The Lumby Historians’ Grassroots: A History of Lumby and District provides a comprehensive local and spatial record of the eastern valleys situated between Vernon and the Monashee foothills. The volume documents the early settlement of "White Valley" (later renamed Lumby after pioneer Moses Lumby), detailing how early French-Canadian and European pre-emptors cleared dense cedar and hemlock bottomlands to establish dairy farms and cattle spreads across Creighton Valley, Trinity Valley, and Blue Springs. The text traces the development of independent sawmill camps, regional rail links via the Canadian National Railway, and the construction of the early twentieth-century hydroelectric generating station at Shuswap Falls. Richly supported by property cadastrals, one-room schoolhouse records, and pioneer recollections, the chronicle captures the everyday realities of rural community formation.

Blue Springs (B.C.), British Columbia Lumby, Creighton Valley (B.C.), Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Lumby, History, Lumby (B.C.) History, Shuswap Falls (B.C.), Trinity Valley (B.C.), Village of Lumby

Includes cadastral maps, local cemetery records, and settler index.

Includes cadastral maps, local cemetery records, and settler index.