Armstrong Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in British Columbia, Canada
About Armstrong
Armstrong is a rural community and commercial center in the North Okanagan, with agriculture, grain farming of alfalfa and wheat, logging, and ranching being traditional economic activities. It is set amidst the dairy and farmlands of the Spallumcheen Valley (a name derived from a Shuswap language word with multiple meanings: "beautiful valley","flat meadow,""meeting of the waters" and "prairie-banked river"). Armstrong was named after E.C. Heaton Armstrong, a London banker who helped finance the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway in 1892 and local development at the turn of the century, relocating the townsite originally at Landsdowne to the confluence of the Valley's rail lines, and the city's current site. The influence of Dutch immigrants settling in the valley after the Second World War is
Top Attractions in Armstrong
Explore the best things to see and do in Armstrong:
- ★Armstrong-Spallumcheen Memorial Park
- ★Armstrong-Spallumcheen Museum & Art Gallery
- ★Caravan Farm Theatre
- ★Hassen Memrorial Arena
- ★Nor-val Arena
- ★The Village Cheese Company
Where to Stay in Armstrong
- 🏨Armstrong Inn
Armstrong Travel Guide Sections
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