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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first permanent European settlement in Kamloops. In September of 1812, David Stuart of the Pacific Fur Company and a small group of French-Canadian voyageurs arrived at the site of present-day Kamloops. In a few short days, they had constructed a simple trading post.

This was not Stuart’s first visit to Kamloops. The year before, Stuart and other employees of the Pacific Fur Company had begun a journey into the interior of what is now British Columbia from Astoria, on the Oregon coast. Astoria had been established as a trading post by the Pacific Fur Company, founded by John Jacob Astor, a wealthy American fur-trader and businessman. Astor was determined to establish his company on the Pacific coast to take part in the profitable maritime fur trade.

Stuart and his men spent the fall of 1811 and part of the following winter among the hospitable Secwepemc people, and decided that Kamloops was an ideal location for a permanent trading post. Stuart returned to Astoria to report to his partners and superiors and received their permission to construct a post. Shortly after, Stuart left Astoria with a supply of trade goods, arriving at Kamloops in September of 1812. This was the first permanent European settlement in the region, and the beginning of the modern day city of Kamloops.

Shortly after Stuart built his post, fur traders from the Northwest Company arrived and built a competing post, across the South Thompson River on the site of the current Tk’emlups Reserve. The European presence in the region was now a fact.

To commemorate this historic event and to celebrate 200 years of shared history between Kamloops and Tk’emlups, the Kamloops Museum & Archives is organising several special events, workshops, contests, and exhibits that will be held at the Museum and all over town. For more information and a calendar of events, contact the Kamloops Museum at www.kamloops.ca/200years or call 250.828.3576.

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Some say Canadians are not a patriotic bunch. I say, bull. We are as coun-try-loving a nation as any other, even the mightiest of flag wavers, our neighbours

to the south.We just don’t wear our patriotism on our sleeves.

We might not burst into song when we hear a band strike up O Canada, nor do we salute the flag and clutch our chests as the Maple Leaf rises up a pole.

We love being Canadian on the inside. It’s that sense of quiet (but strong) patriotism

that drives the popularity of Adam MacKay-Smith’s wildly popular Johnny Canuck videos. The series of short vignettes tells the story of the Vancouver Ca-nucks hockey team through the playoffs, using bits of dramatic analogy to spin the tale. (Read MacKay-Smith’s story on page 8 of this issue of Currents.)

The Kamloops filmmaker saw viral success with his series in 2011, as the Vancouver Canucks came within a hockey stick’s splinter of winning the Stanley Cup. His followup series this year didn’t last as long. Better luck next year.

MacKay-Smith does cool work. Let’s hope he continues with his Johnny Canuck series, which celebrates Canadiana as much as it does the playoff fortunes of the Vancouver Canucks. It’s important we have those quiet, distinct ways to celebrate who we are as a nation, and as individuals within it.

This weekend is Canada Day, our national holiday, celebrating 145 years of Confederation. If past years are an indication, expect 25,000 or more Kamloops residents at Riverside Park to mark the event. It’s as good as sign as any that we love our country, that we will give up some of our valuable time off to join with others in community celebra-tion of our national identity.

For those who don’t make it down to the park this year, however, don’t sweat it. That’s the great part of Canadian-style patriotism, we get to live it in our own way. Just feel it, enjoy it, that inner sense of being Canadian. Appreciate what it means to be a Canadian. Value the benefits, and accept the responsibility that comes with them. Believe in the national strength our small country possesses, even in a world of powerful giants.

And cheer on MacKay-Smith’s Johnny Canuck, as he (hopefully) rises once more next year to face, well, who knows who or what. He will succeed, eventually. Canadians always do.

