Fruits cp

1956 · 4893 — Kelowna BC: B.C. Tree Fruits Limited 1956. Map. Fine. Printed map showing the official growing districts of B.C. Tree Fruits Limited - from Keremeos in the southwest to Kamloops and Salmon Arm in the north and Creston in the southeast - on the verso of a 1956 BC Tree Fruits letterhead measuring 11 x 8.5 inches. B.C. Tree Fruits was created to curb "Fruitleggers" from expanding into larger city markets and other places farther afield than their allotted farm-gate sales. See "Fruitleggers Fruit Police and British Columbia's Black Market" Bradley & Hadlaw 2021 p. 363. It was compulsory - and onerous for orchardists producing within these districts to sell their tree fruit through B.C Tree Fruits. A single fold line crease else fine and unmarked. An uncommon Okanagan / Kootenay Mapback letterhead. Pub. date of 1956 from Kelowna Archives BC Tree Fruits fonds. B.C. Tree Fruits Limited unknown