Kelowna region struck by hiring boom
Tourists arrived, hotels and restaurants filled up, businesses felt more confident and workers retired.
This confluence of factors combined to push the region's unemployment rates to all-time lows.
In fact, new Statistics Canada figures pegged Kelowna's jobless rate at a rock-bottom 4.1 per cent in August - the lowest in the country.
The only cities with rates almost that low are Regina, at 4.2 per cent, Edmonton, with 4.5, and Guelph, Ont., and
Calgary, both at 4.6.
The Thompson-Okanagan's 4.7 per cent also puts it among the best in the country, with a jobless rate below the magical five-per-cent mark.
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