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Bear Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. [3] It is situated on the west side of the Okanagan Lake and is northwest of the city of Kelowna . It was established on April 19, 1981, and was expanded to its current size of 178 hectares (1.78 km 2 ; 440 acres) on May 12, 1988.
Named Bear Creek in 1833 by botanist David Douglas, the stream was officially renamed Lambly Creek in 1922, after Charles Anderson Richardson Lambly (d. 1907), who had been a government agent in several towns in the BC interior. [1] Gold was discovered in the creek in 1876, and the creek was subsequently mined. Gold nuggets valued at $5 were ...
The list of provincial parks of the Okanagan contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia.It includes parks from the three regional districts of Central Okanagan, North Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen.
The William R. Bennett Bridge is a pontoon bridge in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Completed on May 25, 2008, the bridge replaced the older Okanagan Lake Bridge built in 1958 to link Downtown Kelowna to West Kelowna across Okanagan Lake as part of Highway 97.
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Highway 97 is a major highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is the longest continuously numbered route in the province, running 2,081 km (1,293 mi) and is the only route that runs the entire north–south length of British Columbia, connecting the Canada–United States border near Osoyoos in the south to the British Columbia–Yukon boundary in the north at Watson Lake, Yukon.
The Okanagan (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən / OH-kə-NAH-gən), [3] also called the Okanagan Valley and sometimes the Okanagan Country, is a region in the Canadian province of British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River.