Carla-Jean Stokes is ready to preserve the North Okanagan’s ranching heritage.
Stokes has been hired as the new curator for O’Keefe Ranch.
“I’m very excited to join the team and begin digging into the ranch’s extensive collection of textual documents, photographs and artifacts,” she said.
“We are beginning to plan for some new exhibits that will be here when we open in May, and to use the collection to tell new stories about the ranch that we haven’t told before.”
Stokes graduated from Charles Bloom Secondary School in Lumby in 2005 and since then, has completed a master’s degree in history from Wilfred Laurier University, followed by an MA in photographic and collections management from Ryerson University.
She has written articles for the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies, and Espirit de Corps magazine.