Waterside Vineyard & Winery

By fall of 1904, John McKay had worked his way to Enderby, where he finally felt at home. In 1909, now with a family of ten children, John and his wife Mary purchased some land on the Shuswap River, just two miles north of Enderby. This, he named Waterside.

John cleared a spot along the riverbank, and built his family home. The river was always a cherished place, providing a place to swim, boat, skate, fish and where laughter was abundant and love filled the home.

For years, the family sold butter, milk and eggs in Enderby, and John went to work as a road foreman with the Enderby District, building roads still used today such as the Salmon Arm Hill Road until 1925.

In 1925, John purchased a building on the main street in Enderby where he opened and operated a general store. It was a family run store in the community until his youngest children enlisted to serve in World War II, when it was sold and John returned to the farm until his death in 1949. Upon his death, Waterside was sold to Pat Farmer of Enderby, and so on, and so on as life goes until it was sold to John and Debbie Juric.