The Okanagan Mountain Fire of 2003

The Okanagan Mountain Fire of 2003 is a Stop of Interest sign in British Columbia.

British Columbia · Antler's Beach, south of Peachland

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Directly across Lake Okanagan, on August 16, 2003, lightening struck a tree at Squally Point. The ensuing blaze consumed over 25,000 hectares as it spread to Kelowna, Myra Canyon, and Naramata. More than 33,000 people were evacuated and 238 homes were destroyed or damaged. The Myra Canyon section of the Trans Canada Trail saw 12 historic wooden railway trestles destroyed and 2 steel ones damaged.

This is the sign’s current text as the Ministry records it in its July 2022 dataset. The Ministry says over fifty signs were replaced or refreshed between 2016 and 2019, so an older sign or photograph may read differently. The Stop of Interest program ↗

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Sign text and location: Stop of Interest program, BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit, from the Ministry’s open dataset “BC Stop of Interest Signs” in the BC Data Catalogue (July 2022 edition). The text is the one the Ministry records as the sign’s current text, and the pin is the Ministry’s own. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
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The Okanagan Mountain Fire of 2003

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