10/16/2026
Jerry's family started farming here in 1904, so this would have been the downtown scene for them.
Built in the early 1900s, this building operated as a multi-business hub on Main Street (now known as Bernard Avenue). The site it occupied eventually became the future location of the historic Paramount Theatre.
The wood-frame building housed three distinct businesses operating simultaneously on the boardwalk:
• The Kelowna Cafe: Positioned upstairs and as the central eatery providing hot meals to early residents and travelers.
• H.E. Hitchcock Bread & Biscuit Bakery: Occupying the right storefront, run by early local bakers Bessie and Henry Ernest Hitchcock who arrived in the Okanagan in 1906 after emigrating from England.
• Kelowna Shaving Parlor: A barber shop occupying the left side of the storefront, easily recognizable by the oversized, ornate barber's pole standing out front on the wooden platform.