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(Sign at Rock Creek)
It was a big rush to a small creek, but it made history in BC. When hundreds of miners gathered here in 1860, Governor Douglas, fearing that both gold and trade would be lost to the Untied States, ordered the famed Dewdney Trail built from the Coast.
Richer strikes in Cariboo soon lured the miners north, but a vital travel route remained.
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(On Anarchist Mountain, 4 miles east of Osoyoos)
A valley north and south, a sandspit eat and west – this was the crossroad of the centuries. Down the valley of Indian trails came the laden horses of the Fur Brigade from 1824 to 1848. Later, miners and settlers streamed northward. Across the sandspit ran the busy Dewdney Trail to the eastern gold fields. Routes of the past are highways of today.
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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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