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Penticton Art Walk: Charles Henry Rawson Exhibition

In 2021, the VHS received a package of drawings and watercolours by Charles Henry
Rawson from his descendant James Wilson of Santa Barbara, California. The package
included a list of his landscape sketches, although many of the originals had been removed, presumably by relatives.
They will be presented at an upcoming exhibition in Penticton as part of the Art Walk and Auction.
A Little but Important Engineering History


2025 LECTURES
MAY
22
2025

Beneath Dark Waters, The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck
On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, enroute to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship….
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