Mount Lolo

Mount Lolo, or Étsxem in the Shuswap language, is a prominent 1,748-metre summit northeast of Kamloops, rising between Paul and Heffley lakes above the surrounding Interior Plateau. It was named for Jean Baptiste Lolo, also called Chief Lolo or Chief St. Paul, an Iroquois-French Canadian Métis who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company as an interpreter and associate of John Tod and was regarded as a chief by local Secwepemc people. During the Cold War, its strategic height made it the site of an early warning radar station from 1957 to 1988. In 2012, land tied to that former station was returned to the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc.

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