West End of Kamloops

The West End is an inner-city, South Shore neighbourhood of Kamloops, British Columbia in Canada. It is the city's oldest residential neighbourhood and has the largest proportion of heritage-designated buildings, including Kamloops' oldest public building, St.

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Type: Suburb with 3,440 residents
Description: neighborhood of Kamloops, British Columbia
Also known as: “West End” and “West End, Kamloops”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Overlanders Bridge and Kamloops station.

Overlanders Bridge

Bridge

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The Overlanders Bridge is a bridge that spans the Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia. It connects Fortune Drive and Tranquille Road in the north with Victoria Street in the south.

Kamloops station

Railway station

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Kamloops station is a railway station in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It previously served as the overnight stopover point for the Rocky Mountaineer train service to Jasper and Banff from Vancouver.

Yellowhead Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Yellowhead Bridge or the East Kamloops Bridge is a road bridge in Kamloops, British Columbia. It carries Highway 5 over the South Thompson River. It was completed in December of 1968 and has a length of 179.2 metres, not including a preceding railway overhead on the south side of the river. Yellowhead Bridge is situated 3 km east of West End of Kamloops.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kamloops and North Kamloops.

Kamloops

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Kamloops is a city of 98,000 people in the central interior of British Columbia. It is billed as the Tournament Capital of Canada. It has hosted Strauss Canada Cup of Curling, Skate Canada, World Fly Fishing Championships, Tim Horton's Olympic Qualifying Bike Race, and World Junior Hockey Championships.

North Kamloops

Suburb

Photo: Silver Dovelet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

North Kamloops is a neighbourhood and former town located in the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. It is located immediately to the northwest of Downtown Kamloops across the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers.

Knutsford

Suburb

Knutsford is a neighbourhood of the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, located on the south side of that city just west of Peterson Creek. It is named for Knutsford, Cheshire, by Robert Longridge, who took up ranching in the area in 1912. Knutsford is situated 6 km south of West End of Kamloops.

West End of Kamloops

Categories: neighborhood and locality
Location: Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola, Thompson-Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

50.6738° or 50° 40′ 26″ north

Longitude

-120.34583° or 120° 20′ 45″ west

Population

3,440

Elevation

465 metres (1,526 feet)

Open location code

942XMMF3+GM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2428330720

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

13512590

Wikidata ID

Q7985033

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Satellite Map

Discover West End of Kamloops from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“West End of Kamloops” goes by many names.

Chinese: “西區”
Chinese: “西端”
Japanese: “ウェストエンド”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Lower Sahali and Downtown Kamloops.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Connaught Tot Lot and Grandview-Dufferin Park.

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