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Kelowna Farmer’s Exchange packing school, 1914

Black and white photo of four women and eleven men, each standing at a packing station along one side of four tables. Each table has a burlap centre filled with apples from which they select an apple, then wrap and place it in a raised box in front of them.

Date: 1914

Location: Kelowna, British Columbia

Credits: Kelowna Public Archives, Image #3732

The first packing school available to local women ran a class in the winter of 1914 at the Kelowna Grower’s Exchange packinghouse. Packing schools operated in the Okanagan from the early 1900s until shortly after World War I ended.