KAMLOOPS

Kamloops, city in southern British Columbia, Canada, at the junction
of the North and South Thompson rivers. Kamloops is a transport and
commercial centre. Principal industries in the area include forestry,
crop farming and ranching, food processing, oil refining, copper
mining, tourism, and wood and pulp production. The Flathead, (also
known as the Salish) were the first people to live in what is now
Kamloops. Europeans established a trading post at the site in the
early 19th century. Kamloops was incorporated as a city in 1893. North
Kamloops merged with Kamloops in 1967. The new, expanded city was
incorporated in 1973. Its name is derived from a Salishan term for
“meeting of the waters”. Population (1986) 61,773; (1991) 67,057