.\n124\n MARRON VALLEY\nMarron Valley and its\nMystical Pull\nBy: Suzanne Schmiddem and Randy Manuel\nSuzanne and Randy researched and created a historical interpretive board in 2010\nfor Phyllis Jmaeff, present owner of Mountain Springs Nature Retreat in Marron\nValley.\nIntroduction\n\"Marron Valley.... is more than a name - it is a 'condition of the mind'\n\"....The Herald,Dec. 1,1932\nMarron Lake 2009. Photo courtesy of Les Foster\nFour kilometres (2.5 miles) west of the junction of Highway 97 and\nHighway 3A lies a narrow canyon hidden from view. Through it flows the\npeaceful, 11-kilometre-long Marron River. Continuing west, you can catch a\nglimpse of Marron Lake far below the road, surrounded by Ponderosa Pine-\ncovered slopes and grassy hilltops. The private drive into Mountain Springs\n125\n MARRON VALLEY\nNature Retreat marks today's entrance to two historical lots in Marron Valley.\nThe stories below are drawn from written and oral narrative by people whose\nhearts have been touched by the valley, lake and serene canyon with its dramatic\nrock walls, the gurgling brook, and birdsong from tall water maples.\nThe Syilx Nation People have known the Marron Valley, its lake,\ncanyon and hills, for many generations. Richard Armstrong from the Penticton\nIndian Band remembers: \"When I was a boy, we pronounced the name\n\"Maroon,\" and I was told it meant rocks, granite. I remember riding and playing,\nsetting my horse free, down by Bursons. My dad, William Armstrong, would\nbring furs to Burson, whatever animals had been molesting our chickens and\nlivestock.\n\"On one of the round hills above the canyon, our young men trained for\ntheir vision quest (part of our rite of passage into adulthood). There they trained\nto be in tune with nature. Not above, but part of, everything. Our young men ran\nthrough the canyon and up the eastern ridge of Marron Lake, training for running\nto Kamloops in a 2Vi - 3 day round-trip to pick up ropes of tobacco. Tobacco was\nsmoked with reverence in the evening or at ceremonies. Seeing smoke go into\nnothing, we are reminded that we are all part of this same nothing.\n\"I feel good walking here and seeing places that mean so much to me,\nbut that I haven't seen since I was nine years old.\"\nThe Marron River is \"probably the 'River of Wild Horses' mentioned\nby David Douglas, botanist, 1833. (Edward Sabine, 'Report on - - Observations -\n- by David Douglas - - ,' MS, Royal Society, London)... .The name probably\nrefers to the wild horses which, according to Mrs. William Allen and Mr. F. M.\nBuckland, abounded hereabouts in early days.\"1 www.Dictionary.com cites the\norigin of maroon: \"1660-70; < French mar ( r ) on, apparently < American\nSpanish cimarron wild...; first used in reference to domestic animals that escaped\ninto the woods...\"\nMarron Canyon and its Road and River\nThe canyon, through which flows BC's smallest gazetted river2 -\nbrook-like Marron River - was a steep-walled natural trail of traditional use first\nfor First Nations, then by pioneers. Improvement of the trail occurred between\n1909 and 1912 during construction of the Kaleden irrigation system, to\naccommodate horse-drawn wagons hauling supplies up the canyon to build a dam\non Marron Lake at its outflow. The canyon road was then used by horse-drawn\nstages, motor cars and Greyhound busses delivering mail to the Marron Valley\n126\n MARRON VALLEY\npost office and transporting passengers from Penticton to Keremeos. Between\n1931 and 1933, labourers from a government relief camp constructed a new\nMap of Marron Valley. Courtesy of R .S. Manuel\n127\n MARRON VALLEY\nroute, near the \"S\" curved \"Roadhouse Hill\" route in use today, circumventing\nthe canyon), and by 1937, when the Jacksons arrived, the canyon road had\nreverted to private use.3\nThe Marron River supplied irrigation water to Kaleden on Skaha Lake\nfrom 1909-10 to 1963. Water flowed from Marron Lake dam to Kaleden, a\njourney of some 17 hours4 from the dam. A dramatic increase in the size of\nMarron Lake occurred in 1922, when, as Henry Corbett reports in The History of\nKaleden, \"the old earth dam (was replaced) with one having a concrete core,\nincreasing the height from five to 25 feet.\"\nLot 2531 (320 acres\/129 hectares)\nWilliam Smythe-Parker was a prominent pioneer citizen, a Justice of\nthe Peace and a real estate developer in the South Okanagan. In 1901, he preempted Lot 2531 in Marron Valley at the upper, or west, end of the canyon. He\nbuilt the valley's post office near the road on these upper sunny benches. He\nbecame its first postmaster, serving area residents from 1909 to 1920.5\nMarron Valley Post Office. Photo courtesy of Phyllis Jmaeff\n128\n MARRON VALLEY\nThe post office was the pivotal building on his lot, because not only did\nit function as a post office from 1909 to 1933, it provided William and future\nowners (the Jacksons, Kellers and Menkes) with shelter over the years.\nFenton Smythe-Parker, a post office employee in Vancouver6,\ninherited the lot after his dad died in 1924. The Penticton Herald reported the\nestablishment of a government work camp here on September 3, 1931. \"....The\nnew Yellow Lake road camp... housing 100 men.... will be at work on a new\nroad (near today's Hwy. 3A \"Roadhouse Hill\" road) to get away from the\nParker Hill road, which is narrow, steep and winding.\" Penticton Herald,\nSeptember 10, 1931: \"....The campsite has been placed on the Parker ranch\njust at the turn ofthe road by the big hill which is now being eliminated...with\nelimination of the present and devious turns.\" Mike Ballash, whose father,\nPeter, worked in the camp kitchen as a 15- or 16-year-old, relates that\n\"...there is a concrete foundation on the property (Lot 2531)....my dad had\ntold me during our visit there in '89 that it was the remains of what was the\ncamp cookhouse in the early 1930s.\"\nAn environmental disaster occurred in February 19327 when a small dam on\nMarama Creek collapsed and the camp's entire sewerage disposal bed washed\ninto Marron Lake. Kaleden residents claimed their domestic water supply was\nunfit and got their supply from Skaha Lake. Then, on April 6, 1933, the\nPenticton Harold reported: \"The Yellow Lake camp on the Penticton-\nKeremeos road was closed down this week....Practically nothing further.. .is to\nbe done at Yellow Lake road except possibly some shaling on the new hill on\nthe Roadhouse property.. ..Dismantling of the buildings started on Tuesday\nmorning.\"\nAfter leasing Lot 2531 from Fenton for 10 years, Irish immigrants\nWilliam (Bill) Robert Jackson and Sarah (Sadie) Jackson began making mortgage\npayments to Fenton in 1947 and the title transferred to them in 1950.\nLot 2358 (160 acres\/65 hectares)\nJoseph Henry Burson came to the Marron Canyon about 1909\nto work on the Marron Lake dam and Kaleden irrigation\nproject, and never left. In 1917, he pre-empted Lot 2358 at\nthe lower, or east, end of the canyon. Henry was described as\na hermit who trapped for muskrat from Marron River, and\ntraded for wolf, coyote, bobcat and lynx with the First\nNations.8 Ted Swales, whose parents owned the Esso station\nin Kaleden which Burson visited on horseback, recalls this\nlocal character. \"Burson liked to be alone, but was very\nHenry Burson c 1940\nCourtesy Ted Swales\n129\n MARRON VALLEY\nsociable to visitors. He hung a tin cup for travelers on a nail on the railing of the\nbridge crossing the spring from which he carried water up to his house. When he\nsaw us stopping on the road, he would come hustling down to visit with us. He\nwould ride to Kaleden and visit with the people at the gas station. He had\nchickens and a horse, trapped muskrat, and was a crack shot. Burson continued to\nwork occasionally for the Kaleden Irrigation District on a crew slashing brush to\nkeep the watercourse clear. In a really cold winter the crew would quickly have to\nchop up the ice and get the water running again from the Marron Lake dam all the\nway down the Marron River to the pipe intake, so the pipe didn't freeze. In his\nlater years he took Tom Ellis's summer cabin apart at its location on a bench\nabove the south side of today's Hwy. 3A. He dragged it down log by log and put\nit together again to use as his barn.\"\nOther Kaleden pioneers remembered Burson fondly. \"Burson always\nwore chaps when he rode into Kaleden. To us kids, Burson was the one cowboy\nin our lives, outside of Billy Kruger,\" said Ron King.\n\"Burson, they said, came from Kansas,\" recalls Ray Findlay. \"He wore a\nwide-brimmed hat like a scout leader, chaps and had a rifle hanging from his\nscabbard when he came to Kaleden once a week to pick up his mail. We kids\ndidn't have a license, but we trapped muskrats and Burson bought them from us\nfor 85 cents. He chewed tobacco and had deep creases in his face and chin with\ntobacco stains. He liked us kids.\"\nBurson passed away in his beloved valley on July 25, 1946, at age 79.\nLot 2531 and Lot 2358 are combined\nAfter years of hard work, Bill and Sadie Jackson purchased Lot 2358,\nand both lots became known locally as \"the Jackson place.\"9\nHere, they raised three girls and two boys. \"My dad was quiet, practical,\na peacemaker. The real story of the place was the long, close friendship between\nCharlie Armstrong (from the Reserve) and my dad,\" recalls son Edgar. Daughter\nMuriel speaks of the trust between the two men. \"Charlie stayed with the family\nwhen he had to go to the doctor in Penticton, and once to take care of the children\nwhen Bill and Sadie had to go to Vancouver on business with (Fenton) Smythe-\nParker.\"\n130\n MARRON VALLEY\n,.-'\u25a0\u25a0.''-..\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \" ^Jf:::''\" ':\nV.J\u00a3C J\nCharlie Armstrong and Bill Jackson. Photo courtesy of Muriel Jackson\nMuriel remembers day-to-day life. \"We had 14 milk cows before\npasteurization. Dad delivered milk daily in glass bottles door to door with our\nModel T Ford over 14 miles each way of washboard gravel road. After\npasteurization closed us down, we turned the cows out and bred beef cattle. We\ngrew two to three acres of strawberries, sweet turnips, corn and potatoes, which,\nalong with beef, pork and chicken were delivered to Penticton homes and\ngroceries. We logged fir, pine and birch trees, had a sawmill and cut railway ties.\nWith our two-ton flatbed we hauled firewood, topsoil or manure; anything\nanyone wanted.\"\nAbout 1940-41, Bill Jackson built a home in Penticton so his children\ncould go to school. He commuted daily to his ranch until he sold it in order to\nmake a living hauling fruit from the orchards to the cannery and packing houses.\n\"We all worked in the orchards, cannery and packing houses,\" says Muriel.\nWeldon Phillip Keller purchased both lots from Jackson in 1959. Phillip\nwas passionate about nature, and named the property Bear Claw Ranch. Although\nhe never lived at the ranch, Phillip stayed in the post office building periodically\nover the next six years. Phillip's first wife Phyllis, together with their son and\ndaughter and family friends, camped with him in the building in the summer. The\nfloor was so uneven that some chose to sleep on the ground outside.10\n131\n MARRON VALLEY\nPhillip drew inspiration from the natural beauty that surrounded him to\nhold Bible study meetings and write books about nature and interpretations of the\nBible.\"\nIt was his dream to give the property to the Prairie Bible Institute in\nThree Hills, Alberta, to use as a Christian retreat. Phillip was very disappointed\nwhen the Institute preferred to receive proceeds from selling the property, saying\nit was too far away to be practical.\nHerman Frank Menke acquired title to both lots in 1974, after being\nintroduced to Bear Claw Ranch by his friend and local farmer, Jim Leir. As an\nentomologist and conservationist, Herman fell in love with the biodiversity of\nMarron Valley and wanted to preserve his portion in its natural state.\nHerman and his wife Genevieve raised a close-knit family of five boys,\nand spent time every summer in the old post office (a one-room cabin),\nrefurnishing it with six bunks and an old large wood-burning stove, all on uneven\nfloorboards.\n\"Dad was cerebral and physically fit,\" says Anthony Menke, the oldest\nson. \"He... (had) great expertise in outdoor living. Our family loved to walk\nacross Marron Lake dam and along the east shore to the rock outcropping. There\nwe built a campfire and caught many beautiful trout in the deep spot just\noffshore. While Dad owned Bear Claw Ranch he instituted conservancy\ntechniques by establishing plantings to prevent erosion and developed small\nconduits for water to pass to avoid erosion on the hilly road.\"\nDuring the winter of 1976-77, unknown persons broke in, ate the stored\ncanned goods and burned the historic cabin to the ground.12 Stone foundations\nmarking the outline of this once-important building are all that remain today.\nPhyllis Jmaeff 2010. Photo courtesy of Lesley Jmaeff\n132\n MARRON VALLEY\nIn 1991, Herman and Genevieve sold the lots to Phyllis Elaine Jmaeff,\nwho was drawn by the beauty and serenity of Marron Valley. She wanted to \"live\nwith nature and be self sufficient.\" She established a certified organic farm and\nnamed her property Mountain Springs Nature Retreat.\nIn 2005, Phyllis began welcoming visitors to enjoy the Marron Valley on\nnature walks, and in 2009 she added a bed and breakfast and a retreat facility. In\n2010, Phyllis was designated a Wildlife Habitat Steward with The Land\nConservancy.\nHow amazing that this heart-felt passion for Marron Valley continues \u2014\nechoing the sentiments of all those from years gone by who also knew its magical\npull.\nFootnotes\n1 Okanagan Historical Society Report, 1948. 12:211.\n2 Schmiddem's telephone interview with Doreen Olsen, Friends of the Marron River, 2011.\n3 Schmiddem's telephone interview with Muriel (Alder) Jackson, eldest Jackson daughter, 2010.\n4 Authors' interview with Jim Leir, 2009. Jim purchased the Marron Lake damsite about 1963 from\nthe Kaleden Irrigation District, and sold it to Phyllis Jmaeff about 1991.\n5Melvin, George H. [1972]. \"The Post Offices of British Columbia 1858-1970\". Vernon: Wayside\nPress. Limited edition #378 of private publication for stamp collectors.\n6The Penticton Herald, March 3,1932.\n7 The Penticton Herald, March 3, 1932.\n8 Authors' interview with Richard Armstrong, Penticton Indian Band, 2010.\n'Manuel's interview with Gordon Kickbush, 2009. Gord traveled by schoolbus past the Parker ranch.\n10 Schmiddem's telephone interview with Lynne Holder, Keller family friend, 2009.\n\"Schmiddem's telephone interview with Ursula Keller, Keller's second wife, 2009.\n12 Schmiddem's telephone interview with Anthony Menke, 2010.\nReferences\nThe Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia, Kamloops Land Titles Office.\nAcknowledgement\nPhyllis Jmaeff has been most generous in sharing her records and photos, encouraging exploration\nof the historical sites on her property, and welcoming those with stories to tell of past connections\nto her land.\n133\n \"HERB\" CAPOZZI\nTRIBUTES\nHAROLD PETER \"HERB\"\nCAPOZZI\nApril 24,1925 - November 21, 2011\nBy Sheena Capozzi\nSheena Capozzi is Herb's youngest child. She has followed in her father's footsteps and\nworks in the financial industry, which she has done since working with him right out of high school\nwhen he was a stock promoter. She lives in North Vancouver, not far from the family's old West\nVancouver neighbourhood.\nOnce in a very rare while, a\nperson is born who excels at everything\nthey do. On April 24, 1925, Harold Peter\nCapozzi was born in Kelowna to Maria\nand Pasquale \"Cap\" Capozzi and did just\nthat.\nThe second of three boys, Herb\nwent to school with his brothers, Joe and\nTom, as boarders at Vancouver College\nwhere he excelled at basketball and\nfootball and got his lifelong nickname of\nHerb. The story goes that it was\noriginally \"Here,\" as in Hercules, but\nthat it somehow transformed into Herb.\nHerb was inducted into the Vancouver\nCollege Hall of Honour in 1995.\nHerb Capozzi at home in Kelowna. Photo\ntaken at the Pandosy Mission by Gary\nNylander. Photo courtesy of Paula\n(Capozzi) Humphries\nAs Herb's older brother Joe\nwent off to serve in World War II, Herb\nwas unable to enlist due to flat feet,\nwhich is surprising since they never slowed down his sports career. Instead,\nHerb went to the University of British Columbia on the BC Sugar Scholarship,\nwhere he was unanimously elected class president in his freshman year. He\n134\n \"HERB\" CAPOZZI\nbecame the UBC Chiefs Intermediate \"A\" basketball team's top scorer and tied\na UBC scoring record in 1945, also being named the league's Most Valuable\nPlayer.\nHe set a new record in the 20-yard freestyle at the UBC Intramural\nSwimming Championships and also won the heavyweight division in his first\nentry into the UBC Wrestling tournament.\nWhen football returned to UBC after the war years, Herb excelled in\ndefense as a lineman, being named to the All-Conference team and becoming\nteam captain. Herb earned a B.A. and B.Comm. Herb was inducted into the\nUBC Hall of Fame in 1993.\nHerb was offered a professional football contract by the New York\nGiants but turned them down to go to Italy on a Rotary scholarship to get his\nteaching degree at the University of Perugia. While there, he played basketball\nfor the Italian University National Team against the Harlem Globetrotters. He\nalso acted as a correspondent in Italy for the local Kelowna newspaper (The\nDaily Courier), sending back stories of his travels in Italy in the post-war era.\nIn 1952, Herb resumed his football career with the Canadian Football\nLeague (CFL), playing for the Montreal Allouettes and Calgary Stampeders.\nWhile in Montreal working as an Italian speaking correspondent for the CBC\nin 1956, he met and married his first wife, Dorothy Skelton, a former Lady of\nthe Lake and stand-in for Marilyn Monroe. He also caught the eye of the BC\nLions organization; in 1957, the Lions appointed Herb to General Manager of\nthe then failing team, at the young age of 32. Herb and Dorothy moved to West\nVancouver where they raised four children during their 24 year marriage. By\n1963, the Lions appeared in their first Grey Cup and they won it in 1964. Herb\nalso introduced the Club's first medical plan and brought in players like Joe\nKapp and Willie Fleming, and performed some legendary promotional stunts;\nhe became known as the \"Voice of the CFL.\" His nine seasons as GM of the\nLions is one of the longest in team history. Herb was inducted into the BC\nSports Hall of Fame in 2007.\nAfter leaving the Lions in 1966, Herb became a Social Credit MLA,\nrepresenting Vancouver Centre in the BC Legislature and served for seven\nyears. During this time Herb introduced the Tenants Rental Grant and the\nIndependent School Grant; he also proudly established three scholarships a\nyear to be awarded not to the fastest or the smartest, but for the candidate with\nthe \"highest mountain to climb.\" He was always rooting for the underdog. It\nwas also during this time that he helped his good friend George Tidball start\nthe Keg Restaurants and bring McDonald's to Canada. Always knowing how\nto market, when his oldest daughter Paula's school class visited the legislature\n135\n \"HERB\" CAPOZZI\none day for a school field trip and McDonald's had just started, Herb bought\nMcDonald's meals for the entire class, making him look like a hero and\nintroducing a large group of potential consumers to the product.\nIn 1971, when the future of the Canucks was in jeopardy, Herb put\ntogether almost $4 million in just a few days and worked out a deal with their\nthen US owners to keep the team owned and operated in BC. He proudly came\nhome and said, \"I just bought a hockey club today!\" - only to have his twelve\nyear old son, Greg, attempt to correct him, \"Dad, it's called a hockey stick!\"\nOne of Herb's proudest and most well-known achievements was\nstarting the original Vancouver Whitecaps in 1973. Although the true story is\nthat Herb's good friend and first Whitecaps manager, Denny Veitch, came up\nwith the name after crossing Lions Gate Bridge one day, Herb preferred to tell\nthe story that they were named after his pearly white smile. Herb served as\nowner, president, and board chairman for the team. Under his ownership, the\nteam won the North American Soccer League (NASL) Soccer Bowl title in\n1979. He came up with some wonderful promotional ideas to fill the stands of\nEmpire Stadium. One of them was to promise all the fans their money back if\nthe Whitecaps didn't win. Unfortunately, the Caps didn't win that night and the\nclub returned all their money! Herb was inducted into the Canadian Soccer\nHall of Fame in the Builder category in 2007.\nAs Herb's second daughter, Sandy, eulogized, his motto was \"always\ngo big or go home\". One of Herb's wonderfully colourful exploits was to\nparade down Hornby Street to The MARC (the first racquetball club in\nVancouver that he also started) in a chariot dressed as a gladiator, to battle\nNelson Skalbania in a racquetball game that had a $10,000 bet on it for charity.\nHe had his entourage wear shirts that said \"Skalbania is just a poor country in\nthe Balkans.\" Herb lost that game, but won the Canadian Masters and Canadian\nGolden Masters championships in 1974 and 1981 respectively.\nHerb must have had a thing for parades, as when he discovered his\nwife, Dorothy, had not arranged a 50th birthday party for him, he managed to\nget the Beefeater band to march around his West Vancouver neighbourhood\nplaying \"Oh Lord It's Hard to be Humble\" - one of his favourite theme songs.\nHis third wife, Alixandra Ydo, whom he met in 1992, a former model and more\nthan 30 years his junior, did a much better job organizing his surprise 67th\nbirthday shortly after they had met. She got her hands on his \"little black book\"\nand invited almost everyone in it. Herb always seemed to get great press from\nthe usually critical financial reporter David Baines, likely because of his\nsurprising invite to Herb's birthday party filled with Baines' usual Howe Street\nvictims. On Herb's 75th birthday he realized a dream of his and skydived out of\n136\n \"HERB\" CAPOZZI\na plane; it earned him a letter from President George Bush Sr. He did a second\nskydive shortly after his 86th birthday. Alix and Herb were married in 1995 and\nshe was with him until the end.\nHerb's speaking skills served him well during his political career,\npublic relations for the Lions and Whitecaps, and also as a paid public speaker.\nHis speeches at roasts and similar events were legendary. It was always a curse\nto have to follow Herb Capozzi; in fact at one event, several imported\nprofessional speakers actually stood and waved their napkins in surrender at the\nthought of having to follow his act.\nHerb was also a director ofthe highly successful Expo '86. One ofthe\ngreatest stories, which I only heard recently, was the trick he played on Jimmy\nPattison, who always complained about Herb's lack of punctuality. Herb had a\nhistory of showing up late for things, including one of Pattison's birthdays on\nhis yacht which left without Herb. Never one to be sidelined, Herb managed to\nsomehow get a helicopter to give him a lift and landed on Pattison's boat in the\nmiddle of English Bay. Well, it seems that Jimmy had started the practice of\nlocking the doors on the Expo director meetings to deter Herb's tardiness, and\nso Herb worked with his long-time friend Peter Brown to get back at Jimmy.\nThere was a dinner meeting scheduled at Peter's house and as usual, Herb was\nlate. After waiting half an hour, Pattison instructed that, as usual, the doors be\nclosed. Only a few minutes after everyone was seated they heard the sound of a\nchain saw motor on the other side of the door. Herb cut a hole right through the\ndoor and stepped into the meeting.