Residential Archives | Applebox Belles: The Women of Lake Country’s Packinghouses

Westbury Hotel

Many of the summer girls boarded at the Westbury Hotel.

Okanagan Centre, 1930s

Gleed’s Store in Okanagan Centre during the Depression.

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 […]

Okanagan Centre, 1948

Main Street, Okanagan Centre, 1948. The packinghouse had an overhead conveyor which transported the boxed apples from the packinghouse to the storage facility across the road.