(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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(On Highway 3, 3 miles west of Keremeos on the Similkameen River) This old bridge and the sections of abandoned grade are mute reminders of the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway & Navigation Co.  A Great Northern subsidiary, it was pushed into the promising Hedley Princeton mining area in 1907-14.  In 1916 by agreement with the Kettle Valley Railroad, its operations were stopped west of Princeton.
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(22 miles east of Hope) A bold venture, this trail crossed the mountains of southern BC, and kept the wealth of a new land from flowing to the USA.  Planned by the Royal Engineers, and built in 1860-61 by Edgar Dewdney, a young engineer, it led over the mountains to Princeton.  After completion to the Rockies in 1865 it served for 25 years as a vital route to the Coast.
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(Overlooking Moberly Marsh, about 8 miles north of Golden) In 1871, Walter Moberly, in charge of surveys for the mountain division of the projected Canadian trans-continental railway, built log cabins east of here for survey party ‘S’.  The preliminary surveys through Howse Pass were abandoned in 1872 in favour of the Yellowhead route, but in the end the railway used Kicking Horse Pass.  Moberly Marsh and Moberly Peak honour this early surveyor in British Columbia.
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