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Neighbourhood in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Okanagan Mission

Father Pandosy Mission, also known as the Okanagan Mission, was the original home for Father Pandosy in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Okanagan Mission
Okanagan Mission · GoToVan from Vancouver, Canada
The place

Father Pandosy Mission, also known as the Okanagan Mission, was the original home for Father Pandosy in Kelowna, British Columbia. He moved to Kelowna in 1859 and started the first settlement of Europeans in that region. One of the first Europeans to join him at Kelowna was Eli Lequime.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Okanagan Mission

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral

    St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Kootenay: it is in Kelowna and the current dean is The Very Rev.

    3.7 km · church building in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia

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Getting to Okanagan Mission

Airports
Kelowna (YLW), 13 km · Vancouver (YVR), 278 km · Spokane (GEG), 286 km
  • Victoria → Okanagan Mission
    321 km · quickest by air, 3h 52m · C$170–260
  • Vancouver → Okanagan Mission
    270 km · quickest by air, 3h 34m · C$130–200
  • Calgary → Okanagan Mission
    406 km · quickest by air, 3h 48m · C$150–240
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Okanagan Mission. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    295 km
  2. 02
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    308 km
  3. 03314 km
  4. 04
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    363 km

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Around it

Next door to Okanagan Mission

  • Kelownacity in British Columbia, Canada3.8 km
  • Mission Creekwatercourse in Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada2 km
  • East Kelownacommunity in British Columbia, Canada3.4 km