Similkameen Country

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The Similkameen Country, also referred to as the Similkameen Valley or Similkameen District, but generally referred to simply as The Similkameen or more archaically, Similkameen, is a region roughly coinciding with the basin of the river of the same name in the

The name "Similkameen" is said to have originated from the Similkameigh indigenous people of the region, meaning "treacherous waters".[1]

Although the

The Similkameen is one of several historical regions of British Columbia whose foundations and settlement lay in the days of the Colony of British Columbia, and was one of the first areas of the province prospected as well as farmed and ranched. The area has seen a number of famous gold strikes and large mining operations, notably the Tulameen Gold Rush of the 1880s and 1890s and the Nickel Plate Mine at Hedley, but also including coal at Blakeburn and Coalmont, and copper at Allenby and Copper Mountain, all of these locations in the vicinity of Princeton.

Orcharding and ranching are important to the Similkameen Country, with orcharding and ranching operations in the

• Keremeos
• Princeton
• Tulameen
• Cawston
• Coalmont
• Hedley

First Nations

The Similkameen Country is mostly in the traditional territory of the Similkameen subdivision of the

See also

• Princeton Light & Power

References