Lolo Street

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Pioneers, Street Names

Lolo Street was named for Jean Baptiste Lolo. He was of Iroquois and French heritage. He came west with the HBC fur traders. Jean was a linguist and served as an interpreter. The HBC first Trading Post was on the reserve and relocated to North Kamloops. When the...

Gellrich Avenue

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Pioneers, Street Names

Gellrich Avenue was named for Alfred Richard Gellrich who was born in 1896 in Germany.  He immigrated from Hamburg with his wife, Marta and son Ginter to Winnipeg and gave his occupation as “landarbeiter” (Farm hand or agricultural worker).  Gellrich was subdivided...

Brunner Street

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Pioneers, Street Names

Brunner Place was named for Joe Brunner who came to Canada in 1928 from Austria.  He came to Brocklehurst in 1943 and was well known for his outspokenness and involvement in the community.  He was a lifetime member of the Community Hall Association, twice ran for...

Bray Place

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Pioneers, Street Names

Bray place is named for Fred Bray born Jan 30, 1903 in Devon, England.  He had worked for Mr. Jackson in the Long Lake area of Knutsford when he married Kathleen “Kate” Isobel Lyne, who was born Nov 26, 1911 in Lincolnshire, England. following the marriage they moved...

Bossert Street

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Pioneers, Street Names

Emanuel David Bossert was born in Bessarabia, Romania in 1918 and came to Canada with his parents and siblings in 1928/29. They lived for a time in parts of Alberta.  On arriving in the Kamloops region, he settled in the Brocklehurst area.  Emanuel was a WWII veteran,...

Bentley Place

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Pioneers, Street Names

Bentley Place named for Dalton Wilfred Bentley who came to Kamloops in 1953 and was involved in ranching and land development. He established The Bentley Place Development in Brocklehurst in 1959. Dalton was born 20 March 1903 in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota and...