Between the letters
Stories, discoveries and news from BC’s mining country: what is new between the monthly Letters, each piece dated, sourced and leading on to a mine record, a film or a Letter.
FeaturedOne PhotographHistory & Discoveries
The Geological Survey’s photographer stood above the Granby glory holes and looked down on a city of two thousand. Eleven years later it was empty, and by 1978 the pit had taken the ground it stood on. A close look at Plate I.
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History & DiscoveriesThen and Now
In October 1917 a mining journal printed fifteen photographs of Anyox at its height: the mine, the smelter, the powerhouse and the town. A century later Frank Schlichting’s lens found what the forest left. Side by side, they give the town back.
Out With FrankThe People Behind the Mine
Deep in the Union, men wrote their names on the rock: F. McKie, June 9, 1937; T. McA., 23-4-41; GHT, Bralorne, 1946. Frank found them on his rope. The record knows the years, but not the men.
People & PlacesA Name Remembered
In 1920, as Phoenix was being taken apart, the town sold its skating rink to raise a granite stone carrying fifteen names. Who those men were, the boy who died as the rink came down, and the people who have kept the names ever since.
That’s the whole deal. Frank picks one photograph out of the archive, tells you the story of the day it was taken, and signs off until next month. A short P.S. points to what’s new on the site, and that’s it.
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