by lakecountry | Sep 1, 2017 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
“The Railroad” was the name used on the earliest colonial maps, before the settlement in Lake Country, to refer to the isthmus at Oyama. The term certainly did not refer to any European-made feature; it had to refer to either a natural or an Okanagan First Peoples...
by lakecountry | May 26, 2017 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Natural History, Thomson, Duane
We read in the newspaper that the current flood conditions are a “once in two hundred year” event. How would we know that? We have no written records for Lake Country before settlement, which began with Tom Wood’s pre-emption of 160 acres at the south end of Pelmewash...
