Father Pandosy Mission is the oldest non-indigenous settlement in the Okanagan Valley, established in 1859 by Father Charles Pandosy, a French Oblate missionary. The surviving buildings — a chapel, a schoolroom, a farm building, and several sheds — are among the oldest standing structures in the British Columbia interior, and the site has been preserved as a heritage park in the south of Kelowna.
The complex is small but evocative. The original buildings are remarkably well-preserved given their age, and walking around the mission gives a tangible sense of how isolated and self-sufficient early non-indigenous settlement in the Okanagan must have been. The mission's apple orchard, planted by Pandosy, is credited as the beginning of the Okanagan's famous fruit-growing tradition. Open daily May through October.