![]() I think mom wanted the gun on because back then there were the cowboys.” “I was pretty young but I distinctly remember my mom stressing about the gun as well… at some point, they decided to take the gun off because it was offending people. My mom was pretty particular… if you look at the logo, the hat is kind of sits behind the fish’s head and that’s how my mom settled,” Kent says. “My sister remembers my mom stressing about how the hell she could put a cowboy hat on top of the fish, on the top of the fish head. Kent says his mom struggled to get every aspect included. The mascot was also meant to embody the fishing industry in the city at the time. She wanted to promote all of those things, and that's where the fish came about.” ![]() “The Kami Overlander days, in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce, they had a local contest to create a (character) that represented Kamloops and what it stood for by promoting tourism, ranching and the cowboy history,” Kent says. Kent says his mother was a very artistic person, and she took the challenge of creating a Kamloops mascot seriously. "Did somebody take her original? This was the 60s, it’s a different world than now, women versus men." It grinds our craw to know that our mom’s name is never mentioned, even in the archives," Scott says. “All we’re trying to accomplish here is to give credit where credit is due for an iconic legacy of Kamloops. ![]() The McDonnell family wants to set the record straight. ![]() Kent and Scott McDonnell say their mother Jessie Marie McDonnell is the original artist who spent countless hours working on the Kami design for the City and are upset with the lack of credit she has received. The Kamloops archives lists two men as the artists and various other people who have tried to take credit for the trout character. There has been some dispute over who created Kami the Fish. Whether you call him Kami the Spoolmak Trout or Kami the Fish, almost everyone from Kamloops knows of this famous gun-slinging character.Īlthough he was created nearly five decades ago, Kami was recently revived and the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce now features him on toques and socks. ![]()
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