Mount Lolo (Étsxem in the

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), 1748m (5735'), prominence 818m, is a summit 20 km northeast of

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, between Paul and Heffley Lakes. The summit is part of a small portion of the

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which lies within the angle of the confluence of the South and North

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s, to the east of which is an upland area known as the

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. This was the site of a Pine Tree Line early warning radar station from 1957 to 1988.https://www.kamloops.ca/sites/default/files/docs/parks-recreation/mtloloradarstation.pdf Manned by the Royal Air Force Engineers and connected to Norad in Cheyenne Mountain, it stood guard against the Ruskies.

Name origin

Mount Lolo is named for Jean Baptiste Lolo, also known as Chief Lolo or Chief St. Paul, an Iroquois-French Canadian Métis who served in the employ of the

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as an interpreter and right-hand man to

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John Tod at Fort Fraser and

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. He became regarded as a chief by the local Secwepemc people. Mount Lolo is the former site of CFS Kamloops, land which was returned to the

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people in 2012.

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* * Interior Plateau Kamloops Lolo Kamloops Division Yale Land District {{cariboo-geo-stub

Name origin

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