Author: GILLESPIE, T.L. WILSON, WAYNE (EDITOR)
Title: History of the K.L. O. Benches - Their Tragedies and Comedies
Description: Kelowna, B.C.: KMS, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0920685439. "An Irish lawyer who practised law in Winnipeg and Edmonton, Thomas Leslie (T.L.) Gillespie moved to Kelowna's K.L.O. benches in 1910 to become an orcharist. For the next twenty years, he and his pioneering neighbours transformed these benchlands into a lush, productive and distinct agricultural landscape. His insightful typescript is, at once, funny and sensitive, and it reveals something of the unique characters and events that came together in British Columbia's settlement era." - back cover. 64 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Endnotes. Recommended reading list. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy.; 8vo. Very Good .

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