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5 Lifestyle: The Yoga LifeMen are discovering the synchrony of mind, body and spirit

8 Cover Story: Johnny Canuck RebornA Kamloops filmmaker brings Canadian icon back to life

11 Homes: Dream Home DelightsThis year's stunning grand prize has potential winners abuzz

14 On the Fly: Outside PursuitsWhere does our passion for the outdoors come from?

16 The Gallery: Rosanna McDonnellArtist has new appreciation for stained glass

17 Food & Drink: Tasty TroutTerence Berke knows how to lure hungry guests to Roche Lake Resort

20 History: Flash Back 100 YearsWhat was Kamloops like with only 3,500 residents?

22 Q&A: Life in CanadaThe Otto family has much to celebrate on July 1

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oN ThE CovEr:Filmmaker Adam MacKay-Smith as iconic lumberjack Johnny Canuck. Photo by Sven Boeker

A sampling of happenings in the Kamloops region

Kamloops Interior Summer School of MusicJuly 9 to 27The Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music (KISSM) is taking registrations for this summer's three-week summer music camp. KISSM inspires children, teens and young adults through the universal language of music. Our programs are designed for students aged 5½ to 18 years old, and we have more than 50 classes at a variety of levels. There is something to suit everyone, including choir, piano, strings, cello, band, percussion and musical theatre. Please check out our website or contact us for more information. www.kissm.ca or check out our Facebook page.

Junior Golf Camp @ Sun PeaksJuly 11 to 13Sun Peaks is hosting Junior Golf Camp for youth age six to 18. Pre-registration is required with a $159 fee.

29th Annual Shuswap Lake Festival of the Arts @ Sorrento Memorial HallJuly 14 to 22The festival showcases more than 100 artists from the Shuswap and surrounding areas. An estimated 300 pieces or more of artwork will be on display from paintings, pottery and sculpture to photography and fabric arts. This is a juried show. This week-long event hosts an art workshop, live entertainment and a children's day from 10 a.m. to noon on July 18. As well, there is a spectacular gift shop. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, except July 21, when the show is open until 9 p.m. and July 22 when the hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. An admission is charged for the show and workshop but there is no charge to browse the gift shop.

Kamloops Highland Games @ Albert McGowan ParkJuly14This festival will be the host for many activities including Scottish heavy athletics, highland dance and music performances, solo piping, drumming and band competitions, clan genealogy information, children's activities and much more.

Inaugural Kamloops MarathonJuly 28 and 29The Kamloops Marathon scenic course includes some spectacular views of the Thompson Rivers while running along the Rivers Pathway trails of Kamloops. Starting at McArthur Island Park is like running through a mini Stanley Park. The route also includes the legendary Riverside Park which is very beautiful part of Kamloops and don't forget the beauty of the turnaround at the Dunes Golf course. Race lengths — 5K, 10K, 21K and 42K

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alking into Charlie Bruce’s 9 a.m. yoga class at the North Shore YMCA-YWCA, you might ques-tion that men’s yoga participation is on the rise in Kamloops. Floating alongside a sea of women, there are just two male cross-legged lotuses soak-ing in the experience.

Not overly surprising, especially considering the fact that men overall tend to shy away from group fitness settings in favour of more sports-based training or individual conditioning, says Bruce.

Put those two brave souls into a class percent-age, however, and you get 17, a number that aligns closely with what’s going on across North America.

According to a recent poll, 23 per cent of yoga practitioners are male, somewhat ironic consider-ing that the postural yoga similar to what is prac-tised today emerged in the 1920s as a way to train Indian boys in strength, discipline and focus.

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“Using your own body as resistance can be just as intense as pumping iron, maybe even more."Dwight Ergang, owner of Kamloops Hot Yoga.

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Dwight Ergang and Joe Picton work through a series of yoga poses at Ergang's Laval Crescent yoga studio.


But with high-profile athletes like Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, LeBron James and Barry Zito extolling yoga’s virtues, more men are slipping off their sneakers and exploring the synchrony of mind, body and spirit that keeps yogis, in Bruce’s words, “smitten” by the poses he now considers “old friends.”

“Human beings are made to be in motion. I want to celebrate what (the) body can do (through) the ebb and flow of yoga, and that’s a wonderful thing,” says Bruce.

Abraham Salmon, a competitive beach volleyball player and Urban Systems engineer in Kamloops, started yoga a year and half ago as a way to round out his flexi-bility and balance training. Initially, he caught some flack from other teammates, but introduced a yoga workout at one group-training session anyway. The result — an instant convert who now practises every week.

