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anada turns 150 this year and celebrations are being held from coast to coast to coast. Much of the fun will peak on Canada Day, with the July 1 holiday doubling as the day to truly mark our country’s sesquicentennial. Riverside Park in downtown Kamloops will be filled with anniversary events. Included in the excitement will be the unveiling on the evening of June 30 of a special Canada 150-themed exhibition at the Kamloops Museum and Archives. The exhibition, river people nation state people, will feature an unfolding set of displays, questions, and responses recognizing that history is enriched when it is shared through multiple voices. It is being produced by the Kamloops Museum and Archives, guest curator Tania Willard, the Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park and Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation, The exhibition deepens the timeline of Canada to acknowledge indigenous histories and speaks to diverse cultural perspectives on the region’s colonial history. That exhibition ties in to what Kamloops is in this anniversary year. The Secwepemc Museum and Archives notes “Kamloops” originally comes from the word “Tk’emlups,” which means “meeting of the rivers.” But there are various other explanations, found in the rich archives in the Kamloops Museum at Seymour Street and Second Avenue, of where “Kamloops” originated. David Stuart and Alexander Ross, both of the American Pacific Fur Trading Company, were two of the first white men to venture into the area. In the summer of 1811, the company established forts along the Columbia River, including Astoria and Fort Okanogan, and began trading with First Nations in the Interior. That same year, Stuart and three other men — excluding Ross — journeyed into the valley of the South Thompson, where they encountered the “SheWap” nation. They spent the winter there and traded for 2,500 beaver skins by the time they left in February 1812. That spring, Ross returned to the area and noted the name used by the natives was “Cumcloups.” In 1849, he published his recollections, but didn’t provide a meaning for the name. The American Pacific Fur Trading Company built a post near the meeting of the North and South Thompson rivers.

Looking east at downtown Kamloops and Riverside Park in 1901, when Canada was a child of 34. Kamloops Museum and Archives photo

Not to be outdone, the rival North West Company set up shop near the site of where St. Joseph’s Church stands today. They eventually took over American Pacific’s interests in Kamloops when the War of 1812 broke out. Ross’ interpretation and spelling of Kamloops is just one of many different variations and stories on exactly what the name means. In 1880, John Tod, who was chief trader in Kamloops for the HBC from 1842 to 1850, noted the natives called this area “Kahm-o-loops,” which meant “meeting of the waters.” Additional obscure variations have been noted over the years. In 1891, geologist George M. Dawson referred to Kamloops as “Kama-a-loo-la-pa,” which he said meant “point between the rivers,” according to his indigenous guides. Dawson noted that version in a survey he published on native place names in B.C.’s Interior. He pointed out, though, that not all of the names he listed were accurate. In 1901, Father Le Jeune mentioned in his newspaper, the Kamloops Wawa, that the name Kamloops means “pointe de terre” — point of land in English. Earlier in the Wawa — in 1895 — Le Jeune published

a review by an American reader which said Kamloops was a Shuswap word meaning “the forking of the rivers.” In the 1890s, the native phrase “camp-des-loups” or “camp of the wolves” was a popular story of the word’s origin. The phrase is said to pre-date the fur tarde. Another suggestion is the Chinook word Kamooks, meaning dog. Chinook, however, was not used in the area before contact with Europeans. James A. Teit, in his study of Shuswap people for Jesup North Pacific Expedition, published in 1909, describes the name as “Kamlu’ps,” meaning “confluence.” Given some of these different variations, it seems likely that Kamloops was named for its geographical significance. Originally, the name Kamloops was only used in reference to the native settlement during the fur trade. But as the European settlement began to develop in the 1870s, the name Kamloops started to stick. — The bulk of information in this story and in articles throughout this publication was gleaned from material in the Kamloops Museum and Archives. KTW deeply appreciates the help museum staff always offer in researching stories.

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Hockey is in our DNA . . . . . . . . . 4 The Fruitful Days of Kamloops . . . . . 5 Watching Waters Rise .

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HERE ARE YOUR ANSWERS! I not only love being Canadian but I am a very proud Canadian! Canadians are known internationally for our pleasant and positive nature. Whenever I have encountered someone from another country and I tell them I am Canadian (proudly), I always get complimented and that is definitely something that we all should be proud of. Not only are we great people but we have a beautiful country! From the natural beauty of British Columbias Pacific O cean and magnificent rocky mountains, the reverence that the plentiful resources of the prairies bring, to the awe inspiring Niagara Falls, the timelessness and history of Quebec and the respected culture and wonderment that the East coast portrays. I am beaming proud to be Canadian! The beauty of Canada. “Beauty eh?! ...Let us not forget Bob and Doug McKenzie and the great white north eh! Or Timmies and our double doubles! And maple syrup mmmm maple syrup. We Canadians are also known for our well respected RCMP in those famous red uniforms. But I think one of the things about Canada that I am most proud of is that we are multicultural and we accept and embrace our differences because we are Canadian. — Suzanne Bourassa We have such a beautiful country and who wouldn’t love the Beautiful scenery. I believe heavily in the words to our anthem “with glowing hearts and “True North strong and free. The thing I love most about Canada is our coastline – our landwash. Where the water and land meet. We have 265,000 kilometres of coastline, the longest of any nation and 16 per cent of the total coastline in the world. — Monique Ramunno The first reason is my great great grandparents- parents and their parents. Well they were born and raised in ‘kanata’. I was suppose to be taught that I am the keeper of the land. This land is the land of the free and brave. Canada is giving, Canada is loving. For most part being Canadian has many advantages, just in equality alone we rock. We have a lot of talented artists whom are world known, performing in the art’s, literacy, acting, dancing, singing. The best thing about being Canadian is we have a lot of space and beautiful place’s. The most important is the land of the midnight sun my mom’s hometown and nothing can top the snow. — Patricia Courtoreille

