'It's the only ship of its type in all of Canada and it needs to be preserved overall,' said an archivist and executive director of the Okanagan Archive Trust Society
A massive discovery of old films, photos and cameras has unearthed rare footage of the S.S. Sicamous sailing down Okanagan Lake in its heyday.
“They had the remnants of this family's history that no one wanted. So we stepped up and we've got it. So now we're processing it,” he said. “The brothers opened a taxidermy shop on 4th and Main in Vancouver, in about 1918. …In their travels to find more beasts to stuff, they came through the Okanagan, and really, really liked it, and they actually settled in Keremeos for a while.”
The film shows the S.S. Sicamous sternwheeler making a daily trip down Okanagan Lake into Penticton in 1932. The sternwheeler was a high-end vessel that was used to transport passengers and cargo to remote communities along the shores of Okanagan Lake. “The north end of the lake to the south with all the stops going on, it would stop in Kelowna, probably for a couple of hours. And then over to West Bank, Peachland, Summerland’s wharf for picking up and delivering. So it would start out in the morning at Okanagan Landing, and end up here about suppertime in Penticton.
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