Historic Steamwheeler Wharves & Landings
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Historic Steamwheeler Wharves & Landings: Points about Westside Road The trail between Fintry and Nahun was the last remnant of the Hudson Bay Trail. It was used to travel between the two communities after the Shorts Point Post Office was closed.A rough and narrow wagon road was used to join Westbank to Nahun around 1908. Eight years later, the road to Ewing’s Landing was completed using horse teams, which made Vernon accessible without crossing the lake by ferry. During the depression, scores of able- bodied men from the relief camp in Wilson Landing worked to improve the narrow and generally unsafe portion of Westside Road from their camp to where you will now find Traders Cove. Traders Cove There was a sternwheeler landing at Bear Creek, just south of where Traders Cove lies today. It was origi- nally called Bear River in 1883 by David Douglas (of Douglas Fir fame) and was changed to Lambly Creek in 1922. Despite the name changes, it is referred to as Bear Creek today. When the SS Sicamous discon- tinued its services in 1935, mail and freight was delivered by truck from Vernon. There are references to Traders Trail Estates and Newby’s Cove near the current log dump at Bear Creek. Wilson Landing So named for Boer War veteran Harold Fitz-Harding Wilson who settled in the area in 1900. In the 1930s it was home to a relief camp sponsored by the Anglican Church. It housed scores of burly men who improved the hazardous portions of Westside Road between here and Newby’s Cove. The post office opened in 1908 and was located in the Browse house. In 1935, when the SS Sicamous stopped delivering mail, Jack Kitson of Bear Creek used boats that he owned and operated to deliver mail. This continued until late 1937 when the family moved to Victoria Caesar’s Landing The Hudson’s Bay Fir Brigade Trail ran just above Caesar’s Landing and was named after Northcote Henry Caesar, one of the areas first settlers in 1893. Caesar’s Landing is the site of a government wharf and sternwheelers called in two to three times a week (or when signalled) with mail and groceries from Vernon or Kelowna. There was an orchard, cannery, sheep farm, vegetable patches, horses, hay fields and cattle. It had a post office and a garage with a gravity gas pump. As with other areas, when the SS Sicamous dis- continued service in 1935, mail and freight was delivered by truck to Nahun from Vernon. Fintry Called Biche Creek in 1877, it was later changed to Short’s Creek after Captain T.D. Shorts. The land was sold in the 1890s to a member of the Dunsmuir family. Capt. J.C. Dunwaters then bought the land from the son-in-law of Ex-Governor Dunsmuir and renamed the property Fintry, after his family home in Stirlingshire, Scotland. Dunwaters developed a large fruit and dairy ranch here. Each house in Fintry had running water supplied by gravity flow from Shorts Creek. They also had electricity, which relied on sufficient water flow in Shorts Creek. In 1938 Fairbridge Farm Schools acquired the ranch. The Shorts Point post office opened in 1905, and closed two years later in 1907. Fintry was also home to a fruit packinghouse with a wharf. Ewing’s Landing Originally called Morden’s Landing, it was renamed to Ewing’s Landing in 1889 after Robert Leckie-Ewing, the first Post Master. Ewing’s Landing had a wharf, a post office (1902 – 62), orchards, a teashop, and a general store. The school held 15 students up to grade eight. The schoolhouse doubled as a community centre where they held dances, whist drives and heated public debates. The community boasted a tennis court that drew people from all over the valley. Some fruit was grown here and shipped from here. Ewing’s Landing was also home to Herbert Kenyon, who became a member of Canada’s Hall of Fame (1973). He was one of the first men to fly over the Antarctic and flew rescue missions in the far north. Killiney Beach Originally called Sproul’s Landing, it