The Past
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~ City Hall
~ Fire
Department
~ Health Care
~ Justice of the Peace
~ ~ A.L. Fortune
~ ~ Fred Barnes
~ ~ Percy Farmer
~ Library
~ Newspaper
~ Police
Department
~ Post office
~ Telephones
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Transportation
What encouraged A.L. Fortune to travel to British Columbia in 1861 was not only his feeling for adventure but the news of a gold strike in the Caribou district. In June of 1866 A.L. Fortune came to the Okanagan Valley where he decided to settle down and make his home. He once said:
"I have looked back with
gratitude to God for the privilege of being the first pioneer and settler of His guiding
and planting in the North Okanagan."
Alexander Leslie Fortune
Mr. Fortune was made Justice of the Peace in 1877, just eleven years after he first settled in the valley. He died in Enderby B.C. on July 5, 1915.
Leanne Sylvester, Karleen Schwaab, Ryan Hunt
ALF School 1989