Talk:Kamloops

Tod Mountain Ranch

I removed this listing since it won't be open until Spring 2009 (per their website). Once it's open, it should be worked into the Kamloops or Sun Peaks article as it looks like it will be a worthwhile listing. (WT-en) Shaund 00:11, 5 January 2009 (EST)

• <do name="Horseback Riding/Guest Ranch" alt="Tod Mountain Ranch" address="3968 Heffley-Louis Creek Road" directions="45 mins from Kamloops; 15 mins from Sun Peaks)" phone="250-578-8869" url="http://www.todmountainranch.com" hours="" price="" lat="" long="">Adult oriented guest ranch offering horseback riding vacations in the summer months (May - October). In the winter months, offers affordable accommodation close to Sun Peaks Ski Resort and only 5 mins from the Cahilty snowmobiling trails. Accommodation is in cute cabins and the main lodge has a magnificent stone fireplace, stunning views down the valley, a fab games rooms with pool table, shuffleboard, card table, board games etc. Rates are all inclusive of meals and accommodation and all on-site activities. www.todmountainranch.com </do>

Testing now, that URL gives me a site selling water pumps. Pashley (talk) 02:57, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm creating a redirect from Tod Mountain to the Sun Peaks article which mentions the mountain but not this resort. That is perhaps not a good long-term solution. Can anyone improve it? Pashley (talk) 08:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Deletions

Removing things that seem to me irrelevant in a travel guide, & preserving them here.

From the Understand section:

An alternative origin sometimes given for the name may have come from the native name's accidental similarity to the French "Camp des loups", meaning "Camp of Wolves"; many early fur traders spoke French. One story perhaps connected with this version of the name concerns an attack by a pack of wolves, much built up in story to one huge white wolf, or a pack of wolves and other animals, travelling overland from the Nicola Country being repelled by a single shot by John Tod, then Chief Trader, thus saving the fort from attack and granting Tod a great degree of respect locally.

From History section:

The rival North West Company established another post - Fort Shuswap - nearby in the same year. The two operations were merged in 1813 when the North West Company bought the operations of the Pacific Fur Company. After the North West Company was forced to merge with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821, the post became known commonly as Thompson's River Post, or Fort Thompson, which over time became known as Fort Kamloops. The post's journals, kept by its Chief Traders, document a series of inter-Indian wars and personalities for the period and also give much insight to the goings-on of the fur companies and their personnel throughout the entire Pacific slope.

Soon after the forts were founded, the main local village of the Secwepemc, then headed by a chief named Kwa'lila, was moved closer to the trading post in order to control access to its trade, and for prestige and security. With Kwalila's death, the local chieftaincy was passed to his nephew and foster-son Chief Nicola, who led an alliance of Okanagan and Nlaka'pamux people in the plateau country to the south around Stump, Nicola and Douglas Lakes.

Relations between Nicola and the fur traders were often tense, but in the end Nicola was recognised as a great help to the influx of Europeans during the gold rush, though admonishing those who had been in parties waging violence and looting on the Okanagan Trail, which led from American territory to the Fraser goldfields. Throughout, Kamloops was an important way station on the route of the Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail, which connected Fort Astoria with Fort Alexandria and the other forts in New Caledonia to the north (today's Omineca Country, roughly), and which continued in heavy use through the onset of the Cariboo Gold Rush as the main route to the new goldfields around what was to become Barkerville.

Pashley (talk) 02:55, 13 April 2023 (UTC)