City of Salmon Arm Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia
City - A populated place with legally defined boundaries, incorporated as a city municipality under the provincial Municipal Act. SW end of Shuswap Lake, E of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District
Mapped Location
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Information
General information on City of Salmon Arm
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Salmon Arm
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Salmon Arm | Official |
Origin Notes and History of City of Salmon Arm
References to City of Salmon Arm that document the origin of its place name
Incorporated as a District municipality 15 May 1905. "Salmon Arm (Municipal District)" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, p.357, as labelled on BC map 1EM, 1915. Salmon Arm (District Municipality) confirmed 6 May 1954 on 82L/NW. Re-incorporated as a City Municipality per Order in Council 89, 11 February 2005, effective 14 May 2005, to be known as City of Salmon Arm.
"Takes its name from Shuswap Lake's southwest arm, which in turn was named back in the days when the salmon swarmed up its creeks and river in such numbers that the settlers pitchforked them out of the water and used them for fertilizer on their fields." [see also the municipality's own website.]
A Selected Bibliography of City of Salmon Arm, Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Photographic memory Salmon Arm's past in essays and pictures by Denis Marshall
Edited by Denis Marshall, Photographic Memory: Salmon Arm’s Past in Essays and Pictures synthesizes archival photography from the R.J. Haney Heritage Village collections with thematic essays detailing the social, commercial, and structural evolution of Salmon Arm throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The work examines how early mercantile storefronts along Front Street and Alexander Avenue, community halls, and agricultural packing houses were built up along the southern shores of Shuswap Lake, an area long utilized by the Secwépemc for seasonal root digging and salmon harvesting. Marshall documents the transition from subsistence homesteading to an organized commercial fruit-growing and lumbering economy, tracing how local transportation networks adapted from lake steamers to rail corridors and modern highway links. Ultimately, the collection provides a vital spatial and visual record of civic expansion, showing how architectural vernacular and commercial hubs shaped the townscape.
144 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
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Centennial history of Salmon Arm by Ernest Doe
Ernest Doe’s Centennial History of Salmon Arm serves as the foundational civic chronicle documenting the transition of the Salmon River valley and Shuswap Lake shorelines from rural pre-emption tracts into an incorporated municipal district and city. Doe traces how late nineteenth-century homesteading corridors, early wagon roads, and agricultural clearings were established directly across the ancestral lands and seasonal gathering domains of the Secwépemc (Shuswap) people. The narrative details the crucial logistics of frontier community building, illustrating how the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885 catalyzed land settlement, commercial fruit orchard development, and civic governance, leading to the district municipality's formal incorporation in 1905 and subsequent municipal evolution. Drawing extensively upon municipal ledgers, early council minutes, and pioneer oral accounts, the work records the civic institutions, church bodies, and school districts that structured settler society in the interior lake country.
298 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
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Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
- Albas
- Anglemont
- Annis
- Arrowhead
- Balmoral
- Bastion Bay
- Beaton
- Big Eddy
- Blaeberry
- Blind Bay
- Broadview
- Camborne
- Canoe
- Canyon Hot Springs
- Carlin
- Castledale
- Celista
- Craigellachie
- Deep Creek
- Donald
- Eagle Bay
- East Gate
- Edelweiss
- Falkland
- Ferguson
- Field
- Five Mile
- Forde
- Galena
- Galena Bay
- Gleneden
- Glenemma
- Town of Golden
- Harrogate
- Kicking Horse
- Lee Creek
- Magna Bay
- Malakwa
- Mica Creek
- Nicholson
- Notch Hill
- Paradise Point
- Parson
- Ranchero
- City of Revelstoke
- Rogers Pass
- City of Salmon Arm
- Salmon Arm
- Scotch Creek
- Seymour Arm
- Shelter Bay
- District of Sicamous
- Silver Creek
- Six Mile Point
- Solsqua
- Sorrento
- South Canoe
- Squilax
- St. Ives
- Sunnybrae
- Tappen
- Tiili Landing
- Trout Lake
- White Lake
- Woods Landing
- Yankee Flats
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2023-09-27