Osoyoos

Osoyoos lies on a lake in the southern Okanagan Valley, a dry landscape within the homeland of the Syilx people. Its name comes from a Syilx word for the narrows where two spits reach across the lake. The valley was linked to the Columbia country by routes long used by Indigenous travellers. In the early nineteenth century fur traders of the Pacific Fur Company entered the Okanagan, following a corridor already familiar to the people who lived there.