Fraser-Nicola.
3 candidates, one seat.

The district holds the territory of several Nations. Lytton First Nation says its 56 reserves, with 14,161 acres, lie at the site of the village of Kumsheen, meaning "where the Rivers Cross". The Village of Lytton gives the Nlaka'pamuxcin name as Tl'ḵémtsin and says the Nlaka'pamux have lived there for ten millennia. The Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council says Nlaka'pamux communities are part of the Nlaka'pamux Nation, and that its members hold Nlaka'pamux title and rights. Coldwater Indian Band, near Merritt, calls itself a member of the Nlaka'pamux Nation and says the Nation's territory stretches from the Fraser Canyon and Princeton in the south to Cache Creek and Kamloops in the north. The Scw'exmx Tribal Council lists Coldwater, Nooaitch, Shackan and Upper Nicola, and says its communities in the Nicola Valley are of the Nlaka'pamux and the Syilx peoples. The Province lists Lower Nicola Indian Band as a Nlaka'pamux band with 1,463 members.

In the northwest, the St'át'imc are the people of the land, a name the Nation gives as Ucwalmicw. The District of Lillooet says the St'át'imc are the original inhabitants of a territory that extends north to Churn Creek and south to French Bar. St'át'imc Government Services places Xaxli'p 15 km from Lillooet, and says the Fountain Valley and adjacent lands are the basis of its survival. It calls the Tsal'alh "the people of the lakes" on Seton and Anderson Lake. Xwísten says its territory includes the entire watersheds of the Yalakom and Bridge Rivers. Ts'kw'aylaxw describes its vision as healing in body, mind and spirit.

In the south are Stó:lō communities. Seabird Island Band uses the Halq'eméylem name Sq'éwqel, "turn in the river", and says the Indian Reserve Commission set the island aside in 1879 as a reserve for seven First Nations bands. Leq'á:mel First Nation, at Deroche, means "the level place where people meet" and says it was once one of the most popular trading stops in Stó:lō territory. Shxw'ōwhámél First Nation, near Hope, says its name means "where the river levels and widens". Yale First Nation says its territory runs from the Fraser Valley along the river to the start of the Fraser Canyon, in sixteen parcels of reserve land. Canada, British Columbia and Yale First Nation signed a Final Agreement on 11 April 2013, with treaty lands of 1,966 hectares.

Parks Canada says a Hudson's Bay Company post with a stockade was built at Hope in 1848 and 1849, facing the Fraser River. The company needed a new supply route after the 1846 boundary settlement made the Columbia River unsuitable. Goods came up the Fraser, then went by pack train to Kamloops and on to Alexandria for the company's posts in New Caledonia. Parks Canada designated the site a national historic site on 15 May 1925. The Canadian Encyclopedia gives Hope's start as a company post at the western end of the trail from Fort Kamloops.

Gold shaped the year 1858 here. Xwísten says its members earned income that year by selling beans, wheat, oats and potatoes to miners passing through Lillooet, and that smallpox devastated the community in 1862. Seabird Island Band says its English name comes from 1858, when the paddle steamer Sea Bird ran aground near the island.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says Britain proclaimed the Fraser River area part of the Crown Colony of British Columbia on 2 August 1858. On 9 August a tense situation between miners, mainly American, and the Nlaka'pamux erupted into war, and miners gathered at Fort Yale, downriver from Nlaka'pamux territory. The war ended on 21 August with a truce. On 22 August Captain Henry Snyder held a council at Kumsheen with Chief David Spintlum (Sexpínlhemx) and 11 other chiefs. The encyclopedia says there was no further violence after it. The Village of Lytton says that in 1858 the Hudson's Bay Company buildings were moved to Tl'ḵémtsin and Governor James Douglas renamed the settlement after Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the secretary of state for the colonies.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says Lillooet was first called Cayoosh Flat, after the cayuse, a pony, and was renamed Lillooet in 1860. The town became Mile 0 on the original road to the Cariboo goldfields, until the road from Yale was finished in 1863. Some 16,000 gold seekers were outfitted there. The encyclopedia says the single largest deposit of gold found anywhere in British Columbia lay in the valley of the Bridge River, and that the last mine there, Bralorne, stopped operating in 1971.

