Civic politician’s career spanned 12 years in the 1960s and 70s, including a stint as chairman of the committee that spearheaded the 1967 merger of North Kamloops and Kamloops
British Columbia resident Gordon Bregoliss, a man considered instrumental in the creation of the City of Kamloops, has died at the age of 96.
Bregoliss also represented Kamloops in 1973 when the province ordered further amalgamation and placed eight other communities, including Brocklehurst, Heffley Creek and Rayleigh, inside city boundaries.He was born in Revelstoke on May 11, 1922, but moved with his family to the Kamloops area just two weeks later and remained a resident of the southern Interior city for the rest of his life.
Bregoliss died Monday at a seniors’ facility in Kamloops and is survived by his wife, Bea, six children, 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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