Family Life

The Fisher Family - 2000
3300 Coldstream Avenue



In this dual mural the Fisher children are fishing the Shuswap River on the left,



while Wally Fisher and son Herb have just done some logging on the right.

A tribute to pioneer women

This mural is a tribute to pioneer women. Catherine Schubert, the mural's subject, was the first white woman to travel overland from eastern Canada to B.C. Her trip is especially remarkable because she was five months pregnant when she started out with her husband and three youngsters.

Catherine Schubert (2002)
Located at 3505 - 30th Avenue

Steam Boat of the Okanagan

Captain Shorts, High Admiral of the Okanagan Ocean, began a rowboat service with a boat named after his mother, Ruth Short.

Captain Shorts and the Crew of the S. S. Penticton - 1999

Captain Shorts eventually developed a steam-powered vessel.



The crew of Captain Shorts' steam boat - the S. S. Penticton.

Life on the Ranch

Located at 3213 30th Avenue, this mural celebrates the young men that came to the valley in the 1860s to 1890s to live the cowboy way of life on the cattle ranches. The best riders and ropers were the Okanagan First Nation Cowboys.

Cowboys - 2002

Celebrating Aboriginal Peoples

This mural, "Okanagan Indian Band" is at 3219 31st Avenue - west-facing wall

It depicts the culture of the Okanagan First Nation's people. Notice the eagle and the wolf which are very much a part of lake legends. Some of the people in the mural are chief Pierre Louis and his wife Catherine, as well as Tommy Gregoire, an accomplished rodeo rider.

Okanagan Indian Band - 2001

Kalamalka Lake

I've been holidaying, thus the almost month-long absence. And I have been collecting more murals!

But before we get to those, let's finish Vernon. Today, the mural at 3300 34th Avenue North. This mural celebrates Vernon's beautiful Kalmalka Lake. It was based on a hand-tinted photograph by George Meers and captures the lake's greenish-blue hue. Included are a detail of the brush work and the head artist's signature.

Kalamalka Lake (2002)

Remember war - part 2

The south-facing wall at 3203 - 32nd Street is a continuation of the grand 300-foot mural that shows Vernon's participation in both WWI and WWII.

World Wars - South Wall (2001)

by Michelle Loughery & the company of artists

Remembering war - part 1

The west and south-facing walls at 3203 - 32nd Street display a truly spectacular 300-foot mural. The images show Vernon's participation in both WWI and WWII and depict the various armed forces. This is the west-facing wall

World Wars - West Wall (2001)

by Michelle Loughery & the company of artists

Theatre, anyone?

Attending plays, concerts or moving pictures were what Vernonites did for fun in the early 1900s. This mural celebrates the first production, "The Geisha" put on by the Vernon Musical and Dramatic Society.

The Geisha (2003)
by Michelle Loughery & Company

Located 3106-32nd Street, north-facing wall

Celebrating winter

This mural commemorates cross country skiing and the Sovereign Lake ski area. In 1939 the City of Vernon donated a log cabin at Vernon Lake to the local ski club founded by Carl and Flora Wylie (pictured beside the cabin in the mural). The lake was later renamed Sovereign Lake after avid skier and citizen Bishop Art Sovereign. The mural is located at 3109 32nd Ave., west-facing wall.

Sovereign Lake (2005)

by Tyler Toews and Steven Skolka

Celebrating Vernon's cultural melting pot

This mural celebrates the many cultures that make Vernon home. Included are (left to right) Chinese, Eastern European, Scandinavian, English, Aboriginal, East Indian, Japanese and Belgian. Pierre Eliot Trudeau, the Prime Minister who initiated many of Canada's multicultural policies is pictured on the far right. He died during the painting of this mural.

Unfortunately, in these photos the trees in full leaf hide many of the faces. I guess I'll have to come back in winter when the trees are bare to get the full effect.

Multiculturalism Mural - 2000

The mural is located at 3101 32nd Street, East-facing wall.
Painted by Michelle Loughery and her band of artists.

1912 "Man of Machines"

Frank Reynolds owned a farm equipment dealership on 30th Street from 1905 - 1912. This mural depicting Vernon's "man of machines," his staff and a car from the Vernon Auto Company were painted by Michelle Loughery and her band of merry painters in 1999.

Frank S. Reynolds Warehouse - 1999
3103 - 30th Street - North-facing wall