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unusual facts about Barnhartvale, Kamloops



An Unfinished Life

While set in Wyoming, the movie was actually filmed in the Canadian towns of Ashcroft, Savona, and Kamloops, British Columbia.

Ashcroft Terminal

Located 340 km east of Vancouver and 90 km west of Kamloops, Ashcroft Terminal is situated on mainlines for both Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and Canadian National Railway (CN).

B100

CKBZ-FM (100.3 FM, "B100"), a radio station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Barnhartvale, Kamloops

A major road in the area is named after the Robert and Henry Pratt families who occupied the bulk of the valley after 1890.

CBPL-FM

CBPL-FM is a Weatheradio Canada station which broadcasts weather information and alerts on a frequency of 101.9 FM in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, in both English and French.

CBYK-FM

On October 28, 2011, the CBC filed an application with the CRTC to convert CBYK-FM from a rebroadcaster of CBTK-FM to an anchor of a new 23-station regional CBC Radio One network for the Thompson and Cariboo regions, with regional programming originating from new studios in Kamloops.

CFJC-TV

CFJC's studios are located on Pemberton Terrace and Columbia Street West in Kamloops, and its transmitter is located near Southern Yellowhead Highway/Highway 5, southeast of Kamloops Airport.

Chris Masuak

His nickname of "Klondike" came from having spent part of his youth growing up in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Coyote in mythology

For example, the Secwepemc people of the Kamloops Indian Band in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, have designated their recently opened native elementary school the Sk'elep (Coyote) School of Excellence, while educational websites such as one co-sponsored by the Neskonlith Indian Band of Chase, British Columbia prominently feature stories about Sk'elep.

Darfield

Darfield, British Columbia, a town in British Columbia just to the north of Kamloops

Detroit Junior Red Wings

During that game vs. Brandon, there was an online report that said that Milan Kostolny scored the winning goal, but in fact after video research, the goal was scored by Matthew Ball, off of Wade Redden's foot Detroit then started the final game vs Kamloops shorthanded, playing without Shayne McCosh (broken wrist) and Bryan Berard, trying to play with a bad charley horse.

Dwight Boyer

Boyer discussed the 1927 disappearance of the SS Kamloops, and the 1929 foundering of the SS Milwaukee, in Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes (1968), and retold an account of the 1975 disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in his last book, Ships and Men of the Great Lakes (1977).

Frederick John Fulton

Their youngest son Davie Fulton, was also a Kamloops lawyer, provincial and federal politician and judge.

Independent Soldiers

Over the past few years the gang has gained prominence in Vancouver, as well as Kamloops, Kelowna, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Surrey, and elsewhere.

International Forest Products

In BC this includes two sawmills (Acorn and Hammond) on the Coast; two sawmills in the Kootenay region (Grand Forks and Castlegar); and one sawmill in the Southern Interior region near Kamloops (Adams Lake).

Jean Baptiste Lolo

Mount Lolo, northeast of Kamloops near Heffley Lake, and Lolo Lake and Lolo Creek in the same vicinity, were named for him.

Kamloops Indian Band

Nicola was the presiding chief at Kamloops, and also jointly Grand Chief of the Okanagan people, during the Fraser Canyon War and the associated troubles of the Okanagan Trail, and was made a magistrate enforcing British law by Governor James Douglas.

Mark Recchi

Recchi is a co-owner of the Kamloops Blazers, along with Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi, Jarome Iginla, Shane Doan, and Darryl Sydor.

Nelofer Pazira

Recently, she received an honorary doctorate of letters from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Nicola Athapaskans

The term Nicola for them is a misnomer, though a common one used by ethnologists and linguists - it commemorates a famous Okanagan chief who once held sway over the valley and its peoples as well as over the Kamloops Shuswap).

Phil Gaglardi

In the 1963 provincial general election he defeated Davie Fulton, who had retired from federal politics to head the BC Progressive Conservative Party and chose Kamloops as his preferred entry to the Legislature.

Shuswap Country

The Shuswap is often referred to in tandem form: Kamloops-Shuswap, Columbia-Shuswap, Okanagan-Shuswap/Shuswap-Okanagan.

SS Kamloops

The Kamloops features prominently in the novel Superior Death by Nevada Barr.

Todd Lamirande

Lamirande became mired in a controversy on June 24, 2001, when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized his vehicle and videotapes containing footage of members of the Native Youth Movement as they protested the development of Sun Peaks Resort, a ski resort in Sun Peaks, British Columbia, 55 kilometers northeast of Kamloops.

West End, Kamloops

The neighbourhood is located close to a number of significant Kamloops buildings, including the Old Courthouse, Sacred Heart Cathedral, St. Andrew's on the Square, Stuart Wood Elementary School (the city's first school), the Kamloops Museum and Archives and St. Ann's Academy.

Yale—Cariboo

It was abolished in 1914 and the Yale riding name restored, although on a smaller scale and actually without the town of Yale in the riding (it was in Fraser Valley), and also excluding Salmon Arm and Kamloops, which were part of the Cariboo portion of Yale—Cariboo, were re-assigned to the Cariboo riding.


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