I love that our Country has Freedom. — Mrs Pauline Dagert I love being Canadian because the national religion is hockey, but people don’t shun me when I tell them I’m an agnostic. — John Moss Freedom, prosperity and a multicultural country that shines. The true north strong and free. — Kelly Keenan I love being Canadian because: We do lots of sports. We can go to the park. On July 1st I like to sing the Canadian birthday song. — Dillon When you come back home after traveling the world you always realize you have the best country in the world to call HOME! — Phil Youwe I love being Canadian because we have: Freedom, peace and fun. Canadians are cool. — Kitana I love being Canadian because Canada is a country in which we can express our individuality without fear of consequences. We are tolerant of others and show this respect to both our citizens as well as immigrants to to our country. I am very proud to be Canadian. — Phyllis Hilton 1: I love watching Hockey Night In Canada. 2: I love Brock Middle School. 3: I love the celebration of Canada’s birthday in Riverside Park. 4: I love the Secwepemc Museum. 5: I love the 2141 Steam Engine. 6: I like that people can vote. 7: I like to hang out with my friends. 8: I like that we have healthy trees. 9: Canadians love the environment and choose not to waste energy. — Taylor Clarke 1: Oh Canada we stand on guard for thee 2: Having a flag that is recognized worldwide via our glorious Maple Leaf 3: How people’s faces change from a frown to a smile when visiting foreign countries: “I am not an American, I am a Canadian 4: The Universal health care system 5: Our multi-cultural diversity 6: How polite we are 7: Tim Horton’s is now worldwide and started in this country! 8: Our varied and diverse landscape — Shawn Michaud

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What do you love about being canadian? Simplest question ever. Well just listen to our anthem, it is all the glowing hearts! This wonderful country blesses us with beautiful fresh clean water to drink and play in and on. Mountains to hike, beaches to lounge , campfires with friends, Wow you know it is the best that is why we attract great new canadians! Wildlife abounds, whales, Moose, Bears of all colours, just like Canadians! We have Jam/can food, I know a german/indian restaurant where you can have spetzel and butter chicken! We are diverse that makes us strong, the true north strong and free. Seriously what is there not to love about Canada? — Lynette Fullerton I love being Canadian because the world is a better and a more peaceful place with Canada in it. — Kathleen Feschuk I feel so blessed to live in such a naturally, beautiful country that is full of such diversity. — Amy Tucker

What I love about being Canadian is that we represent some of the more progressive and inclusive ideologies in the world. We are a nation that strives for equality and inclusion. Although, I would argue that we are not where we should be in terms of our environmental and social issues, on an international scale we are a country with values that others are trying to live up to. As an international traveler, I act as a representative of our nation, and people expect a certain kind of person when they meet a Canadian. I love taking on that responsibility and showing the world that we are friendly, caring, open minded, and generally want to do good in this world. — Reanna McMillan

I love Canada because of its unrivaled geography. I have lived in six different cities, three different provinces, and traveled many more, and every city is uniquely different in its breathtaking beauty. There is no landscape better or more diverse than Canada’s. I love calling myself a Canadian and having the privilege of exploring within our borders. — Umme Mansoory C: Connectivity to a diverse Nation A: Amazing landscape that is spectacular N: Nice to experience all 4 seasons in this great Country A: Artistry that represents First Nations culture and history D: Days of unique pleasure to play and enjoy in the little things that comes from community from farmers markets to world class hiking trails A: Activity that all can participate in - from mountains to water to land truly unique beauty! — Carolynn Boomer

1: Free health care 2: We invented the telephone 3: We invented the Blackberry 4: We have freedom 5: We have freedom to vote 6: We have freedom to go to school 7: Poutine 8: We have lots of cultures 9: Canada Day “Eh — Nicholas Gola

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Hockey is in our DNA

hen Paul Henderson reminisces about the greatest goal scored in the history of Canada’s greatest game he can hardly get a word in edgewise. Whether it’s on the street, at a speaking event or at a party, Canadians line up not so much to ask him but to tell him about Sept. 28, 1972. That’s when Henderson tucked home the rebound to put the exclamation point on a Canada-Russia hockey summit for the ages. It was a shared experience when millions of Canadians literally stood as one, around TVs and radios in restaurants and classrooms, to watch Team Canada come back against heavy odds to defeat the Soviets in the eight-game series. They want to tell me what they were doing, where they were, who they were with, how they felt. They remember it so vividly,” Henderson says. “That’s why I love it. There’s no negativity.” In the last 45 years how many of those stories has he heard? He pauses. “Millions,” he says. “It’s got to be millions.” Unpack what hockey

