News Items tag as: Kamloops History

YEAR IN REVIEW: 'Glamazon' flowers, WWII naval bunkers and a radio telescope among the cool places we visited this year
December 31, 2016 - 1:00 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - You may see them everyday, or have never heard of them before, but these are the places that we went and saw this year.
Archival footage gives a snap shot of 1930s working life in Kamloops
December 01, 2016 - 6:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - The Royal B.C. Museum has released a piece of footage showing a slice of life in Kamloops from the late 1930s.
Historic Kamloops train robbery to be celebrated at local winery
May 03, 2016 - 8:00 PM

BILLY MINER LOOK-A-LIKE CONTEST TO HIGHLIGHT ANNIVERSARY EVENT
Mapping war memorials throughout the Southern Interior
March 31, 2016 - 8:00 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - There are thousands of war monuments and memorials across the country and the Southern Interior alone is home to more than two dozen of them.
Chinese cemetery remains a cornerstone of Kamloops history
March 26, 2016 - 11:30 AM

KAMLOOPS - When Chinese Consul-General Liu Fei encouraged Kamloops’s Chinese community to explore and preserve their heritage in the city in 2013, Elsie Cheung went right to work on the most egregious omission — searching for the records from the Chinese Cemetery, the final resting place for many of the community's earliest settlers.
VIDEO: What Kamloops looked like in the 1950s
March 27, 2015 - 12:59 PM

KAMLOOPS - Sixty years ago, Kamloops was a budding community that looked far different from what it is today and lucky for us someone was smart enough to use video to preserve historical images for future generations.
Corduroy, double knits and extreme weather: What Christmas was like 50 years ago
December 25, 2014 - 9:31 AM

KAMLOOPS – Fifty years ago in Kamloops the gifts, clothes and news were different, but the holiday spirit was just as strong as today’s.

In a look back at the Kamloops Daily Sentinel from December, 1964 the hot ticket items to gift for kids were dolls for girls and trucks or model kits for boys.

The best–selling “Claudette doll” whose eyes opened and closed when you rocked her back and forth was on special at the Hudson’s Bay for $4.49
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FUHR: The Value of Remembrance
OPINION As both a Veteran and a Member of Parliament my thoughts this week have been on the value of remembrance. Veterans Week provides us with the opportunity to pay tribute to the more than 113,000 Canadians

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News Items tag as: Kamloops History

YEAR IN REVIEW: 'Glamazon' flowers, WWII naval bunkers and a radio telescope among the cool places we visited this year

Archival footage gives a snap shot of 1930s working life in Kamloops

Historic Kamloops train robbery to be celebrated at local winery

Mapping war memorials throughout the Southern Interior

Chinese cemetery remains a cornerstone of Kamloops history

VIDEO: What Kamloops looked like in the 1950s

Corduroy, double knits and extreme weather: What Christmas was like 50 years ago

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