Mission Flats is a well-known name in Kamloops, but surprisingly few Kamloopsians know how it received its appellation. It was in 1880 when three Catholic nuns from Victoria to teach children at the newly erected St. Louis school along the Thompson River, a couple of miles west of the incipient town of Kamloops. The nuns belonged to the Sisters of St. Ann, a name that lives on in Kamloops as St. Ann’s Academy.  Geographical historian, Ken Favrholdt has studied the evolution of the mission and pinpointed the site of the buildings. In his presentation  Ken traces the history of the people connected to the school, a venture that lasted less than a decade.