Penticton-Summerland.
4 candidates, one seat.

The commission's report names the Penticton Indian Band as one of the communities of the district. The Band's own website carries the title snpink'tn Indian Band, gives its preferred name as Penticton (Snpinktn) and its language as Nsyilxcən. The Band lists three reserves: Indian Reserve No. 1 of 18,539.8 hectares, No. 2 of 13.1 hectares and No. 3A of 145.7 hectares. The Okanagan Nation Alliance counts the Band among its member communities. The Province of British Columbia lists a population of 1,165 for the Band, on a page last updated on 2 January 2024.

The Band's history page says the Okanagan people, known as the Syilx, have been on this land since time immemorial and that their history passed from person to person and from generation to generation. The page gives the area the Syilx people occupied as 69,000 square kilometres and marks the figure as approximate. Its northern limit was Mica Creek, north of Revelstoke, and it reached east to Kootenay Lake. The southern boundary extended to the vicinity of Wilbur, Washington, and the western border into the Nicola Valley. The Band's website also says its community members have declared that the Nation is the proper title and rights holders of the whole of the Okanagan territory.

The Province's page for the Band says five Okanagan Nation Alliance First Nations are negotiating outside the B.C. treaty process. It lists four completed forestry agreements with the Band, dated 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2021. BC Geographical Names records that the name Penticton comes from the nsyilxcn language and prints several meanings from different sources. One is "Place where water passes beyond", given by Isaac Harris in 1918. Another is "permanent place", given by Randy Bouchard in advice from 1980, a year the record marks as an estimate. The Canadian Register of Historic Places lists associations with Okanagan First Nation fishing sites and villages among the features that give the Penticton Oxbows their heritage value.

The City of Penticton's history page says the Irish immigrant Thomas Ellis settled at Penticton in 1865 as its first European resident. When he retired in 1892 he sold part of his land to developers, who laid out a small townsite at the foot of Okanagan Lake. BC Geographical Names quotes a Geological Survey report of 1877 to 1878 by G.M. Dawson: "Mr. Ellis has a fine farm known as Penticton." The Penticton post office opened on 1 December 1889 with Ellis as postmaster. The record says Penticton was incorporated as a district municipality on 1 January 1909 and as a city on 10 May 1948. The city's own page says Penticton was incorporated by 1908.

BC Geographical Names says John Moore Robinson named Summerland in 1902 while he promoted a land subdivision on the lakeshore, and that the post office opened on 1 November 1902. The record gives 21 December 1906 as the date The Corporation of the District of Summerland was incorporated, with Robinson as its first reeve. One note in the same record prints 1908 for that date. The Canadian Encyclopedia gives 1906 and says Sir Thomas Shaughnessy bought the area's cattle ranches and created the Summerland Development Company, with Robinson as manager.

Robinson also founded Naramata. BC Geographical Names records that he named it in 1907 and that its post office opened on 1 December 1907. Robinson said the name came to him through a spirit medium. The record adds that later research suggests an Australian word, naramatta, meaning place of water. Before that the place was called East Summerland, and a ferry crossed Okanagan Lake from Summerland in 1907.

The City of Penticton's history page says that in 1910 Penticton was named as the headquarters of the new Kettle Valley Railway, and that the railway brought jobs and more than doubled the town's population by the time it was finished. The Kettle Valley Steam Railway Society says survey work began in 1910 from Midway to Penticton and from Penticton to Merritt, under the chief engineer Andrew McCulloch, and that the line was built between 1910 and 1916. It names the Trout Creek Bridge in Summerland as one of McCulloch's designs. The bridge stretched 619 feet across and 238 feet above the canyon floor. In 1927 and 1928 the approaches were filled in and steel girders replaced the trestle work.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says the railway opened a station at Summerland in 1915. Passenger service ended in 1964 and freight service in 1989. The Society says a sixteen-kilometre stretch from the Trout Creek Bridge to Faulder was kept. The Canadian Encyclopedia says a steam locomotive of 1912 with coaches now carries tourists past the orchards and vineyards of Summerland. In Penticton, the Canadian Register of Historic Places describes the Kettle Valley Railway Station at 216 Hastings Avenue as a two-storey building of 1941 and as a symbol of Penticton's role as an important point on the railway.

