Revelstoke Golf Club celebrates 100 years

This year the Revelstoke Golf Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary. 

According to a post on the BC Golf House Society’s website, the success of the Banff Springs hotel and golf course, which opened in 1912, inspired the federal government of the day to contemplate a similar project for Mount Revelstoke National Park. 

However, when World War One began two years later, the project was forgotten as the federal government’s priorities were focused elsewhere. 

It would be another 12 years before Revelstoke got its golf course.

In April 1924, the Revelstoke Golf Club was founded, with Dr. A.L. Jones  elected as its first president. Boasting 30 members, the club approached Revelstoke City Council with a request: to use the abandoned race track and agricultural fair grounds in Columbia Park for their golf course.

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