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After the construction of the Incola Hotel in 1912, Penticton's beaches became increasingly attractive both to locals and to summer visitors. [2] The Aquatic Club was built by Okanagan Lake in 1913 to cater for their appetite for enjoying summer activities by and in its waters. An ancillary clubhouse was erected on the beach of Skaha Lake.
Penticton offers many kinds of recreation, including skiing at the Apex Mountain Resort ski area; boating and fishing on Skaha Lake and Okanagan Lake, golfing on the area's many courses, hiking and biking the Kettle Valley Railway Trail, and rock climbing at Skaha Bluffs. In the summer many people enjoy floating down the river channel that ...
The lake was labelled L. du Chien on Anderson's map (1867) and Du Chien L. on Trutch maps (1866 and 1871). Likely named by French Canadian fur traders, the origin is unknown. The translation as Dog Lake was later adopted. When changed to Skaha Lake in 1930, the Shuswap name for dog was mistakenly chosen. The Okanagan meaning of Skaha is horse. [2]
The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory is a research facility founded in 1960 and located southwest of Okanagan Falls and Penticton. The site houses three instruments – an interferometric radio telescope , a 26 m (85 ft) single-dish antenna , and a solar flux monitor – and supports engineering laboratories .
Okanagan Lake (Okanagan: kɬúsx̌nítkw) [3] is a lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. The lake is 135 km (84 mi) long, between 4 and 5 km (2.5 and 3.1 mi) wide, and has a surface area of 348 km 2 (135 sq. mi.).
The Okanagan River rises in southern British Columbia, issuing out of the southern end of Okanagan Lake, which is on the north side of the city of Penticton.It flows south past Penticton, through Skaha Lake, past Okanagan Falls, through Vaseux Lake, and past Oliver to Osoyoos and Osoyoos Lake, which spans the Canada–United States border and has its outlet into the Okanogan River at Oroville ...
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