Edited by Denis Marshall, Photographic Memory: Salmon Arm’s Past in Essays and Pictures synthesizes archival photography from the R.J. Haney Heritage Village collections with thematic essays detailing the social, commercial, and structural evolution of Salmon Arm throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The work examines how early mercantile storefronts along Front Street and Alexander Avenue, community halls, and agricultural packing houses were built up along the southern shores of Shuswap Lake, an area long utilized by the Secwépemc for seasonal root digging and salmon harvesting. Marshall documents the transition from subsistence homesteading to an organized commercial fruit-growing and lumbering economy, tracing how local transportation networks adapted from lake steamers to rail corridors and modern highway links. Ultimately, the collection provides a vital spatial and visual record of civic expansion, showing how architectural vernacular and commercial hubs shaped the townscape.

British Columbia Salmon Arm, History, Illustrated works, Local history, Salmon Arm (B.C.) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works, Salmon Arm (B.C.) History Pictorial works, Shuswap Lake Region (B.C.) Pictorial works

Includes bibliographical references and archival photo index.

Includes bibliographical references and archival photo index.