BCHF past president and honorary life member Ron Welwood has died at 81. Ron served on the BCHF council from 1993-2003, including a stint as president from 1997-99. He and wife Frances were regulars at the BCHF annual conference, and they helped bring the event to Nelson in 1997 and 2009.
Ron was a noted Kootenay historian and in his professional life as a librarian was responsible for accumulating and preserving Kootenaiana (a word he invented) for Notre Dame University and David Thompson University Centre in Nelson and Selkirk College in Castlegar.
