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

Yoshiko Kobayashi and Mary Carter sitting on pilings at the Okanagan Centre wharf.

Alfred and Annie Lodge at Hanthorpe Ranch, Winfield, 1919. Alfred has just returned from the war.

Marjorie Brixton with daughter Eleanor, 1948

“We used to get 3¢ a pack. Now they wouldn’t even put one apple in for 3¢. Well, in those days, they were the big apple boxes and […]