Projects

Image Bank

There are tens of thousands of photographic resources associated with the Columbia Basin. Ranging from Valemount west to Revelstoke and east to old Michel-Natal, south from Creston to Castlegar and including Grand Forks and Greenwood in the historic transportation and resource extraction net, the photographic resource is awesome. Unfortunately there was no way of bringing the resource together so that general interest viewers and researchers of all levels could view it - until the Internet and the Columbia Basin Image Bank.

Time Capsule: Time to Set the Record Straight

Scientists have jousted over concepts of time and relativity for a good long while. Perhaps it's necessary that the discussion be turned over to humanists and historians. Here at the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History, we know that time and history are relative. Instead of experiments, we have community experience to prove this point!

Interpretative Panels: Making History Public

The Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History has a very simple mission. We want to make history interesting and available to the public. To that end we have developed our heritage interpretation panel project.

Our interpretation panels are designed to speak directly to the present about what happened in our past and how it might enlighten our tomorrows. The panels celebrate our residency in the Columbia Basin and how the inter-relationships extend through time. In many instances the panels feature buildings and places that still exist, but in some instances they recreate notable activities or structures that are no longer with us.

Word in the Basin: A Festival of Narration for the Columbia Basin

Have you ever wondered why some people who talk to themselves look so happy? We have a theory...it's because they're whispering great stories under their breath as they putter along. Life's trials and tribulations get spun into something more manageable and compelling. In story form, things aren't quite as perplexing!