was then named after the Hill of Killiney, Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland, by Harry Percy Hodges who settled there in 1903. Hodges was previously the bookkeeper at the Coldstream Ranch. Orchards and a wharf were here until the 1970s. Grandview Flats Rd C RE Grandvieww FlatsFlats Rd N MAID CREEK EQU ESI S CREEK Otter Sternwheelers Lake Rd Corkscrew Rd HUTLEY Westside Road Historic Route CREEK IRISHI CRE R Serving on Northern EK DEEP CREEK To Kamloops Otter Lake Rd To Salmon Arm PATERSON CREEK Okanagan Lake – 97 St 97 A nnes Rd 97A97 EWER CREEK The White Queens K EE R W C EENHO EEK R GR H EEP C D MUSGRAVE CREEK MALYS EK EQ CRE UESIS CRE EK OK H BRO MALYS NEWPORT CREEK GOOSE CREEK The Boats: BR SWAN LAKE A Steamwheeler wharves/landings DLEY Tillicum Rd C OKANAGAN LAKE GOOSE LAKE REEK Aberdeen Herry Rd BX CREEK 1892 to 1913: 44.5m long and Cools Rd Old Kamloops Rd Dixon Dam Rd REEK BROOKSIDE C ratS revliS ratS burned 10 cords of wood per trip. R d L and A Rd dR yellaV t yellaV dR N A E W S Coal burner after 1902 NASWHITO CREEK OKANAGANLAKE BATAT BX CREEK ernonnon Rd E CREEEKEK E VVernon Rd Fairview Vernon 1894, burned in 1897: 17m long, wood burner (Not CPR) vd BBlvdl nagan Hills O anagan Hills 6 Okanagan Kalamalk Buchanan Rd Mission Rd 1907, dismantled late 1930s: dR nosnorT dR BROWNS CREE d BOULEA R U CREEK ne LongacLongac e dre 59m long, coal burner Tronson Rd K b A 97 Kalamalka Rd 9 REEK C M EA Creek Rd DSTR Coldstream COL Kaleden Kidston Rd WHITEMAN CREEK 1910, dismantled in 1920: 28.6m long, coal burner WHITEMAN EW CREEK BR CREEK North Westside Firehall Sicamous Eastside Rd 1914, modified in 1935: 61.1m long, COSENS CREEK K E CRE AN M E Killiney coal burner, last passenger trip WHIT H T Commonage Rd U Beach SO summer of 1936 KALAMALKA LAKE MORDEN CREEK Ewings Compared to other same size boats of ATTENBOROUGH CR Landing OYAMA CREEK the time, these boats had low construc- Westside Rd E EK tion and maintenance costs. They were E K STREAK LASTREAK LAKE Fintry Provincial NORTH OYAMA CREEK highly adaptable to pioneer condi- Park & Protected Area OYAMA CREEK OYAMA LAKE CREEK Fintry tions and built to allow the bow to run ORTS SH OYAMA CREEK CHRISTIE La Casa ashore without damage. To call a boat, Resort OYAMA CREEK CREEK K CREE you simply signalled from shore. The SHORTS HAYTON CREEK OYAMA LAKE CREEK HAYTON boats were equipped with searchlights WOOD LAKE OKANAGAN to scan for the wharf in the dark. The LAKE EEK CR Oyama Rd RTH O boats brought clothes, food items, fruit RIBBLEW Carrs Landing Rd and vegetables, tools, reading material, K O O CR horses and cattle, large steam boilers, SWALWELL LAKE cow hides, and gold bricks to people liv- Okanagan Centre Rd W Oceola Rd Caesars ARK CREEK L C ing on the shore. They also transported Landing visitors and men going off to and return- Woodsdale Rd ing from war. Okanagan Lodge Rd Centre Rd MOORE EEK EK LAKE CR Lake Country CINNABAR CRE O Okanagan LEAN T LEAN Cent re RdW DIMETRI CREEK REEK Beaver C ake Rd N L A BALD RANGE CREEK VERNON CREEK ULM VERNON CREEK B TERRACE CREEK Lake WNA O KEL EEK Okanagan 97 CR T ERR Resort KELOWNA CREEK MORRISON CREEK ACE CREEK Glenmore Rd ELLISON LAKE LAMBLY CREEK LAMB LY CREEK Wilson MILL CREEK A MCKINLEY N Landing W RESERVOIR LO E CREEK K Rd N K E JAMES enmore l LAKE G McKinley Rd WHELAN CRE EK E Bennett Rd CR S ME JAMES CREEK A J Old Vernon Rd CREEK 97 KFACE LAMBLY C ROC SCOTTY CREEK R EEK K CREE SCOTTY Traders Bear Creek Provincial Cove t UnionUn Rd Park & Protected Area wsellwsel S Tower anch R Blvd M CDOU Clift GAL McCurdy Rd E L C RE EK OKANAGAN DAVES CREEK ROSE VALLEY LAKE LAKE Rd e tsid es 33 Parkinson Rd W Kelowna eld Rd ring Westlake Rd Mountain Dr Horizon Dr 97 Loseth Dr Black FAULKNER CREEK Bennett West KelownaWilliamBridge R. MISSION CREEK Loseth Rd MISSION CREEK d R 97 MISSION CREE Stevens Rd Boucherie Shannon CullochCulloch Rd Lake Rd Hudson Rd H CREEK H Anders Rd K T Bartley Rd Bartley SMI HYD RA CR ULIC EE K 3723 Plain 13/11/12.