Excerpt from page 84 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: Vernon's big annual celebration is known as Vernon Frontier Days. It is a two-day affair and the "motif" is the representation as far as possible, of a frontier settlement of thirty to fifty years ago. The good sports turn out with two-month old beards and loud checked mackinaw shirts, and some of the best known citizens are almost unrecognizable. The stores and other places of business are boarded up with slabs to represent log shacks and a gala spirit pervades this annual fiesta. "Dulce est desipere in loco".
