Tulameen, British Columbia
| Tulameen | |
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 Tulameen
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| Coordinates: 49°32′45″N 120°45′30″W / 49.54583°N 120.75833°WCoordinates: 49°32′45″N 120°45′30″W / 49.54583°N 120.75833°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 British Columbia
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| Elevation | 920.5 m (3,020.0 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 250 |
| Postal code | V0X 2L0 |
| Area code(s) | 250, 778 |
This article is for the community of this name. For the river and region that is its namesake, see Tulameen River.
Tulameen, originally known as Otter Flat, is a small community in British Columbia, Canada, about 26 kilometres northwest of the town of Princeton on the Crowsnest Highway (Hwy 3), and about 185 kilometres east-northeast from the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Located at the south end of Otter Lake and just north of the Tulameen River, it is on the lee side of the Canadian Cascades mountain range and enjoys a slightly semi-arid climate, sheltered from the heavy rains west of that range.
The locality was known in fur trade times as Campement des Femmes (Woman's Camp, known as Tseistn in the native language) which was located in present day Tulameen, was native encampment of women while the men went hunting. In the decades of exploration of the remote areas of the province following the creation of the Colony of British Columbia in 1858 and the flurry of exploration of back-country engendered by the nearby Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, prospecting activity led to the discovery of gold in 1885 near the confluence of Granite Creek with the Tulameen River, near present-day Coalmont, about 8 km south of Tulameen and about 18 km. north-northwest of Princeton, which lies at the confluence of the Tulameen and the Similkameen River. Around the site of the find, the boomtown of Granite Creek (also known as Granite City) sprang from nowhere to celebrated status overnight, and was touted (as with so many other BC boomtowns) to become the next great city of the new province - and claiming for itself the status of third-largest town in the province .
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