Residents of Chase have voted for their next local political representatives in the 2022 B.C. municipal election.
Global News projects David Lepsoe will be taking the top job for the next four years.
Joining him, Global News projects that Jane Herman, Colin Connett, Fred Torbohm and Ron Harder will be the new councillors.
Candidates
Mayor
Allen Fenton
David Lepsoe
Steve Scott
Council
Colin Connett
Ron Harder
Jane Herman
Beverley Iglesias
Krystal Laluha
Fred Torbohm
Sandra Welton
Population of municipality
2,399 (2021)
Boundary of the municipality
Located on the southern end of Little Shuswap Lake, Chase is a village in the B.C. Interior that’s just under 60 kilometres east of Kamloops.
The Secwepmc people inhabited the Chase area for millennia before European fur traders arrived in the late 1700s.
The first fur trading post was set up in Kamloops in 1812, and settlers started claiming land before the first reserves were established in 1861.
First among non-Indigenous inhabitants was Whitfield Chase, a farmer from New York who headed for the region amid the Cariboo gold rush.
He settled in the Shuswap Prairie in 1865, and died before the village that took his name started to develop on a townsite situated on land that an American logging company had bought from his son in 1907.
This profile will continually be updated to reflect the latest information, interviews and events in the campaign.
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