People Archives | Page 4 of 4 | Applebox Belles: The Women of Lake Country’s Packinghouses

The floating picket line

The floating picket line of Okanagan Centre packinghouse workers, 1955.

Kelowna Farmer’s Exchange packing school, 1914

The first packing school available to local women ran a class in the winter of 1914 at the Kelowna Grower’s Exchange packinghouse. Packing schools operated in the Okanagan […]

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.