Please join us on Thursday, April 28th for a presentation provided by local authors Terry Gainer and Michael Cone. In this presentation, local authors Terry Gainer and Michael Cone will speak on the importance of transportation history and progress in the Kootenays. Including travel by train and lake ferries, from the place, you see when […]
On June 29th, The Cranbrook History Centre will be hosting an Ed Talk the likes of which have never been seen before! For the first time ever June's Ed Talk will give you not only a lecture from four of the Kootenay's most dynamic local musicians--but also a musical performance! Also, including a cash bar […]
Take a journey with University of Alberta Paleo student and Director of the Vancouver Paleontological Society Brennan Martens through how fossil hunting at a young age led to a lifelong love for and career in Paleontology. Doors open at 630PM, show starts at 7PM. Admission is always free but registration is required. Who says there's nothing […]
August 31st, 2022 we have a very special Ed Talks! Join us IN IDLEWILD PARK, for the Ka*Kin Na Na Youth Drum Group from the Ktunaxa Nation! The group will speak on their formation and perform several drum songs from their people and culture. Performance starts at 7PM, at the Idlewild Park Bandstand. […]
September's Ed Talks is going to be a blast! Join us on September 29th for a Ticket to Ride Board Game Tournament! Doors open at 630PM, the tournament starts at 7 PM-- and this one is going to run late! We're anticipating the tournament to run until 9 or 930PM. Hosted by local […]
Canada’s Great Divide Trail (GDT) traverses the vicinity of the high elevation continental watershed divide designated as the interprovincial boundary between Alberta (Alta.) and British Columbia (B.C.). It crisscrosses the vast northwest to southeast trending Canadian Rocky Mountains for more than 1,100 kilometres from the US/Canada border in Waterton Lakes National Park in the south […]
“40 years in the Kootenay” Things have changed and things stayed the same. The presentation is about Janice's experiences living in Cranbrook and working in Kimberley. The show features her photographs of diverse Kootenay outdoor locations, local history, social, people, and lively tales of things that happened while exploring the grand mountains around here. The one-hour […]
Unfortunately, we have to cancel this event. We hope to see you at our next Ed Talk on June 26th with Jim Cameron who will be presenting on the Baker Boys!
Join us at the Cranbrook History Centre on Friday, July 19th from 7:00-8:30pm for a reading from Sally Thompson's new book, Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo. Doors open at 6:30pm. Tea, […]
Join us in the Royal Alexandra Hall on Wednesday, August 28th at 7:00pm to be educated, entertained and inspired by artist Marcel Dou Roig, the man behind the "iconic elephant […]
On Wednesday, September 11th, The Cranbrook History Centre will be hosting the 2nd annual local food celebration in partnership with Live for Local and other local farms and businesses. Let's […]
Join us in the Royal Alexandra Hall on January 15th for Our Favourite Forgotten Stories from the Forgotten Cranbrook, Forgotten Kimberley, and Forgotten Creston books with Derryll White and Erin Knutson, from the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and historian and publisher, Keith G. Powell. This will also be the OFFICIAL (Cranbrook) BOOK LAUNCH […]
