OKANAGAN FALLS

OKANAGAN FALLS
Is a small town situated 20 kilometers south of Penticton on Highway #97. The community is also situated on the double falls that drain Skaha Lake into the Okanagan River. A townsite was laid out during the 1890s, and was known as Dogtown, which Skaha in turn is a First Nations word meaning “dog”. Okanagan Falls was endorsed as a settler’s paradise, but did love up to those expectations and quickly became a tourism (especially with wineries) and orchard center. Okanagan Falls had a sawmill until early 2008 when it shut down due to the high Canadian dollar at the time as well as the British Columbia’s interior infestation of the Mountain Pine Beetle. The Falls that give the community its name were eliminated by a modern flood control system.

OKANAGAN FALLS’ POPULATION: 1,874