Kelowna Hardiness Zones and Maps. Kelowna is located in Canadian plant hardiness zone 6a near Okanagan Lake, supporting a wide variety of ornamental and native plants. Winter temperatures become cooler at higher elevations and further away from the influence of the lake.
stonewall riot. Stonewall Riot definition. A disturbance that grew out of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1969. Such raids long had been routine, but this one provoked a riot as the crowd fought back.
David Carter, a historian and author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution has compiled An Analytical Collation of Accounts and Documents Recorded in the Year 1969 Concerning the Stonewall Riots, from which the above anecdotes are drawn.