LEGEND
HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
DID YOU KNOW?
100
In October 1905, George Rose took over Kelowna's first newspaper and changed the name to the “Kelowna Courier.” What was Kelowna’s first newspaper called and what year did it start?
What is the Kelowna Clarion in 1904
100
In what year was Kelowna incorporated?
What is 1905
100
What is Kelowna's Official Flower?
What is the Arrowleaf Balsamroot, often referred to by locals as the Okanagan Sunflower.
100
Although renowned for its fruit, farm crops and wine industry, Kelowna was once home to another thriving industry. The Okanagan climate and fertile soil appeared ideal to grow this product and two factories were established. At its peak, the industry produced upwards of 800,000 of this product annually. Eventually, though, stiff competition from Ontario forced the industry’s demise. What was one of Kelowna’s first thriving crops?
What is tobacco
200
Legend says a group of Okanagan First Nation once stumbled across a fur-clad, whiskered settler emerging from his underground home. The hunters saw him as a “Kim-ach-Touch” or brown bear. The story quickly passed through the community and in 1892 town planners looking for a name for the settlement decided on “Kelowna”. Kelowna is the Okanagan First Nation word for what?
What is grizzly bear
200
The first Okanagan Lake bridge was replaced in 2008 by the current 5 lane William R. Bennett Bridge which sees significant traffic year round. The first bridge to span Okanagan Lake was built in what year?
What is 1958
200
Kelowna is how many meters above sea level?
What is 344 metres (1,129 feet) above sea level.
200
There are many busy international airports in Canada, where does Kelowna rank among them?
What is 11th
300
Over 80 years ago, this winery got their start producing apple wines, heavily fortified berry wines, and sacramental wine before transitioning to more European-style wines in the 1970s. It’s also BC's first commercial winery and the first BC winery to produce single-vineyard wines through their award-winning Sandhill label. Who was the first winery in BC?
What is Calona Wines
300
Who established the first European settlement in Kelowna in 1859?
Who is Father Charles Pandosy
300
Okanagan Lake lies in the Okanagan Valley of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia between the Columbia and Cascade Mountain ranges. It is a fjord lake and the remnant of Lake Penticton, a huge post glacial lake that once filled the Okanagan Valley. It is approximately 135 km long with a surface area of 361 kilometres squared. Its maximum width is 6.4 km and its maximum depth is _______?
What is 242 Meters
300
Kelowna used to have a Chinatown, which was formerly designated to a block between Leon and Harvey called Eli Avenue. Today the only remains of the historical area is a building located in the Kelowna Heritage Museum. The small building, shortened to fit in the museum, was formerly owned by the Wong family and used as a convenience store in the early 1900s. The Wongs lived in the upstairs of the wooden building that was their business. Kelowna’s Chinatown only recently received heritage recognition in 2010, which is surprising considering that in 1911, Kelowna’s population consisted of what percentage of people of Chinese origin?
What is 15%
400
In 1926 the Ogopogo was reported to be sighted by over 30 cars full of people on Okanagan Mission Beach in Kelowna. The name Ogopogo was actually coined that same year by who?
Who are the Kalamalka Players - an organization of local amateur performers
400
Kelowna’s main street, Bernard Avenue, was built at a time where cattle would occupy the street. Resident Eli Leguime built a general store in the downtown part of Kelowna and named Bernard Avenue. Who was it named after?
Who was his son
400
Who were the first people in the geographic region of the Okanagan?
Who are the Sylix
400
In 1906 the Kelowna City Council passed a bylaw by which anyone caught doing this activity in Okanagan Lake would be fined $100 or sentenced to 30 days in jail.
What is skinny dipping
500
In what year did Kelowna receive electricity?
What is 1909
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