Kelowna-Mission.
4 candidates, one seat.

The Okanagan Nation Alliance lists Westbank First Nation among its member communities. The Alliance says the Nation has five reserves totalling 2,161 hectares, and that three of them lie on the east side of Okanagan Lake in the Kelowna area, in generally unpopulated areas. Westbank First Nation's own history page says its people are suknaqínx, sqilxʷ and syilx, that its language is nqilxʷcn, and that the territory of the syilx people is unceded.

The Nation's timeline says the commissioners who set up reserves in the late 1800s and early 1900s created one at Mission Creek and two on the west side of Okanagan Lake. Westbank became an independent band on 18 October 1963, after separating from the Okanagan Indian Band. The timeline says money from a land claim settlement of 1982 bought two parcels in the Gallagher Canyon area, and that they received reserve status in 2001 as Medicine Hill Indian Reserve 11 and Medicine Creek Indian Reserve 12. The Raven's Eye newspaper reported that the land had been used only for cattle grazing and that the Nation planned community housing on it. The Westbank First Nation Self-Government Act came into force on 1 April 2005.

BC Geographical Names records that the original inhabitants called Mission Creek N'wha-kwi-sen, which means smoothing stones.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places lists the Pandosy Mission at 3685 Benvoulin Road in the Mission area of Kelowna and gives 1859 as its construction date. The register names Fathers Charles Pandosy and Pierre Richard as its founders. The site has four acres with seven nineteenth-century log buildings, among them a chapel, a root house and a barn. The register calls it the first permanent non-native settlement in the Okanagan Valley and says the Okanagan Historical Society saved it from demolition in the 1950s.

BC Geographical Names records that the settlement of Okanagan Mission was established in 1860 by Father Pierce Richard, Father Charles Pondosy and Brother Surel, with the names spelled as the record has them. Its post office opened on 1 October 1872 at Mission Creek under the postmaster Eli Lequime. The name was standardized as Okanagan Mission Post Office in 1905, and the office moved on 1 August 1906 under the postmaster James H. Baillie. The record places the community on the south side of the City of Kelowna.

The creek took its present name officially in 1936, from the mission. Earlier maps called it Sandy River, including an 1827 Hudson Bay Company survey, and a French name for it was Riviere de l'Anse au Sable. Bellevue Creek, which flows into Okanagan Lake north of Okanagan Mission, was named in 1922 by the surveyor R.D. McCaw after a hotel that Gifford Thomson built near the creek's mouth around the turn of the century. The record says residents kept calling the creek Sawmill Creek into the 1950s.

Giovanni Casorso emigrated from Italy's Piedmont region in 1882, arrived in July 1883 and worked for the Oblate fathers at Okanagan Mission. The Canadian Register of Historic Places says he pre-empted 320 acres in 1884, the year his wife Rosa and three children came from Italy. He began a log house at 3877 Casorso Road in 1886. In 1907 the family moved into a frame house at 3860 Casorso Road, built with lumber milled on their land. The register calls the homestead the oldest family farm in Kelowna and places both houses in Kelowna's southeast sector.

St. Andrew's Church at 4619 Lakeshore Road was built in 1910 and 1911 in the Tudor Revival style, to a plan the architect Wesley A. Peters drew in 1910. J.H. Baillie donated the land. The Reverend Thomas Greene held the first service in February 1911, and Bishop DePencier consecrated the church in April 1911. The register calls it the oldest surviving Anglican church in Kelowna and notes the churchyard cemetery beside it. Elections BC's 2024 results file lists St. Andrew's Anglican Church as a voting place inside this district.

The Okanagan Mission Community Hall at 4409 Lakeshore Road was built in the winter of 1937 to 1938 with local donations and donated labour. It replaced an earlier hall that collapsed in 1937 under heavy snow. The register says the building served as the Okanagan Mission School in 1949 and 1950.

BC Geographical Names records that the East Kelowna post office opened on 1 November 1909, closed on 26 April 1926 and reopened on 16 May 1928. The record places the community on the south side of Mission Creek. The Water Bucket website says the South East Kelowna Irrigation District was incorporated by letters patent on 2 November 1920. The Mission Creek Restoration Initiative says the district installed a major irrigation system through Gallagher's Canyon in the 1930s.

George Washington Ward, an English-born building contractor who arrived in Kelowna in 1911, founded the Apex Orchard Company in 1926 with his sons Harry and Arthur. The register says the family moved to South Kelowna from Glenmore in 1927 and that Apex stopped packing in 1939, when centralized selling began. The George Ward Packing House at 2287 Ward Road, built in 1926, is listed as one of the few such buildings left in the City of Kelowna, and the same family used it for more than three-quarters of a century.