\nHerb and the Capozzi family's Kelowna accomplishments are well\nknown. They started the first Okanagan winery with Calona Wines, which was\nalso the first provider of sacramental wine for BC. They built the first hotel and\nshopping centre in Kelowna with the Capri Hotel and Shopping Centre.\nThrough Dabbers, Kelowna's first professional bingo parlour, they raised\nmillions of dollars for charity.\nHerb was a recipient of the Order of BC in 2008, in which they called\nhim an \"Ambassador for British Columbia;\" his letters of recommendation\ncame from all walks of life: Grace McCarthy, Jim Pattison, Bob Lenarduzzi,\nPeter Brown and Senator Larry Campbell. I was happy to be able to present\nhim with the news of this achievement at a lovely Tuscan villa in Italy on a\nfamily vacation where we were also able to re-read and trace the articles he had\nsent back to Kelowna in his 20's.\n137\n \"HERB\" CAPOZZI\nHerb Capozzi received the Order of B.C. in 2008. Photo courtesy Paula (Capozzi) Humphries\nHerb passed away on November 21, 2011, at his home in Kelowna,\nafter beating oral cancer. His body, with flat feet and an arrhythmic heart,\nserved him so well, but at some point everyone has to retire.\nThe Herb Capozzi Fund was set up at the Central Okanagan\nFoundation. The aim ofthe Fund is to have it disbursed to athletes and students\nwho are not necessarily the fastest, strongest or smartest, but who show the\nmost enthusiasm and commitment in their field.\n138\n DENIS MARSHALL\nDenis Marshall - a Dedicated\nHistorian\nBy Deborah Chapman,\nCurator!Archivist at the Salmon Arm Museum at RJ Haney Heritage Village.\nMy husband, Dennis Zachernuk and I came to Salmon Arm in 1989.\nWe raised three children, enjoying the rich and healthy lifestyle our small\ncommunity has to offer. I have worked at the Salmon Arm Museum since 1990\nand volunteer with the Shuswap Community Foundation, Archives Association\nof British Columbia, Community Heritage Commission, and the City of\nSalmon Arm's Grants-in-Aid program. History has been consuming me since\n1964 when I went on a field trip to the Kamloops Museum and met its Curator,\nMary Balf.\nWhen Denis Marshall moved back\nto Salmon Arm with his wife Joan in 1993,\nhe brought gifts of, for, and to local\nhistory. At that time I had only recently\nbegun work as the local museum curator\nand I had no idea how important and\nbeneficial their arrival would be for the\ndevelopment of our local history.\nTwo decades later, Denis passed away and\nI was asked to write this tribute. It is a\ndaunting task. Denis was a major force in\nlocal history, and his many and varied\ncontributions will remain important for a\nlong time. And of particular concern to me,\nDenis the editor is not available to sharpen\nDenis Marshall. Photograph courtesy of his red pencil and improve my work\nJoan Marshall\nDenis first moved to Salmon Arm in 1944 when his\nparents, Frank and Laura Marshall, purchased the Salmon Arm Observer. He\nwas eleven and began attending Salmon Arm Elementary School. He was an\nonly child and led a life which was, by Salmon Arm standards, privileged.\nThey acquired a boat, their own \"camp\" on Shuswap Lake, and lived on Harris\n139\n DENIS MARSHALL\nStreet -or mortgage heights as it was later known. Years later, after I had\nbecome acquainted with Denis, I learned about the boat and, having an active\nimagination, one day I suggested to Denis that he might have been a bit of a\nplayboy. His response didn't give much information but it might afford some\ninsight into the man. As usual, he was brief. \"Well, I had a car [too]. Not many\ndid.\"\nAfter graduation Denis was sent to\nToronto for post-secondary education.\nHe attended Ryerson School of\nJournalism for two years and returned\nto work at the family business full time\nfrom 1953 to 1976. When Frank\nMarshall passed away in 1964, Denis\nbecame the Publisher.\nDenis and Joan Marshall By all accounts the Observer was the\nhub of community communication. Denis developed relationships with Village\nand Municipal District Councils, the RCMP, and every other important source\nof news. Observer Print Compositor, Gene Leduc remembers Marshall as a\ngood man to work with: both a concise and precise writer. Denis, like all\njournalists, was writing a contemporaneous \"first draft of history \", and of\ncourse the daily demands of producing the newspaper and overseeing its\nproduction gave him long practice at the historian's necessary skills of writing\nand editing.\nThe Marshalls sold the Observer to Ian and Lynne Wickett in 1976. Denis\nand Joan exchanged small town life for the big city. They moved to Victoria\nand Denis became a salesman of newspaper supplies until he retired. By his\naccount it was a plum job.\nWhen Denis and Joan returned to the Shuswap, they picked up the\nrelationships they'd left behind, built a house, and began enjoying Salmon\nArm's four seasons. They skied in the winter and spent many summers \"at\ncamp\" and golfing.\nBut it wasn't all fun and games. His family's long connection with the\narea and his own local knowledge and editorial skills prompted the Okanagan\nHistory Society's Board to ask Denis to edit five editions of the OHS Report.\nThis was a natural niche and progression, but the work also connected to his\n140\n DENIS MARSHALL\npassion for our history. His influence extended further and led to more\ncontributions. He had an innate creativity and curiosity and life-long interests\nin the history of things local, and in particular forestry and railroading. There\nwere subsequent OHS endeavours.\nAfter he retired from the editorial chair, he wrote four books: Salmon\nArm's Historic Routes and the People Behind the Names, Fleeting Images of\nOld Salmon Arm, Photographic Memory - Salmon Arm's Past in Essays and\nPictures, and Sawdust Caesars and Family Ties in the Southern Interior\nForests. All agree that Denis' books were impeccably researched. They will\nprovide our museum with exhibit storylines for decades. He identified people\nin photographs and turned over his hard copies to the museum.\nThe proceeds of his books, one at a time, enabled the Salmon Arm\nBranch of Okanagan Historical Society to contribute to several historically\nrelated projects in the community. A plaque was placed on the Salmon Arm\nSavings and Credit Union building recognizing the planting of the first apple\norchard, new doors were custom built for the SAGA Public Art Gallery and a\nplaque installed marking its historical significance as the former Post Office\nbuilding, and a seat was purchased in the new Sun wave Centre arena. Then\nDenis donated cash to expand the archives at the Salmon Arm Museum,\npurchase rolling shelving, and create a wonderful work place. Book sales also\nfunded the purchase of a microfilm reader-printer and microfilm issues of the\nSalmon Arm Observer from 1907 to 2005.\nWith four books published, Denis changed directions again. He\nrecognized the Salmon Arm Observer as a valuable resource, but realized that it\nwas virtually inaccessible to researchers for lack of an index. After some\nthought, he offered to index the Salmon Arm Observer. His knowledge of the\ncommunity made him the perfect man for the job.\nSo in 2009 Denis began recording by hand the reporter's Five Ws: the\nwho, what, when, where, and why that made up the Observer's stories. Denis\nread the paper standing up, writing notes on foolscap, the old fashioned way.\nThe work was consuming. He wanted to index from 1907 to 1950. He made it\nto 1948.\nDenis delivered his notes to the archives room at the Salmon Arm\nMuseum. A pool of volunteer secretaries was recruited to enter his longhand\n141\n DENIS MARSHALL\nnotes in a database for easy searching. Rosemary Blair, Janice Darbyson,\nMarion Williams, and Rosemary Wilson all worked on the project. All were\nconvinced of the value of the work they were doing. The \"Denis Marshall\"\nindex is going to make the Salmon Arm Museum better able to serve its\npatrons. It is an invaluable research tool and will assist future historians.\nIn his own words, writing the history and indexing the Observer were\nhis life's work. The reward for his efforts was small. Denis received a\nhonourary life-time membership in the Executive Council and the local branch\nof the OHS. In 2010 a research desk was dedicated to him at the Salmon Arm\nMuseum and in 2012 he had an exhibit dedicated to his memory at SAGA\nPublic Art Gallery.\nJoan Marshall tells of times when she and Denis ruminated on how\nfortunate their decision was to return to their Salmon Arm roots. They never\nregretted and indeed enjoyed the time in Victoria and Vancouver, but being\nback in Salmon Arm became a wonderfully fulfilling time for Denis. And we,\nthe community of Salmon Arm's cultural institutions, also benefited.\nThank you Denis.\nDenis Marshall with his daughter and grandson\n142\n GIFFORD THOMSON\nGIFFORD WAKLEY\nTHOMSON\nOctober 17,1924 - September 8,2011\nBy Brenda (Butler) Thomson\nBrenda Thomson was born in Westwold, BC, a descendant of the pioneer Duck family of\nHolmwood Ranch near Monte Creek. Her parents retired to Okanagan Mission in 1945. She\nmarried Gifford in 1951, and they raised seven children. She has a strong conservation interest\nand belongs to the Central Okanagan Naturalist Club and Friends of Mission Creek.\nColin Gifford Wakley Thomson was born in Kelowna on October 17,\n1924, son of Wilberforce and Gladys (nee Wakley) Thomson. Gifford grew up,\nalong with his sister Marjorie, and brother Ken, on the farm at 4193 Gordon\nDrive, established in 1898 by his grandparents. The farm was jointly operated\nby his father and his uncle, Jock Thomson. Wilber died in 1934, leaving\nGladys with three young children. Tough years followed through the\ndepression and Gifford learned at an early age the responsibility of helping his\nmother. He got his drivers license at age 14 as his mother could not drive.\nGifford served in the RCAF in Canada and overseas from 1942 to\n1945. Following the war, Gifford had to take over the farm because of his\nuncle's failing health. The collapse ofthe vegetable industry, an industry which\nhad been the mainstay of the farm in the forties, meant Gifford had to look for\nother opportunities to make a living. He decided that the farm, too low-lying\nfor fruit, would make an ideal dairy farm, which would also provide the\nstability of a cheque every month. Ken was now of an age to take part and\nThomson Brothers partnership was formed. They salvaged the Dr. Boyce barn,\nrebuilt it and set about the establishment of a dairy herd. A set-back occurred to\nbegin with, as the first cows purchased had a disease and had to be destroyed,\nbut hard work and perseverance resulted in a successful dairy farm which\noperated until the extension of Gordon Drive in 1979 shut them down. The\nbarn was in the direct path of the route. They continued farming with a beef\nand hay operation.\nGifford and I were married on May 12, 1951. Seven children were\nborn over a period of 18 years: Stephen, Gillian, Margot, Kirsty, Diana,\nElizabeth and Colin. It was a great time to bring up a family, with the freedom\nof those days to walk or ride a bike to school, hot summers at the beach after\nthe chores were done, sleeping on the verandah, kick the can around the barn, a\nhome made skating rink in the winter, family gatherings, the Easter Sunday\nball game and the odd barn dance. Gifford was a devoted father through all\nthose years of childhood, school, sports, graduations and weddings, and a\n143\n GIFFORD THOMSON\ndevoted granddad to many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Our sixtieth\nanniversary was celebrated on May 12, 2011, on the farm with family, relatives\nand old friends. Now another generation is growing up on the farm.\nGifford died on September 8, 2011. The\nfuneral was at St Andrew's Anglican\nChurch in Okanagan Mission with burial\nin the cemetery there. Many tributes were\nreceived by his family and the recurring\ntheme was his good heart. He would have\nbeen astounded to learn of the lives he\ntouched.\nHistory of NOCA (Beryl Wambolt\n1965): \"Mr. Thomson says when he gets\na chance to, he likes to play bridge, go\nfishing and argue. Fortunately for\nSODICA shippers he does argue on our\nbehalf.\"\nLibbie Tassie, OHS: \"...let you\nknow our gratitude to Gifford for his\nkindness when I was a new treasurer. If it\nhad not been for him I would have thrown\nin the towel. At our gatherings of the finance committee we would enjoy\nconversations that had little to do with finance. At the board meetings Gifford\nwould give a quiet report that all was well and the meeting would carry on.\"\nGwen Chorney (nee Smalldon): \"I would go with my mother to visit\nMrs. Thomson (Gladys). Gifford would take time to play catch with me in the\nyard; how much has changed since then.\"\nJim Spencer, RCAF WW II: \"Although we spent a relatively short\ntime together I remember it vividly. I have wonderful memories of the time\nGiff and I spent together in training and overseas. We visited a number of\nEnglish families in their homes, and as well had a weekend outside New York\nCity with an American family. Giff was such a dashing, handsome guy which I\nam sure opened many doors for the two of us.\"\nMalcolm Gray, nephew and one of the city cousins: \"Gifford was a\nwonderful uncle, an understated hero who never let you down. I owe him a\ngreat deal for providing an exemplary role model back in those teenage\nsummers I spent on your farm.\"\nGifford Thomson c 1972\n144\n STANLEY DICKSON\nE. Stanley Dickson (nee Tait),\nformerly Bertram\nFebruary 5,1913, to September 15,2011\nBy Diana (Bertram) Denny\nStanley's parents were Reg and Kathy Tait. Kathy was the daughter of\nFrank and Millie Harrison, who along with son Jim were very early (1909)\nsettlers in Kaleden. They were from England via the Seychelles Islands and\nJamaica where they grew vanilla. Reg Tait was from Montreal. He came out\nwest to run Lord Shaughnessy's orchard in Summerland.\nAfter WWI they formed, with others, the nucleus of\noriginal citizens of Oliver in 1921. Stanley learned to\nplay tennis on the grass courts built by her father and\nothers at their homes. They played golf on the wild\ngrass and sand at the Oliver Golf Club (now \"Fairview\nMountain Golf Club\") which was built by hand by her\nparents and their friends. Stanley played on the\nexpanded 18-hole course until she was over 90, using a\ncart only the last few years.\nVHHH Stanley had strong memories of making 54, six-hour\ntrips on the Sicamous up the lake from Penticton to\nStanley Bertram 1955 attend St. Michael's School for Girls in Vernon. She\nOliver B.C. loved her time there and maintained friendships with\nsome of the 'girls' throughout their lives.\nStanley went to Montreal in 1932 to visit her paternal grandmother\nwhere she married Alex Bertram and bore 4 children: John, Nora, Diana and\nJamie. In 1947 the family moved to Oliver where Alex ran the Taits' orchard.\nStanley packed fruit for many years at Mabee's and the Oliver Co-Op, while\nalso nourishing her family with a wonderful garden of vegetables and flowers.\nShe sang in the Oliver Choral Society and was a dedicated St. Edward's\nAnglican Church member.\n145\n STANLEY DICKSON\nOne of her great, practical skills was in keeping everyone, including\nneighbours' and friends' children dry and warm in the winter. She and Alex\nwelcomed people from far and wide to their lovely home on the orchard. Many\nremember their kindnesses to this day.\nReg Tait lived with Stanley in his old age, after both Kathy and Alex\nhad died. After Reg died, Stan married Ted Dickson, a long time fruit inspector\nin the Oliver area, originally from Vernon. Twenty-three years after Ted died,\nat nearly 95 years of age, as her health was failing, Stanley was persuaded to\nmove to Victoria to live with Diana. She spent nearly four years happily\nmeeting and talking with everyone as she explored the neighbourhood with her\nwheeled walker. They all loved her as she presented herself with a wonderful\nsmile and kind words.\nShe lives on in all our memories, one of the sunniest of Okanagan Girls!\nStanley Bertram's first home: Lord Shaughnessy's (C.P.R. President) orchard home in\nSummerland. Photo courtesy of Summerland Museum\n146\n JOAN CHAMBERLAIN\nJOAN ELSIE\nCHAMBERLAIN\nJanuary 2,1921 - October 1,2011\nBy Trevor Chamberlain and Patty (Chamberlain) Mcintosh\nTrevor Chamberlain and Patty Mcintosh are the son and daughter of Joan Chamberlain. Patty\nlives in Kelowna, while Trevor lives in Rockwood, Ontario. They were both born and brought up in\nthe Mission Creek district of Kelowna. Trevor and Patty share a keen interest in the history of\nKelowna, most of which they learned from their parents, Fred and Joan.\nJoan Chamberlain, September 4,2011\nBorn in Vancouver, B.C., Mum came to Kelowna with her parents,\nAubrey and Elsie Matthews, and older brother, Richard, when she was four\nmonths old. The family travelled to Penticton on the Kettle Valley Railroad,\nand then on the S.S. Sicamous up the lake to Kelowna. Their first home was a\nrented one, owned by the Clement family, whose daughter Wilma became a\nlifelong friend. In 1922, the Matthews family moved to their own home on\nRichter Street, across from the old junior high school, where our grandparents\ngrew beautiful flowers and lived until 1975.\nMum's childhood memories of Kelowna were those of an idyllic\nplace, where neighbours helped each other and no one was ever turned away.\nDuring the Great Depression, when the unemployed and homeless wandered\nfrom town to town, Mum recalled how men would show up at the Matthews'\ndoor with nothing but a small knapsack over their shoulder. They would always\nbe invited in and given a meal before being sent on their way, often with a few\n147\n JOAN CHAMBERLAIN\ncoins or a packet of sandwiches in their pocket.\nMum started school at Dehart Avenue School in 1927 and, thirteen years\nlater, graduated with her \"senior matric\" (Grade 13) from the old high school,\nwhich later became Glen Avenue School. Until her ninetieth year, every\nSeptember Mum hosted a get-together of the members of her high school class.\nFollowing Grade 13, Mum attended the B.C. Normal School in\nVictoria, to study to become a teacher. When she returned home in 1941, she\nlearned from a neighbour, Mr. A.S. Matheson, who happened to be the School\nInspector for the Kelowna district, that Mission Creek School had an opening\nfor a primary teacher. Though barely three miles distant, Mum had never heard\nof Mission Creek School. Nonetheless, she applied for the position and was\ninvited for an interview. On a warm summer's evening, she rode her bicycle\nout to Mission Creek to meet with the members of the school board (in those\ndays the rural schools had their own school boards). The interview consisted of\nthe three gentlemen comprising the board sitting on a bench outside the school\n(with their hats on), while Mum stood in from of them and answered their\nquestions. To her great delight, she was offered the job, at the princely salary of\neight hundred dollars a year, and thus began a teaching career, which only\nended when Mum retired in 1985.\nMum had only been teaching a short time when she met her future\nhusband and our dad, Fred Chamberlain, a member of a Mission Creek farm\nfamily. Mum and Dad were married in 1943, and moved to their first home on\nBenvoulin Road. Mum continued to teach until her first child, Trevor, arrived\nin 1950, followed by Bonnie in 1952 and Patty in 1958. Although she was\nmainly an \"at home\" mum while we were young, often when the phone rang\nearly in the morning, it would be a school principal calling to ask if Mum could\ncome in to \"substitute\" for the day. Mum enjoyed teaching and would usually\nsay yes. Then it would be a mad scramble to get us off to school or arrange for\nour care for the day.\nIn 1962, Mum returned to full-time teaching, first at Dr. Knox\nSecondary, followed by Raymer Avenue, Mission Creek and Glen Avenue\nschools, and then A.S. Matheson School, where she was the school librarian\nuntil retiring in 1985. Mum spoke fondly of her teaching days, especially her\ntime at our neighbourhood school, Mission Creek, and always enjoyed the\ncards and phone calls of her many former students.\nMum had a strong sense of community, and contributed in many ways\nover the years, from supporting a host of charities, to door-to-door canvassing,\nand working as a member of the St Michael's and All Angels Altar Guild. She\nwas an active member of the Kelowna Kinette Club, serving in a variety of\nroles, including Club President, and sang in the Kinette Choir. Mum was also\nactive in the Dr. Knox Chapter of the IODE, again taking on a number of\nduties, including Chapter Regent and, in 2011, was recognized as a Life\nMember, after sixty years of service. Until just before her ninetieth birthday,\n148\n JOAN CHAMBERLAIN\nMum worked each week in the IODE's \"Superfluity Shop\" on Ellis Street in\ndowntown Kelowna.\nMum's fond memories of growing up in Kelowna were accompanied\nby an immense store of knowledge of the history of the district. She was a\nmember of both the Okanagan Historical Society and the Retired Teachers\nAssociation and, among other projects, co-edited a history of rural schools in\nthe Okanagan. She also contributed articles about local history to a variety of\noutlets, and was often consulted by others seeking information about the\nhistory of the Kelowna district.\nIn retirement Mum enjoyed travelling, first with Dad until he passed\naway in 1996, and later, with family and friends. Her particular favourites,\nespecially after arthritis began to make walking difficult, were ocean cruises. In\nNovember 2010 she travelled 17 hours to catch a ship in Fort Lauderdale,\nFlorida for a 12-day Caribbean cruise. The trip back was 17 hours too!\nAs a child, at Christmas Mum would receive beautifully illustrated\nchildren's books from her many aunts and uncles. Among her favourites were\nthe works of Frank L. Baum, creator of the series beginning with the \"Wizard\nof Oz.\" Mum delighted in these books and, as an adult, returned to them,\nadding to her collection and becoming a member of the International Oz Club,\nmaking new friends among its members.\nMum was also a lifelong movie buff. In her youth she followed the\ncareers ofthe great stars ofthe 1930s and 1940s: Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart,\nCary Grant, Fred Astaire, and her all-time favourite, Gary Cooper. In recent\nyears one of her greatest joys was Channel 35, the vintage movie channel. If\nMum had a snooze in the afternoon, it was probably because she had been up\nuntil the wee hours watching Gary Cooper in a high noon showdown, or Fred\nAstaire sweeping Ginger Rogers off her feet.\nMum had many friends and enjoyed their company. She was a\ngracious host. It was never too much trouble for her to host a meeting,\nluncheon or gathering, and she always ensured that everyone was well fed.\nMum loved to cook, and especially to bake. Everyone had their favourite,\nwhether it be gum drop cookies, bread and butter pudding or her much-loved\nwarm scones dripping with butter and Rogers golden syrup. No one ever went\nhome from Mum's house with room for more.\nA loving, kind and generous daughter, mother and grandmother, Mum\nloved family get-togethers. Her three children and ten grandchildren were a\nvery important part of her life. She loved them dearly, took pride in their\naccomplishments and looked forward to their visits. Daughter Bonnie, who\npassed away in 2004, was deeply missed. Mum is lovingly remembered by her\nchildren, Trevor (Elizabeth) and Patty (Cam), and grandchildren, Shawn, Robin\n(Daniel), Amy, Colin, Hayley (Scott), Laura, Graham, Brendan, Heather and\nHayden. We miss you, Mum.