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Travel Restrictions Removed in the North Okanagan

By Harold Rhenisch on January 26, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Travellers coming through today on their way to the Arctic, heads held high. Restaurant open for service. All is well.

The Okanagan in History: Table of Contents

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This is a Blog about People in Place

I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-sh op/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.

The Story of the Spirit of the Okanagan
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
40. The Pacific Northwest and Its Borders
The Sustainable Okanagan 6: Let's Go Nuts
What If We Stopped Reading Books?
Smoke on the Orchards Reveals Some Structural Weaknesses in Canadian Apple Growing
Okanagan Chestnuts
The Pacific Northwest is Not the Southwest
Farms for the People: the Kelowna Model

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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