Kamloops-North Thompson.
3 candidates, one seat.

Simpcw First Nation writes on its website that Simpcw is one of the 17 campfires (bands) of the Secwe̓pemc, or Shuswap Nation. It names its territory Simpcwúl̓ecw and says the territory covers 5,000,000 hectares, from south of McLure to Kakwa Park in the north, and from west of Goat River to east of Jasper, with the whole of the North Thompson Valley inside it. The Nation has over 900 members, many of whom live in Chu Chua, where its main village stands. Simpcw people speak the western dialect of Secwepemctsi̓n, the language of the Secwepemc or Shuswap people.

The Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band calls itself the home of the Pellt'iq't People on its website. The Province's page for the band places it on the North Thompson River, 18 km north of Kamloops, and lists it as a member of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council. That page says the council's member bands are in discussions with the Province about land and resource use and take no part in the B.C. treaty process. It lists forest consultation and revenue sharing agreements signed in 2017 and 2021, an economic development agreement from 2009 and a mountain pine beetle agreement from 2007.

BC Geographical Names records the name Chu Chua as adopted on 11 August 1921, with a post office open there from 1 October 1907 to 30 December 1967. It gives two translations written down by missionaries. Father Joseph E. Guinard rendered the name as little rivers, and Father Jean-Marie Le Jeune rendered it as a creek rushing among rocks. Simpcw First Nation names Chu Chua as the place of its main village.

The Rocky Mountain Goat reported in 2016, citing Celia Nord, archives coordinator for Simpcw First Nation, that a northern Simpcw reserve mapped near Tete Jaune Cache in 1905 was abandoned after complaints from miners, settlers and others. In August 1916, as many as 60 people were forced by the government to travel to Chu Chua and live on the main reserve. The report adds that the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 killed many of the northern people who had just arrived. Simpcw invited the public to a commemoration on 13 August 2016.

On 12 April 2022 Simpcw signed the Tcwesétmentem: Walking Together Agreement with the Province, which the Province calls B.C.'s first community agreement under section 92.1 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act. On 16 July 2026 Simpcw and the Province announced a consent-based decision-making agreement for the assessment of the Yellowhead Copper Project, proposed by Trekor Metals Limited in Simpcwúl̓ecw. Both Simpcw's consent and a provincial environmental assessment certificate are required before the proposed mine can go ahead. Ku̓kwpi7 (Chief) George Lampreau said it was the first time Simpcw had applied its consent process to a major project.

The Barriere Star Journal reports, citing H.H. Bancroft, that two French Canadian gold seekers panned for gold in 1857 in the river they named the Barriere. BC Geographical Names says the name Barriere is of French origin and was adopted on 11 August 1921, the same day as the name of the Clearwater River. For the Clearwater River the record says the name appears on Trutch's 1871 map of British Columbia, and that W.B. Cheadle may have first used it on his expedition of 1862 and 1863, when he wrote that his party came to a large clear river. The North Thompson River is named for the explorer David Thompson, and the record says the Canada Gazette of 14 October 1865 called it North River.

Parks Canada says the Canadian Northern Railway used the Yellowhead Pass after 1906. In the valley, the Barriere Star Journal says the first Barriere post office opened on 1 February 1914 and that Canadian Northern passenger service started in 1915. At Clearwater the Raft River post office opened on 16 June 1910, the railway station opened between 1921 and 1923, and the post office took the name Clearwater Station on 1 February 1926. A note in BC Geographical Names says rancher Daubney Pridgeon proposed the name Navenby for the Vavenby post office, after his birthplace in Lincolnshire, and that postal officials read his N as a V. The Vavenby post office opened on 1 June 1910 and the station was built 2 1/2 miles to the east. Celia Nord says the railway cut the Simpcw reserve in half and affected its irrigation.

