In 1912, Summerland had at least three skating rinks: the Parkdale Rink, the Tennis Club Rink and the Ritchie Rink on Giant鈥檚 Head Mountain.
The Ritchie Rink became the Giant鈥檚 Head Rink when businessman Laurie Woodworth bought the property.
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With the flat concrete surface of the rink, he converted the property to a butcher operation.
By May 1913, he had fenced the Woodworth Gulch and adjacent properties for his animals.
Woodworth sold horses to Alberta and bought Alberta beef cattle, hogs and sheep.
According to the Summerland Review, 鈥淲oodworth provided fresh meat to all railway camps from Osprey Lake to Princeton鈥� as the Kettle Valley railway was being built.
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