Gold Trails and Ghost Towns is a historical documentary show first produced for Canadian syndication, created and produced by Kelowna television station CHBC-TV and hosted by Mike Roberts with historian storyteller Bill Barlee. Mike and Bill discussed history of the old West by prospectors around 1900 in British Columbia. Ymir…
The Quartz Creek Miner
The Quartz Creek Miner is a 16 page newspaper put together to celebrate Ymir’s 101 Reunion (August 1, 1998). There are a number of download options: Large format (23 Megabytes) 16 page pdf document for people who want to print the document out Smaller format (8.9 Megabytes) 16 page pdf…
Ymir BC 1899 – Wrigley’s BC Directory Vancouver BC
AIKMAN, T. mgr W.K.B. Co., 2nd Ave. ATKINSON, T.H. druggist,corner of 1st Ave. and Willow BACOM,R.W. hardware 1st Ave. BEANDOIN, J.G. owner Vancouver Hotel Restaurant 2nd Ave. BLANCHFIELD, W. mining overseer Ymir Development Corp., 1st Ave. BLUE, Louis sawmill owner BOYER, Joe part proprietor Vancouver Hotel 2nd Ave. BOYER, O.…
A Brief History of Mining in Ymir
by George Murray Ymir miner and local historian About 1885, the placer gold mining on the Pend d’Oreille River was coming to a close. The placer miners in this area started to look for other st-reams that might produce the precious metal. They started moving north up the Salmon River…
Notes on Ymir
by Joe Dunn dictated to Rae Thomas (original donated by Doris Thomas) In 1893, Ymir was called Quartz Creek. The southern part of Ymir was built first, along what was known as Quartz Creek. In 1893, the Fort Shepherd and Nelson Railroad came through Ymir. They opened up a town…