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Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia in Canada, located at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River near Kamloops Lake. It is the largest community in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the location of the regional district's offices. The surrounding region is more commonly referred to as the Thompson Country. It is ranked 37th on the list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada and represents the 44th largest census agglomeration nationwide, with 85,678 residents in 2011.
Kamloops was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968, and from 1988 to 2004. From 1998 to 2004, it was known as Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys.
Kamloops was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 1903 to 2009. The provincial constituency should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Kamloops, which encompassed a much larger area.
For other ridings named Kamloops or in the Kamloops-Shuswap-Thompson area, please see Kamloops (electoral districts).
Kamloops voted for the winning party in every election it was contested, from the riding's creation in 1903 up until its final election in 2005.
Kamloops is a city in British Columbia, Canada.
Kamloops may also refer to:
- Kamloops Lake, a lake along the Thompson River, British Columbia, Canada
- Kamloops Indian Band or Tkâumlups Indian Band, a First Nations government within the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, Canada
- Kamloops (electoral district), a defunct federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
- Kamloops (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
- SS Kamloops, a lake freighter of Canada Steamship Lines
- Kamloops Airport, an airport in British Columbia, Canada
- Kamloops Water Aerodrome, an airport in British Columbia, Canada
- Kamloops Heritage Railway, a railway in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Usage examples of "kamloops".
But the next day when Banty drove down to Kamloops to meet the train, and his cousin stepped from the sleeper on to the station platform, things looked worse than threatened misery.
They continued west toward Kamloops, and then took the provincial highway north and east deeper into the mountains.
At Kamloops, a far larger town, we would stop at two in the morning very briefly.
The Conductor of the Canadian said that he would radio ahead to Kamloops and both trains would stop there again, when there were multiple tracks, not just the one.
The Canadian would leave Kamloops first so that it fell as little behind its timetable as possible.
We ran presently into Kamloops where the axles were all checked, the radio was replaced, and everything else went according to plan.
Late that night a young doctor rode up from Kamloops, and in his wake a professional nurse with supplies of food, medicines, and exquisitely fresh, clean sheets.
The British Columbian Railway has been constructed from Fort Moody to Kamloops, and is now part of the Canadian Pacific.
Davie Fulton, the brilliant young Rhodes Scholar from Kamloops, British Columbia, very quickly established himself as the procedural expert of the Conservative Party in battling the Liberal move, while Stanley Knowles from Winnipeg, and Colin Cameron from Nanaimo, British Columbia, became the chief spokesmen for the CCF.
May 24, at Kamloops, a lumbering community in the British Columbia interior.
Fulton accepted the offer immediately, though at the time, the Kamloops riding looked like an impregnable Liberal preserve.
Bay Company built or purchased its fleet of flagship downtown department stores in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, opening smaller versions in Kamloops, Vernon, Nelson, Macleod, Lethbridge, Yorkton and Kenora, all of them initlallv successful as the transcontinental railA ays deposited tens of thousands of new customers on their doorsteps.
But under its first editor, a Chicago advertising man named Clifton Moore Thomas, The Beaver limited itself mainly to a hodgepodge of curling scores from the Saskatoon store, news of an engagement in Kamloops, photos of an office picnic in Victoria, the results of a pie-eating competition at Fort ii la Corne, word of new tennis and quoits courts for the Winnipeg staff-all interwoven with hair-raising fur-trade accounts and glued together with bad Irish jokes and harmless homilies on how to increase sales.
Agassiz represents the Fraser delta and Kamloops the southern interior district.
Close to the boundary, shift was made from canoe to pack horse, and, leaving the Columbia, the brigade struck up the Okanogan Valley to Kamloops, bound for the bridle trail up Fraser River.