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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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Farming

Settlers began planting fruit trees in the Okanagan in the 1860s. Thought at this time planting fruit was considered a risk because the fruit was perishable and the only means of transportation could take up to two weeks to get... [Continue Reading]

The story of the Fir Valley settlers on the grasslands east of Winfield has been ably told by Lake Country historian Ronald Taylor in his book Fir Valley: A History. A part of that story that hasn’t been fully explored... [Continue Reading]