
A setting for a western, no but it could be. Kelowna's main street, Bernard Avenue boasted five buildings in a row down one side of the street. Cattle were ranging still at the time, and one old timer recalls coming into Kelowna during a severe winter and hearing the hungry cattle bawling on all sides. Eli Lequime had taken the initiative in building a general store downtown Kelowna. Bernard Avenue is named for his son.
Over a period of 60 years, the city progressed from hitching posts and wagons, to the latest in motor cars.
Bernard Ave. 1909
Bernard Ave. 1920
Bernard Ave. 1930
Bernard Ave. 1950
Bernard Ave. 1960