Category Archives: Website Additions

new items added to the website

Local Landmarks, People, Society News, Website Additions

Additions to website – July 2016

During the month more audio files from the Knight Collection were added. We hope to add to this when volunteer Chris Adams returns from his trip to England as he has been reviewing the vintage recordings to better determine content. We also want to confirm copyright status of these recordings.

Two articles have been added to the people and families section, one is a 1997 article contributed by Rollie Rose about Cliff Tollefson, former owner of the Ladysmith landmark Travellers Hotel. To go directly to the page click on The Challenges of Being Cliff

The second article is about Ladysmith Native son Bob Timothy who passed away this month. The article was contributed by Vince Herkel on behalf of the Ladysmith Horseshoe Club and provides Bob’s history of the creation of the HorseShoe Pitch facility in Transfer Beach park.

Bob is recognized as the founder of the Transfer Beach Horseshoe Pitching facility and in his honour, the Ladysmith Horseshoe Club has initiated a fund raising campaign called “A PARK BENCH FOR BOB”
Their goal is to raise $2500 in order to place a memorial bench at the Horseshoe pitch at Transfer Beach. Donations in any amount would be appreciated towards that goal

Contact Vince Herkel at 250-245-2897

To go directly to the article, please click on the following link Ladysmith’s Horseshoe King

People, Website Additions

Additions to website – June 2016

The minutes of the May 2016 Board of Directors meeting have now been approved and are available to view in the Members section of the website. Requires logging in with a password

We have started our oral histories section which appears in the Maps and Media section. There are two Audio pages, one entitled Audio – Knight files which contains the older recordings which were part of the Knight collection and were transferred over from cassette tapes to mp3 format suitable for displaying on the website.

So far this page contains two of these older recordings. There are many more coming. Watch for our article in the coming months about Nathan Dougan and the 1900 Trainwreck just north of Ladysmith. It will be added to our Transportation section.

The second audio page contains an interview with long time Ladysmith resident, former owner of the Chronicle and Mayor Rollie Rose. Rollie and Helen moved to the Okanogan in June to be closer to family. Here’s hoping Rollie will continue his Ramblin’ ways and come back to visit often.

We plan to add to this page interviews done with other long time residents who have contributed so much to this town. Suggestions welcome!

Two articles contributed by museum curator, Bernardien Knol were added to the Our Stories section of the website. One concerns the 30th anniversary of Ladysmith Downtown Revitalization Project and the other is about the efforts to create the Ladysmith Museum on its 5th anniversary.

Events, Website Additions

Home Town Tourist History

Amongst the many happenings taking place this weekend (June 18 & 19), for the Home Town Tourist campaign sponsored by Take 5 magazine, history buffs will be especially interested in the following two events.

The museum is located at 721 First Avenue and the Legion is at 621 First Avenue so they are only a block apart.

Museum-Participant

waterfront-participant

Events, Website Additions

March additions to website

  • Added a link to the Cobble Hill Historical Society under Historical links on the left side of the page. An interesting and well done historical website. Check out the map section which includes a 1925 map of the south Cowichan area as well as their pioneer landowner map which shows the holdings of the areas pioneers usually acquired by pre-emption. Click on the link below to go there directly:

cobblehillhistory.org/maps

  • Added a gallery on this website of the 1911/14 fire maps for the Town of Ladysmith. Click on any of the maps on the gallery page to bring up a larger version of that map. You can then use the zoom feature to enlarge the map further. Click on the link below to go there directly.

https://www.ladysmithhistoricalsociety.ca/maps-media/mapping/early-fire-maps/

Society News, Website Additions

Website additions January 2016

A new video was added to the LDHS Utube channel which can be accessed from this website by going to the Maps & Media menu and clicking on Video or click on the following link

Ladysmith Parades Archive

Another article by Rollie Rose is posted in the People and Families section  about long time restaurant owner, Tommy Jang. Go to the article by clicking on

A Lot of Sweet and Sour

Minutes of Board of Directors meeting held on January 19, 2016 was added to the Members Only page. To view the minutes, navigate to that page and log in with the password. If you don’t have the password contact the Archives office.

Resources, Website Additions

Website additions December 2015

Check out the Canadian GIS site under Mapping in the links section on the left side of this page.

Canadian GIS

This site provides a wealth of information on Geographic Information Systems in Canada both Federally and by Province

Be sure to visit the link to DataBC and the Google Maps for Canada links.

Information provided on free GIS data, tutorials, some historic mapping. If your into mapping, be prepared to spend some time here.

Of particular interest to history nerds is the audio file on Historic GIS mapping research in Canada which is included in the W. H. Pugsley collection under Historic Cartography.

Audio File link

Events, People, Society News, Website Additions

Additions to “People and Families”

Aside

To read about an interview done with Louise Erskine by Rollie Rose which appeared in the Chronicle back in  the 1990’s click on the following link

A Talk with our First Native Daughter

An interview done with Kit Willmot by Rollie Rose has been added as Further Reading in the article contributed by Take 5 in People and Families. To view the interview click on the following link.

Keeping our Heritage Alive

To view an article by Rollie Rose about John and Alexis MacNaughton, see John MacNaughton in the People and Families Section

John MacNaughton

Added an article by Rollie Rose about Florence Foster to the People and Families Section

Reminiscing with a Pioneer Woman

Added an article by Rollie Rose about Keith Gourlay to the People and Families Section

A Real Old-time Character

Added another article by Rollie Rose about Bill Grouhel, a long time fire department member

Heaven just gained  a Fire Chief

People, Society News, Website Additions

More Ramblin’ with Rollie Rose

We consider ourselves indeed fortunate  that former Ladysmith mayor and owner of the  Chronicle, Rollie Rose has agreed to contribute articles to this website. For his first contribution “The 1970’s” please click on the link below

The 1970’s

In 1962 singer Nat King Cole introduced the song “Rambling Rose” which has become a classic. Ladysmith’s “Rambling Rollie Rose” is another classic – a classic newsman. For a brief glimpse of his colourful career please click on his biography on this website.

Biography