The Greater Vernon Museum & Archives and the Vernon & District Family History Society are teaming up once again to offer, not one, but four Pleasant Valley Cemetery Walking Tours this summer.
The Saturday tour dates include: June 13, July 11, Aug. 8 and Sept. 12. Each tour will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery and last about two hours. Following the tour, a light lunch will be served at the museum, where tour guide Lawrna Myers will be available to answer any further questions. The museum will also have more information on display about the historical figures mentioned during the tour.
“We’ve had incredible interest in the tours,” said Denise Marsh, marketing and communications coordinator for the museum. “Lawrna Myers and her crew have done a fabulous job of entertaining participants by dressing in costume, providing engaging stories and noting historical facts as well as a little gossip from the time.”
For this tour, Myers has kept six of the subjects from the previous tour and added 10 new ones. Even if you came to last year’s tour you’re sure to learn something new. She will share stories about those who perished in the Okanagan Hotel Fire, some of the First World War Internment Camp detainees, the young Lonnie Mohr, the Bernardo home child Joseph Harwood, and prominent architect Robert Brown Bell, to name a few.
Tickets are $20 per person with a limit of 20 participants per tour. To avoid disappointment you’re strongly encouraged to purchase tickets early. Tickets are only available at the museum and will not be available on the event date. Participants are asked to wear good walking shoes as the tour involves a considerable amount of walking and standing.
For more information, call the museum at 250-542-3142 or visit www.vernonmuseum.ca or www.facebook.com/vernonmuseum
