IRRIGATING THE OKANAGAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABSTRACT

CHAPTERS

1.  Physical Geography
2.  Water Law and Irrigation
3.  Water Management
4.  Irrigation Technology
5.  Irrigating the Okanagan

ENDNOTES

1.  chapter 1
2.  Chapter 2
3.  chapter 3
4.  Chapter 4
5.  Chapter 5

LIST OF TABLES

1.  New Water Records In The Okanagan
2.  Irrigated Land In The Okanagan Valley, 1913
3.  Acreage Served By Company Irrigation Works
4.  Water Records Granted (1870 - 1910)

LIST OF FIGURES

1.  Mean Annual Precipitation
2.  Mean Annual Precipitation - Upslope
3.  Mean Monthly Precipitation
4.  Mean Temperature - South to North
5.  Mean Temperature - Upslope
6.  Mean Frost-free Period
7.  Dams at Reservoir
8.  Profile of No. 2 Dam
9.  Typical Components of Okanagan Irrigation Dams
10. Excerpt From John Jane's Okanagan Survey, 1876
11. Standard Lay-out for Furrow Irrigation

LIST OF MAPS

1.  Study Area
2.  Topographic Cross-section, Kelowna Area
3.  Topographic Cross-section, Peachland Area
4.  Soil Distribution Pattern - South to North
5.  Soil Distribution Pattern - Upslope
6.  Exploration: On West Side Of Reservoir
7.  Distribution of Water Records - Kelowna Area, 1900 - 1910
8.  Distribution of Water Records - Vernon Area, 1900 - 1910
9.  Distribution of Orchard Lots - Glenmore District
10.  Distribution of Water Records - Kelowna Area, 1870 - 1879
11. Distribution of Water Records - Vernon Area, 1870 - 1879
12. Distribution of Water Records - Kelowna Area, 1880 - 1889
13. Distribution of Water Records - Vernon Area, 1880 - 1889
14. Distribution of Water Records - Kelowna Area, 1890 - 1899
15. Distribution of Water Records - Vernon Area, 1890 - 1899
16. Distribution of Company Lands - Kelowna Area, 1910
17. Distribution of Company Lands - Vernon Area, 1910

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS

1.  Construction of Log-crib dam
2.  Early irrigation pump
3.  Irrigating the Bankhead Orchard, Kelowna
4.  Construction of irrigation canal
5.  Headgate on Mill Creek
6.  Elevated irrigation flume
7.  Early efforts at sprinkler irrigation
8.  The horse standing in this canal
9.  Typical Okanagan orchard
10. Glenmore Valley prior to orchard development
11. Glenmore Valley orchards circa 1913
12. Large volume, elevated irrigation flume
13. Steel syphon
14. Wagon loads of irrigation pipe

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. Manuscript Sources

A) Archival Material
B) Theses and Academic Papers

II. Printed Sources

A) Government Publications
B) Books and Pamphlets
C) Newspapers
D) Articles