Sunday, October 26, 2008

OYAMA

OYAMA
Is a small community that sprawls on a narrow body of water separating the lakes of Wood and Kalamalka, 16 kilometers north of Kelowna and east of Okanagan Lake and just off Highway #97. Oyama is one of 4 main communities that make up the district municipality of Lake Country (Winfield, Carr’s Landing, and Okanagan Center are the other three). Oyama takes its name from Japanese Prince Iwao Oyama (1842-1916), also a Japanese field Marshall, captor of Port Arthur in the first Sino-Japanese War and commander in Manchuria in the Russo-Japanese War. The first post office in Oyama opened in 1906.

OYAMA’S POPULATION: 1,644

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