\n149\n MARG JACKSON\nMargaret Ivy Jackson (nee\nMcEwen)\nJuly 11,1916 - February 26,2012\nBy Mary Hickman\nMary Hickman is a member ofthe Salmon Arm Branch ofthe Okanagan Historical Society and has\nbeen the group's secretary for four years. She is an RM. and has known Margaret Jackson and her\nfamily for over 40 years. This is her first contribution to the OHS Report and she looks forward to\nserving her community further by writing other pieces in the future.\nMargaret Ivy Jackson (nee McEwen) was born at Grindrod, B.C. July\n11, 1922 and died at the age of eighty-eight in Salmon Arm, B.C. after a long,\nproductive life. With her death, Salmon Arm lost a significant healthcare\nprovider, not only to the hospital but also to the broader community. In\naddition to a full professional life she was a mother to four children, a farm\nwife and an active member of the Salmon River Valley community.\nMargaret was born into a hard-working farm family of the Grindrod\narea. Her father, George Duncan McEwen, arrived to settle there in 1907. He\nwas born in Quebec and came to B.C. via Pincher Creek, Alberta. He first\nworked on the Coldstream Ranch at their Upper Meadows in Lumby. He had\ntrained in Vernon as a member of the B.C. Horse Cavalry in 1913 and after\nbeing called up in 1914 trained further in England. His unit was then changed\nto the \"Second Canadian Mounted Rifles\". Margaret's mother was a military\nnurse who met her father while he was recuperating from a significant upper\nleg wound received while fighting in the trenches in the Battle of the Somme in\nWorld War I.\nMargaret was the eldest of three McEwen children, having two younger\nbrothers. Their life was that of a farm family working a small farm, with their\nfather going out to work in the pole industry to pay the bills, moving cedar\npoles either by horse team or by rafting on the Shuswap River. Margaret's\ncaregiving life began early as her mother died in a freak accident when\nMargaret was only six years old. It happened that their father was late\nreturning from work one day, leaving their mother to get the milk cows in for\nevening milking. Her mother, who was pregnant with her fourth child, tripped\nin a gopher hole and as a result she lost the baby and died of the complications.\nAfter a series of housekeepers, Margaret's aunt Ivy (her mother's sister)\ncame from England, leaving a nursing career, to assist her brother-in-law with\nhis young family. Within six months Margaret's father and her Aunt Ivy were\nmarried.\n150\n MARG JACKSON\nWhile in her teens, Margaret was chosen to represent Grindrod for the visit of\nKing George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Vancouver in 1939. She stayed with a\nfamily in Shaughnessy, and for a young farm girl from a small Interior\ncommunity this must have been an exciting and significant event.\nMargaret McEwen graduates from nursing training, 1944. Photo courtesy of\nJackson family\n151\n MARG JACKSON\nIn the fall of 1939, in preparation for her nurses's training, Margaret\nattended Victoria College, then housed in Craigdarroch Castle. Margaret\nattended her nurses' training at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria,\ngraduated in 1944 and began her nursing career at the Royal Alexandra\nHospital in Edmonton.\nWhen her stepmother suffered a series of strokes in 1946, Margaret\ntook a six-month leave and returned to Grindrod to care for her. It was during\nthis time she met Bob Jackson, a farmer from the Mt. Ida area of Salmon Arm.\nHer stepmother (her Aunt Ivy) passed away early in 1948 and with her\nstepmother's blessing, Margaret married Bob Jackson in May of that year.\nThey went to live on the Jackson family farm in the same house where Bob\nwas born and grew up, in the Mt. Ida farming community. Margaret's eldest\nson Doug and his wife Liz still live and farm there today.\nMargaret and Bob had five children, one son dying early in 1955.\nMargaret stayed home with her young family, working on the family farm by\nher husband's side and raising their surviving children, Barb, Betty, Doug and\nGarth. Occasionally she would \"special\" a patient, looking after them in their\nhome, much like the current Home Care Nursing program. Her family relates\nit was obvious these \"specials\" became very attached to Margaret and\nappreciated her care, as one of these young patients brought Margaret a\nChristmas gift each year for quite a number of years. As the children grew up,\nMargaret began to work back at the hospital. This as Doug put it, was just how\nit was: \"Those were the good old days of much slower paced lifestyle than we\nhave today. After all, all Mom had to do back then was milk cows, fix fences,\ndo housework, raise four kids, and then head off for a shift of nursing. Later\nshe would return home to be come mediator in a somewhat tumultuous\nhousehold and then start the day all over again. She somehow found the time\nto prepare cinnamon buns or rice pudding, which often awaited us when we\nreturned home from school, when she worked her \"3 to 11 shifts\". It was a\nshift that often saw her arriving home well past midnight, as she would have\nsat talking and listening to a terminally ill patient after hours. \"\nMargaret was also involved in a variety of community activities. She\nwas active in the United Church and the Order of the Eastern Star. Both she\nand Bob believed in sharing with those less fortunate, and they often worked\ntogether on fundraising drives to fight cancer and diabetes. In addition, they\nwere generous in donating food at Christmas.\n152\n MARG JACKSON\nMargaret Jackson. Photo courtesy of Jackson family\nIn 1973 the \"Eden Fire\" burned the family's dairy barns so Bob decided to sell\ntheir dairy herd and buy beef cattle. This allowed Bob, for the first time, some\nfreedom to \"see the world\". He was not the usual retired traveler, content to\ntravel to Mexico or Florida for the winter; he wanted to challenge himself and\nthus he and Margaret travelled to destinations like China, India, Russia,\n153\n MARG JACKSON\nAustralia, Central America and the Amazon. Margaret retired from her beloved\nnursing in 1975 and this allowed her to share more time with Bob. The farm\nwas sold to Doug and Liz in 1981 and Margaret and Bob moved to a rental\nhouse at the back of the farm property. They were then free to travel to more\nexotic destinations and enjoy the family cabin at Annis Bay.\nIn 1990 Bob passed away and Margaret and Betty (one of Margaret's\ntwo daughters) continued with more travel, to visit family and friends in the\nBritish Isles and across Canada. At home Margaret took to a slower pace of\nlife, enjoying her roses and music. Only when her health began to fail did\nMargaret move to Piccadilly Terrace and finally to Arbor House. Margaret\npassed away at the age of 88 on February 26, 2012.\nA close workmate described Margaret as: \"One super-dedicated nurse, very\ngentle, exceptionally kind and caring to patients and peers. She really loved\nmaternity patients and always had a twinkle in her eye and a smile on her face\nno matter the situation\".\nMargaret was an excellent example of those pioneer women who are often\nforgotten and not given adequate tribute. Her family states in her eulogy:\n\"Mom was a kind, thoughtful person who gave tirelessly of herself, never\nexpecting anything in return, a woman who had an amazing calmness in the\nface of adversity. She was one who saw the best in everyone and was always\nwilling to forgive and forget, taking only enough time for herself to enjoy her\nmusic, her roses, and her family.\"\nIt is hoped that this tribute will not only highlight Margaret's\ncontribution to her family and community, but remind us all to treasure and\npractice those values that Margaret lived daily: caring for others; optimism and\ncalmness in the face of adversity.\n154\n MARION BEWS\nMARION BEWS\nAugust 12,1918 - December 8,2011\nBy Shannon Bews Croft\nShannon is the daughter of Marion and Jack Bews, and is a life-long resident of Kelowna - only\naway from Kelowna for seven years. She has two children living in the lower mainland. She was\nPresident ofthe Kelowna Branch ofthe Okanagan Historical Society from 2010 to 2012, and is an\nOHS Executive Council member.\nMarion Bews c 1930 (courtesy\nShannon Bews Croft)\nMarion Lee was born in Kamloops in\n1918, the third of five children born to Charles\nand Marion Lee, who hailed from England and\nIreland. The family lived in Vancouver,\nNanaimo, Myrtle Point and Nanaimo before\nreturning to Kamloops in 1932. Marion's first\njob was with the Kamloops Sentinel as a\nstenographer and court reporter. She moved on\nto CFJC radio for three years before being\nlured to the Okanagan Valley in 1943. \"Big\nJim\" Browne, the founder of CKOV radio in\nKelowna, needed a confidential secretary and\nMarion filled the bill, thus starting her 34 year\ncareer with CKOV. She worked for all three\nBrownes: \"Big Jim,\" Jim Jr. and Jamie, and\nformed a close friendship with them and their\nfamilies that lasted her life-time.\nMarion became one of the first women in British Columbia to have\nher own radio program, \"Cy and I,\" a 15 minute chat with guests, and live\nmusic from the auditorium of CKOV. Being live, it was always a challenge to\ncover up the giggles when other staff members pulled pranks. \"Coffee Break\"\n155\n MARION BEWS\nfollowed - again live, this time from the stationary room of the station as staff\ngathered for coffee to discuss the headlines of the day. This program always\ngarnered a lot of interest, as topics also included notes received from folks up\nand down the valley. At one time Marion helped put together a \"Radio\"\nnewsletter that included local advertising, tips and notes from listeners. People\nwould sign up to receive this newsletter and it would be sent out on a frequent\nbasis to listeners up and down the valley. Often in a radio station, you do more\nthan one job, and Marion was no exception. For a time, in addition to being\n\"Big Jim's\" secretary, she wrote copy for 15, 30 and 60 minute programs.\nThere was no room for the announcer to add his own thoughts as they had to\nstick closely to the script.\nMarion met Jack Bews at CKOV (he was to go on to become News\nDirector - \"Jack Bews with the News\" was a well known phrase) and they\nwere married in Kelowna in 1948. Their wedding reception was held on the\nlakefront grounds of \"Big Jim\" and Mrs. Browne's home on Abbott Street.\nAs the corporate secretary to Mr. Browne, Marion became involved as\nwell with Okanagan Broadcasters, who brought the first television station to\nthe Valley. That was an exciting time, and I am sure everyone has their fond\nmemory of their first television.\nAs CKOV grew, so did the staff, and they became a family. A recent\ncomment from a former employee was that Marion was the \"Mother\" at the\nstation - who knew pretty much everything about you, and was not about to let\nyou off the hook for anything. She would offer advice, as well as consolation if\nit was needed.\nIn the mid-forties, Marion helped Mary Pack start the Kelowna\nChapter of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society (CARS), now\nknown as the Arthritis Society. They had met when Marion was on holiday in\nthe Gulf Islands. She was their first Kelowna secretary and helped promote\nCARS through radio interviews with Mary. Mr. Browne Sr. put full\n156\n MARION BEWS\npromotional support of CKOV behind the effort to get the program started\nlocally. The station and its support played a large role for chapters across the\nprovince.\nMarion Bews, August 2011. Photo courtesy Shannon Bews Croft\nMarion was a member of the Kelowna Hospital Auxiliary for over 50\nyears, and was their president in 1961. She also volunteered for the Canadian\nRed Cross and CNIB. It was important for her to give back to the community\nthat had been so good to her.\nMarion lived in Kelowna for 68 years, and passed away in December\n2011.\n157\n MARJORY SMITH\nMARJORY IRENE (EVANS)\nSMITH September 5,1916-May 7,2011\nBy Gail Capostinsky\nGail (Smith) Capostinsky is the eldest daughter of Marjory Smith. She is a retired nurse\nwho lives in Clearwater, B.C.\nMarjory Irene was the fourth of ten children, born to Herbert and\nMartha (Timpson) Evans, a pioneering family of the Shuswap. Marj was born\non September 5, 1916, at Annis, B.C. (near Canoe). When Marj was four years\nold, the family moved to the farm in the Salmon River Valley. She went to\nschool at the Salmon Arm Valley School, and then to grade ten at the Salmon\nArm High School.\nWhen Marjory was 15, she was crowned May Queen in Salmon Arm.\nShe spent the summer holidays picking strawberries and raspberries.\nBefore she was married, Marj worked for two seasons from April to\nSeptember at Paul Lake Fishing Resort, north of Kamloops. She also worked in\nthe fruit packing-houses in Salmon Arm, sorting and packing apples, and later\nwas promoted to be a 'checker', earning a much better wage.\nOn January 25, 1939, Marjory Irene, age 22, married Oliver John\nSmith, age 24 youngest son of Margaret Rebecca Smith and the late William\nJoseph Smith, at her parents' home on the farm in Salmon Arm. Her attendants\nwere her cousin Belle (Isabella) Evans and sister Ada Evans. Ollie's best man\nwas Ross McLeod of Salmon Arm.\nMarj and Ollie lived in Salmon Arm in the house on Piccadilly Road\n(10th Street SW) that Ollie had built in 1937, next door to his brother Bill.\nThey had three children, all born in the Salmon Arm (Shuswap Lake) General\nHospital: Neil Barrymore (Barry, born April 22, 1943), Lorraine Gail (Gail,\nborn December 02,1944) and Martha Evelyn (Martie, born January 22,1946).\nThe years went by quickly. Ollie worked in the mines in Wells, BC\nwhere he learned how to handle dynamite and later obtained his 'blasting\nticket'. He worked on numerous road construction projects around the province\nas a powder man and as a blasting foreman. As Ollie worked out of town so\nmuch, the raising of the family was left mainly for Marj to handle. She was an\n158\n MARJORY SMITH\nexcellent gardener and always had the best raspberry patch. She learned to\ndrive a car in the 1950s, and the lessons could not have been easy with the\nthree little critics in the back seat.\nMarjory Evans and Ollie Smith 1938. Photo\ncourtesy of Gail Capostinsky\nIn addition to caring for her children and extended family, Marj\nfrequently did baking for Bill Hill and \"Curly\" Cochrane, who were the\nneighbourhood bachelors.\nAfter the children were grown, Marj worked occasionally at the\nSalmon Arm Creamery (working with sister Muriel Barillaro and long-time\nfriend Marg Cameron) until Ollie retired in 1974. As well as keeping busy in\nthe garden, preserving fruits and vegetables, making jams and pickles, etc.,\n159\n MARJORY SMITH\nMarj excelled in crocheting and made many tablecloths and doilies for family\nand friends.\nThe Smiths celebrate their 40th Anniversary January 25,1979\nPhoto courtesy of Gail Capostinsky\nAfter Ollie had a fatal heart attack in 1991, Marj continued to live in\nthe house that she and Ollie had lived in since their marriage in 1939. She had\nthe support of family and friends, with many of them living in close proximity\nin Salmon Arm. There were people coming and going at the house all the time.\nIn January 2005, Marj decided to sell the house and she moved into a\nSeniors' Assisted-Living Residence on Piccadilly Road, just down the road\nfrom the home where she had lived for 64 years. After her 90th birthday, she\nmoved in with Martie and Russ for a few years before spending her final year\nand a half in the care of Bastion Place. She passed away at the age of 94 XA,\nhaving lived in the Salmon Arm area her entire life.\n160\n JUNE OSBORN\nJUNE (TRYON) OSBORN\nJune 15,1912 - April 26,2010\nBy Diane Toth (daughter) and Andrea Toth (granddaughter)\n\"There are some people whose enthusiasm for life sets them apart.\nThere are the ones who glow with an inner fire, who exemplify dedication to an\nideal, whose dreams are all-consuming and who achieve goals the rest of us\nare afraid to attempt.\nAnd there are the gentle souls, the people who simply make you feel\ngood when you 're around them. They 're gentleness and kindness personified.\nAnd once in a very long while, you meet someone who is all of these\ncombined in a fascinating woman - June Osborn of Vernon.\"1\nJune was born on June 5th, 1912 in Whelprigg Barbon, Kirkby\nLonsdale, England, the fourth child of six of Robert and Esther Tryon (nee\nBromley). She moved with her family to Vancouver Island in 1914 to the new\nhome her father had built at French Creek near Parksville. Sadly her father\ndied when she was only four, but it is said that she took after his adventurous\nspirit. He travelled extensively, having had a tea plantation in Ceylon, and\nfought in the Boer War as a member of the First Canadian Mounted Rifles\nbefore marrying June's mother.\nHorses became June's great love from the age of four, when she was\nleft on the back of a pony by her brothers, and she told stories of riding her\npony to school in Qualicum by herself from the age of seven. She said that\nthey didn't always get to school as\nthere were too many adventures to\ngo on along the way. This was also\ndue to June's great difficulty with\nschool as she had dyslexia, which\nwas little understood at that time.\n1 Despite this she was always a great\nadvocate of education and learning,\nI in contrast to her own experiences.\nIn her teens, June formed a\nI lifelong friendship with Mada\nJune Osborn. Photo courtesy of her daughter\nDiane Toth\n161\n JUNE OSBORN\n(Moilliet) Rendell and often visited the family sheep ranch in Vavenby, BC on\nthe North Thompson River about 150km north east of Kamloops. From the\nbeginning, June became involved in the ranch work, including care of the 2,000\nhead of sheep. June and Mada packed supplies on horseback to the summer\nsheep camps on Foghorn Mountain above the ranch. One winter, after\ncompleting high school at Shawnigan Lake Girl's School on Vancouver Island,\nthe two girls stayed in a rustic cabin on the mountain, caring for the entire\nflock, hauling hay by team and wagon from a haystack located about eight\nkilometers away.\nIn 1936, June was invited to teach riding at a summer camp in New\nHampshire, USA, for six months and thoroughly enjoyed her travels and\nadventures. It was when she returned to BC to visit with Mada, now married\nand living in the Coldstream, that she met Bill Osborn. Bill and June were\nmarried in Parksville, BC on Vancouver Island on June 12th, 1937.\nWhen they were first married they lived in the Osborn family home at\nTurl's Hill in Lavington, raising four children, Bob, Ted, Diane and Peter and\nrunning the mixed farm of orchards, dairy, chickens and pigs. In 1953 they\nmoved to the Coldstream Ranch where Bill took up the position as General\nManager until his retirement in 1975. June's children were so very important\nto her, but also extended family and family friends - so many remember\ncoming for visits as children. These visits began lifelong relationships with\nBill and June, but also for several, a passion for horses.\nJune always believed in being involved in and contributing to her\ncommunity and was a good example for all of the family. From her work in\nthe Girl Guides, which she had grown up in, and as an adult involved in the\nTrefoil Guild and a Life member; to the Lavington Ladies Work Group (she\nand Jean Freeman were founding members); and then after moving to the\nRanch, a dedicated member of the Coldstream Women's Institute (WI), again a\nLife Member. And many memories of WI teas, dinners and events not to\nmention the Vernon Winter Carnival Parade which June participated in for 42\nyears with the Women's Institute. She never missed an opportunity to dress up\nfor these occasions, the more outrageous the better.\nHorses were a great passion and joy for June, from her horses growing up\nin French Creek, riding in the wild flower meadows above Vavenby, hunting to\nhounds in England and in the early days in Vernon, teaching in New\nHampshire, show jumping, competing for over 50 years at the Armstrong Fair,\nbreeding and training Welsh Mountain Ponies at the Coldstream Ranch and\nlater Binns Road and enjoying riding with all the family and all the girls and a\nfew boys that came and rode for her and with her for many years. In 1949\nwhile living in Lavington she famously rode her favourite horse, St. George, all\nthe way to the Armstrong Fair, where she won Light Horse Grand Champion,\nafter which she sold her horse and arrived home with just the saddle and bridle.\n162\n JUNE OSBORN\nA dream came true in 1957 when she ordered six Welsh Mountain mares\nin foal from Wales, all of which travelled by ship through the Panama to\nVancouver. As well as purebreds, June bred Welsh-Arab and Welsh-\nThoroughbred ponies that excelled as jumpers, hunters and saddle ponies.\nOver the next 25 years, Turl's Hill ponies became synonymous with superior\nquality and versatility. These ponies excelled in show rings across BC and\nAlberta. In 1971, while showing at the Cloverdale Pony Show, June was\npresented with the special honour of \"Great Breeder\" by the Canadian Pony\nSociety of BC. At one point she had a herd of up to 40 ponies, and she\nprobably gave away more than she sold, because she always wanted them to go\nto the right home and rider. June was one of the founding members of the\nVernon & District Riding Club and the Vernon Pony Club in which several\ngrandchildren participated.\nAfter Bill's retirement and their move to Binns Road in the Coldstream,\nand with the help of others, her participation with the North Okanagan\nTherapeutic Riding Association began. Bill built the riding ring on their\nproperty, ramps and lifts were designed and appropriate horses found. It was a\nhuge success and after several years it was moved to a larger location. June\nremained involved into her early nineties and continued to find and approve\nhorses for their trustworthiness for many children and adults.\nJune and Bill enjoyed their home on Binns Road, Bill with his extensive\ngarden and June with her horses. They especially enjoyed their children and\ngrandchildren, and eventually their great grandchildren. They also enjoyed\ntravelling together and with family and friends, and volunteering in the\ncommunity.\nIn the mid-1970s June made annual horseback trips into the back\ncountry. They became known as the \"Granny Rides\" as the members were all\ngrandmothers, except one. Accompanying June were Mada Rendell, Marjorie\nHall, Mary Campbell-Brown and often Mary's husband, Dr. Hugh Campbell-\nBrown. They rode much of Southern BC including the Douglas Lake, Guichon\nand Gang Ranches, Tunkwa Lake, the Galloping Hills and the Ashnola\ncountry. They had so many stories and adventures that they produced a\nbooklet to share with family and friends. In the mid 1980s June continued her\ntrail riding adventures with the Great Cariboo Ride, receiving the Best Trail\nHorse and Rider award in 1987 (at the age of 75). In 1995 she was honoured in\nVancouver as the \"Horse Person of the Year for British Columbia\" - for her\nlifetime contributions to the equestrian community. June continued to ride into\nher later years and was thrilled to ride her newest horse, Java, on her 97th\nbirthday!\n163\n JUNE OSBORN\nJune Osborn 1992. Photo courtesy of her daughter Diane Toth\nFollowing Bill's death in May of 2000, June continued to enjoy\ntravelling as well as having her home as a hub for family and friends to come\nand share a cup of tea and stories. Along with her continued interests of the WI\nand her horses, she was an active bridge player, enjoyed reading and attending\nthe theatre and concerts. In her later years, June was grateful to have Madeline\nMoilliet (a niece of Mada Rendell) living with her and also having family\nnearby to give her a hand. June lived life as fully as possible until she passed\naway on April 26,2010.