Jim Cooperman’s Everything Shuswap: Developing the Region, Cashiers to Communes (Volume 1) offers an integrated regional study examining the geographic, ecological, and human history of the Shuswap Lake watershed. Cooperman traces the physical landscape from its glacial formation through millennia of Secwépemc stewardship, detailing traditional resource harvesting around Switsemalph and the Salmon River delta. The narrative explores early fur trade exploration, the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway through Salmon Arm in 1885, and subsequent waves of agricultural settlement, logging operations, and mid-twentieth-century counterculture communes, framing Salmon Arm as the primary commercial and transport nexus of the watershed.

British Columbia Shuswap Lake Region, Environmental conditions, History, Natural history British Columbia Shuswap Lake Region, Regional geography, Salmon Arm (B.C.) History, Shuswap Lake Region (B.C.) Description and travel, Shuswap Lake Region (B.C.) History

Includes bibliographical references and index. Published in partnership with the Shuswap Sustainable Community Development Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Published in partnership with the Shuswap Sustainable Community Development Society.