How Kamloops' once booming cigar industry went up in smoke

(InfoNews.CA) Kamloops was once home to a company that created, sold, and exported nearly 4,000 Havana cigars per day.
Word of a cigar factory in Kamloops had been brought up in 1894 by a Vancouver man, James Harling. While looking into the possibility of this venture, Harling rented a building on what is now known as Victoria Street West but never got the business rolling, according to an article from the Kamloops News. In December of that year, a man named George E. Borthwick, who was employed at a cigar factory in Victoria, decided to try his hand at creating a cigar industry in Kamloops. According to notes from the Kamloops Museum, he rented half of the building from Harling and the Inland Cigar Factory came to be. Continued