The East Kelowna Community Hall at 2704 East Kelowna Road opened in 1940, built by volunteers after a Community Hall Board formed in 1938. It replaced a hall of 1929, on land that the businessman Harry R.F. Dodd donated in 1937. Additions followed in 1955 and 1970. The register says the hall has hosted fruit growers' meetings, weddings, concerts and Fall Fairs from 1951 to 1955, which were revived in the 1990s. Elections BC's 2024 results file lists East Kelowna Community Hall as a voting place inside the district.

Parks Canada says the Myra Canyon section of the Kettle Valley Railway was built from 1912 to 1914 and that the railway operated until 1978. The section is a National Historic Site of Canada because the location, layout and construction of the line through the canyon are an outstanding engineering achievement. BC Parks says Myra Station was named for Myra Newman, the daughter of a Kettle Valley Railway engineer.

Myra-Bellevue Protected Area was established on 18 April 2001 through the Okanagan-Shuswap Land Resource Management Plan, and the province reclassified it as a provincial park in May 2004. BC Parks counts 16 wood-frame trestles, two steel bridges and two tunnels along an 8.8-kilometre section of the canyon. The commission's map places Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park inside Kelowna-Mission.

A Trans Canada Trail report of 4 July 2007 says the 2003 fire destroyed 12 of the 16 wooden trestles and closed the trail. The Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society led the rebuilding with federal and provincial funding, and it had restored the trail in the mid-1990s. BC Parks wrote in September 2023 that the trestles need significant maintenance every 15 years, and that construction in fall 2023 on the first eight trestles would widen them from 5 feet to 9 feet.

School District 23's page on A.S. Matheson Elementary School says the school was built between 1964 and 1966 near the end of Glenmore Street, now Gordon Drive, and that its first students started in April 1965. The Regional District of Central Okanagan held eight meetings in the autumn of 1966 about forming the district. Its historical review records the second on 29 September 1966 in the Okanagan Mission Community Hall, for people living south of Mission Creek and in the Okanagan Mission area. The last was on 19 October 1966 in the East Kelowna Community Hall.

When the regional district began in 1967, Electoral Area D covered South and East Kelowna, Area E covered South Pandosy and Area F covered Okanagan Mission. Supplementary letters patent of 29 May 1969 created Area I, which took in Belgo, South Okanagan Mission, Ellison and Joe Rich.

The review says community planning areas covering South Pandosy and Rutland, north to Pino Road, lay outside the City of Kelowna in 1969. The provincial boundary extension took effect on 15 December 1973 and brought Okanagan Mission, South Pandosy, South and East Kelowna, Rutland and Black Mountain into the city.

The Mission Creek Restoration Initiative says channelization and diking in the 1950s protected nearby land from flooding. It says the floodplain channel shortened from 30 kilometres to 11 kilometres. The regional district's review says the province built the dyke to prevent flooding of private land during the spring floods.

The Mission Creek Greenway, a walking and cycling path, runs on the dyke. The review says the Friends of Mission Creek Society proposed it and raised more than $2.8 million, working with the regional district, the City of Kelowna, the province and Westbank First Nation. Phases One and Two run from Lakeshore Road, where it crosses Mission Creek, to Gallagher's Canyon. The Environmental Education Centre in Mission Creek Regional Park opened on 25 September 1994.

The Initiative says Mission Creek became a BC Heritage River in 1996. The review lists two regional park acquisitions in the Mission area of the City of Kelowna: Bertram Creek Regional Park on Lakeshore Road, acquired on 30 May 1977, and Cedar Mountain on Chute Lake Road, acquired on 20 June 2000.

The Firestorm 2003 Provincial Review, chaired by Gary Filmon, lists the Okanagan Mt. Park Fire at Kelowna as starting on 16 August 2003. It says Kelowna recorded its driest June, July and August since records began in 1899, with a record 44 consecutive rainless days.

Global News reported in August 2023 that a lightning strike started the fire. It reports that 15 homes were lost on the first night and 224 on the second, when the fire reached the Crawford area, and that 239 homes were lost in total. The article says the fire moved across the south slopes of Kelowna's Mission neighbourhood and died out on its own in mid-September.

On 22 and 23 October 2003 a flash flood and debris flow struck near Kelowna. The review quotes Mayor Walter Gray, who said the flow came in a storm of a kind expected once in 200 years, and that the fire had left the slopes without the grass, brush and trees that absorb rain.