History
The original Westbank.
A post office opened here in 1902. The name "Westbank" was suggested by John Davidson, who had arrived in the district a decade earlier in 1892. For over a century, Westbank was the name for this entire side of the lake, right up until residents voted in 2008 to rename the newly incorporated municipality "West Kelowna" over "Westbank," by a narrow margin. Westbank Centre is where that original name, and the community itself, began.
The Westbank Museum keeps that history alive today, hosting guided tours of the adjacent Westbank Cemetery, which recently marked a century of remembrance, along with community events throughout the year.
