01/29/2023
PHOENIX, "The Highest Incorporated City"
Documented and written by Gary Trent ©
Phoenix is a ghost town in the
Boundary Country of British Columbia, Canada.
Phoenix enjoyed the distinction of being
the “Highest City in Canada”
proclaimed by its citizens.
Phoenix stood 4,694 feet above sea
level, and about six miles from the
Canada/USA International border.
Nature had been kind to Phoenix in
the way of the copper-gold deposits
in the rock-ribbed hills surrounding
this little mountain city.
It was to become a booming copper
mining community from the late
1890s until the year 1919.
In its heyday it was home to some
4,000 citizens and had an opera house,
twenty hotels, a brewery, a complex infrastructure
of electricity, water and sewage with and its own city hall.
It would be the Granby Consolidated Mining,
Smelting and Power Company, Limited who would
operate the Phoenix Copper Mine.
Some 13,678,901 tons of copper ore
would be produced here in a short life
span of less than 20 years before
operations ceased on June 14, 1919.
Quote from
The Mother Earth's Treasure Vaults:
"In 1904 every 24 hours close to
3,000 tons of this precious chalcopyrite
is taken away from the mines of Phoenix
to the district smelters at Boundary Falls,
Greenwood and Grand Forks and reduced
to a blister which is over 98% pure."
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Credits in this album
*Boundary Museum, Grand Forks BC
*Greenwood Museum, Greenwood BC
*Midway Museum, Midway BC
*Phoenix Miner publications
*Pioneer Publishing, W.B.Willcox editor.
*Granby Mining records
*Grand Forks Gazette
*Karren Almstrom-Dixon
*Gary Trent Photography, Grand Forks BC
*Editorial is copyright Gary Trent ©
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