As well as a cenotaph in front and a World War II plaque on the façade, there are two plaques mounted on the building dedicated to a past president and an honored member.
This bronze plaque is dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Colonel Fred Lister, (February 10, 1879 – December 22, 1944) C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C. and first president of this Legion Branch. Fred Lister is remembered in part as having established Camp Lister, a soldiers' settlement, south of Creston, BC, after World War I. Eventually the "Camp" was dropped and it became the hamlet of Lister.
Born in England, Lister moved to Canada in 1902 and served during the Matabele Rebellion and the Boer War. In World War I he commanded the 102nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. After the war he entered politics as a member of the Conservative Party and represented Kaslo from 1920 to 1924 and Creston from 1924 to 1933 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
Administrator of Camp Lister, he died there in 1944 at the age of 65. He is interred in the Lister Cemetery.
TO THE MEMORY OF
LT. COL. FRED LISTER, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C.
1st PRESIDENT OF BRANCH 29
SERVED IN BOER WAR
COMMANDING OFFICER 102nd BTN.
NORTH COLUMBIANS, WORLD WAR I
M.L.A. FOR 13 YEARS
