To all candidates and their sponsors and families for a successful completion to the 2020 Candidacy program. Thank you to the retiring ambassadors for their excellent year of service. The new Oliver Ambassador Team for 2020-2021 was named Saturday evening. Phi Thai sponsored by The Kiwanis Club of Oliver and Anika Franzen-Brown sponsored by the […]

Born in Ontario and raised in Alberta, Arlyn Greig, widow, now retired and living in Osoyoos, BC brings a wealth of knowledge gained from her working years in Fort McMurray with the Fire Fighter’s Union as Secretary/Treasurer. She was a 9-1-1 dispatcher and a volunteer working on Brian Jean’s 1st Conservative campaign. She also worked […]

Wrapping up a series this weekend with thanks ……….. To Rocky and Charlaine and the kids for putting up with me To the Oliver and District Heritage Society and Manager Julianna Weisgerber and her staff for the valued asssistance. Much info on line-if you are tracking a mystery of your family. Now Rocky is a […]

A blue heron at the river

Pacific Coast Militia Rangers posing in a field, positioned in two rows, circa 1940 – picture thought to have been taken in the Oliver area. Did the militia go to war or stand guard at home. No 48 squad called Testalinda/Oliver People identified in photo: Daerfler, Norman; Endreny, Andrew; Finch, Jim; Garward, Milton; Kelly, Bob […]

THE END OF AN ERA You have probably heard the joke….Marriage begins with two hearts and a diamond and ends with two clubs and a spade. Sounds funny until it becomes true. Our love story started with two teenagers thinking they would die if they couldn’t be together, so there was an engagement, a marriage, […]

More background Both the grandparents of Roxter lived in Penticton Jack and Jessie Lundy (more research On J.A. Lundy – John Abert or John Albert) ? and Otto and Martha Gaube evidence of that in the Penticton Cemetery. The picture shown earlier ….of a white man and a native person is of Otto Gaube, one […]