Mount Tod

Mount Tod, known in Secwemptsin as Skwelkwekwelt, stands about 50 kilometres northeast of Kamloops in British Columbia, in the Shuswap Highland, and is the highest of the three summits within the Sun Peaks ski resort. Its English name honors fur trader John Tod, who served the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort McLeod and Fort Kamloops before retiring to Victoria, where his home became the province’s oldest inhabited house. Long before that naming, the mountain was a traditional Secwépemc use area where meat was dried and roots and medicines were gathered. Its importance today reflects the meeting of recreation, colonial history, and enduring Indigenous land use.

British Columbia · Canada