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Doukhobor Girls, 1957

Five of the summer girls at the Woodsdale packinghouse, October 9th, 1957.

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

Seaton packinghouse

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

Okanagan Valley Land Company sorters, 1937

The sorters of the Okanagan Valley Land Company packinghouse, Okanagan Centre, 1937. Left to right: Back row: unknown, unknown, unknown, Ted Nuyens, unknown, Pam Wentworth Front row: Nellie […]

Jimmie Price Kobayashi Medvedeff

Jimmie Price Kobayashi Medvedeff Interview October 28th, 2015 Eleanor ‘Jimmie’ Price traveled from Red Deer, Alberta in 1947 to work as a ‘Summer Girl’. She was twenty years […]

Summer Girls

Left to right: Bea Smorden, Joyce Bell, and Eleanor ‘Jimmie’ Price, 1947.

Bea Smorden Taiji

Bea Smorden Taiji Interview September 29th, 2015 Bea Smorden Taiji was born in Slocan Park, BC in 1930, the daughter of a Doukhobor family. Bea began coming to […]

Applebox Belles, 1940s

Applebox belles on the packing line at the Vernon Fruit Union, Oyama 1940s.

Staff of the Okanagan Valley Land Company packinghouse, Okanagan Centre, October 15th, 1948

OK Apples brand box label

The OK Apples brand box label was used by the Vernon Fruit Union packinghouses.

A. P. brand apple box label

The switch from wooden to cardboard boxes also saw the end of the brightly coloured apple box labels such as this one from Alex Phillip’s orchard in Oyama. […]