- 2026-10-08One of the earliest cattle empires in the Okanagan began in 1867 when Cornelius O'Keefe and Thomas Greenhow drove cattle…
- 2026-10-08And our eyes feasted on the long stretch of prairies…' wrote A.L. Fortune, first settler in this fertile valley, in…
- 2026-10-08Trumpets first sounded here in 1908 calling the Okanagan's cavalry to muster. Joined by infantry battalions, thousands of militiamen and…
- 2026-10-08Here beaver made a home for themselves and created an oasis of life for other creatures. They have dammed a…
- 2026-10-08This old bridge and the sections of abandoned grade are mute reminders of the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway &…
- 2026-10-08From 1920 to 1957, the big Copper Mountain mine shipped 35 million tons of ore containing 600 million pounds of…
- 2026-10-08A colorful steamboat era preceded the railways. During mining boom days of 1893-98 a fleet of sternwheelers ran north from…
- 2026-10-08In 1841, Sinclair guided 200 Red River settlers from Fort Garry through the Rockies to Oregon in an attempt to…
- 2026-10-08In 1893 a Kootenay Indian, Pierre, found a rich galena outcrop in the hills nearby. Father Coccola of St. Eugene…
- 2026-10-08It was May, 1808, when David Thompson, the 'greatest land geographer', sought a fur-trade route along the opposite shore. Thompson's…