means to Canada on the country’s sesquicentennial and you are immediately shin guard-deep in cultural touchstones: A Wayne Gretzky rookie card, a Starr skate, Roch Carrier’s story “The Hockey Sweater,” Jacques Plante’s trailblazing fiberglass mask, the lucky loonie buried in centre ice at the 2002 Olympics, a hockey stick wrapped in rainbow pride tape, a sledge hockey gold medal from the 2006 Turin Paralympics. While the origins of the game remain a hotly debated cold case, the coming out party was at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal on March 3, 1875. Fittingly, it was also the site of hockey’s first brawl when the free skaters, demanding back their ice sheet, donnybrooked with the stick-wielding interlopers. The game exploded in popularity and as the 19th century ticked over to the 20th, order, rules, leagues and hierarchies arrived. Gov. Gen. Freddy Stanley fell in love with the game and in 1892 donated the iconic cup that now bears his surname. By 1908, Canada began paying its players rather than watching its best

and brightest flee to the first pro league that had opened four years earlier in the United States. Rules were tweezed and tweaked over the decades, primarily to open up the offence – more forward passing, six players instead of seven. Referees went from ringing bells to blowing whistles. The modern pro game was born out of a back alley shiv on Nov. 26, 1917. The owners of the National Hockey Association dissolved their business and created a new league, the National Hockey League, as a lastditch legal end-around to expel unpopular, irascible Toronto team owner Eddie Livingstone. The NHL turns 100 this year and it has delivered to Canada the indelible images defining the game across generations: Howie Morenz’s coffin at centre ice at the Montreal Forum, the Gordie Howe hat trick, Mario Lemieux’s

1987 glove-side high Canada Cup winning goal, Gretzky’s tears over his 1988 trade, Sidney Crosby’s golden goal in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. There are sounds as well as sights: Roger Doucet’s sonorous bilingual version of national anthem at the Montreal Forum, broadcaster Foster Hewitt’s signature “Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland,” the ubiquitous duh-duh-ta-duhduh opening to Dolores Claman’s “Hockey Night in Canada” theme song. It has touched culture and politics. The 1955 riot in Montreal over the suspension of Canadiens star Maurice Richard is viewed by some as the spark that lit the fire of Quebec’s nationalist movement. When Maple Leaf Bill Barilko’s plane disappeared in the northern Ontario bush in 1951 it sparked

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the greatest search to date in Canadian history and later a hit song by the Tragically Hip. The iconography conflates with religion. The Stanley Cup is the Holy Grail, the Montreal Forum a shrine. Edmonton fans wear T-shirts with a bearded Connor McJesus, his head bathed in a nimbus glow. Ken Dryden, Canada’s pre-eminent hockey player-author-scholar, wrote about watching “Hockey Night in Canada” as a child. Everything about it was special,” Dryden wrote. “It was Saturday night. It was staying up late. It was the family all together. “It was seeing adults get more excited than you ever saw them at other times ... saying and doing things as impolite as things you thought only you did.” But the love of the game in Canada goes well beyond the pros. Minor hockey

eventually became organized and stratified, growing after the Second World War, spurred by the construction of more indoor arenas. Women’s hockey followed in fits and starts, highlighted by famous teams like Hilda Ranscombe’s Preston Rivulettes of the 1930s, with trailblazers like Abigail Hoffman and Justine Blainey challenging the system to put women’s ice hockey on the level with men. In 1990, the first Women’s Worlds Hockey Championship was held in Ottawa. Women’s hockey became a medal sport at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. Since then, Canadian women’s teams have won four consecutive Olympic golds. Stars like Cassie Campbell, Manon Rheaume and Hayley Wickenheiser have become household names. — Canadian Press

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The Fruitful days of the North Shore and Westsyde

t the turn of the 20th century, when Canada was just three decades old, all of the North Shore and Westsyde was under cultivation. Before the days of large housing developments and stores, the area was home to a vast amount of orchards and crops. This North Shore was called Fruitlands. B.C. Fruitlands Ltd. was formed in England on June 8, 1909. It was a company made up of wealthy British capitalists headed by the Earl of Erroll. Through a Crown grant and purchase, it acquired 6,400 acres of land that made up the North Shore. The purpose of the purchase was for re-sale of the land in hopes of turning it into a farming community, which the company would supply with water. Their irrigation system, valued at $200,000, was established to serve the entire area, with water drawn from Jamieson Creek. The company had its head offices back in England, but kept a field manager located on it Home Farm. By 1920, B.C. Fruitlands had expanded its area to 22,000 acres. The company land consisted of four blocks: Block A ran from the south of Black Pines to south of Rayleigh. Block B ran to Halston and crossed along what would become the boundaries of Westsyde. Block C became North Kamloops and Block D was all of Brocklehurst.

