Friends of Fintry Provincial Park Society

The Friends of Fintry Provincial Park Society has been a registered non-profit society since 2000. The members want to see Dun-Waters’ legacy restored, protected – and shared with the public. There are over 200 Friends, mostly from the Okanagan Valley but some from as far away as California and Scotland. The Friends are involved in research, restoration of buildings and grounds, building the Fintry archives, work bees, fund-raising, and recovering as many of Dun-Waters’ belongings as possible.

We work with BC Parks to promote the Fintry Estate as a centre in the Okanagan Valley of cultural and recreational activity based on its history, heritage buildings, the facilities and beauty of the Fintry Park. To further appreciation of the site’s history and to attract visitors to the Fintry Estate and park we offer a range of public programs, tours and events.

Fintry Provincial Park is potentially the most significant provincial park in the Okanagan and was acquired for its outstanding recreation and shoreline conservation values. Its attraction is enhanced by its development by Dun-Waters from 1908 to 1939 and the heritage structures from that time, some of which have survived to the present. Fintry Provincial Park has an important heritage role in the Okanagan Valley with at least three regionally significant themes: the role of the First Nations in the early history of the Delta, the maritime history associated with Captain Shorts and the Dun-Water’s Era. The refurnishing of the Manor House to the 1909-1939 period by the Friends of Fintry, and the conservation of the octagonal barn provide an excellent basis for visitors to get an appreciation of Dun-Waters domestic life and early agriculture/orcharding in the Okanagan. Further conservation and restoration of the packinghouse and other buildings in the barn complex is needed to complete the visitor experience.