SALMON ARM

SALMON ARM

Is a small city, located on the Trans-Canada Highway, at the head of the southern arm of Shuswap Lake geographically located roughly halfway between Vancouver and Calgary.

The city’s name comes from its location on a arm of Shuswap Lake, which gets its name from the once plentiful numbers of salmon that swarmed up the tributaries that drain into Shuswap Lake. Despite being home to the Shuswap First Nations people, It first came to life in 1888, when the first white settlers arrived who worked here during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Salmon Arm is now mostly a tourism-based community with many camping and house boat rental facilities available mainly during the summertime months and is also home to well over 20 provincial parks and recreation areas on Shuswap Lake.

Salmon Arm is considered to be the Shuswap Lake region’s largest incorporated community and it was in 2005, that Salmon Arm celebrated its 100^th year as a incorporated community and thus in the same year it became incorporated as a city.

The city boasts a campus of Okanagan University College which offers a wide variety of diploma programs in many professions.

Forestry, dairy farming, and agriculture are also very important to Salmon Arm’s economy.

The Salmon Arm Silverbacks, a British Columbia Hockey League team play their home games in the city and Dave Scatchard, a former professional hockey player, who used to play for Vancouver Canucks and New York Islanders, is originally from Salmon Arm.   

Salmon Arm’s population: 14,664