In 1915, H.F. Mytton became field manager for Fruitlands. His job was to look after the irrigation system and supervise the planting of orchards on small plots, which the company intended to sell or lease to settlers. He also raised crops. In five years, the Home Farm had 100 acres of orchards, many crops and 2,500 head of cattle. By 1920 the company had already leased 1,000 acres of land to farmers, most of whom were Chinese or Indian immigrants. In 1923, the company reorganized and Mytton retired as manager. John Jamieson took his place and the irrigation system was expanded and converted to steel pipe. The company also started a new advertising program aimed at British and other European settlers. B.C. Fruitlands began to sell more and more land. In 1925, its Cherry Creek, Noble and Gordon Ranches were put up for sale, as was the Home Farm. Eighty new acres of orchards were also planted. Cherry Creek was sold to the Henon Brothers from Yakima, who established a sheep farm. The Home Farm was sold in 1930 to Mrs. E.M. Bains, who converted it to a convalescent home. The following year, Jamieson was replaced by Maj. A.E. McElligot as B.C. Fruitlands manager. Business was booming. In 1928, Fruitlands generated 4,500 tonnes of produce. Two-thirds went to Vancouver,

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one-third went to the Prairies and six carloads of apples were shipped to England. In the summer of 1930, daily CNR fruit trains would run through the River City, but only a portion of the produce ever left Kamloops. Local demands and two canneries in Kamloops consumed a large amount of the harvest. In 1930, Fruitlands brought 30 German-speaking families to farm in Brocklehurst. Many of these settlers would eventually be able to buy the land before the Second World War began. The communities of Brocklehurst, Westsyde and North Kamloops began to grow and more and more housing began to fill the North Shore. In 1946, B.C. Fruitlands became the Fruitlands Irrigation District, supplying water to the districts of the North Shore, including Westsyde and Brocklehurst. Waterworks systems and five pump stations were installed between 1952 and 1958 to serve the domestic and irrigation needs in these areas. Over time, the domestic needs of the water system began to outweigh those of irrigation. In 1973, B.C. Fruitlands was phased out due to amalgamation. The City of Kamloops absorbed their assets and water and sewage systems that spring and development continued apace, leading to the dense neighbourhoods of Westsyde and the North Shore we know today.

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Watching waters rise is ritual in Kamloops

ust as Kamloops has grown over the course of two centuries, so too has the danger of floods. This past spring was notable in that water levels rose to heights not seen since 2012, though we escaped coming anywhere close to some of the most significant flooding events in the history of the city:

1894 The floods of 1894 were the highest ever recorded in the Kamloops region. The Red Bridge at Kamloops withstood the mighty waters, but other bridges weren’t so lucky — spans at Ashcroft, Savona and Spences Bridge were all carried away. Along the north side of West Victoria Street, the water nearly reached the backs of some houses. Boats weren’t immune, either. The paddlewheel steamer Spallumcheen broke apart under the force of the flood waters as it was carried downstream. Between June 7 and June 12, some trains were stranded in Kamloops. People made the best of it, though, entertaining themselves with baseball games between locals and CPR staff. Though the waters ran high, the population was low. Much of the flooded areas were still undeveloped at the time — a factor that kept the biggest flood in Kamloops history from being worse. 1948 Despite being a lower flood level than 1894, the 1948 flood was Kamloops’ most destructive to date. On May 25, the Heffley Creek dam at Devick Lake broke — sending a 30-foot wall of water down the creek, crashing into buildings along the way. The Thompson River, meanwhile, was rising at a rate of two inches per hour by May 26. North Kamloops was hit hard and 500 men built dykes as quickly as possible in low-lying areas.

The South Thompson River didn’t reach historic highs this year, but waters did claim parts of Riverside Park. On June 6, Kamloops photographer Antoinette Foxall captured this shot of her daughters, Molly and Jayna, enjoying a moment on an “island” in the park.

Massive flooding was prevented, but McArthur Island briefly ceased to exist. Parts of Mackenzie and Royal avenues were sunk as well, as was the north bank of the Thompson between Fulton Field and Tranquille and the Happyvale area in Brocklehurst. On the Tk’emlups Indian Band reserve, what is now the Mount Paul Industrial Park was turned into a lake. Mission Flats also flooded, but the sawmill escaped the worst of it. The area below Lorne Street downtown wasn’t as fortunate as the river claimed the area from 13th Avenue to the west end of Riverside Park. The flood brought new meaning to River Street as many homes located there turned into islands, accessible only via boat. By June 16, the water began to retreat and what followed was a program to build dykes in threatened areas.

1972 Warm temperatures through the month of June and a tardy snowpack melting set the stage for another one of Kamloops’ most destructive floods. Agricultural areas that had flooded in 1948 had been replaced by housing, but they were behind dykes at this point. Some backyards in Brocklehurst got soaked on June 2 when some of the new dykes in the area broke as water levels reached the 1948 mark. The new dyke at Oak Hills succumbed to the water, but residents were able to escape without the loss of lives. The incident gave the area the nickname “Soak Hills.” Dykes in other areas held on and the river crested on June 14. The level was 1,132.5 feet above sea level — beating the 1948 level by 3 feet and 30 inches shy of the 1894 mark.

