How the Shuswap was settled
Prior to 1896, there were few permanent settlers in the Shuswap. Other than the early-formed settlements in Chase, Westwold (Grande Prairie), Fortune’s Landing (Enderby) and […]
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Eagle Pass Landing – Another Shuswap frontier boomtown
Eagle Pass Landing in 1886, Maynard photo courtesy of the BC Archives and the Kamloops Art Gallery While the story of the Shuswap’s first town
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Rolf Bruhn, Shuswap’s famous pioneer politician
Rolf Walgren Bruhn in 1937 after reconstructive surgery from burns suffered in a boat accident. Photo courtesy of the Sicamous and District Museum. George Abbott
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Silver Creek – Shuswap’s close-knit farming community
Photo of the Social and Dramatic Club entry into the Fall Fair parade. Pre-1917, Photographer unknown, photo courtesy of Salmon Arm Museum at RJ Haney
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A Shuswap Pioneer Christmas
Given today’s frenetic shopaholic holiday season, it can be enlightening to reflect upon the way Shuswap’s early settlers celebrated Christmas. While the focus now for
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