In 1906, the B.C. Anti-Tuberculosis Association began accepting donations for the establishment of an institution for consumptives.
At the annual meeting of the Association, at Victoria, in early April 1907, Dr. C.J. Fagan, provincial heath officer, remarked that through the efforts of members of the provincial legislature and British Columbia senators, "the Dominion Government has granted us the right to take up four hundred acres at Fish Lake, in the Kamloops District." Dr. Fagan was recommending that when the snow had gone, a site be planned and the information be sent to Ottawa, so a grant might be favored the Association. He was recommending the building of a few small chalets and tents.
Sites, at a lower elevation were being looked at as well and the committee voted the area of Kamloops Lake.
Aldermen Brown and Smith, on Kamloops City council objected to Fish Lake land being used for sanitarium purposes.
Dr. Fagan spoke to City council, June 6th, and he and R.H. Lee went to Fish Lake to survey the ground.
At the next meeting of Kamloops City council, another, Ald. Hargraves, spoke of not wanting a sanitarium at Fish Lake.
A meeting, at the K.M.& A.A. Hall, took place July 11th at which Dr. Fagan, corrected reports, of coast papers that the main building of the institution would be located at Fish Lake. Here again, Ald. Brown expressed his opinion that the institution not be located at Fish Lake.
As well as looking at the Fish Lake site, a 160-acre Lyon's ranch at North Bend, and 6 locations in the area of Savona, the society, in late July 1907, optioned property, at Tranquille, on Kamloops Lake.
Research: Kamloops Standard newspaper - Feb. 23 to July 27, 1907 editions - Thompson Rivers University Library.
~ submitted by Neil Burton ~
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