A view overlooking Skaha Lake in the Okanagan Valley
 The regional districts that comprise the Okanagan are shown in red. The Okanagan (IPA: [o kə ˈnɑ ɡn̩]) is a region located in the Canadian province of British Columbia. As of the year 2001, the region's population is approximately 297,601. The primary city is Kelowna. The name derives from an Okanagan First Nations word S-Ookanhkchinx meaning "Transport toward the head or top end". The region is known for outdoor activities such as skiing and hiking as well as for the wine industry. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1683x2385, 3094 KB) A view of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, overlooking Skaha Lake. ...
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Skaha Lake Skaha Lake (49°25′ N 119°35′ W) is a freshwater lake located in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. ...
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Locator map for Kelowna, BC Kelowna (2001 population 96,288, metropolitan population 147,739) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. ...
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The name Okanogan also refers to the region that encompasses part of north-central Washington, USA. Okanogan County is a county located in the state of Washington. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18th - Total 71,342 sq. ...
History
The Okanagan Valley was home to Aboriginal people for thousands of years before others arrived. The Okanagan Nation, an Interior Salish people who lived in the valley from the head of Okanagan Lake downstream to near the river's confluence with the Columbia River in present-day Washington, as well as in the neighbouring Similkameen Valley, numbered in the thousands (no precise figure is known) at the time of contact with European settlers. They were hunter-gatherers, living off wild game and berries and roots for the most part but travelling north or south to fish salmon runs or to trade with other nations. The Coast Salish are a Salishan-speaking First Nations/Native American culture that inhabited an area centered in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and western Washington in the United States for several millennia up to the time of arrival of the Europeans in the 19th century. ...
View of Okanagan Lake Okanagan Lake is a large lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. ...
Columbia River Gorge, Washington or North side The Columbia River (French: fleuve Columbia) is a river situated in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. ...
In anthropology, the hunter-gatherer way of life is that led by certain societies of the Neolithic Era based on the exploitation of wild plants and animals. ...
The salmon run is the time at which salmon swim back up the rivers in which they were born to spawn and die. ...
In 1811 came the first non-natives to the Okanagan Valley, a fur trading expedition voyaging north out of Fort Okanogan, a Pacific Fur Company outpost at the confluence of the Okanagan and Columbia rivers. Within fifteen years, fur traders established a route through the valley for passing goods between the Thompson region and the Columbia River for transport to the Pacific. The trade route lasted until 1846, when the Oregon Treaty laid down the border between British North America and the United States west of the Rocky Mountains on the 49th parallel. The new border cut across the valley. To avoid paying tariffs, British traders forged a route that bypassed Fort Okanogan, following the Thompson and Fraser rivers to Fort Langley instead. The Okanagan Valley did not see many more outsiders for a decade afterward. Joyce Rollins is a lesbian. ...
// Indian trade The fur trade (also called the Indian trade) was a huge part of the early history of contact in North America between European-Americans and American Indians (now often called Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada). ...
Fort Okanogan was founded as an American outpost by John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company in 1811 at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers. ...
The Pacific Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor on June 23, 1810, as a subsidiary of his American Fur Company. ...
The Thompson River is a major tributary of the Fraser River in the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. ...
1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
The Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains (known as the Oregon Treaty or Treaty of Washington) was a bilateral treaty signed between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States in 1846, and brought an end to the longstanding...
British North America was an informal term first used in 1783, but uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report. ...
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The Fraser River is the longest river in British Columbia, Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains near Mount Robson and flowing for 1400 km (870 mi), into the Pacific Ocean at the city of Vancouver. ...
Fort Langley is a village with a population of 2,700 and forms part of the Township of Langley. ...
In 1859, the first European settlers arrived when Father Charles Pandosy led the making of an Oblate mission where Kelowna is now. In the decades that followed, hundreds of ranchers came from all directions to settle on Okanagan Lake. The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858 drove more settlement as some prospectors from the United States took the old Okanagan trade route on their way to the Fraser Canyon. A few staked claims around the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys and found gold and copper in places. A mining industry began in the southern Okanagan region, and more farmers, as well as a small service industry, came to meet the needs of the miners. 1859 (MDCCCLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ...
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The Gold Rush of British Columbia occurred after gold was discovered in the Fraser River Valley. ...
1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
View of Fraser Canyon near Fountain, BC View of Fraser Canyon looking upstream from Fountain, B.C. The Fraser Canyon is a stretch of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains enroute from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fraser...
 View of the Okanagan valley from the hills above Kelowna Fruit production is a hallmark of the Okanagan Valley today, but the industry began with difficulty. Commercial orcharding of apples was first tried there in 1892, but a series of setbacks prevented the major success of commercial fruit crops until the 1920s. But until the 1930s, the demand for shipping fruit and other goods did drive a need for the sternwheeler steamboats that serviced Okanagan Lake: the S.S. Aberdeen from 1886 and then the S.S. Sicamous and S.S. Naramata from 1914. The Sicamous and Naramata survive as a tourist attraction in Penticton. Image File history File links Okanagan. ...
