Bralorne Pioneer Museum Annual Report 2022

Bralorne-Pioneer
Museum
Annual Report 2022

President’s Report
2022 was a good year for the Museum with $8187 collected
in donations and a great visitor turn-out with about 583
people visiting throughout the season.
A highlight this year was a very successful Museum Day held
in conjunction with the Bralorne Reunion. Over 40 people
attended the event at the Bralorne Church, where
information was shared on a variety of topics related to
Bralorne and Pioneer in the mining era. This event also
provided a chance to share information on the Bralorne
Pioneer Mines Office Building conservation and adaptive
reuse project.
The Heritage Committee continues work towards relocating
the Bralorne-Pioneer Museum to the new building, and we
are excited to see the work progressing on this project.
Collection Management work has also continued this year
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with some valuable new documents being donated to the
Museum. This includes a large donation of more than 9000
historic Bralorne Gold Mines mining maps. Thanks to
Talisker Resources, the museum now has digital copies in
addition to the physical maps.
We greatly appreciate all our supporters, visitors, and
volunteers who allow the museum to operate, and we would
like to say a special thank you to our diligent staff member,
Janis Irvine, for her dedicated work.
Pat Dahle,
President, Bralorne-Pioneer Museum
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Museum Staff
Janis Irvine
Museum
Assistant
Emilie Larsen
Summer Supervisor
Reagan Dixon
Weekend Assistant
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Operations & Projects
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Museum opened 4 days per week to the public
on May 18, 2022 and closed October 11, 2022.
6 th Season using the Management agreement
between Bralorne-Pioneer Museum and
BRVCA.
Maintained Facebook page and Instagram.
Provided monthly submissions to the
Mountain Telegraph
Project “The Brexton Esso Sign” finally
completed after 5 years and arrived in Ottawa
January 9, 2023.
Visitor Services
The Museum was quite busy this year with
approximately 583 visitors. We also had two bus tours
with a total of 60 visitors.
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Retail Sales
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Book sales increased this year with total sales
from all sources totaling $3,769.07.
All books at the Museum are immensely popular
and sales continue.
Phil Branca calendars are available and are
expected to sell quickly as they are sold out in
Lillooet.
Donations
We received a total of $6843 in registered donations
and $1344 in non-registered donations with a
combined total of $8187 this year.
We had a total of 47 registered donors in 2022.
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Collection
Management Project
The Museum was pleased to receive the following donations
in 2022. Collection Management was ongoing from May to
December 2022 with an extra 42 days of work to collect and
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organize many items for the Museum, and the work
continues.
First Homestead of David Sloan - one of many pictures provided by Debra Sloan
and husband Terry Yip
Ron Drewery Collection: Thank you to Ron, who delivered
photographs of Pioneer from 1951 onwards as well as a piece
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of the “King Vein” – one of the first claims during 1898 in the
Bridge River Valley.
Chris Martin Collection: This donation came with two
complete thumb drives, valuable pictures, names of
Honeymoon Hollow people, homes, and vital clues about the
life there as told by Georgina Dotto.
Terry Smith & Pety Breum donated 224 pictures of different
subjects on a large thumb drive – very interesting pictures
and history.
Stan Savage: The family must have dropped these items at
the Museum around 2004. The items were located in a bin
and were then accessioned and archived. The pictures relate
to the 1930’s Bralorne Mines.
Anita Wiwchar Collection: This collection includes 19
amazing colour copies of the “Haylmore Placer Site” from
1975-1981 showing the outstanding amount of “Gold” taken
from the site.
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Haylmore Site from 1981. All of the gold to be cleaned out of the mats. Huge
amounts of Gold were taken from the area.
Jim & Leslie O’Keeffe Collection: An outstanding list of
pictures collected by Jim’s family during the late 20’s and
early 30’s including sports, family, Little Gun Lake, hockey,
Wally O’Keeffe and others who lived, breathed, and became
outstanding historical figures of the area.
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Rare picture of Ben Smith and his wife on Little Gun Lake in 1934-1935. Only one
of the people found to be in the Pioneer Syndicate during that time. Thank You Jim
O’Keeffe for your continued support.
Philip Shannon Collection: This collection includes many
new photos from 1933-1939 in Pioneer and the surrounding
area.
Talisker Resources/Sue Girling: A very large map cabinet
was donated by Talisker Resources and picked up by Sue
Girling.
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Bob and Betty Galliazzo: The couple brought this
outstanding but anonymous donation of a 70 pound binder of
payroll timesheets with names from 1955-1956.
Past Perfect Collections Museum
Software Program
We are up in all categories from our last recording.
Objects 2051
Photographs 4130 (224 not yet processed)
Archives 800
Library 498
Archival Boxes 49
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“The Way It Was” back in 1910. The two farms here are the Rexmont and
Jones Ranch.
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