Westsyde began as one of the four blocks into which the British Columbia Fruit Lands Company divided its North Shore land. The Wren News reports that the company incorporated in England in 1909 and bought 2,700 hectares, and that by 1912 its irrigation and power systems reached every block. The article places Westsyde in the second block, after Noble Creek. It says a new water system serving North Kamloops, Brocklehurst and Westsyde was not working until 1960.

Farther up the North Thompson, the Heffley Creek post office opened on 1 June 1905 and took the name of Adam P. Heffley, a rancher in the area, while the railway station was named Heffley. BC Geographical Names places Rayleigh on the Canadian National Railway, on the east side of the river and south of Heffley Creek. It places Dallas 13.5 km east of Kamloops, now inside the city boundary, and says settler veterans chose the name at a meeting in 1955. The name honours Dallas Johnson, who farmed there from 1902 until after the Second World War, when much of his land was bought for settlement under the Veterans' Land Act.

The B.C. Wildlife Park, at 9077 Dallas Drive, gives its own account of its start. John Moelaert proposed a zoo to the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce on 15 February 1965, and the Greater Kamloops Zoological Society was formed on 31 March 1965. Molson's Breweries donated 106 acres of land on 11 February 1966, and the first exhibits opened to the public on 16 August 1966.

BC Geographical Names says Chase is named for Whitfield Chase (1820 to 1896), a native of New York state who came west over the Oregon Trail in 1852. In 1865 he established a ranch where the South Thompson River runs out of Little Shuswap Lake. The Village of Chase says on its history page that he was the first non-native settler to farm and raise a family in what was then called the Shuswap Prairie.

The village's history page says the Adams River Lumber Company was formed on 2 July 1907 by J.P. McGoldrick and A.J. Lammers. The mill started in 1908, and the first lot in the Chase townsite was sold on 5 May 1908. The mill ran from 1908 to 1925, cut 30 million board feet in 1910 and employed over 300 men at that time. BC Geographical Names records that the Chase post office opened on 1 October 1908.

Chase was incorporated as a village municipality on 22 April 1969. A boundary change in February 2005 added a satellite area at Adams Lake.

BC Geographical Names says Mount Tod was adopted as a name on 3 November 1932 and honours John Tod (1794 to 1882), a Hudson's Bay Company employee who was chief trader at the company's post in Kamloops from 1842 to 1851. Sun Peaks Resort says on its website that Tod Mountain was established in 1961 and that its change into Sun Peaks Resort began in 1993. The resort calls Al Raine its first mayor and says he arrived in 1994 to help shape the master development plan.

The record for Sun Peaks says the name was created by the developers of the ski resort on the south face of Mount Tod. Their proposal to rename the mountain, made to improve promotion in Europe, was rejected. Sun Peaks was adopted as a community name on 9 April 1997 and became a recreational community on 2 March 2005. It was incorporated as a mountain resort municipality by Order in Council 159 of 25 March 2010, effective 28 June 2010, under the name Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality.

The Barriere Star Journal says a carelessly dropped cigarette butt started the McLure/Barriere wildfire on 30 July 2003. The newspaper counts 72 residences and nine businesses lost, including the Tolko mill, Barriere's largest employer, and says 45 fire departments with just under 500 firefighters joined the fight. The provincial Firestorm 2003 review lists the McLure fire as starting on 31 July 2003 at McLure and Barriere, with a final size of 26,420 hectares. Its table also lists two fires that started at Chase: McGillivray on 1 August 2003, which reached 11,400 hectares, and Venables on 16 August 2003, which reached 7,635 hectares. The review team held nine days of public meetings in Barriere, Kamloops, Chase and five other towns. It says the interface fires of that summer destroyed 334 homes and forced more than 45,000 people to leave their communities.

Barriere and Clearwater both became district municipalities in December 2007. BC Geographical Names gives the Barriere date as 4 December 2007 under Order in Council 654, and the Clearwater date as 3 December 2007 under Order in Council 652. On 11 April 2025, at a community forum in Chu Chua, the two districts signed memoranda of understanding with Simpcw First Nation, according to The Rocky Mountain Goat.