Paul Lake Provincial Park

Paul Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia preserves Paul Lake and its surrounding hills as a regional outdoor destination northeast of Kamloops and southwest of Heffley Lake. The lake is believed to be named for Jean Baptiste Lolo, also known as St. Paul or Chief St. Paul, an interpreter at Fort Kamloops of Iroquois and French Canadian origin who was regarded as a chief by the local Secwepemc people; nearby Mount Lolo also bears his name. Paul Lake is also important for an ecological history in which rainbow trout were introduced to a lake that originally had no fish, and a later accidental arrival of redside shiners altered food competition and predator-prey relationships studied by P. A. Larkin and his students.

British Columbia · Canada