| 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. |
| 1887 |
Stemwinder Claim staked – Fairview. |
| 1888 |
Cariboo Mine (Camp McKinney) – first lodge mining camp in the province to pay a dividend.
Judge Haynes dies. |
| 1897 |
First school in Fairview. |
| 1899 |
Typhoid fever epidemic. |
| 1914-18 |
WWI |
| 1918 |
Puttullo Dam completed (below McIntyre Bluff). |
| 1921 |
Initial sale of lots for farming in Oliver and District.
Oliver Town site established. |
| 1923 |
Oliver’s first school.
First train arrives in Oliver (May 24) |
| 1924 |
Concrete canals, flumes and wood stave syphons completed to the Canada/US border. |
| 1925 |
First packing house – Oliver Co-operative Growers. |
| 1929 |
Oliver school (on present Elementary site). |
| 1930 |
Oliver Sawmills Ltd. is established (started in 1923 by Harry Fairweather). |
| 1937 |
Oliver Airport opens (Labour Day). |
| 1939-45 |
WWII. |
| 1942 |
St. Martin’s Hospital opens. |
| 1947 |
South Okanagan Secondary School completed (officially opened in 1949). |
| 1948 |
BC Aboriginal people receive the right to vote in Provincial election. |
| 1960 |
Aboriginal people receive the right to vote in Federal election. |
| 1967 |
Oliver Sawmill closes. |
| 1973 |
South Okanagan General Hospital Opens (St. Martin’s closes). |
| 1976 |
Tuc-el-Nuit Elementary opened. |