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Locator map for Kelowna, BC Kelowna (2001 population 96,288, metropolitan population 147,739) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. ...
1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
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1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
A view of Penticton from a viewpoint overlooking Skaha Lake Penticton (49° 29′ 28″ N, 119° 35′ 19″ W) is a city in south central British Columbia between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake (at one time known officially as Dog Lake). According to the 2001 census its population is 30...
While the last half-century has grown several resource-based enterprises in the region, for instance forestry in Princeton, the fastest-growing industries in the Okanagan today are tourism and retirement accommodation. Advantaged by its sunny climate, lakes, and winery attractions, the valley has become a hot destination for vacationers and retirees.
Princeton is a small town in the Okanagan-Similkameen region of British Columbia, Canada. ...
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Wine Barrels A winery is a facility where fruit, usually grapes, is processed into wine. ...
Geography As defined for census purposes by StatsCan, the region has a total area of 20,829 km² (8,042 mi²) which is roughly two-thirds the size of Belgium. Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government bureau commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. ...
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A square mile is an Imperial unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, 1,609. ...
Geographic features Monashee Mountains are a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada covering the areas of British Columbia (78%) and Washington State (22%) and extending 530 km from north to south and 150 km from east to west. ...
View of Okanagan Lake Okanagan Lake is a large lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. ...
Skaha Lake Skaha Lake (49°25′ N 119°35′ W) is a freshwater lake located in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. ...
Kalamalka Lake is named for the Okanagan (Okanogan U.S. spelling) Indian chief who occupied its northern shores, although many believe (incorrectly) that it means (lake of) many colours in the Okanagan Language. ...
In British Columbia, Swan Lake may refer to: A lake north of Vernon A lake in Bowron Lake Provincial Park This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
Wood Lake is a lake in a chain of five major lakes which occupies portions of the Okanagan Valley in the interior of British Columbia. ...
The basin of the Shuswap River lies northeast of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. ...
Major highways British Columbia provincial highway 97C, the Okanagan Connector, forms part of an important link between the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan valley around Kelowna. ...
British Columbia provincial highway 97 is the longest continuously-numbered route in the province, going for 2,081 km all the way from the Canada/U.S. border in the south to the British Columbia/Yukon border in the north. ...
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Adjacent regions Locator map for Kamloops, BC Kamloops is a city in central British Columbia, Canada at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River. ...
The Secwepemc (pronounced Shi-HUEP-muh or She-KWE-pem), also commonly known as the Shuswap, are a First Nation residing in the Canadian province of British Columbia, primarily in the area north and east of Kamloops. ...
The Kootenay Region (in common parlance The Kootenays) comprises the southeastern portion of British Columbia. ...
The Similkameen River, near Keremeos, BC The Similkameen River runs through southern British Columbia, eventually emptying into the Okanagan River. ...
Thompson Nicola is a region in the Canadian province of British Columbia. ...
Okanogan County is a county located in the state of Washington. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18th - Total 71,342 sq. ...
Communities Welcome to Armstrong, B.C. The City of Armstrong, with a population of 4,492, is located in the North Okanagan of the Canadian province of British Columbia, between Vernon and Enderby. ...
Enderby is located in North Okanangan British Columbia. ...
Motto:Fruitful in Unity Member of Parliament Ron Cannan(Conservative) - Kelowna—Lake Country Members of the Legislative Assembly Al Horning(BC Liberal) - Kelowna-Lake Country Sindi Hawkins (BC Liberal) - Kelowna-Mission Governing Body Kelowna City Council Mayor Sharon Sheperd Location , Land area 283 km² Elevation 344 m Population (2005) 105...
Lake Country is a District Municipality with a population of approximately 10,000 in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. ...
Oliver, British Columbia, is a small town located in the South Okanagan. ...
, Osoyoos (IPA: ) is a small town in the Okanagan Valley on British Columbias southern border with Washington state. ...
Peachland is a small town of about 5000 people in the Okanagan Valley, on the west side of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. ...
A view of Penticton from a viewpoint overlooking Skaha Lake Penticton (49° 29′ 28″ N, 119° 35′ 19″ W) is a city in south central British Columbia between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake (at one time known officially as Dog Lake). According to the 2001 census its population is 30...
Summerland (2003 population 11,179) is a town on the west side of Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. ...
, Vernon is a city in the south central region of British Columbia called the Okanagan at the north end of Okanagan Lake and Kalamalka Lake. ...
Westbank is a municipality in the province of British Columbia. ...
Winfield is a small-town outskirt of Kelowna, British Columbia, in the same area as Lake Country. ...
Demographics The population of the region was 297,601 as of the 2001 Census. There were 154,010 Females (51%) and 143,590 Males (49%). The population is relatively older with a median age of 42.5, compared with the provincial average of 39.
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