O’Keefe Range Lands up for sale

Aug 11, 2020 | 2:02 PM

The O’Keefe Range Lands are on the market.

Colliers International has the listing for over 2,300 acres of land within the City of Vernon limits with an asking price of $28.8 million.

Colliers said the lands include over 300 acres designated in the Bella Vista East neighbourhood plan for possible residential development.

There are 20 separate land titles ranging from one to 164 acres.

The sale does not include the Historic O’Keefe Ranch which is owned by the City of Vernon.

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Christy Poirier, communications manager for the City of Vernon, said there are two different properties under the same family name.

“The O’Keefe Range Lands are for sale (2,310 acres of land located northwest of Turtle Mountain). The Historic O’Keefe Ranch lands in Spallumcheen are not for sale,” clarified Poirier.

The ranch’s website says the O’Keefe Ranch was founded in 1867 and represents the very beginnings of European settlement in the Okanagan Valley.

“Cornelius O’Keefe and his partners, Thomas Greenhow and Thomas Wood, were driving cattle north for the Gold Rush when they arrived at the head of Okanagan Lake in June of 1867. A sea of bunch grass covered the hills and valleys all around, well watered by creeks and small lakes. The men took up 160 acres each, the maximum allowed by the Colonial government, and began their own ranches. From this beginning, the O’Keefe Ranch grew as O’Keefe acquired unoccupied crown land for as cheap as a dollar an acre,” the site said.

by Pete McIntyre

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