Lillooet first became a municipality in 1946, as a village. It became the District Municipality of Lillooet in 1996. The District of Lillooet acknowledges that its land is on the unceded territory of the St'át'imc Nation. St'át'imc Government Services places Xwísten on the Bridge River, north of Lillooet, and Tsal'alh on Seton and Anderson Lake.

The City of Merritt says William Henry Voght entered the Nicola Valley in 1865 and returned in 1872 to take up land at the forks, where the Nicola and Coldwater rivers meet. BC Geographical Names records that before 1905 the place was called Charters, The Forks, Forksdale and The Forks of Nicola. It was renamed Merritt in August 1906, after William Hamilton Merritt, a mining engineer from Toronto.

The city says coal mining became a major industry and continued until the 1930s. Merritt was incorporated as a city on 1 April 1911. BC Geographical Names lists its later changes: a village municipality on 1 January 1958, a town on 1 January 1965 and a city again on 15 December 1981.

Coldwater Indian Band describes how its people met the newcomers. It says that when settlers arrived in Nlaka'pamux territory in the first half of the 19th century, its ancestors willingly entered economic relationships, and took on ranching, farming and work on the railroad.

The communities on the north bank of the Fraser grew up around the Canadian Pacific Railway, farms and a hot spring. The Village of Harrison Hot Springs says the opening of the railway brought the lakeside springs within a short carriage ride of the main line. John Brown began building the St. Alice Hotel in the summer of 1886, and it opened on 1 November that year. The village was incorporated in May 1949 with 2,020 acres, the largest area of any village in the province at that time. Sts'ailes, a Coast Salish First Nation, says its ancestors have lived on these lands since time immemorial.

At Agassiz, the federal government chose the site of the British Columbia Dominion Experimental Farm in 1887, one of the first five in Canada. Title to 300 acres was obtained in 1889. The farm included part of the original Agassiz family estate. The Canadian Encyclopedia says Kent was incorporated as a district municipality in 1895 and contains Harrison Mills and Agassiz, the main population and commercial centre. The District of Kent says its first reeve was A. St. George Hammersley and its first clerk was Harry Fooks.

Historic Places Canada says the five Othello Tunnels near Hope were built in 1914 for the Kettle Valley Railway, a Canadian Pacific line. The railway ran until a washout in 1959 and was abandoned in 1961. The tunnels became part of Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park in 1986.

The Coquihalla Highway followed much of that route. The Canadian Encyclopedia says it runs through the Cascade Mountains along the Coquihala and Coldwater rivers, following earlier cattle trails from 1876, the Kettle Valley Railway and later pipelines. The 115 km section from Hope to Merritt opened in May 1986. The 80 km section from Merritt to Kamloops opened in September 1987, and the 108 km section from Merritt to Kelowna in October 1990. A public inquiry found the highway cost two-thirds more than the budgeted $250 million.

Mining also built a town. The Canadian Encyclopedia says Logan Lake was built to house the employees of the Highland Valley Copper Mine, which it calls the largest open-pit copper mine in North America, and that the first 100 families moved there in 1971.

Lytton recorded 49.6 degrees Celsius on 29 June 2021, according to Global News, which broke the previous Canadian record of 45.0 degrees. A wildfire swept through the village on 30 June. The Village of Lytton says it destroyed most of the village and the downtown, caused two deaths and displaced residents. Global News reports that the fire destroyed 90 percent of the town's buildings.

In November the same year, heavy rain flooded the Nicola Valley. CFJC Today reported that on 15 November the whole City of Merritt was placed under an evacuation order. Flood water covered two bridges over the Coldwater River and the wastewater treatment plant could not work. Residents with odd-numbered houses were sent to Kamloops and those with even-numbered houses to Kelowna. The Province says a rainstorm brought an unprecedented amount of rain to British Columbia that month, damaging Highways 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 19 and 99. It says repairs to Highway 8 in the Nicola Valley took almost five years across 25 damaged sites.