Salmon Arm

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FieldValue
nameSalmon Arm
official_nameCity of Salmon Arm
settlement_typeCity
image_skylineSalmonArmFromTappen.JPG
image_captionSalmon Arm and Shuswap Lake
pushpin_mapCanada British Columbia#Canada
pushpin_map_captionLocation of Salmon Arm
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameCanada
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1British Columbia
subdivision_type2Region
subdivision_name2Shuswap Country
subdivision_type3Regional District
subdivision_name3Columbia-Shuswap
leader_titleMayor
leader_nameAlan Harrison
leader_title1Governing Body
leader_name1Salmon Arm City Council
leader_title2MP
leader_name2Mel Arnold
leader_title3MLA
leader_name3David Williams
established_titleEstablished
established_date1905
area_total_km2155.19
area_metro_km2165.57
population_as_of2021
population_total19,432
population_density_km2125.2
population_metro19,705
population_density_metro_km2119.1
population_urban16,065
population_density_urban_km2auto
timezonePacific Standard (PST)
utc_offset-8
timezone_DSTPacific Daylight (PDT)
utc_offset_DST-7
coordinates
elevation_m415
postal_code_typeForward sortation area
postal_codeV1E
area_codes250, 778, 236, 672
blank_nameHighways
blank_infoTrans-Canada Highway
website
::

| name = Salmon Arm | official_name = City of Salmon Arm | settlement_type = City | image_skyline = SalmonArmFromTappen.JPG | image_caption = Salmon Arm and Shuswap Lake | pushpin_map = Canada British Columbia#Canada | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Salmon Arm | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = British Columbia | subdivision_type2 = Region | subdivision_name2 = Shuswap Country | subdivision_type3 = Regional District | subdivision_name3 = Columbia-Shuswap | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Alan Harrison | leader_title1 = Governing Body | leader_name1 = Salmon Arm City Council | leader_title2 = MP | leader_name2 = Mel Arnold | leader_title3 = MLA | leader_name3 = David Williams | established_title = Established | established_date = 1905 | area_total_km2 = 155.19 | area_metro_km2 = 165.57 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_total = 19,432 | population_density_km2 = 125.2 | population_metro = 19,705 | population_density_metro_km2 = 119.1 | population_urban = 16,065 | population_density_urban_km2 = auto | timezone = Pacific Standard (PST) | utc_offset = -8 | timezone_DST = Pacific Daylight (PDT) | utc_offset_DST = -7 | coordinates = | elevation_m = 415 | postal_code_type = Forward sortation area | postal_code = V1E | area_codes = 250, 778, 236, 672 | blank_name = Highways | blank_info = Trans-Canada Highway | website =

| Centre = Salmon Arm | North = Shuswap Lake | Northeast = Canoe | East = Sicamous | Southeast = Grindrod | South = Enderby, Armstrong and Vernon | Southwest = Falkland | West = Chase | Northwest = Sorrento

Climate

With a January mean of -2.6 C and a July mean of 20.6 C, Salmon Arm has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb) or an inland oceanic climate (Cfb) with strong maritime influences as a result of its relative proximity to the Pacific Ocean.

