John Hoas
Waterwheel
In 1934 John Hoas
moved his family to the property by the creek,
(across from Kal Tire) on Shuswap Ave. He built a
waterwheel for irrigating his garden. The wheel
according to Gordon James was 10 to 12 feet in
diameter and two feet wide, as he remembers. It was
built and run strictly for irrigation, there was no
power source. For years before it was dismantled
the local kids would dive off it at their swimming
hole. The remains of the water wheel were
dismantled when the village changed the course of
the creek.
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