Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
The Land | |
The White Silt Cliffs | |
Ancient Rocks Glaciation | |
Recent Modifications to the Landscape Climate | |
The First People | |
An Okanagan Communication | |
Where Did the First People Come From? | |
The Culture Contact Efforts on Behalf of the First Nations | |
The Native Renaissance | |
The Fur Trade | |
The Brigade Trail Other Trails | |
New Hudson's Bay Company Posts Established | |
The Colonial Era | |
The International Boundary Gold, Gold Commissioners and Customs | |
The Overlanders | |
The Great Cattle Ranches Colonial | |
Transportation and Communication | |
Missionaries and Churches | |
The Roman Catholics Presbyterian and Methodist Missionaries | |
The Anglican Church | |
The Baptists Religious Institutions Today | |
From Colony to Province Confederation MPs and MLAs | |
The Bennett Years The Civil Service | |
Stage Drivers and Mail Carriers Stagecoaches Mail Carriers and Post Offices | |
Community Life The Family Simple Pleasures | |
Schools Rural Schools Education: A Private Affair | |
The First Public School | |
Expansion of Public Schools | |
Other Educational Institutions | |
Medical Services | |
The Preprofessionals Pioneer Doctors Nurses, Hospitals and Pharmacists | |
A Developing Economy | |
New Opportunities Technological | |
Changes in Agriculture and Milling Sawmills Brick Making | |
Hard-Rock Mining Fairview | |
The Great Gold Robbery | |
Feeding the Miners Hedley and the Nickel Plate | |
Mine Other Mining Ventures | |
Boats and Trains Railways Commercial Boats | |
A Growing Population | |
Influx of Settlers Incorporation | |
Lifestyle Outdoor Sports Telegrams, Telephones and Newspapers | |
Tree Fruits, Ground Crops, Vines and Agro-industries | |
The First Orchards Irrigation and Land Development | |
Fruit Growers | |
Growing Concerns Changing Technology | |
Ground Crops Grapes | |
Free Trade and Estate | |
Wineries Agro-industries | |
Military Matters | |
Early Military | |
Organizations World War | |
I Depleted Manpower | |
World War II Commando | |
Bay Other Services | |
Communication: Highways, Planes, Radio, TV Highways up to the Mid-twenties | |
The Kelowna Crossing | |
More About Highways Air Travel | |
The Air Crash Radio Television Afterword | |
Bibliography | |
Notes | |
Index | |
Preface | |
A Rich and Fruitful Land: The History of the Valleys of the Okanagan, Similkameen and Shuswap is a book with a dual parentage | |
First, there was the gift of $5,000 from Mr. Guy Bagnall for the writing of a history of the Okanagan and its related territories, the Similkameen and Shuswap | |
Secondly, as the publication of the Sixtieth Annual Report of the Okanagan Historical Society approached there was a desire to mark this anniversary in some special way | |
A proposal to combine these two objectives met with general approval. Hence A Rich and Fruitful Land | |
Richard Guy Pearse Bagnall, born in Dublin October 8, 1882 | |
left his homeland to serve in the Boer War, after which he travelled to Canada, reaching Vernon in 1906 | |
There, with the exception of his World War I service | |
he lived for the rest of his life, participating in a number of business projects and always finding time to support any local initiative which would benefit the community | |
He was a Founding Member of the Okanagan Historical Society and a Life Member from 1979 until his death February 2, 1983 | |
With regard to the writing of a history, the late Mr. Stuart Fleming of Vernon undertook this project but illness prevented him from bringing his work to fr | |
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