Thompson Rivers University

'' Cariboo was originally founded as a result of vigorous lobbying by community leaders and trustees from five school districts, in the area then called the Mainline-Cariboo. The Regional College Committee proposed that a community college be developed in concert with the Kamloops Vocational School, then under construction on McGill Road in Kamloops. With government funding following overwhelming regional support, Cariboo College published its first calendar in 1970 as a comprehensive regional post-secondary institution, and adopted the motto "Quansem Ilep," a Chinook word meaning "to strive ahead."

That first year, Cariboo was a college functioning without a campus, with the first Cariboo students attending classes at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. In September 1971, the College moved to its present location on McGill Road. Students and staff were housed in the Main Building, with other buildings consisting of a cafeteria, facilities building and a trailer for the faculty annex. The second year also saw the opening of a satellite campus in Williams Lake.

Cariboo, a roughed-out campus composed of a few raw concrete buildings and some portables, hardly compared to the venerated ideal of centuries-old, ivy-covered halls of learning at first.

Community colleges were a new concept, and faculty, students and administrators alike knew that they were participating in a grand experiment in regional post-secondary education. Incredible grass-roots support launched the College, and the basic goal of providing accessible, comprehensive post-secondary programs has been furthered over the years by a host of people who brought not only their own expertise to Cariboo, but a drive to show the world that a new, regional college could produce top-quality graduates.

The vocational division of the college, now known as the School of Trades and Technology, was established following the move of the college to the McGill Road site in September 1971. Vocational programming began in the Winter semester of 1972, when the Cook and Welder Training programs were started, and in May of 1972, B.C.’s Premier, W.A.C. Bennett, officially opened the Vocational wing of the College.

Up to 1974, trades training in Kamloops was provided through the B.C. Vocational School/Kamloops. In the Spring of that year, the B.C. Vocational School/Kamloops and Cariboo College "melded." The mold for future vocational programs was thus set: Cariboo College would provide training for those occupations which were essential to a thriving and robust community like Kamloops--occupations such as automotive mechanical repair, cooking, electrical work, and carpentry; in addition, the college region’s natural resource-based economy required a steady stream of welders and heavy duty mechanics.

By Cariboo’s 5th anniversary, with a new Gymnasium and Library under construction, and 100 faculty serving more than 2,000 students, Cariboo was growing fast, and in 1978 Cariboo was designated as a College under the BC Colleges and Institutes Act. At 3,785, student enrolment was more than six times what it was eight years earlier, the Bookstore was expanding, and a new Science building and Gymnasium were under construction. By 1980, the Cariboo College campus was taking shape, with various permanent buildings housing a growing number of students, and a Visual Arts building under construction. Cariboo took care of Business in 1983, opening the Cariboo Management Centre at the former Allan Matthews School and beginning construction on a Meat-cutting facility.

By Cariboo’s 15th anniversary, the College was a truly comprehensive and unique regional post-secondary institution, steadily realizing its potential despite depressed economic conditions. Cariboo had opened the Cariboo College Dining Room in the Professional Cook Training building, had moved the Williams Lake campus to a 55,000 square- ...''

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Box 3010, 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, BC., Canada V2C 5N3


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