Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Sharron J. Simpson

First paperback edition copyright © 2025

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Cover images based on photographs courtesy of Kelowna Public Archives—Front: postcard of Bernard Avenue, circa 1930, #5228; Back: the first apple trees planted in the Okanagan, #2223.

Frontmatter photographs courtesy of Kelowna Public Archives—Page ii: panorama of the city of Kelowna from Dilworth Mountain, 1909, #3047; Opposite this page: an elegant day of boating on Okanagan Lake with Knox Mountain in the background, 1910, #1355; Pagevi: tall, heavy wooden ladders were required to pick apples from the early varieties of large trees planted in the valley, #3074; Page viii: cars waiting to take delegates from the Western Irrigation Convention of 1912 on a sightseeing tour of Kelowna, #2196.

Edited by—Pam Robertson

Cover and text design by—Five Seventeen

Index by—Ellen Hawman

Printed and bound in South Korea

Harbour Publishing acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada, and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: The Kelowna story : an Okanagan history / Sharron J. Simpson.

Names: Simpson, Sharron J., 1938- author

Description: Second edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20240519396 | Canadiana (ebook) 2024051940X | ISBN 9781998526208 (softcover) | ISBN 9781998526215 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Kelowna (B.C.)—History.

Classification: LCC FC3849.K36 S56 2025 | DDC 971.1/5—dc23