by Okanagan Life | Nov 23, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Profiles
Spring 1992 When young Liberal candidate Judi Tyabji was declared the new MLA for Okanagan East, a collective “wow” reverberated throughout the district. The 26-year-old woman, pregnant with her third child and a relative unknown, who had a background in the...
by Okanagan Life | Nov 3, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Profiles |
Spring 1995 Since moving to the Okanagan as a young war bride in the 1940s and becoming the first curator of the Kelowna Centennial Museum in 1969, Ursula has designed hands-on school programs that are emulated across the country, written books, developed summer art...
by Okanagan Life | Oct 28, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Profiles |
Fall 1991 “I’m accused of being anti-ALR, anti-most everything and very pro-development. But I’ve worked with those people out in the fields, I’ve gone through the banks, I’ve gone through the hailstones, I’ve gone through the times when you don’t have the...
by Okanagan Life | Oct 28, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Profiles |
Fall 1989 May and her husband had a simple agreement: he would run the province and she would run the house. May wasn’t very interested in politics, but was always working in the background. She ended her career as a school teacher in 1927, but remained a teacher all...
by Okanagan Life | Oct 27, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Profiles |
Jan/Feb 2003 • July/August 2004 Camera in hand, Wendell Phillips has travelled the world, capturing stunning images of people and life, and recording the atrocities and pain human beings inflict upon one another. In a career that spans close to a quarter century (in...
by Okanagan Life | Oct 26, 2013 | 25th Special Edition, Arts & Culture Archives, Profiles |
Fall 1988 The plunge into the world of art paid off for Robert Dow Reid. The shipyards of Scotland where it all began may be a long way off, but for this internationally renowned sculptor, the ocean of his boyhood is ever present in the enduring and beautiful shapes...
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