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Kamloops and the Thompson River, 1886 Paddle steamer at Kamloops in 1887. The first European explorers arrived in 1811. David Stuart, a trader sent from Fort Astoria, then still a Pacific Fur Company post, spent a winter with the Secwépemc people. In May of the following year, trader Alexander Ross established a post, which was known as "Fort ...
Kamloops is the focal point of Thompson Country. Thompson Country, also referred to as The Thompson and sometimes as the Thompson Valley and historically known as the Couteau Country or Couteau District, is a historic geographic region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, more or less defined by the basin of the Thompson River.
Diagram of Kamloops wreckage. For fifty years, Kamloops was one of the "Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes", having sunk without a trace. [5] However, on 21 August 1977, [4] her wreck was discovered northwest of Isle Royale, near what is now known as Kamloops Point, by a group of sport divers carrying out a systematic search for the ship. [4]
CFJC-TV (analogue channel 4) is a television station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, affiliated with Citytv.Owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, the station has studios on Pemberton Terrace and Columbia Street West in Kamloops, and its transmitter is located near Southern Yellowhead Highway/Highway 5, southeast of Kamloops Airport.
Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc (Shuswap pronunciation: [tkʼəmˈlups tə səˈxʷɛpəmx]), [1] abbreviated TteS and previously known as the Kamloops Indian Band, is a First Nations government within the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, [2] which represents ten of the seventeen Secwepemc band governments, all in the southern Central Interior region, spanning the Thompson and Shuswap districts.
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The Kamloops Museum and Archives is a museum and archives located in the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Located at 207 Seymour Street in downtown Kamloops, at the corner of 2nd Avenue. Located at 207 Seymour Street in downtown Kamloops, at the corner of 2nd Avenue.
Lewis Campbell (c. 1831–1910) was a pioneer rancher in the Kamloops area of western Canada. Campbell and James Todd were the first settlers in what is now Barnhartvale, British Columbia . Campbell went to British Columbia from the United States during the Cariboo Gold Rush in 1858, but unlike many others he discovered more profit in ...