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Image Credit: Submitted/Fintry.ca April 11, 2021 - 6:00 PM The Okanagan’s history is littered with stories of remittance men, who were the younger sons of the British elite who were sent off to the Colonies with stipends to find their way in the new world while first-born sons inherited wealth. One was Coutts Marjoribanks whose sister Lady Aberdeen built Kelowna’s Guisichan House for him in an effort to keep him out of trouble. It didn’t work all the well as the home was known as a party house. Another might have been James Dun-Waters. He was destined to be just such a son but a “number of tragic deaths in the family precipitated him into the position of financial authority,” according to Dan Bruce, curator of Fintry Estates.
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Bradford’s old Ritz Cinema was popular THE current closure of cinemas, due to lockdown, has prompted regular contributor Vincent Finn to recall a time when they weren’t open on Sundays: “Cinemas played a large part in people’s lives. They were so popular that all the city’s cinemas were listed on the front page of the old Telegraph. The pattern of screenings was the same; one set of films on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday then it changed for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There was a ‘little picture’ followed by newsreels, trailers, then the ‘Big Picture’. It was over by 11pm and at the end everyone stood while the National Anthem played.