Fire-ravaged Lytton, B.C., getting ‘community hub’ with museum, pool, market space
Feb 19, 2025 | 12:18 PM
LYTTON, B.C. — The federal government is promising more than $25 million to help build a new “community hub” in the Village of Lytton years after much of the B.C. town was wiped out by fire.
A statement from the Ministry of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities says the new building is expected to include a community-sized pool and fire reservoir, a museum, a market space, multi-purpose rooms and accessible washrooms.
The $25.9 million in federal funding announced Wednesday is part of $77 million in support that was promised in 2022.
A devastating wildfire in June of 2021 destroyed 90 per cent of the structures in Lytton one day after the community of about 200 people hit a Canadian temperature record of 49.6 C.