And Salmon’s conversions continue. Because of his ef-forts, on any given Monday lunch hour you can find him and his fellow employees flowing through the warrior poses and relaxing into downward dog as a way to rev up for the afternoon.

Says Salmon: “You feel like your day starts again, like you did something productive for your day and your mind.”

In Stephen Webb’s Victoria Street yoga studio, men are sometimes as much as half the class, although typically, the male-to-female ratio is more like one in four. Webb and his wife own Bikram Yoga, which sees people work through a set routine of yoga poses in a heated room.

Webb said he still meets many men who are reluctant

to try yoga, thinking they are not flexible enough, or that yoga mostly involves sitting with crossed legs while meditating and chanting.

They are wrong on both counts. Eastern-based yoga focuses more on the spiritual aspects of yoga, Webb said, and saying you are not flexible enough to try yoga is like claiming you are too hungry to eat. “Practising yoga makes you more flexible. You get better.”

Once men understand the physical challenge yoga of-fers, their competitive instincts often kick in.

“Once they realize they can improve and get better at it, they have a reason. They say to themselves, ‘I want to get better,’ and they keep coming out,” Webb said.

There is another aspect to yoga that sometimes gets men’s attention. Yoga is a great place to meet people, Webb said, and in an environment where there are more women than men, the attraction seems obvious.

“I wouldn’t sell it as a dating place, but it’s a great place to meet people and make friends. And sometimes friends become more than friends,” Webb said.

When several chronic injuries weren’t healing, Dwight Ergang, at the urge of his doctor, left sports and accepted a personal trainer’s invite to try hot yoga. Within six months, Ergang had his full range of motion back and nine years later, owns Kamloops Hot Yoga.

Twenty per cent of his clients are men, and Ergang ac-knowledges that men are “slowly starting to realize that (yoga) is a real workout.”

The guys who come to him are generally looking for something different, not just increased weight or more reps. What they learn is that using your own body as resistance can be just as intense as pumping iron, maybe even more.

Tie that together with gains in cardiovascular endur-ance, decreases in injury and, if you crank the heat, some serious detoxification, chances are good that more men will be toting two mats as they step into the yoga studio, one for the girl who invited them and one for them-selves, Ergang said.

Some will walk grudgingly, others with trepidation, and a few with anticipation, as they experiment on that first class. Perhaps a courageous handful will even stride in alone, poised to embrace the mantra deep voices across the city and country collectively repeat — real men do yoga.

"I wouldn't sell it as a dating place, but it's a great place to meet people and make friends."Stephen Webb, left, at his studio

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hen he was a kid, Kamloops filmmaker Adam MacKay-Smith had a postage stamp with a cartoon Johnny Canuck

on it.He kind of knew who the

rugged logger with the flannel shirt, distinc-

tive beard and moustache was, appreciating

at least in a small way that Johnny Canuck

was a personification of Canada, in the same

way Uncle Sam is the United States.MacKay-Smith never knew, however, that

decades later he would take on the mantle of

Johnny Canuck and become this generation’s

living image of the great Canadian icon.“It’s a huge honour, to be honest,” said

MacKay-Smith.For those who live in caves, MacKay-Smith

is the Johnny Canuck seen in a popular series

of short homemade videos in which Johnny

Canuck personifies the Vancouver Canucks

in the team’s (ongoing) playoff quests for the

Stanley Cup.The film series was born in 2011, when the

Canucks made their nearly successful run for

the Stanley Cup.

W Filmmaker Adam MacKay-Smith, who portrays Johnny Canuck

in a series of homemade videos, just shaved the trademark

beard and moustache. "It's strange without them," he says.

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In a series of vignettes — all of them filmed almost entirely around Kam-loops — MacKay-Smith told the story of the Canucks’ trip through the playoffs by showing how Johnny Canuck battled against a series of opponents represent-ing the Blackhawks, the San Jose Sharks and, ultimately, the Boston Bruins.

We know how history turned out. Van-couver was defeated in Game 7, prompting bitter disappointment on the part of fans, and even a riot. For MacKay-Smith, last year’s Stanley Cup final game was cause for another metaphor-laced tale, which he called the Heartbreak of Johnny Canuck.