\nJune is survived by her four children, Bob (Maureen), Ted (Carolyn),\nDiane (Geza) Toth, and Peter (Cherry), also nine grandchildren and thirteen\ngreat-grandchildren.\nEndnotes\n'an excerpt from a story in HORSE ACTION, September 1991 by Margaret\nMadsen.\n164\n RAY BOSTOCK\nRAYMOND BOSTOCK\nJanuary 7,1927 - July 11,2011\nBC's 1952 Athlete ofthe Year\nBy Sarah Roberts (nee Bostock)\nSarah is the eldest of Ray and Ann's four children, with three younger brothers who all live in\nKelowna. Sarah has four children and six grandchildren, who also live in this area.\nRay Bostock at the presentation ofthe Athlete ofthe Year Award for B.C., 1952. Photo courtesy\nAnn Bostock\n\"Ray is in Kelowna to stay,\" Ken Bostock (Ray's older brother) stated\nwhen my dad, Ray Bostock, became BC's Athlete of the Year and was\nawarded the Hector McDonald trophy on January 24, 1952. This was a huge\naccomplishment for the small town of Kelowna. Over several weeks, 33,000\nsports fans voted to choose the winner of the prestigious Athlete of the Year\naward from among 50 of BC's renowned athletes, including well known\ngolfers, soccer players, boxers and runners. The newspapers were filled with\narticles featuring these athletes, and how the day's votes had been cast.\nDad's sport was rowing. He practically grew up on Okanagan Lake.\nHe first tried paddling in the war canoes at the age of 14, and then moved on to\n165\n RAY BOSTOCK\nthe Rowing Club where he was a natural, spending all his spare summer hours\non the lake. At the time that Dad was named BC's Athlete of the Year, he was\nPacific Northwest junior singles champion, Pacific Northwest senior singles\nchampion and a partner with Russ Ensign in the BC senior doubles. He was\nalso on the Okanagan Lake championship team and on the BC senior fours\nchampionship team (for four years running) as well as a member of the Lake\nOkanagan senior four squad that had recently beaten the University of\nWashington Huskies' team for the first time. Embarrassed by all the publicity,\nDad responded to the press by saying, \"It's nice to know that so many people\nthink so much of my ability, but it was nothing. I like rowing for the sport.\"\nRowing was a huge sport in Kelowna in those days; the shells were\nbuilt by \"Jen-Craft\" owned by Gordon Jennens. Gordon received the order to\nbuild the Canadian shells to be used in the 1952 Olympic Games. As the\nfinishing touches were being made to the shells, disaster struck and fire broke\nout, demolishing the shells. Half an hour after the fire trucks left, Jennens and\nhis employees were clearing out the debris and beginning to rebuild the shells.\nGordon worked 20 hour days over the next week in order to have the shells\nready for the games in Helsinki, where he attended to maintain the Canadian\nshells. Dad used to place the decking on the bow and stern of the racing shells\nfor Gordon - after he finished his regular day's work.\nRay Bostock in his Single Shell on Okanagan Lake 1952. Photo courtesy Ann Bostock\n166\n RAY BOSTOCK\nDuring this same time period, The Kelowna International Regatta was\na huge event for Kelowna, bringing competitors and tourists from far and wide.\nThis event, which began as the \"Kelowna Fall Fair\" in 1886, became a summer\nevent in 1909 and grew into a multi day event featuring a parade, a midway,\nand many water competitions, as well as the annual Lady of the Lake pageant.\nThe Kelowna Aquatic Centre, located in City Park on the lakefront, housed the\nRowing Club, the War Canoe Club, The Swimming and Diving Clubs, the\nlifeguards and swimming instructors, a restaurant and dance hall, as well as the\ngrandstands and balconies overlooking the pool and diving tower. In 1952, nine\nbeautiful candidates ran for the honour to represent Kelowna at events across\nCanada. Cathy Archibald was chosen to be the reigning Lady of the Lake (and\nwas later named Miss Canada). Her two \"mermaids\" were Ann Paterson and\nCarol Henderson. Ann turned out to be Dad's mermaid as well as they began\ndating later that year and were married in 1956.\nDad worked for O.L. Jones Furniture Store for a number of years,\nwhere he was trained to install floor-covering (linoleum and carpets). In 1957,\nDad and Bob Parfitt started their own business, \"Superior Floors.\" Bob left\nafter a short while to become the local Standard Oil Agent. Dad continued with\nthe business, operating out of our family home. He was so busy that he was\nconcerned that he did not have quality time to spend with his family. When I\nwas twelve, he was finally able to purchase a cabin at Oyama Lake, where we\nspent so many happy week-ends and holidays together. In the winter, my\nbrothers and I would \"draw straws\" to see who could go snowmobiling up to\nthe mountain lakes and ice fishing with Dad. Even though a lot of other fathers\nbrought their sons, I loved going with Dad every opportunity that I had! I also\nloved fishing with him on Oyama Lake where he would always teach us to call\n\"fishy, fishy, fishy\" if the fish weren't biting! In later years, he and Mom took\nthe grandchildren up to the cabin for weekends, both summer and winter. He\nmade sure that his love for nature was passed on to future generations.\nDad also loved practical jokes; he took great pleasure in watching the\nreaction of someone who was not familiar with his joking around. \"Oh Ray!\"\nthey would say as he broke into hysterics after telling a story like, \"the cherries\nare so sweet on my trees because I place a five lb. bag of sugar around each\ntrunk every spring!\"\nAnd stay in Kelowna he did; born in Kelowna on January 7,1927, my\ndad remained in Kelowna his whole life. In fact, he lived in the same house he\npurchased when he and Mom were married in 1956. And although Dad had\nwon such a prestigious award at the young age of 25, those who knew him will\nremember him more for his practical jokes, his incredible sense of humour, his\nsmoked salmon and his gentle, kind manner.\n167\n BOB DEMARA\nROBERT CHARLES (Bob)\nDeMARA\nAugust 13,1927 - June 29,2011\nBy Bernice DeMara\nBernice was born in Viking, Alberta. Her early years and schooling were in Alberta and North\nWest Territories. Bernice graduated as a teacher, and taught in various localities in Alberta and\nBritish Columbia, including Lakeview Heights and West Kelowna. In 1967 she moved to Westbank\nand in 1977 she and Bob were married. She has three children.\nBob DeMara was born in the Kelowna Hospital on August 13, 1927.\nHe was delivered by Dr. W.J. Knox, in the original frame building. His father\nwas Charles DeMara, son of Albert Herbert and Madeline DeMara, who\narrived in Kelowna in 1917. Bob's mother was Marjorie (Mam), daughter of\nDavid and Rachel Leckie, who arrived in Kelowna in 1904 and built, in 1912,\nthe Leckie Hardware store, which is still standing on Bernard Avenue. Bob's\nbrother, Monty, was born in 1932, five years after Bob.\nBob's first home was at the corner of McDougall Street and Lake\nAvenue. This house is still standing on its huge corner lot. The DeMara family\nhad a huge garden, and one of Bob's first jobs was selling the vegetables in a\nlittle stall in front of the family home.\nBob and Monty DeMara had many friends in their neighbourhood:\nJennens, McDougalls, Hampsons, Kerrs, Landers, Weddells, Capozzis and\nDavid Seath. Playing was their job, and they excelled at it. They caught frogs,\nsalamanders and snakes, and dug tunnels in the sawdust piles. In the winter,\nthey skated on Mill Creek and Okanagan Lake. Their first toys were wagons\nand tricycles and, later on, model airplanes. Of course, there were many games,\nincluding \"cops and robbers.\" It was a very happy and active childhood.\nCharles was a wonderful father, and he often took his sons fishing and hunting.\nAs Bob and Monty grew, the house became too small, and so Bob's\ndad and his friend George Hanlon built a tent frame in the yard, near the back\ndoor. It had a wooden floor and walls that were six feet high. It had a tent roof,\na canvas fly, coal oil stove and an electric light bulb. Bob and Monty had a\ncrystal radio, and they liked to listen to CKOV. The brothers slept in that tent\nfor two years. Eventually, Charles and Marn DeMara bought the flat-roofed,\nwhite, Spanish-style home (built by Don Loane) at 1858 Abbott Street. They\nlived there for many years.\n168\n BOB DEMARA\nIn their teen years, Bob and Monty mowed lawns and carted firewood\ninto the neighbours' basements. Many of Kelowna's men were away at war,\nand so the DeMara brothers kept very busy. Bob worked for Stewart Orchards,\npruning and thinning. He also worked in a local packinghouse and at the\nCourier.\nThe DeMara family was very musical. Bob's parents both played the\npiano, and Charles DeMara also played the organ and the mouth organ. Bob\ntook clarinet lessons and he also played the saxophone. He played in a number\nof local bands: the Kelowna City Band, the Kelownaires, the Ambassadors\nBand, and the Army Cadet Band.\nBob DeMara 2007. Photograph courtesy of Bernice DeMara\n169\n BOB DEMARA\nBob's grandmother, Madeline DeMara, built the Willow Inn, the\nWillow Lodge, and the nearby cottages. She was a businesswoman ahead of\nher time, and she could see the benefits of a coffee shop and a hotel at the spot\nwhere the Okanagan Lake ferries docked. Interest rates were enormous - and\nwho ever expected a woman to succeed? - but succeed she did.\nBob had many happy memories of the wonderful food that was\ncreated in the kitchen of the Willow Inn. The DeMara family used to gather at\nthe Willow Inn with the Days - Auntie Olive and Uncle Cameron, and Mary\nand Don (their cousins) - for Christmas parties. After the huge meal, Charles\nwould play the piano, and everyone gathered around and sang carols.\nAfter high school, Bob attended Herbert Business College in\nKelowna, where he learned to \"keep books,\" balance cheque books, and type -\na skill which served him well when computers came along many years later.\nBob joined his grandfather (Albert Herbert DeMara) and father\nCharles in the insurance business. It became his life career, until his retirement\nin 1984, at the age of 57 years. Monty also joined the family business,\nfollowing his career as a peacetime photographer in the air force. Monty\nremained in the business until his death in 1982.\nAfter his retirement, Bob and his wife Bernice travelled extensively.\nIn 1998 - 1999, they travelled around the world; they were a group of only two\npeople, and they were away from home for five and a half months, always\nmoving westward.\nIn his lifetime, Bob was a member of the Kelowna Chamber of\nCommerce, the Gyro Club (photographer), the Probus Club, the Central\nOkanagan Naturalists Club, and a Life Member of the Kelowna Yacht Club.\nBob was instrumental in setting up Bear Creek Park, on the west side of\nOkanagan Lake. In order to promote this park, he hiked up above the area, took\nsome photos, and sent them off to Bill Bennett, who was leader of the\nOpposition at the time. Bill liked the idea, and Bear Creek Park came into\nexistence. It is heavily used all spring, summer and fall.\nThe last year of his life, Bob spent many hours compiling a book\nabout the various boats on Okanagan Lake, starting in the early 1900s. He\ntalked to hundreds of boat owners, and was constantly working on the\ncomputer. The album that he produced is now in the Okanagan Heritage\nMuseum (Kelowna).\nBob loved Kelowna, including the history of his city. He was\nespecially proud of his deep Okanagan roots and his ancestors who lived here.\nBob DeMara died in the hospital where he was born, on June 29,2011.\n170\n ALAN CLARIDGE\nAlan Claridge\nApril 13,1924 - August 3,2011\nBy Richard Rolke\nAlan was born on a British ship off the coast of Brazil. Later his\nfamily moved from Britain to Oyama where Alan's father had a job lined up\nworking on an orchard. In October 1947 Alan married his sweetheart Elsie\nTyrell of Oyama. They had three children Alana, Don and Candice. Allan and\nElsie purchased their first orchard in the early fifties and later added two more\norchards.\nClaridge has been a key figure in the Okanagan fruit industry since\nthe 1950s. He was a member of the Agricultural Land Commission for\nnumerous years. He was also on the BC Fruit Growers Association executive.\nIn 1970 Claridge was president ofthe Canadian Horticultural Society. The\nBC Agrologists Institute named him Agriculturalist of the Year in 1971.\nClaridge also served as the\nBCFGA's ombudsman.\nAlong with his family and\norcharding Alan's other\ngreat passion was Oyama,\nwhere he was an avid\ncommunity booster and\ntireless volunteer. He sat on\nthe Oyama Community\nClub executive and was an\navowed defender of the way\nof life his family and others\nhad enjoyed in Oyama for\ndecades. Alan spoke out against the closure of Oyama elementary school and\nagainst Oyama becoming a part of Lake Country municipality. His convictions\nled him to join an ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge against\nincorporation. Like many others of his era he didn't mind providing people\nwith a bit of a geography or history lesson.\nAlan was a keen and knowledgeable boxing fan all of his life. Alan\nwas also interested in the well being of others in his community and country.\nHe worked hard all of his life with his wife Elsie at his side. She became ill in\nearly March 2010 and passed away three weeks later. They had been married\nfor 62 years. Alan was a man of strong principles.\nThe Claridge Family 2003 (L-R) Alana, Don, Alan and Elsie\n171\n ELIZABETH NIELSON\nElizabeth Verna Nielson\nMarch 27,1918 - June 6,2010\nBy Mary Ellison Bailey\nMary Ellison Bailey is her cousin. Mary Ellison Bailey who has written about the lives of the\nEllison family as well as many other Oyama and Armstrong tributes. Mary is Past President of the\nVernon Branch OHS.\nElizabeth, always called Beth, was the second daughter of Bishop and Mrs\nArthur Sovereign and the granddaughter of pioneers Price and Sophie Ellison.\nShe was born in Vancouver, one of three sisters and a brother. Beth grew up in\nthe communities of Dawson City and Peace River. She was an attractive blond\nknown for her kindness and faithfulness to friends. She was full of fun with a\nbubbly personality. Beth had a great passion for the Okanagan, and especially\nKalamalka Lake.\nShe graduated from the University of\nAlberta (BA 1939). Beth later received her\ndiploma in Teacher Training from the\nP University of British Columbia in 1940.\nShe taught in White Rock and Kelowna.\n! Beth met Dr. Jack Nielson on a blind date.\nIn 1947, they were married in All Saints\nAnglican Church in Vernon, BC. Jack's\ncareer in dentistry took them to Edmonton,\nSeattle and Winnipeg. She was determined\nto move to Vernon after the retirement of\nher husband from the position of Dean of\nDentistry at the University of Manitoba. No\none was surprised when they moved to a\nhouse overlooking Kalamalka Lake. Beth\nhad a multitude of friends and loved having\nthem visit the Okanagan so she could show\nthem all of her favorite spots. Her skill as a hostess for groups was legendary!\nBeth was very proud of her heritage and kept in touch with all of the family,\nnear and far. Throughout her life graciousness and love of family prevailed.\nShe was an enthusiastic cook, gardener, bridge player, golfer, and church\nwoman. Beth had a great love of the outdoors, both in summer, and in winter;\nshe passed this passion along to her family Kathy (Supreme Court Justice),\nJohn Arthur (Social Worker), and Barb (Medical Doctor). They in turn have\ndone the same for their children.\n'Beth' Nielson\n172\n ELIZABETH NIELSON\nThroughout her life Anna Fulton Cail was her special friend. Their\nmothers Thekla Reinhart Fulton and Ellen Ellison Sovereign, were girlfriends,\nand neighbors when the two girls were growing up on Pleasant Valley Road in\nVernon. Even though distance separated them for many years they found it\nonly natural to correspond and too visit whenever possible. During their times\ntogether there was always room for hikes, picnics, swimming, and birthday\nparties at the families' lakeshore cabins on Kalamalka Lake.\nOn August 3rd and 4th, 2002 Beth helped organize the Ellison family\nreunion for 35 adults and 15 fifth generation descendants of Price and Sophie\nEllison. An extensive display of Ellison family artifacts in the Vernon museum\ntook months to prepare. Beth provided many old letters and photographs which\nwere amongst her mother, Ellen's treasures. These photographs provided a\nrecord of Sophie Ellison's first year in \"Forge Valley\" (now Vernon BC). Beth\ninherited the Ellison family generosity and hospitality gene from her mother\nEllen Ellison Sovereign.\nFor many years Beth was a member and supporter of the Vernon\nBranch of the OHS. She was last mentioned in the annual report of 2010 page\n258. She claimed that all organizations needed regular people to maintain their\nmembership.\nThroughout her life Beth was known for the friendship she gave and\nfor the peace she brought to many. She enjoyed good health and a long and rich\nlife filled with trips and family visits. She died after a brief illness and was\nburied in the Ellison family plot in the Vernon Cemetery on Pleasant Valley\nRoad.\nNielson family (L-R) John Arthur, Dr. Jack, Kathryn, Beth and Barb\n173\n SEYMOUR HASSEN\nMATTHEW (\"MAT\")\nSEYMOUR HASSEN\nMay 8,1915 - February 7,2012\nBy: Mat R. Hassen\nMatthew Robert Hassen was born and raised in Armstrong and completed his B.Ed, at UBC and\nhis M.Ed. and Ph.D. at the University of Alberta. After a 38-year career as an educator and\nadministrator in BC, he retired to Osoyoos in 2005. Mat is carrying on a family tradition through\nhis active involvement on the Boards of both the Osoyoos Museum and the Osoyoos Desert\nSocieties.\nOn Tuesday, February 7th, Matthew Seymour Hassen passed away just two\nmonth's short of what would have been his 97th birthday. This marked the end\nof an almost hundred-year association of the Hassen family with Armstrong-\nSpallumcheen area. All things considered, it was a pretty good run.\nWith several minor exceptions - that is\nif you consider the Second World War\nas one of those exceptions - Mat S.\nHassen (Mat, the 3rd) lived his entire life\nin the Armstrong-Spallumcheen area.\nHe was born in 1915 and grew up with\nhis older brother, Romley, and his two\nyounger sisters, Eileen and Daphne.\nAfter he graduated from high school, he\nwent to Olds Agricultural College in\nAlberta to pursue his first, and perhaps\ngreatest, life-long interest. He also\nworked for a time at the Douglas Lake\nand Harper ranches but always returned\nto Armstrong and the family real estate,\nMat Hassen (courtesy of his son Mat R\nHassen) insurance and auctioneering business.\nLike many others in the area, he joined the Rocky Mountain Rangers Militia in\nthe late-1930s because it provided a small amount of income and exempted\nmales over the age of 21 who did not own property from the municipal poll tax\nwhich was set at $5.00 - an amount equal to a week's wages at that time.\nWhen the Rocky Mountain Rangers were called up in 1940, his life\nchanged. In between service in New Westminster and the Queen Charlottes, he\nmet and married Rose Rice in Vancouver. Their first daughter, Sharon Rose,\n174\n SEYMOUR HASSEN\npassed away suddenly in 1941 when she was only 2 months old just prior to\nMat being shipped overseas for the first time. Overseas, he ended up doing\nwhat so many Canadian infantrymen did which was to drill, to train, to wait, or\nto be sent to other regiments as replacement troops. It proved frustrating for\nmany Canadian servicemen who felt somewhat discounted and ignored as a\nresult. After a brief leave back in Canada in 1942, he returned to England to\nmore of the same. Rose Hassen relocated to Armstrong where their son, Mat\n(the 4th), was born in 1943. Also in 1943, Mat was promoted to the rank of\nMajor but shortly thereafter the Seaforth Highlanders needed a volunteer\nCaptain to go into action in Italy so he decided to take this opportunity. After\nthe Italian campaign, his unit boarded a troop transport ship and headed west.\nThey were convinced they were bound for the Pacific, but the ship turned north\nat Gibraltar and they became part of the liberating forces in Northern Europe.\nHis unit landed in Belgium, headed east to just inside the German border and\nthen north before turning west into Holland. From there, they fought their way\ntoward Amsterdam. Mat was part of the lead unit of the Seaforth Highlanders\nwhich officially liberated Amsterdam and that marked the beginning of a lifelong connection with a number of Dutch people. He forged a special bond with\nthe so-called \"Dutch Seaforths\" who visited back and forth over the years and,\nto this day, stay in regular touch. In fact, there was an informal dinner\ngathering in Diemen, a suburb of Amsterdam, in late-March to acknowledge\nhis passing and toast the memory of their Canadian friend.\nAfter the war, Mat planned to write the civil service exam and work with\nfor the BC Department of Agriculture. He had his reference letters and his\ninvitation to sit the exam. He also harboured thoughts of becoming a lawyer\nand those who knew him well can readily understand why he might have been\ndrawn to the legal profession. On arriving back in Canada, his plans changed\nwhen he discovered that his father, Mat (the 2nd who always insisted on a\nperiod after his familiar name because, after all, it was an abbreviation!) was\nexperiencing some significant problems. Mat abandoned his original plans and\ndecided to stay in Armstrong where he rejoined the family business and bought\na farm through VLA. It wasn't easy after the war for many veterans. The war\nhad clearly left its marks, the economy faltered and Mat found himself trying to\nbuild up a run-down 100 acre farm as well as work 6 days a week in the family\nbusiness.\nMat was also an accomplished auctioneer and, along with his father,\npracticed the ancient art at cattle and fat stock shows and sales in places like\nLytton, Kamloops, Merritt, Okanagan Falls, Williams Lake and Quesnel back\nin the heyday of such events. He was also a Director of the BC and Canadian\nHereford Breeders' Association for many years. In 1947, their second daughter,\nPatricia was born. In 1948, Davis Creek which ran through the middle of the\nfarm flooded and dumped tons of gravel on the surrounding fields. In 1955, his\nfather passed away but not before seeing the hastily-erected dedication sign in\n175\n SEYMOUR HASSEN\nhis name on the Memorial Arena. With his father's passing, Mat then took\nover the family business, sold the farm and gave up further thoughts of a career\nin agriculture, or law. He did, however, seize the opportunity to become a\nNotary Public - something that occupied a good deal of his work time over the\nyears. And then there was the Interior Provincial Exhibition. Starting in 1914,\nhis father became the Secretary-Manager and remained in the role until he\npassed away. After the war, Mat became increasingly involved with \"The\nFair\" because it was something very close to his agricultural heart. In 1955, he\ntook over as Secretary-Manager and oversaw a number of major changes\nbefore he stepped down in 1972, thereby ending a 59 year family history with\nwhat is now the largest, most successful, Class B agricultural fair in Western\nCanada.