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The current Cranberry Community Hall, was thought to have been built in the 1950’s, but now appears to have been around since the 1920’s. The building has seen a wide variety of uses over the years. Joe Derton, used the building as pool hall and barber shop and lived in the adjacent house, once connected to the building. the kitchen, lobby and bathroom area was added to the original building prior to the formation of the Cranberry Community Hall Association in 1972. A variety of groups, including the fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Unitarians held services in the hall over the years. There were two earlier Cranberry Community Halls in the 1920-40’s operated by the Cranberry Ratepayers Association and located near the present-day Lindsay Park.
Today the hall is operated as a non-profit charitable society, the Cranberry Community Hall Association with an active volunteer Board of Directors who have put into place a strategic plan and have begun a series of updates to the hall which have included interior renovations in 2014 and 2017 and exterior painting and landscaping in 2015.
The hall is actively used by a number of regular community groups includes two choral groups, a fiddle group, a writer’s group and others. The hall sponsors several regular events including a monthly acoustic coffee-house (on the last Sunday of each month).
Most recently the hall has become known for it’s fine acoustics and several prominent Canadian and local musicians, including Jason and Pharis Romero, Old Man Leudecke, Oliver Swain, Cindy Church, Bob Bossin and Rick Scott, have performed to sold-out crowds at the hall.
In addition, with a full kitchen and concession area, the 70-seat Cranberry Hall has become a popular venue for spoken word recitals, urban homesteading, and a meeting place for community groups and family gatherings.
We acknowledge that the hall is located in the unceded territory of the Tla’amin First Nation.