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About Our North Shuswap Community Hall & Association

Ever wondered about our community hall?  Our pioneers had great foresight!  They set aside the land for the Hall and Celista Park in 1914.  Volunteers supplied the logs, the lumber and the labour, and completed building the Hall in 1934.

Dances, Christmas concerts, weddings, memorial services, club meetings and community meetings made the Hall a lively gathering place for the whole community, just as it is today.  In fact, the hall was famous for having the largest dance floor in British Columbia.  Since electricity didn't come to the North Shuswap until 1957, the first Christmas trees were lit using a battery.  In 1947, a 'lighting plant' was installed so that lanterns no longer had to be used for evening gatherings.  In those days, the Community Hall was called the Agricultural Hall.

The original shake roof was replaced with an aluminum roof and volunteers added the club room onto the back of the Hall between 1952 and 1954.  The Community Association was incorporated as a Society in 1958.

Until 1964, outdoor biffies were the only toilets - summer and winter!  That year, indoor toilets were added to the upper section.  On a roll, volunteers continued to improve the Hall by adding the main kitchen in 1967 as a Centennial Project.

During the years since then, the wheelchair ramps, the handicap bathroom beside the front door and the porch around the back and east side were added.  The roof was replaced over the clubroom, and the improvements continue today!  Since 2005, volunteers have renovated the bathrooms, added a handicap toilet beside the clubroom, installed a new water system, rebuilt the clubroom kitchen, replaced the clubroom floor, renovated the main kitchen, put new tile on the floors, replaced the roof, put in a back-up generator, built a new storage room above the stage, and installed a new hall heating/cooling system.  Improvements to the grounds and Pioneer Park have also been made with the addition of new concrete picnic tables, bear-proof garbage cans, and two new concrete vault toilets.

Our Hall will be 75 years old in 2009 and a grand celebration is being planned for the long weekend in August.  Over these 75 years, legions of North Shuswap citizens have volunteered their time to the NSCA (North Shuswap Community Association) to keep our Hall running smoothly.  Please, will you come and be one of them?  Many of the present executive will remain active but need your new ideas and energy to ensure that our beautiful old Hall can continue serving as the gathering place for our community.

Community Association memberships are only $10 per person or $20 per family and can be paid by mailing a cheque to NSCA, Box 128, Celista, BC  V0E 1L0.
Thank you for your support.

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