Olalla

OLALLA, pop 355, in the S OKANAGAN VALLEY, 6 km north of KEREMEOS, was the site of a COPPER mining boom in the 1890s. Briefly it was the bustling centre for several productive mines, but ore deposits did not meet expectations; the town faded and it became a small collection of homes on the highway between Keremeos and PENTICTON. The name comes from a CHINOOK JARGON word for BERRIES, a reference to locally abundant Saskatoon berries.

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