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42-669: The BC Winter Games date back to 1979 when the first Winter Games were hosted at Kamloops , British Columbia . The Games would continue and be hosted every year until 1997, when it was changed to every second year along with the BC Summer Games . The 2022 BC Winter Games were held in Greater Vernon , BC from March 23 to 26, 2023. The 2024 BC Winter Games were held in Quesnel, British Columbia , with cross-country and biathalon events held at Barkerville. In January 2016 it

84-699: A 1911–1914 demolition that dismantled the Chinatown. Peter Wing , the first ethnic Chinese mayor in North America, was elected in 1966 and served three terms as the Mayor of Kamloops. In the 1880s the Kamloops' Chinese Cemetery was founded in Kamloops, the only one in the province dedicated to Chinese pioneers, It is one of the largest cemeteries in the province, but the last interment was made there in

126-537: A 2021 population of 97,902, it is the twelfth largest municipality in the province. The Kamloops census agglomeration is ranked 36th among census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada with a 2021 population of 114,142. Kamloops is promoted as the Tournament Capital of Canada . It hosts more than 100 sporting tournaments each year (hockey, baseball, curling, etc) at sports facilities such as

168-483: A 9% increase from 2015 (1.64 million). Tourism's economic ROI is immense. A$ 1.8 million destination marketing budget returned $ 449 million in economic benefit in 2017.The annual Direct Visitor Expenditure is estimated at $ 270 million, a 19% increase from 2015 ($ 227 million). Further, the total estimated tourism economic impact was $ 449 million in 2017, a 32.4% increase from 2015 ($ 339 million). Tourism generates many types of income for

210-483: A change of 8.4% from its 2016 population of 90,280. With a land area of 297.93 km (115.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 328.6/km (851.1/sq mi) in 2021. At the census metropolitan area (CMA) level in the 2021 census, the Kamloops CMA had a population of 114,142 living in 47,102 of its 50,235 total private dwellings, a change of 10% from its 2016 population of 103,811 . With

252-516: A land area of 5,654.08 km (2,183.05 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.2/km (52.3/sq mi) in 2021. According to the 2021 census , religious groups in Kamloops included: Religion in the City of Kamloops (2021) Kamloops historically had a Chinatown on Victoria Street where most ethnic Chinese lived. John Stewart of the Kamloops Museum and Archives stated it

294-654: A range of cultural events year-round including: Pacific Slope The Pacific Slope describes geographic regions in North American , Central American , and South American countries that are west of the continental divide and slope down to the Pacific Ocean . In North America, the Rocky Mountains mark the eastern border of the Pacific Slope. In Central and South America, the region

336-525: 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 Cumcloups". The rival North West Company established Fort Shuswap nearby in the same year. The two businesses merged in 1813 when the North West Company bought the operations of

378-647: A traders' camp by a pack of wolves. Other legendary versions recount a huge white wolf, or a pack of wolves and other animals, that were moving overland from the Nicola Country and were repelled by a single shot by John Tod, then Chief Trader. This prevented the wolves from attacking the fort and earned Tod a great degree of respect locally. Kamloops is in the Thompson Valley and the Montane Cordillera Ecozone. The city's centre

420-400: Is 36, above 35 °C (95 °F) is 8 days. Although Kamloops is above 50° north latitude , growing seasons are long, with hot periods every summer under dry and sunny weather. Daytime humidity often drops below 20% during dry periods, which allows for substantial nighttime cooling. Occasional summer thunderstorms can create dry-lightning conditions, sometimes igniting forest fires which

462-620: Is an application process for games that feel they have grown large enough in British Columbia to be a part of the Games. This British Columbia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kamloops Kamloops ( / ˈ k æ m l uː p s / KAM -loops ) is a city in south-central British Columbia , Canada, at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers , which join to become