Ribbon of Asphalt connects Canada

he “Ribbon of Steel” that binds Canada from coast to coast has reverberated through our collective psyche since the Last Spike — celebrated in song, folklore and history books. But what of the “Ribbon of Asphalt,” the now-vital 8,000-kilometre Trans-Canada Highway that has in so many ways replaced its railway counterpart in tying one end of the country to the other? Once called “one of the major Canadian transportation accomplishments of the last century,” the highway has proven an irresistible challenge to drivers, cyclists and runners — Terry Fox among them — who have over the years plied its gravel and pavement. Officially approved by Parliament in 1949, former prime minister John Diefenbaker formally opened the highway — only about half of which was then paved — on Sept. 3, 1962. The ceremony was held with the snow-capped Rockies in the background at Rogers Pass, not far from where Sir Donald Smith had driven in the last spike for the CPR transcontinental railway in 1885. The Trans-Canada Highway’s main route spans 8,030 kilometres across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway was finished in 1971. Upon its original completion, the Trans-Canada Highway was the most lengthy uninterrupted highway in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive whiteon-green maple leaf route markers. — Canadian Press

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A well Red bridge connects cultures

amloops’ first bridge over the Thompson Rivers was the Red Bridge, built after a decade of lobbying from people demanding a bridge connecting Kamloops and the Tk’emlups reserve. Canada was all of 20 years old when the original Red Bridge was built over two months in 1887 and was located slightly west of the current bridge. A bit of a bidding war ensued over the contract to construct the span. James McIntosh — known as “The King of Kamloops” — put in a bid of $9,700, but his offer was usurped by Daniel Adams, who was given the contract for his bid of $7,000. As reported in the Inland Sentinel on Sept. 17, 1887: “Several tenders were received; but Mr. Adams’ being the lowest, it was accepted. We understand this contract has been taken at a low figure.” The bridge was completed in less than two months. It was 1,000 feet long, had a main span of 120 feet and a 50-foot opening for paddlewheel steamers. Built 27 feet above the low water mark, it even withstood Kamloops’ largest flood in 1894. In an article from the Sentinel when the bridge opened, it was referred

to as “The Thompson River Bridge,” but it soon acquired the nickname “Red” because the wooden structure was built with Douglas fir. That article also noted the bridge “provides convenient access to a large district on the North Thompson and will prove a great advantage to the residents of that section, as well as the business people of Kamloops.” It’s a link that has been vital for the Kamloops area, according to former Tk’emlups chief Manny Jules. “It’s been an important link between the two communities and it’s always been there as far as I know,” Jules told KTW in 2012, when Kamloops was marking its 200th anniversary. One Red Bridge story Jules finds amusing involves another former chief. Chief Louis ran a ferry service between the city and the reserve, a venture that went under when the Red Bridge went up. “The Red Bridge put him out of business,” Jules said with a laugh, adding that, despite the construction of the Yellowhead Bridge, the Red Bridge remains in business and is “a major artery” between the reserve and the city. In 1912, 20 years

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after the first Red Bridge established this major artery across the South Thompson, it was rebuiltin the same spot. In 1931, the second span caught fire, one of the piers at its south end was damaged and the structure was condemned. It was rebuilt in 1936, which is the Red Bridge that today stands above Pioneer Park. The current version is

1,200 feet long with two prefabricated spans of 100 feet and 135 feet, and four piers. It took 300,000 feet of lumber to complete, at a cost $60,000, and sits just east of where the firs two Red Bridges were located. Foreman Paul McMasters and 23 men worked five months to finish the third bridge. McMasters said it would be good for over 30 years, but it has now lasted 81.

It was closed for three months in 1970 to undergo a remodelling, which would better reflect its name. The bridge was painted “a bright fire engine red in keeping with requests from the Downtown Business Association,” stated an article in the Kamloops Daily Sentinel from 1970. “Many of the companies on the subdivision reported customers complaining

of the inconvenience of the longer trip using the Yellowhead Bridge.” This was in reference to the three months in which the Red Bridge was out of commission. In 1970, the bridge was also widened six inches and had new stringers, wheel guards, decking and hand railings installed. The project was reported to cost an estimated $75,000.

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Celebrate Canada Day

Celebrate our national holiday with a full day of culture, arts, music and festivities at Riverside Park. BROCK LIONS PANCAKE BREAKFAST 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM

GET CANADIAN RUN 8:00 am – 10:30 am

This Get Happy Event is focused on families, friends and kids! The 2K run and 5K run stay closer to the park, well the 10K run will venture onto the Rivers Trail. We encourage all runners and families to start their Canada Day celebrations off with a morning run.

FOLKFEST 9:00 am – 6:00 pm International Food Booths and Cultural Displays West Side of Park hosted by Kamloops Multicultural Society’s Folkfest

FIREWORKS Starts 10:30 pm by Emerald City Fireworks KICK OFF TO MUSIC IN THE PARK AT ROTARY BAND SHELL 7:00 pm – Bob Seger Revue 8:15 pm – Buck Wild 9:15 pm – Big River (Johnny Cash Tribute) Sponsored by BCLC Photo by Tristan Semeniuk

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11:00 am – 12:15 pm Djembe Django Drummers interactive - Join in! 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Paul Michel - Secwepemc storyteller “Learning Respect from the Animals” 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Alexis Baptiste Indigenous Youth, Hand drum song MP Cathy McLeod MLA Peter Milobar Deputy Mayor Arjun Singh 12:45 pm – 1:00 pm Kamloops Arts Council’s Thank yous 1:00 pm – 1:10 pm Shahrahzad Bellydance #1 1:10 pm – 1:30 pm Freeze Athletics 1:30 pm – 1:40 pm Shahrahzad Bellydance #2 1:40 pm – 2:00 pm Pokotillo Ukrainian dancers 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Mozaik Fusion Bellydance 2:20 pm – 2:40 pm Zumba - Nicole Archibald 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm Desert Sounds Harmony Chorus

