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Summerland orchard wharf on Okanagan Lake

Lake shore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: fruit jars.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Orchard colony of the early 1900s served by Okanagan Lake sternwheelers before the Kettle Valley line; wharf and packinghouse refuse off the old lakefront.

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