2014.003.3609 Last sailing of Sicamous

Accession Num: 2014.003.3609

Negative Code: D5-16

Extent:

Document Date: 1951-08- - --

Donors: Alice Rushton

Keywords: 1950s, Okanagan Lake, Okanagan Landing, Paddlewheel Park, SS Sicamous, and sternwheelers

Locations: Vernon

Physical Description:
1 b/w negative (35 mm)

Notes:
Onlookers watch from shore of Okanagan Lake at Okanagan Landing as sternwheeler SS Sicamous is pushed by MV Okanagan toward its new permanent home at Penticton, August 1951. Sicamous had been out of service since 1936; it became a museum on the Penticton waterfront. Notes: 'Her Texas deck and over half top deck removed'.