The first permanent settlement in the Okanagan was not established for fur or gold but rather stemmed from a religious devotion to the land and its people. Father Pandosy, oblate priest and missionary, arrived in 1859 to establish the first non-Indigenous permanent settlement in the valley.
There is no way to truly define when and where jazz first sprung to life. The name jazz was originally given to the music that was coming out of New Orleans during the early twentieth century but many of the components that make jazz so interesting can be linked to other cultures and traced
