Sicamous & District Museum & Historical Society
 
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It was a red letter day, in ideal weather condition, on June 18, 1950 that the brand new and first highway bridge across the channel at Sicamous was opened. May Queen Yvonne Rokosh cut the ribbon which formally opened the last gap in the BC section of the Trans Canada Highway. Around three hundred people were present at the ceremony which was followed by afternoon tea at the Legion Hall, served by the Sicamous Women's Institute, sponsored by the local Board of Trade. Speeches

Frank Kappel born in Wales in 1886 was an early pioneer of the Shuswap area, arriving in Canada in 1911 and settling on a homestead in Celista. He cleared his own land, married Janet in Kamloops in 1912,worked as an accountant in Vancouver in 1913 and audited city books for Kamloops and Salmon Arm that year. He returned to the Shuswap and became a scalere. he then joined the army in 1914 and returned to the Shuswap in 1919. He joined the R.W. Bruhn Co, in 1921 and moved to Si

Maurice Gillis arrived in the Shuswap area in the early 1900's. First settling in the community of Seymour Arm. During the first world war when an internment camp was established at Two Mile, he operated the supply boat that serviced both camps at Two Mile and Swansea Point. In 1924 he acquired 32 acres of land along the Sicamous end of Mara Lake. Shortly after that he established the first tourist camp called Fort Gillis, at what is now White Pine Resort. During this time he