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Okanagan history
Why cider is making a comeback in the Okanagan
KELOWNA – Cider is fast becoming a staple in the Okanagan — everyone knows you…
iN PHOTOS: Why tobacco failed to be the Okanagan’s biggest crop
Not once but three times in Kelowna’s history, tobacco looked to become the dominant crop…
There’s gold in some Okanagan hills
There is an old mining cart at the SS Sicamous heritage site in Penticton with…
iN VIDEO: All you ever wanted to know about abandoned mines in B.C.
When the dinner conversation turns to mining in B.C., the Okanagan is not likely to…
Penticton cop shot and killed by ‘Jesse’ James on Okanagan Lake more than a century ago
The sordid story of the Okanagan’s version of Jesse James led to the shooting of…
iN VIDEO: Dwarf apple trees in the Okanagan in the spotlight of this 1955 film
Long before dwarf apple trees became the standard in the Okanagan, the National Film Board…
iN VIDEO: How ‘Canada’s biggest water system’ took Vernon from cattle to fruit
It was mostly foreign land barons who transformed the Coldstream/Vernon area from cattle and hay…
Founder of three Okanagan communities wanted to keep them exclusive
It all started with a peach. From that one delicious bite, John Moore (JM) Robinson…
BC’s first trans-provincial highway stalled before it reached the Okanagan
Before there was the Cariboo Wagon Road to Barkerville, the BC government started building a…
There’s a Kamloops and Summerland connection to the ‘Cremation of Sam McGee’
“The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, “But the queerest they ever did see “Was…
Imaginary cows had a say in where Westbank First Nation reserves were placed
Ever wonder how European colonizers decided where to put Indian reserves in the Okanagan? It…
How Santa, not Shakespeare, led to the naming of the Okanagan’s Myra Canyon
The Myra Canyon on the Kettle Valley Railway in the Okanagan is world renowned for…
Why Summerlanders could have had a half-day off today
It may have been short lived but there was a time when today, Oct. 18,…
Highway 3 was BC’s first trans-provincial highway despite reverting back to nature
Back in the earliest days of BC’s European history there were intense territorial battles between…
Ghost town near Oliver could have the first augmented reality heritage tour
Historians are working to turn a ghost town into a tourist attraction in order to…