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Okanagan Landing was an unincorporated settlement and steamboat port at the north end of Okanagan Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia.〔Harvey, A.G. "Okanagan Place Names," The Twelfth Report of the Okanagan Historical Society. 1948. Okanagan Historical Society, Vernon.〕 Located southwest of the city of Vernon, it was the terminus station for the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway and served as the port and shipyard for steamboats operating to the south, as well as a transfer barge slip. ==Development== Okanagan Landing was developed in 1892 when the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway from Sicamous was completed. It was built as a shipyard to construct and maintain the SS ''Aberdeen'', the first Canadian Pacific Railway(CPR) steamship on Okanagan Lake.〔Turner, Robert D. The Sicamous and the Naramata: Steamboat Days in the Okanagan. 1947. Sono Nis Press, Victoria.〕 The post office was opened on October 1, 1898.
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