1

Building the Canadian Pacific Railway through BC
1885
British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Summerland Museum

2

Early trails through British Columbia
1800s
New Caledonia or Pacific Northwest

Credits:
Summerland Museum

3

The area that was to become Summerland was first named Nicola Priaire by the fur traders in the 1820s. Nicola was Grand Chief Nicola, leader of the Okanagan people. Nicola (1793 to1859) played an important role in the relatively smooth relations between the fur traders and the Okanagan people.

4

Site of Summerland, BC
1894
Trout Creek District, British Columbia

Credits:
Summerland Museum

5

The sternwheeler, SS Okanagan
1908
Okanagan Lake, BC

Credits:
Summerland Museum

6

Sir Thomas George Shaughnessy
1900
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Summerland Museum

7

The CPR decided in 1892 that it would be to their advantage to obtain property in British Columbia and grow their own fruit for their dining cars and chain of lavish hotels. At that time the CPR was being well provided with fruit from the Coldstream ranch of Lord and Lady Aberdeen. In the interior of BC two choices were considered for the CPR fruit lot, one being the Trout Creek District, now called Summerland.

8

Barclay's Trout Creek Ranche
1896
Trout Creek District, British Columbia

Credits:
Summerland Museum

9

Site of Summerland on Okanagan Lake
1893
Trout Creek District, British Columbia

Credits:
Summerland Museum

10

"Millionaire's Row"
1906
West Summerland, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Summerland Museum

11

The wealthy investors included such well-known Canadians as; Sir Herbert Holt, a successful businessman who owned or directed over 300 companies, Sir Edmond Osler, the national president of the Dominion Bank, Sir Edward Clouston, the General Manager of the Bank of Montreal and president of the Canadian Bankers Association, Charles Hosmer, a Montr�al tycoon and CPR executives R.B. Angus (co-founder of the CPR) and Sir William Whyte (Western Canada Director).

12

John Moore Robinson
1900
Unknown

Credits:
Summerland Museum

13

Summerland, British Columbia
1906
Summerland

Credits:
Summerland Museum

14

The arrival of the SS Okanagan at the TJ Smith wharf
1910
Summerland

Credits:
Summerland Museum
Vernon Museum