Okanagan Landing was an unincorporated settlement and steamboat port at the north end of Okanagan Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Located southwest of the city of Vernon, it was the terminus station for the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway and served as the port and shipyard for steamboats operating to the south, as well as a transfer barge slip.
Image: Steamboats at Okanagan Landing, 1916
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