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89 Sydney McKenna | Original Prints 90 Paige Kimberley | Specialty Foods & Body Products 91 Cathy Irving (Splash of Paint) | Glass/Wood/Burlap 92 Terryn Corbett (Om Naturale Herbal Care Co.) | Specialty Foods & Body Products 93 Jo McLeod (Stoneheart Studio Collage) | Mixed Media 94 Frankee Bencher (Frankee Bencher Artist) | Original Prints/Painting 95 Arnica Artist-Run Centre | Community 96 Thompson Rivers University Visual Arts Program | Community 97 Western Canada Theatre | Community 98 Kamloops Art Gallery | Community 99 Books in the Belfry | Books/Pottery 100 Shelagh McGinn (Sheela’s Mehndi Henna Tattoos) | Henna 101 Ukulele Orchestra of Kamloops | Community 102 Ron West (Ron West Artist) | Painting 103 Cathy Healey (Everything Under the Sun) | Mixed Media 104 Helena Paivinen | Mixed Media/Painting 105 Olga Cuttell (Oladesign) | Painting/ Reproductions of original work 106 Jacki Gallagher (Plush Off) | Fibre 107 Bhumika Talla (Bhumika Salon and Spa) | Henna 108 Joanne Caldwell (Ignite Custom Designs) | Polymer Clay 109 Echo Vogt (EchoArt) | Mixed Media/Wood 110 Tiger Vogt | Jewellery/Fibre 111 4Cats Arts Studio | Interactive Art 112 Kamloops Arts Council Open Mic | Live Music

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he Kamloops Indian Residential School had a handful of names over its years of operation, but for the better part of a century, its mission remained the same. Set up by the federal government, native residential schools were touted as the best way to assimilate new generations of First Nations into Canada’s white population — what has since been described as “killing the Indian in the child.” First opened in the 1890s, the initial years of the Kamloops Industrial School were a bust. Secewpemc parents balked at the curriculum, which focused almost exclusively on teachings from the Roman Catholic Church. Children were pulled from the school — attendance was not yet mandatory — and the school was closed and restructured, with the federal government putting direct management of the program in the hands of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The program that took shape in Kamloops focused more heavily on industry than school. Students would spend a halfday learning trades (domestic service for girls, farming for boys) and the rest on basic academics and religious lessons. The Secewpemc language was forbidden, as were traditional

School stands as reminder of tainted Canadian history

spiritual customs. Band members who attended the school still recall being told that their native heritage was “of the devil.” From the early days, funding was a problem. Shortages of food, clothing and footwear would plague the school throughout its lifetime. In particularly bad years, students would be forbidden from communicating with their parents at all, to keep conditions under wraps. It was a difficult choice for parents — send your child to a sub-par school or have them never go to school at all. In 1920, attendance at residential schools became mandatory and a difficult choice became no choice at all. The school would eventually introduce a high school program in the 1950s and would start sending its secondary students into Kamloops Catholic school system a decade later, causing Kamloops’ very own integration furor. By the 1970s, school attendance was on the decline as band-run day schools, which allowed children to stay with their parents, began opening up in the region. By 1978, the imposing structure on the reserve was closed for good.

Blame the Charter for recent Ranching branded to Kamloops election’s uncertain outcome

ritish Columbians can blame Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the agonizing two-week wait in May to find out who won their province’s recent, photo-finish election. They were kept in suspense while crucial absentee ballots were counted — a process which, as it turned out, changed nothing, leaving the province in an unprecedented state of instability. If not for the Charter, there would have been no absentee ballots to count. Back in 1983, when the Charter was just a year old, two young British Columbians who were studying law in Ontario challenged B.C.’s failure to provide them with a way to cast ballots while out of province. B.C.’s Court of Appeal eventually agreed with the students that the lack of a provision for absentee voting violated their democratic right to vote, as guaranteed in the Charter.

It was an early taste of the kind of profound impact the charter was going to have on Canadian society. Sunday shopping. Samesex marriage. Medical assistance in dying. No legal restrictions on abortion. Those are just some of the momentous changes the Charter has wrought since it was entrenched in the newly patriated Constitution on a rainy April day 35 years ago during a black-tie signing ceremony — the solemnity of which was interrupted by justice minister and future prime minister Jean Chretien muttering an oath upon discovering the nib of the pen was broken, provoking a rare regal laugh from the Queen. “The Canadian Charter has had a lasting and positive impact on our country,” Beverley McLachlin, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, told a recent Senate symposium celebrating the country’s 150th birthday. “Not only has its enactment proved to be one of the defining

moments of the last 150 years, the Charter has quite simply — poll after poll tells us this — become part of the Canadian identity.” Indeed, in a 2015 Statistics Canada survey, 70 per cent of Canadians named the Charter as a very important national symbol — beating out the Maple Leaf flag, the national anthem, the red-coated Mounties, hockey and the beaver. “I think it’s made an enormous impact on the lives of ordinary Canadians,” said Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, which has led a number of Charter challenges to federal and provincial laws, including spearheading the landmark case that saw the prohibition on medical assistance in dying struck down. “Many people may not even realize that some of the rights and freedoms they enjoy today, or ways in which the government might not interfere with them, were as a result of the Charter,” Paterson said.

