Father Pandosy: Pioneer of Faith in the Northwest (Midtown Press/Sandhill $19.95)

Anyone who has lived in the okanagan valley recognizes the name Pandosy; others will not. But the Oblate priest Jean-Charles Pandosy ought to be better known. In 1859-1860, Pandosy established his chapel and farm as the first white settlement in the Okanagan Valley. His Okanagan Mission evolved into the city of Kelowna. Trained in Marseilles, he worked with indigenous societies as far south as Walla Walla and as far north as Prince George, and also lived in Victoria, Hope and Kamloops. Louis Anctil, a publisher's sales rep in B.C. since 1987, has opted to publish the first English translation of a French biography of Pandosy by Edmond Rivère, Father Pandosy: Pioneer of Faith in the Northwest, translated by Dr. Lorin Card. 978-0-9881101-0-6

[BCBW 2013]