| location = Salmon Arm; 1991–2020 normals | source = Environment and Climate Change Canada | metric first = Y | single line = Y |Jan record high C = 14.5 |Feb record high C = 14 |Mar record high C = 19 |Apr record high C = 28.5 |May record high C = 34 |Jun record high C = 42.9 |Jul record high C = 39.9 |Aug record high C = 39 |Sep record high C = 34 |Oct record high C = 25.5 |Nov record high C = 15.5 |Dec record high C = 9 |year record high C = 42.9 | Jan high C = 0.6 | Feb high C = 3.3 | Mar high C = 9.3 | Apr high C = 15.5 | May high C = 21.1 | Jun high C = 24.1 | Jul high C = 28.3 | Aug high C = 27.6 | Sep high C = 21.4 | Oct high C = 12.8 | Nov high C = 5.5 | Dec high C = 0.9 | Jan mean C = -2.6 | Feb mean C = -0.9 | Mar mean C = 3.9 | Apr mean C = 8.9 | May mean C = 14.1 | Jun mean C = 17.3 | Jul mean C = 20.6 | Aug mean C = 19.7 | Sep mean C = 14.5 | Oct mean C = 7.7 | Nov mean C = 2.2 | Dec mean C = -2.1 | Jan low C = -5.6 | Feb low C = -5.1 | Mar low C = -1.5 | Apr low C = 2.3 | May low C = 7.0 | Jun low C = 10.5 | Jul low C = 12.8 | Aug low C = 11.7 | Sep low C = 7.5 | Oct low C = 2.6 | Nov low C = -1.2 | Dec low C = -4.9 |Jan record low C = -31.5 |Feb record low C = -27 |Mar record low C = -19 |Apr record low C = -7 |May record low C = -3 |Jun record low C = -0.5 |Jul record low C = 3.5 |Aug record low C = 2.5 |Sep record low C = -6 |Oct record low C = -18 |Nov record low C = -32 |Dec record low C = -33.5 |year record low C = -33.5 | precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 78.1 | Feb precipitation mm = 37.3 | Mar precipitation mm = 39.4 | Apr precipitation mm = 40.5 | May precipitation mm = 53.4 | Jun precipitation mm = 64.3 | Jul precipitation mm = 43.0 | Aug precipitation mm = 35.2 | Sep precipitation mm = 40.8 | Oct precipitation mm = 61.1 | Nov precipitation mm = 83.1 | Dec precipitation mm = 77.5 | rain colour = green | Jan rain mm = 10.0 | Feb rain mm = 14.5 | Mar rain mm = 28.5 | Apr rain mm = 39.3 | May rain mm = 56.9 | Jun rain mm = 66.2 | Jul rain mm = 44.5 | Aug rain mm = 36.5 | Sep rain mm = 41.6 | Oct rain mm = 60.4 | Nov rain mm = 56.2 | Dec rain mm = 11.9 | snow colour = green | Jan snow cm = 68.6 | Feb snow cm = 22.1 | Mar snow cm = 11.6 | Apr snow cm = 0.8 | May snow cm = 0.0 | Jun snow cm = 0.0 | Jul snow cm = 0.0 | Aug snow cm = 0.0 | Sep snow cm = 0.0 | Oct snow cm = 0.3 | Nov snow cm = 28.0 | Dec snow cm = 71.3 | time day = 15:00 LST |humidity colour = green |Jan humidity = 82.2 |Feb humidity = 73.2 |Mar humidity = 59.8 |Apr humidity = 48.3 |May humidity = 49.7 |Jun humidity = 52.9 |Jul humidity = 45.7 |Aug humidity = 45.6 |Sep humidity = 54.3 |Oct humidity = 67.5 |Nov humidity = 78.3 |Dec humidity = 82.1 | unit precipitation days = 0.2 mm | Jan precipitation days = 13.2 | Feb precipitation days = 7.5 | Mar precipitation days = 10.2 | Apr precipitation days = 10.6 | May precipitation days = 11.3 | Jun precipitation days = 12.6 | Jul precipitation days = 9.5 | Aug precipitation days = 7.8 | Sep precipitation days = 8.6 | Oct precipitation days = 13.4 | Nov precipitation days = 15.6 | Dec precipitation days = 13.8 | unit rain days = 0.2 mm | Jan rain days = 1.9 | Feb rain days = 3.3 | Mar rain days = 8.4 | Apr rain days = 10.4 | May rain days = 11.7 | Jun rain days = 12.7 | Jul rain days = 9.2 | Aug rain days = 7.8 | Sep rain days = 8.6 | Oct rain days = 13.1 | Nov rain days = 11.2 | Dec rain days = 2.6 | unit snow days = 0.2 cm | Jan snow days = 11.3 | Feb snow days = 4.8 | Mar snow days = 2.6 | Apr snow days = 0.26 | May snow days = 0.0 | Jun snow days = 0.0 | Jul snow days = 0.0 | Aug snow days = 0.0 | Sep snow days = 0.0 | Oct snow days = 0.14 | Nov snow days = 5.1 | Dec snow days = 12.1