\nAs if the war were not enough, on several other occasions in his life Mat\nwas \"sent for but chose not to go\" until February 7, 2012. In 1958, he was on\nhis way home from Salmon Arm and in the late-afternoon dusk when he hit the\nback corner of a stalled lowbed with a 45 ton rock crusher on board. His left\nfemur was entirely shattered and his neck was broken. Had Dr. Roy Haugen,\nArmstrong's remarkable community doctor, not been in the next car to come\nalong, it's fairly certain that Mat would never have survived. But he did. Then\nwhen he was in his early 1970s, he was alone at the family retreat at Canoe\nPoint on Shuswap Lake which is across from Sicamous. He turned sideways\non the dry, grassy bank and his upper left leg snapped. Somehow he got\nhimself back in the 5-speed pick-up truck and drove over 40 miles home to\nArmstrong via back roads using only his right leg to shift, brake and accelerate.\nHe pulled into the driveway in Armstrong and leaned on the horn until Rose\ncame out where he instructed her to take him to the hospital. When asked why\nhe did what he did, he said simply that he didn't want to get stuck in the\nSalmon Arm hospital and have to leave his vehicle there!!\nAs tough as he sounded and acted at times, Mat was actually a very\nprivate, sensitive soul when it came to young things - birds, animals and,\nespecially, his beloved dogs. His family recalls several times when he brought\ndistressed, new-born lambs into the house and nursed them back to health in\nthe kitchen or watching him spend the better part of an hour cleaning oil from\nthe feathers of a young robin which had fallen from the nest into a barrel of\nused oil in the implement shed, giving it water with an eyedropper and getting\nup several times during the night to see if the baby bird was still okay. And a\nyear ago, his first great grandchild, Maggie, arrived and you just had to see\nthem together to understand the soft side Mat chose to keep hidden most of the\ntime.\nAnd Mat had a marvelous vocabulary although he tended to restrict\nhimself to a somewhat smaller set of words on frequent occasions, many of\nwhich had only a relatively few letters and were often delivered with a certain\npassion and energy. But when he needed to, or chose to, he was an eloquent,\n176\n SEYMOUR HASSEN\narticulate speaker and writer who was insightful, knowledgeable and well\ninformed. Mat was thoroughly committed to the prosperity and welfare of the\narea and did so without thought of personal profit. For example, he played a\nkey role in the establishment of the Industrial Park established south of\nArmstrong because it represented a needed diversification of the area's\neconomy. When Valley Dairy closed its doors, leaving the famous Armstrong\nCheese brand in limbo, he helped attract Dutch Dairy to the area and take over.\nHe fought to retain the local hospital, but without success, and was part of a\ncore group of local Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 35) members including\nTom Sidney and Vern Flatekval who managed to spearhead the redevelopment\nof the cenotaph site in Memorial Park which included the World War II\nVeterans' kiosk and the annual candle-lighting ceremony. In 1979, the\ncommunity recognized Mat and Rose as Citizens of the Year and that was\nconsidered to be more than fair recompense. The rest is now history.\nAnd speaking of history, the community will always be grateful to\nShirley Campbell and those who helped her capture the knowledge and\nrecollections of Mat as well as a number of other Armstrong-Spallumcheen\nresidents regarding the area and the Interior Provincial Exhibition which for 59\nyears, seemed kind of like part of the family business. The books - \"Pull up a\nChair\", \"Pull up Another Chair\" and \"Our Fair: The First 100 Years\"- are\nwonderful, first-hand records and we are ever so glad Shirley and her\nresearchers were able to record so much information before it was lost forever\n- something which has happened far too often in communities everywhere.\nDuring their 60+ years of married life, the real family workhorse was\nRose, a thoroughbred wife and mother. She worked on the farm, worked in the\noffice, worked on the Fair, raised a family, maintained a house as well as\nextensive vegetable and flower gardens and played a role in numerous peoples'\nlives in Armstrong. When she passed away 11 years ago, there was no service,\nso we would like to offer a few words on her behalf.\nRose was a 5'2\" dynamo who stood 6' tall on most occasions and was a\nwonderful counterbalance to Mat. While he might be a tad prickly from time\nto time, Rose was soft and affable. While he was quick to judge on occasion,\nshe was tolerant, compassionate and forgiving. While he was sometimes\nsingle-minded and focused, she was a master multi-tasker before being able to\nmultitask was considered an asset. She was an excellent cook, a passionate\ngardener (especially when it came to her namesake roses), a wonderful dancer\n(particularly the Old Time dances), considerate, helpful, patience, dependable,\nloyal and a fierce fighter for what she believed as those who sought to make\nchanges in the local watershed and close the local hospital discovered. Rose\nwas a conciliator, protector, conscience and supporter. Her two children used\nto refer to her privately as \"the Duchess\" until one day, she overheard the\nreference and asked, \"Who is the Duchess?\" We looked at one another,\nhesitated, and then said, \"You\". She paused, gave us \"the eye\" (as only Mom\n177\n SEYMOUR HASSEN\ncould do) and then went on about her business. We will never forget \"the eye\"\n... as it was something she did from time to time and, believe me, words were\nnever necessary to convey her meaning when you got \"the eye\"!\nMat valued Armstrong-Spallumcheen and no one was a stronger\nadvocate for the area as a great place to live, work, raise a family, or retire.\nAlthough the community has changed dramatically over the years - and will\ncontinue to do so - Mat often reminded folks to take a moment, regularly, to\nappreciate the benefits of living in the community, and the Okanagan Valley in\ngeneral.\nMat. S. Hassen was part of its past - but we who remain have a very\nimportant role too in its future.\t\nRose and Matt Hassen\nMat. S. Hassen was a contributor to the Okanagan Historical Society Annual\nReports, authoring three articles:\n\"Farm Youth Clubs in Armstrong Spallumcheen District\" Report #46: pp97-\n102\n\" 100 Years of History of the Spallumcheen Lodge\" Report #52: pp 150-153\n\"Armstrong and Spallumcheen in 1925\" Report #64: pp75-80\n178\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nLives Remembered - 2012\nALLAN, Elizabeth \"Beth\" (nee Gellatly); (b)14 September 1920, Kelowna, BC (d)06\nDecember 2010, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Gordon, survived by daughters\nLynn McKenzie, Jean Smith, Taylor Sinclaire (Bill Acheson), Judy Kenzli and Claire\n(Alan) Ewbank. She was a member of pioneer Gellatly family, a lifetime member of the\nRoyal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary Branch No. 26 and the BC Dragoons\nWhizzbang Assoc. Beth was the bookkeeper of the family business Comet Delivery\nService.\nARTHURS, Lenora Eva (nee Kavalinas); (b)01 September 1944, Salmon Arm, BC\n(d)30 April 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Survived by husband Ken, sisters Anna Lund, Ena\nRudakas, Betty (Dan) Unterschultz, brothers Vic, Stanley and John (Joyce), and sister-\nin-law Dorothy Kavalinas. Educated in Salmon Arm and Vernon, she worked for IBM\nin Calgary, and with Ken had a Canadian Tire franchise in Ontario, before returning to\nSalmon Arm. She was Executive secretary to Eugene Casavant at Shuswap Lake\nGeneral Hospital for twelve years, then successfully ran her own fashion store, Lenny's\nClothes Closet. She was very active with the Daybreak Rotary Club and the S.P.C.A.\nASHLEY, Lawrence Stirling; (b)18 November 1919, Macklin, SK (d)29 September\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Sharon, survived by sons Greg, Bob, and\nChris (Jenn). He came to Kelowna as a young boy, and attended Central Elementary and\nKelowna High Schools. Lawrence served with the Royal Air Force in World War II and\nlater worked as an accountant.\nBARZ, Arthur Edward; (b)12 December 1915, Germany (d)16 February 2011,\nSalmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by son Gordon, daughter Shirley Jamieson, three\ngrandchildren, and sisters Helen Kohler and Ella Winterhalder. He is survived by wife\nJoan (nee Bland), daughter Eileen (Hank) Hackett, grandchildren, great-grandchildren,\nand four brothers, Ernie, Harry, Paul and Billy. He trapped in the Yukon for five years,\nthen came to Salmon Arm in 1941, where he met and married Joan. They ran a poultry\nfarm in the valley for thirty-five years.\nBEDFORD, George Victor (Vic); (b)19 April 1915, Salmon Arm, BC (d)02 February\n2012, Salmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by wife Nina (nee Mobley), sister Margaret\nKeeling, and brothers Albert, Doug, and Max. Survived by daughters Barbara (Mike)\nDagneau, Melanie (Bob) Ashton, and grandchildren. The son of Albert Bedford, Salmon\nArm's first druggist\/optometrist, he first studied engineering at UBC. In 1945 he\ngraduated with honours from the School of Optometry at the University of Toronto with\nnumerous medals and prizes, but chose to return to the Shuswap for his entire\nprofessional career. He enjoyed building his own vehicles such as ice-boats and speed\nboats, and studied and conducted research into early childhood vision.\nBEGGS, Aimee Catherine Amez-Droz (Eckersley); (b)18 August 1915,\nVancouver, BC (d)26 April 2011, Summerland, BC. Aimee was predeceased by her\nhusband Gordon James Beggs (Rotary Beach Park) in 1994. Survived by their\n179\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nchildren Ann (George) Yelle, Joan Ellis, Ken (Linda Palmer), Joe (Judith), Janice\n(Gerald) McLeod and Lee (Fred) Parent. Aimee had 21 grandchildren, 30 great\ngrandchildren and 3 great great-grandchildren. At age 6, she arrived in Summerland\naboard the Sicamous steamer. The family resided in Summerland (now Lakeside) and\nlater lived on an orchard around Giant's Head. She and Gordon farmed and operated\nBeggs Fruit Stand for many years. She was a long-time member and treasurer of the\nOrder of the Eastern Star.\nBEWS, Marion Edith (Lee); (b)12 August 1918, Kamloops, BC (d)08 December\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Tribute OHS Member\nBIEBER, (nee Bawtree) Noelle Elizabeth Grace; (b)25 December 1928, Enderby, BC\n(d)30 January 2011, Vernon, BC. Predeceased by her husband Clarence, survived by her\nchildren Ken, Ron, Bernice, Anita and Allan. Noelle grew up in Ashton Creek, near\nEnderby and moved to the Stepney area of Spallumcheen when she married. She was a\nvery active individual who participated in sports, dancing and travel. Noelle was the\nhistorian for the Armstrong Curling Club, worked for 4-H, the Branch 35 Royal\nCanadian Legion and the local Senior's clubs.\nBOSTOCK, Raymond; (b)07 January 1927, Kelowna, BC (d)l 1 July 2011, Kelowna,\nBC. Tribute. OHS Member\nBULL, Mary; (b)06 August 1919, Troon, Scotland (d)29 October 2010, Kelowna, BC.\nPredeceased by brother Tony. Mary lived in Kelowna from the early 1920s. She was a\nwell known Kelowna artist. OHS Member\nCACCHIONI, Tommaso; (b)07 December 1923, Blairmore, AB (d)26 February 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Dorothy, survived by son Mark (Dianne), and\ndaughters Joy (Art) Kendall and Janet Cacchioni. Tommaso moved to Kelowna in 1928.\nHe joined the RCAF, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.\nCAPOZZI, Harold Peter \"Herb\"; (b) 24 April 24 1925, Kelowna, BC (d)21\nNovember 2011, Kelowna Tribute.\nCHAMBERLAIN, Joan Catherine Elsie; (b) 02 January 1921, Vancouver, BC(d)01\nOctober 2011, Kelowna, BC Tribute OHS Member\nCHAPLIN, Harry; (b)17 February 1915, Kelowna, BC (d)14 December 2010,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Betty, survived by daughters Blanche (Doug)\nNishi, Marjorie (John) Beales and Mary (Bruce) Thompson. Harry was a grandson of\nHarry Raymer, Kelowna's first mayor. He worked for S.M. Simpson Ltd (later Crown\nZellerbach).\nCLARIDGE, Allan; (b)13 April 1924, on a British Ship (d)03 August 2011, Vernon,\nB.C. Allan was predeceased by his wife Elsie and survived by their children Alana,\nDon, and Candice. Allan was the son of Oyama Pioneers William and Anna Claridge.\nBoth Allan and his parents were orchardists. Allan was president of both BC Fruit\nGrowers Association and the Canadian Horticultural Council. As well, he was a\n180\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nmember of the BC Land Commission. Allan contributed to his local community\nthrough the Oyama Community Club and the Cemetery Committee. Tribute\nCULLING, (nee Becker) Genevieve Bernice; (b)20 April 1923, Armstrong, BC (d)28\nFebruary 2012, Vernon, BC. Predeceased by her husband John William and survived by\nher son Cameron. Genevieve grew up in Armstrong as a member of the prominent\npioneer Becker and Clinton families. She worked as receptionist at the GLA mine in\nFalkland until the mine closed, and then moved to Calgary. In 2003 Genevieve retired\nback to Armstrong where she became an important volunteer at the Armstrong Museum\nand Archives.\nCULOS, Reno; (b)25 July 1926, Kelowna, BC (d)19 September 2010, Kelowna, BC.\nSurvived by wife Elizabeth \"Betty.\" Reno will be remembered for his faithful service of\nover 30 years driving the school bus for the Joe Riche area. OHS Member\nDAIS, Norman; (b)15 January 1926, Alberta (d)02 November 2011, Kelowna, BC.\nSurvived by wife Shirley and children Jim (Tracy), Jeffrey (Linda), Jason (Kim), Jarret\n(Krista), Keith (Jacquie), Lloyd Auch (Wendy), Leslee Auch (Corinne) and Sherry\nAuch (Bart). Norm moved to Kelowna as a child and graduated from Rutland High\nSchool. Norm was an avid cattleman and horseman.\nDANALLANKO, Arthur \"Art\"; (b)19 January 1924, Consort, AB (d)24 September\n2011, Armstrong, BC Predeceased by his wife Shirley (nee Becker) and survived by his\ndaughters Shirley-Ann Asay, Linda Aspinall, Wendy Schrauwen and Becky Leister. Art\ngrew up in Armstrong, joined the R.C.A.F. and served overseas in the latter part of\nWorld War II. Art returned to Armstrong and became very involved in the community.\nHe worked for various Dairy companies and spent many years delivering milk to the\ntown's businesses and households. Art was a city councillor from 1976 to 1979, was\nactive in sports, especially lacrosse, the Kinsmen Club, Masons and Branch 35, Royal\nCanadian Legion.\nDAVIDSON, Neil Anderson; (b)23 February 1916, Stettler, AB (d)16 January 2010,\nVernon, BC. Predeceased by his wife Isabel and survived by his children Diane,\nBarbara, Margaret and Gordon. Neil moved to Vernon in the 1920s where the family's\nsheep operation overlooked Okanagan Lake. He graduated from the University of\nAlberta Law School, served in the Air Force in WWII, and on his return to Vernon\npracticed many aspects of the law. He was the Mayor of Vernon for 2 years, took\nleading positions in Silver Star Park board, Water Conservation Board, Social Planning\nCouncil, Chamber of Commerce, Community Music School and the United Way. He\nfounded the Concerned Citizens for College Education in the 1960s. In 1997, he was\nawarded the Keys to the City and received two Queen Elizabeth Jubilee awards for\ncontributions to the country.\nde BOER, Siemen (Simon); (b)21 June 1927, Tjerkwerd, the Netherlands (d)l 1 August\n2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by son Harry, daughter Susie, granddaughter\nCharlotte Anne and nine siblings. Survived by wife Elsie, daughters Yvonne (Gary)\nWeintz, Sandy (Barry), Fimmy (Edward) Ganshorn, Cathy (Peter) Pachmann, Corry\n181\n LIVES REMEMBERED\n(Raymond) Stuart, Evelyn (Bruce) Quibell, and Michele (Larry) Larson, sons Garry\n(Lea) and John (Holly), grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and five brothers. He was\nactive in the farming community and the Salmon Arm Fall Fair, and served 23 years on\nthe board of the Regional District of Columbia\/Shuswap, many as chairman.\nDeMARA, Robert Charles (Bob); (b)13 August 1927, Kelowna, BC(d)29 June 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Tribute. OHS Member\nDENDY, H. D'Arze; (b)25 August 1917, Kelowna, BC (d)12 October 2010, Kelowna,\nBC. Survived by wife Marion, children Hugh (Christine), Tom, David and Jean (Doug)\nNeedham. He was a member of an East Kelowna pioneer family and a long-time teacher\nand orchardist.\nDILLON, Chester Milton; (b)13 December 1924, Kelowna, BC (d)13 January 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by wife Carol (nee Curts) and sons Ken and Keith (Tanja).\nMember ofthe pioneer Dillon family. Following service in WW II, he worked at Beaver\nLake Resort and then in the family trucking business, Dillon and Son. OHS Member\nDRINKWATER, Michael; (b)22 September 1922, Vernon, BC (d)01 October 2010,\nEdmonton, AB. Survived by wife Joan, sons Jim, Ken and their spouses. Parents James\nand Dorothy Drinkwater emigrated to Oyama from England in 1919. Michael graduated\nfrom Kelowna High School in 1940 and joined the Canadian Navy. OHS Member\nDROUGHT, Henry Robert (Robin); (b)08 August 1917, Kelowna, BC (d)12\nDecember 2011, Kelowna, BC. Survived by wife Kate (Kitty), son Brian, and daughters\nLorraine Trudgian (Michael), Sharon Harrison (Bill), and Jennifer. Robin's parents\nAlbert and Edith Drought came to Peachland in 1904 and moved the family to\nWestbank in 1920. He served in World War II as a wireless air-gunner.\nDUNSDON, Stephen Harvey; (b)29 March 1919, Summerland, BC (d)19 September\n2011, Penticton, BC. Survived by wife Ruth and children, Clifford (Margaret), Patricia\nHorner (George), Joan Gladwin (Lee), Kenneth (Jolene) and Meredith Salama,\ngrandchildren, and great grandchildren. Steve was a veteran of World War II. He was\npresident of Branch 22, Summerland Royal Canadian Legion in 1960; President of the\nPacific Command of the Legion, and president of the Dominion Command of the\nLegion from 1982-1984. People called him Mr. Legion.\nDYSON, Peter Spencer Dampier; (b)06 February 1926, Kelowna, BC (d)06 April\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Peggy and son Steven. Survived by daughters\nHelen (Delbert Radomske) and Kate Virginia (Bryan Gregoire). Peter was an orchardist\nin East Kelowna much of his life.\nELLIOT, Beatrice (nee Vanidour); (b)03 February 1921, Kelowna, BC (d)05 June\n2010, Kelowna, BC. Survived by husband Alan and son David. She was a long time\nmember of the Kelowna Golf & Country Club.\n182\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nFAZAN, Eric Gordon; (b)21 February 1931, Joe Riche, BC (d)15 May 2010,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by his first wife Mona (nee Rooney). Survived by wife\nClaire; daughters Cathy Fazan, Jeannette Fedorchuk, and son Allan (Sharon). Eric was a\nmember of a long-time Joe Riche family.\nFENTON, Bertha \"Estella\" (nee Webber); (b)13 September 1908, Cochrane, AB (d)\n03 June 2010, Kelowna, BC, at the age of 101 years. Predeceased by husband Cliff and\nson Max. Survived by daughter Darlene Sandbulte and son Bruce Fenton. She was born\nto pioneers of Westbank, John and Bertha Webber, and moved to Glenrosa in 1910.\nFIELD, Edna; (b)04 November 1926, Regina, SK (d)23 January 2011, Kelowna, BC.\nPredeceased by husband Edwin. Edna arrived in Kelowna in 1937 with her parents,\nsisters and brothers. She married Edwin M. Field in 1947.\nFLATEKVAL, Earl Vernon \"Vern\"; (b)29 June 1922, Regina, SK(d)03 March 2012,\nVernon, BC. Predeceased by his wife Laura (nee Graves), survived by daughter Carol\nMcGrath. Vern left Armstrong in 1942 to join the R.C.A.F. where he served as a Tail\nGunner in Lancaster bombers. He returned to the town to take up many different jobs\nsuch as mail route person, school bus driver and insurance salesman. In retirement Vern\nworked hard through the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion to guarantee that\nall the veterans from both World Wars would be remembered. He was instrumental in\nprojects at the Memorial Park such as the Veteran's Kiosk and the Candle Light\nCeremonies.\nFOORD, Thomas James (Tom); (b)08 May 1922, Instow, SK (d)12 April 2012,\nVernon, BC. Tom joined the RCAF in 1939 and was posted to Newfoundland where he\nmet his future wife Norah Davidson, a sergeant working on the tele-type machines.\nThey married in 1944 and later moved to Norah's hometown of Vernon where they\nraised five children, Jean, Colin, Nancy, Janet and Robert. Norah predeceased him on\n25 February 2012 in Vernon. Times were tough so Tom worked on the family sheep\nfarm, sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door, drove delivery trucks, delivered oil, until\neventually he was able to purchase a Home Oil gas station in Vernon. Tom had a great\nbusiness sense and he soon began a new company, Kai Tire, which was so successful\nthat today is known internationally. Tom was involved in many local projects and was\nrecognized by a variety of institutions for his contributions to the improvement of his\ncommunity.\nFOWLER, Alfred \"Alt\" George; (b)12 October 1945, Armstrong, BC (d)28 May\n2011, Enderby, BC. Survived by his wife Wanda and stepsons Doug and Darryl\nDurocher. Alf was a direct descendant of Armstrong's pioneer Fowler family. He grew\nup on the family farm and was active in 4-H and the Interior Provincial Exhibition. Alf\ntransported Armstrong school children for over thirty years as their school bus driver.\nAlf was also a volunteer firefighter, a member of the Fish and Game club and a director\nof his local Water District. OHS Member\nGAGNON, Rosie Mary (nee Kornberger); (b)07 April 1917, Regina, SK (d)28 June\n2010, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Abel. Survived by daughters Thelma\n183\n LIVES REMEMBERED\n(Dave) Bruce, Reba (Don) Hawthorne, and sons Rod (Jean) and Don (Evelyn). She was\nactive in St. Joseph's Church, the Catholic Women's League and the Royal Canadian\nLegion.\nGRAYSTON, Joyce Belle (nee Wright); (b)01 June 1921, Silver Creek, BC (d)27\nMay 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Daughter of a pioneer Silver Creek family, she was\npredeceased by parents Ivan and Louise Wright and brothers Laurie and Hugh. Survived\nby husband Eric, daughters Lynne Dickson and Pam Lang, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Joyce graduated in nursing from Kamloops, and nursed in Salmon Arm.\nIn 1955 polio left her confined to a wheelchair, but her patient work to improve her\ndisability led to her receiving her driver's license in 1967. She was very involved with\nher family and her church.\nGREENWOOD, Ian; (b)12 August 1926, Victoria, BC (d)28 May 2010, Kelowna,\nBC. Predeceased by wife Lucille and eldest son Glen. Survived by sons Bruce and\nScott (Judy). Ian worked for Sun Rype for 30 years, many as General Manager, and in\n1971 he was appointed President of BC Tree Fruits. He served on the UBC Senate, was\nappointed by the BC Cabinet to the Board of Governors, was founding Chairman of the\nBC Press Council, and was on the Board of the BC Science Council. He was active in\nthe Rotary Club, and published works related to the history of the tree fruit and\nprocessed fruit industries in the Okanagan and British Columbia. OHS Member\nHASSEN, Matthew \"Mat\" Seymour; (b)08 May 1915, Armstrong, BC(d)07 February\n2012, Armstrong, BC. Predeceased by his wife Rose in 2001 and daughter Sharon Rose\nin 1941. Survived by his son Matthew Robert and daughter Trish Findlay. Tribute.\nHAWLEY, Kathleen (nee Reed); (b)ll November 1918 (d)01 December 2010,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Russ and son Ken. Survived by daughter Marian\n(Harry) and daughter in-law Doreen.\nHIKICHI, Shoichi; (b)02 December 1920, Kelowna, BC (d)27 October 2010,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by daughter Grace (David) Weber, and sons Barry (Shannon)\nand Dan (Donna). Sho was a long-time orchardist in Okanagan Centre. He married Teru\nTamaki (also born in Kelowna).\nHOKAZONO, Aji; (b)30 October 1914, Kyushu, Japan (d)22 November 2010,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Mary Mitsuko, and daughter Eileen Toyoko.