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(9 miles north of Salmon Arm on Salmon Arm-Sicamous Highway)
This beautiful lake takes its name form the Shuswap Indian, northernmost of the great Salishan family and the largest tribe in Interior BC. Once numbering over 5,000 these people were fishermen and hunters. They roamed in bands through a vast land of lakes and forest stretching 150 miles to the west, north, and east.
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(Near Blue River)
In July 1863, Lord Milton and r. Cheadle laboured through this rugged mountain pass on a trans-continental tour. The Englishmen, travelling ‘for pleasure’, with an Indian guide and his family, completed the arduous trek form Yellowhead Pass to Kamloops in 42 days. The doctor’s journal of the trip is now a classic in the province’s historical records.
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(8.8 miles east of Chase)
The Adams River contains the most productive spawning beds in BC. Each fall the river teems with crimson sockeye salmon.
To the Indian, the fur-trader, and the first settlers, the advent of the ‘run’ could mean life itself.
The continuance of this age-old spawning cycle will bring millions of dollars each year to the people of the Pacific Northwest.
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“OVERLANDERS” OF 1862
(1 mile south of Louis Creek)
It has been an epic struggle against the wilderness for the gold-seekers from Eastern Canada.
They had crossed the Rockies, trekked through pathless forest, and won the swift rapids of the North Thompson River. The open country now offered hope and safe passage. Ragged and starved, they reached Kamloops where many became pioneer farmers.
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(10 miles north of Spences Bridge)
Canada’s third trans-continental rail link was completed near Basque on January 23, 1915. In a simple ceremony the last spike was driven, witnessed by a small group of engineers and workmen. The line later became part of the Federal Government’s consolidated Canadian National Railways system.
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