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.