A Pictorial History of Kelowna BC

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.