Okanagan History

Okanagan Business Directory Portal

An exclusive Okanagan Business Directory Portal for your resource and research pleasure. Okanagan Directory has reviewed and summarized, excerpts from Okanagan History. The history of the Okanagan depicts events that prominently dominate the economic future then and now. Economic history repeats itself. Growth of fruit farming, tourism, forestry, land development, and cattle ranching are still the business structure that supports the Okanagan Valley for over two-hundred and fifty years.

• 1858 City Of Vernon established
• 1860 Okanagan Travelers
• 1862 Francis Xavier Richter
• 1867 Vernon Post Office
• 1868 BX Ranch - Priest Valley
• 1876 Price Ellison - BC Farms
• 1878 Theodore Kruger - Osoyoos
• 1885 Thomas Ellis - Penticton
• 1891 Frank Herbert Latimer - Vernon Engineer
• 1891 Lord and Lady of Aberdeen - Coldstream Ranch
• 1891 Kalamalka Hotel
• 1891 Vernon Newspaper
• 1892 Okanagan Transportation
• 1893 Okanagan Education - Schools
• 1893 Okanagan Landing - Steamships