by webdev2021 | Jul 22, 2019 | Other Stories
This story extracted from INFOTel news story that is linked here. Full credit for this article goes to Jenna Wheeler of INFOTel News. KAMLOOPS – [July 22, 1983] the Tranquille psychiatric institution staff started a three-week sit in to protest the closure of...
by webdev2021 | Jul 17, 2019 | Pioneers
“History of Fulton field and John “Moose” Fulton Kamloops Airport is also known as Fulton Field and is named for John Fulton, son of well-known turn of the last century lawyer, Frederick John Fulton and brother of Alexander, Frederick J, and E. D. “Davie”...
by webdev2021 | Jul 15, 2019 | Street Names
Tranquille Road is named after Chief Pacamoos, who was nicknamed Tranquille. He was known as a man of peace and his silent demeanor. Chief Tranquille had an argument with Samuel Black, the Hudson Bay Company’s Chief Trader. Prior to this, they had been good...
by webdev2021 | Jul 15, 2019 | Street Names
John Desmond was a farmer in the North Kamloops Brocklehurst area. George Hilliard, H. Ord and John Desmond along with a few other small farmers were the only settlers in the Brocklehurst area before World War II. Humphrey Desmond, born in Kamloops in 1925, was an...
by webdev2021 | Jul 15, 2019 | Street Names
Singh Street is named after the Singh family who came to Kamloops in the early 1920’s. Sher Singh was born in 1883 and moved to Kamloops in 1922. He leased 20 acres of land near York Street originally but in 1923 he purchased 10 acres on Tranquille Road which he...
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