Enderby & District Museum & Archives

10/09/2026

Here is Enderby City Council from 1990.[edms 8874]
Coun. Wayne McLeod, Coun. Grant Gerlib, Coun. Rick Wilson, Public Works Superintendent Vern Glen, Mayor Terry Fergus, City Clerk Ron Fried, Coun. Howie Gillies, Coun. Cliff Kjelgren and Coun. Charles Johnston
This photo came to the museum from the city, when staff found the framed picture in a closet. Sebo Woldringh, who had been city clerk in the 1980s, was elected to council for a three-year term in 1988 but resigned is seat on May 1, 1990.
The photo was taken after his resignation when Wayne McLeod was elected in a byelection; Wayne was re-elected in 1991 and served until 1996.
Grant Gerlib served as a councillor from 1985 to 1993 and again from 1997-99.
Rick Wilson joined council in 1981-84 and from 1986 to 1990.
Terry Fergus served as a city councillor from 1982-85 and was then elected mayor from 1986 to 1993.
Harold Thomas (Howie) Gillies was a councillor from 1985 to 1995 and then again in 1998
Cliff Kjelgren was a city councillor from 1986 to 1990.
Charles Johnston was elected to a two-year term in 1983 and served as a city councillor until 1993.

10/08/2026

Here is a photo of the 1938 Enderby City Council taken by George Meeres. [edms 448]
Shown, clockwise, are Coun. G.E. McMahon, Coun. Cyril Richards, City Clerk Graham Rosoman, Mayor Charles Hawkins, Coun. Percy Farmer, Coun. Ed Dill and Coun. Gordon "Corky" Duncan.
Charles Hawkins began in municipal politics as a city councillor in 1918 and then again from 1923-24 before being elected mayor in 1925. He served as mayor from 1925 until 1944, with six of those years being elected to the position and the rest of the time being acclaimed.
George Ernie McMahon entered politics as an alderman in 1927 and served to 1937 and again from 1939-1944. He was elected mayor in 1945-46 and returned to council 1947-48 and in 1957, when he died Dec. 25, 1957.
Cyril Ernest Richards was first elected to a two-year term in 1926 and stayed on council until 1939. He returned by acclamation in 1941 and stayed until his death Aug. 16, 1945.
Percy George Farmer was a councillor from 1924 to 1938. (His son would serve on council in 1956-57.)
Edwin Blake Dill became an alderman in 1924 and served until 1938.
Gordon Stanley Duncan was elected in 1925 and served as an alderman until 1940.

10/07/2026

10/07/2026

These two photos of the swearing in of city council in 1981 appeared in the Vernon News. [edms 3701 & 3702]
The first photo shows (l-r) Coun. Cyril Peacher, Mayor Bill Attlesley, City Clerk Sebo Woldringh, Coun. Joan Bond and Coun. Peter Maksylewich.
The second is of (l-r) City Clerk Sebo Woldringh, Coun. Gus Stankoven, Coun. Dave Lynes and Coun. Rick Wilson.
Bill Attlesey started as an alderman in 1974 then served as mayor for 10 years, 1975-85.
Joan Bond was elected for a two-year term in 1980 and again in 1982 but retired in September 1982.
Cyril Peacher served two years on council then ran and lost his run for mayor to Attlesey in 1982. He returned to council in 1983, to complete Bond’s position then was there until 1985.
Peter Maksylewich served two two-year terms as a councillor, from 1980-83.
Gus Stankoven was first elected to council in 1971 and served until 1984.
Dave Lynes first joined council in 1971-74 and again from 1979 to 1982.
Rick Wilson became a city councillor in 1981 and served until 1984 and then again from 1986-1990

10/03/2026

Elections are coming so let’s take look at some local politicians….
This is a photo of the Enderby mayor and council from 1946 taken by George Meeres. [edms 448]
This serious looking bunch is (clockwise from left) Coun. Jim J. Sutherland, Coun. Konstantine Samol, City Clerk Graham Rosoman, Assistant Clerk Hazel Rosoman, Mayor G. Ernie McMahon, Coun. E.N. (Ted) Peel, Coun. Art H. Woodley and Coun W. Howard Logan.
McMahon served as a city alderman from 1927 until 1944. He sat as mayor in 1945-46 and then went back to sitting as an alderman in 1947-48.
Logan ran and won the mayor’s seat from 1947 to 1949. He resigned July 18, 1949 and was replaced by N.S. Johnson.
It seems many of these gentlemen spent many years in municipal politics but, back then, these guys were earning a pittance and many received little to nothing during the Depression. Puts a different spin on community service in politics.
The table and chairs in this picture now reside at the Enderby Museum. Research tells us the table and chairs likely go back to the first mayor and council. You can come into the museum and sit in the mayor’s chair.

