Vernon-Lumby.
4 candidates, one seat.

The Okanagan Nation Alliance uses the name Syilx Okanagan Nation for the people it represents. Its website says the traditional Syilx territory includes the Okanagan Indian Band, that the Syilx people share one language, nsyilxcən, and that the land is theirs because no treaty has been negotiated. It adds that reserves were set up in the early 1900s over the opposition of the Syilx people, who wanted a treaty first. The Okanagan Indian Band describes itself as part of the Okanagan Nation, located at the head of Okanagan Lake in Vernon, with reserves that total 11,282 hectares. Its Territorial Stewardship Division says it works under Syilx laws to protect the lands, waters and cultural heritage of Band territory. The Vernon Museum writes the Syilx name for the head of the lake as Nk’maplqs.

On its about page Splatsin calls itself the southernmost tribe of the Secwépemc Nation. Its story page lists Cqlqin (Mabel Lake) among its village sites from before European settlers arrived. It also names Swa7will (Shuswap Falls) near Lumby as a shared fishing place, where Splatsin controlled the fishing to the north and allowed the Okanagan people to fish above the falls. Splatsin writes that it still holds the title to that area. The Electoral Boundaries Commission heard that people of the Okanagan Indian Band's Okanagan 1 reserve would prefer a Vernon riding. Its report keeps that reserve in Salmon Arm-Shuswap, because other Band reserves lie there and a move would have added to the population of Vernon-Lumby.

BC Geographical Names records that the Priest Valley post office opened on 1 November 1884 and was renamed Vernon on 1 November 1887. The place had been called Priest's Valley because the priests of the Okanagan Mission, set up in 1860, had a station there. A blacksmith's shop on Price Ellison's farm also gave it the name Forge Valley. The Canadian Encyclopedia says a townsite called Centreville was laid out in 1885 and renamed Vernon in 1887 for Forbes George Vernon, who became chief commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia. BC Geographical Names gives 30 December 1892 as the date Vernon was incorporated as a city. The Encyclopedia says the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway reached Vernon from Sicamous in 1891, and that an extension to Okanagan Landing allowed the launch of the first Canadian Pacific sternwheeler on Okanagan Lake, the Aberdeen, in 1893. It dates the start of fruit growing to the early 1890s and gives the city's 2021 census population as 44,519.

The Lumby Historical Society dates the first settlement to 1862, when Louis Christien called the area Bull Meadows. The Society says the area was later renamed for Peter Bessette, with 1877 as its estimate, and in 1889 it became White Valley. BC Geographical Names says the White Valley post office opened on 1 August 1889 and was renamed Lumby on 1 February 1894, for Moses Lumby, who settled in the district in 1870 and was government agent at Vernon from 1891 to 1893. Sources differ on the townsite. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Louis Morand and Quinn Faulkner laid it out in 1888 and that it was renamed in 1892. The Historical Society gives 1892 on its governance page and 1893 on its economic development page. BC Geographical Names gives 20 December 1955 for incorporation as a village, and the Historical Society gives December 22, 1955. The Village of Lumby gives its 2021 census population as 2,063, up from 1,833 in 2016.

BC Geographical Names records that the Blue Springs post office opened on 1 October 1892 and closed on 1 February 1896. The name comes from a nearby spring whose water looks blue in the small basin it has worn in the ground. Trinity Valley was named in the early 1890s by James H. Christie, who settled at the foot of Mabel Lake in 1892. Its post office was open from 1 December 1909 to 3 December 1942. The Names Office records that Charles E. Perry, a Canadian Pacific Railway survey engineer, named Mabel Lake in the 1870s for Mabel Hope Charles, the eldest child of the Hudson's Bay Company manager William Charles, and that the Geographic Board of Canada adopted the lake's name on 31 March 1924. The Mabel Lake post office opened on 1 January 1904 and closed on 31 January 1956. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Lumby became the trading centre for the surrounding forest industry and ranching districts, among them Mabel Lake and Trinity Valley.

The Vernon Museum says the Syilx people used the mountain for generations, with foot trails to its hunting and foraging grounds. BC Parks also records hunting and berry picking by the Indigenous people of the region, with evidence of overnight camps from berry season when the park was classified. Settlers called the peak Aberdeen Mountain for Lord Aberdeen, governor general from 1893 to 1898. The museum says the Silver Star Mining Company marked out the earliest claim in 1896, with the rancher Cornelius O’Keefe as president, that shares sold for $1.00 each, and that the ore was too low in grade to work at a profit. It says mining ended in the 1920s, with 1926 as its estimate. BC Parks writes that claims were registered in the early 1900s and that there has been no activity since the late 1940s. BC Geographical Names says the mountain became Silver Star Mountain on 6 June 1952, the name in local use.

The museum says two skiers made the first ascent in 1921, the Silver Star Ski Club formed in 1938, and the first downhill race was held that December. It says the park was designated a Provincial Recreation Area in 1978, and that in 1984 the 5 km Aberdeen Trail joined Sovereign Lake to the summit.

The Vernon Museum says the Okanagan militia unit called the 30th BC Horse formed in 1908, with squadrons from Vernon, Lumby, Coldstream, Armstrong, Enderby and Kelowna. In 1911 the City of Vernon leased land to the Department of National Defence at no cost for a summer training camp, and the museum dates the camp to 1912, on Mission Hill. In June 1913 it drew 800 soldiers from across British Columbia, and the museum counts 3500 men there by 1915.

On Sept. 18, 1914, the Vernon Internment Camp opened on the site of what is now MacDonald Park. The museum gives 1100, a rounded figure, as the number of men, women and children who passed through its gates, most of them of Austro-Hungarian and German descent. The camp closed in February 1920, and the museum says some people stayed imprisoned for several months after the Armistice. In 2015 the Vernon and District Family History Society completed a headstones and monument project that uncovered information about the 11 men who died in the camp.

The Vernon Museum says the federal government ordered Japanese Canadian men aged 18 to 45 out of a protected zone on the British Columbia coast in 1942, and a few months later extended the order to every Japanese man, woman and child in that zone. Vernon had no internment camp in the Second World War. Even so, hundreds of Japanese Canadians were forced to move there, in part because the Okanagan Security Committee asked for interned Japanese men to work in orchards against their will.

In 1967 the local Japanese community gave the City of Vernon the Japanese Gardens in Polson Park, a Canada Centennial project. The museum says a committee raised $5,257, work began in September 1966 and the gardens were unveiled on June 24, 1967. The Chinese community gave the Chinese Pagoda as part of the same project. The Canadian Encyclopedia says Okanagan College was created in 1968.

The Lumby Historical Society cites a 1909 report that a trip from Lumby to Vernon, a distance of 24 kilometres, could take five hours. A railway line from Vernon was laid out in 1919 and the roadbed was built in 1925, when trains began regular trips to Lumby with lumber, hay and farm produce. The Society writes that by the 1950s Lumby's sawmills made and shipped more product than the mills of Kamloops and Kelowna combined.

The Monashee Community Forest LLP was registered in October 2012 as an equal partnership between the Village of Lumby and Splatsin, which takes part through its organization Yucwmenlucwu (Caretakers of the Land). The Province issued its Community Forest Licence on April 10, 2013, and the first harvest followed that year. The Village gives its gross area as 7,411 hectares and its annual allowable cut as 21,595 cubic metres.