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250-year-old hunting lodge, Grade II-listed training site and former colliery office amongst unusual polling stations

250-year-old hunting lodge, Grade II-listed training site and former colliery office amongst unusual polling stations
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Trading in Kamloops during the early days - Kamloops This Week

Joseph William McKay was an enterprising and active employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He was also a government official. The 1860s was a transition period for Kamloops and area. The Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade was giving way to a mercantile economy supplying miners, ranchers, and entrepreneurs. The Fraser River and Thompson River Gold Rush was still in force and the Cariboo Gold Rush was about to unfold.

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Kamloops History: The smallpox epidemic of 1862

An epidemic swept the coast in 1782, recounted by navigator George Vancouver. Smallpox scars on individuals had been observed by Simon Fraser on his exploration down the river in 1808 which may be linked to that earlier epidemic. In 1781 another epidemic crossed the Great Plains, and again in 1837, travelling up the Missouri River and northward beyond Fort Edmonton. That epidemic prompted the Hudson’s Bay Company to disseminate vaccines to its fur trade posts and ensure its personnel were trained to use the vaccine, most commonly in scab form. The HBC vaccination efforts were focused on Indigenous groups who traded furs with the company. But the HBC was reactive rather than proactive in vaccinating the Indigenous population.

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