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Moses Lumby

A stout man is wearing a great Gatsby style top hat and a wool suit. He has a thick, bushy mustache that grows around his mouth and along his jaw to his ears.

Andy Ostenson Collection

Moses Lumby (1840-1893) came to British Columbia in 1861.  He was one of the most ardent campaigners to extend the railway into the Okanagan valley.   Moses became the area’s Government Agent in 1892 following the death of Walter Dewdney.

Moses died of typhoid fever in Victoria on October 23, 1893.  In 1894, the year following Moses Lumby’s death, Louis Morand and Quinn Faulkner (who laid out the original town site of Lumby), officially changed the name of the new town site from White Valley to Lumby.