Tulameen is an unincorporated community in the Similkameen region of south central British Columbia, Canada.

[5] Campement des Femmes (Woman's Camp),[6] opposite the mouth of Collins Gulch,[7] was where the First Nations men left the women and children when they went on the summer hunt[8] or to battle.

[9] Before the signing of the Oregon Treaty in 1846, Alexander Caulfield Anderson surveyed alternative routes to the coast.

[10] Campement des Femmes became one of the five HBC stopping places on the journey between Hope and Otter Lake.

[15] Infrastructure comprised two stores, two saloons, a branch post office, news depot, and bakery.

[19] Early that decade, Jack Thynne established a ranch to the west, which was a stop on the Merritt–Princeton stage route.

[20] During the sawmill relocation to Granite Creek in 1895, the transporting raft rocked, and the equipment plunged into the Tulameen.

[30] John H. Jackson accessed his ranch across the Tulameen by boat[31] but also installed a rope across the river to aid travellers crossing during high water.

[12][32] A June advertisement for the government auction of townsite lots was the earliest newspaper mention of the new official name of Tulameen.

[69] On the east side of the Tulameen pass over the Hope mountains, the eastward flowing stream was commonly known as Railroad Creek by 1901, indicating a potential railway route.

[70] That summer, Edgar Dewdney conducted a government survey for such a line via Railroad pass and Otter Flat.

[71] In 1902, on completing his surveys of alternative east–west routes over the passes (namely Allison (longest), Coquihalla, and Railroad (shortest), Dewdney rejected all of them in favour of a diversion via Spences Bridge.

Veering westward, the line would follow the Tulameen River, Eagle Creek, and an 13-kilometre (8 mi) tunnel.

[78] Following tardy progress,[79] when the northwestward advance of the VV&E rail head from Princeton reached Tulameen in May 1913, passenger and freight service by construction train commenced.

[80] By August 1914, the rails had extended only 3 kilometres (2 mi) northwestward toward Brookmere,[81] where the last spike was driven that October.

[83] When scheduled CP service via Tulameen and Spences Bridge to the coast began in June 1915,[84] GN handed over all general freight and passenger traffic northwest of Princeton to the KV.

[89] Following the 2021 Pacific Northwest floods, at least five washouts of the trail between Princeton and Tulameen require extensive reconstruction.

[91] That year, Columbia Coal and Coke purchased the sawmill[92] to provide lumber for construction activities at Coalmont and the mine.

[47] The Tulameen Days held on the August long weekend experienced violence with a stabbing in 2000[99] and a crowd threatening police with beer bottle projectiles in 2017.

[102] The next year, the Coalmont Energy coalmine containment pond at Collins Gulch breached, releasing 30,000 litres; 7,800 US gallons (6,500 imp gal) of coal slurry into the river.