- CA OSC ARC 01-3-20-09-030
- File
- 1960
File contains "There Will Always be Steamboats…" by Bill Stavdal, Penticton Herald.
File contains "There Will Always be Steamboats…" by Bill Stavdal, Penticton Herald.
File contains information summary from Okanagan Lake Holding and tear sheets.
File contains transcribed newspaper articles from the Penticton Herald, tear sheets, notes and information on ships. Interview notes with Bill Gutteridge, 1991. Interview notes with Bill Crossley, 1991.
File contains "Reminiscences of Shomas O'Carney.”
General Historical Interest Articles
File consists of nine folders. File contains clippings.
Richard Cooper and others Tri Lake Recorder
File contains clippings of the “Pioneers” newspaper column.
Biographical sketch
Alexander Theodore “Sandy” Brent (1912-1990) was as lifelong resident of the South Okanagan. After the death of his mother in the influenza epidemic of 1918, he and his siblings (Frederick (Eddie), Mary, Alice, Margaret and Donald) were raised by his grandparents at the Shingle Creek Ranch. Brent married Harriet Morgan and together they raised two sons (Kenneth (b. 1942) and George (b. 1945). His sister Alice married Hal Tweddle; she and her family is photographically documented in the Richter and Tweddle families collection.
The Brent’s lived variously in Allen Grove, St. Andrews by the Lake, and Penticton. Sandy Brent worked in ranching, hard rock mining (Nickel Plate mine above Hedley), logging, and finally as a foreman and later superintendent for the Hatfield family’s Interior Contracting Company.
Scope and content
Subseries consists of recorded interviews and transcripts of recorded interviews. Not all audio recordings associated with transcripts are extant; likewise, not all audio tapes have an associated transcript. Content of interviews includes personal reminiscences, descriptions of photographs, and family histories. Subseries also includes a suite of interviews with his sisters, Alice, and Margaret.
B&W negs #1 Brent family Allen Grove Keremeos Nickel Plate Mascot Mine Princeton Blakeburn
File contains negatives and contact sheets. Photo labels within indicate Tweddle, Richter, Stelkia, Barcelo, Estabrooks families; John Acland, Billy Kruger, Lennie Pierre, Joe Bromley, Charlie Armstrong, Pat Wright, Sandy Brent. Contains photographs interfiled with Doug Cox photos. This file may have a strong correspondence with subseries 1.3-22: Penticton Indian Band.
Sandy Brent - rodeos and old cowboys
File contains oral history transcript.
Conversation with Sandy Brent copy 1 + only
File contains oral history transcript.
Brent Family Aug. 87 Alice [illegible] Jigs Sandy
File contains oral history transcripts, biographical sketch, correspondence and handwritten notes.
File contains photographs. Contains labels indicating Kruger, Stelkia, Eneas, Armstrong famililes. Photos have been separated. This file may have a strong correspondence with subseries 1.3-21: Brent Family Collection.
Colour negs general historical
File contains photographs. Geographic coverage includes: Penticton, Trail and Castlegar.
Hawaiian ranching [folder 2 of 2]
File contains ephemera, photographs Excerpt from Cox’s Hawaiian Ranching, and computer printouts of maps.
File contains Schedule of Renumeration and Expense for School District 15 (1996) and 67 (1999).
Pull out photo #1 1983-July 1986 [Western News Advertiser]
File contains clippings.
File contains clippings.
File consists of 3 folders. Contains photographs and tear sheets from Okanagan Similkameen Tulameen. Contains some Doug Cox photos, interfiled.
File consists of 3 folders. Includes copy of "Naramata Summerland, Appledale and Peachland in the Famous Okanagan Valley British Columbia Canada” and ephemera.
Poplar Grove: Penticton's first subdivision
File contains photographs.
Keremeos / Cawston. Alternative title: Keremeos album
File consists of three folders.
File contains photographs and contact sheets.
File contains photocopied photographs.
File contains newspaper clippings.
File contains annual reports, financial reports and statements, correspondence and notes.
File contains newspaper clippings
File contains newspaper clippings
File contains news release, investment profile, dividend letter, investment releases.
McPherson – Barb + Stan Apex Mtn
File contains oral history transcript.
M.V. Okanagan - Last of Era Sismey
File contains tear sheets, Estabrooks family history.
George Allen Aerial Photography Ltd. collection
George Allen Aerial Photography was a photo studio based in Vancouver, BC. Subseries consists of photographs by George Allen Photos Ltd., 4609 Main Street, Vancouver BC.
File consists of 63 envelopes with annotations.
File contains photographs, clippings, manuscripts and correspondence.
Joe Harris - Penticton, July 1989
File contains oral history transcript. Description and context of many of Harris’ photos.
File contains oral history transcript. Hope and Princeton.
File contains oral history transcripts and ephemera.
File contains oral history transcripts, article and eulogy/memorial address by Doug Cox.
Haynes family - Thompsons - Joe Bromley - Bill White – Venables
File contains correspondence, oral history transcript and copy of “John Carmichael Haynes” by Hester E. White.
Historical mining research collection
Subseries consists of collected materials with pertinence to the mining industry in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Kootenay, Boundary, and Similkameen regions of British Columbia.
Includes collected photographs, clippings, government publications, maps (mineral claims) and textual records.
Lakeshore Gold Mine Joe Trombley
File contains receipts, mineral claim survey map, clippings.
Nickel Plate & Mascot Mines from Mines of the Eagle Country #1 (folder 2 - Ch. 9-17)
File contains pages from Mines of the Eagle Country chapter 9 to the end, photographs, clippings and mining map of part of Similkameen River on photo stock.
Princeton Copper Mtn Allenby Coalmont Tulameen Blakeburn Hope
File consists of 5 folders. Contains photographs.
Jack Bottaro Nickel Plate Mine (Assay Office)
File contains oral history transcript.
Carl Loomer Hedley Nickel Plate
File contains oral history transcripts.
Peach Festival churches and schools
File contains photocopied identifiers.
Brian Van Blaircom Ashnola / F.X. Richter
File contains oral history transcript.
Stocks Old - used for display etc. considered public domain
File contains photographs.
Penticton, airport, garages, orchards
File consists of 3 folders. Contains some Doug Cox photos, interfiled. Contains photographs with extensive annotations on back.
File consists of 3 folders. May contain some Doug Cox photos, interfiled. Contains photographs with extensive annotations on back.
Subseries consists of the accumulation of research materials compiled by Doug Cox in support of his author and historian function, and presumed compiled predominantly during the 1980s and 1990s. This series is defined by its collection and/or photocopying from existing published sources and/or other resources, for which the originals reside both within and without the Cox Collection.
Subseries is composed predominantly of original and photocopied tear sheets from various periodical publications (with emphasis on the annual reports of the Okanagan Historical Society, which have been digitized in full up to 2015), monograph publications, photocopied photographs with identifying annotations, photocopies of correspondence, some original correspondence, and notes.