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History – Governance – Minutes – Name Change – Project List
OUR HISTORY
1928 Willingdon Beach opens, with the Bath House (changing huts) moved down from near the present Trestle on WBTrail.
1948 Present Forestry Museum building built by the Powell River Company
1958 Municipality takes over the operation of the beach.
1986 The Powell River Museum Society (PRFMS) forms:
- founding members Jack McCuish, Bill Finn, Andy Culos, Bill Tuba and Ken Gordon.
- members create and maintain the displays and artifacts preserved in the Forestry Museum building at Willingdon Beach.
- members maintain the Willingdon Beach Trail and its logging artifacts
2001 Steam Donkey moved to the trail
2003 Trestle built on the trail
2011 members create, operate and maintain the Paradise Valley Railroad at Paradise Exhibition Park.
2014 The Powell River Heritage Society (PRFHS): forms as a name change to the PRFMS:
- Forestry Museum building consolidated with the PR Historical Museum foresty collection, with its assets now owned and managed by the qathet Museum and Archives, with support and encouragement from the PRFHS
- PRFHS members continue to maintain the historic Willingdon Beach Trail artifacts that are placed along the trail
- PRFHS members continue to operate the Paradise Valley Railroad.
2022 Following the re-opening of the trail after the installation of the 18″wastewater pipe down the center of the trail, maintenance of the Willingdon Beach Trail and it’s logging artifacts were turned over to the City
Governance
- Constitution: (Certificate of Incorporation Number S-0020958 5th day of February 1986)
- The name of the Society is “Powell River Forestry Heritage Society”
- The purposes of the Society are:
- to preserve and advance the heritage of the forestry industry of Powell River and District,
- to develop and operate a model, ridable railroad at Paradise Exhibition Park
- to support the forestry collections of local museums
- The bylaws of the Society are here
- The officers of the PRFHS elected at the AGM on March 15, 2022 are:
- President Dave Florence
Vice President Administration (& Secretary/Treasurer) Geoff Stubbs
Vice President (Railroad) Dan Parsons
Directors at large: Stephen James, Bob Johnson, Rob Clark,
History – Governance – Minutes – Name Change – Project List
Name Change
Along with other community organizations that serve the qathet Regional District, not just the city of Powell River, we will likely change our name to qathet Forestry Heritage Society, with the website going to qrdfhs.org.
History – Governance – Minutes – Name Change – Project List
Minutes
Some recent minutes are shown below. More are on the legacy website.
Project List
History – Governance – Minutes – Name Change – Project List