Stories, Memories and Thoughts
for Kamloops
Introduction
We love to hear the stories that people remember from their youth, especially those tales about where they grew up.
Since the best and most interesting history are the reminiscences told by one person to another, we want to try and record some of them before these little slices of history are lost forever.
If you have a tale, reminiscence or other thoughts to tell of Kamloops, about the places you knew when young, we would like to include them here.
If you're interested, we have some Guidelines about the stories that we would like to place here - please see our Story Guidelines.
Our first story about Kamloops:
Landmark: Fort Kamloops
Location of Marker (approximate):
Lat 50.6789, Lon -120.3385
Fort Kamloops
In 1812 David Stuart, who had traversed this region the year before, built the first
post here for the Astor's Pacific Fur Company. The North West Company, which also built here
in 1812, bought out the Astorians in 1813, and in 1821 the post passed to the Hudson's Bay
Company. Although it was commercially insignificant,
Kamloops was important because it lay astride the brigade route from
the Columbia Department to New Caledonia and because its rich grasslands enabled the company to raise
packhorses here. As provincial roads improved the post became superfluous, and by 1885 had been
abandoned.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Kamloops: www.city.kamloops.bc.ca/
The official website for Province of British Columbia: https://www.gov.bc.ca/