“The road was such poor shape that people had to drive slow,” City of Kamloops parks manager Jeff Putnam said. “But because it’s in good shape now, we’ve had to put some speed bumps in.” Completion of improvements to the McArthur Island ring road came in on budget and slightly ahead of schedule, according to Putnam. The first phase of the project one portion of the ring road reconstruction, from the old golf course clubhouse to the arena was completed last summer and the city completed the remainder of the road this spring, at a cost of $350,000. In addition to reconstructing the road, the city also fixed up pathway that runs parallel to the road.
An image outlining the locations shows one site to the left of the Riverside Park pier, two sites between the pier and the Sandman Centre parking lot and one site directly to the north of the Sandman Centre parking lot. “Not to our surprise, there was intact deposits throughout the park,” LeBourdais said. “Even though these were just sort of a limited area where our testing was conducted, we recovered some incredible data.” LeBourdais said the sites show continuous occupation of the land for up to 4,000 years. Diagnostic and historic artifacts were recovered, including one that showed social gatherings occurred in that area.