And this year, he continued his series with The Unfinished Fight. MacKay-Smith had hoped it would be the start of another series of vignettes in which Johnny defeats various characters, but the Vancouver Canucks’ playoff dreams ended quickly with a first-round loss to the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the Los Angeles Kings, sending MacKay-Smith’s Johnny Canuck back to Kamloops’ deep woods.

“I was hoping to release this year’s film four days into the first series, but I had to rush to get it done before they got kicked out,” he said.

The majority of the sequences in all the films were shot around Kamloops, he said. The cabin in the first film is MacKay-Smith’s own, the caves and waterfalls in the second instal-ment is in Peterson Creek and the grizzly bear was B.C. Wildlife Park’s Shardik.

Most of the characters in the films are his friends. Some of them have been involved in his film ventures for decades. (MacKay-Smith and his buddies filmed a Jackass-like series around Kamloops 20 years ago called Euphoria Emporium, which was picked up for a short while by MTV. It featured classic impromptu skits like, “When I’m naked, I’m free” and the “Drunk Jr. High Olympics.” All 18 episodes of the 30-minute show can be bought as a DVD online for $25, with all proceeds going to charity. Find the clips and online store at www.euphoriaemporium.com.)

MacKay-Smith says he’s not the Ca-nucks mega-fan some assume he must be.

“I get called super fan all the time, but I’m not. I love the Canucks but I’m not one of those guys who worship hockey. I don’t own a jersey. It’s more about the films.”

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“I love the Canucks but I'm not one of those guys who worship

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Adam MacKay-Smith at his cabin, the site of his first Johnny Canuck film.


continued from Page 9And he gets to show his films to

20,000 fans at Vancouver Canucks games. The series he’s created has gained him ground with the Canucks organization, which is currently nego-tiating with him to produce more for future seasons. If a deal doesn’t work out, MacKay-Smith said he’s not sure if he will revive the Johnny Canuck char-acter for next year’s hockey season. Of course, he said that last year as well.

“I couldn’t help myself (this year), you see these story lines, those key cool points in the season and they just feed into the story line,” he said. “I love the story, it’s about the underdog who fights back.”

He admits he would love the chance to make a film that finally sees Johnny Canuck overcome and win, conceding the tale of the underdog’s fight will eventually wear thin.

“I would love to tell the story about what Johnny does when he wins, but then (they lose) and I have to start again with another comeback,” he said, laughing.

And Johnny Canuck’s future doesn’t have to be tied to the on-ice fortunes of the Vancouver Canucks, MacKay-

Smith realized. He has other ideas for the iconic lumberjack, perhaps even a feature film.

A short entry on MacKay-Smith’s website hints at possible futures: “When I imagined this iconic charac-ter of Johnny Canuck and researched his 140 years of existence, I realized that his character didn’t have a whole lot of depth. Sure, he was easy to grasp and likable but beyond hard working and humble, his character was wide open. From experience I’ve learned that all great characters have history,

flaws, instincts. . . .”Johnny Canuck

may not have found the attention this year he had in 2011, when MacKay-Smith figures more than seven million people saw that first short film. Regardless, this season’s experience once again cemented in MacKay-Smith’s mind the importance and value of an icon like Johnny Canuck.

“I get a lot of people who tell me they just love (the charac-ter) and these movies,” he said. “It’s like remembering the history of Canada in a film, of being proud of Canada, showing the beauty of it without bragging about it. That’s what Canada is about, loving what you got without necessarily mak-ing sure everyone else knows you love it.

“All great characters, they embody what people want to believe about themselves. Johnny Canuck works hard, and never gives up. That’s huge.”

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Tickets for the Grand Prize Dream Home worth $767,200 are selling quickly, particularly once people have taken advan-tage of the self-guided tours that run Wednesday to Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“This is wonderful. I could live here,” said Susan Poulsen, after a leisurely look through the house.

And that’s say-ing something since she and her husband Jim have an established home they love on a large property in Dallas.

“I like the overall feel of the place, the flow and the openness,” said Jim. “It does very much have a Tuscan feel about it.”

Both he and his wife also are impressed with the func-tionality of the home that makes use of every bit of space with lots of storage.