On the lake, the register puts the S.S. Sicamous at 1075 Lakeshore Drive West in Penticton. The ship is a steel-hulled steamship with a paddle wheel at the stern, built for the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was launched at Okanagan Landing on 19 May 1914 and cost $180,000, more than any earlier sternwheeler in the company's service. The register says it sailed on Okanagan Lake until 1936, served as a museum from 1951 to 1965 and as a restaurant until 1988. The city says it bought the ship from the railway company in 1949.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says fruit orchards of peaches, cherries, apples and pears began at Summerland in the 1890s. A news release of 13 November 2014 from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says the Government of Canada set up the Dominion Experimental Farm at Summerland in 1914 to support the young agriculture industry of British Columbia. The release says the farm became the Summerland Research Station in 1959, when it joined the plant disease and insect laboratories, and the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in 1996. The site covers 320 hectares and holds the Canadian Plant Virus Collection. The Canadian Encyclopedia dates the Summerland Ornamental Gardens to 1916.

On 13 May 2019 the Province of British Columbia announced that Naramata Bench and Skaha Bench had joined Okanagan Falls and Golden Mile Bench as named wine areas for labels. Wine with one of these names carries a commitment that at least 95% of its grapes come from that area. The release describes the Naramata Bench as the bench lands between Penticton Creek and Okanagan Mountain Park on the east side of Okanagan Lake. It describes the Skaha Bench as a 10-kilometre stretch from the outskirts of Penticton along the eastern shore of Skaha Lake.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the Okanagan River was dammed for flood control in 1948 and that the river channel was built in 1952. The channel belongs to a flood control system for Osoyoos Lake and feeds existing irrigation systems. The register adds that deepening of the river with dredges began locally in the 1880s. The Penticton Oxbows are the last remaining physical evidence of the natural waterways that ran through the area before then.

The City of Penticton says Penticton Creek was put in a concrete channel in the 1950s after floods that devastated the downtown, and that fish populations dropped when the natural creek habitat was lost. In 2018 the Council approved a plan to restore the creek in several phases at an estimated cost of $30 million.

The city's history page says Penticton became a city in 1948 as returning veterans caused a post-war population boom. The 1950s and 1960s brought a new city hall, a community arts building and the first major shopping centre. The page says the Penticton Vees hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 5-0 in March 1955 to win what it calls the World Cup. The South Okanagan Events Centre opened in 2008.

Global News reported on 21 October 2019 that a fish ladder at the Penticton dam, left unusable after the dam was built, had been restored by the Okanagan Nation Alliance and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. A crane removed a wooden gate that blocked the concrete passage, and the public was invited to the dam to mark the return of spawning sockeye salmon to Okanagan Lake. The report says dams, straightened channels, building on the shore and water management had brought the fish of the Okanagan River basin close to extinction.

The Okanagan Nation Alliance's events page describes an annual ceremonial release of young sockeye (fry) at snpintktn, Penticton, at the Skaha Lake East Marina. Members of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and more than 430 students release fry raised in the Alliance's Fish in Schools program and its hatchery, so that kł cp̓əlk̓ stim̓, which the page translates as cause to come back, will continue. The page says ntyitix, the salmon, is central to Syilx creation stories, and that the oral history called captikwl makes the Syilx responsible for caring for their lands and waters.

The District of Summerland declared a local state of emergency on 7 August 2026 because of the Bald Range wildfire. Its first evacuation order took effect at 10:20 pm that day and covered Upper Summerland west of Victoria Road. A second order took effect at 12:10 am on 8 August and covered the District of Summerland in its entirety. Mayor Doug Holmes signed both. The district extended the state of local emergency on 21 August, 4 September and 18 September, and on 3 October it declared a local recovery period.

The district issued an order banning entry to a list of properties on 29 September, effective at noon on 30 September. The order continues during the recovery period, which lasts 90 days, until the end of 1 January 2027. The district's page for evacuees gives preliminary estimates of 40 structures damaged or destroyed within Summerland and 110 in Electoral Area F of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, including Faulder and Meadow Valley, and says the numbers may change. On 8 September 2026 the Council endorsed temporary fee reductions and waivers for eligible properties with damaged or destroyed buildings and gave priority to rebuilding permits. On 29 September it deferred certain shipping container restrictions for affected property owners.