Owen Torgerson was elected Valemount’s mayor with 31.1 per cent of the vote.
Holly Blanchette was re-elected as a councillor, along with newcomers Peter Pearson, Sheri Gee and Donalda MacLean.
Candidates
Mayor:
Andru McCracken
Peter Reimer
Sandy A. Salt
Owen Torgerson (elected)
Council:
Holly Blanchette (incumbent and elected)
Sheri Gee (elected)
Eugene Jamin
Donalda MacLean (elected)
Peter D. Pearson (elected)
Rita Rewerts
Nathan D. Smith
Boundary
Valemount is located along Highway 5 in B.C.’s Robson Valley Region, about 200 kilometres north of Clearwater.
Population (2016)
1,021
History
Fulton Alexander McKirdy was the first to set up a homestead in the Valemount area in 1906.
Then, in 1914, a railway was built through Yellowhead Pass, and a station built at Swift Creek, about two kilometres from where Valemount sits today.
A small town dependent on logging would spring up, growing slowly.
The Swift Creek station was moved a mile down the tracks in 1927, and the town was named Valemount, a shorthand for “Valley of the Mountains.”
Median after-tax income of households (2015)/B.C. median
$96,000/$111,736
Political representation
Federal
Bob Zimmer (Conservative)
Provincial
Shirley Bond (BC Liberal)