Dallas, Kamloops
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Name origin
It was named for Alexander Grant DallasAlexander Grant Dallas
Alexander Grant Dallas was Chief Factor of the Columbia District and New Caledonia fur districts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1857 to 1861, then Chief Factor of Fort Garry in what was to become Manitoba from 1862 to 1864. He was later the Governor of Rupert's Land...
, also the namesake of Dallas Road in Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
, who was the son-in-law of Governor James Douglas
James Douglas (Governor)
Sir James Douglas KCB was a company fur-trader and a British colonial governor on Vancouver Island in northwestern North America, particularly in what is now British Columbia. Douglas worked for the North West Company, and later for the Hudson's Bay Company becoming a high-ranking company officer...
and agent for the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...
in colonial British Columbia and Vancouver Island, serving also as Chief Factor of Fort Garry
Fort Garry
Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar. Fort Garry was named after Nicholas...
from 1862 to 1864.