Ymir BC

The Quartz Creek Miner

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 document for reading on screen
  • Also available for download one page at a time (each page is about 1 Megabyte):
    • Page 1 – 1860 First Mention of Quartz Creek, Judge McColl Issues Restraining Order Against Locators, Deposits at Quartz Creek
    • Page 2 – The Great Fire of 1904, News Notes, Ads
    • Page 3 – The Great Fire Continued, Ymir School Teachers 1897-1971
    • Page 4 – A Brief History of Mining in Ymir by George Murray
    • Page 5 – Will Dorey Recalls Ymir and Area From 1926, Darkwoods in the Forestry Business in Area Since 1967, Ads
    • Page 6 – Mining History of Ymir…
    • Page 7 – Ymir Yankee Girl Mines Staked in 1899
    • Page 8 – Highway to Ymir, Salesman Shot, Ads
    • Page 9 – Kootenay Mining Standard, An Illustrated Journal 1899, Ads
    • Page 10 – World Famous Ymir Mine Pictures, World Class Competitors
    • Page 11 – Excerpts from the Quartz Creek Miner 1897, McLeod Family Pioneer Merchant, Ymir Mines Tonnage and Mineral Values, E.M. Peters (Granny Peters)
    • Page 12 – Pictures of Our Past, List of Persons in the Ymir Cemetery, Ymir Post Masters 1897-1991, From the Reunion Committee
    • Page 13 – Ymir’s Victoria Day Celebration 1904, May Day Faces from the Past
    • Page 14 – Ymir Faces from the Past
    • Page 15 – Ymir Faces & Places from the Past
    • Page 16 – Ymir Faces from the Past