T.D. Shorts
Additional Activities

Visit the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives to see the steam engine from the Mary Victoria Greenhow.

Go on a ride on the Fintry Queen paddlewheeler. It leaves from the foot of Bernard Street in Kelowna.

Visit Fintry Provincial Park on the west side of Okanagan Lake to see Shorts Creek which was named after T.D. Shorts. T.D. Shorts resided in the Fintry area in the 1880s and early 1890s.

Borrow the book Fintry: Loves, Lives and Dreams: The Story of a Unique Okanagan Landmark by Stanley Sauerwein. Available at the Okanagan Regional Library - call number: 971.15 SAU. Also available at the Okanagan University College Library - call number: FC 3845 .S468 S38 2000. Read the chapter on T.D. Shorts for more information.

The following web sites provide information on Fintry and other Okanagan Valley history.

Find out about Fintry Provincial Park.
http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/index.htm (Click on Park Finder. Then “F”. Choose Fintry from list of parks).

Find out more about Fintry.
sunnyokanagan.com/fintry/

For general information on Okanagan history, go to the Parks and History link at www.sunnyokanagan.com or go to the Thomson-Okanagan link at http://livinglandscapes.bc.ca/