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Father Pandosy Mission, also known as the Okanagan Mission, was the original home for Father Pandosy in Kelowna, British Columbia. He moved to Kelowna in 1859 and started the first settlement of Europeans in that region. One of the first Europeans to join him at Kelowna was Eli Lequime. [1] The Pandosy Mission has been restored as a museum.
It derives its name from the Okanagan Mission founded by Father Pandosy, historically known as the Okanagan Mission, which was located here and was the first non-native settlement in the Okanagan Valley. [2] The Mission once was a separate jurisdiction before being amalgamated with the City of Kelowna in the mid- to late-20th century.
Okanagan Mission had hogs, sheep, oats, barley, wheat, tobacco and potatoes. [3] Father Pandosy's Mission was the first cemetery, [6] the first place of worship and the first school in the Southern Interior. [3] Two years after it was founded, 121 people were baptized at Okanagan Mission. In 1865, a brother's house was added to the site to ...
The Okanagan Valley did not see many more outsiders for a decade afterward. View of the Okanagan Valley from the hills above Kelowna. In 1859, the first European settlement was established when Father Charles Pandosy led the making of an Oblate mission at Okanagan Mission, now a neighbourhood of Kelowna.
Known locally as "the Mission" (or "Okanagan Mission") to differentiate it from the Lower Mainland city of Mission, this area was a separate jurisdiction before being amalgamated with Kelowna in the mid-to-late-20th century. It features a vibrant secondary commercial centre separate from the downtown, with low- to moderate-density residential ...
Okanagan Mission Secondary is a public high school in Kelowna, British Columbia, part of School District 23 Central Okanagan.It is well known for its consistent academic performance and successful arts programs, including its Triple Threat (formerly FAME) program, which puts on a full Broadway musical every year.
Richter's original 30 acres (120,000 m 2) of fruit trees at Keremeos Centre are considered to be one of the two foundations of BC's orcharding industry, the other being started by the Oblate Fathers at Okanagan Mission. Today, the area is seeing a burgeoning wine industry and a boom in sunbelt-oriented recreation housing and property development.
Mission Creek is a large creek in the Okanagan Region of British Columbia. Originally called N'wha-kwi-sen (smoothing stones), it was later mapped as Rivière de l’Anse-au-Sable (Sandy Bay River), the name Mission Creek was adopted in 1860 in honour of the Catholic Oblate Mission established by Father Pandosy and other settlers. [1]