OATS newsletter vol 1 issue 5 (Winter 2008 – 2009)

March 1st, 2009

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Highlights

  • Okanagan stock market schemes and scams of the past
  • Book review: Peachland: A Pictorial History of the First 100 Years, by Richard Smith et al
  • Penticton According to Ed: The memoirs of Ed Aldredge
  • The Tram that Left Home, AKA No. 714
  • Green Mountain Stopping House, the highway to Hedley
  • Photo essay: The Okanagan Lake Boat Company, by George Bergson
  • Katherine and Carroll C Aikins

OATS Newsletter Vol 1 issue 4 (Summer 2008)

September 1st, 2008

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Highlights

  • Our new storage vault
  • Book reviews: Penticton Remembers, by David Snyder; Mines of the Eagle Country: Nickel Plate and Mascot, by Doug Cox
  • Teaser: Penticton According to Ed, the memoirs of Ed Aldredge
  • House Freighting in the South Okanagan, by Doug Cox
  • Photo essay: The Saga of the Ookpik, by George Bergson
  • Photo essay: The Stagecoach, a Way to Get There, Eventually
  • The Legend of Og, a series of children’s books by Arlene Kenzie
  • Photo essay: Devastation in Penticton – The 1942 Flood, from photos in the Campling collection