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(At Okanagan Landing Community Park, Okanagan Landing)
Here in 1886, Captain T. D. Shorts launched the Okanagan’s first steamer. Six years later, Okanagan Landing became a C.P.R. terminus and shipyard whose vessels made possible the growth of new towns and orchards in the valley. The Great War, new roads and railways, and collapse of the fruit boom doomed the steamboats by 1916. In 1936, an era ended as the ‘Sicamous’ steamed in from her last voyage.
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(At Vernon Military Camp, 1 mile south of Vernon)
Trumpets first sounded here in 1908 calling the Okanagan’s cavalry to muster. Joined by infantry battalions, thousands of militiamen and cadets from all over the province came to know Mission Hill as British Columbia’s largest military camp. Soldiers who were trained here fought around the globe in two world wars.
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(19 miles north of Penticton near “Big Bend” of lake)
Before the unimaginative, practical white man came, the fearsome lake monster, N’ha-a-itk, was well known to the primitive, superstitious Indians. His home was believed to be a cave at Squally Point, and small animals were carried in the canoes to appease the serpent.
“Ogopogo still is seen every year – but now by white man!
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(View point across lake from Kelowna)
Early fur traders called the ancient Indian camp L’Anse au Sable, or Sandy Cove. Near this, in 1859, Father Pandosy established the first permanent Catholic mission on the mainland of British Columbia.
Here he built the first school and planted the first fruit trees in the southern interior.
The Kelowna Townsite was laid out by Bernard Leguime in 1892.
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(Near Whipsaw Creek, 9 miles south of Princeton)
The Ponderosa Pine occurs in Canada only in British Columbia where it has adapted to a zone of low summer rainfall through the southern interior of the province. The mature tree can be recognized readily by its distinctive orange bark. The aromatic, soft lumber of the pines was used for years to construct crates and boxes for fruit from the Okanagan Valley.
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