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South Peace Historical Society Railway Station Museum: Dawson Creek: Peace River: History: Also known as N.A.R. Station Museum, includes pioneers, natural history, railroads and building of the Alaska Highway [22] South Similkameen Museum: Keremeos: Okanagan-Similkameen: History: website, local history, housed in a former police office and jail ...
The following list includes all of the Canadian Register of Historic Places listings in Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District ... 10 Upper Bench Road South Penticton BC
Penticton is located at the geographical coordinates of and covers an area of 42.10 km 2 (16.25 sq mi), with a maximum north–south distance of 7 km (4.3 mi) wide between the Okanagan Lake to the north and Skaha Lake to the south; these lakes are part of the drainage system of the Okanagan River, [18] a tributary of the Columbia River
The Okanagan Valley is home to the Syilx, commonly known as the Okanagan people, an Interior Salish people who live in the valley from the head of Okanagan Lake downstream to near the river's confluence with the Columbia River in present-day Washington, as well as in the neighbouring Similkameen Valley and the Upper Nicola to the north of that ...
SS Sicamous is a large, four-decked sternwheeler commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and was built by the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company for Okanagan Lake service between the fruit communities of Penticton, and other towns of Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia.
The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) is in southern British Columbia, adjacent to the U.S. state of Washington.It is bounded by Fraser Valley Regional District to the west, Thompson-Nicola Regional District and Regional District of Central Okanagan to the north, Regional District of Kootenay Boundary to the east, and by Okanogan County, Washington to the south.
Inquest verdict; death from exposure. Wilson, the survivor, [had] slept less and moved about more than the others, eventually reaching Summerland." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing Summerland Review, 2 January 1909) [4] Locally, Mount Nkwala is known as Gerry Mountain.
View from Giants Head south-east to Lake Okanagan. By 1907, Summerland had access to Peachland and Penticton with a well-established road system, and a ferry service connecting the community with the eastern shore of Okanagan Lake . West Summerland (present day Downtown Summerland) experienced increased importance also in part due to a 1922 ...