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TIMELINE: THE HISTORY OF OSOYOOS
| 10000-9000 |
BC First people arrive in the area. |
| 1400’s |
European settlement of North America begins. |
| 1700’s |
Horse comes to Okanagan. |
| 1811 |
First European people in the Osoyoos area, David Stuart with Pacific Fur Company. |
| 1846 |
Agreement of the 49th parallel as the western between Canada and U.S.A. |
| 1851 |
John Carmichael Haynes was appointed by Colonial government as Custom Collector and Gold Commissioner in “Sooyoos”. |
| 1859 |
Gold discovered at Rock Creek. |
| 1864 |
First bridge built to span the narrows on Osoyoos Lake (5 feet wide). |
| 1865 |
First Custom’s house built at “Sooyoos”. |
| 1883 |
General Sherman passed through “Sooyoos” with a large company of horse soldiers.
Small-pox epidemic kills one in every three Aboriginal people. |
| 1886 |
Indian Reserves were formed. |
| 1888 |
Judge Haynes dies. |
| 1899 |
Typhoid fever epidemic. |
| 1907 |
First orchard planted in the Osoyoos area by Leslie Hill. |
| 1914-18 |
WWI |
| 1917 |
First school opens in Osoyoos. |
| 1927 |
Irrigation for Osoyoos. |
| 1930 |
Oliver Sawmills Ltd. is established (started in 1923 by Harry Fairweather). |
| 1937 |
Osoyoos Gold Mine opens. |
| 1939-45 |
WWII. |
| 1940 |
Osoyoos Gold Mine closes. |
| 1944 |
First train arrives in Osoyoos. |
| 1946 |
Osoyoos sawmill fire. |
| 1947 |
Osoyoos flood.
First Osoyoos Cherry Carnival. |
| 1948 |
BC Aboriginal people receive the right to vote in Provincial election. |
| 1951 |
Osoyoos Elementary school opened. |
| 1954 |
Osoyoos Junior Secondary School addition completed. |
| 1958 |
Osoyoos Primary School opened. |
| 1960 |
Aboriginal people receive the right to vote in Federal election. |
| 1979 |
Osoyoos Secondary School opened. |
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