The Inland Cigar Factory is a two-storey heritage building at 297 First Avenue, on the southwest corner of First Avenue and Seymour Street in downtown Kamloops. Built in 1895 as the headquarters and production facility of the Inland Cigar Factory, it is one of the city’s reminders of an early local manufacturing industry and the agricultural economy that supported it.

The company was established by George A. Borthwick and later restructured with the involvement of Marshall Pollock Gordon, a local furniture merchant and three-term mayor. Tobacco was imported from Cuba and blended with locally grown tobacco, while cigar-making consultants from Cuba helped demonstrate traditional rolling methods. At its height, the factory employed approximately 25 people and produced as many as 4,000 cigars a day. Production continued in this building until 1913, when the company moved next door; the premises were subsequently occupied by the Model Bakery.

The building is also associated with Kamloops’ first commercial district, which was once concentrated around the western end of Victoria Street and First Avenue. Its Victorian-era architecture includes locally made red-brick walls, a symmetrical façade, segmental-arched second-storey windows, a recessed central entrance, a decorative blind arch, a corbelled cornice and a flat-roofed commercial form set directly against the street. The restored building now houses Venture Kamloops and remains a notable stop on downtown Kamloops heritage walking tours.