Historical Sketches

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part two)

By Gordon H. Ficke

After living in the McKellar house for 31 years, Milton and Eva Gorman decided that it was time to move to lower Glenrosa on property they purchased in 1920. There they had an orchard that included the precious commodity, irrigation.

Bob and Stevie (Alice Stevens) Lynn bought the property from the Gorman family in 1945. Their mortgage payment was $25.00 per month for twenty-five years!

Previously, the Lynn’s were married in Saskatchewan and homesteaded there. Bob was very good with horses, and in those early days made his living logging with horses. Stevie was a schoolteacher, and their only child; Jack was born there in 1935. A few years later they moved to Vernon, B.C. where Bob worked in a sawmill. In 1938 they packed up all their belongings and moved once again, settling in Westbank. This time he was a foreman for Ewer Orchards.

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part one)

Not far below me off McIver Road in Glenrosa, I could hear the drone of an orange track hoe. The operator systematically scooped up splintered wood, plaster and other construction debris with its articulated shovel and dumped it in a large blue bin. I realized then that the familiar green roofed house with the tall brick chimney that was nestled in the still standing fir trees was gone! A deep sadness overwhelmed me at that moment. The 97-year old wooden heritage house with the veranda had disappeared. Nothing was left behind to indicate that it had ever existed.

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Historical Sketches

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part two)

Another Heritage House Fills the Trash Bin! (Part one)

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