Demographics

| footnote = Sources: Statistics Canada | 1921 | 967 | 1931 | 1671 | 1941 | 1786 | 1951 | 2389 | 1956 | 3100 | 1961 | 4007 | 1966 | 4801 | 1971 | 7793 | 1976 | 9391 | 1981 | 10780 | 1986 | 11199 | 1991 | 12115 | 1996 | 14664 | 2001 | 15210 | 2006 | 16012 | 2011 | 17464 | 2016 | 17706 | 2021 | 19432 In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Salmon Arm had a population of 19,432 living in 8,106 of its 8,517 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 17,706. With a land area of 155.19 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Ethnicity

::data[format=table title="[[Panethnicity|Panethnic]] groups in the City of Salmon Arm (2001–2021)"] | Panethnic group | 2021 | 2016 | 2011 | 2006 | 2001 | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Total responses | 18,620 | 17,030 | 16,865 | 15,555 | 14,965 | Total population | 19,432 | 17,706 | 17,464 | 16,012 | 15,210 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | European | 16,185 | | 15,260 | | 15,515 | | 14,600 | | 14,075 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Indigenous | 1,410 | | 1,115 | | 1,010 | | 765 | | 560 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | East Asian | 305 | | 260 | | 165 | | 55 | | 195 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Southeast Asian | 245 | | 110 | | 70 | | 30 | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | South Asian | 205 | | 120 | | 45 | | 45 | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | African | 105 | | 100 | | 30 | | 10 | | 35 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Middle Eastern | 75 | | 35 | | 0 | | 30 | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Latin American | 75 | | 25 | | 30 | | 20 | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Other/Multiracial | 10 | | 10 | | 0 | | 0 | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::

Religion

According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Salmon Arm included:

Economy

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Many tourists come to Salmon Arm from Vancouver, Calgary and Asia. Most tourists arrive during the summer season, either stopping en route to other holiday destinations or to visit Shuswap Lake, often via rental houseboats and which has recreation residential communities and campgrounds all around its shores. Salmon Arm has several hotels, campsites and houseboat rental outlets.

Education

Public schools in Salmon Arm are part of School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap; within the city limits, there are currently five elementary schools (kindergarten to Grade 7), one middle school (Grades 6 to 8), and a secondary school with two campuses. Salmon Arm offers early French immersion, late French immersion and outdoor learning programs. Several elementary schools outside the city limits, including one combined elementary/middle school feed into the middle school and secondary school in Salmon Arm. Salmon Arm also offer a private Christian School (Kings Christian School). The current division of education grades between the different categories of schools began in 2007; prior to 2007, elementary schools within the city limits offered kindergarten to Grade 7, followed by two junior high schools with Grades 8 to 10, and a single senior secondary school with Grades 11 and 12. School District 83 also has its administrative offices (located in the town centre) and maintenance complex (located in the community's main industrial park) in Salmon Arm.

Salmon Arm is one of four Okanagan College campuses; it offers a range of academic and vocational programs.

Notable academics with ties to Salmon Arm include David Lethbridge and Mike Worobey. David Lethbridge is a retired Professor of Psychology and the author of Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy. Mike Worobey is winner of the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy for 2009 from Simon Fraser University and is known for research on COVID-19 pandemic beginnings.

Culture

The summer months are when the city experiences its largest fluctuation of population with people on holidays coming to visit the city and surrounding area. During every third weekend of August, the annual Salmon Arm Roots and Blues festival draws large crowds of festival-goers with an international roster of performers. The Festival emerged from the Shuswap Coffee House movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which by 1991 had coalesced into the non-profit Salmon Arm Folk Music Society, the Festival's founding body. From its grassroots beginnings, Roots & Blues has grown into the largest and most musically diverse festival in the British Columbian interior. After two years of virtual festival pre-recorded performances (2020 & 2021), the Festival resumes an in-person event for its 30th anniversary in 2022. There is also the annual Word on the Lake Writers' Festival organized by the Shuswap Association of Writers (SAW). For 17 years it was held at the Prestige Inn in Salmon Arm, though its 2022 venue will be located in Sorrento.

