Keyword: swimming pool

Gyro Swimming Pool, Cranbrook, BC

Postcard of Gyro Swimming Pool in Cranbrook, BC. Note the sand "beach" in foreground.

Internal ID:	0003.0003
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1940

Cranbrook's Gyro Pool and Fountain c.1950

The Gyro fountain is shown, honouring the Gyro Club who constructed the 125 x 1250 foot outdoor pool, said to be the largest in western Canada. Also shown are the lifeguard tower and children's enclosure.

Internal ID:	0007.0008
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1950

Gyro Pool

Cranbrook Gyro swimming pool is popular beyond the wildest dreams of its sponsors, with bathers there at 6 am to all hours of the evening. Rubbish blocking pools inflow pipe causes overflow onto city streets.

Internal ID:	0053.0009
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 17th 1930

Project Society

Newspaper article Z-shaped heated outdoor pool design approved with a second phase that will be a smaller indoor pool.

Internal ID:	0050.0013
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 22nd 1969

Project Society

Newspaper article Cranbrook Lions Club pledged $10,000 over a three year period towards the city's new swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0050.0014
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 29th 1969

Joint Club Council

Newspaper article Joint Service Club Council established to co-ordinate fund raising activities of the member clubs and to spearhead major fund raising events for new Cranbrook Swimming Pool.

Internal ID:	0050.0016
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 5th 1969

Pool Regulations

Newspaper article swimming pool standards thoroughly aired at recent meeting of the Inter- Union Board of Health with hopes that all pools will support the move to make these swimming pool laws.

Internal ID:	0050.0019
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 13th 1966

YMCA Swimming Pool(2)New Gymnasium

Internal ID:	0042.0059
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 11th 1926

Gyro Pool

Kimberley Press writer and party returning from Wasa stopped at Cranbrook and was surprised at the heavy patronage at new swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0053.0061
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 24th 1930

Gyro Pool Drowning

Lumberton resident lost her son to drowning at Cranbrooks' new Gyro Swimming Pool after getting caught under the raft.

Internal ID:	0053.0063
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 31st 1930

Swimming Pool Funeral

Many attend funeral of Lumberton youth who drowned in Cranbrook's new swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0053.0072
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 7th 1930

Pool Record

Sixteen year old Cranbrook boy sets record at Gyro pool swimming over two and a third miles in 1 hr and 27.5 minutes.

Internal ID:	0053.0076
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 14th 1930

Gyro Pool

Cranbrook tourist park cabin rentals were full almost every night, even though attendance was down from last two years. Tourists could not understand the new swimming pool was free, took pictures to take home to show what a small city could do.

Internal ID:	0053.0080
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 14th 1930

GWVA Sells Building

GWVA Sells Building, speakers who attended the meeting,and transfer of property

Internal ID:	0042.0082
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 10th 1926

Kalispell Rotarians

Kalispell Rotarians visiting Cranbrook were loud in their praises of the community effort to build the Gyro Club swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0053.0087
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 14th 1930

Letter Of Complaint

Letter to editor asking for a "life saver" to take over care of Cranbrooks' new swimming pool after several near accidents and one fatal drowning.

Internal ID:	0053.0091
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 21st 1930

Cranbrook City Council

Report on City Council meeting dealing with the Y.M.C.A. proposed building addition for a swimming pool and gymnasium.

Internal ID:	0051.0098
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 17th 1926

Lively Session Of Council

Last council session before elections of new year of councillors. Proves to be a lively session, with one councilman resigning.

Internal ID:	0050.0113
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 15th 1931

Canadian Rockies

Postcard Album - Chateau Lake Louise, swimming pool in foreground, Banff National Park, Alberta.

Internal ID:	0133.0117
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1945

Works Report 1930

Annual report by City Superintendent for Water, Sewers, Streets, Sidewalks, Drainage, Street Maintenance Departments of the City of Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0050.0120
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 29th 1931

Gyro Convention

Cranbrook and Kimberley Gyros jointly entertained visiting Gryo dignataries and ask for the 1932 District Convention be held in Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0053.0136
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 18th 1930

Swimming Pool

Boys and girls aged 15 and under take part in children's contests at swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0050.0148
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 30th 1931

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Cranbrook, BC July 1971

Prime Minister of Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, making speech in Cranbrook, BC during the Official Opening of the Cranbrook Public Swimming Pool in July 1971. Notice the Green Clinic and the Cranbrook Public Library in the background.

Internal ID:	0197.0150
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	July 1st 1971

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Cranbrook, BC July 1971

Prime Minister of Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, in Cranbrook, BC during the Official Opening of the Cranbrook Public Swimming Pool in July 1971.

Internal ID:	0197.0151
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	July 1st 1971

Council Takes Up Routine Work

The highlights and stats of a meeting of the Cranbrook City Council.

