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Lake Country’s packinghouses, from 1913 to present

Colour photo of a map showing four communities with packinghouse locations marked by green squares. The map shows the growth of the packinghouses over time, with six packinghouses operating by 1920 and five more by 1930. Over the past century there have been at least twenty packinghouses in operation.

Date: 1913 to 2016

Location: Lake Country, British Columbia

Credits: Lake Country Museum & Archives

By 1911 there were almost 1,000,000 apple trees in the Okanagan. Packinghouses opened throughout the valley, and over the next fifty years at least twenty packinghouses operated in Lake Country.

The District of Lake Country is located in the Okanagan valley in south central British Columbia and is made up of four community wards: Oyama, Winfield, Carr’s Landing and Okanagan Centre.