Historical Timeline
This History Index is a list of all the Historical Map informational periods. If you are looking for something specific or would like to browse through the years, please click on the links below.
1850
- Indigenous name, Grant Island
- Indigenous Name, Kalamalka Lake
- Indigenous Name, Winfield
- Okanagan Centre Glacier
- Indigenous Name —Oyama Isthmus
1855
- Wagon Train
1870
- Thomas Wood settles
1875
- Commonage
1900
- Glenmore Road
- Hayton Road
- Irrigation system
- Lodge Road
- Paddle wheelers
- Spion Kop
- Vernon-Okanagan Mission Stagecoach Halfway House
- Whipple Road
1905
- Alvaston and the Jam Tin Post Office
- Cemetery Road
- Cheesman Road
- Completion of Canal
- First Winfield School
- George Gibson Property
- Hare Road
- Interlaken
- Kaloya Park
- M. P. Williams
- Maddock Avenue (Road)
- Old Cemetery
- Oyama
- First Oyama School
- Pretty Road
- Road on West Shore of Wood Lake
- Tyndall Road
- Wentworth Cabin
- Williams Road Established
1910
- All Saints Anglican Church
- Allison Road
- Camp Road
- Eversley House (Gibson House)
- Gibson House
- Irrawarra
- Oyama School "the little white school house"
- Pixton Road
- Sawmill Road
- Tennis Club Organized
- Todd Road
- V_V Ranch
1920
- Trewhitt Road East
- Berry Road
- Gatzke Road Established
- Irvine Road Established
- Lloyd Road
- Official Name for Winfield
- Okanagan Centre Library
- Oyama School—High School
- Seaton Road
- Tennis Club Builds New Courts
- Winfield Community Hall, First
- Winfield Elementary School
1925
- Hebbert Road
- Holtom's Service Station
- Okanagan Lake Frozen Over
- Weather Recording Station Established
- Winfield General Store
1945
- Al's Cafe
- Broadbent of Rainbow Ranche
- Ida Arbuckle Camp
- Oyama School loses Upper Classes
- Redecopp Road
- Reiswig Road Established
- Riemche Road
- St. Edward's Catholic Church
- The Lake Shore Garage
- Willett Road
- Winfield Elementary School—First Addition
- Winfield Memorial Hall
- Dorenberg Orchards, the van Roechoudt family
1960
- Okanagan Hillclimb
- Oyama School Changes and Renovations
- Winfield Elementary School—Third Addition
- Winfield Post Office
- Winfield Shopping Centre
1965
- Trewhitt Road West
- Butterworth Road
- Camp Arbuckle
- McDonagh Road
- Wood Lake Elementary School
- Young Road
1970
- Ackerman Road
- Jack Seaton Park
- Oyama School Grades Reduced
- Roberts Road
- Wentworth Road
- What-Not Thrift Shop opens
- Whiskey Cove Road
1975
- Aspen Grove Golf Course
- Jack Seaton Park -- Tennis Courts
- Oyama School Closes and a New One Opens
1980
- Cedar Court Opening
- Davidson Road Elementary School
- Founding of the Lake Country Heritage and Cultural Society
- Okanagan Centre School Closing
- Wentworth Cabin moved
1985
- Camp Arbuckle Washrooms
- Kopje Regional Park
- Marriage of Susanne Mary Scarrow
- Opening of the Lake Country Museum in the School
- Oyama Father and Son Team Leaders in B.C.'s Fruit Industry
- Petrie Road
- Powley Court
- The Day the Commonwealth came to Town
1990
- A & W Permit Approved
- Camp Arbuckle Ecological Trail
- Peter Greer Elementary School
- Pioneer Park Hosts Swimming Lessons
- Rawsthorne Road
- Reiswig Regional Park
- Weather Station moved a third time
- Winfield Plaza
- Winfield Professional Building
1995
- Camp Arbuckle Dormitories
- Camp Road Reconstruction
- Davidson Road School Expansion Work Starts
- Gibson House Restored
- Incorporation of Lake Country
- Jack Seaton Park Enlarged
- Lake Country Sign — North Entry
- Lake Country Sign — South Entry
- Middleton Road Established
- Sailing Club secures site
- Skateboard Park
- Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Wentworth Cabin Relocated
2000
- "The Lakes" Development
- Building Communities
- Circle of Life Sculpture
- Davidson Road School parents make long trek to school
- Gateway Block
- Lake Country United Church
- Oyama School Goes Traditional
- Sculpture "Dancing Goose" unveiled
- Kokanee Mural Unveiled
- Swalwell House demolished
- Wastewater Treatment -- Main Street
- Wastewater Treatment -- Phase Two
- Winfield Elementary School Closes
- Dance of Life