Trépanier

TRÉPANIER  () , 20 km southwest of KELOWNA on the west side of OKANAGAN LK, was promoted as a fruit-growing settlement by the Peachland Townsite Co in the early 1900s. It had a school and a factory for making concrete pipe in the 1910s. Today it is a recreational area with orchards and vineyards. Trépanier Crk probably got its name from a crude trepanning operation performed on the skull of a SECWEPEMC (Shuswap) chief by Alexander Ross of...

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