Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
1924/01/01
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2011/02/24
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Fintry Packinghouse comprises a long gable-roofed structure and associated remnants of a wharf, located on the shore of Okanagan Lake in Fintry Provincial Park near Kelowna, British Columbia. It is part of a complex of related buildings and structures known locally as the Fintry Estate.
Valeur patrimoniale
The Fintry Packinghouse is significant because it conveys the scale and vision of the agricultural operations developed by James C. Dun-Waters at the Fintry Estate between 1909 and 1939. The packinghouse operated from 1924 until the early 1940's.
Fitted with a Pelton water turbine to generate electrical power for the cold storage of orchard produce, this building represents the isolation of the estate far from the developing electrical grid in the Okanagan, its singular hydro asset in the form of the precipitous run of Shorts Creek to its delta, and the ambition of Dun-Waters himself.
The Fintry Packinghouse is important because it is the most visible remnant of the estate's once-extensive apple orchard operation, which at one time covered approximately half of the delta lands. The water-facing end of the building was used to grade and pack the apples produced on the estate for shipment off-site on the Canadian Pacific Railway steamships. The rear of the building was used for long-term refrigerated storage of crated apples.
Source: Ministry of Environment, BC Parks
Éléments caractéristiques
Key character-defining elements of the Fintry Packinghouse include:
Site:
-location overhanging the lake
-orientation square to the lakeshore line
-diagonal road connection to Burnside
-remnants of original wharf structure
Building:
-two distinct parts to the building sharing single gable roof: the wood-framed grading, packing and shipping end; the structural clay tile storage room end
-clerestory windows with shed roof in northwest quadrant of roof
-wood latticed monitors over storage room end
-remnant wood doors, sliding doors and windows and their associated hardware
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Colombie-Britannique
Autorité de reconnaissance
Province de la Colombie-Britannique
Loi habilitante
Park Act, art.5
Type de reconnaissance
Parc provincial (établissement)
Date de reconnaissance
1996/04/30
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
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Thème - catégorie et type
- Économies en développement
- Exploitation et production
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Loisirs
- Site historique ou d'interprétation
Historique
- Approvisionnements en vivres
- Installation d'entreposage de provisions
Architecte / Concepteur
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Constructeur
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Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Ministry of Environment, BC Parks
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
EaQu-76
Statut
Édité
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