\nSurvived by sons Ken (Gloria), Roger (Nicki), and Lloyd (Ali), and grandchildren. Aji\ncame to Kelowna as a sponsored agricultural labourer in 1933, went on to become a\nsuccessful vegetable farmer and orchardist.\nHOSHIZAKI, Alma (nee Bergen); (b) Ukraine, 1929(d) 21 December 2010, Kelowna,\nBC.\nHOSHIZAKI, Norman; (b) 1928 Kelowna, BC(d) 21 December 2010, Kelowna, BC.\nAlma came to Winfield in 1948 and married Norman. They were predeceased by son\nJames. Survived by daughters Teresa (Derek) Weisgerger and Nadine (Rick) LaPlume\nand son Dan.\n184\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nHOYTE, Phyllis Margaret (nee Berry); (b)28 August 1922, Vernon, BC (d) 30 April\n2011, Vernon, BC. Phyllis was a granddaughter of early Vernon family C.F. Costerton\nand daughter of Albert and Doris Berry. She was predeceased by her parents and\nhusband Mort. Phyllis is survived by their sons Ted and Dave. Phyllis contributed to the\nOutreach programmes of All Saints Anglican Church and was very involved with Girl\nGuides. She belonged to several historical organizations where she was a helpful\nresource. OHS Member\nHUBBARD, Violet (nee Woods); (b)09 December 1918, Kelowna, BC (d)22 March\n2012, West Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Don and survived by sons Wayne\nand Mike (Trudy). Violet was a life-long resident of Kelowna.\nINABA, Masamitsu \"Sam\"; (b)10 March 1923, Kazone, Yamanashi, Japan (d)07\nMarch 2011, Summerland, BC. Predeceased by wife Toshiko Inaba. Survived by\ndaughter, Kazuko (Junichi) Hamada and sons, Shinji (Kaoru) Nagata and Yoshihito\nInaba, as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren. Sam came to Summerland in\n1972 and first worked at Barkwill Cannery, renting (and later purchasing) a parcel of\nland on Huddleston Rd. He worked over 35 years in the orchard growing corn, tomatoes\nand other vegetables. Sam also made tofu and Japanese-style pickles as a hobby. He was\na very active member of the Tenrikyo faith.\nITO, Mieko \"Mae\" (nee Mori); (b)29 March 1935, Kelowna, BC(d)16 March 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by husband Ken, daughter Kim Ito (Peter Dyck) and sons Ron\nand David. The Mori family came to the Central Okanagan in 1920 to farm.\nJOHNS, Alfred Norman; (b)08 June 1919, Kelowna, BC (d)15 March 2011, Kelowna,\nBC. Predeceased by brother Sid and sisters Rosemary and Nancy. Survived by\nnumerous nieces and nephews. He and his family's legacy will continue on through his\ngenerous gift of park-land to the Central Okanagan Parks and Wildlife Trust.\nJOHNSTON, Clara Alice (nee McNeil); (b)ll August 1910, Rivers, MB (d)20\nJanuary 2012, Salmon Arm, BC. Tribute in Okanagan Historical Society report # 75.\nOHS Member\nJOHNSTON, Lloyd; (b)16 March 1927, Edmonton, AB (d)08 July 2011, Salmon Arm,\nBC. Survived by wife Joy (nee MacLeod) and sons David, Lome, Kent, Ewen (Sandy)\nand Chris (Darcy), grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He grew up in Alberta and\njoined the R.C.M.P. at 18, becoming a member of the Musical Ride. Heading the\nSalmon Arm detachment for four years led to his retiring here and a second career as\nPersonnel Manager at Federated Co-op in Canoe. He served as a town councilor and\nwas active in Rotary and with several sports.\nJORDON, Lorrilee Jean (nee Ruschkowski); (b)16 September 1945, Gull, SK (d)01\nFebruary 2012, Vernon, BC. Survived by her husband Dave and children Sheldon,\nTrenna Luttmerding, Shanda Gaetz and Jacinta. Lorrilee was a dedicated member of the\nCatholic Women's League of Canada serving as the Armstrong president, the Kamloops\ndiocesan president and being involved at the British Columbia\/Yukon level. For years\n185\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nshe was employed at the Armstrong Advertiser and volunteered at the Interior\nProvincial Exhibition and the Armstrong Photo Archives.\nKING, Harold; (b)26 August 1926, MB (d) 25 December 2011, Kelowna, BC.\nPredeceased by his wife Joan and survived by children, Kathy, Diane and Ron. Harold\nwas a South Okanagan resident for 80 years where he was an orchardist. The\nenvironment was his passion and he became a member of the Oliver-Osoyoos\nNaturalists Club in 1978. He was a warden of the Haynes Lease Ecological Reserve\nsince 1980; a director of the Okanagan Similkameen Parks Society for 20 years, and\nwas chair of the RDOS Area \"C\" Advisory Planning Commission until he was 85. He\nwas a recipient of BC Nature's Elton Anderson Award in 2010. OHS Member\nKOBAYASHI, Junko \"Jean\" (nee Koyama); (b)19 February 1921, Kelowna, BC\n(d)04 September 2011, Langley, BC. Predeceased by husband Matt, survived by\ndaughter Lynn, and sons Richard (Barbara) and Ross (Catherine). Member of a pioneer\nOkanagan family, Junko (Jean) grew up on the family farm at Winfield. Following her\nmarriage, she and her family lived many years on their Okanagan Centre orchard. Jean\nwas very involved in her community.\nKOYAMA, Motoy \"Mots\"; (b)22 June 1923, Winfield, BC (d)19 March 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by wife Michi (nee Taiji), daughters Karen and Janice and son\nDavid.\nKOYAMA, Paul; (b)01 August 1931, Winfield, BC (d)25 August 2011, Vernon, BC.\nSurvived by wife Sayuri. Member of a pioneer Okanagan Centre family. Paul attended\nschool in Winfield and Rutland. For many years he worked in various Okanagan\nsawmills.\nKURODA, Barbara Lynn; (b)01 February 1954, Penticton, BC (d)ll January 2011,\nPenticton, BC. Survived by parents Frank and Marjorie Kuroda; brother Ken (Berva)\nand nephew Brayden Kuroda; aunts Amy Yamabe and Kathleen (Junji) Yukawa;\nuncles Roy Kuroda and Richard (Marianna) Yamabe. She was employed at Revenue\nCanada for 23 years and last worked at the Penticton and District Society for\nCommunity Living. She volunteered at the soup kitchen and retirement centre for\nmany years.\nLAITINEN, Elsie (nee Sundmark); (b)13 March 1921, Salmon Arm, BC (d)30\nOctober 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by husband Edward, daughter Barbara,\nand son Kenneth. Survived by daughter Eileen (Al), sons Gerry (Janette) and Jim (\nLinda), grandchildren and great-grandchildren, sisters Evelyn and Selma, and brothers\nElof and Erick. Daughter of local pioneers, she worked at Boeing Aircraft in Vancouver\nduring WWII, but the Shuswap was her lifelong home. She was an advocate for many\ncauses in the community, and was known for her sewing, needlecraft and beautiful\ngardens.\n186\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nLAITINEN, Stewart Matthew (Bud); (b)29 March 1929, Salmon Arm, BC (d)26\nFebruary 2012, Kamloops, BC. Son of pioneers Albert and Vera Laitinen, predeceased\nby first wife Marianne, sister Yvonne Ross, nephew Norman Cunningham and\ngranddaughter Jamie-Lynn Robertson. Survived by wife Caroline, daughters\nMaureen(Ron) Lefebvre, Sharon McBeth, and Vicki (Roman) Gehring, step-sons Rob(\nNan), Chad, Kenny, and Ian (Kelly) Robertson, grandchildren, sister Lois Cunningham\nand brother-in-law Don Ross. He made his career with the B.C. Forest Service, and\nenjoyed a long retirement with summers at Shuswap Lake.\nLANSDELL, Ed; (b)10 October 1923, Wrentham, England (d)13 October 2011,\nPenticton, BC. Survived by wife Joan; children Candace and David, stepchildren\nMike and Sean Madill; grandchildren and great grandchildren. Ed was in the RAF\nuntil retiring in 1946. He was active in Summerland for more than 30 years. He was a\nmember of the Kiwanis Club, Masonic Lodge, a volunteer with Meals on Wheels, the\nmuseum and the Canadian Cancer Society. He helped start the Summerland Air Cadet\nCorp and then helped with the Penticton Sea Cadet Corp. OHS Member\nLEACH, Mary Erica (nee Willis); (b)23 March 1917, Kelowna, BC (d)ll October\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband James \"Jim\", survived by daughter Karen.\nShe was a well-known local artist. Her mother Grace Willis was also a local artist, and\nher uncle, G.H.E. \"Huddy\" Hudson, was one of Kelowna's first commercial\nphotographers.\nLEAMING, Kathleen (nee Spall); (b)06 July 1928, Kelowna, BC(d) 05 November\n2010, Summerland, BC. Tribute in 2011 OHS Annual Report.\nLEIGHTON, Arthur Alexander; (b)17 April 1927, Brechin, Scotland (d)27\nDecember 2011, Vernon, BC. Survived by his wife Betty, daughters Garnet Schaal, Isla\nVandelaar and son Garth. In 1970 Arthur arrived in Armstrong as the Manager of the\nlarge Buckerfield's operation. He served the community as a city councillor from 1988\nto 1996, as a Director of the Armstrong Credit Union and as an active member of the\nLions Club.\nLONGLEY, Isobel Kathleen (nee Bartley); (b)1917 New Westminster, BC (d)16\nJuly 2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Bert. Isobel was the daughter of\nCharles and Sophia Bartley, pioneer Westside orchardists, who purchased property in\n1922. She attended a one-room school in what is now Lakeview Heights. Isobel had a\ngreat love for the land which she farmed and all the creatures which lived on it.\nMACDONNELL, George Augustus; (b)16 April 1915, Kelowna, BC (d)12 November\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Laura, survived by sons Bryan (Lorraine),\nLa Verne (Rita), and Jim (Fran). Son of Ellison pioneers \"Gus\" and Minnie (nee\nWhelan) Macdonnell, his Central Okanagan roots go back to the early 1870s. George\nwas in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served in World War II. He was General\nManager of Kelowna Growers Exchange.\n187\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nMARSHALL, Denis Paul; (b)06 April 1933, New Westminster, BC (d)08 October\n2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Tribute. OHS Member\nMARTIN, Margaret; (b)29 September 1916, Mission City, BC (d)23 January 2011,\nVernon, BC. Predeceased by her husband Jack and survived by her daughter Heather.\nMargaret was a highly respected and innovative teacher in Vernon for 36 years. In\nretirement, she volunteered tirelessly for the Naturalist Club, University Women's Club,\nThe Social Planning Council, Cancer Society, and the Water Stewardship committee. In\n1990 she received the City of Vernon's Most Valuable People Award for her\noutstanding contribution to her community. OHS Member\nMAXSON, Margaret Ann (nee Pritchard); (b)01 November 1928, Kelowna, BC\n(d)27 June 2011, Kelowna, BC. Survived by daughter Christyanne Maxson. Margaret's\nparents were pioneers Richard and Marjorie Pritchard, who moved to the area in 1919.\nShe attended the two-room school in Westbank, where she was taught by her mother.\nMcIVER, Bernard Bryan; (b)14 May 1924, Kelowna, BC (d)08 December 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by son David. Survived by wife Trudy, son Bryan, and\ndaughter Pat (Dave). He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World\nWar.\nMcKEE, Ken; (b)27 February 1925, Chicago, IL (d)19 August 2011, Salmon Arm, BC.\nPredeceased by wife Lillian (nee Deschamps). Survived by sons Douglas (Vicki) and\nClifford (Kathleen), daughter Vivian, grandchildren, and siblings Barbara Ann (Harold)\nBeck, Ruth (Bob) Steeves, Muriel (Ben) Sawatzky, and Stanley McKee. A WWII\nveteran of the R.C.A.F., he was discharged honourably in 1952 when he contracted\npolio, which left him without the use of one arm. Ken was active in the community,\nwith the Elks, Credit Union, Toastmasters, Shuswap Drug and Alcohol Committee, and\nOkanagan Mainline Real Estate Board. He was an avid golfer and wrote the \"Box 166\"\ncolumn for the Salmon Arm Observer, as well as serving on council and as Reeve of\nSalmon Arm.\nMCLACHLAN, Ross; (b)29 September 1921, Summerland, BC (d)10 June 2011,\nSummerland, BC. Survived by wife Nina and children, Anne, Maureen, Neil, their\nfamilies, grandchildren and great- grandchildren. After two years in Prisoner of War\ncamps during WWII, he returned to Summerland and became the local postmaster\nbefore changing careers to become an English teacher in Penticton. He spent several\nyears as a member of the School Board and president of the Summerland Legion,\nBranch #22. He was a key player in developing Summerland's memorial parks and was\nthe catcher during the grand opening of the Living Memorial Athletic Park on May 24,\n1948.\nMORTON, Alan; (b)02 May 1924, Vancouver, BC (d)16 March 2011, Lethbridge,\nAB. Predeceased by wives Minna Winkler Morton, and Irene Morton, and daughter-in -\nlaw La Rae Morton. Survived by sons Art and Mark, grandchildren, and stepsons Ron,\nTom and Bob Estrada. In WWII he piloted a Lancaster Bomber, and retired in 1969as a\nCaptain. After taking over the family home in Salmon Arm, his second career as a\nrealtor and appraiser continued until 1983. He moved the brick family home where his\n188\n LIVES REMEMBERED\naunt, Queenie Jones, had taught piano, from its location on the TCH to Auto Road,\nwhere it remains a landmark. He was an active member of the Legion until moving to\nAlberta in 2006.\nNAITO, Tomio \"Tom\"; (b)12 September 1925, Kelowna, BC (d)18 May 2010,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by first wife, Keiko (nee Ito). Survived by daughters Diana\nArthur, Janice Rogers, Wendy Trenn and wife Helen (nee Matsuda). Tom lived in the\nGlenmore area and worked in the orchards and later drove for Country Freight Lines.\nOSBORN, June (nee Tryon); (b)15 June 1912, Lonsdale, England (d)26 April 2010,\nVernon, BC. Predeceased by her husband Bill and survived by their children Bob, Ted,\nDiane and Peter. As Bill was manager ofthe historic Coldsteam Ranch from 1952 until\n1976, June was able to pursue her love of horses. She was an active volunteer for the\nGirl Guides of Canada, the Lavington Ladies Work Group; the Coldstream Women's\nInstitute, a founding member of the Therapeutic Riding Association, the Pony Club and\nwas a life member of the Vernon Riding Club. In 1988, she received the Gold Medal\nfor Community Service from the Government of Canada. Tribute\nOVERTON, Russel Ora; (b)08 July 1919, Alliance, AB (d)06 March, 2011, Okanagan\nFalls, BC. \"Russ\" was the son of Fairview pioneers Charles and Nell Overton, he\nauthored \"Holdup of Steve Mangott of Fairview,\" \"I Remember Keremeos Way Back\nWhen!\" and \"Madden's Mill\" in Okanagan History.\nPOTHECARY, Charles; (b)30 March 1921, Wilton, Wiltshire, England (d) 19 May\n2010, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by wife Ethelyn (nee Millard) and survived by\ndaughter Sandra Dalgleish and son Robert Pothecary. Charles immigrated to Oyama in\n1924.\nPRICE, Dr. David John; (b)07 January 1928, BC (d)19 December 2010, Vernon, BC.\nSurvived by his wife Sherry, children Orene, Laurel and Paula. The family farmed on\nthe Commonage property south of Vernon. He was a Dr. of Veterinary Medicine and\nspent most of his working years researching food production through animal agriculture.\nOn his return to the Okanagan in 1987, he started the Okanagan Polo club and became\ninvolved in local government. He authored \"A History of the Okanagan Commonage:\nWhere the Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence. OHS Member\nRADOMSKE, Eveline (nee Tscharke); (b)12 December 1923, Neuendorf-Hoehe, E.\nPrussia (d)26 August 2010, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Roily and son Ross.\nEveline's family moved to Canada in 1930, settled in Westbank and later Okanagan\nMission. She worked at Simpson's Saw Mill and occasionally the Kelowna Packing\nHouse. OHS Member\nREECE, Nelson Richard; (b)21 November 1921, Crandell, MB (d)ll March 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by wife Patricia and sons Richard and Patrick. Nelson came to\nWestbank in 1922. Nelson worked in fruit growing and packing until 2002.\nREECE, Patricia Jean (nee Pentland); (b)27 September 1921, Summerland, BC (d)03\nFebruary 2012, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Nelson, survived by sons\n189\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nRichard and Patrick. Patricia worked for B.C. Tree Fruits, C.E. Sladen Accounting, and\nB.C. Hydro in Westbank.\nREEDMAN, Dorothy Mildred (nee Jones); (b)02 November 1915, Salmon Arm, BC\n(d)10 October 2011, Kamloops, BC. Predeceased by husband Lenard, sister Eileen\nHooker and brother Monty Jones. Survived by daughters Lenore (Dave), Joan (Larry),\nand Diane (Tom), and sons Norman (Evelyn) and Brian (Nona). Daughter of Canoe\npioneers Frank and Mildred Jones, she was very active in the Blind Bay community.\nREYNOLDS, Mamie Margaret (Halliday, Dods, nee Hill); (b)29 April 1922, Salmon\nArm, BC (d)19 May 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by husband Wilf, survived by\nsons Steve and Lome Halliday, daughter-in-law Deb Halliday, and grandchildren, she\nwas the last of eleven children born to Finnish pioneers in Gleneden. She worked in the\nSalmon Arm Farmers Exchange packinghouse until she married and moved to the coast\nto raise her family, returning to Salmon Arm in 1978 to the land her parents had owned\nin Gleneden. Always active in bowling, curling, golf, skiing and gardening, she loved to\npreserve the Finnish traditions.\nROBERTSON, Gwen (nee Snowsell); (b)21 January 1922, Kelowna, BC (d)21\nOctober 2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Lloyd and son Bruce. Survived\nby sons Brent, Kelly (Donna), and Dave (Marie). Member of a pioneer Glenmore\nfamily. Her parents, Henry Snowsell and Hilda Willoughby, were married at Bankhead\n(Glenmore) in 1915.\nRUTH, Lillian Jean Clare (nee Leach); (b)02 August 1924, Vancouver, BC (d)03\nDecember 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by husband Donald, sons Gerald and\nDerek, grandson Scotty, and brother Bob. Survived by son Robin (Joyce), daughter-in-\nlaw Donna, grandsons and great-grandchildren. In 1943 she married Don, son of\nSalmon Arm pioneer Percy Ruth, but both were in the armed forces for the duration of\nthe War. They then worked together to establish an apple orchard and built Salmon\nArm's first fruit stand, with its trademark totem, erected in 1959. (The restored totem is\nnow standing on the Fall Fair grounds.) Sons Robin and Derek and their families\ncontinued the business as Pedro Gonzales Fruit and Garden.\nSARSONS, Geoffrey; (b)27 June 1919, Kelowna, BC (d)24 September 2011, Kelowna,\nBC. Predeceased by wife Clarice, survived by daughters Roberta Withers, and Judy\n(Andy) Grierson; sons Jerry Sarsons and Rod (Donna) Sarsons. Geoffrey grew up in the\nOkanagan Mission and was the manager of the Okanagan Mission Water District.\nSETTER, Barbara; (b)12 April 1940, Vancouver, BC (d)04 September 2011, Vernon,\nBC. Barbara was predeceased by her husband John and survived by their children Ken\nand Cindy. She was a community volunteer at Vernon Jubilee Hospital, the Canadian\nRed Cross, and the Schubert Centre. She served the Girl Guide organization for over 40\nyears from Leader to District Commissioner. She was instrumental in turning Tillicum\nSki Hill into a Girl Guide Camp.\nSHANNON, Catherine (Cay) Ann (nee McRae); (b)05 February 1920, Penticton,\nBC (d)01 February 2012, Oliver, BC. Predeceased by her husband Robert (Bob) and is\n190\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nsurvived by her three sons, Bob (Naidene), Ross (Colleen), and John (Mickee). Cay's\nfather J.F. (Jack) McRae was Chief Engineer on the S.S. Sicamous and the S.S.\nNaramata, after the Sicamous was removed from service. Cay moved to Oliver to work\nas a schoolteacher in 1938, married, raised her family and spent the rest of her life there.\nShe was honoured as Oliver's Good Citizen in 1986. Cay was actively involved in the\nOliver United Church, the Oliver Hospital Auxiliary and the Activity Club among other\norganizations. She also golfed and enjoyed recreational cross-country skiing.\nSHELLEY, Gilbert Arthur \"Bud\"; (b)05 February 1937, Kelowna, BC (d) 28\nOctober 2010, Kelowna, BC. Survived by wife Joyce, daughters Violet (Gary) and\nShelly (Manning). Bud was a member of the Kelowna Branch, Okanagan Historical\nSociety, and the Army Navy Club Unit 376. OHS Member\nSHILLAM, Robert Barry; (b)19 February 1922, Vernon, BC (d)ll April 2012,\nVernon, BC. Bob is survived by his wife Kory and a family of daughters. When Bob's\nfather Percy died he was asked to run the family business, Shillam's Garage in Vernon..\nHe responded to the shortage of affordable housing in Vernon by starting up Mayfair\nTrailer Sales and Vernon Mobile Homes and later owned Foremost Sales where he\ncalled himself a \"Carchaeologist - someone who digs up old cars\". He was an active\nmember of the Vintage Car Club of Canada, president of the Kinsmen Club and a\nRotary Paul Harris Fellow. He was a dedicated member of his community.\nSHOWLER, Birt; (b)20 May 1926, Vancouver, BC(d)27 February 2011,\nBC. Tribute in OHS 2011 Report.\nKelowna,\nSIMPSON, Herbert Edward \"Herbie\";(b)1932, Central Okanagan (d)26 February\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Survived by wife Joan and daughters Roberta (Fred) Simpson-\nAlec, Maureen (Curtis) Ziprick, Leona Simpson (Sylvestor Arana), and Karen Simpson.\nHerbert was a Band Council Member for the Okanagan Indian Band. He was a member\nof the pioneer Simpson family of Ellison and Duck Lake.\nSLADEN, Gwendolyn (nee Dodd); (b)20 December 1911, Vancouver, BC (d)09\nOctober 2011, Kelowna BC. Predeceased by husband Cecil and son David. Survived by\nchildren Gordon (Katie), Marilyn Hinchey (Grant), Elaine, and Victor (Linda). Gwen\nattended school in Salmon Arm. She was very active in the First United Church,\nRebekah Lodge, and The Order of the Eastern Star.\nSMITH, Marjory Irene (nee Evans); (b)05 September 1916, Salmon Arm, BC(d)27\nMay 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Tribute.\nSTOCKS, Peter: D.19 May 2009. Eldest son of pioneer Penticton photographer Lumb\nStocks and his wife Marion. Attended Vernon Pre School (1928-1932). Active in\nUplands Golf Course and proud achiever of four holes in one.\nSTOLZ, Edith Marie; (b)02 January 1919, Grand Forks, BC (d)18 March 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Roy, survived by children Don (Jayne), Diane\n(Wayne) Lougheed and Darlene Shelton. Edith and Roy started Paramount Music.\n191\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nSWAISLAND, Phyllis (nee SARSONS); (b)25 November 1915, Kelowna, BC (d)26\nNovember 2010, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by first husband Jerry Purslow and second\nhusband John Swaisland. Survived by daughter Anne Cubitt, and sons Gerry, Peter and\nIan Swaisland and their families. Phyllis grew up on her parents' dairy farm and\norchard. She was an active member in the community life of Okanagan Mission.\nSWITE, Mary Jane (nee Bonneau); (b)1928, Head of the Lake, BC (d)06 July 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by husband Raymond, daughter Maureen Marchand (Ted), and\nsons Wilbur (Theresa) and Jim. Mary was the daughter of Okanagan pioneers Jimmy\nand Sarah (nee Musgrove) Bonneau, local farmers and ranchers.\nTANAKA, Sachiko (nee Tomiyama); (b)05 February 1922, Kelowna, BC (d)29 June\n2011, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Yukihisha \"Roy.\" Survived by children\nReiko, Keiko (Gary), Peggy (Rick), Herb (Cheryl), and Dorothy (John). As a member of\nKelowna's Tomiyama family, while growing up she worked on her family's vegetable\nfarm in the Mission.\nTANEDA, Kazui (Kaz); (b)1927 Rutland, BC (d)22 August 2011, Kelowna, BC.\nSurvived by wife Mary, children Randy (Julia), Dean (Lynne), Terry, and Tami. Kaz\ngrew up in Westbank and worked in the fruit industry, and as manager of the Westbank\nCo-op. He later sold stocks and bonds with Pemberton Securities. Kaz was very\ninvolved with his community, including Lions, Rotary, Masons, Shriners, and St. Paul's\nUnited Church.