This Week At The Resort

Where Rivers Meet...

Kumsheen is an Indian word meaning "meeting of the great waters." It's an appropriate name, considering it's deep in B.C.'s Fraser Canyon where two big rivers meet: the Thompson and Fraser Rivers.

In the spring the Thompson gathers the melting snow from over 56,000 sq. km and fills its banks. An average spring runoff is 3000 cms (cubic meters per second) or 95,000 cfs (cubic feet per second).

Simon Fraser named the river after his friend, cartographer and fellow explorer David Thompson.

The first recorded descent of the lower Thompson was in October 1828. Governor George Simpson of the Hudson Bay Company used canoes and a wooden boat to run the river from Kamloops to Lytton, continuing down the Fraser to Fort Langley. After a dangerous run, Simpson declared the Thompson and Fraser to be unnavigable.

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