Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 11: an 1896 flood)
Today’s bit of information comes from the Chinook paper, although not in Chinook Jargon…
It’s part of Kamloops Wawa‘s reporting on an enormous flood and the damage it inflicted:
Moreover, four big bridges on this Thom[p]son River were carried away, that at Lytton, at Spence’s Bridge, at Ashcroft and at Savona. The one at Kamloops escaped, but suffered great damage. Notwithstanding all this, the journey of the Reverend Superior General suffered no delay, and he arrived at Kamloops on the 17th of June, a few hours only beyond the appointed time. The Indians at Kamloops, having been warned of his coming, came to welcome him the same afternoon. Next day the Reverend Father went to visit the Industrial [residential] School, and the transit had to be made in a canoe, driving [horse & carriage] being made impossible on account of the high water.
— from Kamloops Wawa, August 1896, #143, page 170
