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Vol.15 Number 37
Thursday, September 12, 2013
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VANDALISM CONTINUES
Police report further incidents in the village last week See page 3
GRIST MILL WINDING DOWN REGULAR SEASON
Scheduled activities at the Mill include Apple Day on October 14 See page 10
CYCLIST HIT AT 7TH AND 7TH
Bicycle rider fortunate to escape serious injury See page 8
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Heritage Haul Carriage collection draws local attention during stopover in Keremeos
By Steve Arstad news@keremeosreview. com
Photo by Steve Arstad
The late summer Doran Degenstein stopped in Keremeos Monday, September 9 while making his way back to Lethbridge traffic through KereAlberta, with a collection of old horse drawn buggies from Vancouver Island. meos is somewhat diminished from July and August’s Some of the buggies have such of these carriages in the ‘30s and tourist season peaks, but there are ‘40s,” explained Degenstein. “They technological improvements as steel still some interesting people and hubs and rubber coated wheels. were turned over to the museum, cargoes passing through the village. but after he died, the museum had None of the rigs look like they Last Monday, September 9, were worn out during their useful a change in direction.” wagon collector Doran Degenstein lifetimes. The original collection constopped in Keremeos, trailering an “These carriages are a reflection tained 25 carriages. Degenstein’s eye-catching cargo of six carriages six carriage purchase came with the of the society that existed in Dunfrom the days of the horse and stipulation that the six could not be can back in their day,” Degenstein buggy. Shrink wrapped to protect added. He plans minimal restorasold individually. the ancient conveyances from the tion on the vehicles. They will be “They are to stay together in elements, Degenstein was on his protected from the elements and perpetuity,” Degenstein said. way back to his home in Lethwill join Degenstein’s collection of Although not much is known bridge, Alberta, after acquiring some 500 carriages. individually about the carriages, the unusual pieces from a private “I’ve travelled as far as New Degenstein said that there was a owner in Duncan, B.C. York collecting carriages,” Degen“commonality” to the six. The six carriages were once stien concluded. This is a large concentration of part of Gerry Wellburn’s collec“I found out about these in an high end buggies,” he explained. tion, housed in the B.C. Forestry unusual way. A fellow collector in “They are not your typical ‘plain Museum (now known as the B.C. Arlington, Virginia told me about jane’ carriages.” Forest Discovery Centre). Wellburn them. The collection dates from the collected hundreds of items over He thought I would be interest1890s to the early 1900s, to an era the course of his lifetime, included, and they were a lot closer to me just prior to motorized transport. ing logging and railroad artifacts, Included in the six is a McLaughlin than they were to him.” many of which are still on display The ardent collector stopped to carriage, a pre internal combustion at the B.C. Discovery Centre. take a look in Jeff Berg’s Ox Yoke engine version of one of Canada’s “Gerry Wellburn collected many early automobile manufacturers. Antique store while in Keremeos.
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