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Vernon is a city in the Okanagan region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.It is 440 km (270 mi) northeast of Vancouver.Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped establish the Coldstream Ranch in nearby Coldstream, the City of Vernon was incorporated on 30 December 1892.
An Internment Camp in Vernon, BC was established to hold enemy aliens and POWs during the First World War. Once Canada entered World War I , fears of enemy aliens on the home front began to arise. To combat this, the Canadian Government implemented the War Measures Act which gave them the authority to intern and disenfranchise enemy aliens ...
Vernon BC 50°15′50″N 119°16′12″W / 50.264°N 119.27°W / 50.264; -119.27 ( Land and Agricultural Company Vernon municipality ( 17066 )
Buckaroos in BC: the Story of Ranching in British Columbia Virtual exhibit on the history of ranching in British Columbia, created by O'Keefe Ranch for Virtual Museum of Canada. Digitized Okanagan History: Historic O'Keefe Ranch Collection - Provides online access to archival materials from the O'Keefe Ranch that have been digitized.
Greater Vernon is a conglomeration of municipalities centred on Vernon, British Columbia, which is a city in the Okanagan region of Canada. The metropolitan area includes Vernon itself, in addition to Coldstream , as well as Coldstream's neighborhood of Lavington .
The Vernon Flying Club was the sole tenant during the late 1940s and early 1950s. At the latter time, the grass runway was paved and the city hangar was built. [ 18 ] Since then, many private and corporate clients have been based at the facility, [ 19 ] totalling almost 80 aircraft during the 1970s, when the Regional District of North Okanagan ...
Ellison Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Okanagan Lake to the south of the city of Vernon. [1] The park contains approximately 219 hectares (2.19 km 2) of land, 200 ha. of it upland, 19 ha. of it foreshore. [2]
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