Salmon Arm, British Columbia

Salmon Arm sits on the southern arm of Shuswap Lake in the Secwépemc territory of the Shuswap region, on the Trans-Canada Highway between Kamloops and Revelstoke. The City runs City Hall at 500 2 Avenue NE, property taxes and annual or metered water and sewer bills, its own water system drawn mostly from Shuswap Lake, the sewer system and Water Pollution Control Centre, weekly food waste and alternating garbage and recycling collection in City bins through a contractor, roads and snow clearing, parks, greenways and three cemeteries, the Shuswap Regional Airport, the fire department with four halls, bylaw enforcement, dog licences and dog control, building permits and business licences, and it contracts the Shuswap Recreation Society to run the SASCU Recreation Centre and arenas. The Columbia Shuswap Regional District runs the Salmon Arm Landfill and Recycle BC depot and shares the Shuswap Regional Transit System with the City and BC Transit; the Salmon Arm RCMP detachment polices the city; health care is Interior Health's Shuswap Lake General Hospital; the library is the Okanagan Regional Library; schools are School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap; and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.