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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 ...
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.
The Greater Vernon area is served by School District 22 Vernon, which provides school services for children in the area. [2] Its population was 67,086 at the 2021 census, a 5.7 percent increase from its population during the 2016 census, which was 61,324. [3] 44,519 of those that live in Greater Vernon are based in Vernon. [4]
British Columbia Historical Quarterly: Willard E. Ireland 1968-1977 BC Historical News: Philip Yandle 1977-1980 BC Historical News: Kent Haworth, Patricia Roy & Terry Eastwood 1983–1986 BC Historical News: Marie Elliott 1986 BC Historical News - Vancouver Centennial Issue [3] Esther Birney 1986–1988 BC Historical News: R.J.C. Tyrrell 1988 ...
The area of the community was originally named Tappen Siding, according to the Vernon & District Family History Society and was named after Canadian Pacific Railway construction contractor Herbert Tappen. [4] A sawmill was built in 1883 and Tappen first appeared on BC Land maps in 1891. [4]
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The Vernon massacre was a mass shooting that occurred in Vernon, British Columbia on April 5, 1996. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting in Canada since the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989.