Category: History
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Sharing food, feeding hope: A look at the Kamloops Food Bank
Mission: Sharing food. Feeding hope; Vision: We believe in a hunger-free community; our Values: Respecting, integrity and compassion. These things are the basis of the Kamloops Food Bank today. It all began in 1981 when Hank Woodland established the Kamloops Food Bank via the Kamloops United Church with the goal of assisting people experiencing difficulty…
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The heritage sign marking the former location of the Red Bridge.Yesterday and gone: A history of the Red Bridge
Now, it is a big empty space. A long chain link black fence surrounds part of the Rivers Trail and Pioneer Park walking path. Instead of dogs and people there now stand cranes and vehicles and workers. People still go for a walk via the Rivers Trail. They walk their dogs. They walk in groups…
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Kamloops has always been a newspaper town
LONG AGO, before there was a Kamloops Chronicle, a man named Michael Hagan decided Kamloops would be a good place to publish a newspaper. Hagan was a teetotalling entrepreneur who left Ireland in the late 1870s, soon landing in B.C. where he started a paper he called the Inland Sentinel in the Fraser Canyon in…