LOUDON, [ROBERT] PETE[R]; BOYD, DENNY (FOREWORD)

The Town That Got Lost - a Story of Anyox, British Columbia

Sidney, BC: Gray's Publishing, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0888260407. "Anyox has been nothing for approximately 80 years but suddenly it lives again in the warm, loving memories of a writer who was a boy in the northern British Columbia town where the largest copper smelter in the British empire was located. A human story of 3,000 people who found a strange happiness in a town cut off from the world by mountain and sea, drenched with coastal rains, choked with sulphurous smelter gas, bereft of grass or flowers and buried each winter in snow." - dust jacket. 111 pages including black and white photographic plates. Prior owner's name atop title page, otherwise book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this fascinating history. Hale & Barman 536, Edwards & Lort 2141.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 633j0087

Catalogue: British Columbia Local History

Keywords: 0888260407 Ghost Towns Smelters Canadian

SLEIGH, DAPHNE

Discovering Deroche: From Nicomen to Lake Errock [British Columbia Local History]

British Columbia: Self-Published, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Presents the history of this British Columbia community located across the Fraser River from Chilliwack. Chapters include: The Nicomen Indians 1800-1865; The First Pioneers 1860-1885; The Railway Brings Settlers 1885-1900; The Formation of the Community 1885-1900; Development of the Townsite 1900-1910; World Intrudes on Deroche 1910-1920; The Best Years of Deroche 1920-1930; Depression Years 1930-1940; WWII and the Flood of '48; A Glance at the Post-War Years. 103 pages. Index, bibliography, maps, black and white reproductions of archival photos. Above-average wear. Prior owner's blind stamp to title page otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy reference example of this informative local history and useful genealogical reference. Hale & Barman 845. ; 8vo. Fair .

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Book number: 529j1593

Catalogue: British Columbia - Local History

Keywords: . B.C. Pit House Genealogy