\nTANEMURA, Kiyoe (nee Kitaura); (b)22 September 1933, Rutland, BC (d)14\nOctober 2011, Salmon Arm, BC. Predeceased by husband Ken, survived by son Ryan\n(Julie), daughters Terry Lynn (David) Durrer and Heather Tanemura (Sean),\ngrandchildren and step-grandson. She worked with Ken and his extended family raising\nstrawberries, and was devoted to her family. Always active in sports, she became a\nMaster Bowler and coach, as well as a champion golfer. Her artistic accomplishments\nincluded sewing, knitting, crocheting, oil painting, potting and gardening, all done with\nexpertise and a sense of beauty.\nTAYLER, Alfred Maxwell; (b)24 July 1917, Kinistino, SK (d)14 October 2011,\nPenticton, BC. \"Fred\" was a key founder of the SS Sicamous Restoration Society in\n1987, and was actively involved in some facet of Sicamous restoration almost daily for\nover two decades until his death.\nTAYLOR, Nigel Cunningham; (b)13 July 1920, Kelowna, BC (d)18 October 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Predeceased by daughter Mary-Lou, sons Robin and Rodney. Survived\nby wife Margaret and children David (Andrea), Stephanie Geis, Gordon (Joanne), and\nBarbara. He was a member of the British Columbia Dragoons and served in World War\nII. Nigel Taylor was well known in the local fruit growing industry.\nTHOM, Lillian Eileen Orrisa (nee Hembling); (b)29 October 1907, Didsbury, AB\n(d)21 December 2009, Vernon, BC. Predeceased by her husband Archie, and survived\nby their sons Donald and Murray. Lillian moved to Oyama with her family in 1971. She\ngraduated from Vernon Jubilee Hospital Nursing Training School in 1929 and for many\n192\n LIVES REMEMBERED\nyears was the Matron and Director of Nursing. She was an avid traveller, bird hunter,\nand fisherwoman. She was a member of the Vernon Lawn Bowling Club; Vernon\nCountry Club and took an active part in the Friends of History.\nTHOMAS, Becky (nee Gore); (b)16 January 1916, Kelowna, BC (d)21 August 2011,\nKelowna, BC. Survived by children Lesley (Thomas) and Paul. Becky was the last\nsurviving child of Phyllis and Stanley Gore who came to the Okanagan in 1904 and\noperated the Kelowna Steam Laundry.\nTHOMSON, Gifford Wakley; (b)17 October 1924, Kelowna, BC(d)08 September\n2011., Kelowna, BC Tribute. OHS Member\nVERITY, Beatrice (nee Fisher); (b)15 November 1921, Kelowna, BC(d) 24 June\n2010, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Norm. Bea was born to pioneers of the\nBenvoulin District, Jim and Mabel Fisher. She worked in Browns Pharmacy on Bernard\nAvenue.\nWEBBER, Jean Patricia (nee Browne); (b)10 July 1919, Medicine Hat, AB(d)17\nApril 2012, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Bernard and survived by children\nRosemary Spendlove (David), Philip (Miriam), Elizabeth Daley (Andrew), Christopher\n(Marie), and Jeremy (Carolyn). She had a lifelong involvement in education, and\nsupported the arts. Jean served on the executive ofthe Okanagan Historical Society, was\nEditor of the OHS Annual Report for six years, and wrote many articles for the Society.\nA detailed tribute is planned for next year's Report. OHS Member\nWYLIE, Flora Stilwell (Blackbourn); (b)20 June 1918, Kamloops.BC (d)07 January\n2012, Vernon, BC. Predeceased by her husband Carl and survived by their children\nAnne, Carol, Don, Eleanor and Shannon. Flora was the grandchild of early settlers in\nthe Nicola Valley. Flora and Carl were instrumental in developing Silver Star Ski Club\nand Sovereign Lake Ski Club in Vernon. She continued to race well into her 80's.\nYAMAOKA, Suteo (nee Hirai); (b)15 January 1912, Shigaken, Japan (d)07 July\n1911, Kelowna, BC. Predeceased by husband Shotaro, survived by son Nobuo \"Nobby\"\n(Tomoye). Her Canadian-born husband came to Japan, where they were married. They\ncame to Rutland in 1935, settling on property on Swainson Road.\nYATES, Sydney;(b)17 October 1917,SK (d)15 June 2011, Salmon Arm, BC.\nPredeceased by son Geoffrey, survived by wife Betty, children Sheila (Stacey), Debbie\n(Gary), Wendy, Tom, Gary (Jackie), and Jennifer (Gord), grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. A WWII veteran, he was employed at Federated Co-op as he and Betty\nraised their family in Canoe. He served eleven years as Alderman; was active in the\nKnights of Pythias; was a volunteer fireman; coached minor baseball as well as being\ninvolved in several sports.\n193\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nANNUAL REPORT\nOKANAGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY\nOKANAGAN\nHISTORICAL\njnLlViY%JAJLi IxJzi\u2022\u00a5 \\JMx. \u00a3\nBUSINESS &\n.JT111, \/ill \\^l,r\\JLj\nSTATEMENTS\n194\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nOfficers of the Executive\nCouncil\n2012-2013\nPresident: Alice Lundy\nVice President: Randy Manuel\nSecretary: Joan Cowan\nTreasurer: Robert Cowan\nEditor: David Gregory\nDirectors to the Executive Council\nArmstrong-Enderby: Don Moor, Robert Dale, Jessie Ann Gamble\nKelowna: Tracy Satin, Colleen Cornock, Bob Hayes\nOliver-Osoyoos: Larry Shannon, Ken Favrholdt, Gayle Cornish\nPenticton: Dave Morgenstem, Dan Reilly, Maggie Ricciardi, Suzanne Schmiddem\nSalmon Arm: Rosemary Wilson, Dorothy Rolin, Diane Ambil\nSimilkameen: Brenda Gould\nSummerland: David Mallory, Mary Trainer\nVernon: Mary Ellison Bailey, Peter Tassie, Ken Waldon\nDirectors-at-Large\nDigitization Project: Shannon Bews Croft\nEssay Contest: Diane Ambil\nFather Pandosy: Alice Lundy\nHistoric Trails: David Gregory and Peter Tassie\nIndex: Dorothy Zoellner\nWebsite Manager: Joan Cowan\n195\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nBranch Officers\n2012-2013\nArmstrong-Enderby\nPresident: Don Moor; Vice President: Craig McKechnie; Secretary: Joan\nCowan; Treasurer: Eleanore Bolton; Editors: Jessie Ann Gamble, Robert Cowan;\nDirectors: Robert Cowan, Robert Dale, Jessie Ann Gamble, Jean Lockhart, Peter\nVander Sar; Greg Wiebe.\nKelowna\nPresident: Tracy Satin; Past President: Shannon Bews-Croft; Secretary:\nColleen Cornock; Treasurer: Cathy Jennens; Editor: Ann Bostock. Directors: Don\nFord, Paul Harborne, Bob Hayes, Chris Jennens, Judy Johnson, Lois Marshall, Susan\nRogers, Evelyn Vielvoye, Dorothy Zoellner\nOliver-Osoyoos\nPresident: Larry Shannon; Vice President: Gayle Cornish; Secretary: Mary\nEnglesby; Treasurer: Mary Roberts; Editor: Ken Favrholdt; Directors: Audrey\nMacNaughton, Paul Alaric, Dan Roberts, Andrea Flexhaug, Fred Wylie and Joyce\nThomson.\nPenticton\nPresident: Vacant; Vice President: Dave Snyder; Past President: Dave\nMorgenstern; Secretary: Enabelle Gorek: Treasurer: Jeanette Beaven; Editor: Suzanne\nSchmiddem; Directors: Karen Collins, Hartley Cleland, Dave Morgenstern, Marylin\nBarnay, Maggie Ricciardi, Dan Reilly.\nSalmon Arm\nPresident: Rosemary Wilson; Vice President: Dorothy Rolin;\nSecretary\/Treasurer: Pat Ogden; Editor: Diane Ambil; Directors: Ineke Hughes,\nMarilyn Kernaghan, Ralph Kernaghan, Alf Peterson, Mary Wetherill, Mary Hickman,\nRobin Hickman, John McLeod, Pat Parsons.\nSummerland\nPresident: David Mallory; Vice President: Doug Power; Secretary: Colleen\nPower; Treasurer: David Gregory; Editor: Mary Trainer; Directors: Sandra Johnson,\nEnabelle Gorek.\nVernon\nPresident: Vacant; Past President: Mary Ellison Bailey; Secretary: Jan\nWaldon; Treasurer: Herb Thorburn; Editor: Bill Dunsmore; Directors: Ken Waldon,\nMary Bailey, Peter Tassie, Myrtle Miller.\n196\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nSTUDENT ESSAY CONTEST\nOKANAGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY\nSTUDENT ESSAY CONTEST\nGOAL: To encourage the research and writing of Okanagan history \u2022>>' P\u00b08S\nsecondary students.\nELIGIBILITY: Students currently in any post-secondary institution\nPRIZE: $ 1000.00 (one thousand dollars)\nPossible publication in the Society's Annual Report\nGENERAL CRITERIA: the essay must\nDepict history which occurred in the geographic area encompassed: by\nthe Okanagan, Shuswap and Similkameen Valleys\nBe suitable for publication in our Society's Annual Report\nBe submitted on a CD and typed double spaced on 8.5 X US inch white\npaper\nd. Be a minimum of 1500 words to a maximum of 2500 words\ne. Include a cover letter which shows, the student's name and registration\nnumber, name of the institution, telephone number, mailing address, c-\nmail address and title of the essay\nJUDGING CRITERIA:\na. Historical Accuracy; The degree to which the writer has gathered\naccurate information in different ways; has insightfully selected\nessential information; and has interpreted or synthesized that\ninformation\nb. Effective Communication: The quality of the historical content in that\nit effectively uses rich, vivid detail in a style which engages and\ninvolves the reader\ne. Conclusions: The conclusions the writer makes which reflect clear,\nlogical links between the information and the interpretations based on\nrelevant evidence; the way the writer describes his\/her thinking about\nthe historical content which demonstrates a sophisticated understanding\nof the historical issue (s)\nd. Writing: Demonstrated level of organization, correct sentence\nstructure, usage, grammar, diction, mechanics, bibliography and\nfootnoting\nDEADLINE: March 15* of each year\nSUBMIT TO: Diane Ambil\nhipnitchigshaw.ea\n197\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nSTUDENT VIDEO CONTEST\nOkanagan Historical Society\nStudent Historic Video Contest\nGoals\nTo encourage research and the creation of historic\nvideos. Students will be ancou raged to work with iocal\narchive collections, museum personnel and members of\nih8 OHS white gathering their research.\nEligibility\nCurrently enrolled in any post-secondary Institution.\nPrtzs\n$500 {five hundred dotes), notification in OHS annual\nreport, and possible installation on OHS website.\nCriteria\nVideo must depict history which occurred In th\u00a9\ngeographical area encompassed by the Okanagan,\nShuswap and Similkameen valleys.\nVideo should be no longer than 10 minutes In length.\nEvaluation Video will be Judged on historical accuracy, creativity, and\nclarity of presentation, Judges will be determined by the\nvideo contest chairman.\nDeadline\nMarch 16th of each year\nSubmit to\nDavid Gregory, video contest chairman\n110 Sumac Ridg*\nSummerland, B.C. VOH 1Z6\n198\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nBusiness of the Okanagan Historical Society\nNOTICE OF MEETING\nTHE OKANAGAN HISTORICAL\nSOCIETY 88th ANNUAL\nGENERAL MEETING-2013\nNotice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the\nOkanagan Historical Society will be held at:\nCentennial Hall Complex\n(IPE Fairgrounds)\nARMSTRONG B.C.\nSunday, April 28th, 2013 at 10 a.m.\nLuncheon at 12:30 p.m.\nTheme: \"Lacrosse in a Small Town:\nArmstrong's Game \"\nAll members and guests are welcome to attend\n199\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nOkanagan Historical Society Annual\nGeneral Meeting 2012\nMinutes\nSchubert Centre, Vernon\nApril 29, 2012\nCALL TO ORDER: The president, Randy Manuel, welcomed 37 members\nand guests to the 87th Annual General Meeting of the Okanagan Historical\nSociety.\nNOTICE OF CALL: The secretary, Joan Cowan, read the Notice of Call as\nprinted in the 75th Annual Report.\nMINUTES:\nMotion: That the minutes of the May 1, 2011 meeting be adopted as\npublished in the 75th Report.\nK. Waldon\/R. Dale. Carried\nBUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES: None\nCORRESPONDENCE:\nLetter received from Mr. Joseph Rivere of La Seyne-Sur-Mer, France\ncongratulating the society for an interesting book and praising the\ncommemorative sculpture project by Crystal Przybille.\nREPORTS OF OFFICERS:\na) President - Randy Manuel\nb) Secretary - Joan Cowan\nc) Treasurer - Bob Cowan\nd) Editor - David Gregory\nMotion: That the Financial Report be accepted as presented.\nB. Cowan\/L. Shannon. Carried\nMotion: That Cecil Schmidt be appointed auditor for the next year.\nB Cowan\/E. Gorek. Carried\n200\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nBRANCH REPORTS:\na) Armstrong \/ Enderby - Don Moor\nb) Vernon - Mary Bailey\nc) Oliver \/ Osoyoos- Larry Shannon\nd) Salmon Arm - Rosemary Wilson\ne) Penticton - Randy Manuel\nf) Kelowna - Tracy Satin\ng) Similkameen - David Gregory for Brenda Gould\nh) Summerland - David Gregory for David Mallory\nSPECIAL COMMITTEES:\na) Father Pandosy - Tracy Satin for Alice Lundy\nb) Index - Dorothy Zoellner\nc) Student Essay Contest - Joan Cowan for Jessie Ann Gamble\nd) Finance - no report\ne) Website manager - Joan Cowan\nf) Historic Trails - David Gregory\ng) UBC Digitization Project - Randy Manuel for Shannon\nBews-Croft\nMotion: That we allow the president and vice-president to approach a\nlegal person to look at the 6-page document and offer a legal opinion on\nthe contract with UBC.\nB. Cowan\/E. Gorek. Carried\nUNFINISHED BUSINESS: None\nNEW BUSINESS:\n201\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nPeter Tassie awards Mary Ellison Bailey with our Society's Life Membership\nELECTION OF OFFICERS:\nEnabelle Gorek presented a slate of nominations for the 2012-2013 executive\ncouncil. After asking for further nominations, she declared the slate accepted as\npresented.\nPresident - Alice Lundy\nVice President - Randy Manuel\nSecretary - Joan Cowan\nTreasurer - Bob Cowan\nEditor - David Gregory\nCOMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS:\nThat the Vernon Branch be thanked for hosting the annual general\nmeeting.\nR. Manuel\/R. Dale. Carried\nThat the membership thank the Executive and the Branch Societies for\ntheir work over the past year with special thanks to Jessie Ann for her\nefforts with the Student Essay Contest.\nD. Gregory\/B. Cowan. Carried\nANNOUNCEMENTS:\nThe Salmon Arm Heritage Advisory Commission is hosting a Heritage Tea and\nTour of eight houses as a fundraiser to add to an established heritage inventory,\nSunday June 3, Salmon Arm.\n202\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nThe Queen is coming to Vernon on June 23. Mackie House is hosting a garden\nparty in celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 60th year of reign, and the Queen, aka\nChristine Pilgrim, will be in attendance.\nThe 2013 annual general meeting of the Okanagan Historical Society will be\nheld in Armstrong Centennial Hall, Sunday April 28. Guest speakers, including\nmembers of the 1950 Junior B Provincial Champions, will share stories of\nlacrosse.\nThe next regular meeting of the Executive Council will be held July 8 at 10\na.m. at the Water Street Seniors Centre, Kelowna.\nADJOURNMENT: Motion by Helen Inglis at 11:30 a.m.\nFollowing the annual general meeting, the Vernon branch hosted a luncheon\nfor members and guests. Guest speaker Ron Candy spoke about Allan Brooks,\nornithologist, artist, and wildlife illustrator. Members were invited to the\nGreater Vernon Museum & Archives after the presentation.\nREPORT OF THE OFFICERS\nPresident's Report - Randy Manuel\nThe year has been a good one in terms of positive change. We have seen us\nmove into the 21st century with a new partnership between ourselves and the\nUniversity of British Columbia-Okanagan. This partnership will see our\nHistorical Society Reports available \"ONLINE\" for researchers as well as the\ngeneral public. This project will have a \"delay\" of five years from the most\nrecent hard copy issue of the Report. With an active vibrant University in our\nvalley we can look forward to more potential partnership programmes in the\nfuture.\nWe also had a change in our Report's editor. Darryl MacKenzie, editor for the\npast three reports resigned after moving to the Lower Mainland in September\nof 2011. Dr. David Gregory of Summerland has taken up the pen and paper to\ncreate and publish Report Number 76. Congratulations to all branch editors for\nthe hard work that it takes to put together our Annual Report. Articles have\nbeen wide-ranging and very interesting. New, well researched and never before\nwritten stories are what make our book unique.\n203\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nI have been able to visit all of the branches with the exception of Salmon Arm,\nattending many of the branch AGMs.\nIn the fall Ken Favrholdt, Director-Curator of the Osoyoos Museum and\nArchives, and I conducted a lecture tour commemorating the 200th anniversary\nof European contact in the valley. This tour followed in the footsteps of the\nearly fur traders who had travelled up the valley from the confluence of the\nOkanagan and Columbia Rivers. The tour was in conjunction with Okanogan\nCounty Historical Society and Border Lands Historical Society (both in\nWashington State) and our Society.\nIn British Columbia we visited and gave lectures in Osoyoos, Oliver, Penticton,\nSummerland, Kelowna, Falkland, Kamloops, and lastly in November, at the\nVernon Branch of the OHS. Field trips took place in Okanogan County as well\nas Oliver, White Lake, Summerland and Bradley Creek.\nAll branches are doing well, with Kelowna being the largest and very active\nwith Pandosy Mission as well as helping with the UBC book project and\ngeneral branch activities. Thanks always to Kelowna for booking the Seniors\nCentre for our meetings, and to Alice Lundy for hosting the finance meeting at\nher home. Kudos to all who travel great distances in winter weather to attend\nmeetings.\nSimilkameen branch has gone \"on leave\", with the good possibility that the\nnew executive will be regrouping. They hope to be active by fall 2012. Jon\nBartlett of Princeton did a fine job of getting Similkameen restarted. Health\nissues dealt a blow to Jon, and so there needed to be some quiet time for\nSimilkameen to regroup.\nTo all of you, from Salmon Arm to Osoyoos, and Similkameen, you have all\ndone well.\nRespectfully submitted,\nSecretary's Report - Joan Cowan\nI have carried out the regular duties of the secretary: agendas prepared and\ndistributed, minutes of meetings recorded and distributed, reports from the\nannual general meeting and lists of branch officers submitted to the editor, and\nall correspondence answered.\n204\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nThe executive council has officially added the duty of maintaining the\nmembership list to the secretary's list of responsibilities. I recommended we\nchange the membership cards to include a line for the member's full address, in\norder to satisfy the requirements of the B.C. Society Act. It was formally\napproved, so members will notice a different format to the cards this year. Your\nfull address will not appear in the report, but it will be retained with the\nsociety's records.\nRespectfully submitted,\nTreasurer's Report - Bob Cowan\nSee Financial statements on page 216-217\nEditor's Report - David Gregory\nI became the editor of the Annual Report of the Okanagan Historical Society at\nthe fall Executive Council meeting. I chaired two Branch Editor meetings this\nspring. These meetings clarified some unresolved issues with respect to content\nand writing style in our Annual Reports.\nThere is one issue that the Society needs to resolve. As the amount of\nobituaries increase in our Annual Reports, there had been considerable debate\nabout the role of this item. One side ofthe debate argues that obituaries are part\nof our local history. The opposing side has taken the position that obituaries\nhave become part of the mandate of local museums and genealogy societies.\nThe majority of the Branch Editors believe that obituaries should remain in the\nAnnual Report for this current year, 2012. This fall, following consultation\nwith Branch Societies, this debate will be re-visited.\nOver the past few years there has been a dramatic decline in the sales of the\nSociety's Annual Reports. It wasn't too many years ago that the Society\npublished 2500 copies per year. The membership should be aware that this year\nthe Executive Council made the decision to reduce the publication to 800\ncopies.\nRespectfully submitted,\n205\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nBRANCH REPORTS\nArmstrong\/Enderby - Don Moor\nThe Armstrong Enderby Branch held its annual general meeting in the Enderby\nMuseum April 1, 2012. Members present voted to donate $500 to each of the\nEnderby and Armstrong museums, and to commission the application of\npheromones to pine trees in the pioneer Lansdowne Cemetery, as a protection\nagainst pine beetles.\nNeal Brookes, director of the Kingfisher environmental center and fish\nhatchery, recounted the remarkable founding and growth of that leading salmon\nresearch organization. All members of the executive survived the annual\nelection; none being opposed and none declining to continue.\nThe care of the Lansdowne Cemetery was duly completed under the able\nsupervision of Bob Cowan and George Hawrys.\nWe hope that all members of the Society are looking forward to the 2013 AGM\nin Armstrong at Centennial Hall. For the coming year the hall will bear an\nappropriate name, that year being the centennial of the incorporation of the\nCity of Armstrong. The gathering will celebrate some of the community's\nproudest moments with the theme, \"Lacrosse in a Small Town\".\nRespectfully submitted,\nVernon - Mary Bailey\nIn July 2011, the Vernon OHS nominated Peter and Libby Tassie for the Paddy\nMackie Heritage Award sponsored by the Vernon Heritage Society. It was\ngiven not only for maintaining their 1910 home on Coldstream Creek Road but\nfor significant other cultural, historical and environmental activities. A fine\npicnic was held on their verandah and large lawn, after which an engraved\nplaque was presented.\nIn August 2011, at our Pioneer Picnic in Coldstream, Peter Ward gave a\nhumorous account of his family from Lumby. After the picnic the four Chilly\nCreakers entertained us with lively music. At our November 6, 2011 fall\nmeeting, Randy Manuel and Ken Favrholdt proved the history of Okanagan is\n206\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nalive and well with their fine presentation celebrating the 200th anniversary of\nthe Okanagan Brigade Trail. At our March 25, 2012 spring meeting, Bill\nDunsmore told about his research on his uncle Fred McCall, who was a World\nWar I flying ace after whom McCall Field in Calgary was named.\nOn April 29,2012 the AGM of the Okanagan Historical Society was held at the\nSchubert Centre, in Vernon when Ron Candy, Vernon Museum Curator, spoke\non the Vernon wildlife artist Allan Brooks from Okanagan Landing.\nRespectfully submitted,\nOliver\/Osoyoos - Larry Shannon\nOn Aug. 7, 2011, the Oliver Osoyoos Branch held its first branch picnic in\nmany years, at Molson, Washington State. It was a success and it is our\nintention to have another picnic in 2012. On September 23, 2011 our Branch\nco-hosted a fur brigade trail presentation by Randy Manuel and Ken Favrholdt.\nThe following day we helped with a field trip to view the route of the trail and I\nled a short side trip to view the remains of the old 1890s Tinhorn Creek stamp\nmill and mine shafts.\nOn September 25, 2011 we co-hosted a field trip to Oliver's Balancing Rock.\nThis balancing rock is part of Oliver's heritage. Dr. Murray Roed joined us on\nthis field trip and shared his knowledge of the local geology. This event was\nvery well attended and we received positive feedback from the community.\nThe latter two events were co-hosted with the Oliver and District Heritage\nSociety. Our Branch held its semi-annual meeting on November 20, 2011 in\nOliver. The guest speakers were Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat. They gave\nour group a presentation on the Social History of the Similkameen Valley\nthrough Verse and Song. It was enjoyable and well received.\nOur Branch held its Annual General Meeting on March 25 2012 in Osoyoos.\nLarry Shannon, Gayle Cornish, Mary Roberts and Mary Englesby are returning\nas President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary respectively. The guest\nspeaker was Mr. Ken Favrholdt. His presentation summarized 150 years of\nhistory at the Port of Osoyoos.