Internal ID:	0042.0155
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 17th 1926

Gyro Pool Letter

Letter to editor thanking Cranbrook Gyros for their swimming pool and the amount of pleasure the citizens, ages 2 to 70 years, have taken from it during the swimming season.

Internal ID:	0053.0163
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 25th 1930

Cranbrook Swimmers

Results for swimming tests, diving contests and relay races for Cranbrook junior swimmers.

Internal ID:	0052.0320
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 15th 1921

Cranbrook Athletic Association

Newspaper letter to the editor - local resident asking for a meeting with Cranbrook City Council over reopening gymnasium and swimming pool and organizing an institition "Cranbrook Athletic Association".

Internal ID:	0050.0322
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 13th 1917

City Council

Cranbrook City Council meeting, among other things brought up was approaching C.P.R. in respect to building a swimming pool in connection with the Railway Y.M.C.A., and closing down a street during sleighing season.

Internal ID:	0050.0336
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 4th 1917

Gyro Swimming Pool Cranbrook, BC c.1951

Two men standing by the Gyro Club swimming pool in Cranbrook c.1951 Do you recognize these two men? If you do please let us know

Internal ID:	0523.0354
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1951

Cranbrook Rotary

Capt. Tom Best addresses the Cranbrook Rotary Club on their 'Boys Work' committee and the undertaking to build a swimming pool for the younger folks.

Internal ID:	0052.0383
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 7th 1922

Rotary Pool

Members of Cranbrook Rotary club held annual election and revoted last years officers, a rough sketch of proposed swimming pool was presented.

Internal ID:	0052.0389
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 28th 1922

Purcell Condos

Ski hill, Purcell Condos, July Fest, Kimberley, BC

Internal ID:	0205.0425
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

North Star Ski Hill

Ski Hill lodge at North Star Ski Hill, Kimberley, BC

Internal ID:	0205.0437
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Park & Pool

Cranbrook City Council had a long regular monthly meeting dealing with park and pool by-law, cost of damages to residents and businesses caused by city development, cemetary upkeep, etc.

Internal ID:	0052.0444
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 16th 1922

Cranbrook Rotary

Cranbrook Rotarian weekly luncheon successful, with it unanimous support for the swimming pool and park, plus an address on microbes that cause infectious disease.

Internal ID:	0052.0451
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 16th 1922

Park & Pool By-Law

Urging all Cranbrook citizens to vote in favor of city park by-law.

Internal ID:	0052.0455
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 23rd 1922

Pool & Park Bylaw

Urging Cranbrook citizens to vote "yes" for upcoming vote proposing a bylaw to permit the establishment of a park and swimming pool, includes a poem.

Internal ID:	0052.0460
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 23rd 1922

Park & Pool Bylaw

Urging Cranbrook taxpayers to vote in favor of park bylaw, to enable children to have a swimming pool and playground, noting people outside city limits are even offering to donate money towards the proposed park.

Internal ID:	0052.0464
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 23rd 1922

Pool Bylaw Passes

Cranbrook taxpayers vote 3 to 1 in favor of establishing playground and swimming pool for children.

Internal ID:	0052.0465
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 30th 1922

Cranbrook City Council

Cranbrook City Council attends to routine business transactions, with remarkable feature of a ratepayer attended the deliberations, which seldom happens.

Internal ID:	0052.0560
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 14th 1922

Aunt Lucia Fundraiser

Fundraiser for Cranbrook swimming pool in the form of a comedy play held in the Auditorium.

Internal ID:	0050.0656
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 2nd 1930

Wycliffe Swimming Pool

Wycliffe residents sell home cooking to raise $50 towards the Swimming Pool Fund.

Internal ID:	0052.0673
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 8th 1922

Tourist Park Open for Season

Cranbrook city Tourist Park opened for the season with renovations and painting done to the cabins.

Internal ID:	0051.0685
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 17th 1934

Tourist Park

Tourist Park and Gyro swimming pool such a success, accomodations during July and August were scarce.

Internal ID:	0051.0692
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 20th 1934

Financial Success

Cranbrook Tourist Park was finanically successful this camping season, with rents from cabins being top money maker.

Internal ID:	0050.0694
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 9th 1930

Gyro Officers

Listing Cranbrook Gyros officers elected for term, with Gyros proposing to formally present Gyro Swimming Pool to the City.

Internal ID:	0051.0696
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 12th 1939

Summer Work In The City

Ongoing and completed work carried on by the City, including cemetery improvements and tourist camp signs repainted and under construction.

Internal ID:	0051.0723
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 20th 1939

Swimming Pool

Excavation for the foundation of Cranbrook's new men's club started, and building will have a gym and swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0052.0739
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 26th 1912

Gyro Pool

Cranbrook Gyro Club intends to donate $5,000 to construction of swimming pool in Baker Park.

