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Start of the Vernon to Kelowna Bike Race
Boys at Cub Camp at McKinley Landing
Chattertons’ farm in Winfield
Ferry slip at Okanagan Centre
Vernon to Okanagan Mission, taken in Oyama
Gleed father and child, Okanagan Centre
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Bernie Gatzke

The Oyama Fire Department was the first organized fire department in what is now Lake Country. A fire at Appleton’s General store, located next to the Oyama Post Office and Thomson’s Garage demonstrated the need for fire suppression in the... [Continue Reading]

September 1, 1952. Sixty years ago today the Gallacher Gangsters played a baseball game against the Oyama Juniors team. The Gangsters line-up included Oyama players in their late twenties and thirties – many returned veterans: Yamamoto, Gallacher, Trewhitt, Stephens, Eyles,... [Continue Reading]