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Pat Lebeau is enthusiastic about the house from top to bottom.

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Sahali residents Urb and Enid Rolin looked out the up-stairs window over the famous Sun Rivers view. They know about wide expanses, having their own spectacular pan-orama looking north.

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I wonder sometimes where I got my desire — my need, even — to chase things. Why do

I like to fish and hunt, or shoot pictures of deer with my camera? I have no idea, and it baffles my family as well, since none of them has it much.

I’ve always had the outdoors bug. Living on the fringes of northern Ontario as a kid, I would disappear for hours at a time into the forest on the farm with the rental house where we lived. The property had a great mix of hardwood and pine forests, open fields and even a decent pond and marsh, which the owner one year stocked with trout.

Back then, I cut up young maple trees to make sling-shots, using elastic bands to provide the snap. I had a desire to hunt stuff, which my parents did their best to squelch. My mother caught me once after I sneaked out a sharp kitchen paring knife to carve up a spear. It seems I wanted to hunt a chipmunk or something. She didn’t ap-prove, and I learned the hard way how much.

In Grade 8, however, my dad handed me a single-shot 12-gauge shotgun, along with a requirement if I was going to hunt, I needed to get a hunt-ing licence. I enrolled in the obligatory conservation cours-es and took the tests, which is a wonderful process for kids, since it teaches so much about ethics. I’ve hunted since, al-though never with my father, who never quite understood what it was all about.

Which brings me back to my original question — where does it come from? Certainly, it was not instilled in me by rearing. I didn’t have friends who fished or hunted. Some of my friends showed similar predilection for outdoor pursuits, but my own was not driven by theirs. Is it genetic? Humans, of course, have been hunters for as long as we have been on the planet. We hunted before we gathered.

Is my desire linked to some ancient gene on my DNA?

In the end, I have no idea, and am not certain that I ever will know. I do know that being in the bush brings me a peace I can’t get else-where. There is no other kind of silence that quietens my brain like the stillness of a fir forest on the side of a moun-tain in November, when the sky is dark, snow threatens and deer are about.

At the same time, there is no other environment that sharpens my senses as much as that same moun-tain, when I’m walking quietly with my rifle on my shoulder, and the day is alive with the feel of a hunt.

No doubt some will sneer and deride it all as the lunatic raving of a brutish killer, for that is what hunters are to some in our society — brutes who have not been taught well by their parents. We don’t need to kill for ourselves, they argue, the meat indus-try delivers us all we need, nicely packaged and ready for con-sumption.

It’s true, we don’t need to hunt. The meat indus-try is efficient. I can buy what I need, although doing so, at least to my thinking, doesn’t morally separate me from the actual killing. Paying someone else to kill for me is commis-sion of the act by proxy.

Yes, I hunt and fish because I like it, but also be-cause something mysterious in me — perhaps some deep, unknown resonating echo to our past — feels a need. And that’s good enough for me.

Robert Koopmans is the editor of Currents. He can be reached

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Slowly, she is beginning to create again. Listening to her talk passionately about what each colour choice or detail represents in her work, or to see her hold up a finished piece for the first time, it’s

easy to understand how difficult it was for her to lose that creative outlet.

“Over the years I have learned to respect glass and what it is capable of, however, I find myself pushing its limits. I am continually learning new techniques and developing my glass-art skills. For me, stained glass is not a forgiving medium, but it is the perfect medium to bring the ideas in my mind to light.”

She prefers to use the copper-foil method, a technique made popu-lar by L.C. Tiffany at the turn of the century. It requires wrapping each piece of glass with copper foil and soldering them together. She says

this method can be used as an alternative to lead, to make the panel or window lighter for hanging.

McDonnell believes: “Glass alone is art, and a fin-ished piece of stained glass is essentially two pieces, as they show a different illumination in different light; dusk is more subtle then the vibrant colours of the day.”

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populations of wild (or stocked) Kamloops rainbow trout. And trout can be downright yummy, provided we handle and cook them right, which leads us to this month’s feature.

