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Kelowna's cemetery sleuths honoured by Heritage BC

A Kelowna woman who led a project to write biographies of people buried in Central Okanagan cemeteries has won a provincial heritage award. ....

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Kelowna celebrates Heritage Week

Heritage Week is celebrated across Canada, this year from Feb. 19 to the 25. ....

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Heritage Week is coming

Heritage Week is coming! This year’s Heritage Week theme is Layer by Layer and the many local events this year invite us to dig deeper into our community’s past and ....

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Pioneer Italian family stories sought

Afew years ago, the Kelowna Canadian Italian Club (KCIC) formed a committee called “La Nostra Famiglia Italiana” (LNFI). It started small, with the presentation of public sessions at our club ....

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Kelowna's social history retained in a ferry Captain's old stories | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source

Image Credit: Bob Hayman/Captain Len s Ferry Tales
March 07, 2021 - 7:00 AM
One ferry captain’s observations of the good, the bad and the ugly in the Central Okanagan remain an important piece of the area s social history, says a local historian.
Len Hayman was described as one of “Kelowna’s legendary and more colourful characters,” according to author Sharron Simpson in her book,
The Kelowna Story. He was instrumental in providing the ferry service between Westbank and Kelowna for roughly 40 years.
From 1906-1927, before the province began providing the ferries across Okanagan Lake, all the vessels and barges used to transport people, horses and then cars were either bought or built by captain Len. ....

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