Legends
In the Penticton Herald, on October 7th, 1926 , several passengers on the Sicamous are said to have seen the Ogopogo from the boat near Westbank at a distance of 100 yards. They state that it had a scaly, knobbly body, somewhat like that of a crocodile, and it was about as big through as the wheel of an auto, with a length no less than 50 feet. It was diving and splashing and making a great disturbance in the water. A Kelowna man, who saw the creature at a distance of about sixty yards, earlier in the week off Kelowna , confirmed the report of these passengers on the boat as to description.
Soldiers
“It seemed as if the entire population of the town turned out to see the soldiers. Soldiers had to live on regular rations for the day, which did not include a lot of fresh fruit so they greatly received a gift of 500 lbs of cherries. As the boat pulled out for the north, the soldiers gave hearty cheers replied to by the crowd on the dock.
The S. S. Sicamous brought soldiers to training camps, England and eventually the trenches on the western front. Wounded troops were brought back on the Sicamous, and the Captain would pull the whistle twice to herald the incoming wounded soldiers.
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