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504-513: Is in the valley near the confluence of the Thompson River's north and south branches. Suburbs stretch for more than a dozen kilometres along the north and south branches, as well as to the steep hillsides along the south portion of the city and lower northeast hillsides. Robert W. Service in 1904 described Kamloops as his delightful life and wrote "Life was pleasant, and the work was light. At four o'clock we were on our horses, riding over

546-733: Is much narrower, confined by the Sierra Madre Occidental in Central America, and by the Andes in South America . The phrase is still used today mostly for scientific purposes to refer to regions inhabited by specific species. It was and is still occasionally used to describe the region in North America during the 19th century and the expansion of the Old West . It includes the states and territories west of

588-592: Is the anglicized version of the Shuswap word " Tk'əmlúps ", meaning "meeting of the waters". Shuswap is still spoken in the area by members of the Tk'emlúps Indian Band. An alternate origin sometimes given for the name may have come from the native name's accidental similarity to the French " Camp des loups ", meaning "Camp of Wolves"; many early fur traders were ethnic French. There are folk stories about an attack on

630-604: The Rockies and Columbia Mountains into the Interior . Kamloops has the third mildest winter of any non-coastal city in Canada, after Penticton and Kelowna . The coldest months are December and January, when the mean temperatures are −2.0 °C (28 °F) and −2.7 °C (27 °F). That average sharply increases with an average maximum temperature of 3.9 °C (39 °F) in February. Between November and January

672-753: The Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake . It is located in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District , whose district offices are based here. The surrounding region is sometimes referred to as the Thompson Country . The city was incorporated in 1893 with about 500 residents. The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed through downtown in 1886, and the Canadian National arrived in 1912, making Kamloops an important transportation hub. With

714-514: The Tournament Capital Centre , Kamloops Bike Ranch, and Tournament Capital Ranch. Logging, beef cattle, vegetable farming, transportation, viticulture, health care, tourism, and education are major contributing industries to the regional economy and have grown in recent years. Thompson Rivers University (~25,000 students) was established as Cariboo College in 1970. The first European explorers arrived in 1811. David Stuart ,

756-458: The continental divide that runs down the Rocky Mountains in North America. This included the territories and the states that emerged from them, including California , Oregon Territory , Washington Territory , Nevada Territory , Idaho Territory , Colorado Territory , and Utah Territory . The region is drained by the Columbia , Sacramento , San Joaquin and Colorado River systems. In

798-820: The 1860s and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway , which reached Kamloops from the West in 1885, brought further growth. The City of Kamloops was incorporated in 1893 with a population of about 500. In 1908 due to the Tuberculosis Pandemic a sanatorium was opened west of the city named King Edward Memorial Sanatorium, the sanatorium was later acquired by the provincial government in 1921, being renamed to Tranquille Sanatorium , it later closed in 1958. The Tranquille Institution reopened in 1959 to treat people with mental problems it later closed in 1983. In 1967, Kamloops amalgamated with

840-503: The 1960s. In 2013 the provincial government announced it would begin a consultation process to discuss wording of a formal apology to Chinese in B.C. for past wrongs. Joe Leong, president of the Kamloops Chinese Cultural Association, said he believed that the province should build a museum to honour Chinese history in the province, as a way to recognize the contributions of the people. As Kamloops had

882-663: The Indians". In October a newspaper in Victoria reported an eyewitness account from Fort Kamloops, saying The Indians have been nearly exterminated at [Kamloops]: only sixteen have escaped out of a large settlement. Their bodies are strewing the ground in all directions. About two-thirds of the Secwepemc died during the epidemic. In the aftermath, colonists took over traditional lands of the Secwepemc and many other indigenous groups throughout British Columbia. The gold rush of

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924-572: The Kamloops area during the summer of that year, decimating the Secwepemc, Nlaka'pamux, and other indigenous peoples. They had no acquired immunity. The epidemic had started in Victoria and quickly spread throughout British Columbia, especially among First Nations. In June 1862, indigenous people went to Fort Kamloops seeking smallpox vaccine , William Manson, chief clerk at the fort, vaccinated numerous persons, but fatalities were extremely high. In late September he reported "smallpox still raging amongst

