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Takes its name from the mission founded north of here in 1859 by Father Pandosy, Father Richard, and Brother Surel of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. In 1860 the mission was moved to Mission Creek.

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At least forty-seven different spellings of this name have been found, beginning with Lewis and Clark's 'Otchenaukane' in 1805 and David Thompson's 'Ookanawgan' in 1811. Sometimes there seem to be just about as many theories as to the derivation of the name, but the majority agree that the compound word okanagan contains the word for 'head.' One likely translation is 'looking toward the upper end [head?]'; another is 'seeing the top or head,' possibly referring to the summit of Mt. Chopaka. The anthropologist Teit wrote, 'Okanagan is said to be derived from the name of a place on Okanagan River, somewhere near the Falls, so named because it was the "head" of the river, at least in so far as the ascent of salmon was concerned.'

The settlement of Okanagan Falls takes its name from the pretty twin falls that were here before the modern flood-control system eliminated them. The Okanagan Indians had extensive salmon-drying racks here, and the place was usually thought of as their headquarters. The white settlement at the falls used to be known as Dogtown (see Skaha Lake).

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After the Postill family from Yorkshire. The father, Edward, died in 1873 before he could move onto the handsome large ranch that he had bought in the area, but his three sons took over its management.

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This was originally Deep Creek, but in 1888 a good-natured young Englishman, William Powers, arrived via Montana, and the neighbours named it after him.

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After leaving the Cariboo, the drunken innkeeper William (Scotty) Donaldson (see preceding entry) pre-empted land here on 25 September 1872 but never obtained title. He died in the Okanagan in 1882 at the age of sixty.