The Creston Museum is an incorporated non-profit society and a registered Canadian charity. We currently (June 2025) have 93 members, from whom our governing Board of Directors of seven is drawn.
All our Board members are undertaking Governance training through BC Museums Association, and participate in other workshops and training as opportunities arise.
Governing Documents
RDCK December 2025: Report to Creston Valley Services Committee, 4 December 2025
Membership Report: Presented at the Members' Open House on 2 November 2024
RDCK November 2024: Report to Creston Valley Services Committee, 7 November 2024
Annual General Meetings
Board Members
Ron Toyota was born in Creston (1947) and graduated from PCSS in 1965. Married in 1969 to Judy Kranabetter (born at Camp Lister) and we have 3 children and 5 grands.
in 1908, the Mather family homesteaded on the benchland at the north end of Alice Siding, below what is now known as the Viewpoint on Highway 3A.
I attended elementary school at Creston Elementary (now Adam Robertson) until grade 7, then off to PCSS until grade 12. Volunteer service during my school years included: students' council, helping to organize sporting events, teen dances, and nuclear war demonstrations, and cleanup task forces. I was also the Grade 12 class president, a title I still hold with my grad class.
In 1971, I started training for radio broadcasting, a job I took on full-time in 1972, with CFKC in Creston and CKKC in Nelson until the fall of 1974 when a full-time job came up at the Columbia Brewing Company. That job lasted 45 years!
From 1974 to present I have volunteered in the Union (vice-president, treasurer, shop steward) for the company, and as assistant site manager for the Kokanee Summit dealing with set-up and takedown, and general organizer.
I have participated on different boards in the community: Curling Club, rec Commission, Service Groups presidents' Club, minor hockey, slow pitch association, Thunder and Thunder Cats hockey teams. I helped organize two walk-a-thons to raise money for the Rec Center and was a local auxiliary RCMP officer for eleven years.
I grew up in the valley and after a career away decided to return to this beautiful place to live. I always said that if I was fortunate enough to retire that I would give back to my community. I love history and anything old as objects all have a story to tell. So volunteering at the Museum hooked me.
Our Museum is a jewel at the centre of what makes Creston so fine. It reflects not just our past but speaks to what we can see for our future. I am honored to be a member of the executive and Recording Secretary. The work we do to move the Museum and Historical Society forward is critical and I am committed to its mission and vision.
brenda@crestonmuseum.ca
- Learn of the valley's history and the influences it has had up to the present time
- Gain a better understanding of the changing roles of museums in highlighting and educating people on current social issues
- Find ways to make museums more interactive, for example using technology to make exhibits more interactive and creating exhibits where the Museum's visitors create the exhibit content
I moved back to Creston eight years ago. I was born and raised in Creston, as was my father Frank Crawford. My grandfather W.H. Crawford owned the Mercantile store in Creston and my grandmother was Sophie Huscroft, one of the daughters of Roger and Jane Huscroft. I have very deep roots in the valley and am very proud to be on the Museum's board.
Board Files/Documents
Manager May 2025: Verbal report only due to demands of the season.
Manager October 2024: Verbal report only due to being out of the office for holidays and a conference in the weeks prior to the meeting.