Pandosy Village & South Pandosy.

How Pandosy Village & South Pandosy took shape

Pandosy Village is Kelowna's south side main street, named for Father Charles Pandosy. Its blocks began as ranch and orchard land, subdivided after 1904 by the Kelowna Land and Orchard Company, with Guisachan House built in 1891 and a college campus on KLO Road from 1963. Today it is an urban centre where midrise condos meet heritage homes.

Pandosy Street honours Father Charles Pandosy, who founded the Oblate mission on Mission Creek in 1859, but Kelowna's 1892 township plans spelled it Pendozi, and the misspelling lasted until the 1950s. South of the townsite the land was ranch and orchard. Joseph Lequime received the first Crown grant south of Mill Creek in 1884. To the east, Lord Aberdeen bought a 480 acre ranch in 1890, built Guisachan House in 1891 and ordered 200 acres of orchard planted; the Cameron family farmed it from 1903. In 1904 T. W. Stirling, W. R. Pooley and E.

M. Carruthers formed the Kelowna Land and Orchard Company, which bought 6,500 acres south of Mission Creek to irrigate and sell. Stirling and Pooley also divided land near the lake into five acre farm lots, and in 1906 the first residential subdivision was surveyed. That is the start of today's Abbott Street character homes, built in Victorian, Tudor and Arts and Crafts styles and later filled in with cottages and postwar bungalows. Kelowna's first hospital opened in 1908, and in 1963 the BC Vocational School opened on KLO Road, the root of Okanagan College's Kelowna campus. For decades the city boundary stopped at KLO Road. The City created the Abbott and Marshall Street Heritage Conservation Areas in 1998. The 2040 OCP now names Pandosy one of five urban centres, allowing up to 14 storeys along the Pandosy and Lakeshore corridor where projects deliver public benefits. The result is a village strip where new midrise condos stand a few blocks from century old houses.

1. 1904The Kelowna Land and Orchard Company forms and buys 6,500 acres south of Mission Creek to irrigate and subdivide. Source
2. 1906The first residential subdivision in the Abbott Street area is surveyed. Source
3. 1998Council establishes the Abbott Street and Marshall Street Heritage Conservation Areas. Source
4. 2024Transit Oriented Areas around the Hospital and OK College exchanges take effect on March 18, allowing taller buildings nearby. Source

The homes & their setting

Abbott Street area houses date from 1904 onward, in Victorian, Tudor, Dutch and Colonial Revival and early Arts and Crafts styles, followed by cottages from 1918 to 1945 and suburban bungalows from 1946 to 1960. Of about 325 homes in the Abbott area, 48 are on the Kelowna Heritage Register. Along Pandosy Street and Lakeshore Road, older walkups and houses are giving way to midrise strata condos.

Building age, tenure, amenities and permitted uses vary by address. Explore the actual property documents with Elaine and the appropriate specialists.

Places with a story

• Guisachan House — Built in 1891 for the Aberdeens, designated in 1996 and now a restaurant in Guisachan Heritage Park, which opened in 1990. History source
• Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area — About 325 homes, 48 of them on the Heritage Register, protected by design guidelines since 1998. History source