Terence Berke is a certified Red Seal chef in his second season as head chef at Roche Lake Resort near Kamloops. Not surpris-ingly, rainbow trout is a mainstay item on his menu (although he is quick to point out regulation prevents him from serving wild-caught trout; his fare comes from a commercial trout farm). Still, he often cooks Roche Lake trout when guests catch them and

ask him to cook the fish for their dinner. He adds that the cooking techniques and principles are the same for all kinds of trout.

One of the keys to producing top-rate table fare is to clean the fish as soon as possible after it is killed and get it quickly on ice. There is nothing to be gained and much to be lost by leaving a trout laying in the bottom of a metal boat in the hot summer.

He recommends eating trout fresh, usually the same day. Trout are best cooked fast in a pan with hot oil. If a fish needs to be frozen, the preferred method is to vacuum seal it and freeze it as quickly as possible. Commercial trout farms kill, clean, package and flash freeze trout within minutes.

Berke acknowledges some lakes, especially warm-water summer lakes, produce trout with a muddy taste. It’s hard to do much to remove the muddy taste (caused by a kind of algae), he noted, meaning it’s best to catch and release when fish are likely to be affected.

Berke said anglers should learn how to fillet trout and re-move all the bones, including the fine pin bones that run perpen-dicular to the fish’s ribs. He said a filleted two-pound trout will provide dinner for two people. He doesn’t worry about removing the fish’s skin, as the scales on trout are extremely fine.

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1. Cook the rice, which will form the bed for the finished trout. Berke said he prefers sticky white sushi rice.2. Heat a pan with a little bit of vegetable oil on the stove. Dust the trout fillets liberally on both sides with wasabi powder. Place the fillets skin down in the hot oil. Cover.3. Mix a little of the wasabi paste in a half-cup or so of mayon-naise, adjusting for personal taste. Wasabi is a kind of horseradish and is quite hot. Some people like it more than others.4. Pour some soy sauce in a bowl, add a little liquid honey, and stir. Again, adjust the amount until it tastes good to you. 5. Sauté the fresh vegetables (any combination of fresh summer veggies, including beans, zucchini and peppers is nice) in the hot oil, cooking just enough but not too much. The vegetables should

keep their snap.6. Cook the fish a few minutes on one side, and flip to the other side. Do not overcook the trout. The goal is flaky and slightly opaque. The wasabi powder (which has the consistency of flour) will take on a golden appearance.7. Serve the fish on the bed of rice (which has been drizzled lightly with some of the soy-honey sauce). Drizzle some of the wasabi mayo across the fish (best done by putting the sauce in a restaurant-like squirt bottle), as well as the soy-honey sauce.8. Garnish with a few sprouts of fresh chives, and serve the lightly sauteed vegetables on the side.

• Cooking time, less than 20 minutes.

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Wasabi- crusted trout is one of Terence Berke’s favourite recipes, which also can be found on the menu at Roche Lake Resort.

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Home to 3,500 residents, Kamloops in 1912 was a bustling city in the throes of expansion. With $850,000 worth of building permits issued in 1911, the steady tapping of hammers marked progress throughout 1912.

In addition to raising the walls of the city’s first high school at Sixth and St. Paul streets, Royal Inland Hospital was built at its current location. Invited to Kam-loops as part of the city’s cente-nary celebrations, Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught (and son of Queen Victoria) officiated the opening of RIH.

Enthralled by the royal’s visit, City council moved to have Battle Street renamed in his honour. Though property owners nixed the street-renaming initiative, a nameless road in the city’s west end was designated to commemo-rate the monarch’s 1912 visit. And with considerably less fanfare, six additional streets were named in honour of individuals associ-ated with Kamloops’ early history, namely Cowan, Douglas, Fraser, Munroe, Penzer and Tunstall.

Lining city streets were resi-dential lots selling for as low as

$500, keeping the city’s 18 real-estate dealers hopping. For those looking to rent rather than build, $8 rented a room for a month and $25 for an average-size house. Outfitted to provide everything the average person needed, “from infant layette to the casket for the ashes of the aged dead,” the 1912 cityscape featured five churches, five hotels, two movie houses, 10 restaurants, a cigar factory, roller rink and 100 other shops and services, all kept humming by 22 kilometres of electric wiring and 21 kilometres of water mains.

