Okanagan Mission

OKANAGAN MISSION was founded in 1860 by Charles PANDOSY and Pierre Richard, OBLATE missionaries, south of KELOWNA near where Mission Crk enters the east side of OKANAGAN LK. The mission was a base for itinerant priests travelling through the OKANAGAN VALLEY, and Father Pandosy fostered farming and orcharding (see TREE FRUITS) there. The small settlement that developed was the first permanent white settlement in the valley. Shortly after Pandosy's death in 1891, the Oblates sold all their...

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