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Ranching in Kamloops started out with the Hudson’s Bay Company, which raised cattle in the area. The Gold Rush of 1858 sparked the demand for beef and large drives from the U.S., under people like the Harper Brothers and Ben Snipes, made their way north. The building of the CPR also created a great market for cattle ranchers. It was soon apparent feed was good in the area and raising cattle in the Interior would cut down on the huge trip to the butchers in Barkerville. Land around Cache Creek was used first for cattle and wintering horses. Some of the early ranchers included Capt. Cavendish Venables, Henry P. Cornwall, Aschal S. Bates and Charles Pennie. Thaddeus and Jerome Harper got started northeast of Kamloops and Lewis Campbell started his ranch out at Campbell Creek in 1862. In 1863, rancher John Wilson settled at Savona. In the 1870s. blue bunchgrass (the backbone of grazing) had fallen prey to overgrazing in drier areas the previous decade and were being replaced by sagebrush, cactus, rabbit-bush and speargrass. Some ranches became quite extensive, such as the Harper Brothers ranch and the huge Douglas Lake Cattle Company.

Timothy grass on irrigated flats was a popular crop in the 1870s as was Sainfoin in the 1890s. Alfalfa was first used in 1862 by Henry Cornwall. It had great success in 1906 with W.R. McDonald and from there more ranchers started to grow it. Cattle drives from the U.S. brought a mixed bag of cattle to the River City. Texas longhorns, a variety of shorthorns and even cattle of Spanish origin grazed here. In the 1870s Durham shorthorn bulls were the dominant breed until the 1890s when Herefords were introduced. The HBC and the early ranchers of the 1860s did brandings and then the official register came to be in 1873. It didn't really help as in these days, policing against cattle rustlers was ineffective. Not many cases reached court and ,though the guilty were usually known by their neighbours, proof was tough to come by. There was an economic depression in the late 1870s, as the days of the gold rush had fizzled and railway surveying had stopped. Business picked back up again in the 1880s with construction of the railroad. Its completion ensured prosperity for ranchers for years to come.

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A country at war with itself C anadian mythology teaches that the country earned its sovereignty from the British Crown in the First World War, after legions of soldiers from Victoria to Charlottetown gallantly stormed German defences along the Western Front and were instrumental in the Allied cause. But as Canadians were in Europe fighting the Germans, back home the country was at war with itself. Because for the first time since Confederation, Quebec politicians were explicitly suggesting FrenchCanadians might be better off alone. “One can say 1917 was a turning point,” said University of Ottawa historian Pierre Anctil. “It instilled a sense of suspicion and distance. And I think it did irreparable damage.” Before the two independence referendums of the ‘80s and ‘90s that nearly tore the country apart, there was the 1917-18 conscription crisis. Historians warn against drawing direct links between that time and Quebec’s independence movement, which began in the ‘60s and still affects Canadian politics. But historians also say these 100-yearold events made many Quebecers collectively recognize they would always be a minority within Canada — and as such, alone in defending their cultural and linguistic rights. Quebecers at the time were also regularly subjected to hostility and outright hatred in the Canadian media. “They were cowards, traitors — probably German agents,” said McGill University military historian Desmond Morton on how English Canada viewed francophone Quebecers, who were largely against sending their young men to die in Europe for the empire. “In the eyes of Anglo Montreal and

the rest of Canada, (French-Canadians) were worthless and evil,” Morton said. When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, Canada was automatically at war, as a dominion of the British Crown. Thousands of young Canadians — many of whom were born in the UK — volunteered to fight. The opposite was true in Quebec, where French-Canadians had no loyalty to the British and saw themselves as living in a sovereign country that wasn’t

necessarily subservient to London. Volunteer conscripts had success in the early years of the war, but the victories were costly. Canada suffered more than 10,500 casualties at Vimy Ridge in 1917, and 24,700 Canadians and Newfoundlanders died or were wounded in the Battle of the Somme. “In 1917, the war was far from won,” said military historian Carl Pepin. “And the front was atrocious.”

These losses were not sustainable — especially with a volunteer war effort back home and dwindling enlistment. In May that year, prime minister Robert Borden returned to Canada from Europe and decided the country couldn’t replenish the depleted battle lines without conscription. By late summer the Military Service Act was law and all men between 20 and 45 were called to arms. — Canadian Press

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Canada has always been an inventive nation

ippers. Garbage bags. Paint rollers. Some items are so ingrained in our lives we don’t stop to consider life without them. How we would do up a jacket, take out the trash or give a wall a fresh coat of paint? But without the Canadians behind these inventions, all these tasks — and many more — would prove a little more difficult. Without Joseph Leopold Coyle’s Eureka, moment more than 100 years ago, for example, carrying eggs home from the grocery store might be a whole lot messier. “There were ways of shipping eggs before Mr. Coyle, but the modern, paper container begins with him,” said Lorne Hammond, curator of human history at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Coyle is among Canada’s countless tinkerers, inventors, scientists and engineers whose creations have changed the modern world. But his tale is also a cautionary one at a time Canadian governments are trying to figure out how to foster innovation that will drive the 21st-century economy. While his invention remains used to this day, it never earned him a big payout. Many business leaders, academics and policy-makers say Canada must get better at converting the innovations and intellectual property that flow from its finest minds into successful global companies. Canada has a proud history