966-657: The Kamloops area include primary resource processing such as Domtar Kamloops Pulp Mill, Tolko-Heffley Creek Plywood and Veneer, New Gold Inc - New Afton Mine, and Highland Valley Copper Mine (in Logan Lake ). Four major highways join in Kamloops, the BC Highway 1 ( Trans-Canada Highway ), the Coquihalla Highway ( BC highway 5 south of the city), the Yellowhead Highway (BC Highway 5 north of

1008-536: The Pacific Fur Company. In 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company merged with the North West Company, and the post became known commonly as Thompson's River Post, or Fort Thompson. Later it was known as Fort Kamloops. The post's Chief Traders kept journals, which document a series of inter-Indian wars and personalities for the period, in addition to the daily business of the fur companies and their personnel along

1050-499: The Southern Interior with 239 acute beds and an additional 20 more beds upon completion of the expansion in 2016. Thompson Rivers University (TRU) serves a student body of 25,754 including a diverse international contingent mainly from Asian countries. Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning (TRU-OL) is the biggest distance education provider in British Columbia and one of the biggest in Canada. Heavy industries in

1092-716: The Town of North Kamloops . In 1973, Kamloops amalgamated with the Districts of Brocklehurst , Dufferin, the Town of Valleyview , and the Kamloops Indian Band , and the communities of Dallas, Campbell Creek, Barnhart Vale, Heffley Creek, Rayleigh, Westsyde and Knutsford. In 1976, the Kamloops Indian Band split from the City of Kamloops. In May 2021, an anthropologist announced she had used ground-penetrating radar to find "probable" graves containing

1134-787: The United States, the Pacific-slope flycatcher takes its name from the region it inhabits. In Central America, it includes the mountain and coastal regions west of the Continental Divide in Mexico and southern Guatemala , southwestern Honduras , western Nicaragua , and western/southwestern Costa Rica , and southern Panama . In Guatemala, the Pacific Slope region is a humid plain of fertile land divided into widespread plantations (fincas) that grow abundant crops including sugarcane, bananas, and rubber. In Costa Rica ,

1176-492: The area experiences abundant cloud cover due to a continual series of Pacific coastal Low Pressure systems crossing British Columbia, reducing the annual sunshine output, despite very sunny summers. The average number of days where the minimum temperatures drops below −10 °C (14 °F) per year is 19 as recorded by Environment Canada .The average number of days where the Maximum temperature goes above 30 °C (86 °F)

1218-867: The area is prone to. Kamloops lies in the rain shadow leeward of the Coast Mountains and is biogeographically connected to similar semi-desert areas in the Okanagan region, and a much larger area covering the central/eastern portions of Washington , Oregon and intermontane areas of Nevada , Utah and Idaho in the US. These areas of relatively similar climate have many distinctive native plants and animals in common, such as ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa ), big sagebrush ( Artemisia tridentata ), prickly pear cactus ( Opuntia fragilis in this case), rattlesnakes , black widow spiders and Lewis's woodpecker . The highest temperature ever recorded in Kamloops

1260-416: The band lands before re-entering the city limits to access the northernmost communities of Rayleigh and Heffley Creek . Kamloops is surrounded by the smaller communities of Cherry Creek, Pritchard , Savona , Scotch Creek , Adams Lake , Chase , Paul Lake, Pinantan and various others. Officially recognized neighbourhoods within the city of Kamloops. Informally recognized sub-areas are listed beneath

1302-562: The city) and BC Highway 97 , making it a transportation hub and a place which attracts business. There are over 50 trucking and transport companies located in Kamloops that ship across Canada and into the United States. Both the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway service Kamloops with both lines running through the city. Kamloops welcomed 1.8 million visitors in 2017,

