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“Getting Here From There: Transportation in the Revelstoke District” explores the difficulties of setting up transportation routes through this Rocky Mountain area.
The exhibit opens in the time of the first explorers and First Nations, a time when the region’s waterways were vital to the fur trade and the gold rush.
The exhibit then moves to the perilous construction of the railway in this area, the effect of the railway on the town’s development and the influence of a land dispute between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the original town site owner, A. S. Farwell
Travelling through mountains is hazardous at the best of times in this region, but especially so in the winter. “Getting Here From There: Transportation in the Revelstoke District” features photographs, documents and reminiscences of some of the many disasters on the rail line.
The exhibit then turns to transportation on the water: first, steamer service on the Columbia River, then the opening of the branch line to Arrowhead and steamer service on the Arrow Lakes.
Finally, this Community Stories Exhibit concludes with the construction of the region’s first highways, right up to the building of the Trans Canada Highway in 1962.
