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Desert Sun's Heritage Photo Album
 Canopy Rock - Before the blasting away
of this overhang in the mid 30s, this popular spot near Vaseaux Lake was known as "Canopy
Rock". Photo from Heritage Tours by Doug Cox. |
Rialto
Hotel - In 1939 the original 13
room hotel was opened for business in Osoyoos. All was lost in a disastrous fire in 1995.
Photo from The Best of the Western by Doug Cox. |

- The Kootenay Express - The
Kootenay Express is crossing Trout Creek Bridge, rolling downhill into Penticton. - Photo
from The Best of the Western by Doug Cox.
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- Building the Dam - North of
Okanagan Falls you will cross the Okanagan River. The OK Falls Dam along with a series of
floodgates was build to control runoff along the Okanagan Lake Chain. Photo from The
Best of the Western by Doug Cox.
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- "The Queen of the Lake" -
Pictured above is the S.S. Sicamous in the 1940s at the Okanagan Landing Wharf.
Photo from The Best of the Western
- by Doug Cox.
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- Zucca Melons - Were
one of the cash crops that farmers used until the fruit trees were in production. Photo
courtesy of the Osoyoos Museum
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Revised: December 04, 2002 02:11 AM.
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