Tulameen
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Tulameen is an unincorporated community in the Similkameen region of south central British Columbia, Canada. On the lee side of the Canadian Cascades, the village is north of the Tulameen River, west of Otter Creek, and at the foot of Otter Lake. On Coalmont Rd, the place is by road about south of Merritt and northwest of Princeton.
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- Locality
- Area H (Manning Park/Tulameen/Siwash)
- Region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 200
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Canada
- Elevation
- 920.5
- Image
- Gregg's House - panoramio.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name origin
- History
- Fur trade era
- Pioneer itinerants and settlers
- Rebirthed community
- Railway
- Forestry
- Notable people
- Later community
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
Tulameen is an unincorporated community in the Similkameen region of south central British Columbia, Canada. On the lee side of the Canadian Cascades, the village is north of the Tulameen River, west of Otter Creek, and at the foot of Otter Lake. On Coalmont Rd, the place is by road about south of Merritt and northwest of Princeton.
==Name origin== Initially called Otter Flat, the location was later renamed after the river, which was originally designated as the north fork of the Similkameen River by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) but as Tulameen by First Nations. Tulameen means "red earth", referring to the large deposits of red ochre in the valley. First Nations used this for dyeing fabrics and for war paint.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tulameen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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