Pro D Day Camp: Join us Friday, May 19th for a day of exploring art in nature. Inspiration can be found in abundance in Rossland's wild environment! This Pro-D Day's theme is about bringing our art to nature for inspiration and collecting nature to create and inspire our art. Come spend the day with fellow outdoors kids and artists alike as we find the nature of inspiration at
March Speaker Series with Ron Dennett - Murphy Creek Headwaters Plane Crash: Tragedy in the Rossland Range On Oct. 18, 1947, a Royal Canadian Air Force plane carrying nine people - seven RCAF crew members and two civilians - crashed near Mount Plewman in the Rossland Range. There were no survivors. Five years later, in October of 1952, Wilf Gibbard came across the remnants of
(STEVE ARSTAD / iNFOnews.ca) March 14, 2021 - 8:00 AM High on a mountainside near Rossland lies the wreckage of a Second World War bomber that met its end on an early winter October morning while on its way to Penticton. The crash claimed the lives of two Penticton civilians and seven Royal Canadian Air Force servicemen who were familiar faces in the Peach City in the late 1940s. The Mitchell aircraft crashed 13 miles northwest of Rossland in 1947. It made headlines in the Okanagan twice – when it disappeared from radio contact on Oct. 18, 1947, and again in Oct. 1952, when the plane’s wreckage was discovered by a Kootenay hunter.