Salmon Arm is home to a multiplex movie theatre (Salmar Grand) and a single screen theatre for movies and live stage performances (Salmar Classic); both are owned and operated by a non-profit community organization, the Salmar Community Association. Additionally, a community theatre society hosts plays and other live stage performances (Shuswap Theatre) in a building across the street from the Salmar Grand multiplex.

The RJ Haney Heritage Park & Museum is Salmon Arm's main museum, and celebrates the history of the region. The museum often offers a dinner theatre program during the summer months, with the theatre component offering plays based on local history.

Salmon Arm is home to a branch of Okanagan Regional Library (ORL), which is currently located in Piccadilly Mall.

The Salmon Arm public art gallery is the Salmon Arm Art Gallery, housed in a historic building owned by the city and operated by Shuswap District Arts Council. The building was originally a post office, and later housed the Salmon Arm branch of Okanagan Regional Library for many years.

Sports and recreation

Large crowds of tourists and locals are drawn to the beaches at Sunnybrae, Canoe, and elsewhere on Shuswap Lake during the summer. The city has many large hotels, as well as berths for a number of houseboats.

The community offers a number of recreational facilities and sports leagues. There are fields for soccer/rugby/football, fields for baseball/softball, as well as a 6 sheet curling rink (SACC), five-pin bowling lanes (lakeside lanes bowling center), several golf courses and many seasonal recreational businesses. The proximity of the Shuswap Lake has also resulted in a growing interest in rowing and paddling sports, particularly dragon boat racing.

The Salmon Arm Silverbacks hockey team, in the BCHL, plays at Roger's Rink (formerly the Sunwave Centre). The publicly owned twin ice rink facility is named in relation to the facility's community sponsor, Shaw Cable (which purchased the local, independent cable service provider SunCountry Cablevision in June 2011; SunCountry had branded its highspeed cable Internet service as Sunwave.net, and had sponsored the ice rink facility under the name Sunwave Centre). Co-located in the same area with the Shaw Centre are the city's recreation centre (with pool, racquet courts, weight facility and auditorium/gymnasium), curling rink, lawn bowling facility, horseshoe pitch, and the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan College. The city's previous indoor ice arena, Memorial Arena, has been repurposed as an indoor field sports facility, and is heavily used by such sports as soccer, rugby, and archery. Memorial Arena, with sponsorship from the Salmon Arm Savings & Credit Union has been rebranded as the SASCU Memorial Recreation Centre, while the main recreation centre is similarly sponsored and branded the SASCU Recreation Centre.

Former NHL player Dave Scatchard was raised in Salmon Arm, playing his minor hockey there. Other notable athletes raised in or with ties to Salmon Arm are swimmer Rick Say and curler Sandra Jenkins.

Transportation

Salmon Arm lies on the Trans-Canada Highway approximately halfway between Vancouver and Calgary. It is also at the top of Highway 97B, which leads to Vernon and Kelowna. The economy benefits from through traffic; many brand-name hotels and restaurants have opened in the past few decades.

The Canadian Pacific Kansas City also runs through Salmon Arm. No passenger service is available, though the Rocky Mountaineer trains pass through on occasion despite not stopping.

Salmon Arm Airport mainly serves general aviation aircraft, though scheduled service to Vancouver and Calgary was available by Northern Hawk Aviation until it ceased operations.

Salmon Arm has a bus network that serves neighbourhoods and shopping destinations using commuter minibuses on hourly schedules. It also offers handyDart service for the disabled and scheduled services to communities across the region once per week.

Sister city

  • JPN Salmon Arm's sister city is Inashiki, Ibaraki, Japan (Formerly Azuma, Ibaraki, Japan, until its recent amalgamation into Inashiki). There is a pavilion near McGuire Lake in honour of the friendship between Japan and Salmon Arm.

Notable people

In popular culture

  • The Punch-Out!! character Bear Hugger resides in Salmon Arm. Additionally, he even has an attack of the same name.

Notes

References

References

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