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Gold was the lodestone that drew prospectors
the Rossland Mountains in the 1890's, and gold ‘draw:
visitors still in.numbers and long routes ui
of almost a century ago,’ ..:
You may explore a golden ‘Metatigle by’ turnin,
southeast onto Highway 9B atNancy Greene Lake,

named for a native Rosslander whose world cup skiing ;

earned her many a gold medal, and enjoy a scenic,
drive offering Columbia’ River valley vistas ‘to Red
Mountain.

Now the focus of one of ‘Western Canada's fin st

winter sports areas, Red Mouatain offers:much more ..

than meets the skier's admiring eye. As you ,enter.
Rossland, signs and the facility. itself invite your
presence in the Rossland Historical Museum with :its
pioneer exhibits, its Nancy Green:and new Cominco
industrial winds, its underground tour of the storied
Le Roi mine highlighting displays ‘of equipment used
by the gold and copper miners of another: era.

And then there’s Rossland itself, aptly called The

Golden City, where such historic buildings as..the
Miners’ Union Hall still stand proudly” near eet
homes and shops. 5

Turn eastward now down the long hill that follows i

Trail.Creek valley for some’ five miles ‘to. Trail, the

1860's. It began modestly as a Columbia River landing
place for Rossland miners and a sternwheeler shipping
port for their ore. But enterprise built a’ smelter’ at
Trail that survived even the biggest of the Rossland
mines to become .’.'. how. can one describe the vast
metallurgical and chemical complex of Cominco Ltd. in
mere words?

KOKANEE
SPRINGS ig

ere

rospectors’ In: the: late ~

our is 100 km (@ _ )

a
year. and remain ;bemused’ by the’ ponent that

|produced Canada’s first:gold ingot s and now much of its
h

emical fertilizer plants hard

‘by: the vie postcard Village ‘of Warfiel

of pioneering in environmental control

“1920's, they're responsible for ‘gold of another kind —

prairie wheat, that flourishes wh in ‘nourished wil

s lockup

. at ‘ peat ith ‘prisoners’, oratt And the city offers
Silver City, recalling the historic Dewdney Trail of the | ‘’

“all the amenities”.for gracious livin; ‘within sig
smelter atacks that; despite a Teputation lingering on:
long after the bad old days became folklore, i no

“health hazards onthe community.

‘You ‘may turn. northward next, | paralleling
Columbia River’ discovered ‘by David Thompso: to.
discover for. yourself’ the. pleasant -settlements of :

Rivervale’ and Oasis and’ Genelle seemingly: bound

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‘this, was the’ route; of .the world’s first
high-vol ge alternating’ current line:

tho tamaracks ‘and aspens, is pao airt
‘Tourist rape centres and, roadside maps
int e, Rosaland Mountains where,

__ wilderness ‘as vatied as:any: in ‘the West K tenay, :
Here you may climb challenging mountains, camp. by
cbeas

out in’ sparkling
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not often that ‘you’

‘find:;the ‘main street ‘of ‘a

sight, of the’ waterway con-

| tained by wooden culverts

_ sand covered over bya road.
‘way.

Instead, you'll see the

debris left behind when the:
» gréat flood of 1955 tore out

the remains of the street
and piled them: along the

side of the creek.

Sandon ‘has: the distinc:
of being several times

ti
a i ghost town. Back when it

was founded:in the silver
‘rush at the turn of the cen-

tury, this community was

bustling hub of a min-

once stood a proud town.

ing industry that. caused
the term “tho ‘Silver’ Slo:
can” .to-be coined.-

Those were ‘the: days

\ of hard working’ and: hard
living, when “Sandon. had”

‘two ‘dozen ‘hotels and“ an
‘equal number.-of' saloons;
. when miners’, ad. ‘traders

and gambjer

> living ‘in the’ maine and: in.

y
when ae ca railroads battled
each other to be the first
into ‘town, each laying
track.as fast as possible —
and the loser was so an-

noyed that the men hooked -

a locomotive to the rival
line's station and toppled it
into the. creek.

As all mining booms, this
one eventually burst as the
price of silver dropped
drastically.’ ‘The miners
took up their picks and
headed down the line and
the railway ‘tracks dis-

Only a few people stayed
behind toprospect and do *
some mining.: Then came’;
the Second World War and

Sandon’ was ‘one’ of the

places chosen as a destina-.

tion and, for'three or four
years, Sandon. ‘bloomed

again. After the war, the ~
Japanese Canadians moved -

away and Sandon became a

ghost town once more.”.
‘Those who visit Sandon,

three miles (4 km) along

Highway 81A east of New SANDON - «'.'. There were day:

Le

ae

when the town of Sanden featured two dozen

Denver, then south along a . hotels. and a host of solcons: where miners and | traders could) spend their time.

sideroad, will find ‘the re-

~“ mains of buildings that es-

saped. the flood,

* WATERY DEMISE aes All that's left of Sanden are the decaying buildings

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through

* Christina Lake |
‘without a

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