Heritage Cookbook

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Revelstoke Museum & Archives Association, we compiled a Heritage Cookbook that went on sale last September. The cookbook has been an overwhelming success. Over 600 recipes were gathered from past and present Revelstoke residents to commemorate 50 years of preserving and celebrating Revelstoke's history.

More than just a cookbook, "A Taste of Elegance" includes beautiful heritage photographs, a tribute to Revelstoke Mayors, and bits of interesting Revelstoke facts.

Revelstoke Museum and Archives is pleased to announce that we are currently compiling recipes for a second edition of the cookbook, to be released at Revelstoke Homecoming 2009 this July.

A second edition requires many more recipes. We invite all current and former residents to submit their recipes. They can be ones that have been in your family for generations, or ones that you just discovered last week. We are especially encouraging residents from our ethnic communities to submit their recipes. Revelstoke was known for the large Italian population in "Little Italy", the Ukrainian settlement at Mount Cartier, and the Scandinavian settlers in the Big Eddy. There were also many early Japanese and Chinese families here, as well as many other ethnic groups. We especially welcome recipes from these communities.

Heritage cookbooks make excellent gifts and a great kitchen companion and the purchase of the cookbook also helps the museum preserve history for the next 50 years and more.

Stop in to purchase a copy of the first edition and pick up a recipe submission form, or email us at revelstokemuseum@telus.net for a form. Recipe deadline is April 15th.

1910 Rogers Pass Slide

Our next Brown Bag talk will be on March 4, 2009, the 99th Anniversary of the 1910 Rogers Pass Snowslide that killed 58 railway workers. John Woods, retired Chief Park Naturalist of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks, and Cathy English, curator of Revelstoke Museum & Archives, will give the talk together. John will talk about the slide itself, the weather system that caused it, and the geography of the slide site, as well as previous slide research going back to the 1880s. Cathy will talk about the workers, 32 of whom were Japanese, and about the impact the slide had on the community. Revelstoke Museum and Archives has several pictures of the slide site as well as about 600 pages of original material from the Canadian Pacific Railway divisional records. The records include letters from family members of slide victims as well as receipts, telegrams and other correspondence. A committee has now been formed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the slide next year and a series of events will be planned. Watch for more details as we get closer to the date.