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Subject: 	New Virtual Exhibit
Date: 	Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:34:26 -0700



*/Landscape Lost: Forestry and Life in the Duncan River Valley/**Virtual 
Exhibition *

Touchstones Nelson is pleased to announce the launch of its newest 
online exhibit /Landscape Lost: Forestry and Life in the Duncan River 
Valley./ The site is a collection of photographs by Robert "Bob" Wallace 
of the Upper Duncan River Valley including fire lookouts, old mining and 
trappers cabins, community gatherings, as well as, the communities of 
Howser and Lardeau.

In the early 1940s, the Forest Service hired Bob Wallace as Lookout man 
for Bear Creek in the Upper Duncan River Valley.  Over 200 photographs 
document the area prior to the construction of the Duncan Dam that 
flooded the valley in 1967. The images, beautiful in their own right, 
have added significance in that they document jobs, transportation 
methods and communities that no longer exist, yet were common place just 
over half a century ago.

The site includes a biographical sketch of the photographer and excerpts 
from a work journal kept by Wallace in the summer of 1942 as he worked 
on the construction of the Bear Lookout in the Upper Duncan Valley.  
Visitors to the site will get a glimpse of the talents, hard work ethic 
and love of the outdoors Wallace shared with his family, friends and 
co-workers.

The creation of the site has been funded in part by the Irving K. Barber 
Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, British Columbia 
History Digitization Program. The exhibit is available at 
http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/wallace/

Laura Fortier, MAS

Archivist and Collections Manager

Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History

502 Vernon Street

Nelson, BC V1L 4E7

250-352-8268

touchstonesnelson.ca

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