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The administrative offices are in the main population centre of Kamloops, which accounts for 78 percent of the regional district's population. The only other city is Merritt ; other municipally-incorporated communities include the District Municipalities of Logan Lake , Barriere and Clearwater and the Villages of Chase , Ashcroft , Cache Creek ...
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 the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake.
Kamloops Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding will first be contested in the 2024 British Columbia general election. [1] It was created out of parts of Kamloops-South Thompson and Kamloops-North Thompson.
Batchelor Heights is a neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from that of Batchelor Hill, a local landmark named for Owen Salisbury Batchelor, an early settler, prospector and rancher who lived in the area. [citation needed]
The Kamloops Airport was built west of the German Village in 1939. The first School was established here in 1930 it was a small wooden shack used by the German Settlers with population growing in "German Town" a need for a newer school was necessary thus a 2-Room schoolhouse Brocklehurst Elementary School (later named Crestline Elementary ...
In May 1973, the municipality of Rayleigh was added to the city of Kamloops. A former post office here was named Rayleigh Mount. [2] This post office was named by the first postmaster W A Belcham after his home town in England. He, his wife Elizabeth, and son W A K Belcham operated the post office until the 1940s when they moved to Little Fort.
Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo (formerly known as Kamloops—Thompson) is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. While the riding covers a large area, about three quarters of the population in the district live in the city of Kamloops.
Kamloops-South Thompson is a former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada in use from 2009 to 2024. The district was established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 and first contested in the 2009 general election .