West Kelowna-Peachland.
3 candidates, one seat.

Westbank First Nation says its people are suknaqínx, sqilxʷ and syilx, and that its language is nqilxʷcn. Its own site says certain areas of its lands are traditionally known as stqaʔtkʷɬniwt, which it interprets as windy bay. The Nation says the territory of the syilx people was never traded or sold. The Okanagan Nation Alliance lists Westbank First Nation as a member community with five reserves totalling 2,161 hectares. It says the two populated reserves, Tsinstikeptum Reserves 9 and 10, border Okanagan Lake close to West Kelowna.

The Nation says it was part of the Okanagan Indian Band near Vernon until 18 October 1963, when the division became official and the Westbank Indian Band became independent. It names Norman Lindley as the first elected chief. A land claim settlement of 1982 paid for two parcels in the Gallagher Canyon area, which became Medicine Hill Indian Reserve 11 and Medicine Creek Indian Reserve 12 in 2001. Those two reserves lie east of Kelowna. The commission's map for this district shows Tsinstikeptum 9 and 10 on the west shore.

Parks Canada records a fur trade route, marked at Westbank, that was used between 1811 and 1848. David Stuart of the Pacific Fur Company explored it from Fort Okanagan to Kamloops in 1811, and the fur brigades of the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company used it afterward. The plaque says the route grew from travel and trade routes that Aboriginal people had used for centuries. Parks Canada designated it on 20 May 1943, and the plaque stands at Main Street and Old Okanagan Highway in Westbank.

Westbank Museum says the shore has carried several names. It gives MacDonald's Plain for 1811, Sunnyside from Susan Allison, Westside for the whole stretch of the lake's west side, and Hall's Landing for a small wharf at the beach where equipment for a grain farm on the Goldie Flat was delivered. BC Geographical Names records that the Westbank post office opened on 1 May 1902 with N.S. Marshall as postmaster, and that the name Westbank was suggested by John Davidson, a settler of 1892.

BC Geographical Names says the place was first called Camp Hewitt, a mining camp named for Augustus Hewitt, a prospector and logger of the early 1890s. John Moore Robinson promoted a land subdivision and an irrigation system there in 1897 and named the settlement Peachland. The post office opened on 1 December 1898. The District was incorporated on 1 January 1909, and W.A. Lang was its first reeve, the head of its council. The Canadian Encyclopedia dates Robinson's purchase of the land to 1889, so the two sources give different years.

The Canadian Encyclopedia lists fruit growing, logging, sawmills and the mining of copper and silver as the early economy. It says the Brenda open-pit copper mine opened in 1970 and operated for 20 years, and that its closure caused economic hardship for the town. The Peachland Historical Society says the eight-sided Baptist church was built mainly by volunteers in 1910, that it served as a church until 1964, and that it has held the Peachland Museum since the Society formed in 1980. The Regional District of Central Okanagan records that Antlers Beach and Hardy Falls were donated to it in the summer of 1991.

Westbank Museum says David and Eliza Gellatly bought property in 1900, planted the first apple trees in 1903 and built a greenhouse in 1905. It describes the farm as over 350 acres, with another 350 at Boucherie. A fire in 1920 destroyed the dock, packing house, box-making plant and barns, and the museum says the fire insurance had run out three days earlier. After David Gellatly's death his sons started a nut farm, and the museum says many of the original trees still stand in Gellatly Heritage Park. BC Geographical Names says the name Gellatly honours David Erskine Gellatly, a large-scale vegetable and fruit grower and dealer.

BC Geographical Names says the brothers Curtis and Louis David Hitchner named Glenrosa after postal authorities rejected Glencoe for their subdivision, and that Mount Boucherie takes its name from the settler Isadore Boucherie. Westbank Museum places the closing of the Hitchner sawmill in 1913. The Okanagan Lake Bridge opened in July 1958 and was tolled from 1958 to 1963 to help pay its $7.5 million cost, according to the West Kelowna newspaper WestK News. The Canadian Encyclopedia says the William R. Bennett Bridge replaced it in 2008.

