SAVE THE DATE - MAY 2-3, 2025

The BCHF is excited to announce that the Museum of the Cariboo-Chilcotin and the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame Society will be the host organization for the 2025 BCHF Annual Conference. 

The BCHF Annual Conference is a much-anticipated event that brings anywhere from 40 to 80 local and academic historians, knowledge-keepers, heritage professionals, history enthusiasts, authors, collectors, and the interested public together in a different BC community each year. 

The 2025 event runs over 2 days and offers networking opportunities, presentations of local and provincial history, a unique field trip, a silent auction of local history books, and an awards banquet where those working and writing in the BC historical sector will be recognized and celebrated. 

The BCHF gratefully acknowledges that the conference will be held on the unceded traditional lands of the Secwepemc and Tsilhqot'in Peoples, neighbouring the T'exelcemc (Williams Lake) and Xat'súll (Soda Creek) First Nations. 

Planning will take place this fall and registration will open online in early 2025. Please visit our website where details will be provided. 

The conference will include an evening reception at the Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame, historical and cultural presentations from historians and knowledge keepers about Cariboo-Chilcotin history, a unique history-themed field trip, the BCHF AGM, and the BCHF annual awards banquet.

Local organizers are working hard to show you the flavour of the area!

If you are interested in being a sponsor, presenter, or vendor for the conference, please contact shannon@bchistory.ca.