\n207\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nOn April 22, 2012 we had a productive work party, cleaning up the Fairview\nKiosk site. We removed two truckloads of brush and also completed some re-\nstaining of signs and picnic tables. The primary project for the branch\ncontinues to be the old Fairview Cemetery. We now have a Victoria resident,\nwith a personal interest in the history of the South Okanagan, who is\nvolunteering her time at the B.C. Archives, doing additional research for us.\nNeedless to say, it is important that we discover and verify as much\ninformation as possible before proceeding to design a plaque.\nRespectfully submitted,\nSalmon Arm - Rosemary Wilson\nThe 23rd AGM of the Salmon Arm Branch of the OHS was held on April 1.\nOur guest speaker was Ken McLeod. He gave us a history lesson on his family.\nThey have resided in the Salmon Valley since 1912. The McLeods also were\nour honoured pioneer family.\nI think we have had a very fruitful year. We purchased a video camera in June\nto do interviews of pioneers. Mary and Robin Hickman did the initial interview\nso that the rest of us could learn from their experience. Then it was decided that\nin order for us to have the capability of transferring the interview to a disc, we\nhad to purchase a computer. So far we have completed four interviews and also\nthe December meeting with Colleen Mounce, who spoke on the William\nBlackburn family.\nAfter the fire at the Chase Museum, it was felt that we would like to help them\nand so it was decided that we would donate $250 towards a secure fireproof\nstorage area for their archives.\nOur own Museum also benefitted with the purchase of the last of the Observer\nfiles on microfilm. The Observer is now digitized.\nI have attended the meetings of the Executive Council in Kelowna. There are\nusually three of us from this Branch. We had a very successful book sale in\nPiccadilly Mall at the end on November. We are preparing for a Heritage Tea\nand Tour of heritage homes in the Salmon Arm area. It will be held on Sunday,\nJune 3rd.\nRespectfully submitted,\n208\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nPenticton - Randy Manuel\nPenticton held three meetings plus its AGM in the 2011-12 fall-winter season.\nBook sales and exhibits of an historical nature were done for Christmas sales at\nthe mall as well as Heritage Week. We have sold more books this term than in\nprevious years. The AGM in March saw the retirement of secretary Skip\nBroderick and president Randy Manuel. All other directors remain the same.\nThe directors will appoint a president and secretary at its next meeting.\nPresident Manuel joined with Ken Favrholdt on the 200th anniversary of the\nFirst Europeans in the valley, reported elsewhere in the AGM reports.\nPenticton Branch will recognize Julie and Rick Valenti for their restoration of\nPenticton's oldest house. Known now as the Ellis Street Cottage, this early\n1890s home has undergone over one hundred thousand dollars in stabilization\nand restoration. An event later this spring will recognize this hard-working\ncouple.\nRespectfully submitted,\nKelowna - Tracy Satin\nAs always the Kelowna Branch OHS has had a very active year.\nAs most of you know we hosted the 2011 Executive Council AGM, which was\na great success. It was wonderful having members from other branches join us\nfor a tour of the Pioneer Cemetery and Dan Bruce, our guest speaker, is always\na very interesting presenter.\nAs far as branch business goes, to begin with we began to look over our\nfinances. We would like to have a balanced budget with additional options for\nfund disbursement. We are a very creative group and have some new and\ninnovative ideas to engage our membership and support the communities we\nencompass.\nThe branch holds two bursaries with the Central Okanagan Bursary and\nScholarship Society. The winner of the 2011 Kelowna Branch OHS Bursary\nwas Megan Tomniuk-Gagnon from George Elliot Secondary School and the\nwinner of the 2011 Buckland Family Bursary was Adrienne Houlihan from\nGeorge Elliot Secondary School. As part of our budget review the group\n209\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\ndecided to double our OHS Bursary for the 2012 year. The increase in funds\nwill help support students who are passionate about history in continuing their\neducation.\nThis year we also decided to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Stewart Bros\nNursery at our OHS Family Picnic. In support of this the Stewart Bros donated\n$250 to help augment costs. Fun was had by all and this coming year we are\nhoping to celebrate Glenmore's 100th anniversary as part ofthe picnic as well.\nWanting to do something new and educate a different crowd on our mandate,\nthe Branch decided to host the October 6, 2011, Neighborhood Nosh at the BC\nWine Museum. Wines from Sperling Vineyards were out for the visiting public\nto taste. To accompany this, savory and sweet treats, sponsored by the group,\nwere purchased from Pioneer Country Market. Both the Vineyard and the\nMarket are associated with Kelowna pioneers and over 100 people came to\ntaste, sip and learn.\nOur Fall Social and Light Lunch, a favorite event, took place on October 15,\n2011 at the First United Church. Entertainment was provided by the Kelowna\nSecondary School Jazz Band - Take Whatever You Can Get and the guest\nspeaker was Wayne Wilson of the Okanagan Heritage Museum. Wayne spoke\nto the group on a recent canoe trip he had taken tracing David Thompson's\nvoyage down the Columbia River.\nTo end the year off we had to change the venue of our branch Annual General\nMeeting. The meeting was held at the Historic Laurel Packinghouse and Dr.\nDuane Thomson gave a very interesting talk on the Metis. Everyone enjoyed\nthe talk and the venue was a big hit. Many of our members remember the\nLaurel Packinghouse as an important functioning part of the community and\nthey were happy to be able to spend time there at our AGM.\nRespectfully submitted,\nSimilkameen - Brenda Gould\nThe Similkameen Branch have been reorganizing their membership over the\npast couple of months. The Branch had planned to submit two articles in this\nyear's Annual Report but unfortunately these articles have been delayed.\nOn June 3rd 2012 the Branch will host its Annual General Meeting. The\nmeeting begins at 2 pm and will be held at the Snazalst Centre, in Hedley. The\nmeeting is open to all Society members.\nRespectfully submitted\n210\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nSummerland - David Mallory\nThe year 2011 was a busy one for heritage and history in Summerland. This\ncommunity celebrated the 200th anniversary of the origins of the fur brigade\ntrail with the creation of one large downtown mural and the installation of three\nheritage signs describing fur brigade history. Total costs for these four items\nexceeded $16,000. Special thanks goes to the Okanagan-Similkameen Parks\nSociety for their generous donation. Also thanks to Sharon Stone, our hard\nworking curator, for her fund raising skills and also to Larry Hunter our mural\nspecialist.\nThe Branch hosted a special fur brigade presentation last fall. Guest speakers\nwere Randy Manuel, Ken Favrholdt and Bob Hamilton. The highlight of the\nevening was Hamilton's presentation. He is a descendant of Alexander Ross,\none of the most prominent early fur traders. He showed the audience the family\nBible that dated back to Alexander Ross.\nEach year the Heritage Advisory Commission acknowledges a heritage\nbuilding. The selected heritage house for 2012 is Sir Edward Clouston's\nSummerland home. Clouston was the national General Manager of the Bank of\nMontreal. Of his many accomplishments perhaps his involvement with\nCanada's Bank Act is most noteworthy.\nThis spring one of our community's heritage buildings is endangered. The\nbuilding in question is the Darke house. With municipal roadway\nimprovements, the building will have to be moved or demolished. Darke Lake\nProvincial Park and Darke Lake are named after this family.\nRespectfully submitted,\nSPECIAL COMMITTEES\nFather Pandosy - Alice Lundy\nAnother year for the site has come and gone. As always it has been an eventful\nyear.\nLate last fall, the McDougall house was re-roofed with a grant from the\nKelowna Heritage Grants Program. This completed the new roofs for all of the\nbuildings on the site, a great accomplishment! Also, last fall, a new gate\n211\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nentrance was erected by Monte Sandvoss and Henry Johnson. It is a wonderful\nimprovement to the entrance to the site.\nWe again have received a grant from the City of Kelowna's Arts, Cultural and\nHeritage Operating Program to cover our operations budget for 2012. The\nRegional District has also granted some money towards our operations budget\nfor the site. With these grants, we will be able to hire a student this season. The\nstudent is of great importance to the summer caretaking of the site. Along with\nthe regular maintenance, greeting bus tours and visitors, he\/she will do some\nresearch of the historical site and work with the local museum on this.\nOur work party to clean and tidy up the site was held on April 21, 2012. It was\na beautiful, sunny, warm day. We had 48 participants from the Knights of\nColumbus, CWL ladies, Kelowna Branch of the OHS, and the Okanagan\nAntique Power Club to rake, mow, saw, cut branches on the grounds and clean\nof the inside of the buildings. The site is a historical showpiece for the early\nyears of the valley. The St. Charles Gamier CWL provided a sumptuous lunch\nfor everyone. The day's volunteer efforts were a saving of over $2,000.00 for\nthe committee.\nThe Okanagan Antique Tractor Show is slated for the first weekend in June. It\nis always a grand show of refurbished old farm equipment. Their group have\nnot only moving farm machinery, but several stationary displays that intrigue\nthe old and young alike. The 1915 Case steam tractor always draws a large\ncrowd when it \"shows off with a drive around the site. They also have\nrefreshments and soft drinks for sale during the day. Each morning they have a\npancake breakfast and they serve hamburgers at lunch. The Kelowna Branch of\nthe OHS help at the entrance to the show.\nWe are anticipating that the Father Pandosy bronze statue done by Crystal\nPrzybille will be unveiled in May of 2012 on the Father Pandosy Mission site.\nThe committee is looking forward to another interesting year for the site.\nRespectfully submitted,\nIndex - Dorothy Zoellner\nThere are only a few printed copies of the Index available for sale. Initially, the\ncommittee had printed 125 copies. We have more than paid for our printing\ncosts of $4,881.23.\n212\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nRecently, while working with new researchers and students, I have found our\nIndex to be an excellent introduction to the O.H.S. and its recording of our\nhistory. Whether printed or on-line, the Index has proven to be invaluable.\nIndeed, we have received many compliments from researchers as to its\nusefulness.\nFor keeping the Index up-to-date as each new yearly Report is produced my\nthanks to Joan Cowan for her invaluable work!\nThe last Report contents printed in the Index was that of #71. I would like to\nsee a set number of an Index Addendum printed regards #72 to #76 inclusive-\ni.e. the last five Reports. Even among those researchers who use the computer,\nmany still prefer to have a printed copy. I ask you to please consider this\npublication request for the coming winter.\nRespectfully submitted,\nStudent Essay Contest - Jessie Ann Gamble\nAfter nine wonderful years of chairing the Okanagan Historical Society's\nStudent Essay Contest, I have submitted my resignation. As a result of the\ncontest, I have had the privilege of meeting and interacting with many talented\nyoung people \u2014 it has been good fun!\nBob Dale presents award to Student Essay Contest winner Brian Stephenson\nThe young students and their writings have brought wider dimensions to our\nannual \"Okanagan History\" books and we are fortunate to have their academic\ncontributions in our publications.\n213\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nIn addition to thanking the many students who have submitted their essays over\nthe years, I would like to thank numerous judges and the various Editors for\ntheir contributions in sustaining the Student Essay project.\nOur Society can be proud of its financial help to so many students over the\nyears. It is part of the Society's legacy of recording local history.\nRespectfully submitted,\nWebsite Manager - Joan Cowan\nThe society's website has been updated three times this year to change the\ncontact information, to announce the Student Essay Contest winner, and to\nadvertise and highlight articles from the new report, #75.\nWe continue to receive requests for information and for photocopies of articles\nfrom past reports, based primarily on the online index.\nRespectfully submitted,\nHistoric Trails - David Gregory\/Peter Tassie\nThis past year has been busy for the members of the Historic Trails Committee.\nThe year 2011 marked the 200th anniversary of the origins of the Okanagan Fur\nBrigade Trail. In 1811, David Stuart and members of the Pacific Fur Company\njourneyed as far as present-day Kamloops. The fur companies established trails\nthrough the Okanagan Valley that accelerated trade and eventual development.\nThere were numerous bicentennial celebrations throughout the Okanagan\nValley. The Westbank Historical Association hosted a two-day event. This was\nvery well attended by the public, which included over 250 grade five students.\nRepresentatives of the Westbank First Nations and especially Delphine\nDerickson assisted with the event. On the second day of the event there was a\ndramatic arrival of seven fur traders on horseback, fully laden with trade goods.\nSummerland's Betty Hewlett narrated this reenactment of the fur trade, to the\ndelight of a large audience.\nTrails Committee members Randy Manuel and Ken Favrholdt conducted a\nseries of lectures from Pateros, Washington State to Kamloops. The\n214\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\npresentations were well received and enhanced the public's understanding of\nour history.\nSummerland Brigade Mural. Courtesy Summerland Museum '\nIn Summerland a large mural was created on one of the building walls in the\ndowntown area depicting the fur brigade. Museum curator Sharon Stone\nsuccessfully raised funds for the project. Larry Hunter painted the mural. In\naddition, the Okanagan-Similkameen Parks Society provided funding for three\nfur brigade trail signs that were installed at Priest Historic Park and the Fur\nBrigade Trail Linear Park. Bicentennial celebrations took place at O'Keefe\nRanch. This was part of the O'Keefe Ranch Cowboy Show, which featured\nRob Dinwoodie.\nRespectfully submitted,\nDigitization Project - Shannon Bews Croft\nIn 2011, the Executive Council was approached by UBC Okanagan, with an\nopportunity to digitize our Annual Reports and put them online. At our July\nmeeting, Barbara Sobol from UBC Okanagan Library made a presentation to\nthe Council with the merits and requirements of accepting their 'at no cost'\noffer. Subsequently, the Executive Council voted in favour of moving ahead\nwith this project.\nThis project will move the Historical Society ahead and allow a greater\naudience - one that stretches around the world, to view our reports and learn of\nOkanagan history. There will be a five-year holdback of reports that will not\nbe available online and this will be moved along each year. A full set of reports\nhas been forwarded to UBC (with thanks to Randy Manuel and Bob Cowan)\nand in due course the process of scanning the books into the computer will\nbegin.\nAt this time, UBC has forwarded a contract to the Executive Council and it is\nnow being scrutinized. Once we are satisfied with the wording the project will\nbegin. An anticipated completion date will be the end of 2012.\nRespectfully submitted,\n215\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nFINANCIAL STATEMENTS\nFOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31,2011\nDISBURSEMENTS\n2011\n2010\nExpenses\nEditor $\nPresident\nSecretary\nTreasurer\n73.60\n30.0.00\n49760 S\nS\n871.20\n148.33\n22.12\n512.88 $\n68333\nExpenses Regarding Sales\nO.H.S. Reports:\nEditor's Honorarium\nPrinting\nShipping\n2,500 00\n11,351.20\n929.89\n14,761.09\n24,080.75\n350,00\n280.00\n1.000.00\n500.00\n1,131.00\n441.80\n75.00\n297.11\n1,450.00\n304.24\n140.00\n2,000.00\n11,782.40\n967 97\n420.00\n6,325.00\n14.750.3?\nDonations and Transfers to Branches\nKelowna\nFather Pandosy Mission Committee\nSalmon Arm\nAnnual Meeting Fee\nAdvertising\nEssay Contest\nFather Pandosy Mission Committee\nInsurance\nInternet and Websile\nMemberships\nOffice and Bank Charges\nProfessional Fees\nRentals - For Meeting\nRentals - Post Office Box\n100.00\n23.930.75\n50.00\n147.44\n156 80\n6,745.00\n163 77\n15120\n385.00\n1.000,00\n500.00\n1,131.00\n441.30\n75.00\n262.00\n850.00\n304.97\nSundry\n178.40\nTOTAL OiSBURSSMENTS\n5\n45,702.19\n$\n27,306.87\nGENERAL ACCOUNT\nRECEIPTS\nFederal Government \u2022 H.R.D.C, $\nCity of Kelowna\nOkanagan Historical Society\nRegional District of Central Okanagan\nDonations\nOn Site\nKelowna Heritage Society\nKnights of Coiumbus & Cathoiic\nWomen's League\nOther\nG.S.T. Rebate\n2,953.00\n10,000,00\n500.00\n6,405.00 $\n4,489.68\n4,483.00\n2,830.50\n2011\n19,858.00\n11,903.08\n1,767,74\nS 3.682.00\n500.00\n2010\n$ 4.182.00\n7,397.69\n6,687.00\n5,000.00\n19,084.69\n1,033.67\nTOTAL RECEIPTS\n33.528.82\n24.300.36\nDISBURSEMENTS\nAdvertising\nInsurance\nRentals\nRepairs - genera!\nRepairs - buildings and grounds\nSecurity\nSupplies and office\nUtilities\nWages and benefits\n150th Anniversary\n168.00\n2,633.00\n1,436.96\n5,560.85\n6,720.00\n390 88\n1,925.48\n3,311.42\n6,361.54\n28,508.13\n325.50\n2,633.00\n1,184.62\n2,459.99\n10.934.14\n378.82\n1,730.79\n3,122.11\n5,711.84\n459.33\nTOTAL DISBURSEMENTS\n28,940.04\nDEFICIENCY OF RECEIPTS OVER DISBURSEMENTS\nJ\n5,020.69\nS (4,639.68)\n216\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nSOCIETY ASSETS AS OF\nDECEMBER 31,2011\nOKANAGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY\nSTATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION\nFOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011\nCURRENT ASSETS\nCash\nOperating Current\nDeferred\nInvestments\n$\n20,410.09\n32.483.91\n34,597.31\n87,491,31\nS\n8,186.43\n45,600.00\n46,980.06\n100,776.49\nPREPAID DISBURSEMENTS (Note 4)\n45,681.84\n10,725.00\nPROPERTY\nLand (Note 2)\n1.00\n1.00\n$\n133,174.16\n$\n111,502.49\nNET ASSETS\nDEFERRED REVENUE (Note 4)\n$\n78,165.75\n$\n56,325.00\nINVESTED IN PROPERTY\n1.00\n78.166.75\n1,00\n56,326 00\nUNRESTRICTED\nBalance, beginning of year\nExcess (deficiency) of receipts over disbursements:\nGeneral\nFather Pandosy Mission Committee\n55,176.49\n(5,189.78)\n5,020.69\n59,341.89\n474,28\n(4,839.68)\nBalance, end of year\n55,007.40\n55,176,49\n$\n133,174.15\nS\n111,502,49\nNOTE: The complete financial statements are available to members upon request to\nthe editor\n217\n SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT\nLife Members\nBailey, Mary, Vernon\nHayes, Robert, Kelowna\nBork, Elizabeth, Kaleden\nLewis, Dorothea, Osoyoos\nCasorso, Joan, Oliver\nLundy, Alice, Kelowna\nCowan, Joan, Enderby\nMacDonald, David, Penticton\nCowan, Robert, Enderby\nMaclnnis, Denis, Kelowna\nDale, Robert, Enderby\nManuel, Randy, Penticton\nDallas, Lionel, Osoyoos\nMarriage, Robert, Kelowna\nEllison, Kenneth, Oyama\nMorrison, Jack, Vernon\nFinch, Charles, Keremeos\nRoberts, Dan, Oliver\nFinch, Hildred, Keremeos\nTassie, Elizabeth, Vernon\nGamble, Jessie Ann, Armstrong\nTassie, Peter, Vernon\nGorek, Enabelle, Summerland\nZoellner, Dorothy, Kelowna\nSociety\nMembers\nAbel, Don, Westbank\nBlackburn, Ed, Salmon Arm\nAblett, Doug, Kelowna\nBodden, Deanne & Clarence, Vernon\nAdam, A.C, Kelowna\nBolton, Bruce & Eleanore, Enderby\nAgar, M., Vernon\nBosomworth, Ruth, Armstrong\nAlbas, Charles, Kelowna\nBridger, Steve, Richmond\nAllen, B., Langley\nBriscall, CM., Vancouver\nAllen, Herb, Penticton\nBrooke, Gary, Salmon Arm\nAmbil, Diane, Salmon Arm\nBryan, Jim & Anthea, Penticton\nAnderson, Dr. Robert & Linda,\nBulach, Eleanor, Kelowna\nKelowna\nBurns, Jim & Judy, Vernon\nAppel, Jack, Kelowna\nBurns, Larry, Armstrong\nArmitage, Darnella, Princeton\nBurtch, Jose, Winfield\nArsenault, Theresa, Westbank\nCampbell, Shirley & Kevin,\nAtkins, Dave & Fay, Vernon\nArmstrong\nBaird, Norm, Maple Ridge\nCannings, Bette, North Vancouver\nBarber, Louise, Tappen\nCarbert, Gordon, Ponoka, Alberta\nBarillard, Judy, Salmon Arm\nCatchpole, Diana, Delta\nBarman, Dr. Jean, Vancouver\nChamberlain, Trevor, Rockwood,\nBaron, Peter, Kamloops\nOntario\nBawtree, Alfred, Magna Bay\nCharman, Barbara, Kelowna\nBayliss, Pat, Vernon\nChristensen, Rod, Royston\nBeaton, Mr. & Mrs. J., Melville,\nClark, Jean, Kingfisher\nSaskatchewan\nCodd, Maxine, Tappen\nBeaven, Jeanette, Penticton\nCoe, Rita, Kelowna\nBennett, Beth, Armstrong\nCollett, Basil & Brenda, Kelowna\nBerges, Sunni, Salmon Arm\nCollins, Lynne, Enderby\nBerry, Marguerite, Kelowna\nCooney, Carol, Armstrong\nBigney, Jeanette, Enderby\n218\n Cornock, Colleen, Kelowna\nCox, Shirley, Penticton\nCrane, Margaret, Vernon\nCrerar, Richard, Lethbridge, Alberta\nCunningham, Lois, Salmon Arm\nDale, Marion, Kingfisher\nDavies, William, Keremeos\nDavison, Bob & Dora, Vernon\nDavison, Rob, Enderby\nDenesiuk, Connie, Summerland\nDenison, Betty, Vernon\nDenison, Janet, Vernon\nDettwiler, Pamela, Salmon Arm\nDeuling, Leslie, Lumby\nDevonshire, Lidia, Naramata\nDewdney, Jim & Connie, Penticton\nDe Young, Audrey, Armstrong\nDonnelly, Finn, Lethbridge, Alberta\nDornian, Mike, Kelowna\nDoyle, Michael, Kaleden\nDreaper, D.W. 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Boyce, Victoria\nGamble, Bruce, DePere, Wisconsin\nGamble, Jen, Salmon Arm\nGamble, Len, Armstrong\nGarrison, Keith & Elena, Calgary Ab\nGaudard, Emilie, Salmon Arm\nGeorgeson, Joanne, Vernon\nGillard, David, Nepean, Ontario\nGillard, Irma, Enderby\nGlen, Kim & Paul, Okanagan Falls\nGoodfellow, Eric & Ruth, Princeton\nGordon, Jim, Abbotsford\nGourlie, Michael, Edmonton, Alberta\nGraham, Dave & Marie, Vernon\nGrauer, Peter, Kamloops\nGreen, Eleanor, Lake Country\nGreen, Vicki, Vernon\nGreene, Ronald, Victoria\nGreenhough, Loretta, Scotch Creek\nGregory, David, Summerland\nGrierson, Andrew, Kelowna\nGriffin, Merle, Westbank\nGuttridge, Bill, Peachland\nHaddad, Martha, Salmon Arm\nHagardt, Elinor, Enderby\nHainstock, Lynn, Lake Country\nHanson, Valerie, Kelowna\nHarborne, Paul, Kelowna\nHarkness, Percy, Salmon Arm\nHarris, Elizabeth, Lumby\nHarter, Jeanne Noble, Armstrong\nHawrys, George & Nora, Grindrod\nHay, Joanna, Lumby\nHay, Muriel, Endery\nHayes, James, Kelowna\nHayhurst, Ron & Joanne, Armstrong\nHeaton, Judy, Armstrong\nHickman, Robin, Salmon Arm\nHobkirk, Erin & Bruce, Armstrong\nHolt, Dianne, Armstrong\nHooge, Herbert, Summerland\nHornick, Pete & Lynn, Vernon\nHoyte, Ted, Vernon\nHudson, Faith, Enderby\nHudson, Pat, Armstrong\nHughes, Ineke, Salmon Arm\nHustad, Allan, Kelowna\nInglis, Helen, Spallumcheen\nIngraham, Janet, Vernon\nIvans, Betty, Kelowna\nJackson, Betty, Salmon Arm\nJackson, Sheila, Quesnel\n219\n SOCIETY MEMBERS\nJames, Lois & Garry, Ottawa, Ontario\nMcMillan, John & Sharon, Armstrong\nJamieson, Dawn & Jack, Armstrong\nMerchant, Vivian, Vernon\nJohanson, Karen, Armstrong\nMoffat, Robert, Kelowna\nJohns, Jill, Okanagan Falls\nMohr, Mike, Armstrong\nJohnston, Clara, Salmon Arm\nMolyneux, Jean, Naramata\nJohnstone, Gwen, Armstrong\nMonford, Ken, Grand Forks\nKasnik, Mr. & Mrs. C, Vernon\nMonteith, Doug, Penticton\nKermode, Dale, Vernon\nMoor, Marilyn & Don, Armstrong\nKernaghan, Ralph & Marilyn, Salmon\nMorgenstern, Dave, Penticton\nArm\nMori, 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