Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The campus has a direct interchange with Highway 97. [15] Kelowna International Airport is located nearby. UBC Okanagan Exchange is the northern terminus of the express bus route 97X Kelowna RapidBus, which provides access to downtown Kelowna. The campus connects to the regional bikeway, Okanagan Rail Trail and John Hindle Drive Multi-use Pathway.
Okanagan University College (OUC) was a public, post-secondary educational institution (c. 1990 to 30 June 2005) based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It evolved from Okanagan College (1965 to c. 1990), and the college's predecessor, the B.C. Vocational School (1963–1965).
Okanagan College was the first college in British Columbia and first opened in 1906 in Summerland, BC. With roots dating back to 1963, Okanagan College has always played an important role in the development of the region. The name was changed to Okanagan University College (OUC) c. 1995, but the older name Okanagan College was re-adopted on July 1, 2005, as OU
Kelowna: This route will run to Okanagan College and route through Campus East Route to avoid duplication of Gordon Drive with the 5 Gordon Drive and also provide two-way service on Ethel.. 11: Rutland Downtown/Rutland: Kelowna: This route will de diverted to Kelowna General Hospital via Springfield, Ethel, and Rose and then head to Queensway ...
The city is home to a Sprott Shaw College campus, and an Okanagan College campus, the latter of which, in 2010, had an enrolment of 610. [62] It also contains the Okanagan Hockey School, which has had partnerships with professional hockey teams, such as the Vancouver Canucks. [63]
Salmon Arm is one of four Okanagan College campuses; [22] it offers a range of academic and vocational programs. [23] Notable academics with ties to Salmon Arm include David Lethbridge and Mike Worobey. [24] [25] David Lethbridge is a retired Professor of Psychology and the author of Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy.
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 ...
The Okanagan Campus was established in 2005 on what was previously the North Kelowna Campus of Okanagan University College, next to Kelowna International Airport. [47] It was founded in partnership with the Syilx Okanagan Nation and it lies on their ancestral and forcefully taken territory. [48] [49] [50]