[Similkameen Ghost Town] Wartime Bird's-Eye-View of RCAF Training Centre in Ottawa sent to Copper Mountain, BC

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Verlag: Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd, Ottawa, ON, 1943

Beschreibung

An uncommon wartime Bromil print postcard (3-1/2 x5-3/8 inches wide), showing a bird's-eye-view of the RCAF Training Centre in southwestern Ontario. It was sent to the now Ghost Town, and former mine of Copper Mountain, BC on April 12th, 1943 from St. Thomas and has two nice, dated cancels. Card slightly toned, else fine. "Copper Mountain was an important copper-mining company town in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, just south of the town of Princeton. In 1884 copper ore was discovered by a trapper named James Jameson while out hunting deer. This discovery of copper led to a rush of miners to the area which gave rise to the town of Copper Mountain. The first camps located in the area was "Volacanic" Brown's Camp and E. Voight's Camp. These two camps merged to create the Granby Company's Copper Mountain operation. Copper Mountain mining operation lasted over half a century. The Copper Mountain mining operation was officially closed in 1958. The town of Copper Mountain was abandoned shortly after." wiki. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3865

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Similkameen Ghost Town] Wartime ...

Verlag: Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd, Ottawa, ON

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Postcard

Zustand: Fine