Jopseh Coyle, the B.C. inventor of today's modern egg carton. Bulkley Valley Museum

of innovation and has “truly punched above its weight,” said Greg Dick, director of educational research at Perimeter Institute. The Waterloo, Ont., theoretical physics research hub is one of five organizations behind Innovation150, a year-long,

cross-country tour designed to inspire youth to innovate. Perimeter itself was launched in 2000 with funds from the founders of BlackBerry, the smartphone pioneer that grew into a global player, but later lost most of its market share to foreign competitors.

Dick rattles off a list of Canadian contributions to a wide variety of fields: time zones from Sir Sandford Fleming, dubbed the Father of Standard Time; basketball, courtesy of the imagination of Dr. James Naismith; more recently, a vaccine to fight

the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that began in 2013 designed by scientists at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. “The sunglasses for snow blindness? Invented by the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic,” Dick said. “And peanut butter?

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There’s a fun one. First patented by a Canadian. … We just really have done an incredible amount of contributing to society.” That’s backed up by the number of patents the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has granted since 1869, when it (then known as Consumer and Corporate Affairs) awarded Canada’s first patent to William Hamilton for his eureka fluid meter. In 1976, the federal agency granted the one-millionth patent for “photodegradable polymer masterbatches” and, as of last year, surpassed 1.6-million approved patents with about 37,000 applications received annually over the past decade. But in a sign of how much innovation is going on

elsewhere, only about 13 per cent of those applications come from Canadians, according to Agnes Lajoie, assistant commissioner of patents at CIPO. The organization would like that number to move higher. The office is working to raise awareness about the patent system among smalland medium-sized businesses in the country, focusing on high-growth sectors that are intellectual property intensive, like clean technology and aerospace, said Darlene Carreau, director general of CIPO’s business services branch. “Canadians are very innovative,” she says. “We don’t tend to toot our own horn or highlight our successes

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like other jurisdictions may, but I think we need to get better at doing that.” One of those early, littleknown inventions came from Coyle, who secured a grade school education before working his way up from cleaner and newspaper delivery boy to founding the Interior News in Smithers in 1910 (it continues to publish today). Back then, the paper’s office stood in what was known as Aldemere in British Columbia’s Bulkley Valley near a hotel that was the spot of frequent fighting between the hotelier and a farmer, Gabriel Lacroix. The owner hated that his regular order of eggs often arrived as a mess of runny yolks. One day, Coyle overheard

this argument and that — as legend has it— was his a-ha moment. He set out to create a container to keep the eggs intact from coop to customer. In a 1917 patent application to CIPO, he described a “simple, inexpensive and safe” way to carry a dozen eggs at once in an egg box that suspended and supported each one without letting it touch the others. Coyle later obtained patents for several other countries as demand for his egg box grew. But by the 1950s, Coyle faced major competition from others creating simpler egg cartons from plastic rather than moulded pulp. Coyle simply couldn’t keep up with the change in the industry, his daughter

Ellen Myton, who died just before the new millennium at the age of 87, said when she spoke about her father’s legacy with the British Columbia Historical News in 1982. “Conversion of the plant to new machinery and methods would have involved huge expenditure,” she said. “As is so often the case with inventors, he was no match for the sharp practices of big business and their sharper lawyers,” his daughter said. “The Coyle carton made several millionaires, but dad was not one of them.” Her father died at the age of 100 on April 18, 1972. His death certificate identified him the “inventor of paper boxes.” — Canadian Press

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So, you think you know

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An anagram of the word “Canada” is the nickname of a well-known sports team. Name the team (city and nickname) and the sport it plays.

Answers will appear online at kamloopsthisweek.com, under the Community tab, and in the July 4 edition of KTW. GOOD LUCK!

Three prime ministers have performed the Grey Cup ceremonial kickoff. Name them and the years in which they booted the ball.

When did First Nations get the vote in Canada?

7 Name the first status Indian to be elected to Parliament and the city he represented.

The flags of England and France have flown over Canada, as has the flag of one other European country, from 1789 to 1795. Name the country.

How many time zones are in Canada?

3 In what Canadian city would you find an official UFO landing pad?

What year was the Trans-Canada Highway finally completed?

What province has the largest population of Aboriginal people in Canada?

What is the highest mountain in Canada?

9 In what year did “O Canada” officially become the country’s national anthem?

Send your answers by email to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com with in subject line “Canada 150 Quiz”. We will award prizes to those with the highest scores. Deadline for entries is Sunday, July 2 at noon.

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14 If you are standing in Richard’s Harbour, NL and travel directly south, which country’s territory will you first encounter?

5 What Native language is the name “Canada” derived from?

The Great Lakes contain what percentage of the world’s fresh lake water?

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