1920 BC Snapshots     

Joe ParentFrisco Edwards

Left - Jospeh Parent of the Nakusp ball club, 1920s, shown here in his spiffy uniform.outside the Leveque house. The photo is believed to be from the period 1920 to 1926.

Parent would go on to become the first mayor of the newly incorporated Village of Nakusp in 1964.

[Photo courtesy of the Arrow Lakes Historical Society, 2003.026.419]

Right - catcher Leo "Frisco" Edwards of Victoria's pro club in 1920. He had made a tour of Southern Alberta in 1919 playing for five different teams over the short summer - Claresholm, Stavely, Champion, Drumheller and Vulcan.