A stroll through the city’s downtown, afoot 13 kilometres of newly-laid concrete sidewalks, might have involved a stop at the

Maple Leaf Theatre for a silent Mutt and Jeff comedy, followed by an enchilada at the B.C. Tamale and Chile Restaurant, or a four-course meal (for a quarter) at the newly-opened Quill — the Silver Grill Café’s predecessor. Following the lead of cities in Ontario, 1912 Kamloops merchants unani-mously adopted a program in which each Wednesday afternoon was declared a holiday during the summer months, affording shop-keepers much appreciated time off for rest or recreation. Such free time often meant indulging in a favourite sport, be it baseball, la-crosse, cricket, polo, rifle shooting or horse racing at the Fruitlands Racetrack.

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For Geoffrey Otto, an immigrant from Uganda, Canada has provided much in the way of oppor-tunity. But there have been challenges, too, largely related to adapting to cultural differences and rais-ing a family in social structures that value more

individual privacy and autonomy than community support.Regardless, Otto wants Canadians to know we should

value what we all have here, because so many in other parts of the world are envious. He plans to address the crowd at the Canada Day festivities at Riverside Park, and share ex-actly what Canada — and being Canadian — means to him.

Q. When did you come to Canada?A. I came to Canada in 1991, and I became a citizen in

1995. I come from a little place called Adilang, in northern Uganda. I was born in Kitgum hospital in 1970. I came here on a family reunification program. My brother came here in 1981. He was a doctor in Toronto.

Q. Why did you want to come here?A. It was because of the conflict in Uganda, since 1971.

Our village had already been abandoned. Our house was burned down in October 1987. The rebels and the army took our cattle. My father lost 150 head of cattle, and about 100 goats and sheep.

I was glad to have the chance to come to Canada. The first thing (that’s important) is to not have the situation you were in. Here, you do not have (soldiers) knocking on your doors, telling you to open up the doors. The security agen-cies in Uganda — the police and the army — are as much a problem as the rebels. They do the same things, they rape, they beat and take people to jail without any cause. It’s more like abduction.

My father was picked up from our home by the rebels. He was held for about two weeks. He was a medical practitio-ner, which is why he was saved. If he was like any other person, he might not have come out alive.

Q. What did you do in Canada when you arrived?A. Some of my family went back to Uganda not long after

but I chose to stay because I was going to university. I am grateful for Canada but it was not an easy process either.

Q. do you feel accepted here?A. People make us feel welcome, but are we included

equally? I don’t know. Many people tell me I must be grate-ful to have come to Canada, but it’s not easy, too.

My wife (she came to Canada in 2011 with the couple’s three children, all of whom were born in Uganda) is a doc-tor but she cannot practise here. How are you supposed to survive financially and raise a family? The challenge is to

get her in medicine, which is her chosen profession. It takes a very long time.

Q. Will your kids be more successful here than if you raised them in uganda?

A. I believe so. The challenge we are facing is the family unit, the lack of extended family, the support systems, it’s entirely different here. We are with the kids 24/7 here, and in Uganda that would not be. Here, families are so inde-pendent. Raising a family here is totally on the parents. In Uganda, you have so much more support from extended family.

I have come here for my family. The sacrifice we go through is to see our children succeed. My five-year-old talks already about going to space. We want to see that through.

Q. What will you tell people at Canada day?A. What I want to say is that we should be glad to be

living in a country like Canada. We have a free education system here. In Uganda, (education) is free, too, but people study under trees and stuff like that. We don’t see a reason for there to be any dropouts here, compared to the hard-ships students endure to study in Uganda.

The advantage of living here is that everybody seems to get along. You can find a church and a mosque and a syna-gogue side by side. Everybody comes out of their churches and respect each other.

In Uganda, we have 35 different languages spoken by different groups, each with their own tribal customs and way of life, all different and distinct. It’s hard to get along as well because of the politics and religion. It’s that divide that makes living in Uganda hard. After all these years, the stories we get from home are often still negative.

The Otto family, clockwise from top left, Jacinta, Geoffrey, Jema, 8, Geoffrey jr., 5, and Aldo, 10-months.

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