(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.