"The Founding of Kamloops: A Story of 100 Years Ago"

[David Robertson]

by M.S. Wade, published in that town by Inland Sentinel Press in 1912.

Toward the end of the book:

"Within the [Hudson's Bay Company] fort dwelt the chief trader with his
Indian wife and their three children, half a dozen men and a halfbreed
boy.  Protected only by this small force, a large stock of trinkets and
supplies of all kinds were kept on hand with which to trade with the
Indians, to the number of several hundred, who made Kamloops their trading
point.  Seven tribes traded here, coming from Kootenay, Okanagan,
Similkameen, and other distant illahies for that purpose."

Thought you'd be interested.

LaXayEm!
Dave (the clerk)


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