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Category: Industrial

Lake Country’s packinghouses, from 1913 to present

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 […]
Vernon Fruit Union packinghouse, Oyama, 1931

Vernon Fruit Union packinghouse, Oyama, 1931

The first attempt to unionize packinghouse workers took place in the 1930s but was unsuccessful due to the surplus of available workers.
The Okanagan Valley Land Company, 1910

The Okanagan Valley Land Company, 1910

The Okanagan Valley Land Company planted thousands of acres of orchards in Lake Country. The main office was located near the wharf in Okanagan Centre.