Internal ID:	0052.0776
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 23rd 1930

G.W.V.A. Sells Building

Cranbrook branch G.W.V.A. successful smoker held to thank everyone who helped with Empire Day celebrations.

Internal ID:	0050.0795
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 10th 1926

Gyro Pool Turnover

Newspaper article Gyro Club officially offers City of Cranbrook swimming pool at Council Meeting.

Internal ID:	0051.0798
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 15th 1938

Gyro Club

Cranbrook Gyro Clubs upcoming musical comedy "Mad Capers" with proceeds to the swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0052.0798
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 30th 1930

Gyros - Mad Capers

For three days Cranbrooks' Auditorium will present musical comedy being put on by local Gyros', with a share of the profits to go to local swimming pool.

Internal ID:	0052.0807
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 13th 1930

Mad Capers Ad

Cranbrook Gyro Club musical comedy "Mad Capers" will feature 50 beautiful girls in gorgeous costumes.

Internal ID:	0052.0815
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 13th 1930

Gyro Pool

Cranbrook Gyro Club sponsoring the construction of a modern swimming pool in Baker Park, proceeds from upcoming production of "Mad Capers" will be earmarked for the project.

Internal ID:	0052.0817
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 20th 1930

Gyros & Rotary

Two Cranbrook organizations, the Gyros and Rotarians, have been devoting their time to rehearsing upcoming shows with proceeds going to a swimming pool and community purposes.

Internal ID:	0052.0826
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 27th 1930

Fill Pool for Winter

Swimming pool filled with water to counteract ground pressure against the walls during heavy frost.

Internal ID:	0051.0829
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 18th 1930

Pool Extract

Cranbrook Gyros production met financial success, proceeds for construction of swimming pool to be opened in June.

Internal ID:	0052.0841
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 6th 1930

Clearing for Pool

Lumber from Cranbrooks' old firehall being used for building ten cabins in municipal tourist camp and clearing away of brushwood from the site of projected swimming pool is under way.

Internal ID:	0052.0859
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 20th 1930

City Given Cash

Meeting of Cranbrook Gyro Club announces the will give $4,000 to city council to defray primary cost of constuction of swimming pool in Baker Park.

Internal ID:	0052.0861
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 27th 1930

Fire Hall Recycling

Cranbrooks' old firehall now just a memory and timbers from its building being rapidly used to build cabins in tourist park and Gyro swimming pool site being cleared.

Internal ID:	0052.0863
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 27th 1930

International President Visits

Cranbrook and Kimberley Gyro Clubs hold most successful function in the history of their club in honor of the visit of International President of Gyros.

Internal ID:	0052.0864
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 10th 1930

Construction

Excavating for Cranbrook's new swimming pool at Baker Park being pushed ahead rapidly, proposed opening June 1st.

Internal ID:	0052.0868
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 10th 1930

Pool Construction

Newspaper article Cranbrook Gyro Club provided funds for construction of swimming pool, which is well under way.

Internal ID:	0052.0874
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 17th 1930

Pool Construction

Construction of Cranbrook swimming pool, when completed, will be the largest outdoor pool in the province, other construction in Cranbrook is excavating for concrete sidewalk and widening of other sidewalks.

Internal ID:	0052.0876
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 17th 1930

Pool Construction

Cranbrooks youth eagerly watching progress made by workmen in construction of the swimming pool in Baker Park.

Internal ID:	0052.0883
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 24th 1930

Gyro Pool Carnival

Cranbrook Gyros' weekly meeting settles practically all major details for upcoming carnival, to accompany opening of new outdoor swimming pool with many prizes awarded to successful competitors in water sport races.

Internal ID:	0052.0895
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 1st 1930

Carnival Prep

Cranbrook Gyros' aided in selling tickets for upcoming carnival to aid in completing swimming pool by ladies in Business Girls' Club, who will compete in selling tickets to win prizes.

Internal ID:	0052.0915
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 8th 1930

Pool Extract

Cranbrook Gyro arranging for semi-permanent lighting of the swimming pool, and another member informs club pool will be ready for upcoming carnival.

Internal ID:	0052.0917
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 8th 1930

Pool Progress

Construction of Cranbrooks' new outdoor swimming pool is progressing satisfactorily and a pay telephone has been ordered installed at the tourist camp.

Internal ID:	0052.0918
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 15th 1930

Gyro Pool Ticket Ad

Cranbrook Gyro Swimming Pool Carnival Ticket - good for one free dance, and possibility of winning one pair of Hudson Bay Blankets, an all expenses paid trip to Vancouver Exhibition or $160.00 in gold.