COVID-19 pandemic.“As a small museum, our fundraising, especially in the summertime, comes from donations at the door and our Kit Shop and we have had no visitors any Kit Shop and no income and we count primarily on those funds to make the museum work,” said Francois Arseneault, Vernon Cadet Camp Museum curator.They have moved their annual silent auction online, hoping to raise at least $10,000.
Cadets start summer training in Vernon “We have a responsibility to maintain and preserve these items so that comes with a cost,” said Arseneault.“We have got some wonderful items that we have picked up over the last few years that we need to preserve for instance a pre- World War One Second Canadian Mounted Rifles Saddle … who of course today.