John Moore Robinson

John Moore Robinson

John Moore Robinson, born in Ontario, Canada in 1855, was a pioneer, rancher, prospector, politician and orchardist who helped shape British Columbia's Okanagan Valley region through, among other things, the establishment of such communities as Naramata, Summerland, and Peachland.

Biography

Work in British Columbia

Robinson arrived in the Okanagan Valley from Manitoba in 1897cite web|url=http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3444|title=John Moore Robinson on BritishColumbia.com|accessdate=2007-05-13] as a prospector. While in Manitoba, he had worked as a newspaper editor, teacher, and member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly.cite web|url=http://www.heritagebc.ca/kids/summerland.htm|title=Robinson on HeritageBC.ca|accessdate=2007-05-13] Inspired by early local ranchers such as John Carmichael Haynes and James and Fred Gartrell, Robinson purchased a ranch, which he renamed "Peachland", and took up selling parcels of arable land for the establishment of orchards. Unlike other ranchers of the time, who grew but a few fruit trees on their property to serve the family and workmen, the Gartrells harvested some of their fruit for sale, and expanding on this concept with dedicated orchards, Robinson is credited with founding the soft fruit industry. [cite web|url=http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/thomp-ok/ethnic-agri/british.html|title=John Moore Robinson on LivingLandscapes.bc.ca|accessdate=2007-05-13]

After establishing the town of Peachland in 1899, [cite web|url=http://www.peachland.ca/about_peachland/history.htm|title=Peachland History at Peachland.ca|accessdate=2007-05-13] Robinson founded Summerland, south of Peachland, in 1902, with the patronage of then-CPR president, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. In 1907, Robinson founded the hillside town of Naramata.

Upon incorporating the Peachland Townsite and Irrigation Company in 1899, Robinson implemented a new water management system, laying out creek-fed irrigation to supply convert|1000|acre|km2 of orchard, which he had subdivided into 10 acre lots.cite web|url=http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/thomp-ok/irrigating-of-okanagan/chapter/wilch3.html|title=Irrigation on LocalLandscapes.bc.ca|accessdate=2007-05-13]

Robinson employed the same land development formula in Summerland and Naramata, encouraging other land development companies to follow in his footsteps, heralding a new era of corporate land management and irrigation.

References

ee also

*Okanagan people
*History of British Columbia

External links

* [http://www.tsa.gov.bc.ca/heritage_branch/ Heritage BC]

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