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Image Credit: Submitted/ City of West Kelowna July 26, 2021 - 6:30 PM A West Kelowna family is being applauded by city council for the many contributions their family has made to the community across several decades. The Mar/Marr family has recently sold a portion of their land to the city for soccer fields and donated land for a walking/bicycling trail that will also be used as a temporary off-leash dog park. The Mar/Marr family moved to Kelowna from Revelstoke in the late 1920s. Brothers Mar Jok and Marr Fee purchased a 400-acre homestead in the area now known as Rose Valley in the 1950s. They grew asparagus, had a variety of fruit trees and raised domestic animals and birds. They are considered to be one the pioneering families of the Westside.
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Image Credit: Forty-eighth annual report of the Okanagan Historical Society January 24, 2021 - 8:00 AM West Kelowna residents may know Mar Jok by his name on an elementary school but his legacy stretches far beyond that as a communicator between the Chinese and Caucasian communities in the Okanagan in the 20th Century. The Canadian Chinese pioneer and his beloved Golden Pheasant Restaurant welcomed everyone, even the poor, during a time when Chinatown, located along Leon Avenue, and its residents faced racism and discrimination. Born in 1900 in Canton, China, Mar Jok came to Canada via Hong Kong in 1912, at the age of 11, according to an Okanagan Historical Society report. With his brother Mar Fee and his father, they opened a laundromat in Revelstoke.