Buildings & Structures Archives | Applebox Belles: The Women of Lake Country’s Packinghouses

Westbury Hotel

Many of the summer girls boarded at the Westbury Hotel.

Doris Gleed, 1930s

Doris Gleed rides her bicycle past the Okanagan Centre packinghouse.

Winfield packinghouse, 1930s

The railway line ran in front of the Winfield packinghouse.

Inez Kenney with three other belles at the Oyama packinghouse

Applebox belles at the Vernon Fruit Union packinghouse, Oyama, 1937. Inez is the second woman from the right.

Effie Smith, Alice Draper, Winnie Draper, Mary Draper, Winfield 1937

Applebox belles on their day off.

Okanagan Centre, 1930s

Gleed’s Store in Okanagan Centre during the Depression.

Winfield packinghouse

The staff of the Vernon Fruit Union, Winfield, October 20th, 1955.

Nora, Yoshi, and Kate, 1948

Nora Carter, Yoshi Kobayashi, and Kate at the Okanagan Valley Land Company camp, 1948.

Ivy Malpass Fallow

Ivy Malpass Fallow Photo montage. Narrated by Herb Fallow, November 13th, 2015 Ivy Malpass was born in 1907 in Lansdowne, BC. As a teenager, she worked at the […]

Applebox Belles at the Woodsdale packinghouse, 1940s

“We really got on with each other, even though there were so many different characters. There were so many memories.” Winnie Heyworth, 2012

Lake Country’s packinghouses, from 1913 to present

By 1911 there were almost 1,000,000 apple trees in the Okanagan. Packinghouses opened throughout the valley, and over the next fifty years at least twenty packinghouses operated in […]

Seaton packinghouse

Jack Seaton opened his first packinghouse in 1919. It was located near his orchard on Camp Road.