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Bill Green Interview – Salmon Negotiations

Bill Green, director of the Canadian Columbia River Inter-tribal Fisheries Commission, discusses the process of fighting to bring the salmon back. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black […]

Harold Catherwood Interview – Negotiations

Harold Catherwood, former Sidmouth resident, discusses the negotiation process with BC Hydro. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning […]

Walter Bobicki Interview – Negotiations

Walter Bobicki, whose family was displaced from their land four miles south of Revelstoke, discusses the negotiation process with BC Hydro. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black […]

Harold Catherwood Interview – Protesting the Dam

An interview with Harold Catherwood where he discusses protesting with a small group at the dam site. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an […]

SS Minto Near Arrowhead, circa 1950

The SS Minto began its long career on the Arrow Lakes in November of 1898 after being assembled at the shipyards in Nakusp. It was part of a […]

Joe Kozek Horse Logging Near Twelve Mile, circa 1950

Joe Kozek is horse logging near Twelve Mile, south of Revelstoke. Logging took place throughout the valley. Joe Kozek and his brothers had a portable mill near Twelve […]

Burning of Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1967

St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built at the Mount Cartier settlement in 1921. It was dynamited in October of 1966 by unknown persons and was burned down the […]

Aerial View of McKinnon’s Standard Dairy Farm, circa 1950

Hector and Delia McKinnon began operating Standard Dairy farm in Revelstoke in 1916. Hector McKinnon died in a fire on an adjoining farm in 1929, and his wife […]

Moving the McKinnon Log House, 1967

Delia McKinnon made one thing clear – she was not about to lose her home that she had lived in since 1916. When the family was forced to […]

Haying on the McKinnon’s Standard Dairy Farm, circa 1940

Bringing in the hay in the field on the McKinnon’s Standard Dairy farm circa 1940.

Revelstoke Airport, 1970

The newly built Revelstoke Airport is visible in this panorama photograph from 1970. It extends out into the Arrow Lakes reservoir and can be a challenging runway for […]

Revelstoke Baseball Park, 1962

Revelstoke’s Centennial Park ballfields were first built in 1958 as Revelstoke’s community project for the British Columbia Centennial. Within the next ten years, the fields were raised by […]