Kamloops Heritage Commission Veteran Street Sign Project

The City of Kamloops Heritage Commission has initiated the Veterans Street Sign project to promote public awareness of the City’s heritage.

To honour our veterans the City of Kamloops will add a Poppy symbol to City of Kamloops street signs from a list of designated signs as identified by the Heritage Commission, in partnership with the KMA. The spirit of this initiative is to symbolically express our veneration of the honoured dead, and to observe that we have not forgotten our fallen heroes.

The City of Kamloops sincerely thanks the Royal Canadian Legion for their permission in the use of the Poppy symbol. For more information about the Royal Canadian Legion please visit www.legion.ca.

The City of Kamloops sincerely thanks donors who contributed toward this project, including a grant from the BC Interior Community Foundation.

Lest We Forget.

List of Street Signs and Extended Information

Street Name Origin
After Senator Hewitt Bostock (rancher, politician), provided by Mary Balf 1973, as per City’s Street Naming Policy (council item No. 205).
Veteran
Lieutenant. Alexander Hewitt Bostock, Lord Strathcona’s Horse
Son of Senator Hewitt Bostock
Born January 1, 1893 | Died July 26, 1916

KMA Photo #5991 (1973.052 Bostock Family fonds)
Volunteers, Chase Troop “A” Squadron, 31st Regiment B.C. Horse, August 14, 1914.
Left to right: Billy Wicks, Bob Leggitt, David Chase, N. Cummings, A. Bostock, Whitfield Haldane, Dan Haldane, Walter Montgomery, and Ernie McBryan.
Street Name Origin
After George Alexander Clapperton (came to Kamloops from Nicola 1900, North Kamloops in 1906, brother of John) and family. Clapperton Road is on the site of George Clapperton’s former ranch site.
Veteran
Sgt. Russell Haigh Clapperton, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Son of John A. and Isabel Clappterton, Barnhartvale
Died December 16, 1944

RMR No. 1 Platoon (Signals)
Back row: Private W.D. Turner, Private G.E. McCauley, Private R.P. McKee, Private G. Walters, Private G. Greenlees, Private K. Elliot, Private A.L. Whitney, Private J. Lamont, Private R. Coatsworth.
Middle row: Private G. Winter, Private A.E. Cork, Private T. Geddie, Private A.R. Kung, Private J.C. Beswick, Private G. Potter, Private R.H. Clapperton, Private W.A. Hunt, Private M.H. Renyard.
Front row: Private J. Wickwire, Private A. Money, Private J.B. Dyck, Private T.J.M. Bennetts, Sergeant J.E. Phelps, Lieutenant D. Sutherland, Lance Corporal J.L. Harling, Corporal C. Porter, Corporal J.A. Sawicki, Lance Corporal A. Gill, Private J. Corner.
Street Name Origin
After William Hargraves, sr. (arrived ca. 1888, blacksmith, hardware merchant, theatre owner, alderman, etc.), provided by Mary Balf 1973, as per City’s Street Naming Policy (council item no. 205).
Veteran
Sapper William Hargraves, Canadian Engineers
Son of William and Ellen Hargraves, Kamloops
Born October 23, 1876 | Died August 29, 1918

KMA Photo #447
William Hargraves, Jr. in November 1916, who engaged in the hardware business with his father before going overseas in World War I where he lost his life.
Street Name Origin
Likely named after Albert McGowan, who was a prominent member of Kamloops society in various regards.
Veteran
Albert McGowan, Commanding Officer of Rocky Mountain Rangers

KMA Photo #3065 (T.J. Bartlett and J. Spratt collection)
5th B.C. Light Horse (Kamloops Squadron) en route for Merritt about 1922. Taken at Stump Lake at the T.G. McBride house which has sine burned down.
The following are likely pictured: A. McGowan, R. Normand, Doug Ross, Howard Ross, Charlie Hadlow, R.C. Ross, Angus McLeod, Father Madden, and Keith Winterbottom.
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Street Name Origin
After Ernest T.W. Pearse (early settler of Grande Prairie), provided by Mary Balf 1973, as per City’s Street Naming Policy (council item no. 205).
Veteran
2nd Lieutenant. Walter Josiah Pearse, Royal Horse Artillery
Son of Ernest T.W. and May C. Pearse of Kamloops
Died April 9, 1917

KMA Photo #4463
Walter Pearse in 1916, not long before he was killed in action. He had previously been a Rhodes Scholar.
Street Name Origin
After Overlander George Christie Tunstall, as per council vote 1912 (see Sept 13, 1912 Sentinel). Other source says Dr. Simon Tunstall (CPR doctor).
Veteran
Pte. Marmaduke Christie Tunstall, Canadian Infantry
Son of Simon Tunstall, second cousin of G.C. Tunstall
Born May 12, 1892 | Died September 27, 1916

KMA Photo #955 (Mrs. Thomas Whitmore collection)
High School class of 1908.
Back row: Harold Treswell, Harold Walkley, George Taylor, Richie Macdonald, Ralph Walker, Marmaduke Tunstall, Lynn Herchmer, Dallas Slavin, Harry Macnab, John Hunter, Percy Elder, Gordon Wood, Elwell Walker;
Third row: Willie Carment, Myrtle Loney, Grace (Bunty) Penzer, Retta Macdonald, Mr. R.F. Logan (Asst. Principal), Ethel McCannel; Before Miss McCannel is Mr. Frank Smith (Principal). After Miss McCannell, Jessie Macdonald, Dorothy McLean, Isabel Crawford, Harry Wilcox;
Second row: Beatrice (Trixie) Vicars, Bessie Manson, Bertha Loney, Vera Palmer, Ethel Whitmore, Elsie Howell, Edna Austin, Marian Palmer, Lima Petite, Reta Armour;
First row: Tottie Irwin, Lillian Dundas, Ethel Austin, Annie Howell, and Nellie Klemmer.
Street Name Origin
Possibly named after E. Stuart Wood, provided by Mary Balf 1973, as per City’s Street Naming Policy (council item no. 205).
Veteran
Lieutenant. Norman Clarke Wood, 17th Tank Corps
Son of Edward Stuart and Gertrude Clarke Wood (Kamloops educator)
Born February 23, 1893, Kamloops, BC | Died September 2, 1918

KMA Photo #161 (E. Stuart Wood collection)
Captain Norman Clarke Wood, killed in action September 1918. Photograph taken in London by W.G. Parker & Co.