Windbreak Street

Windbreak Street was named because it was the site of a long row of Lombardy trees used as a windbreak for the strong winds that came down of Kamloops Lake. The windbreak protected the orchards of Brocklehurst and North Kamloops.

Fortune Drive

Fortune Drive was named for William Fortune who was a Yorkshire man whom joined the Overlanders in 1862. He worked for the Hudson Bay Company upon his arrival in Kamloops and ran a mule team between Yale and the Cariboo. Even some of the houses along Kamloops roads...

Schubert Drive

Schubert Drive is named after Augustus and Catherine Schubert. In 1862, the discovery of Gold in British Columbia BC instigated a mass migration of redesints, speculators and business people from eastern Canada and the US. A group formed at Fort Carry and the...

Thrupp Street

Thrupp Street, and Thrupp manor are both named for the Thrupp family. Mr. Charles Edgar Thrupp was born on 06 June 1863, at Adelaide, Australia. He went on to become a civil engineer and was married to Mrs. Katherine Thrupp of London, England. The couple immigrated to...

Ord Road

Ord Road is named after H. Ord, one of the earliest settlers in Brocklehurst, before World War II. He ran a hop farm along Tranquille road starting in 1936. Hop fields were also planted east of Kamloops near Campbell Creek. The yield from the Hop fields was quite...