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1344-461: The entire Pacific Slope . Soon after the forts were founded, Kwa'lila, chief of the main local village of the Secwépemc, moved his people closer to the trading post , so they could control access and gain in prestige and security. After Kwa'lila died, his nephew and foster son Nicola became chief. He later led an alliance of Syilx (Okanagan) and Nlaka'pamux peoples in the plateau country to

1386-474: The neighbourhoods to which they belong: The climate of Kamloops is semi-arid ( Köppen climate classification BSk ) due to its rain shadow location. Because of milder winters and aridity, the area west of Kamloops in the lower Thompson River valley falls within a desert ( Köppen climate classification BWk ) climate. Kamloops gets short cold snaps where temperatures can drop to around or below −30 °C (−22 °F) when Arctic air manages to cross

1428-460: The only cemetery dedicated to the Chinese pioneers, he felt this city would be an appropriate site for the museum. Kamloops' economy includes healthcare, tourism, education, transportation, and natural resource extraction industries. The Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) is the city's largest employer. RIH is the region's acute care and health facility and is one of two tertiary referral hospitals in

1470-566: The region, including business income, wage earnings, share earnings, rates and levies. Conservation springs from industry-wide support for management, research and education initiatives that benefit everyone through responsible tourism management. Kamloops has over 50 accommodation choices from major hotels to bed and breakfasts. Accommodation occupancy rates were 61.5% in 2017, up 2.6% from 2016. Kamloops culture has grown in recent years to celebrate local talent that includes: culinary arts, sports, live entertainment, and fine art. Kamloops hosts

1512-543: The remains of 215 children found at a former Kamloops Indian residential school , part of the Canadian Indian residential school system . The story was reported around the world, and five Catholic churches in Western Canada were burned down in the weeks following, since the school was operated by a Catholic order. However, this story cannot be completely confirmed until bodies are exhumed. "Kamloops"

1554-432: The rolling ridges, or into spectral gulches that rose to ghostlier mountains. It was like the scenery of Mexico, weirdly desolate and aridly morose. A discouraging land, forbidding in its weariness and resigned to ruin." Kamloops Indian Band areas begin just to the northeast of the downtown core but are not within the city limits. As a result of this placement, it is necessary to leave Kamloops' city limits and pass through

1596-606: The south around Stump , Nicola and Douglas lakes. Relations between Nicola and the fur traders were often tense, but Chief Nicola was recognized for his aid to colonizers during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858. He did try to control those who had been in parties waging violence and looting on the Okanagan Trail , which led from American territory to the Fraser goldfields . Throughout, Kamloops

1638-465: Was 47.3 °C (117 °F) on 29 June 2021, which was the fourth-highest reading recorded in Canada, and the highest recorded in any city, during the infamous 2021 Western North America heat wave . The lowest temperature ever recorded was −38.3 °C (−37 °F) on 16 and 18 January 1950. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Kamloops had a population of 97,902 living in 39,914 of its 41,619 total private dwellings,

1680-557: Was an important way station on the route of the Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail , which connected Fort Vancouver with Fort Alexandria and the other forts in New Caledonia to the north (today's Omineca Country , roughly). It was integral during the onset of the Cariboo Gold Rush as the main route to the new goldfields around what was to become Barkerville . The 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic swept through

1722-486: Was announced that viaSport would be producing a daily three-minute video for the duration of the games for the 2016 year. The BC Winter Games brings both able-bodied and disabled sports to one grand event all in the name of sport and competition. The top three participants/teams of each sport receive a medal in an Olympic fashion. While not all of the winter-related sports can be in the BC Winter Games, there

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1764-471: Was not a "true Chinatown ". It was established by Chinese immigrants by 1887, and by 1890 the community had up to 400 Chinese. Stewart said this was an "amazingly large" population for the rural area. By the 1890s, about 33% of Kamloops were ethnic Chinese; they worked primarily on construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway . Economic changes in Kamloops resulted in many Chinese seeking work elsewhere. In addition, there were two fires in 1892 and 1893, and

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