VIDEO FUNDING PROPOSAL

NEW PLAQUE

Pat Bayliss has, once again, stepped forward to pay for a brass plaque to commemorate the centennial of the Okanagan Hotel Fire. The hotel used be be at the corner of Barnard and Vance, now 30th Avenue and 33rd Street, the current location of Liquidation World. The New plaque is attached to a street light on the sidewalk in front of Liquidation World.

The video project would have progressed much slower had it not been for Pat Bayliss.

In Pat's own words...For the past 20 years I have recorded all the births, marriages and deaths from the Kamloops Inland Sentinel newspaper (1880-1892) and the Vernon News (1891-1928) in the Vernon Museum as a volunteer. This August, 2009 is the centennial of the Okanagan Hotel fire, it was probably the greatest loss of lives in the Vernon area. In 1990 I paid for bronze plaque and the City of Vernon installed it on the back of Hickling memorial in Polson Park. I plan to buy another bronze plaque listing all the men who died in the Hotel fire and hope to have it installed on the sidewalk in front of the former Okanagan Hotel site by the City of Vernon.

Some of these men who died they don’t know where they came from, or who their families were, I’m sure their parents went to their graves wondering what happened to their sons. We have traveled through many countries in the world by road in very isolated areas twice from France to Ceylon by road in the 1960s, when our sons were 18 months and 31/2, I’m sure our parents in England wondered if they would see again.


		NEW PLAQUE Pat Bayliss has, once again, stepped forward to pay for a brass plaque to commemorate the centennial of the Okanagan Hotel Fire. The hotel used be be at the corner of Barnard and Vance, now 30th Avenue and 33rd Street, the current location of Liquidation World. The New plaque is attached to a street light on the sidewalk in front of Liquidation World. The video project would have progressed much slower had it not been for Pat Bayliss. In Pat's own words...For the past 20 years I have recorded all the births, marriages and deaths from the Kamloops Inland Sentinel newspaper (1880-1892) and the Vernon News (1891-1928) in the Vernon Museum as a volunteer. This August, 2009 is the centennial of the Okanagan Hotel fire, it was probably the greatest loss of lives in the Vernon area. In 1990 I paid for bronze plaque and the City of Vernon installed it on the back of Hickling memorial in Polson Park. I plan to buy another bronze plaque listing all the men who died in the Hotel fire and hope to have it installed on the sidewalk in front of the former Okanagan Hotel site by the City of Vernon. Some of these men who died they don’t know where they came from, or who their families were, I’m sure their parents went to their graves wondering what happened to their sons. We have traveled through many countries in the world by road in very isolated areas twice from France to Ceylon by road in the 1960s, when our sons were 18 months and 31/2, I’m sure our parents in England wondered if they would see again.