Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The creek flows into Okanagan Lake from the west, across from Kelowna. The canyon and mouth of the creek are protected by Bear Creek Provincial Park . 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 ...
Bear Creek Provincial Park ... Map of provincial parks in the Okanagan on env.gov.bc.ca This page was last edited on 12 July 2022, at 23:55 (UTC ...
Okanagan Lake winds between Kelowna (foreground) and Westbank (background). 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 ...
Generally, Kelowna is the transition zone between the drier south and the wetter north. The Okanagan north of Kelowna has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb) with warm, sometimes hot summers and cold winters with highs around freezing, though mild by Canadian standards. Precipitation is well distributed year round.
Okanagan (Kelowna) late 1850s Aberdeen Holdings Lord Aberdeen [3] Gun Creek Ranch: Bridge River Country: Hat Creek Ranch: Thompson-Bonaparte: 1860s Hungry Valley Ranch: Chilcotin: John Wells` Monte Creek Ranch: Duck's Ranch Thompson Country: 1850s Jacob Duck bought from the original homesteader, a Mexican known only as "Monte" Hewitt Bostock ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us