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A.B. Knox Ranch. House, barn and young fruit trees.
Circa 1891
Okanagan Mission Valley, Kelowna, British Columbia


Credits:
Kelowna Public Archives

15

The improvements yet made are very small and for the want of a good home market and more particularly for want of a good flour mill, the farmers have not attempted to raise more than sufficient produce for their own use. . . .

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Calf roping at the Postill Ranch
Circa 1895
Ellison, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia


Credits:
Kelowna Public Archives

17

The land, though not of first quality, appears to produce abundantly; all crops have been good this past season . . . several small fields of fall wheat very well put in and looking excellent.
. . . . With a good flour mill here and mines in the vicinity this will doubtless yet become one of the best of our agricultural settlements in this Colony.

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Guisachan Ranch
Circa 1890
Okanagan Mission Valley, Kelowna, British Columbia


Credits:
Kelowna Public Archives

19

The Catholic Mission buildings are new and very neat. All crops have been very good this past season and that without any aid from irrigation. I saw some very good tobacco of their own growing and was told by Fr. Richard that the total produce this year is not less than - wheat 1,000 bushels; barley 200 bushels; and potatoes 2,900 bushels.
Thus, the stage was set for the arrival and entrepreneurship of Frederick Brent - land that produced abundantly, an agreeable climate, and most importantly, settlers in need of a flour mill for the grain that was, by 1863, growing well in the Okanagan Valley.

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Hop gardens at Guisachan
Circa 1892
Okanagan Mission Valley, Kelowna, British Columbia


Credits:
Kelowna Public Archives