10/02/2026

Here is a photograph of Harriet Olson Pow taken by George Meeres in 1951. [edms 1911]
Harriet Mathie of Enderby was the daughter of Jane and Isaac Mathie and sister to Mary Ellen “Nellie” and William. Her mother Jane had come to Ontario from Glasgow as a child. She married Isaac Mathie and they lived in Gainsborough, Saskatchewan. Isaac died and Jane came west with her three children to Hullcar in 1911. Jane married George Moubray Andrews in Enderby on Jan. 27, 1915. They had four children: James, Charlie, Walter and Kathleen “Toots”. The blended family lived in North Enderby at 520 Enderby-Grindrod Rd. Jane died in 1962. George died in 1991.
Harriet’s sister Nellie married Walter Richard White in 1927.
Harriet married Bill Olson, who was one of nine children born to Olof and Elizabeth Olson, who came to North Enderby in 1910. Bill was a Greyhound bus driver for Ed Proctor in Lumby and Vernon. He also drove streetcar in Vancouver and worked at a glass factory in the United States. Bill served overseas in WWII. He died in 1940.
Harriet and Bill had one son, William Richard in 1931. William, also known as Sonny, went on to marry Martha Pugh and had two children: Gregory in 1964 and Cindy in 1967. William later married Debra Wetmore in 1989.
Bill died in 1940 and she married Johnny Pow, a barber at the Enderby Hotel. They lived in Malakwa and then Springbend. Harriet died in 1969.

10/01/2026

This is the wedding photo of Fernand and Pat Gervais (nee McNabb) on Oct. 19, 1960. [edms 1872]
Patricia Noel McNabb was the daughter of Helen Lorene (McKay) and Hugh Alan McNabb. Her family came to Enderby in 1947 where her father worked at the Riverside Sawmill.
Pat and Fernand (Fern) J.A. Gervais of St. John, New Brunswick married in Vancouver. They had two children: Kimberly in 1961 and Dale in 1962. Unfortunately, Fern was killed in a car accident in 1976. His funeral was Jan. 16, 1976.
Pat remarried to Albert Po***ck in 1977.

09/26/2026

OK, back to school week almost became back to school month with so many photos of local school classes. Makes you think.
Today we are going to reach back just a bit for our class photo...
Here is the 2022 A.L. Fortune Secondary graduating class. [edms 8352]
A.L. Fortune Secondary was built in 1978 for grades 8 to 12. Prior to that, Grade 11 and 12 students attended Salmon Arm Senior Secondary for a decade due to a lack of space in Enderby. The fire at the brick school in 1975 led to the construction of a new high school, A.L. Fortune Secondary. The school now houses grades 7 to 12.
Shown in the photo are:
Front: Megan Davidson, Cordell Anker, Maxwell Hearder, Austin Scott, Emily Washtock, Taylor Czepil, Dyson Wasyliw, Alastair Harris, Brayden Leaman, Kassie Joe
Middle: Ellysa Marshall, Morgan Knull, Makyla Hnatiw, Harmony Killman-Williams, Ethan Burke, Oakley Nadrozny, Garrett Dale, William Puetter, Amanda Aylard, Bella Baird, Alexsis Bradford, Hailey Kathrein, Savanah Szerepi
Rear: Tyson Taylor, Joseph Francsik, Alex Dunnett, Ryan Posak, Braden Hinz, Lucas Rozenberg, Quito Bruns, Hudson Frehlich, Kadyn Kowalski

09/25/2026

George Meeres snapped this photo of students and their teacher at Grandview Bench School on June 25, 1937. Unfortunately, we only have one name: Mary Louise Cobb, the teacher standing in the back row. Do you recognize anyone? Let us know. [edms 8371]
In 1918, settlers in Grandview Bench built a small school for their children, so small – 18x20 feet – that the 10 children had to push their desks together and walk around the perimeter. The first class of 10 pupils (not the one shown here) included four Lidstones, four Schindlers, one Turner and one Baldwin.
A new school was constructed in 1922 by the Department of Education on the site and the old school was moved back and connected to the new one by a covered porch; this was used as a kitchen for community events. By the 1962 enrolment was 29 students in grades 1-7 and a new modern school was built north of the second school; the first school was then demolished. This school had one classroom, a hall and bathrooms over an ample crawl space and a furnace room. It was heated with oil. The second school was later moved across the road to 607 Grandview Bench Rd. to be as a community hall.

09/24/2026

This is one of 16 photographs donated to the museum by Doris Shipmaker. The other photographs show her classes at Grindrod Elementary from 1968 to 1982. Unfortunately, they came without names and some are undated.
This one shows school staff from 1976-77. Names did not accompany the photo but we came up with a few names we think are correct. The book created for Grindrod’s 75th anniversary celebration in 1986 includes lists of teachers for each year at Grindrod Elementary. It lists six names for 1976-77, so not everyone here is a teacher – they could be the secretary or other type of educator.
Shown are:
Back: Carol Schulte, Sheila Peebles, Coralie Karpowich (secretary), Doris Shipmaker, Pat Thurlow, Sheila Smith (Forster), Margaret Spencer
Front: Nora Hawrys, Henry Zieber, Sam Peebles, Monty Feazel, Shirley Miller
Big thanks to everyone who helped identify all the folks is the photo. Including Sheila Forster who recognized herself as S. Smith mentioned previously.
So, if you attended Grindrod Elementary during the period of 1968 to 1982, you are welcome to drop in at the museum to look at the other photos to help identify the people in them.