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CKCS member Brian Patton has just completed the text for a pair of historic panels that will be displayed just inside the entrance to the newly renovated Wilmer Community Hall. One of them features life in the first major town in this part of the Rocky Mountain Trench, Wilmer, which began its life in 1896 as the village of Peterborough. The other panel touches on the lives of Conrad and Hetta Kain, and their clients and friends, Albert and Bess MacCarthy, who lived in Wilmer and who Conrad shared many exploratory climbs with in the Purcells and Rockies.

This year the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides Board of Directors accepted the Honorary Members Committee recommendation that Tim Auger and Conrad Kain (posthumously) be inducted as ACMG Honorary Members in 2014. In a ceremony held in Squamish, B.C. on Oct 18, they presented the awards, and at the 2014 Mountain Guides Ball in Banff, Kain Society chairman Pat Morrow accepted the award on behalf of Conrad, and his relatives Karin and Birgitte Schmid who travelled to Canada from Austria last year in the footsteps of their legendary great Uncle.