The Women's Institute of Renata
The Women's Institute (W.I.) movement began in Ontario in 1897 and has grown to be a global movement that is still active today. The goal of the organization is to provide women with educational opportunities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities. The Women's Institute of Renata (W.I.) was founded...
Kimberley Flood 1948, Mark Creek Rampage
A devastating flood struck the Town of Kimberley in May of 1948. Mark Creek overflowed its bank due to the melting of a heavy snowpack that year. Excess water flooded the community, and many streets and homes were swept away. Dynamite used by the townsfolk cleared a path for the raging force. Wallinger Ave, Flood of 1948...
The Farron Explosion
In the early morning hours of October 30, 1924, an explosion shattered a first-class passenger car on the Columbia and Western section of the C.P.R. near Farron, B.C. Farron was the remote summit station for crew changes between Castlegar and Christina Lake. Nine people died in the explosion, and a dozen were injured. Peter...
B.C.'s first registered female trapper
Ella Bronson Frye arrived in Red Deer, Alberta, in 1907. She was one of nine children born to Fred and Edith Frye. In 1911 the Frye's moved to Tete Jaune Cache, B.C., and in 1916 Ella attended school but only for a short time. At age seven, Ella's grandfather Julius Bronson started taking little Ella on wilderness adventures,...
Beasts of Burden & The Morrissey Internment Camp
Morrissey Internment Camp, C.1914-18 The arrival of the First World War brought with it the internment camps. Immigrants, classified as "enemy aliens", typically single and unemployed men of Austro-Hungarian and German descent, were arrested and detained at one of the 24 camps established throughout Canada. One such camp was...
