Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from the Okanagan word kiʔláwnaʔ, referring to a grizzly bear.
Image: Kelowna city view 2017
Image: Mission Hill
Image: William R. Bennett Bridge
Image: Kelowna Lake Okanagan panoramio
Okanagan Lake is a lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. The lake is 135 km (84 mi) long, between 4 and 5 km wide, and has a surface area of 348 km2.
Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake winds between Kelowna (foreground) and Westbank (background).
SS Okanagan, with the Duke of Connaught on board, 1912
sternwheeler Aberdeen on Okanagan Lake, sometime between 1893 and 1895