The Shuswap Indian Band ( Shuswap language : Kenpesq’t ) is a member government of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council and also of the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council , located in the East Kootenay region of the Canadian province of British Columbia . Its main reserve , the Shuswap Indian Reserve , is located one mile north of Invermere, British Columbia in the Columbia Valley region of the Rocky Mountain Trench on the upper Columbia River , on the other side of the Selkirk Mountains from other Secwepemc bands. It was created when the government of the then- Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s. Though a member of the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council and intermarried with the Ktunaxa bands in the same region, the members of the band are ethnically Secwepemc (Shuswap).
3-621: Kinbasket Lake , now the name of the reservoir formed by Mica Dam , was named in 1866 by Walter Moberly , in honour of Kinbasket , a chief of the Columbia River Shuswap whom he had employed. This article relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This British Columbia politics–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kinbasket Lake Kinbasket Lake (or Kinbasket Reservoir )
6-526: Is a reservoir on the Columbia River in southeast British Columbia , north of the city of Revelstoke and the town of Golden . The reservoir was created by the construction of the Mica Dam . The lake includes two reaches , Columbia Reach (to the south) and Canoe Reach (to the north), referring to the river valleys flooded by the dam. To the north it almost reaches the town of Valemount in an impoundment of
9-572: The Canoe River . To the south it reaches upstream the Columbia River towards the city of Golden. The original, smaller Kinbasket Lake was named in 1866 after Kinbasket, a chief of the Shuswap people . The modern, large lake was created after the completion of the Mica Dam in 1973, and was called McNaughton Lake (after Andrew McNaughton ) until 1980. A number of small communities were inundated by
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