BC Parks says James Cameron Dunwaters bought the Fintry delta on Shorts Creek in 1909, named it after an estate in Scotland, and built the stone Manor House, the Octagonal Dairy Barn and a packing house there. The estate was bought in December 1995, and the park was established on 30 April 1996. The Regional District's history says the property was bought for $7,680,000, with $2,000,000 of that from the Regional District. The Fintry Protected Area was established on 18 April 2001.

The provincial order that created the Regional District of Central Okanagan was issued on 24 August 1967. It named Electoral Area G, from Lakeview Heights north to the north of West Shore Estates, and Electoral Area H, Westbank. Electoral areas are the parts of a regional district outside any town, and each elects its own director. On 11 May 1981 it adopted official settlement plans for the Westbank and Lakeview areas, which it describes as the first comprehensive land use policies for the Westside at a community scale.

The Nation says it began talks on self-government with a framework agreement in 1990. The agreement text records a first agreement setting out the general terms, the Agreement-in-Principle, on 13 July 1998. The Nation says it held referendums in 2000 and 2002, with 60% and 69% of voting members in favour, and that neither met Canada's absolute majority requirement. It says the voting requirement then changed and a third referendum in 2003 approved the agreement, a constitution and a land code. The Justice Laws website records that the agreement was signed on 3 October 2003, that the Westbank First Nation Self-Government Act received assent on 6 May 2004, and that the Act came into force on 1 April 2005.

The agreement covers the Nation's five reserves, Mission Creek 8, Tsinstikeptum 9 and 10, Medicine Hill 11 and Medicine Creek 12, together with lands set apart later. Canada continues to hold title for the Nation's use and benefit, while the Nation has an owner's rights and powers over the land. The Indian Act stops applying except where the agreement says otherwise. A constitution sets out elections, council, financial accountability and the way laws are passed. Residents who are not members must be given a way to comment on laws that affect them. The Nation's laws cover membership, land, resources, environment, language, education, health, businesses, traffic, public works and public order. The preamble records that the parties may hold different legal views on the scope of self-government, and that the Nation asserts unextinguished aboriginal title. The Province says the Nation suspended its part in the BC treaty process in 2009.

The Nation says it now has over 900 members and over 11,000 residents who are not members. The Regional District's history records a sewer agreement for development on Indian Reserves 9 and 10, and a fifteen-year local services agreement that was due to expire in 2007.

BC Geographical Names records that Westside District Municipality was incorporated by Order in Council 653, a provincial cabinet order, on 4 October 2007, effective 6 December 2007. The order covered the area between Peachland and Bear Creek Provincial Park, including Gellatly, Glenrosa, Westbank, Lakeview Heights and West Kelowna Estates. Westbank Museum says the Westbank Irrigation District, incorporated on 14 June 1922, and the Lakeview Irrigation District, incorporated on 22 May 1951, were dissolved on 4 October 2007 when they amalgamated.

The museum says a poll on the November 2008 ballot offered several names, and that on 9 December 2008 the council voted to change the name to District of West Kelowna. Order in Council 35 of 29 January 2009 made the change, and Order in Council 357 of 26 June 2015 made it the City of West Kelowna. The museum also records that the Westbank packinghouse founded by the Reece family stopped operating after the 2006 to 2007 season, and that a fire in 2007 destroyed the building, the last packinghouse in Westbank.

On 17 August 2023 the City of West Kelowna and the Regional District of Central Okanagan sent a BC Emergency Alert about the McDougall Creek wildfire. It ordered people to leave Rose Valley, West Kelowna Estates and all properties off Westside Road north of West Kelowna to Nahun, and said the fire threatened human life. People living north of Traders Cove were sent to a reception centre at Kal Tire Place in Vernon, and people south of it to a centre on Cameron Road in West Kelowna.

The City's update of 23 August 2023 counted 84 properties damaged inside the City and on Westbank First Nation land, and said the figure was a count of properties, with a count of structures to follow. Its update of 26 August gave the same total and said emergency support services had moved to the gymnasiums of Mount Boucherie Secondary School.