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centrator and maintenance
buildings. ;

Anyox had a six-mile electric
railway, wharves and a -coke
plant to supply the smelter—the
biggest pyritie copper smelter in
the world. It was a company
town, built half at the mine and

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a profitabie venture, ,

Still further north, the Port-
land Canal is. another B.C.
Waterway which gave access to
mineral wealth. It led to estab-
lisment of Stewart and Premier
on the Alaskan border. In 1898
a Seattle promoter named Bur-
gess is said to have brought 64
men into the head of the canal
then led them overland to the

 

a half of muskeg separating,

Though smelter gases killed all
vegetation in Anyox, and it was
cut off from the outside world
except by twice-weekly steamers,
it was a town of comfortable
homes—all rented by Granby.
: There was a fire department-and
mE -—__f_complete_sewor _custeny—oiblict
hyd High schools, a hospital,
Saeatre. gpvinnasium and com-
pany department store.

Tie town died suddenly in 1935
hhrough dropping copper prices.
A 100-ton concentration of blast-
ing powder was exploded in 1935,
collapsing the whole side of a
rauntain, ina search for richer
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they hoped to strike it rich.

_It was a fruitless trip. But one
of the returning prospectors
staked the mud flats at the head
of the canal—a claim later de-
veloped as the Grizzly Mine.

The find attracted other gold
seekers. J, Wardlaw. Stewart took
a claim and later with three
brothers formed a real estate
firm, staked a townsite, which
still bears their name.

Portland Canal Mining and
Development Company in 1907
installed an acrial] tramway and
laid 14 miles of steel for what
was hoped to be a new access to
the Peace River country. It was

 

There is sul! copper there, but

not in darge enough quantities!

per ton of ore to make mining it ly. It

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round-house were abandoned.

The Premier Mine, 13 miles
from Stewart, proved in, in 1916
and operated to the benefit of
the community until 1953 when.
it closed after paying © stock-
holders. $16,000,000 in profits.
Stewart boomed to a town of
10,000 in 1910. Today the popu-
lation stands at 435. ,

It was Klondyke fever which
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about the boom at Atlin Lake
; where 1,000 miners camped ‘in
{1900 and 706 live today. The gold
find was.on Pine Creek on tae
Yukon border. Most.of the pros-
;pectors came in from. the coast
lat Skagway over Viet @eekars.;
Placer prospecting still goes on
at Atlin Lake and a, road’ con-
inection with the Alaskan High-
[way in 1949 had increased settle-
ment. ;

| Telegraph Creek, 150 miles
‘from Atlin, 168 miles up the Sti-
‘kine River from Wrangell, Al-
‘aska, was another B.C. commun-
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rrush to Cassidr in the 1860s and
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TODAY'S city council is con-
siderably smaller than .the sone
which first governed the new-.
ly-incorporated city of Prince
Council was
reduced in size at wish of vot-
ors last year. 1968 council, top
picture, left. to right is Alder-
man A, Donald Ritchie, Alder-
Alderman
Norman Bellis, Mayor Peter J.
Lester, Alderman R,. G. Large, . oe . ae

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Alderman T. Norton’ Youngs - a3 %
picture)’. who
was unable to be present when
council picture was taken. At>-
lef, is city council as of De=
Council con-
sisted of Mayor Alfred Stork,
F" H, Mobley, William P. Lynch,
Cc. V. W. Smith, G.. R. Naren, . {
A, A. McIntyre, A. R..M. Bar- >
row, John H.. Hilditech and T. ‘[
D. Pattullo who later became _
MLA for Prinee Rupert and .

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You'll find a little bit of Trail ina lot
of places!
Take a good look at the die-cast
zine grill of a Toronto taxl-it was
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mountain, smelted and refined by
Cominco at Trail, Underground
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with Trails Tadanac lead, and the
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